Feldon Rothgar, who has been up for how many hours now? brings us this update…
The upgrade is looking good and we should have the servers up soon. The QA department is just doing their final pass.
We have a 30 minute downtime scheduled tomorrow morning to roll out a hotfix for all servers. Since we had to skip our normal hotfix window this morning due to the database migration, we are doing it tomorrow instead.
We’re still planning on going forward with the PvP server merge Wednesday night at midnight PST. Initially only Venekor will be brought down to backup the database and export all of the data. When the export is complete, Nagafen will be brought down for us to merge the data. After the merge takes place, we have some other background tasks that could take a few hours. This includes cleaning up universal-chat, merging shared banks and updating player names and guild names that had conflicts. Be prepared for as much as a 24-hour downtime for Venekor players. Nagafen players will experience around 12 hours of downtime depending on how fast the processes go.
We’re hoping that the newer hardware will help the process go faster than our test runs.
Thanks for enduring the downtime this week. We know it’s never at a good time but the final outcome will be worth it.
Tomorrow’s hotfix is expected to include some changes to the Headless Horseman x2 encounter.