It’s been announced on Twitter; the PTR is now updated for 6.1. However, we’re still in MoP, all characters have been wiped, and the Copy Character system is STILL down…
Tomorrow is standard maintenance. We should be in Draenor by then, and Character Copy should be working. So, there’s no point in coming on right now.
UPDATE: 9:01pm January 13th. Finally took the time to play the PTR. Character Copy is finally working since the beta, …and my Garrison is missing… literally missing. Aka not there. Vanished. Others are having the same issue. When I was saying in previous posts of “what if the Garrison didn’t exist”, this isn’t what I meant by it.
After thinking about it, I have a theory why this has happened, and you don’t have to be a game developer or a tech support guy to figure it out. Quite obvious really. They ping your Live server to get your character data, so you can transfer your char over to the PTR. Yet, they never set it up(it could possibly be one hell of a strain on their systems) to also ping your server to get your Garrison data. This would include what tier your Garrison is, what tier your buildings are, how many followers you have, the types of followers you have, what work orders are still ongoing, what follower missions are still ongoing… etc. etc.
As you can see, they would have to pull a LOT of data to get it working for you. Which is why, our Garrisons are missing.
Someone’s suggested that they should had put in the old beta Garrison Builder system in(way before I joined the WoD Beta), to re-create our Garrisons. Hopefully they’ll do this, as it would work.
So, I have no way to test out the new features for Garrisons. This is pretty much half the content ‘locked’ because of this.
But I did try out the new FP system. It isn’t as “direct” as they claim it would be. When I fly in Azeroth, I fly in a straight line. Don’t crows do the same thing as well?
I flew from my invisible Garrison to Yrel’s Watch as a test, and the Faire Dragon flight I was on, was turning and twisting for no reason, and also getting low to have to dodge trees.
Blizzard, how is this “direct”? Do you guys not fucking know what a direct flight is? Have you all never been on a plane that was a direct flight, and see it DOES NOT FUCKING TURN AND SHIT! It flies in a STRAIGHT LINE!!
*clears throat* Sorry. I had to let off some stream there. But seriously, given what I’ve seen from the beta, I shouldn’t be surprised they half-assed it like everything else they do that’s not a dungeon or raid.
Once again, Blizzard made false promises. Get that hype up, then hide behind “we care for our customers’, when you really don’t. Still, It is better than it is on Live.
FPs aren’t really something on my high priority “give a fuck” list.
I flew to Ashran to check out the rumors of that new Apexis Gear tier. What I saw, was…. was a feature no one, and I mean NO one asked for(well, as far as I know)!
There’s now five ‘Apexis [item] Trader’ Arakkoa instead of the three which represented the three tiers.
It’s now a big mess, in my opinion. It’s also not needed! It’s bad enough this proves Apexis Gear will never be a replacement for Valor gear, but now I have to click on five traders for each individual gear piece to get what I need?! This is ridiculous!
I’ve expressed my opinion on both the FP system, and the questionable ‘need’ for five gear piece vendors instead of three gear tier piece vendors. And once again, like always, I seem to be the only one bitching about it. No one else has responded to either of my posts.
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My subscriptions are still planning to expire in mid-March. If they want my money again, they best do something quite quickly. As in, soloable content that gives a point to gear up. They did it in MoP, they should do it in WoD.