Drysc just wanted to confirm once more what’s going on with the Arena seasons as rumors are always spreading with the activation of arena season 4 gear (art assets and item tags) on the PTR.
Q u o t e:
The next patch is scheduled in April but not an exact date yet.

We’ve never announced or mentioned [...]

Datth lurks the forums it seems (he’s a tech guy) and is responsible for the massive amounts of undocumented changes in Patch 2.4 that affect the games audio and visual optimizations. Little upgrades in the code here and there make a big difference.
The gnome speaks truth. There is also a number optimizations in the [...]

We will be taking down the PTR and TTR today at 2:30 PM Pacific time to update to the latest build.
We expect the downtime to be between four and six hours.
Thank you for your patience. (src)

If you’re putting on a helm, and your hair sticks through the model, you might be stuck with it. Hortus went into detail explaining why this graphics bug exists and the details surrounding it.
This is a bug fix to prevent clipping of hair through the front of the helmet.
We currently do not have the [...]

Hey look the background downloader is working… OMFG INCOMING PATCH RABBLE RABBLE!!
Listen, I posted about this last night around 2am, or 4am shit I don’t know. Anyway, no the patch is not coming out soon, no it’s not coming out today, no that’s just rain stop panicking… ok fine go shoot at it.
Here is Blizzard’s [...]

If you’ve ever been on the PTR and tested content like I have, you’ll soon noticed that very often you’ll have to download a new patch for the PTR and update. It’s mainly so they can focus on getting all the information out in increments (bit by bit) but Tigerclaw does a better job at [...]

Parts of the patch (251 MB for me) are now being sent out to the background downloader. This means that some of the patch data is finalized, and we can get those parts of the patch now instead of having to get everything on patch day.
Patch 2.3 was on the background downloader for 12 days [...]

The following Bind on Pickup crafted items from Sunwell Plateau had a profession skill requirement of 350 added. I assume this was implemented like the blacksmithing weapons and other crafter specific gear to stop people form picking up one profession for X gear and then dump it to get another profession with Y gear and [...]

In the latest PTR build (applied last night) there were some big changes to the price & requirements of the SSO reputation rewards. The overall cost has gone up as well as some other changes specific to the jewelcrafting items. Credit goes to mmo-champions for providing a high-res image of the changes.
First off we’ll [...]

A new build (21 mb) has been deployed on the PTRs/TTR, but this patch did not contain many changes which could mean we are getting closer to a release on live servers.
The most noticeable change in that build is a druid one, Cyclone range has been reduced by 10 yards, it’s now 20 yards on [...]

The Public Test Realm has been updated and all realms are now available for testing. (src)

I’ll just quote the forum post directly as it sums everything up nicely.
Q u o t e:
I was just curious as to why Blizzard always waits until a major patch to release fixes/changes that they have stated are going to come out? I’m not talking about things like class balance issues that constantly change on [...]

I’d like to thank mmo-champions for the photoshop work putting all these images into the same frame to make it easier to view.
I think it’s not a big surprise to say that the 2.4 Patch introduced a lot of new item models in the game, most of them aren’t used more than once but there [...]

So Hortus is a little pissed with good reason. Usually on the PTR forums you have the biggest gathering of crybabies and spoiled brats letting it all hang out on the threads.
It makes it a little more than hard to keep track of legit feedback and bug testing, and contrary to the popular belief, it’s [...]

With all the lockdowns on the PTRs and the servers going down with new patching and builds coming back up, it’s no wonder some folks are confused and a little upset. I am too to be honest, I wanted to get more intel for you all along with screenshots and as much guide work as [...]

Last week, a new daily quest “Open for Business” in the Sunwell Isle has been added, the daily reward for completing this quest will be rather useful (if you can stay alive for the full duration) to Sunwell Plateau raiders : The Bloodberry Elixir.

The quest is ridiculously easy to complete as all you have to [...]

Basically mmo-champions uncovered game files in Patch 2.4 that show two new mage portals to Theramore and Stonard.

Quite possibly this might be in place for a number of different reasons, the biggest theory right now being they are ports of entry to Northrend in Wrath of the Lich King.
Stonard can have a new zepplin tower [...]

Typically weekends are kind of slow. The CMs are usually home and the PTRs don’t really get anything fancy until Monday. As well most official releases don’t roll down to us until Monday morning too. Let me go ahead and kick you guys off with this little announcement by Daelo. I’m going to go get [...]

Apologies that this update is coming so late but we pulled the Essence of Immortal quest chain about 2 weeks ago. That’s why you haven’t seen it on the Public Test Realm. The 3 gates will open automatically over time at equal intervals on all servers.
Regarding the taking back of the town on the [...]

I’ll just directly quote the forum thread as it sums everything up pretty concisely. Needless to say, one player is pissy that the holiday event is changing so much, and Kisirani replies.

This is the only crapper about test realms and the testing process, downtime >_<
The PTR and TTR realms will be taken down later today to update to the latest build.
The Servers will be taken down at 10:30 PST and we estimate that they will be down for four to six hours.
Please be patient.[ Post edited [...]

The Eredar Twins just got more loot added to their known table, a necklace for caster DPS. Amulet of Unfettered Magics

Ok they finally got it all worked out. Daelo posted this today. Nice to see mobs kill themselves for the betterment of DKP.

The Sunwell Raid instance is now open again on all PTR realms.
Kalecgos is disabled, and Felmyst, Brutallus, and the Lady Sacrolash/Grand Warlock Alythess encounters will kill themselves upon engagement. We’re looking for feedback [...]

Nothing new and fancy for the arena stuff other than some model reverts.
Vengeful Gladiator’s Pummeler & Vengeful Gladiator’s Bonecracker have had their models reverted to their original appearance.
I’m not exactly 100% sure as to why the models were fiddled with so much but I guess that’s why I’m not an artist. It all fits into [...]

Finally a use for all those green quality gems that Jewelcrafters have been stockpiling. You HAVE been stockpiling them right?
This patch added a new recipe to Jewelcrafting: Brilliant Glass
It can be trained from the JC trainer, it’s green at 375. It currently gives a rare gem every time.

As well there are new material costs (more [...]

After the break you’ll find all the new changes as far as the Patch 2.4 PTR notes show. Some of this stuff I haven’t yet posted about, specifically the part where cleave and second target DPS moves like swipe or chain lightening and such will not break CC anymore.
This is incredible and I hope that [...]

We are currently in the process of creating a lot more starting locations to ease congestion for the vendors. As a part of these new starting locations, we are also currently testing random spawning for newly created characters, which should evenly spread the population throughout all vendor locations. If you create a new character [...]

Kalgan made an appearance on the Warlock forums to explain a little bit as to the drama going on with Lifetap and how Blizzard was knocking around locks in general. He goes into further detail as well about arena statistics worth reading.

We’re currently seeking feedback on the Lady Sacrolash and Grand Warlock Alythess boss encounter, as well as the non-boss encounters leading up to it. The major bug that was making the encounter more difficult than intended has been resolved.  (src)
Which is awesome right!? But then Hortus shuts us down.
Correction:

Sunwell is going to be [...]

- Assassin’s Alchemist Stone has had its stats changed: 108 Attack power instead of 54 critical strike rating.
- Sorcerer’s Alchemist Stone has had its stats changed: Spell hit rating removed, it’s now 63 spell dmg/healing bonus instead.
As well they can be purchased at Exalted reputation with the Shattered Sun Offensive