It seems over in Irvine California, they’re having a shitload of issues trying to push out a build for the PTR.
It started Friday afternoon. It’s now Saturday afternoon and still no PTR build, which makes this the longest build push in WoW history(from my knowledge anyway).
Some people are rumoring that the build won’t come out ’till Monday. I do hope that’s not the case. But if it is, and they leave the PTR servers down that long, then… what can I do about it? Nothing.
They had a power failure with some random guy hitting a pole which somehow took out half the power in the city. And this morning, crashing issues with their software.
Is this a sign of something bigger (Fate doesn’t want us to test), or just a lot of bad luck on Blizzard’s end? I’ll go with the latter.
No update from Zorbrix (in this thread about the build and through Twitter) makes me a bit worried. Do hope they still got it covered.
UPDATE: 4:45pm. They’re now deploying the build to battle.net. It’s 22GB, almost as if the PTR is re-installing itself. This is going to take a good hour to almost two hours for me to download and install, even with 5.30MB/s.
UPDATE: 6:26pm. Still downloading the build. Had some issues clientside, but they seem to have fixed themselves. I also should be eating Dinner right now instead of posting updates(got my food infront of me, but this is more important. :P)
MMO-Champion’s got a new post about the datamined changes of this build.
From what I’m seeing, there’s now new profession missions for your followers (Level 100 only) that when completed can give you a few tokens(2 to 5) you can use to insta-complete your Work Orders(based on what profession buildings you have). That is so cool, and gives followers another point to get them to Level 100.
Also, the Lumber Mill and the Trading Post now cost NO Garrison Resources. However, they cost more gold to compensate for the change.
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Overall, I see nothing really, really interesting. Still NO REASON TO GEAR UP for soloers! D:< Very depressing. I want more than "Because it's there!" How about "Late-game MoP raids can now be solo'd!" like they did in 5.2? That would not only give me a reason to gear, but a reason to solo again!
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EDIT: 7:50pm. The download is FINALLY DONE! And people are complaining their Garrison is gone yet again.
I tried to delete my already copied over char. That got done. Then put him back in as a new copy. That got done.
Then I tried to Copy Account Data. This lasted a minute until I see "Copy failed". This lasts for a good five minutes, then suddenly seems to work. So I get in, and I find once again my Garrison is missing!
I try re-copying my account data, and it seems the copy feature is now down.
If I was a true world famous critic with words that can shut video game companies down, I'd be writing a pretty bad review about Blizzard right now (after I deal with EA and all the other corrupt companies, of course).
I know they will eventually fix these bugs. Just makes you wonder if they tested these things beforehand, before even shutting the servers down. But that's why it's called the 'Public TEST Realm'.