Heads Up -- WoW Forever Stress Test on October 21

In Development WoW: Forever Beta Discussion
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Tomorrow, October 21, we will take the WoW Forever Beta offline and we will then open WoW Forever on its proper regional hardware.

Date Timezone Stress Test Start Time End Time
October 21 CEST 19:00 03:00
October 21 BST/IST 18:00 02:00
October 21 EDT 5:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
October 21 CDT 4:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
October 21 PDT 2:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
October 22 NZDT 10:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m.
October 22 AEDT 8:00 a.m. Noon
October 22 Taipei 5:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m.
October 22 Seoul 6:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

Any player with a WoW account is eligible to play the WoW Forever Stress Test. No active subscription is needed.

How to Join

  1. Make sure your graphics drivers are up to date.
  2. Open the Battle.net desktop app and allow it to update if needed.
  3. Select World of Warcraft from the list of games.
  4. In the Game Version menu above the Play button, select World of Warcraft: Forever Stress Test under In Development, then select Install.
  5. Once installation is complete and the Stress Test begins, select Play and choose an available test realm.
  6. Create a new test character when available, enter the game, and join the test.

When we shut down the Stress Test, all Stress Test characters, including names, will be deleted and we will re-open the Beta.

We plan to close the WoW Forever Beta … forever at 10:00 a.m. PDT on Friday, October 23.

Thank you very much for joining us. We’ll see you there!

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Testing WoW Forever Today - October 21
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ah looks like the beta is extended by a couple of days, that’s nice I guess.

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Very nice, I was worried Beta would be taken down tomorrow and that’s too … Soon™. :slight_smile:

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Curiosity… will there be a PTR then?

I assume that will open at some point.

Asking for some addon developer friend.

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So a 4 hour window in the middle of the NZ Aussie working day? Sorry, but doubt that’s much of an Oceanic stress test at all.

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I thought being an Aussie was a stress test already?

You all got giant scorpions and murder bears running around.

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Would you please put this on the in-game calculator with the accurate time and time zone?

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I Love this!
This Beta has been nothing SHORT of Astonishing how well done and involved everyone has been from Devs, Streamers, and EVEN Engineers of Dungeon/Raid Design!

What an incredible Experience this Beta was and the Duel Tournament DID NOT DISAPPOINT… to end as they always do with “The Class of FEARING”

“We plan to close the WoW Forever Beta … forever at 10:00 a.m. PDT on Friday, October 23”

Cant wait to Kick off Forever in an Age where neatly EVERY player has Streaming Access to Showcase their Skills on this Journey… Something like this wasn’t truly possible for many people back in 2004!

~Sandd

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Hope you weren’t expecting a lot of us to show up for this.

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I was wondering same thing. Someone told me they wanted to keep everything after 30 a surprise, but that doesn’t make sense. So I guess at some point in the future you’ll be able to copy your level 30 toons to a PTR.

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And giant toxic frogs

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does this mean that the beta will end on friday or the stress test will end on firday?

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Read the post again :roll_eyes:

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calculator? :clown_face:

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so we can play the beta till friday? or is that the stress test?

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from the wording, the stress test goes till friday with fresh characters

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then what is the “end time”?!

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when it ends on friday

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friday? the time is next to wednesday?