I was hoping to be making a post updating you on my adventures in the PTR, on what the new ‘it’ spec will be, and how DKs will stack up on the DPS depth chart…

I was hoping to show you the modeling for the T9 gear – Koltira’s Plate (Tank) and Koltira’s Battlegear (DPS).

I was hoping to have SOMETHING to report at all.

Instead, I have a whole lot of nothing.

This is not for lack of effort. I log into the PTR almost daily, trying to see if things have been changed, fixed, etc. I’m still unable to learn unholy blight, which, as I understand it, is a common problem for Death Knights who transfer over with Unholy specs. I had hoped the most recent patch would fix it but no, not so much. Instead, what the latest patch did was strip Grim(my) down to his skivvies. Blizz apparently decided they didn’t want people testing the new T9 gear just yet (it had been purchasable with gold) and stripped it off of characters…and like a noob, I had sold off Grim’s existing gear to make bag space. I’ll either need to transfer him over again, or have Blizz give me my old stuff back. Bah!

I do have a ticket open (*snort*) so perhaps eventually they’ll hook a cow up…but I’m not holding my breath.

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…though not as “Grimtorn” as I would have preferred.  Curse you, whoever it was that snagged my name!

If you’re on the PTR and Horde-side, you can be on the lookout for “Grimmy”.

I’ve already encountered one bug, that I’ve documented in the image on the right. I’m unable to test any unholy DPS spec at this point…because I can’t learn Unholy Blight! So I’ve been exploring the surroundings, seeing what I can find.

I haven’t been able to see anything posted anywhere (read: EJ) about 3.2 viable specs, so what I’m trying looks like this. Course, by the time they fix the Unholy Blight deal, that may change, but we shall see…

As I said before, I will gladly test anything for anyone with any questions – or if you’d like to run an instance (or whatnot) with the white cow, drop a note here and I’ll see what I can do.

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…one thousand words.

Thanks to a late night (waiting for laundry to dry, of all things) … I saw a post last night on MMO Champion that character transfers were available on the PTR. So I transferred Grim on over, and as you can see in the image at the right, he has been successfully transferred. I was also having some issues with getting the PTR client to install/upgrade properly, but I think I have that resolved as well.

As soon as I am able to log in (presuming that it happens before raid time [scheduled for 10:15 PM ET]), I’ll start experimenting, and seeing what I can determine.

If anyone has any questions, comments, or things they’d like me to research, just comment on the post and I’ll do my level best to address things as time permits.

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