Well, in the UK it’s been the 23rd for over 11 hours now.
So maybe it’s people that don’t understand time-zones.
Good point. But, people should realize that Blizzard operates on Blizzard time. They always have. That’s why their announced times are always PDT or PST.
Unfortunately, FilthieRich could not give us a specific time, so there was no mention of PDT. Blizzard is located in California. That’s on the west coast in North America. All their times and dates will always be based on that. Too bad only a few players will every read this.
For those interested, it is currently:
Time Zone
3:42 AM Friday | PDT (Blizzard) | |
6:42 AM Friday | EDT | |
10:42 AM Friday | GMT | |
11:42 AM Friday | BST | |
12:42 PM Friday | CEST | |
7:42 PM Friday | KST | |
11:42 PM Friday | NZDT |
The big question is will it come up this weekend at all.
When they said the server is shutting down. I was playing HC DH. I wasn’t having any problem at all. Now with their track record when the server comes backup. Do I keep playing or be ready to die at any time.
Plus this is 10/23 and it ends on 10/27. I say it might never come backup. I feel they just might end it. But this is Blizzard we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
They just need to cut the public authentication server. The game server was still running for internal testing. As you had already authenticated, you were not affected.
Don’t worry, many streamers had already done reviews on the latest patch before the shutdown. Also, they had internal testers (QA team).
More important is the stability of the server/client. Blizzard, please take the time to fix it no matter how long it will take.
I can’t understand complaints about them trying to fix it when it’s only been a day. PTRs used to be close to a month or so. I much prefer a PTR with some back and forth rather than a shovel full of this is what you get. Worst PTR ever? Give me a break
I don’t get the hype and drama people have to play on a TEST server with characters and items that you don’t get to keep anyway. Are your lives really that boring? Surely there is something else you could play?
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When I try to login It is telling me the Blizzard servers are down for maintenance.
Yes you are right people are playing like it is the real thing. I have seen some of them with over 3000 paragon too. Plus these are people playing characters that have nothing to with this PTR too. I even readied where somebody asking if blizzard could let them keep their stuff too.
I was only playing it to do the season journey. I had finish the season journey on 2 accounts over on the regular game. My goals are done over there too. I’m just killing some time too. But for some of these people D3 is their LIFE!!!
You said you were playing HC at that time without any interruption, if I’m not mistaken.
Once you left the session, then you couldn’t relogin because they had shutdown the public authentication server.
No new public connection was allowed, but internal testers might still login thru another gateway (if I were the developer).
any new news? Is it back up? I’m ready to thoroughly test Twister since it’s literally going to be the damage Queen for every meta again.
Yeah it is. Go to town.
Already waiting for the thread in the wizzard forum… xD
In all seriousness: Twisters are bugged atm and wizzards for sure won’t find a metaplace when it stays that way.
I only tried new builds and if I find good one. I tried to find items for it in D3. So it is ready when patch come out ( like Crus Bombardment ?? ).
Well Crus Bombardment got hit with the Nerf-Bat quite a bit
So you might end up taking sth else. If you play NS GoD still might be one of the strongest choices.
Necro is very strong too, but just in the season due to the 4th slot and the resulting additional x4,3 Multiplier from Shadowhook
It got adjusted, it works fine.
ug… is it up yet?? i guess i’ll just try again tomorrow
Yep, it works for me. Looks like they didn’t reset the leaderboards, though…
Actually the servers up again, at least in EU. It was weird, down for 2 days then no announcements about they are working again. I was checking the forums for reply nothing. Then randomly tried to login and ta daaaa it’s working. Silent assassin server restart.
The PTR server being available again was posted in the the stickied threads in PTR Bug Report and PTR Feedback and was also announced in General Discussion
Blizz Tracker from the forum index (not the one from the top of an individual forum) can prove very useful for finding this stuff.