No account-wide DKs just yet (for some)

As of the shortly before Wrath launch time, the plan for Death Knight character creation was as follows: If you have a level 55 or greater character on any realm, You can create one DK per realm on any realm you like. You can't, of course, create DKs of the opposite faction on a PvP server on which you already have characters. Since the expansion launched, though, due to technical limitations, it has only been possible to create a DK on servers on which you have a 55+. 3.0.8 was supposed to ease this restriction, returning to the original design of DK unlocking being acount-wide rather than server-wide. However, "due to unforeseen circumstances, " this change was not fully executed. Some people are able to create DKs on any realm as intended (myself included), but some are not. Neth promises that we will see the change come to all "in the near future, " hopefully after some rolling restarts tonight. And here's hoping those same rolling restarts solve the Wintergrasp crashing bug that's annoying us all so intensely.

Rolling restarts incoming
There will be a series of rolling restarts Wednesday morning for all U.S. realms beginning at 5:00 a.m. PST / 8:00 a.m. EST and lasting a "minimal amount of time. " That usually means about 15 minutes for each realm, and the restarts are usually completely over with by 7:00 a.m. PST / 10:00 a.m. EST. There is no information as to what the restarts fix, however things have been relatively stable tonight and there haven't been any abnormal number of complaints that WoW Insider has picked up on. And since you'll obviously be up at five in the morning and will need something to do, why not check out our patch 3.1 coverage (hopefully the PTR will drop very very soon), or read up on dual specs? Good times ahead to be had by all.