Expansion Rumors, PTR Status
My jury duty is over! I wasn’t actually put on a jury, so other than getting up way too early it wasn’t too stressful. I think I am going to spend most of the rest of the day napping, though. I am very finicky about my sleep. *grin*
I did want to make a quick comment on some of the interesting pre-BlizzCon hoopla, though. I’ve been following the various rumors about the next expansion (mostly in WoW Insider). I haven’t passed any of them on here — there hasn’t been anything that looked hunter- or pet-specific, and I figure if you’re interested in general you’re probably trolling those sites yourself. I’m breathlessly waiting for Friday when we should know something for certain.
Also, I realized that I haven’t said much about changes on the PTR recently. That’s largely because there haven’t been any. There hasn’t been a new PTR build for awhile and I haven’t seen anything of interest to hunters reported — except for a number of seriously annoying bugs. I know that some hunters are worried about these bugs on the PTR, but I am not worried myself — yet. This seems like it’s going to be an extra-long public test period — the voice chat stuff isn’t ready to go yet, and it sounds like they really want to get that incorporated into this update. I actually suspect that a number of these are fixed in the next PTR build, which is sitting somewhere waiting for voice chat issues to get worked out before it gets pushed to the PTR.
Of course, I’ve been terribly wrong before. We’ll see. :>
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Actually – the most annoying bug isn’t even on that list: You cannot Feign Death – using it has no effect whatsoever – you don’t even fall over, you just stand there and still get beat on. I have reported that bug every time I have been logged on to the PTR but as you said, maybe the fix is already waiting in the next build.
Isn’t that “Hunter Feign Death is not working”? It’s the last item on the first post. I really do wish the reports were categorized better — say, by class, like they usually do the notes.
I think not, when they put this list up they referred to another bug that was occuring at that time, that when you feigned it took approximately 5 seconds to drop combat/reset aggro. Now it doesn’t work at all. Or maybe they refer to both types of bugs with that note *shrug* who knows, its Blizzard ;)
Ah, yes, good point. :>
Not realy sure if this fits into this Comments section, but i hear rumors that Hawkbane may be back on the current Ptr build. Anyone able to verify this?
Hawkbane was technically never “gone,” but some of his spawn points/timers were not working correctly. So, while some people could still find him, he could spend hours or longer just not spawning due to an error.
So he wouldn’t be “back,” but rather, his spawn points/timers may be fixed. I haven’t heard anything, myself. Never really concerned myself with Hawkbane, due to how commonly he is used.
I’ve checked for Hawkbane several times on the PTR, but I haven’t seen him. I also haven’t made a concentrated search.
Edit: Looks like the PTR patched this morning, so I’ll check again when the servers are up.
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