inspired by the events of about 10 minutes ago...



we got him to 11% before the server went down, and it's still down. will it come up in time for us to kill kel this week? only time will tell!

Oh man that hurts. I can't think of one that's really recent, but I know we've had server shutdowns mid Maexxna near what seemed like it was going to be our first kill, that resulted in all trash respawning and almost everyone respawning at the start of the instance. We've also had a shutdown right as Huhuran died once, that left everyone wondering if the loot would be still there or not when we got back, thankfully it was.

Nothing as bad as that screenshot though =P. Haven't been plagued by 15 minutes --> 1 minute, anytime that I can remember that was seriously interrupting.

None as spectacular as yours, but this one is pretty swell:

Queue: 800
Estimated time: 3 hours

3 hours later:
Queue: 1
Estimated time: <1 minute

Seconds later:

Welcome to the World of Warcraft! Enjoy blah blah

The server will come down for emergency maintenance for 30 minutes.
Server shutdown: 15:00

5 seconds later: you have been disconnected :|

I'm feeling kinda lucky that the worst I've had was about 2 trash pulls from hakkar.

http://forums.elitistjerks.com/viewtopic.php?id=5700

We win.

well, we got rolled back, and everyone who was still alive kept all their buffs. got him with no problem next attempt.

at least the story has a happy ending!

Thankfully this happened before we pulled Razorgore, but its still funny:

Just the opposite.

ZG Pug, I'm leading it. We're on panther, and server shut down message comes up. we try to hurry, and someone rings the gong early, wiping us (it was a pug...) We rezzed up, and tried again, wiping again. Server goes down.

Next day, I wake up, long on, realize I have 30 bijous and a bloodvine or two.

The same server restart you guys had, took my flask of the titans. Checked my health/inventory after the rollback and it was nowhere to be seen.

http://deusvox.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1070
We killed Sapphiron for the second time on a Wednesday, and were racing for a world first or US first KT when the server shuts down mid attempt for extended maintainance. Server doesn't come up until Friday, and we find out that our Naxx instance was reset. We cleared the four wings in one (looong) night, took our usual Saturday off, kill Sapph on Sunday, and finally down Kel on Monday.

Had our server not shutdown we probably would have killed Kel Thursday or Friday, possibly for the US first. All in all it was an exciting time to be raiding, bad luck or not. Good thing it's just a game. :yarr:

Not really a worst, but one of my favorite shut-down quotes of all time:

Dei Vox. :ssh:

not my own guild, but when aq was pretty fresh a guild killed twins for the first time as the server went down.
As in twins died, ML goes to loot and server dies. Its back up 15minutes later with a nice rollback. They are now at huhurans room, all twins trash has respawned and the twins are missing from the instance. They talk to gm's who cant give them loot because they cant confirm the twins ever was in that instance (what the gm's said atleast) talk about burn
And ofc the same thing happening to another guild a month later ^_^

I thought it was supposed to be Vox Dei? Either way we know Deus Vox is incorrect har.

I was on the leveling contest server finishing up my first level 25, and a level 40-some character named Nissassa (yes, the Mal'Ganis Nissassa) posted "WTB silk cloth" in Hillsbrad general. I laughed.

While this isn't necesarrily the worst, I still think it's a nice story. This happened only last week.

We'd done enough 'serious' raiding for a week, and someone mentioned in guild "Hey! Let's go do BWL!", and so there we go to BWL. All fine, really smooth run. Just after we kill Flamegor (Which was at 10 before midnight) this message pops up:
[SERVER] This server is coming down for maintenance today. Check http://www.wow-europe.com for more information.

Well, we figured it was just some unannounced feature from the 1.12.1 patch that the server would now announce a while before the regular maintenance, so we go kill Chromaggus. Anyway, the exact moment Chromaggus hits 20% (Which was at midnight), we get this new message:
[SERVER] Shutdown in 01:00
So DPS goes completely insane, we kill Chromaggus shortly after the 15 second warning, a few people check the loot, we get a nice Ashje'retul and CTS, but the server shuts down before we can do the bidding. We're still waiting for the GMs to get back to us on the loot.

The craziest thing however is that despite the fact that this was last reset, we still had the save this reset, so this week we've killed Nefarian without having killed any other boss in BWL. And he even dropped a Red Scepter Shard! Really crazy.

It's not quite as dramatic as, say, Naxx bosses, but considering this was our third Ashje'retul ever it's still pretty big for us relatively speaking.

Oh wow, talk about awesome drops, I hope you guys get them back. We haven't seen any CTS/AQR yet and only 1 Ashjre'thul.

It's far from the worst but it happened yesterday so why not right?

After downing Razorgore and Vael for the first time this week, we fail to get enough people to even try BWL last night (<30) so we fall back on good old AQ20. Everything's going fine, a couple early pulls on the Rajaxx fight, but nothing to write home about, take out Buru and head to Moam. He's going down pretty quick for a healer heavy raid and his mana is under complete control then we see this:

[SERVER] Restart in 15:00

Okay that's not too bad, we get a break before Ossarian it seems, oh if Blizzard was only that kind. It wasn't more than 15 seconds later and after Moam's adds spawn that this happens:

[SERVER] Restart in 0:05

Shortest 15 minutes evar! Sigh, I check the WoW forums and there is a post about emergency maintence, but Garona is not listed on the realms affected. The server comes up 5 minutes later (before we could get a lvl 1 raid on Hogger going) and everyone logs back in, except one of our priests. Long story short, we no longer have the mana drains to kill Moam and I had to leave shortly there after.

Shortly before we got our "extended maintenance" I think... My guild was in BWL on Ebonroc. He dies, we're sorting out loot. Server crashes. We think things like "Oh, no, wonder if we'll have to fight back through the suppression to get up to his body... will it still be there?"

Woo boy.

When the server comes back up everybody who was raiding an instance is falling through the sky above Hillsbrad. We end up with a "corpse totem" in the sky. Southshore is overrun by ghosts of my friends who were in Nax, BWL, AQ... you name it. Some few people end up in a similar predicament over Desolace. Our ONLY option is to spirit rez there in Hillsbrad. We called it a night.


Pic:

The first night my guild ever killed Princess Huhuran, They had forgot to reset AQ during tuesday maintenance so we went in to work on huhu more. The system message came up with a warning of server shut down to reset AQ right before the attempt in which we killed her for the first time. So we just went and killed her, distributed loot in ~2-3 minutes, cleared aq again, killed huhu again, and gave one lucky shaman both his bindings the first night we ever killed her... TWICE :) Kind of a good story I guess.

It didn't hurt our progression but it still sucked to have the server shut down on us with 8% life left on Firemaw. Another 30 seconds and we would have had him!

Last night, Hakkar at 75%.

[SERVER] This server is being shut down for emergency maintenance.

"Aww crap."

[SERVER] Server shutdown in 15:00.

"Whew, ok guys, we're fine."

[SERVER] Server shutdown in 1:00.

"omg"

We ended up getting him to 14% after a call to go crazy on dps. Wasn't fast enough. :(