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Mar

PTR Testing!!

   Posted by: Skeleton Jack   in PTR

Heya guys!!  So we were going to be doing the 20man Naxx 25 this evening to get people their achievements.  Basically everyone is at the point where all we need really is The Immortal (as far as difficulty) to gain Heroic: Glory of the Raider.  So we’re covering the last few bases in the hopes we can manage The Immortal before 3.1 releases to try to get the 310% speed mount.  *crosses fingers*  BUT!!!  PTR testing was re-released, yay!!  Ulduar that is!!

So we get everything worked out and form 2 different 10 mans because apparently there is an issue with the Heroic version of Ulduar atm.  We reform up, get people online, and then we get everyone in the raid.  Woot!!  Fun time!!  Then we begin to notice emotes and “/say” messages from the people in our guild in the *other* raid group…  *blink* *blink* *blink*  WTF Willus!??!

Next thing we know we get a message from Blizzard telling us they are having instance problems.   Duh…  And that Udluar will be deadlocked for 30 minutes so go grab a sandwhich.  *blink*  /looks down at his sammich laying in front of him

/CHECK!!!  Sammich in hand!!  :D

To which I then heal in Vent, “Hey SJ already has a sandwhich!!”  Heh.  I had told them I was grabbing a coke and a sammich earlier while they were working out the raid groups, so it just had me busted up laughing.  Sorry, but that’s my dorky moment for the evening!!  Heh.

So here is the Blue post on PTR Ulduar testing for those of us in the US:

Here’s the current schedule for Ulduar PTR testing this week:

On the North American test realms:

Flame Leviathan (Normal, i.e. 10 Player Mode ONLY) – Tuesday Night, March 3 at 4PM PST (or after the PTR servers come back up) through tomorrow. We want a lot of testing on this, but take note that the Heroic version of this fight should NOT be tested at this time. Players should only form 10 player raids to test this. The Heroic/25 Player version is not properly tuned.
Ignis the Furnace Master – Wednesday night, March 4, starting at 7pm EST/4pm PST.
Hodir - Thursday night, March 5, starting at 7pm EST/4pm PST

So it looks like raiding this week will be delayed, and PTR raid testing will be in!!  Who knows, I may just sit down and take some notes and tell you guys some tidbits from the PTR?!?!  Who’s down?  :)

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters

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6 comments so far

Vlaxy
 1 

Ptr is a joke..realy hope they will make it somewhat harder for live realms…this…imo is just slacking on their part….downed him after 6 tries with pug ( !!??)..although i had to w8 for server to clear from gazilions of players 1st..so we tried him at about 5 am(europe time :> ) http://img13.imageshack.us/my.php?image=leviatandownannuerules.jpg

March 3rd, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Geanor
 2 

Have a lot of fun with those testings :)

March 4th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Syncopated
 3 

People cry because they get through the content too early, yet they sit on the test realm and practice. (no you’re not testing, you’re practicing and you know it).

I’d have pushed for the drakes, imo.

March 4th, 2009 at 6:40 am
 4 

The reason my guild is on the PTR is to learn the ecounters, not to truly test. Though we do report bugs and issues and try to test changes to the specs we use. I personally see nothing wrong with that, though the issue with clearing content too early is a serious problem. Content is far to easy without enough new content being release quickly after. The time between content releasing needs to be less.

March 4th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Crimsan
 5 

I guess one of the main reasons I have never bothered with PTR is because I “want” to experience the new content when it is finished, complete and ready to go. I want surprises and the “ohhh ahhh” factor.
But thats just me personally and im glad that other people do go into PTR…as long as thats what they are doing, reporting bugz and helping Blizz to smooth the content out before it is released to the general plebs.
I also get the feeling that most people will go into PTR to get a head start, not to help out.

March 4th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
UnholyDK
 6 

Hey Skeleton, Have you been BISI at all lately….. /wink

March 6th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

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