Kastang Ramblings of a Geek

Patch Day – Both Ups and Downs.

The day started off very good, waking up at 6am and launching the Downloader to finish up the finial bit of the monstrous 1.2GB patch. The patching was taking awhile so I left it going and went to class. Everything was all ready to go about 5 hours before the servers were suppose to go live.

Stuff started to go down hill from there starting with Eitrigg not coming up until over an hour after the first servers coming up. This isn't a big surprise though, Eitrigg is always at the tail end of servers being brought back up. The next bit of bad news comes shortly after when I tried updating my addons. Everyone of my addons with the exception of Auctioneer are Ace addons. All needed updating. My WowAce Updater wasn't showing that I had any updates available. Interesting right? On a patch day you would expect there to be multiple updates for Addons. I decided to go over to WowAce and see if maybe there was an updated version of the updater needing downloading. I got quite a shocking surprise. WowAce is now part of the curse network. WAU is no longer supported! Quite a shock.

Thanks to the suggestion of guildies, I was able to find WoWMatrix. It is nothing compared to the speed or simplicity of WAU, but it will do for now. One thing I noticed about WoWMatrix is its speed, it is stupidly slow, now that could just be because a few million WoW geeks are trying to update their addons at the same time. It looks like time will tell on that one.

And finally, to top it all off, the hamsters who power the auth server for Blizzard seemed to have died. :\

Deja Vu of Patch 2.0 eh?