Fangtooth posted an additional change in 1.7; the level ranges will be changing to the far more sensible ranges of 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60.

Fangtooth wrote:
In the upcoming patch, we will be changing the level ranges of two Battlegrounds. Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin will now be level-banded as follows:

• 20-29
• 30-39
• 40-49
• 50-59
• 60

This change makes the level ranges much more, er, sane, as several powerful abilities are gained at level 40 and level 60, which heavily disrupted their brackets.

Presumably the Alterac Valley range w

The public test realms are up!

Hopefully I'll be able to actually copy a character over sometime tomorrow.

I've added a page on the lore behind the various realm names.

It's essentially an HTML version of a thread that has since vanished off the WoW forums. That must be why I saved it. :)

It would appear that today's maintanence is going to be extended by - uh, a lot - because some realms are still down that aren't supposed to be. It's well past an hour after the realms are supposed to be up, and the forums are still ... spotty.

But according to a post by Caydiem I was able to read after five attempts, they're working to bring them up as fast as possible...

1.6 did change some API, so you'll need to download the mods again (or just edit the ones that didn't change to use the new 1600 interface).

BuffTimers 1.3.2

This contains a minor change to bring the mod inline with the Blizzard interface.

Download BuffTimers 1.3.2

CombatMusic 0.3

No change, other than the interface number.

Download CombatMusic 0.3-beta

Blizzard has released patch 1.6 today. Patch 1.6 sees the release of Blackwing's Lair and the Darkmoon Faire. (Of course the Darkmoon Faire has already moved on, so you won't be able to actually see it for another three weeks or so. Oh well!)

Tyren has finally gotten around to admitting that Thundgot (the Europe CM) wasn't just back from a crazy trip to Amsterdam when he announced that RPPVP realms were coming.

US RPers who want to PvP will be glad to know that Blizzard will indeed be creating a new RP PVP realm "at some point in the future". Based on what Thundgot said, the RP PVP realm will go live at the same time a new PVP server goes live, so that PVPers will have a new server to roll on and RP PVPers can roll on the new server at the same time.