Firing neurons

Ever since unexpected updates this week, WoW has hit latency hell for me (I've logged latencies of over 9000, no joke). This has led to some rather inconvenient d/cs in the middle of raids and instances. A few of my other guildies have been experiencing the same issues.
Has anyone else? Does anyone know how to correct this?

...had problems logging into the official forums?

For days now, every time I try all I get is a "Server error." page.

However as of this afternoon, the Las Vegas Convention Center emailed us to let us know that due to their human error, the confirmation they were giving was false.

According to the LVCC, Blizzard and the LVCC had spoken once about having BlizzCon 2010 in Las Vegas, and a hold was placed on those dates as a marketing tactic to entice Blizzard to the area. However, that hold was inadvertently turned into a confirmed booking, leading to the inaccurate confirmations and resulting issues.

The LVCC has apologized for the confusion, and thus ends the saga of BlizzCon in Las Vegas

from wow.com

Double double edit: I'm not sure what the problem was still, but it appears to have been fixed. I did a router restart [well, I shut it off for around thirty minutes anywa] and it's fixed. This may be a solution?

So, the game and the forums are down? Was there some announcement of oddly timed maintenance that nobody was told about?
I did manage to log in once, after about 5 mins of waiting at the connecting screen, but it only brought up the development realms and then wouldn't connect. >_>

Edit: It appears that even worldofwarcraft.com and blizzard.com are having XML problems as well?

Double edit: I did manage to 'log in' twice, but half the servers were missing and WoW crashed upon trying to connect to any of them.

So says Rob Pardo, senior VP of game design.

Let me just say... WE TOLD YOU SO! Kudos for finally admitting it.

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Wrath of the Lich King came out one year ago, folks. (November 13, 2008)

Discuss.

July 30 and 31st.

Most importantly?

In Las Vegas.

Edit: this from WOW.com, where i initially got the previous info:

"Update: Blizzard has responded to let us know that they haven't announced any details regarding their next BlizzCon, and that they recommend everyone refrain from making any travel plans at this time. However, the Las Vegas Convention Center has confirmed this booking and continues to list it on their calendar."

Blizzard seems to have had a significant continuity screw up with saronite. There's various quests with it being some mystic mind-destroying substance. Now the Icecrown rep faction is going to be some crafters "who discovered how to bend saronite to our will." Meanwhile miners have been carrying cartloads about and every plate-wearer in the game has had some saronite gear on without the slightest ill effect. The Blizzard crafting team should've picked something else to be between cobalt and titanium. It's a big periodic table. Or maybe make something up. Have a metal sacred to the night elf goddess, so malleable that you can make cloth-weight gear in it. I think night elf priests would look good wrapped in Elune-ium foil.

Yes, the gameworld will be changed. Yes, we'll be able to level further.

But I want a new login screen.

I liked the WotLK login screen at first, how cool to have a dragon flying around on it, but when you're trying to log in and don't realize your volume is up that danged roar is LOUD and you never know if you're going hear it on login or not. That's especially annoying when you're spouse is annoyed with how much you've been playing recently and you really are just popping on to check your auctions.

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I know about the warcraftrealms.com/census however, I am more interested in a site that will give me a report on the population and activity of realms in a list or a report; unlike the census where you have to look at the realms one by one.

Any help out there?

EDIT

What I am looking for specifically, is a high population realm; I prefer Alliance side.

Specifically, I would require late night or weekend raids. Preferably something casual but beggers can not be choosers.

I would take any suggestions :)

After my account was hacked in April, I took a long break from WoW. But I'm back, and on a new realm in a guild that I love, starting fresh! Currently my main is a lvl 52 pally.

But I have that lonely lvl 80 lock on my old realm. Its a brand new 80- After I hit level cap, I focused more on the other faction because my friend was leveling a toon there.

So I want to transfer my 80 to my new realm, but it is so undergeared- I'm kind of embarrassed! Also the majority of my gold is gone (hacked). I do, however, have 450 mining (from the hacker, actually). Also talioring but its only something like 350-375ish.

So any tips to improve my 80 lock soloing? Or should I just transfer it over anyway and see how my guild can help me out as far as running things?

New loot information from Patch 3.3 is available on MMO Champ and World of Raids. The Quel'Dalar questchain rewards are HAWT (the only exception I've seen so far is that the 2h DPS Strength version has Haste on it for some idiotic reason, where as the AGI version has a ton of sexxxy Armor Pen), as are some of the Emblem of Frost items. So far, I'm not impressed with Icecrown Raid gear though.

Assuming the information is correct, the Heroic versions of the three new 5-mans will be dropping ilvl 232 gear. The normal versions will be dropping ilvl 219 gear. o_0

http://www.worldofraids.com
http://www.mmo-champion.com

does anyone know WHY i can't log into my main only? my alts are working fine, but when i try my main i d/c

My realm does not seem to offer what I want, and I am intrigued by the high population on Moon Guard, I am going to transfer.

So without further a-do, does anyone here play on Moon Guard?

Any Moon Guard casual guilds looking for a Resto Shaman? I do not usually RP, but I will not rain on your parade if you choose to.

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...but I couldn't pass on this one.

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Kathy Secky has a 5 yr old son Noah. He is in the last stages of a 2 1/2 yr battle with Neuroblastoma Cancer. The family is celebrating Christmas next week and Noahs request is to get lots of Christmas cards. Lets get him some, please send cards to:

Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountain View Circle
South Lyon,Mi 48178


[EDIT!!!] The family has since provided an alternate address for sending cards to Noah:

Noah Biorkman
c/o Scott Biorkman
3480 Petoskey Way
Milford, MI 48380


Lets see how many cards we can get to this little guy. Please pass this on!

Blizzard never ends to amuse me. This time they managed to run out of Pandaren minipets. Yes, they don't have a virtual item in stock. Hilarious.

And it just happens to be an item from which they get only 5$, as opposed to 10$ from Lil' KT (charity is a serious bsns). Even more hilarity.

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