Offense none taken, and I agree with everything you say. I will add though, that in the case of an "emergency" patch, the very least they could do is put up information that THAT's what it is. I do not presume to be asked my personal position on the matter by bioware prior to any decisions, so no I'm not a board member, but in this day and age, where feeds of information instantly about anything all the time is as normal as breathing, the mmo industry is severely lagging behind. It feels like there is still a misguided conception amongst server admins that only kids with nothing but time to waste play mmos.

Not at all, my perfectly reasonable expectation, is that they do it at different times for the different timezones. In any other service than the MMO industry, this would be a given. And in any service situation, that is an incredibly small sacrifice for a service provider to make in order to keep customers happy.

Thanks to the ones that got it, and.... to the ones that don't. Believe me, I do understand a thing or two about work hours, but the thing is, when your company is servicing hundreds of thousands of customers, the work hours of a few employees a few days every now and than is a rather low concern as opposed to the amount of customers your giving bad service to.

What a completely moronic time to take down the servers for a patch of all things. Yea, one can get a life and get some fresh air and all sorts of standardized troll replies to complaint threads like this one, but never the less, this is NOT good service.

No. Do whatever you want gearwise until mid-high 40's. Before entering any Hardmodes you need to change your gear anyway, meaning putting in defensive mods etc. The gear you get now in the 30's. you are not gonna be wearing at 50. When at 50. I advice you go do some daily's (pve quests) on illum and on belsavis. The heroics you do there wil grant you a total of 3 epic lvl 50/49 mods pr day, so you can upgrade all mods in an orange armorpiece to something equalient to hardmode loot, once pr day. You also get tokens for this, which if you do all the daylies, it'll take you 5 days to have enough tokens for an inplant or earpiece or hilt/barrel. Do this and craft/buy some epics, and your good to go. In other words, your not gonna need any of the gear you get now exept perhaps orange