What time for the PTR start?

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They doing another 5PM PST drop or earlier?

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They have not said anything yet.

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hope 12-2pm. if not, then prolly 5pm

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The same Bat time it always does…

When the flip is switched and the switch flips you off.

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It is rare that Blizzard announces PTR start time. It tends to be in the afternoon Pacific time, but the actual hour varies.

Keep in mind that the PTR is a test environment and is shared globally, so it can be pretty unstable (test builds), and very crowded. Oh, and remember that if you copy your Live account data over, it replaces any data you have on the PTR, so be sure to do it before creating a Season character.

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For those of us outside of the USA…

PT = Pacific Time (UTC-8)
GMT = Grenwhich Mean Time (UTC+0)
CET = Central European Time (UTC+1)

PT GMT / UTC CET
13:00 Tuesday 21:00 Tuesday 22:00 Tuesday
14:00 Tuesday 22:00 Tuesday 23:00 Tuesday
15:00 Tuesday 23:00 Tuesday 00:00 Wednesday
16:00 Tuesday 00:00 Wednesday 01:00 Wednesday
17:00 Tuesday 01:00 Wednesday 02:00 Wednesday
18:00 Tuesday 02:00 Wednesday 03:00 Wednesday

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I live in the EET zone and the PTRs have typically started between 9PM to 12AM local time which is about 11AM to 2PM PST. I expect the start time to again fall to that range.

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I live in Europe and dont know either when it will start. I’m waiting.

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Scroll up two entire posts…

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Meteorblade has it down.

Personally, so it could be between 5 and 7 hours before PTR hits. I’ll probably take a power nap in a couple of hours so I can test stuff well into the night.

First thing, is I got find out what all the jargon on Nat’s really means, so I’ll probably be testing that in non-season and only when I’ve finished that am I going to make a season character once PTR hits.

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For those who like to “watch the pot boil”, you can run the Battle․net App. Set it to D3 Public Test Realm and look under the Play button.

It should currently say: 2.7.4.83734

When it says: 2.7.5.XXXXX it will be Game On.

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The patch can ususually be downloaded before the PTR opens for play, so keep that in mind.

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So many gonna test the PTR, it will crash and burn :stuck_out_tongue:

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I did not know that. Thanks.

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A boiling pot is a key ingredient to making a mug of tea…

[ Watching Intensifies ]

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I tend to consider the pot to be equipment rather than ingredient, but perhaps you enjoy eating the pot afterward for max efficiency… teehee =)

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teahee* corrected for you :slight_smile:

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Does not make it boil any faster!! :crazy_face:

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MORE POWER!

I think the EU does actually have more powerful electric kettles.

Also, while I adore tea. It is still coffee time here. :coffee:

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I do coffee morning, lunch and early afternoon… after 18:00 it is tea :slight_smile: