Official PTR boards and character copy are up, but no PTRs are active
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Jun 18th 2008 at 4:35AM
Late last night, without fanfare or blue announcement, the official PTR forum went up, and the PTR character copy function became operational.
Unfortunately, nobody is sure quite what to make of this, as there are no PTRs up, no patch announced, and no post from Hortus or any other blue on the PTR Forums themselves. It's certainly possible that someone threw the wrong switch, although for now, people are holding out hope for an announcement later this morning. It's certainly a bit late now to do some last minute testing on Season 4 gear or the Midsummer Fire Festival, likely, and it's far too early to expect any of the WoTLK stat adjustments or other mechanics changes to see the light of day on live, so it's likely that this will a minor bug fix patch. Perhaps the fix to all those Hunter growl bugs is finally incoming, or maybe they'll add the Brewfest Kodo to the live servers.
Unfortunately, nobody is sure quite what to make of this, as there are no PTRs up, no patch announced, and no post from Hortus or any other blue on the PTR Forums themselves. It's certainly possible that someone threw the wrong switch, although for now, people are holding out hope for an announcement later this morning. It's certainly a bit late now to do some last minute testing on Season 4 gear or the Midsummer Fire Festival, likely, and it's far too early to expect any of the WoTLK stat adjustments or other mechanics changes to see the light of day on live, so it's likely that this will a minor bug fix patch. Perhaps the fix to all those Hunter growl bugs is finally incoming, or maybe they'll add the Brewfest Kodo to the live servers.
We'll keep you updated as we hear more, but it looks like it's a safe bet that we'll have a PTR patch 2.4.3 coming soon enough.
[Via Mania's Arcania]
Filed under: Realm News, Patches, Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
NeSuKuN Jun 18th 2008 4:47AM
Just in case, I've copied all my 70s xD
Derick Jun 18th 2008 5:36AM
Copied my main over too.
mrado Jun 18th 2008 7:08AM
EU got premades.
Sard Jun 18th 2008 7:42AM
And all those premades have pvp(insert class here) for names.
mk Jun 18th 2008 10:36AM
i thought there weren't gonna be any more major patches before wrath?
Christian Jun 18th 2008 11:03AM
keyword "major"
Atheira Jun 18th 2008 11:43AM
It's probably, as predicted, a last minute test for season 4 and maybe some minor bug fixes (Void Reaver, finally?). There's not much more they can do between now and Wrath, other than their possible filler that they talked about a few months ago.
We have less than a week to test whatever it is, most likely, doubtful it's anything more than bugs and the new arena gear.
Melenor Jun 18th 2008 2:16PM
Maybe I missed it since my guild's been on VR for a while, but what needs fixing with him? There was the problem with invisible orbs a few months ago, but that got hotfixed pretty quickly. I mean, I'd still fix the 4.6m HP so the fight isn't so boring, but I don't know what else is wrong.