We are activating pre-made characters for the PTR starting today December 12th. Once the servers are up you will be able to copy pre-made characters via the PTR character copy page (4 per account). I suggest waiting before initiating character copies until the servers are up as there is no guarantee that they will go through and there are no refunds for lost pre-mades.

We expect demand for pre-mades and the Test Realms to be very high, I would highly suggest transferring your characters to both PTRs as the PVP realm typically has a high queue time. There is no plan to add a second PVP realm.

All characters are equipped with Season 2 Arena gear and Heroic Badge loot. Every character also has extra heroic badges to purchase additional gear. Beyond that no gear changes will be made so don’t even ask.

Posts about premades, for or against will be deleted. Premades are activated based on QA testing needs not by request of players.

Other announcements
The PTR authentication servers were not updated between 2.3 and 2.3.2, meaning that if your password changed or if your account was otherwise invalid prior to October 8th you will not be eligible for the 2.3.2 PTR.

We had to disable summoning (Note: In ZA) yesterday via emergency hotfix due to some exploits. We're hoping to re-enable summoning as soon as possible. We know it's a big inconvenience and we apologize.

On a related note, we're looking into fixing some issues with summoning that would once again enable us to allow warlocks to summon people into an instance from anywhere in the world. This could happen as soon as the next big content patch (2.4.0) if all of the technical issues can be resolved by then.

Hemorrhage was intended to give heavy subtlety rogues some added damage, and to give the overall tree some additional appeal. Instead, many rogues just went down to the new hemo and ignored the rest. Our goal now is to make further improvements to the tree as a whole, so it has enough appeal and viability to compete with combat and assassination. Major changes will likely not come before the expansion, but we are looking in to more immediate tweaks as well. (Source)

We want there to be more subtlety rogues, and we’re working to improve the tree. One way was to give the tree more damage, through hemorrhage. Unfortunately, that didn’t really improve the tree because everyone just stopped with the AR/Prep spec. What resulted was an increased power of the rogue class as a whole (not just the subtlety spec), which was unintended. (Source)

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