Realm Performance Issues? Post here!

Hey folks,

Since there are several realms experiencing intermittent issues, we'd greatly appreciate it if all reports of realm issues were made in this thread to consolidate our information.

Our Senior Game Masters will additionally be updating threads in the Realm Status forum regarding realm performance here:

https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=11113&sid=1

Thank you for your efforts and cooperation! ; D

Thank you, folks. While I'm not responding to each individual report, this thread is allowing us to ensure such issues are reported to our database administrators if they are not being investigated already. Keep them coming. We hope to have such performance issues addressed as soon as possible. ; )

Q u o t e:
AUCHINDOUN !!!
character creation is shut down due to Queue spike. . but there hasnt been a queue on the server for almost 2 hours now and Character Creation is still disabled.. PLEASE FIX!!!! i must join my premade guild on this server.

Character creation on that realm will remain disabled throughout peak hours. I'm sorry, Lion. = \

Q u o t e:

When are peak times? It's great that we know we can't create and why, but when? So far it's looking like I'm going to half to rob her of her character creation process because blizzard has chosen her work hours as "non-peak" and she wants to play.

What is being done to resolve the issue in the long run? Are more servers going to be opened? It doesn't seem fair to charge for the Burning Crusade and then not allow people to play where they want to. Also, just being honest I told her I'd write a message up here and she said "Like they care.". Take that as you will - we've both been playing over a year.

Thanks for your time.

Peak hours are generally from 4pm - 12am PST and weekends. While it is not specifically the peak hours stopping character creation, it's the queue to get into the realm. This measure was put into place to avoid additional realm stability issues from an influx of newly created characters.

If you would like to see new realms opened or limitations changed with regards to this limit, please post on our Suggestions forum. Let us keep this thread related to realm stability issues now, please. = )

Our Senior Game Masters will additionally be updating the following thread in the Realm Status forum regarding realm performance:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=67899293&sid=1

Thank you all for your continued reports and patience. : )

Q u o t e:
So you're rebooting Gul'dan and Wildhammer but not Illidan? I guess being down for a solid half hour doesn't count as a performance issue?

Illidan is being investigated by our server technicians, Nymbia; just because it's not in that particular post doesn't mean it's being ignored. :)

Q u o t e:
Wildhammer just recently got a restart and has crashed again.

Please do a maintenance or something. :)

All evidence I can find suggests that Wildhammer has recovered, Dippur; the population is rising healthily, and it seems stable for the moment. :)

Since reports of realm performance issues are beginning to trickle in more slowly, we're going to go ahead and lock this thread. If you'd like to request that we verify that our database administrators have been made aware of any current realm issues, please create a new topic. Thanks! ; )