in all honesty, this is the first problem i've had with blizzard's wow servers
i expirience great pings, usually around 28ms, i never have trouble logging in to servers, and their regular maintinance is at 4:00am-5:00am pacific, which i can tolerate since i know about.
I was in the Ob, and it was the worst expirience ever. I couldn't ping less than 100, I played on test30 on the human side, and i couldn't get decent pings worth crap. Live isn't perfect, but it's still better than retail imo.
*shrugs* they didn't take all the servers down i dont think, just one?
overall there are issues yes, but not enough to say blizzard is a joke, but that's just my expirience, i'm not trying to invalidate yours
on that note : i wish the servers were up....