PTR Update: Hortus confirms and denies
by Robin Torres 
Jul 24th 2007 at 9:05AM
Hortus has posted a sticky about the current PTR issues which addresses a lot of problems in and questions about 2.2. Most notably, he has confirmed that Zul'Aman and Guild Banks will not be in patch 2.2. He also has confirmed that Voice Chat will still be in 2.2, but it is not yet available for testing on the test server.
In addition, Hortus addressed some of the problems people are having with premade character copies. Hortus says that if you get an error when trying to copy a premade, the queue is full and to try again later. He does not address why the error message doesn't just say that...
Also, it seems that even though some premade characters are missing abilities or have abilities they are not supposed to have, they do not intend to fix them at this time.
Side note not mentioned by Horus: Copying characters that are not premade to the test realms is also on a several day wait.
Hortus denies that the Orc Shoulders are now bigger than before the bug:
Orc shoulders are now the correct size, they are not any larger than they were before, it's your imagination.
He also addresses Athlon errors, authentication issues and how not to get your post deleted.
It seems that with all of these issues and Voice Chat not even being tested yet, Patch 2.2 is a long way off. What are you most looking forward to or dreading in 2.2? Have you successfully copied a premade? If so, any problems and how long did it take?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tridus Jul 24th 2007 9:24AM
2.2 features numerous sound bugs. They changed the sound engine to something that seems rather half-baked, so even if voice chat were in you could expect long delays.
(The new one seems to be entirely software based, bypassing sound-card acceleration entirely. Thats nothing new for Vista users, as Vista already does that to avoid Windows crashes caused by buggy Creative drivers. XP users with good sound cards may notice performance drops though.)
FireStar Jul 24th 2007 9:43AM
omg if i see one more blog on orc shoulders...
lol...
ycco Jul 24th 2007 9:58AM
heh, and here I was going to say I thought the Orc shoulders were waaaay to small in comparission.
Feel free to go nuts Fire.
p3ngu11 Jul 24th 2007 10:20AM
i want to know what they are adding in this CONTENT patch... the only new thing seems to be voice chat and it's not even ready to be tested.
...so what are we supposed to be testing?
Chad Jul 24th 2007 10:34AM
My premade mage got over there last night. They were right about being in all epics. Full tier 6, lots of blue gems to outfit the new armor, epic flying mount, 5k gold. One thing to note, a handful of my addons/mods don't work on the ptr so there must have been some ui tweaks done by blizzard.
robodex Jul 24th 2007 10:58AM
My rogue got copied, although this patch is shaping up to be pretty much one of the lamest patches ever. All we're getting is a few class tweaks and voice chat; nothing compelling is coming from this patch (my guild will probably still be using Ventrilo come 2.2.)
Argent Jul 24th 2007 11:11AM
clearly most of you didn't bother to recall about every other dot patch in old (ur?) wow -- some class tweaks, few fixes, not much else.
i think it's pretty obvious that the voice chat is in fact the big ticket item of this patch -- even if it is pretty ho-hum to a lot of people. i'll be curious to see how blizz does it, actually.
Cody Jul 24th 2007 12:16PM
All I can say is Blizzard has a sick sick sense of humor =/ I copied a premade Alliance player to the PvP realm and starting point was ...... Ghostlands in from of Zul'Aman .. Thanks Blizz for forcing me to corpse run to EPL just to try and not get camped haha Also I copied a couple horde premades to the PvE realm and I logged into a pile of skeletons lol cuz apparetnly they had Alliance players spawning in the same place with PvP flagged =/
Psyclerk Jul 24th 2007 12:55PM
Yeah I couldn't understand why they spawned everyone in that spot when the new instance wasn't going to be open. I bet it was planned to be up but they closed it at the last minute.
Incendo Jul 24th 2007 1:05PM
Seriously, are there 8 million people constantly trying to copy characters over?
jellywerker Jul 24th 2007 8:10PM
I am looking forward to the flask of shadow fortification revamp. I actually had one made on live and then realized I wasn't going to be getting +80 shadow damage and I was pissed.