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How to Cope With World of Warcraft Maintenance Day

It's realm maintenance day and you're such an addict you can't figure out how to cope with the realms being down for 6-8 hours.
Steps

1. Update your Add-ons and Mods to the game. Chances are some of them are out of date. http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons.html
2. If you're a hardcore end-game raider, go beef up on your strategy. Read ahead for the upcoming boss fights so you'll be prepared when you reach them.
3. If you're not a hardcore end-game raider and want to be, go look for a guild to join. Try the WoW Realm Forums, many of the realms have a recruiting sticky.
4. Read up on strategy for your class.
5. Consider a new talent build, you can find talent calculators here: http://wowvault.ign.com/talentcalculator/ or http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/.../talent-index/
6. If you're into Role-Playing, go read some "lore" or work on your backstory incessantly.
7. Take a break from thinking about World of Warcraft! Go read Dilbert or something.... http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/
8. Listen to some podcasts about World of Warcraft, such as http://www.taverncast.com/ or http://www.wowcast.net/


Tips

* Try not to panic. Even in the worst case scenario, the realms have never been down more than 16-20 hours in a row, and rarely more than 8.
* Develop a mantra to mutter to yourself to try and help cope.
* Use this as a good time to get over your Warcraft addiction. If you can last this day, try to keep it going the next day too.


External Links

* http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons.html
* http://wowvault.ign.com/talentcalculator/
* http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/.../talent-index/
* http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/
* http://www.wowcast.net/
* http://www.taverncast.com/