First off, the official WoW Forums were recently set to read-only.  When the in-game mail presented a bug during last Tuesday’s maintenance, everyone flooded the forums forcing the CPU to reach 100% usage, causing downtime.  With the release of Wrath of the Lich King, the forums were placed into read-only mode to make sure fans in general could benefit from very important information concerning installation and support info.

However, we have a new update from Nethaera, provided to all fansites. You can now post on the official forums as normal, but that might change and revert to read-only if the traffic during the first days of the expansion forces forum servers to reach its CPU limit. If the official forums crash, Nethaera will use fansites as a media to provide important information on the fly. Make sure to visit us for updates. Please read:

Nethaera: “I wanted to provide an update on the Official Forums for you.  We have opened them back up for traffic, but if we feel it