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Dere som har vært i Naxx; Hvordan vurderer dere vanskelighetsgraden? - Må man ha tatt AQ40 for å få til noe der, eller holder det om man har MC på farm?

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Tror man burde ha gjort seg ferdig i AQ40 for å kunne raide Naxxramas.

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Dere som har vært i Naxx; Hvordan vurderer dere vanskelighetsgraden? - Må man ha tatt AQ40 for å få til noe der, eller holder det om man har MC på farm?

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I følge utviklerene skulle førsteboss i Nax vere på samme vansklighetsgrad som Twin Emps. Var en stund siden jeg leste det, men jeg tror ikke at vansklighetsgraden er forandret drastisk.

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håper da ikke man MÅ gjøre AQ40 for å gå naxx... har ikke mye lyst til å starte AQ40 siden man kan ikke si at det er så stor oppgradering for alle klasser.. GG jeg får dps gear =P

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håper da ikke man MÅ gjøre AQ40 for å gå naxx... har ikke mye lyst til å starte AQ40 siden man kan ikke si at det er så stor oppgradering for alle klasser.. GG jeg får dps gear =P

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vell aq gearet er jo ganske bra for naxx men full tier 2 funker nok det og

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håper da ikke man MÅ gjøre AQ40 for å gå naxx... har ikke mye lyst til å starte AQ40 siden man kan ikke si at det er så stor oppgradering for alle klasser.. GG jeg får dps gear =P

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vell aq gearet er jo ganske bra for naxx men full tier 2 funker nok det og

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Tror også at man kanksje ikke trenger AQ40 settet, men kanskje ha prøvd noen av de "vanskelige" bossene i AQ40 osv. Men tror nok en blanding av blått og epic, kanksje fullt tier2 er mer en nok.

Men da jeg så på trailern for Naxxramas, så jeg bare full epica folk. Tier2.

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Status:

 

Pvp realm - Down

Pve realm - Up (6000 queue)

 

eller for å si det på den lette måten:

Current Status

 

As of the time posted in the topic title, the status is as follows:

 

Login Server - OK

Login is working.

 

PvE Realm - Online (Very Long Queue)

This realm is online.

 

Logging on and regular play works. A very long queue has been observed on the realm. The realm seems stable.

 

PvP realm - WARNING (Bugged/crashing)

This realm briefly flickers online once in a while, but cannot be considered in a state fit for play, as it does not seem people can log in and/or stay logged in for any period of time.

 

It is highly likely that, should the PvP realm come online and you log in to it, your client will become stuck at the loading screen. If this happens, it is normal, and happens to everyone else.

 

Please post realm status updates in the thread. Status updates include queue, instance servers and world server crashes. Do not create new threads whenever realm status changes!

 

Webpages - OK

The server webpages, including Character Copy and Patch Downloader, seem to be working without errors, if a bit on the slow side. Most character copy attempts will probably succeed.

 

Mirrors are provided below of the test realm patch downloader.

 

DOWNLOAD THESE FILES AT YOUR OWN PERIL! BLIZZARD NEITHER SUPPORTS NOR CONDONES THESE DOWNLOADER MIRRORS! USE A VIRUS SCANNER, AND ALWAYS BE WARY OF FILES NOT DOWNLOADED FROM OFFICIAL SITES.

 

Please note these mirrors only concern themselves with the English test realm patch. Attempting to patch a German or French install with these will fail.

 

PC Downloader (courtesy of Lafiel & Liquidscythe)

http://d2dx.com/wow/WoW-test-enGB-pc-downloader.exe

 

Mac Downloader (courtesy of Lafiel)

http://d2dx.com/wow/WoW-test-enGB-mac-downloader.zip

 

Are the test realms down?

If you can't reach them, yes

 

Why are the test realms slow?

The servers are usually handling some thousands of login attempts, from people eager to test the new content. This causes them to go slowly. This is a temporary situation, as many scramble for the "first look" at the new content, and should not persist towards the end of this week.

 

Why don't they add more servers?

Once the initial fad has worn off, the test server is usually not that full, because mostly people who test the new content for bugs remain. One realm is more than enough for the testing. Further realms would merely remain half-empty after a week or so, and Blizzard presumably wants to test how the patch holds up on a realm that's highly populated. This works out as how they want it to.

 

I pay for...

... live servers.

 

Q u o t e:

A beta version or beta release usually represents the first version of a computer program that implements all required features although additional features may be added. It is likely to be unstable but useful for internal demonstrations and previews to select customers, but not yet ready for release. Some developers refer to this stage as a preview, as a technical preview (TP) or as an early access.

 

(Wikipedia quote, from article on Software Development stages)

 

To put this in other words, it means that the servers are almost guaranteed to crash, bug out or behave irregularly. It's almost expected, and it would be a minor miracle for a software project of this size to reach beta-test stage without any bugs whatsoever. There is also the old adage of programming that if you fix one bug, you create two new ones. The test realm is available to try to stop these bugs from going into live, which could have catastrophic effects for the character you've worked hard for.

 

Beta software is commonly unsupported, unstable and not paid-for. The same applies to the test realms: they are unsupported (if you want to play, do it on live servers), unstable (no need to argue this, right?) and not paid-for (your account does not need to be active on live for you to use the test realms). In short, they are a voluntary service by Blizzard to be used by volunteers (us).

 

FAQ on non-functioning realms

 

The test realms may go down because of a bug, a glitch, a fried hard drive, who knows? That's why they're test realms. Suppose this error was caused by a bug in the new patch. Imagine this happening with the released patch, and all realms refusing log-ins from the entire subscriber base. Can you say "disaster"? In that sense, it's good that this happened to the test servers, as opposed to live realms.

 

Will they fix it?

Yes.

 

They haven't done anything all day!

The test servers are located and run by the US Blizzard team. Even the EU test servers. This is to allow them to directly collect data needed, and the developers themselves can jog down to the servers and see what's happening. Blizzard's US operations are based in the PST timezone (Pacific Standard Time). This means that they go to work as we go home from work.

 

In other words, the work on the test realms is likely to occur only during US working hours!

 

Don't they have staff...?

For the live servers, yes. For the test realm, handled presumably by the QA team, no. We can presume the QA team runs the test servers from the following quote by Hortus on Test/US forums:

 

Q u o t e:

Test Realms are a tool used by the QA team

 

 

 

The QA team works on a 9-5 basis, since their job is neither urgent nor explicitly deadlined, from what we can see. See above for normal work times in the US.

 

When will they be ready?

When they're finished. It lies in Blizzard's best interests to have their new content tested. However, it's their priority to keep the live realms running (and we all know they sometimes have trouble doing just that). As we've already established live realms are a priority, the test realm may be pushed back should the US servers demand more intervention by the tech team. This is an inevitable effect of priorities.

 

But the US servers are working! EU discrimination!

The US servers have been up for a few days, so the load on them has eased up, and there are not hundreds of people trying to log in at once. Because of this, those servers have an easier time holding steady than the EU servers.

 

What's the magic solution?

In a while, the situation here will stabilise. Please don't spam these forums; it makes it very hard to see if someone else has reported the same bug/issue! It's also very much against forum rules.

 

FAQ on Character Copy

 

It doesn't work!

It should. Try again in a few minutes.

 

Why can't I copy my own characters? US can!

As stated above, the test servers are in the US. This means they cannot access our character data, which is in the EU realms and character servers. Consequently, we can only copy pre-made characters.

 

I have 4 copies... have my characters been deleted?

When the target realm of character copy was switched, everyone was given additional character copies. This is to allow people who copied to PvE to copy new characters to PvP, so they can join friends or raid groups who can only copy onto the PvP realm. All the characters copied to the PvE realm are still available at the PvE realm.

 

Where will my characters be copied?

As of 09:00 25/5, the destination realm is EU Test Server (PVP) for newly copied characters. This is in an attempt to load balance the servers, and provide a shorter queue for all. It is currently not possible to copy characters to the PvE test server.

 

Lessening the wait

You can reduce the load on the server, and increase your chances to copy a character, by following the instructions in this thread:

 

http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.asp...en&T=122549&P=1

 

Miscellaneous

What is PDT?

Pacific Daylight Time. To convert PDT into EU realm time (the time you can see when logged on to a live EU realm), add nine hours to the PDT time. To convert current EU realm time to PDT, subtract nine hours from the EU realm time.

 

Why isn't my account/password working?

The login table on the test servers is a copy of the login table as of May 19, 2006. This means that, to play on the test servers, your account has to have been active on May 19th. If you have changed your password since then, use your old password on the test servers. If your account was not active May 19th, you cannot play on the test servers.

 

Updates

Please provide updates to realm status (PvP, PvE) when the information in the post is outdated. It is appreciated.

 

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Dere som har vært i Naxx; Hvordan vurderer dere vanskelighetsgraden? - Må man ha tatt AQ40 for å få til noe der, eller holder det om man har MC på farm?

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Tror man burde ha gjort seg ferdig i AQ40 for å kunne raide Naxxramas.

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Jeg var ikke ute etter "stikke fingern i været" betraktninger i forhold til hva Blizz har sagt, men egne erfaringer fra folk som har vært der på test-realmen. - Jeg spør derfor en gang til; Hva mener de som har prøvd? (Hvis du har prøvd så si det ;))

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Dere som har vært i Naxx; Hvordan vurderer dere vanskelighetsgraden? - Må man ha tatt AQ40 for å få til noe der, eller holder det om man har MC på farm?

6201673[/snapback]

 

Tror man burde ha gjort seg ferdig i AQ40 for å kunne raide Naxxramas.

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Jeg var ikke ute etter "stikke fingern i været" betraktninger i forhold til hva Blizz har sagt, men egne erfaringer fra folk som har vært der på test-realmen. - Jeg spør derfor en gang til; Hva mener de som har prøvd? (Hvis du har prøvd så si det ;))

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Ja, jeg har prøvd. Var holy specced Paladin. Spillte veldig sent på kvelden, men vi whipa på trashmobs, og så ble alle disconected pga server restart.

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Er man nødt til å lage en lvl 1 character på PVE-realmet? Har kopiert 4 chars, men ser ut som de er på PVP-realmet som er nede, for de finnes ikke på PVP-realmet.

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Ser alle mine copies har havnet på PvP, og det gjelder det samme med mange andre, men hvorfor havner noen på PvP og noen på PvE?

Rimelig kipt og ikke få testa ut noe :hm:

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"Bare" 1000 :p

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1000 personer i kø er ganske lite i forhold til de 6000 som pleier være på dagtid, det.

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I går sånn ved 01 tiden var det bare 300 i kø, og jeg kom inn i løpet av noen få minutter. - Problemet er jo at character-copy har vært umulig å komme inn på, og nå når det endelig virker så får man bare kopiere til PvP realmet, mens bare PvE er oppe .... WTG Blizz!! :D

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Har overvåket test forumet siden Test Realms kom... Har copyed alle 4 characters, og alle har destination PVP Realm, som er nede fullstendig!

 

 

Det har hvert nede hele tiden!

 

Dette er crapy Customer Support fra blizzard sin side. De mener vi betaler ikke for det så vi skal bare se å holde kjeft!

 

US PTR er stabil å de har testet alt... Blizzard gir seg fan i Europe PTR enkelt og greit.

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Har overvåket test forumet siden Test Realms kom... Har copyed alle 4 characters, og alle har destination PVP Realm, som er nede fullstendig!

 

 

Det har hvert nede hele tiden!

 

Dette er crapy Customer Support fra blizzard sin side. De mener vi betaler ikke for det så vi skal bare se å holde kjeft!

 

US PTR er stabil å de har testet alt... Blizzard gir seg fan i Europe PTR enkelt og greit.

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Tror nok du har rett. Fettern til mamma flytta til USa for å studere, og han spiller litt wow på fritia. Han fikk prøvd test realmet uten problemer i det hele tatt. Det var ikke lagg, og allt fungerte som det skulle.

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