PTR 2.4.2: Not Over After All
Good thing I am still checking the Test Realm Forum, eh? Hortus just posted that:
We have decided to put the 2.4.2 PTR up for some additional testing. The realms should once again be available for play.
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Mania’s Arcania » PTR 2.4.2: Test Over - May 5th, 2008 at 7:52 pm EDT
[...] Blizzard changed their mind. [...]
Faulk_Wulf - May 5th, 2008 at 8:25 pm EDT
*eye twitch*
Seidouyumi - May 6th, 2008 at 12:00 am EDT
It happens sometimes. They change their minds about things. I hope that the additional time helps.
Concrete - May 6th, 2008 at 4:01 am EDT
hopefully the feed pet in combat bug is what they’re testing
Noorc - May 6th, 2008 at 4:07 am EDT
i jest cant stant it when they cant make up there minds it makes me wonder about some of the newer paches
Ryno - May 6th, 2008 at 11:02 am EDT
You’d think a company as experienced and big as Blizzard wouldn’t need to change their mind about things, and that they’d have a system on how to test things so that anything that could go wrong would come up… hehe.
Kerub - May 6th, 2008 at 12:47 pm EDT
better change thier mind now then wait for it to go live then ever one would say
” If its buggy why didn’t they test it longer, You’d think a company as experienced and big as Blizzard, would test things on the test server and that they’d have a system on how to test things so that anything that could go wrong would come up before it went live”
Complicated - May 6th, 2008 at 2:57 pm EDT
I keep seeing this feed pet issue raised and I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would ever find it necessary to feed your pet in combat. WTF is the point? If you are seriously min/maxxing that close to the line that the minor dps loss your pet does half way through a 3 minute boss fight, there’s more than a pet issue. I’ll admit I’m not BM but what’s so hard about feeding your pet before a fight?
Ghanur - May 6th, 2008 at 3:28 pm EDT
@Complicated:
The problem arises, when you are near an other fight (aggro range), you are put the aggro list of that other mob - so, you’ll have to wait ’til this fight is over too, just to feed your pet. It’s normal during raids - you won’t get out of aggro at all (since they nerfed FD into oblivion!).
This “change of mind” sounds more like someone higher up the food-chain “suggested” it - there was probably enough upstir to make it throught to book keeping/management *eg*.
Xota - May 6th, 2008 at 4:45 pm EDT
You feed your pet when people stop for manadrinks. If you have to rez your pet mid-fight, then you might want to feed it. But the solution is to keep your pet alive, or deal with it being yellow (or red) face.
Matt1988 - May 7th, 2008 at 12:13 am EDT
Mania did u see the blue post saying growl will start to scale with hunter AP starting at 1200, based on your testing will this mean that my turtle will be a viable pet now, or will it still not be able to hold agro at lvl 70? just curious cause i know you have done a lot of work on the subject.
Mania - May 7th, 2008 at 12:27 am EDT
Matt1988: You mean this post? Yes, I saw that. Unfortunately, as of this afternoon, no such change had been made on the Public Test Realm. As I type this, Growl on the PTR is still scaling exactly as it does on the live realms.
Matt1988 - May 7th, 2008 at 8:52 am EDT
Awww well, hopefully that is why they extended the ptr, so that they can help out the hunter community lol
hyena84 - May 7th, 2008 at 7:50 pm EDT
we want to be able to feed pets in combat so they WONT LEAVE US.even feeding befor a big boss fight doesnt always help if stuff goes buggy.and sometimes theres someone who wants you to leave the area so they keep drag mobs with aoes to you…
Nimizar - May 8th, 2008 at 4:02 am EDT
@hyena84: pets with a loyalty level above 1 won’t run away if you don’t feed them, they’ll just lose a loyalty level. You need to leave them unhappy for a spectacularly long time before they’ll actually run off.
It’s the DPS loss which is annoying, not the chances of them running away.
@Complicated: my pet is around 30% of my DPS, going from happy to content is a 20% DPS loss for my pet, so around a 6% overall DPS loss for me. Losing more than 50 DPS from 1 player in a predominantly T4-and-below geared raid group can hurt quite a bit.