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Well obviously Patch 2.4.3 didn’t come out today. I’m placing it somewhere in the realm of early August to be 100% honest. Considering the changes taking place for one and the new swag introduced.
So when Samdog reported a bug Hortus pretty much spelled out that the PTR is still going to be running for a [...]

Just a little quickie update for you folks. Barrage incoming after this post.
The US PTR realms are now up and running with the latest 2.4.3 Patch. We are no longer testing Brewfest. We may run another test of Brewfest or other holidays later in the test phase watch this forum for more information. (src)
There is [...]

So they are raising the cap to Lv. 80 and people are worried. Blizzard’s reply was badass. Right now we level 30% faster (and leveling an alt it is very noticeable) until we hit 60. But by that time we can go to Outland. As well all group quests in Outland had their exp increased [...]

Recently there was a change that made a lot of sense in the PTRs and this coming to Warlocks. I’d consider it a buff honestly and wish shaman would get some of this much deserved attention as well. There are MANY curses available to a Warlock and being in a raiding environment I reckon it [...]

This is very much unintentional but people who can take part in the Alpha apparently can’t see the realm list for the PTRs!
Thanks for the report Elzix. It looks like accounts flagged for the Lich King Alpha can not see the realm list, this caused me quite a bit of confusion myself. We’ll look into [...]

Every PTR there are a series of questions that are pretty standard and so here are some choice nuggets of information that is good to know before hitting the forums or the actual PTR and making a fool of yourself. (src)
Premades? Yes we plan on having premades for this test phase. No I do not [...]

This here is awesome. I won’t go into semantics about it right now since is pretty short with everything going on so I’ll just cut to the details.
Here’s the 1st which is a new Herbalism bag you can get from Sporeggar reputation. [Mycah's Botanical Bag] - 4 x [Primal Mooncloth], 2 x [Fel Lotus]
Here’s the [...]

This is one of those I told you so moments.
Right now on the PTR, the first parts for Stormwind Harbor are showing up. You can find the Harbor entrance at the northern canal wall between the Park and Cathedral districts in Stormwind. Construction workers from <The Royal Stonecutters Guild> have been added to Stormwind for [...]

Hello everyone,
During the patch 2.4.3 testing process, we’d like to provide players with the unique opportunity to acquire a few rare promotional items! We encourage any players on the PTR to visit Landro Longshot in Booty Bay to redeem the following items from the World of Warcraft TCG: The Hunt for Illidan expansion.

Path of Illidan [...]

Some highlights for you! Cheat Death got nerfed, not surprised and long overdue. You can now ride and buy your mount at Lv. 30 instead of 40 for a measly 35g. There are new epic Bind on Equip 22 slot bags for sale and they are not Unique (they cost 1200g). The notes can be [...]

Due to popular demand, here are the exact posts that went up yesterday regarding the PTR and their up and down status. Or is it down and then up?
At about 1:30PM Eastern I see this. We will be taking the 2.4.2 PTR down shortly and ending the 2.4.2 PTR phase. Thank you to everyone [...]

Let me catch you all up on what happened between 2:00PM yesterday and 9:00AM today.

PTRs went down, then back up again. The collective lemmings of the press went bat shit bonkers over this but really it’s no big deal. Start swooning when Hortus makes a post saying “Thank you…” about the testing going down for [...]

Here is the last part of the whole Arena Season 4 guide. Once more with FEELING! Information about personal rating requirement, season 3 gear, season 2 gear, and how the arena changes are going to effect everything.
I really don’t understand why Blizzard is trying to turn the arenas in WoW into a freaking e-sport. [...]

Once more I want to give a little disclaimer that what you see is on the Public Test Realms. They are PTR stats and could be changed at anytime before the release on live realms. Prices are the same as current season 3 items. Personal rating requirements aren’t on the items, but will be here [...]

Ok folks a big thank you to the many sources I have managed to pull this from. To avoid a long massive page of scrolling I’ll be breaking this up into 3 parts. The first (this one) will showcase the actual armor sets themselves, the honor gear, and the price for all items.
Here are the [...]

More information coming in a few minutes, just fixing up some links.
With the new 2.4.2 build we have turned on Arena Season Four vendors for the PTR. You can find them in Area 52.
Please enjoy and post any bugs you encounter here in the PTR Forums.  (src)

Here are a few highlights on the PTRs today.
We would like to request some focused testing on a bug that we believe to be fixed in 2.4.2
Using a macro with several instant cast spells can break targeting and the Escape key.
This is most often reported as happening with hunter kill command macros.
Please test your [...]

Blizzard launched the recruit a friend campaign a while ago and it’s always there on your account management page. It’s a fun little option to help get somebody into the game with you and allows for a few perks. According to the changes made to some files listing error messages in the game, it looks [...]

Blizzard is going at it again folks. I appreciate the fact that Blizzard keeps going back to these testing events since a lot of players never get the chance to experience them. Here’s the official notice.
The World of Warcraft team will once again be testing the WoW Arena Tournament on the Tournament Test Realm, [...]

We are aware of issues with the PTR and TTR.
Unable to create new characters.
Unable to Delete existing characters
Unable to connect to the realms
All of these issues are currently being investigated. We have no ETA for their resolution at this time.
Thank you for your patience. (src)
Hey nevermind Hortus fixed it.
Our connection [...]

Last night the PTRs/ and the TTR were brought down and then not too long after were brought back up with a new build. What’s good about this is that the Sunwell Plateau is active and working so perhaps Blizzard worked out all the kinks and raiding guilds testing the instance will be able to [...]

There happens to be a bug on the PTR/TTR where it will not validate the game version correctly. This sucks because what little testing we’re able to do now as the time grows shorter until release, is going to waste. At least Blizzard is aware of it.
We are aware of the issues with game [...]

Here you go everybody, enjoy the official Blizzard Patch 2.4 Fury of the Sunwell trailer. Just got back to the “office” and am currently playing catch up. More incoming shortly.
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Alright everybody we are officially in the home stretch. Blizzard has released today this site which shows a preview of Patch 2.4 and all the new features therein. The machinimators at Blizzard have made a short trailer video akin to the ones they’ve put out before all major content patches (Zul’Aman trailer, Black Temple, etc.) [...]

The game has been live for well over 2 years now, why is it still a surprise to people on how Blizzard does it’s patches?
Hell, Blizzard as a company has been around longer AND THEY STILL DO THINGS THE SAME WAY SINCE DAY ONE.
Why do people make me want to kill?
I don’t understand why patches [...]

Tigerclaw was active on the PTR forums trying to get into an issue Mac users are having. It’s definitely too late to fix anything that isn’t urgent in the 2.4 patch. We probably won’t see it this week but we’re definitely very close to a release as they’re already talking Patch 2.4.1, 2.4.2 and so [...]

People are quick to cry wolf and start to panic about Patch 2.4 and how it’s rumored to be released tomorrow.
Adding to the paranoia is the fact that there have been next to no Blue posts at all today. Which is usually very odd as much of the weekend’s shenanigans are dragged out onto the [...]

Now this is purely speculation, but I’m pretty confidant that Patch 2.4 is going to be coming out within the next two to three weeks.
The background downloader  has been active for a little while now which usually means that most if not all the art assets (models and such) are good to go and the [...]

Hey people, I just got an email from Samurai over at Troxed.com and they’ve come out with Episode 2!
Here it is in all it’s glory.
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Our hero finds himself trying out PVP as a prot warrior. Yeah it’s all a gag but i have to admit it’s funny. See, you need to look deeper at [...]

Thanks to mmo-champions for the high resolution images.
Currently we have only seen the retribution paladin set and the 2H sword from arena season 4. But it seems that Blizzard is already starting to tweak the gear some so that it feels more in line with the others (that they have yet to release and what [...]