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Premade characters now available for copy on the PTR

Posted Jun 24th 2008 4:25AM by Natalie Mootz
Filed under: Realm News, Patches, Realm Status, News items, Forums

Blizzard forum poster Hortus has announced that premade characters are now available for copy to the PTR for patch 2.4.3. The Character Copy page says that the average wait time for copying is five days, but I've never waited as long as the estimates for my copied toons. I copied mine to the PTR tonight and will let you know how long the transfer takes.

The eighteen premades are all Level 70s, two of each class (one Horde, one Alliance). Undead comprise the largest race (5), followed by Dwarves (4), Gnomes (3), and Orcs (2). There is one character each for Tauren (Druid), Night Elves (Druid), Blood Elves (Paladin), and Draenei (Shaman). They are all specced with gear made for PvP, judging by the character names. So what are you waiting for? Maintenance starts soon! Get out there and copy a premade character -- or four -- for yourself.

[Thanks, Josh and Philip Stetson.]

Extended Maintenance for May 13th and patch 2.4.2

Posted May 12th 2008 5:45PM by Daniel Whitcomb
Filed under: Patches, Blizzard, News items

We don't know for sure yet if patch 2.4.2 is hitting the live servers tomorrow, but there's a few clues that may suggest we're going to see it soon. First is that maintenance tomorrow morning will be extended, from 3am-11am PST. Extended maintenance doesn't always mean a patch, sometimes it's for hardware upgrades or other reasons. However, if there's patch, there is generally extended maintenance.

But there is one other sign that could be a harbinger of 2.4.2. Tipster Phillip pointed out to us that the PTR servers are currently down. There's hasn't been an official notice posted on the US PTR Forums as of this writing, but there is an official notice of the end of testing on the European forums. Certainly, Blizzard's already had one false stop on the 2.4.2 PTR, but it could be that the second time is a charm.

If you need to jog your memory on 2.4.2's content, check out the initial patch notes here and the undocumented changes (most of which have since been folded into the official test server patch notes) here.

You can also read about the Hunter changes and their fallout here, with articles on Growl, Scare Beast, and some of the controversy and math problems surrounding the Growl change.

The character copy queue is currently full

Posted Feb 10th 2008 1:15PM by Adam Holisky
Filed under: Patches, Realm Status, News items

With the US PTR featuring patch 2.4 up and running, there is some news to report!

You cannot copy your characters over right now. A message is up saying "The character copy queue is currently full."
There is an average wait time of 4 days for a copy. In my experience this has been right about 50% of the time.
If your character was previously copied, there's a chance you can play it now. There are level 70's on the Isle of Quel'Danas.
The PvE server appears to be buggy. Sometimes it is letting me in, sometimes it isn't. Also, character creation is not always working.

Enjoy the PTR's today! And don't forget to send us in any juicy tidbits you come across! More news at WoW Insider throughout the day.

Bornakk announces region free test servers

Posted Feb 9th 2008 3:35PM by Daniel Whitcomb
Filed under: Patches, Virtual selves, Blizzard, News items

Bornakk announced last night that we can expect what could be a fun change for this and future PTRs: the US, Korean, and EU servers will share test realms. We might speculate that this could be delaying the release of the PTRs despite the fact that we have the notes and the patch in hand, though it is, of course, possible that it's the problems with the live servers right now as well.

Regardless, it'll be interesting to see how this changes the test dynamic as testing goes forward. There's been some questions in the past over which region's raid groups are better, so it might be fun to see if they decide to duke it out over the new Sunwell content face-to-face. It might be fun to see if some multi-region arena tourneys get set up as well. Even on the casual side, some of us have overseas internet friends who play on different servers than us by necessity, so it should be great to meet up with them and kill a few monsters or do a few dailies together.

Of course, before we get to see if anything fun comes out of this, we'll have to make it on the PTRs. We'll be sure to tell you as soon as we see them up and running!

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Premade characters now available for copy on the PTR

Extended Maintenance for May 13th and patch 2.4.2

The character copy queue is currently full

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