Today, I was hoping to finally check out the Pre-WoD questline on the PTR. Yesterday evening, I decided to shift from “I want to see if I can handle it” to “I want to see if this is worth the money”(due to Character Copy being down for weeks) and made a premade Level 90. This pretty much re-created Benietest.
Found out by having a premade, I have nearly every mount in the game, and all the Collector’s Edition pets dating back from Cata(so yeah, I had my greatest enemy in all of Azeroth as a pet).
I had spent 30 minutes, flying to ‘my house’ in Northeast Hillsbard Foothills(Dandard’s Fold), near Undercity. Getting there, I spent the remainder of that 30 minutes to redo my bars to be like Benie on the WoD Beta.
Going back to today, I logged in. And within 5 seconds after doing so.. ‘[SERVER] Shutdown in 15:00′ started spamming my chat window. A beta build… on a SATURDAY?! They’re fucking pushing my patience!
Thankfully, it only lasted for nearly 6 hours instead of 8, and the servers went back up before my dinnertime. Either this build didn’t have a lot of content in it, or they took pity on us for having to endure… what was it? 7 builds this week? Eesh.
They say to expect this to be even more of a nuisance as they’re trying to get a release candidate ready before the final two weeks. So, it’s crunch time for them.
Anyway, after dinner, I noticed Lil’ Deathwing was no longer a selectable pet. Strange, as they gave me him. Oh well. I then flew to the Blasted Lands on Mr. “I hate Tanks, they go NERF!”; aka the Celestalon-like Cloud Serpent mount.
What bothered me, is the fact I just got this quest to go talk to Maraad out of nowhere. I had a feeling the questline was going to be unfinished.
I was right, and then some. In the rain over Blasted Lands, I had to wait for my PvP flag to clear due to the way PTR handles servers. Then I landed and started questing. All of them felt boring and stale. There’s four ‘bosses’ who seem to have the same HP than Elites on the Timeless Isle, and it takes 2-3 minutes to take them down solo. Remind you, I’m using a premade Level 90 with the best fucking gear you can get for a Hunter(outside of the 5.4 content). If it’s taking this long to down them, think about how long it’ll take to down them with my current Level 90…
The questline abruptly ends after talking to the King of SW. No “Benie, the time is now to assault the Iron Horde. Get back to the Blasted Lands.. I’m putting you on a Suicide Mission! You are to plunge through the portal!”
All you get out of that, is a pet. Woopy do.
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Made a thread about this on the PTR Forum. Several hours later, I get a response from a guy telling me, this is the pre-launch event and not the real thing. Could had sworn I heard from Blizzard or another trusted source, that this questline is going to be required to get to the portal.