** Official WoW Catalysm Alpha/Beta Thread **

[Rimsy]

No you can't, Kotick has no say in Blizzard's day to day affairs. This myth gets peddled about like candy and it's irritating.

If only you were right. Unfortunately you couldn't be more wrong

 

[Voltage]

patch 4.0.1 is now uploading to live servers, we at least part of it.

mmo-champs are claiming cataclysm to go live in 6 weeks time on Nov 2nd

 

[Crimefighter]

patch 4.0.1 is now uploading to live servers, we at least part of it.

mmo-champs are claiming cataclysm to go live in 6 weeks time on Nov 2nd

If thats true thats quite a bit earlier than I thought.

They are still redesigning the talent trees (Arcane Mage is a mess), and has anyone tested the level 85 content yet on beta?

Next seasons pvp is going to be all over the place I think.

 

[Voltage]

hunters are ridiculous on pvp at the mo, their pets can solo any class

bm is for cata beta what retri was in wotlk beta

 

[Stripes]

Should be interesting to see if BM get the nerfs Ret had then .

 

[waso_dude]

Booked 7 days off for me to get to 85, should be easy.

 

[Voltage]

Should be interesting to see if BM get the nerfs Ret had then

hope not as im rolling Worgen Huntard

was thinking of Kitty Druid but they are performingly horrible in beta thus far.

 

[Gee]

Just finished downloading the 1.74GB patch, downloaded it through uTorrent went much quicker (~2mb/s) than the Blizzard Downloader!

 

[stooeh]

Sooo, attempted to phone them this morning to try and talk to a human instead of a bot.
After an hour plus trying to get through i finally speak to someone (note according to the site the number was for any account issues you may have) who says it's not normally something they deal with and she'd find out who/what does and puts me back on hold, after 5min it cuts me off.

So not impressed.

EDIT: Got an email from the person i spoke to on the phone apologising for the cut off and saying they can't do anything. Great, looks like if any of us ever want our PTR access back it's in the hands of unoffical channels (i.e. colin)

Hmmm, I lost my beta access from Colin same as rest of us but I can get on the PTR fine.

 

[G-Man]

Thats somewhat worrying, anyone else that got into alpha/beta via colin and can't get on the PTR? Bit annoying you need to download 16gb worth of client just to check though.

 

[DAnDan]

Thats somewhat worrying, anyone else that got into alpha/beta via colin and can't get on the PTR? Bit annoying you need to download 16gb worth of client just to check though.

You may be able to test it using the character transfer page? When it starts working that is.

 

[robnut]

I got alpha access from colin and im banned from the ptr

 

[.Lethal]

mmo-champs are claiming cataclysm to go live in 6 weeks time on Nov 2nd

So, when is the release of Cataclysm?
Now that Patch 4.0.1 is on PTR, I get a lot of mails asking for a release date and I guess I can answer that without too much risk now.

Keep in mind that Blizzard didn't announce it because the release can still be postponed, but as far as I know the target release date for Cataclysm is the first week of November (that would be November 2, if you like numbers). The first part of the Cataclysm prologue started exactly 8 weeks before that and the next part of the pre-Cataclysm event will probably happen in 2 or 4 weeks depending on their schedule.

You got your answer, and hopefully people won't yell at me if something goes wrong.

Wouldn't say this is definate.

 

[KNiVES]

It's a very reasonable estimate, as the 4.01 patch is now being tested on the PTRs. Historically, the timeframe between patch testing & deployment, as well as the period between the deployment of the final patch & expansion release has always been the same.

 

[Voltage]

4.0.1 isnt cataclysm though, 4.0.3 is.

4.0.1 literally just adds the new talents, talent builds and new game mechanics.

nothing of the world changes until 4.0.3

 

[G-Man]

But 4.0.1 makes such a mess of the class balance for lvl80 content that they can't release it too long before Cata or they'll just drive people away.

 

[Voltage]

its not released yet only on ptr

id say that patch wont be released for a good 3-4 weeks.

i remember 3.0.1 coming out a good month before wotlk did, that was a mess too.

my retri pala 2 shotted everything it was so much lol

 

[Stripes]

They'll probably aim to get 4.0.1 released between Brewfest and Hallow's End (essentially mid-October). You've then got Blizzcon on the 22nd, which will probably be a big old fanfare for Cataclysm and maybe some discussion of Heart of the Swarm and Diablo 3, and Hallow's end running to the 31st. If they're running on time the pre-Cata world event will start around the same time that Hallow's End starts, otherwise it'll be starting on November 2nd with a projected release for Cataclysm in mid-November.

The worse projected release date for Cataclysm is probably the very end of November, any later and they'll have more suspended subscriptions than they'd care for.

 

[Strife212]

my retri pala 2 shotted everything it was so much lol

Divine Storm did holy damage then, xD

 

[Voltage]

i do feel sorry for the cata design team, they must be under so much pressure at this point to get the game to retail for the holiday season.

im fully expecting cata to come out bugged to sin at this juncture.

just thinking of what they DONT have done yet, they really have their work cut out for them, especially as we are only 5 weeks away from Blizzcon and i fully expect a release date to be announced then.