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Blizzard Announces Long Maintenance For the Shadowlands Pre-Patch Launch
Blizzard announced on the in-game login screen and Battle.net launcher that the maintenance for October 13th, or the release of the Shadowlands pre-patch, will take longer than usual. According to the Battle.net launcher, the maintenance for US servers will start at 7am PDT and is scheduled to end at 3pm PDT.