{"id":3501,"date":"2014-09-10T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T17:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2014-09-10T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T17:42:21","slug":"wow-wod-now-on-the-ptr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2014\/09\/10\/wow-wod-now-on-the-ptr\/","title":{"rendered":"WoW: WoD now on the PTR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is somewhat &#8220;late&#8221; news as it was mentioned yesterday. Yet I already have a beta post about it <a title=\"Click here for the beta build post\" href=\"http:\/\/beniewodbetablog.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/beta-build-post.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. It also covers about the latest beta build.<br \/>\nSo, I originally thought when I saw this, that this could possibly mean the end of beta testing. Not true. Infact, it&#8217;s happened before. They say it happens before every expansion launch. Yet I&#8217;ve never seen it since I&#8217;ve been occupied with other things.<br \/>\nThe only times I remember being on the PTR, were before and after Cata. I can&#8217;t remember the exact reason of the first time, but I can remember the second.<\/p>\n<p>I think it was to test the Darkmoon Faire, as Blizzard&#8217;s way to prove that Deathwing&#8217;s re-arrival doesn&#8217;t mean the end of the world&#8230; of Warcraft.<br \/>\nThis one, is the Pre-Release content of what we&#8217;ll be doing <em>before<\/em> entering the Dark Portal; fully explaining the &#8220;why&#8221;, that we&#8217;re going to Draenor. Just&#8230; not explaining the &#8220;how&#8221; and &#8220;what&#8221;, as in how is this happening and what is causing it. The only answer you&#8217;re given is &#8220;Who the fuck CARES?! They&#8217;re here! You&#8217;re the hero! Do your job and kill them! Save Azeroth!&#8221;<br \/>\nOf course, this isn&#8217;t the answer we&#8217;re looking for. Especially ones that never read the <em>War Crimes<\/em> novel. I&#8217;m still cautiously optimistic that they will give us the answer we seek, in the form of a cinematic.<\/p>\n<p>The news also mentions three exciting changes for my dungeon soloing career. The Dragon Soul raid and ICC <strong>are soloable<\/strong> as a Level 90! I personally wouldn&#8217;t attempt to do these &#8217;till Level 100. Higher level = Less risk of utter failure.<br \/>\nBut to have the Dragon Soul raid&#8230;the thing I worked my ass off for to be a part of, soloable? To finally have me land the killer blow on Deathwing, and be the savior of Azeroth? &#8230; I dunno. Since I already killed the black bastard, I don&#8217;t know if I want to do that again.<br \/>\nThat was a&#8230; mildly-disturbing era in my WoW history(getting my dragon form, fearing the world would end if I didn&#8217;t act, etc), and I don&#8217;t wish to relive it. Why I haven&#8217;t even solo&#8217;d any of the Cata dungeons on the beta.<\/p>\n<p>The final change, is something that annoyed me greatly when soloing Uldar as a Level 100 on the beta. The &#8220;I remember you&#8230; on the mountain&#8221; guy will no longer reset when he drops down into the arena. Thank god for that!<br \/>\nThough I do wish they fixed the zeppelin encounter in ICC. Maybe they don&#8217;t see it as broken on their end, and something <em>I<\/em> caused? Interesting. Maybe I should try it again.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is all that&#8217;s all the PTR. Meaning, beta testing will continue to go on. I&#8217;m glad, as there&#8217;s still a shitload of content not yet added(especially in Gorgrond).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is somewhat &#8220;late&#8221; news as it was mentioned yesterday. Yet I already have a beta post about it here. It also covers about the latest beta build. So, I originally thought when I saw this, that this could possibly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2014\/09\/10\/wow-wod-now-on-the-ptr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}