Whatever happened to the plan to change from lengthy "maintenance" to short
rolling restarts?
Why does it take 6 hours a week to maintain a server? Do banks shut down
their entire transaction systems for this long every week?

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I have always wondered what is the advantage of purple items when many are
so seemingly weak compared to green items of the same level.
For example I got a purple drop in STV the other day.  It was the second
purple drop I have gotten in almost 2 1/2 years of playing.  It was ...

I am helping someone out with a problem and have got it almost all worked
out except for one last issue.
Running World of Warcraft with Burning Crusade Expansion
To start, World of Warcraft has been nigh unplayable lately with almost

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Ok, I have been keeping track of tokens/honor of the various BG's. AV comes
out way ahead of the rest (I was not playing over recent bonus weeked). In
EoS, I average 4 tokens per hour, and about 150-250 honor. In WSG, it is
less, and in AB, same tokens, but slightly more honor. ...

I have a question about meta gem requirements that I'd like to ask here
instead of simply trying it out (because that might easily become
expensive).
I'm currently using a Relentless Earthstorm Diamond

I have made tow websites with easy and effective methods for
Meditation and Astral-travel. Take a look if you are interested,
everyone can do it....
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Anyone got any idea as to why my lvl 70 pal is being offered (as an
example) 11+ gold per quest, while I, at lvl 69, get offered 4+ gold
for the same quest?
I have better faction with NPCs in there than he does, but I suspect

As an alliance character, I checked out the 2.3 PTR and
the new crews on ships & zeppelins.
The Booty Bay/Ratchet crew was friendly to me (I'm at least
friendly with all the Steamwheedle cartel); I assume they

Zebby female NE Huntress lvl 66 / Aja nightstalker cat lvl 65 (bite,prowl)
PVE solo
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Zul'jin&n=Zebby
Marksmanship

Zebby was questing the "Longtail is the Lynchpin" in the Wyrmskull Tunnel up in Blade's Edge Mountains (near Ruuan Weald) and got a blue drop Jack-o'-Lantern (BoP, 18 Slot Bag) from a monster as she was machete-ing her way through the tunnel to get to Draaca Longtail.  Cool ! ...

When arena season 3 begins, there will be new epic bracers, belt and
boots which can be bought with honor. However, I haven't found prices
anywhere. Anyone know how much Vindicator's chain sabatons will cost,
for example?

So, the other night I started doing herb gathering in order to bring
in some cash.  Previously, I just sold what I picked up while
questing.  I had never gone out for the purspose of farming herbs for
cash before.  So I spent a good deal of time mounting/dismounting, and

I was thinking, is it possible to get some software to run in the
background while you play WoW that lets you say commands and it does
something in response. For example, you say "Fireball" and the computer
automatically presses the hotkey you have set up for the Fireball spell.