Rise of Azshara PTR Development Notes – May 29, WoW Classic Beta Offline, Stress Test

Flying!

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

FYI, Warsong Gulch will be available at level 10 in today’s stress test.

They misspelled "nothing will be available" because no one can connect, not even Streamer Privilege.

Originally Posted by Onikaroshi

[blizzquote]FYI, Warsong Gulch will be available at level 10 in today’s stress test.

They misspelled "nothing will be available" because no one can connect, not even Streamer Privilege.[/QUOTE]

To be fair, spending half an hour in a login queue only for the realm list window to timeout back to the login screen does generate a lot of stress, which I'm assuming is the point of the test. Also, it's a good reminder of how things were back in the day. Only then I was playing over dial-up

Originally Posted by reacher

To be fair, spending half an hour in a login queue only for the realm list window to timeout back to the login screen does generate a lot of stress, which I'm assuming is the point of the test. Also, it's a good reminder of how things were back in the day. Only then I was playing over dial-up

I just hope they don't take this as they need a bunch of servers on launch and then half of them or more end up empty when the inevitable population drop happens.

Originally Posted by reacher

To be fair, spending half an hour in a login queue only for the realm list window to timeout back to the login screen does generate a lot of stress, which I'm assuming is the point of the test. Also, it's a good reminder of how things were back in the day. Only then I was playing over dial-up

Sounds like a good preview of authentic vanilla experience.

Originally Posted by reacher

They misspelled "nothing will be available" because no one can connect, not even Streamer Privilege.

Imagine saying this about a STRESS TEST..... Biggest of yikes.

where is the release candidate !!

WoW Classic Stress Test on May 29
FYI, Warsong Gulch will be available at level 10 in today’s stress test. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

I was excited for this, then I found out that WSG is shared between the stress test and normal beta servers, resulting in lvl 10s having to fight lvl 19s.

I don't get why they keep putting resources into making new Island Expeditions. They could have used those resources into make new dungeons instead. IE is a dead idea. They tried it, it FAILED, quit trying to defibralate it back to life. Put that resource into dungeons/M+ where at least you know people do.

Originally Posted by Saverem

I don't get why they keep putting resources into making new Island Expeditions. They could have used those resources into make new dungeons instead. IE is a dead idea. They tried it, it FAILED, quit trying to defibralate it back to life. Put that resource into dungeons/M+ where at least you know people do.

It’s likely a ton of people do islands for one reason or another. Probably more then do mythic+.

Originally Posted by Daemos daemonium

It’s likely a ton of people do islands for one reason or another. Probably more then do mythic+.

I don't know a single person (and I have a lot of WoW friends) who actually enjoy IEs. Most of them do solely it for either AP or pets/mount grind. I'm also the same, I stopped doing them the second I capped my necklace.

They are dull and not fun. Also, try queueing for a PvP IE and see what happens. The queue for it is like an hour long, that shows you how popular it is. Even rated 3s arena which is the least popular as it's been in years still have near instant queues.


IE is a failed experiment no matter how you look at it. If they weren't required for certain collectibles, pretty much no one would do them.

Originally Posted by Saverem

I don't know a single person (and I have a lot of WoW friends) who actually enjoy IEs. Most of them do solely it for either AP or pets/mount grind. I'm also the same, I stopped doing them the second I capped my necklace.

They are dull and not fun. Also, try queueing for a PvP IE and see what happens. The queue for it is like an hour long, that shows you how popular it is. Even rated 3s arena which is the least popular as it's been in years still have near instant queues.


IE is a failed experiment no matter how you look at it. If they weren't required for certain collectibles, pretty much no one would do them.

well i know lots of people who enjoy them so i guess we both know alot of people

Originally Posted by Saverem

I don't know a single person (and I have a lot of WoW friends) who actually enjoy IEs. Most of them do solely it for either AP or pets/mount grind. I'm also the same, I stopped doing them the second I capped my necklace.

They are dull and not fun. Also, try queueing for a PvP IE and see what happens. The queue for it is like an hour long, that shows you how popular it is. Even rated 3s arena which is the least popular as it's been in years still have near instant queues.


IE is a failed experiment no matter how you look at it. If they weren't required for certain collectibles, pretty much no one would do them.

There are also many people who don’t like PvP dungeons or raid so many that you could say if they weren’t required for gear and certainly collectibles no one would be doing them. Fact of the matter is people do them and Probably in high numbers given that blizzard keeps adding to them.

Oh come on, give us 8.2 already. The game has been dead for more than a month now because you take too long for patches in BfA.

Per the interview, does anyone have a comprehensive list of underperforming talents being addressed in 8.2?

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Originally Posted by Smeller

Oh come on, give us 8.2 already. The game has been dead for more than a month now because you take too long for patches in BfA.

June 25th has been my guess for awhile. They just started mythic testing

Originally Posted by Kazadar

well i know lots of people who enjoy them so i guess we both know alot of people

Originally Posted by Daemos daemonium

There are also many people who don’t like PvP dungeons or raid so many that you could say if they weren’t required for gear and certainly collectibles no one would be doing them. Fact of the matter is people do them and Probably in high numbers given that blizzard keeps adding to them.

Then just go by actual facts. The actual "challenge" portion of them that require forming 3 person groups are dead. No ones queueing for PvP and the only reason the queues for the PvE one is fast is because you're pairing up against computer opponents. It's a failed system when you compare it with every other aspect of the game (Arena/BGs/Dungeons/Raiding/WQs). They need to just ditch IE and Warfronts and concentrate on the parts of the game the players actually do.

Originally Posted by Saverem

Then just go by actual facts. The actual "challenge" portion of them that require forming 3 person groups are dead. No ones queueing for PvP and the only reason the queues for the PvE one is fast is because you're pairing up against computer opponents. It's a failed system when you compare it with every other aspect of the game (Arena/BGs/Dungeons/Raiding/WQs). They need to just ditch IE and Warfronts and concentrate on the parts of the game the players actually do.

We don’t have the actual facts as we have no numbers at all. We know people do islands for a variety of reasons but that’s about it, the numbers could beat out all those things or be way behind we don’t know only blizzard does.

Originally Posted by Daemos daemonium

We don’t have the actual facts as we have no numbers at all. We know people do islands for a variety of reasons but that’s about it, the numbers could beat out all those things or be way behind we don’t know only blizzard does.

Yeah, I'm sure they have those 1 hour queues just to fuck with us.

Originally Posted by Saverem

Yeah, I'm sure they have those 1 hour queues just to fuck with us.

You act as if PvP is the only way people do it or a way that matters number wise.

Originally Posted by Daemos daemonium

You act as if PvP is the only way people do it or a way that matters number wise.

OK, well, there is my actual testable and observable fact that it is not doing well, now feel free to provide some of yours to back up your argument other than "I have some friends that don't hate it"