PTR up "soon," WSG changes coming
by Mike Schramm 
Feb 8th 2008 at 7:19PM
Maybe you thought because it was Friday night that you could avoid new WoW news? Think again-- Tigole has posted on the forums that the PTR is coming up "soon," and the PTR forums have been reset in anticipation (unfortunately the forums have gone down due to all the chaos). We're not expecting the patch until Tuesday, so throwing it up tonight would be a very Blizzard thing for Blizzard to do. As Eliah said before, too, character transfers are up and running, so all signs point to Blizzard springing this on us very soon.Tigole also says to watch WSG when the PTR comes back up, as there will be lots of changes. Their goal is to keep the gameplay similar, he says, while ending the turtling and flag kiting. Should be interesting. We're around this evening and will keep you updated if we see any notes.
Filed under: Realm News, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Artemis11 Feb 8th 2008 7:38PM
Awesome! Hopefully we can get the full release by the end of the month, or early March. :D
Michael O'Connor Feb 8th 2008 7:49PM
It was quite entertaining to watch the Test Realm forum earlier
There was well over 20 pages of threads in the space of a half an hour. Then they all got deleted... the forum was closed... then it opened again, and there was a page of posts in the space of a minute.
Am I the only one refreshing the forum every minute to see if something crops up? I usually don't get over excited about patches, but this one is an exception.
Dave Feb 8th 2008 7:49PM
Hooray, maybe WSG will be worth playing again if they can turn them into 20-30 min matches guaranteed instead of the nearly inevitable 1hr+ turtle match when one team is down two flags and just wants to farm HK's since they're not going to get the win.
themoon Feb 8th 2008 8:00PM
anyone else able to transfer their characters to the PTR? I keep getting Error! Server too busy.
Artemis11 Feb 8th 2008 8:34PM
Same thing here. :(
Slayblaze Feb 8th 2008 8:35PM
Anyone know what these changes to WSG will be?
Charlie Feb 8th 2008 9:14PM
Lol no. Just gotta wait =D
Go out and have some fun, its friday night!
Speaking of that, im out. +D
Slayblaze Feb 8th 2008 10:44PM
Got it:
o Warsong Gulch
+ When both flags are held, the flag carriers will receive 50% increased damage done to them after approximately 10 minutes and 100% increased damage after approximately 15 minutes.
+ Flag carriers can now be tracked 45 seconds after picking up the flag.
DaleMox Feb 9th 2008 4:19AM
Confirm what Slayblaze says.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html