Character boosts are now available. Players who have purchased boosts should see their boosted characters available for play.
As any veteran World of Warcraft player knows, never count on release day going smoothly. After extending maintenance for several hours following an intended 24-hour maintenance period, The Burning Crusade pre-patch, and character boosts, are fully available to players.
The character boosts — an instant 58-level boost that costs $60 — were expected immediately, but were delayed by unforeseen issues. However, according to Tom Ellis, a senior game producer for WoW, the boosts should now be working as intended.
"Boost is live in US TBCC, EU is in testing. These are large DB operations, this might queue up pretty big today so expect some delays here," he wrote on X.
Ellis has been keeping players up to date by publicly commenting about the launch issues on X.
“West coast is still asleep but we were pretty close last night so I expect boost will be back in again by around lunch time, don’t crucify me if we miss that though! But it is the highest priority, we successfully processed some and a couple got stuck, just need to figure out,” Ellis...
