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World of Warcraft Classic Era PTR Updated to Patch 1.14

Blizzard has shared a Blue Post explaining that the Classic Era PTR has been updated to Patch 1.14. While there isn't any new content, this patch will be pushed to live Classic realms in the coming weeks.

We’ve just opened the WoW Classic Era Public Test Realm (PTR) for version 1.14.0, which is now available for testing.

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World of Warcraft Classic Fresh Confirmed

In a recent Blizzard News Post, Blizzard teased upcoming information regarding new World of Warcraft Classic Fresh realms, confirming many theories around the recent addition of the Classic Era PTR.

With an upcoming Classic Fresh, the community still has many questions for the second "season" of Classic WoW. Spell Batching on a 10 ms or 400 ms batch window? , world buffs, or no world buffs? Alterac Valley on Patch 1.5 or Patch 1.12? Phase Cadence?

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Two Years of World of Warcraft: Classic

World of Warcraft: Classic launched two years ago today, on August 26, 2019. Since then, Classic has gone through all six phases of the original game's content and stepped through the Dark Portal, into Burning Crusade. Today, let's celebrate what World of Warcraft: Classic has brought to the game by taking a look at all the biggest pieces of news of the last two years.

August 26, 2019: WoW Classic Launches

August 27, 2019:

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Classic Era PTR – Patch 1.14 adds DirectX 12 and Ray Traced Shadows

Classic Era and Classic Era PTR are currently on Patch 1.13.7, but Patch 1.14's data has been leaked on Blizzard's CDN, during the update to Shadowlands for Patch 9.1.0 Build 39804. Looking into the Graphic settings of the new Patch, there is added support for DirectX 12 and Ray Traced Shadows.

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New Classic Era PTR – Possible FRESH?

This past week, a new Classic Era Public Test Realm quietly went live. We had a chance to roam around and take a few screenshots, trying to figure out what Phase the realm was on. Now that the servers are offline, the community is speculating what this PTR could be testing.

Classic Era PTR Character Copy

When the Classic Era PTR first went live, the first thing we tried to do was copy our characters from the Classic Era realms. Unfortunately, the Character Copy service did not work, at all.

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New Blizzard Survey – Classic Fresh, Classic Updates, And Phase Cadence

A new Blizzard Survey just went out to random recipients, asking the community for feedback about the possibility of Classic Fresh servers, updates to Classic, and a preferred Phase cadence after launch.

In a recent reddit post, user liljoey300 also shared an image, asking what the preferred cadence of Phases would be for a Classic Fresh server: a similar 2 year cycle of phases, a 12 month cycle, or a fast paced 6 month cycle of phases.

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4k World of Warcraft Cinematic Trailer Remastered from Original DVD

SnazzyAI has already remastered several cinematics using the power of AI upscaling, including the vanilla World of Warcraft trailer, but Youtube's upload compression on older videos leaves a lot to be desired. This time, an original game DVD has been used to remaster the introduction cinematic, resulting in a much sharper image than ever before!

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4k World of Warcraft Cinematic Trailer Remastered from Original DVD

SnazzyAI has already remastered several cinematics using the power of AI upscaling, including the vanilla World of Warcraft trailer, but Youtube's upload compression on older videos leaves a lot to be desired. This time, an original game DVD has been used to remaster the introduction cinematic, resulting in a much sharper image than ever before!

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