Maintenance window

[aesteval]

These long maintenances usually go the entire time because the servers won't be available for play before the weekly reset of new content happens and where there will be a rush to acquire certain things (ie: new housing, mats for new recipes - there's a rush on the MB for old mats madely newly relevant the moment the patch comes up.) If they did trim time off of the maint schedule it would be the servers going down later rather than coming up early - but better to be safe on case something goes really wrong and have too much time than too little.

Many typos and no edit on phone. ^_^ But anyway, we don't know how long maint actually takes in these cases because the servers will not be allowed to be opened up early due to fairness with these sort of content updates.

[oLLiCS]

Shouldn't they do maintenance when it's not on a day bordering reset then?

Then you will get raging people screaming "why is that maintenance in the middle of the week, I wanna farm" and schedule a maintenance for weekends would be just stupid since that's time when the most people are online.

[Tint]

they time it around the weekly reset, so everyone has the same 7 day window to get new capped tomes - or in this case - the new upgrade item for i260>i270 tome gear from the new 24 man raid and the lockout for the new i260 raidgear. if they bring the patch later in the week you will have less than 7 days to get the stuff done, wich is even more unfair for people with less time i guess.

that's also the reason the servers will never get live before the weekly reset, even when they finished working on the maintenance. but i think this time official end is one hour after the weekly reset? so maybe they come up early (by 1 hour maximum).

[Aerowaffle]

I just hope all my plants will be fine when I log back in. Google searches tell me that plants continue to age while in maintenance.

[Malzian]

Shouldn't they do maintenance when it's not on a day bordering reset then?

Patches always happen on Tuesdays, always will. It's the traditional 'new content release' date, which is why all new games come out on Tuesdays. Don't know why it was settled on Tuesday, but that's just how it is.

[Domeric]

wait so it's 24 hour maintenance leading into a traditional tuesday maintenance, too?

[Malzian]

wait so it's 24 hour maintenance leading into a traditional tuesday maintenance, too?

No, it's 24-hour maint that will finish most likely at the same time that the weekly lockouts reset.

[HaelseMikiro]

Even if maintenance is completed early, I expect they'll keep it closed until the weekly reset, only because they're adding a new 24 man with a weekly reward. Yes, it's new content and it might be unlikely that many people could clear it between maintenance and reset time, but if there's a chance of it happening, they'll keep it shut down.

And so SE outsmarts me, maintenance is over 90 minutes early, and they forced weekly reset to occur early to compensate for it. Outstanding work devs, I'm truly surprised and proud this time around

[Texa]

The game is kicking on Diablos when people teleport to the housing districts.