My first expansion experience, should I expect long queues and down time?

[galbsadi]

Expect the servers to potato at least a few times during the first 24 hours, max 48 hours.

After that it's usually fine.

I'm speaking from experience with SE and a lot of other MMOs. After a new expansion release, server usually fails a couple of times, then maintenance, long login times, lag, crashes, disconnects. It's pretty hectic at the start.

It chills out after 48 hours max though. Never seen any MMO take longer than 48 hours to chill.

Oh you young soul.

I've never seen this game take longer than 48h to chill...but I remember servers on certain other games going down as long as a week.