It's Like A Nightmare, It Just Keeps Getting Worse...

In what would seem the worst patch since World War II Online launched, Blizzard released the mother of all bad patches this Tuesday...

Most of us couldn't even login until late Tuesday evening. Those of us who did, found that all of the Email was gone along with any cash we had made or auction returns etc...

So Blizzard apparently addressed the email issue, even though we didn't get any of our email, Blizzard at least "found it". Somewhere out there, on a server someone forgot to turn back on earlier or something. Blizzard sent a nice message via the server login message in that we would have our email back within the next day or two...

When I was finally able to get back online, the Trade channel was loaded with people saying there was free BG gear in the Champions Hall... Bah! A trick you say? Nope. All of the Season 2 PvP cloth gear was "Free". Both the Merc Gladiator Felweave and the Dreadweave sets were free for the taking. Oh, and that's not all there were a couple of really nice epic neck pieces and an epic ring. These were only gear sets for Priest and Warlock I was told. The Champions Hall was filled to the brim with hopeful players looking to get their hands on some free loot. The up side for Blizzard is that all of the gear is Bind On Pickup, and it has no sale value. So really, all you can do is wear it or let it take up some bank space.

There was also something about 1 free arena weapon, that I couldn't verify because it was for another class, but there were also some arena items that no longer had a rating requirement. Stupid me didn't have enough arena honor to get any of that stuff. After about an hour or two, the server login message was changed again letting us know that Blizzard was aware of the prices being incorrect on the Arena Gear and asking us not to make those purchases at this time. I am not sure if they actually did anything to stop people, but they did give some warning that there would be a resolution forthcomming.

So, the servers went down again this morning about 5AM (MT). I suppose we will just have to wait and see for how long and what steps Blizzard will take to repair all the damage from the latest patch.

The suck part is that I actually played, long and hard to get all that S2 gear. I knew it was going to become obsolete when WoTK came out but this is crazy! All this with the launch of WoTK coming out tonight at midnight... Oh what a joy it will be going to work at Blizzard this morning.


Good luck fixing this one guys! If restore a backup, please go back to Monday, October 13th or so. hehe

Here is some reading on the subject courtesy of VN: Hall Of Hero Giving Away Free Stuff and What are the odds