I really don't understand the purpose behind that. Everyone will log out or get DC'd when it goes down for maintenance. What is the purpose behind preventing character transfer early? (Besides to annoy those of us who have to go to work and now won't be able to get the max invokes for the day)
WHY DO THEY KEEP TAKING THE SHARD DOWN EARLY?!? This is getting to be an extremely annoying pattern. I'm waking up early so I can try and get a couple invokes in before work and I can't transfer between characters even though I should have 10 minutes until maintenance!