Most of the servers are online as of now!:

Status: All servers online except the following: Tor Elyr, Dark Crag, Bretonnia, Drifting Castle, Ironfist, Middenheim, Reikland, Tor Achere. We are working to bring these servers online as soon as possible.

On October 2nd, 2008 North American servers will be coming down for an update to version 1.01 at 8AM EDT. Oceanic servers are scheduled to follow at 9:30AM EDT. Estimated downtime is four hours (12PM EDT for NA servers, 1:30PM EDT for Oceanic servers).

We have a lot of great updates in store, you can read all about them here .

Click "More..." below for previous updates regarding this announcement.

Update 12:15PM EDT: All servers online except the following: Tor Elyr, Dark Crag, Bretonnia, Drifting Castle, Ironfist, Middenheim, Reikland, Tor Achere.

Update 8:30AM EDT: Oceanic servers have been brought down ahead of schedule for patching to v1.01. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, however all servers are now scheduled to be back online at 12:00PM EDT.

Update 8:00AM EDT: All North American Servers have been taken offline for patching.