The Test Realms came online either late Friday night or early Saturday morning, depending on how you'd rather look at it, and already stability problems abound. Last night I was unable to get past the character selection screen (getting repeatedly disconnected at various stages of login) and I am currently waiting in a queue of nearly a thousand people. Estimated wait time? 62 minutes. I'm hoping this is just a sign of immense overcrowding...
However, the test server is a great way to look at and try out changes Blizzard has made in the latest patch, and offer your feedback in the Test Realm forum. Blizzard will let you transfer characters to the realm - a service which is oddly only available between 3AM and 3PM Monday through Friday, but until then, there are sample characters you can copy and try out - but be warned, you're only allowed two copies, and these count against them). To get started, download the appropriate test client and then click on Public Test in the lower left of the start-up screen.
Subscribe
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-04-2006 @ 1:24PM
Titanium said...
Good Luck...
http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/5190/testqueue6nk.jpg
Reply
3-04-2006 @ 2:41PM
Koan said...
I was 3640 in queue a minute ago. At least it seems to be moving relatively fast.
Reply
3-04-2006 @ 4:41PM
boneyard said...
not that weird the test server is crowded, it's not like they have 100s of them.
Reply
3-05-2006 @ 7:24AM
bobilox said...
At 5:00 PM EST the queue was at 4525 and it took 2 hrs 15 min to get in. I had no troble getting in and everything loaded pretty quickly. The first thing I noticed was the blessed lack of lag. There was some around the cities from lots of lvl 60s doing pvp.
Also, there were no establiashed flight paths.
Reply
3-06-2006 @ 10:24AM
the ninja said...
the estimated time is very much fubar on the test server... I was 2634th in the queue with 45 mins remaining, thirty minutes later I was 1403 in the queue with 58 mins remaining :(
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/BigDawgKris/WoW/test1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/BigDawgKris/WoW/test2.jpg
Reply