March 19th, 2008- The Dev Team is now preparing test servers with the patch that will be available for testing by the public. In order to jump on these servers, you will have to upgrade your version of the game to the test patch. Upon completion of the testing on the public test server, those participating will have to downgrade their version of the game back to the latest retail patch. We will also be using Battle.net forums to gather feedback and bug reports from the community. Exact location of this forum is still to be determined.

ps: I think we can get the patch in April as quick.

"ps: I think we can get the patch in April as quick."
In Blizzard`s time this mean " I think we can get the patch in 2009 as quick"

Should see it out soon. I'm guessing this week or next. All within the month of March if I had to bet. It's becoming too cliche to bash Blizz on the War 3 patch. I'm just happy it has come. The game is, after all, what 6 years old?

I'm glad War 3 is getting some love :-)

im actually looking more forward too the improved battle.net ladder stuff they have been talking about, would be great with a competitive ladder again with the real top players like grubby etc playing it again

totally agree with that, nowadays mass games = high lv :/ acc lv doesnt mean shit. i hope it will be fixed somehow

disagree, show me your lvl 50 account or don't bring it up, sure you have to be the next grubby or tod to be on top of the ladder but every person thats 50+ on north can play atleast very decent and gives you good practise.

dont forget massiv lamershit at battle.net, dont forget mass dischack and maphackers, ladder mean shit to me

agree with Rottie. People still complaining about the AMM have no clue. It was the best thing to happen to wc3 (after they fixed it ofc) in terms of competitiveness and raising the overall skill level.

Who cares about some level 35 people with 2000 games when they only face level 30 players anyway?

yeah exactly, i mean its not like people of lvl 35 or 40 with 1k games face 47+ lvl players or very good smurf accounts with high ell, so yeah it doesnt say to much or nothing at all having a lvl 30/35 ( on that lvl/point i agree ) account but people reaching level 50 certainly know how to play the game :). At my other post i should add "don't" ( in sure you "don't" ) ofcourse, long live the edit button...

yeah , thats right , thats why creo , tod , deadman were getting lvl 50 with 200 games , having 95% win rate , 20 losses , half of which were discs and the other were losses against some other pros

really competitive ladder !

that's why apm70 had 3 accs in the top5, each with 80% wins. Cause pre-1.15 ladder was noob.

thats bullshit, 95% win, nice lie, the sickest acc there was was like creo with 100-7 just before eswc, i didnt see any acc close to it, and still, there are maybe 3/4 guys in europe that can make stats like 100-0/15, more losses is a sign that you can still improve by playing ladder, you could say that those players, tod grubby happy hot mb indeed don't gain to much of ladder, but maybe they just win a lot since they are _THAT_ good, and the only one in europe that are so good?, what you said is bs, i'm not saying the ladder is THAT competitive and that every game is a game you will learn something from, but saying ladder is buhuhuh bad practise and people of lvl 50 are bad is bullshit also , as long as you don't manage to get better than 90% win ratio on ladder its obvious you can still learn things, atleast thats my point of view + personal experience + i see vs who i play, but i guess you know it better :)

That`s the point.

Grubby and Tod are just better than 99% of the warcraft gamer in Europe. It`s not the fault of the AMM that they have 95% wins. They just are THAT good. Blizzard cant change the skill-lvl in europe.

Oh Rotti, you forgot the best one of all! 110-0 Fujispeed lol - we've talked about that one already though haha. ReMinD had a 110 win streak some time back. Not too long ago, was in this season.

it's about time

Does Grubby play the new patch? I've seen him using the Farseer more, so maybe the Blademaster got finally nerved?

I'm hoping so! :D

Some pro-gamers were supposed to test the patch before the public testing phase. Does anyone know something about it ? They probably have some confidentiality contract... Rumours would satisfy me ^^

lets troll those feedback forums when the time will come

Patchnotes aren't available yet, are they?

yes they are on www.sirneo.info

I was unable to find them on "www.sireno.info". If you found them there could you be as kind as to paste them here?

There is no sireno he's bs'in. I hope some progamer who tested it can put up some notes up so that we can atleast see what changes were incorporated.

please give us some new maps!

Be so funny if this fucking patch comes out on April 1st :D

yeah it would hurt , just imagine: you click bnet and the the game its starting to update itself and you're something "wohoo the new patch finally is here!?" and when the updating is done suddenly appears the text "haha 1st april joke by blizzard". ;x is that possible? :x

dont remind me of that 1 april :D i wanna get fooled by blizzard just like last year, then they tricked me wc4 would come and i was so happy for a short while and then...
well gg wp by blizz

That was a year ago? Christ... this years gone as fast as a BM with Boots of Speed on a x16 replay!

Warcraft IV:Hero of Azeroth lol

Im looking forward to this years 1 april jokes of Blizzard :D

One of last years april jokes by blizzard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbzhqeLdUeI

LOL that might even be true knowing Blizzard! = (

I dont understand why blizzard playes with our feelings. Everytime they schedule a patch, something dies inside of me.

u should be dead by now :)

maybe they meaning sc2 beta?

April 1st, 2008 - All news about 1.22 patch since last year is April fools joke of this year.