Why are you WAITING? We demand restarts now!

Several realms have already been restarted. The realm restarts at 5 AM will be aimed at addressing a root cause of some of the realm stability issues that have been cropping up. Basically, it appears a memory leak is causing current world server instability. At 5 AM, we'll be power cycling more than just the individual realms, but some of the equipment behind that.

To restart all of those realms now would simply crush any remaining online realms, as players all try to log in after any one realm restarts. Restarting on Off-peak hours makes the whole process less impactful for everyone and everything involved. If we dumped the majority of our player base right now, everyone logging back in would simply bring down authentication, then nobody is going anywhere.

The GMs have been issuing realm restart requests to our network team as realms have been affected. Granted, this is a more temporary approach until we fully isolate and resolve this issue.