Character boosts are now available. Players who have purchased boosts should see their boosted characters available for play.
As any veteran World of Warcraft player knows, never count on release day going smoothly. After extending maintenance for several hours following an intended 24-hour maintenance period, The Burning Crusade pre-patch, and character boosts, are fully available to players.
The character boosts — an instant 58-level boost that costs $60 — were expected immediately, but were delayed by unforeseen issues. However, according to Tom Ellis, a senior game producer for WoW, the boosts should now be working as intended.
“Boost is live in US TBCC, EU is in testing. These are large DB operations, this might queue up pretty big today so expect some delays here,” he wrote on X.
Ellis has been keeping players up to date by publicly commenting about the launch issues on X.
“West coast is still asleep but we were pretty close last night so I expect boost will be back in again by around lunch time, don’t crucify me if we miss that though! But it is the highest priority, we successfully processed some and a couple got stuck, just need to figure out,” Ellis wrote earlier.
There have also been reports of server changes, including an AU server, Maladath, being moved to the US. An intended change, according to Ellis, due to server health.
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“Ok diving back in, first major call out, yes Maladath AU has moved to the US, this is insane because the coms telling you the realm is closing (it is down to a few hundred players at peak) was entirely missed which is a huge fail, sorry to everyone surprised by that one it was meant to be in the pre-patch post,” he wrote.
According to Ellis, there will be free character transfers later today to the PVE Dreamscythe realm and the PVP Nightslayer realm, but character creation has been shut down on Maladath. There are also unconfirmed reports of Nightslayer being moved from Central to Pacific, with some players reporting higher ping.
Blizzard did not respond to an email from Game Rant asking about the character boost delay or the apparent server location changes.
People aren’t exactly pleased with how updates are being shared, with many players taking to Reddit to vocalize confusion at the lack of official blue posts by Blizzard. However, they are grateful that someone from the company is keeping the community up to date.
“Tom is crushing it. nonstop communication this is the sh*t we wanna see,” one player wrote on Reddit.
“I just wanna know why we getting more updates from this dudes Twitter than battle.net. I’m not making an X account and can’t see sh*t cause I don’t have one,” another player commented on a separate Reddit post.
