PTRs closed -- and you know what that means!
As any long-time player of World of Warcraft knows, the public test realms open up to allow players to help out Blizzard QA by giving future changes a good stress test. The test realms open as soon as Blizzard has a stable build of the upcoming patch and the test realms close as soon as Blizzard is satisfied that their patch is as polished as it's going to get. Hortus announced this morning that the PTRs were going offline, concluding public testing for patch 2.2. To me, this means we're going to see patch 2.2 coming our way very soon -- perhaps as early as next week! However, we have known Blizzard to close the PTRs weeks in advance of an official patch release, so a final date continues to elude us.
So what major changes should you expect come patch day?
Voice chat (on select servers -- it will be rolled out in stages)
The continuing shrinking shoulders adventure (Night Elves, Draenei, and Orcs to the best of our knowledge)
Movie capture for Macs (sorry, PC users!)
