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It was indeed worded incorrectly.

I’ve struck the words “and equip” from this note:

• All PvP gear will have consistent personal rating requirements to purchase.

You don’t need to retain rating to equip an item, rating is only required to purchase it.

I’ve also added the following PvP notes:

• At least 50 games played are required to qualify for a seasonal reward.
• There are no rating requirements to purchase Arena gear from a previous season.
• Season 1 gladiator weapons that were added in patch 2.1 (Gladiator’s Gavel, Gladiator’s Salvation, and Gladiator’s Reprieve) will be available from the beginning of Season 1.
• The commentator UI for wargames has been updated with a fresh new look.

Later this morning, we’re enabling rated Arena testing in the Burning Crusade Beta. Please leave your feedback on it in the dedicated feedback thread after you’ve tested it.

We’re also enabling world bosses. Please note that once Kazzak and Doomwalker are killed in the Beta, they will respawn on their natural random timers, and should not be expected to respawn at the same time later in the week.

Player versus Player

To bring about better matchmaking in Burning Crusade Classic, we’re updating the Matchmaking Rating (MMR) system to use a calculation design developed after original Burning Crusade, with an MMR range that will be similar to the range seen in PvP in 2008.

• Arena Teams will begin at 0 rating. (Teams began at 1500 in original Burning Crusade.)
• Diminishing returns will have a 15-20 second cooldown window.
• All PvP gear will have consistent personal rating requirements to purchase and equip.
  • Shoulders = 2200
  • Weapon = 2050
  • Head = 1700
  • Chest = 1600
  • Legs = 1550

A major goal we have in Burning Crusade Classic PvP is to provide consistency as we step forward through each Season and phase of content. We believe this will promote a healthier PvP environment that emphasizes the prestige players can feel when obtaining shoulders and weapons in pa...

If you log out of the PTR and update your PTR game client to 38524 it should resolve the mount disconnect issue. Apologies again!

We’re aware of frequent disconnects when mounting up in this latest PTR build, and will fix as soon as we can. Apologies for the inconvenience.

World of Warcraft Version 9.1.0 PTR

Chains of Domination PTR Notes – April 29 Updates

CLASSES

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • Damage of all spells and abilities increased by 6%.
• Hunter
  • Survival
    • Raptor Strike damage increased by 15%.
    • Kill Command damage increased by 15%.
    • Mongoose Bite (Talent) damage increased by 15%.
    • Flanking Strike (Talent) damage increased by 15%.
  • Pets
    • Mammoth Family
      • Trample is now instant cast (was 6 second channel).
    • Pterrordax Family
      • New Ability: Updraft – Your pet beats its powerful wings, slowing the fall speed of both itself and the hunter for 30 seconds.
    • Classic pterrordax pets and Mists of Pandaria python pets are no...

We’re all fixed up.

Tomorrow (April 30), please join us in resuming testing of Karazhan in Burning Crusade Classic, starting at 12:00 Noon PDT (3:00 p.m. EDT).

• Throughout Burning Crusade Classic, using Leatherworking drums will invoke the Tinnitus debuff, preventing reuse for two minutes.

Over the first few weeks of testing in the Burning Crusade Beta, we’ve found it useful to elaborate on and bolster the “some changes” philosophy that we expressed at BlizzConline (and in posts like this one). As we’ve said, we’re open to making further alterations to Burning Crusade Classic, and we’re guided by the goal of authenticity in how the game plays, especially given how players in 2021 approach a game that was designed in 2007.

We’ve decided make the following updates to Burning Crusade Classic:

• “Lesser” versions of Leatherworking drums will be a...

Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, we have to cancel this test.

We’ll let you know as soon as we’ve fixed the problem, and we’ll schedule this test again in the coming days.

Thank you!