Deathwing Fly Overs Are Meh

Talked with my guild last night and ever since The Shattering, NONE of us have seen Deathwing do his fly over thing.  No one has been burned and trust me, we have a lot of guild members out doing the new quests in Azeroth, not just parked in Dalaran.  So, what gives?

Apparently Blizzard wanted to make the Deathwing burn achievement be uber random, so getting scorched actually meant something.  But after a very lackluster elemental experience, I'd kind of like to be a part of this upcoming expansion and at least interact a little bit with the new baddy before Dec 7th.  Anyone else had this experience, is he bugged on servers, is he working as intended?

4.0.3a The Shattering Is Now Live

Amazingly enough the servers ended up coming online sooner than projected, within the 2nd or 3rd delay.  Hmm, does that makes sense to anyone else?  It's like Blizzard and Valve work on the same twisted time zone.  At any rate, new textures, some devastation, and a few thousand new quests await you next time you log in.

I had left my Death Knight logged out in Iron Forge and when I logged in I started off in the grave yard outside.  From what I understand this is typical, so if you logged in Stormwind, you'd find yourself starting off in the Elwyn Forrest grave yard.  Which would be nice, since the first thing you see when strolling into Stormwind would be the giant burning claw marks left on the castle structures.

Bombarded with questions about what the first thing I would do once The Shattering hit, I surprised myself.  All I did was stroll out to Westfall, look at the big hole in the ground and go back to farming.  What did you do last night, roll a new toon, finish leveling to 80 on another?

The Shattering Happens Today?

It's Tuesday, patch day, and we have an extended maintenance.  Further evidence, like an official blog post discussing The Shattering and patch 4.0.3a, make for a compelling argument that the event has hit.  However, I realms are still down and I just can't imagine then starting something in the middle of the Pilgrim event.

I mean, we are currently in a Holiday, Thanksgiving is on Thursday, and they want to set Azeroth ablaze?  I'm fine with that, but can you imagine the posts, complaints, and utter anarchy that will be found on the WoW forums?  It's been proven time and time again that people will complain about anything, so here is something else for them to get all hot and bothered over.

So, since we still have at least a few hours before servers come back up, will the actual Shattering event happen as soon as realms come back up, before the end of the Pilgrim Event, or after the Holiday like on Friday?



*Update - Maintenance on Tuesday 11/23/10 The Shattering 4.0.3a extended till 7 pm.