On Wednesday, October 14, the realm is migrating to a new server core. This is a completely different level of quality, where the entire game will feel different.
- Significantly higher quality scripting — from starter quests all the way to raid bosses
- Brand-new, reliable geodata: no falling through textures or erratic mob pathfinding
- Rewritten and improved custom scripts from the old core — transmogrifier, dual spec, BG balancer, and more
- New anti-cheat module
- Fixes for critical core bugs (various visual glitches, skewed models during attacks, etc.)
- A new development and deployment workflow designed to keep errors on our end to an absolute minimum
- The potential to transition to a newer 2.5.x client in the future
Accounts and characters will be transferred automatically; players do not need to do anything. On October 14 at 08:00 AM, the server will go offline for maintenance, which is expected to take around 6 hours.
Please do not waste flasks, elixirs, or scrolls before the migration, as all active buffs will be cleared. Also, make sure to restore any deleted characters beforehand if you plan to keep them — restoring old deleted characters will no longer be possible after the transition.