Happy Tuesday morning, everyone. It’s been a sort of weird week in WoW. Patch 4.2.2 is on the PTR but doesn’t seem to provide any major changes other than correcting a few tooltips. It does, however, make us all sort of antsier than ever for patch 4.3, and Community Manager Nethaera only stoked those flames with the release of the above screenshot. She neglected, however, to reveal what it signified.

This, of course, has set off a firestorm of comments and theories. Could it mean playable ethereals in the next expansion? Could it be a red herring to distract us from the Pandaren? Could it just be a non sequitur thrown up by a bored CM? Myself, I’m going for the theory that we’ll see some new features in patch 4.3 introduced lorewise by Consortium vendors in capital cities. That said, only time will tell for sure. For now, the folks at Blizzard aren’t saying any more, and so we wait.

On the plus side, you won’t have to wait too long for the servers to come back up this morning. We’re dealing with some rolling restarts at 5 a.m. PDT, after which we should be free and clear. While you’re waiting out the short downtime, be sure to catch up all things WoW with our usual roundup, after the break.Continue reading Tuesday Morning Post: Glimpses editionFiled under: Realm Status, News itemsTuesday Morning Post: Glimpses edition originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Happy Tuesday morning, everyone. It’s been a sort of weird week in WoW. Patch 4.2.2 is on the PTR but doesn’t seem to provide any major changes other than correcting a few tooltips. It does, however, make us all sort of antsier than ever for patch 4.3, and Community Manager Nethaera only stoked those flames with the release of the above screenshot. She neglected, however, to reveal what it signified.

This, of course, has set off a firestorm of comments and theories. Could it mean playable ethereals in the next expansion? Could it be a red herring to distract us from the Pandaren? Could it just be a non sequitur thrown up by a bored CM? Myself, I’m going for the theory that we’ll see some new features in patch 4.3 introduced lorewise by Consortium vendors in capital cities. That said, only time will tell for sure. For now, the folks at Blizzard aren’t saying any more, and so we wait.

On the plus side, you won’t have to wait too long for the servers to come back up this morning. We’re dealing with some rolling restarts at 5 a.m. PDT, after which we should be free and clear. While you’re waiting out the short downtime, be sure to catch up all things WoW with our usual roundup, after the break.Continue reading Tuesday Morning Post: Glimpses editionFiled under: Realm Status, News itemsTuesday Morning Post: Glimpses edition originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments