I'm glad so many people got the names they wanted but seeing everyone's names has made something abundantly clear and it's exactly why Blizzard should not listen to the average WoW player. These names are god awful but players think they are good. These same people are also posting on Reddit about their great ideas for the game and their demands to Blizzard. The average player is completely clueless, uncreative and absolutely cannot be trusted or listened to.

When you die as a Night Elf and have to run back to your body, your ghost is a wisp. This is a really fun little detail that adds to the overall world building feel of Azeroth. I think Undead characters should have Human models for their ghosts after player death and while running back. It would make sense, as their souls aren't rotten corpses and could accurately reflect their appearance in life. Not like other people besides other ghosts can see it, so it shouldn't get too confusing, and again, adds a fun little detail to worldbuilding.

After seeing the god awful names people are posting like a badge of honour, it's clear that people are incapable of having a single original idea, have no imagination, and are in no position whatsoever to give feedback about anything.

Please, kindly ignore us and do your own thing, it will be fine.

Thank you sincerely.

99% of your name reservations wouldn't be taken in 1,000,000 years...

Edit 1: Still not allowing access as of 19:55 CET. No updates or news as of now.
Edit 2: No access at 20:15 CET. No updates from Blizzard. Current theory is that it won't happen until NA servers launch at earliest. This is not an official statement from Blizzard but speculation from the community.
Edit 3: 20:19 - reply from Blizzard NA on Twitter. They're still working on a fix.
EDIT 4: ITS UP! GET IN
Edit 5: time is 21:14 CET. It's down again. It worked for 15 minutes, congratulations to everyone who got in. I will log off now to sleep. I hope it will get up again soon.

Let's all keep our wonderful whining in a single post, but more importantly - updates about the issue.

STATUS:

No one can log into the EU servers to reserve their name. This is NOT affecting NA or other regions as they are not available yet.

It's been an hour and 30 minutes and the issue is still persisting. No need to write an additional post about it.

What do we know so far?:

On Twitter, the American WoW CS account wrote that they were working on a fix (no time-frame) as fast as they could and it would likely require a hot fix.

That's all we know. Will update once more information is coming in.

In regards to the RP-PVP realms not showing as one of the 4 possible servers (that are still down):

If the RP-PvP ruleset isn't visible when you log in, select a different ruleset first, then click Rulesets in the top navigation bar. The RP-PvP ruleset should then appear.

I can't click the "Play" button:

1. Log out of battle.net
2. Click the cogwheel at the top right
3. Set it to "Europe"
4. Log in again
5. You should now be able to click "Play" and be stuck like the rest of us.

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We’ve updated the previous post in this thread with some additions that were intended to be listed.

Additional updates to Racial Abilities and Talents include:

Orc
Blood Fury’s cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).

Troll
Berserking duration increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Undead
Touch of the Grave internal cooldown reduced to 15 seconds (was 25 seconds).

We’d also like to clarify that for Skyborne:
Charged persists through death, and is removed upon entering a raid.
Attuned persists through death, and is removed upon entering a raid.

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Even though I'm playing on the Korean server, I managed to snag my dream name!

🍗⚔️

Tauren have the ability to harvest additional herbs bc lore reasons etc.

Why not allow dwarves the same ability but for mining?
Who uses find treasure?

Can we please get some good/funny ones posted?

Many players have been pointing out that their timezones, plus their average playtime, won't ever allow them to see the daylight and/or nighttime in Forever.

One way to solve it is to change the day/night cycles in-game to be 21 real-life hours long.

I made a simple graphic to help visualize how that will impact players. Logging into WoW at around the same time everyday will allow players to experience the full immersion through the week while having little to no impact on players with more free time in their hands.

The shift is large enough to make sure a player that plays an average of 7 hours a week will still be able to see both day and night in Azeroth, granted they always log in the same time every day.