Listen up, you dear things who enjoy a bit of a visit to the World of Warcraft. Being a Tuesday, we're in for some maintenance this evening, but today things are a little different than normal. On one hand, there's the standard downtime, which we're told will take place between 3am and 11am PDT (that's between 7:30pm and 3:30am, Adelaide time).

On the other hand, because we're special little gamers, we have a list of certain realms who are in for an extended maintenance shift, which will run for twelve hours starting at midnight Pacific (4:30pm Adelaide time this afternoon, until 4:30am tomorrow morning). Looking over the list of who will and who won't be affected by the downtime, it doesn't sound good for anyone playing on oceanic servers, including Proudmoore and Blackrock.

While the official word from Blizzard is that the extended downtime is related to hardware upgrades, rumours abound that it may also herald the introduction of Patch 3.1.2 onto the game servers. Wait and see, I guess!

Realms experiencing extra-long maintenance:
Aegwynn Akama Aman'Thul Arathor Azjol-Nerub Barthilas Blackrock Bloodscalp Bonechewer Boulderfist Bronzebeard Caelestrasz Chromaggus Crushridge Daggerspine Darkspear Dath'Remar Draenor Dragonblight Dragonmaw Draka Drak'thul Dreadmaul Dunemaul	Eitrigg Eldre'Thalas Feathermoon Firetree Frostmane Frostmourne Frostwolf Garithos Gundrak Gurubashi Hakkar Jubei'Thos Khaz Modan Khaz'goroth Kil'jaeden Kilrogg Korgath Kul Tiras Malorne Mug'thol Muradin Nagrand Nathrezim Ner'zhul	Perenolde Proudmoore Rexxar Runetotem Saurfang Scarlet Crusade Sen'jin Shadow Council Shadowsong Silver Hand Silvermoon Skywall Smolderthorn Spirestone Stonemaul Stormscale Suramar Terenas Thaurissan Thorium Brotherhood Tichondrius Uldum Vek'nilash Windrunner