There is a new forum set up specifically for the Tournament Realm Test.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=5412099

Please post any Feedback on the tournament realm in this forum.

Please post any bugs with the new tournament realm specific features such as the equipment vendors there as well.

General PTR bugs and feedback should still be posted in this forum.

The PTRs and TTR (Test Tournament Realm) are both currently online.

The login servers are getting hit very hard so there may be some lag and delay in getting online, please be patient.

The PTRs are now live with build 7994.

We have also turned on a test tournament realm.

Have a great weekend everyone.

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Random does not mean fair, and past results do not influence future occurrences. - Corbenn

There are no copies for the arena realms all characters on that realm start at level 70.

The arena realm uses the same authentication update as the PTR realm so if your account was not active or did not have Burning Crusade active at the time of the update (Feb 1st) you will not have access to the tournament realm.

Hello everyone! With the PTRs back online, we're getting Midsummer back up and running, and with it we'd like to have some dedicated focus on testing the Ahune encounter located in the Slave Pens of Coilfang Reservoir, both normal and heroic modes. We've made some tweaks to it and we're interested in seeing how it runs.

When Midsummer returns, please fight Ahune and let us know what you think. In your feedback, please include the following information:

Mode (normal or heroic)
Class Composition
Gear Level (dungeon blues, T5, etc.)

Thanks, and good luck!

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Mind if I drive?
Not if you don't mind me clawing at the dash and shrieking like a cheerleader.

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It would help if you disabled the trash in the instance for more focused testing.

IE I'd do the boss repeatedly if I could, but if I have to clear the trash over and over I might not be as inclined :P

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I'm unable to do this at this time. However, unlike the Headless Horseman, your group can each summon him once in the same instance without resetting, which should hopefully alleviate some of your concerns about trash. You'll only need to clear it once per day. :)

The new Arena Tournament realm for World of Warcraft is available for testing on the Public Test Realm! Please use this forum for any and all feedback, bug reports, suggestions, and discussions on this exciting new form of PvP.

For more information on the Arena Tournament please visit: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/tournament/index.xml

The new Arena Tournament realm for World of Warcraft is available for testing on the Public Test Realm. Join your fellow players to be first to experience this exciting new form of PvP. Please also provide us any feedback at the Arena Tournament Forums: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=5412099.

More information can be found at the Arena Tournament information page: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/tournament/index.xml

We're glad to unveil the Arena Tournament item list page (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/tournament/items.xml) detailing the items that will be available to players participating in the 2008 Arena Tournament. Please keep in mind that the item list is not finalized and will most likely be changed based on feedback and testing. We wanted to give those interested a sneak preview of the items prior to the public testing phase. Visit our Arena Tournament information page (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/tournament/index.xml) for the latest information regarding the Arena Tournament.

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Yea you're glad to unveil last season's items, with all the flaws that are fixed in 2.4 still in place.
You're behind.

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The items on the realm itself are up to date 2.4 versions. The item list provided on the website is pulled from live armory data and is still showing 2.3.3 stats.

We are currently working to resolve the problems people are having seeing the test tournament realm.

I will be updating the thread in the test realm forum with more information.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4976371174&sid=1

We've recently made a change for an upcoming 2.4 PTR update that will increase the amount of targets affected by Mass Dispel to a total of 10.

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This buff does nothing help in arena at all.

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Ok

The following changes have been made for a future PTR update:

• Bloodlust/Heroism will, again, stack with Icy Veins.
  
• Bloodlust/Heroism will not stack with Power Infusion, however.
  

The new rule being used to govern these changes is non-self % based haste spells will not stack with each other.

I'm making a final extension to this post. If it fills up it will not be extended again, I suggest you make use of the remaining space to provide quality feedback.

On February 27th a technical issue caused 7 hours of additional downtime for the realms of the Crueldad, Hinterhalt, Némésis and Nightfall Battlegroups.

As a result we will credit all players with an active character on the affected realms with 1 day of game time credit. This will be credited to the eligible accounts in the next few weeks. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience this has caused.

We have looked into this issue. In order to assure that a worse bug (which caused cheat death to not work at all) did not occur under specific timing circumstances, Cheat Death will sometimes reduce damage by 99% instead of 90%.

Although technically this is a bug, it is not one that we can currently fix.

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This bug will be fixed in the next patch. Cheat Death should then always reduce damage by 90%, not 99%.

The PTRs will be down most of the day today for maintenance and updates.

We do not currently have an ETA, we hope to have it done by the end of the day but can give no guarantees.

Thank you for your patience.

To allow players on the PTR to test the encounters after Felymyst, we've decided to disable Felmyst on the PTR. When Felmyst is engaged, she will now kill herself and allow raids to continue on to the encounters afterwards.

As a reminder, Kalecgos and Brutallus are also still disabled at this time.

We've updated our Lunar Festival page with 35 of our favorite player-submitted screenshots. We're constantly on the lookout for eye-catching screenshots of World of Warcraft. Check our current collection topics and submit your screenshots here for consideration to be featured in one of our galleries.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/lunarnewyears/
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A hotfix was applied to the PTR for Lifetap. There should now be 3 ranks.

Rank 1: 5% Health -gt; 5% Mana
Rank 2: 12% Health -gt; 12% Mana
Rank 3: 20% Health -gt; 20% Mana

We would like to solicit feedback on this new implementation.

Welcome back to another edition of our StarCraft II Questions amp; Answers. This week we will get to see a new unit that is built in the Factory: The Jackal. Enjoy!

Gameplay Blog: This past week while playing a Terran versus Terran mirror game, Karune discovered a new unit option from the Factory. This new unit is known as the Jackal, which is a fast vehicle like the Vulture, but instead wields a rail gun, which does an area of effect damage in a straight line at ground units.

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Yeah, sorry about that. These past weeks were quite busy with Worldwide Invitational preparations. I hope to see some of you there. :)

Our newest addition to the Fan Art Gallery features a mighty tauren shaman. Check out Force of Nature, our latest submission by Éric Azagury: http://www.blizzard.co.uk/inblizz/fanart/

If you are an artist, you can submit your fan art to us here: http://www.blizzard.co.uk/inblizz/fanart/rules.shtml

We update our Gallery frequently, so check back often to view new submissions!

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IN BEFORE THE EDIT :o

l2ptaurenwarrior ;o

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We've investigated this grave mistake and will be giving this crucial correction our absolute highest priority...

...soon(tm). ;-)

And no comments yet about this clearly being the reason Shamans are getting Flametongue Totem / Weapon? Slackers...
/dodge