As any long-time player of World of Warcraft knows, the public test realms open up to allow players to help out Blizzard QA by giving future changes a good stress test. The test realms open as soon as Blizzard has a stable build of the upcoming patch and the test realms close as soon as Blizzard is satisfied that their patch is as polished as it's going to get. Hortus announced this morning that
the PTRs were going offline, concluding public testing for patch 2.2. To me, this means we're going to see patch 2.2 coming our way very soon -- perhaps as early as next week! However, we have known Blizzard to close the PTRs weeks in advance of an official patch release, so a final date continues to elude us.
So what major changes should you expect come patch day?
Tags: 2.2, patch, patch-2.2, ptr, public-test-realm, public-test-realms, world-of-warcraft, wow
Filed under: Patches, Blizzard
Sep 20th 2007 at 7:12PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Leviathon Sep 20th 2007 7:37PM
There are no shoulders shrunk in 2.2 The Night Elf one was a bug and fixed the orc bug was fixed and the Draenei change was reverted a couple weeks ago.
brogadorn Sep 20th 2007 7:48PM
I also noticed they have some screenshots for WotLK up now. Check it out, looks nice.
fred Sep 20th 2007 8:33PM
# Movie capture for Macs (sorry, PC users!)
sorry? because we've been able to do it the whole time?
???
Mainstay Sep 20th 2007 8:33PM
Finally! I can get that 15 Agility enchant I've been trying to get for my gloves without paying 150g.
Septih Sep 20th 2007 8:48PM
2.3 better damn well hit the ptrs the week after! It's been what? One of the longest if not the longest ptr periods and it's hardly got anything new in it, we'll patch up next week or whenever, and everyone will come on and notice the little fixes or alterations and forget it. I know it's just me whinging but for the big patches it's nice to have something interesting, and that's why I can't wait for ZA, etc.
luchifer Sep 20th 2007 9:01PM
@4 not with an in-game interface to do it.
Stegho Sep 20th 2007 9:13PM
No Orc is going to come on and 'Just forget it.'
I've never cared about a patch before. I am crushed every Tuesday when it does not show up.
Zeplar Sep 20th 2007 9:34PM
In the immortal words of Blizzard: "It's about time."
tumples Sep 20th 2007 10:36PM
I failed to care once I realised it has nothing of note in it.
Preston Sep 20th 2007 11:33PM
Nothing of note?! Dot resilience nerf, voice chat for all PUGs, fixed Orc shoulders (it wasn't a major issue at first, but after four months, it is now), Stormherald nerf, etc....
Owyyn Sep 21st 2007 1:23AM
This is great news for Paladins just for the 10 minute blessings and 30 minute greater blessings. Woo! Just one of those little things, but very welcome.
jaxson_bateman Sep 21st 2007 2:02AM
@5 - While it would be nice, I highly doubt it. I'm pretty sure they've still got quite a bit of work to do on Zul'Aman before they can release open the next batch of PTRs. That said, when they are opened...
"LF9M ZA, PST"
Thallid Sep 21st 2007 2:52AM
@11: However, pallies are getting shafted in 2.2 as well with the 1 min CD on Blessing of Sacrifice and longer CD on Blessing of Freedom. (So much for pallies being EZ mode on Maiden and being able to break out of most CC in PvP...)
bonse Sep 21st 2007 5:21AM
Damn them releasing 2.2, now i have to go through the forums updating all my posts from where's 2.2 to where the hell is 2.3. :)
Least now the shoulders are fixed it will stop the whinier kids from rolling orcs just to feel repressed
Adese Sep 21st 2007 8:01AM
@13
I've heard (but not confirmed myself)that BoSac is now on a 30sec CD. While not as nice as no CD, at least the CD is the same as the length of the blessing, so that you can still always keep it up for fights like Maiden in Kara.
Queuetip Sep 21st 2007 10:18AM
Have fun with the new patch by yourselves. There are going to be a huge amount of people offline, because they decided to drop it on the release day of Halo 3.
Dabura Sep 21st 2007 11:15AM
@16 Er so what all the Halo hype has gone, and only diehard hardcore fans are still waiting with their breath held for it, so not many people are gonna be offline, sorry to disappoint you
Ahoni Sep 21st 2007 2:54PM
What's Halo?
ThorinII Sep 21st 2007 3:45PM
That just means extended downtime. WEEEE! :0\
infection Sep 21st 2007 4:58PM
If you play console games along with wow, you probably didn't care to much for the update anyway, or you have no job or life. (which i would say grats to you for achieving that)
Halo = who cares
We aren't talking about competition for most online in a day for WoW. We are talking about getting issues fixed and producing it.
Please play Halo 3 and quit WoW, just another Pug that doesn't know how to play his class I won't have to put up with.