Server Maintenance - Beta Patch 15 Tomorrow - News

Update - There will be a character Wipe!

Diablo 3 Release Date: May 15th 2012

Character Wipe In Patch 15 Tomorrow
It looks like a character wipe will be needed after all.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Quick update: Due to some additional fixes going into beta patch 15, we will indeed be performing a character wipe. Please note that this wipe will also affect gold, items, achievements, auctions, followers, and artisans.

Server Maintenance - Beta Patch 15 Tomorrow
It looks like the release date was not the only good news, tomorrow we should be seeing a new beta patch hit servers!

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

We will bringing the Diablo III test servers down for maintenance at approximately 10:00 a.m. PST tomorrow morning for database updates and to launch the next beta patch. We anticipate that maintenance will conclude at approximately 10:00 p.m. PST on Friday, March 16.

While we are not planning to wipe characters with this patch, we will be resetting all auctions on both the gold and currency-based auction houses. If any changes are made during maintenance that may require a character wipe, we'll be sure to provide an update in this thread.

Thank you for your patience! As always, patch notes will be posted here once the patch is live.

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Sojourna
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Posted Mar 15, 2012
Another patch so soon? I bet it's because of the "Beyond the Gate" exploit.

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
edit: read post below me, (as far as we know, right now no confirmation, but the poster below me says some people are getting in)

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
Quote from Kikoulawl
I got in today via opt in, others got in today aswell on EU d3 forums. So I would asume there was a wave going out today obviously.

oh this is good info, we'll wait for a blue then update if it is a big wave

edit: im not seeing many confirmations at all just yet.

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
This patch is really needed, the AH is so broken right now. Expired offers are still there, Items costing 0 gold, search functions not working properly (never did).
Can't join a public game - error message or no game at all. And, could be my problem though, I'm having much more latency now.
Hope they fix whatever they can.

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
Getting patch 15 so quickly after patch 14 leads me to believe there will be no major changes to the game. Probably some small glitches, fixes, and the like. They are not wiping yet again, so yeah ... I'm not expecting anything major to be touched.

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
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Getting patch 15 so quickly after patch 14 leads me to believe there will be no major changes to the game. Probably some small glitches, fixes, and the like. They are not wiping yet again, so yeah ... I'm not expecting anything major to be touched.

Most likely, yes. Personally, I'm holding on to the faint hope that the Skill UI gets another change.

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
Game released on the 15th ... then Patch 15 arrives. Fun coincidence

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
12 hour down time =/. Why does that convince me there will be more than some small AH fixes >.>

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
12 hour downtime suggests some big patching,

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
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12 hour downtime suggests some big patching,

Isn't it ALWAYS like 8-12h with blizzard during their maintenance?

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
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Isn't it ALWAYS like 8-12h with blizzard during their maintenance?

Not at all. During the beta, it has been. Because of patch updates that have almost always been substantial changes.

WoW downtime is like 3-4 hours or so when there's no changes. When there is a patch rolling out, it can be 7-8 hours.

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
to be fair, it does always END UP being 12 hours

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to be fair, it does always END UP being 12 hours

It's funny cuz it's true. I don't play wow anymore, but I always thought it was weird how often they'd get unexpected problems during regular maintenance. You'd think the company would have a bit more control over their servers.

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
CHA-CHA-CHARACTER WIPE

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
honestly they shoulda done a character wipe with last patch, could mean anything (they are working on the DB, so could mean nothing (on our end))

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
I don't care that my character is getting wiped. BUT... the fact that they are STILL putting out patches that require character wipes is a little worrisome. You'd think they would have gotten a finished product by now (with only 2 months to go), and they should just be working on class balance and small glitches.

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
hmmm don't think ill lvl a hardcore character again if they are just gonna wipe it in patch 16/17

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
They have to wipe everything to get battletags working right probably. I havent been able to add friends since i got beta and half the people i see are invisible or not displaying. plus they are going to make it so the character name displays and not your tag.

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
OH and whats the point of Overachiever and Betamaxed if it doesn't carry over into retail... does it?

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Posted Mar 15, 2012
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CHA-CHA-CHARACTER WIPE

I did think it rather strange that they weren't going to do a character wipe for patch 15. Looks like it's happening after all.

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OH and whats the point of Overachiever and Betamaxed if it doesn't carry over into retail... does it?

They were there in the beta for the same reason we even have a beta: to test. And let me tell you, some of them were seriously bugged. And they will not carry over into the retail version; it wouldn't make any sense to.

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