Upcoming Character Wipe - Updated

Quick update for everyone! We've discovered a few issues with Beta Patch 10 which could affect player login. Instead of releasing the patch as-is and addressing those issues later, we felt it necessary to take some time to resolve them now. As a result, the soonest we'll be able to release Beta Patch 10 is next Monday, January 23.

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We're currently in the process of preparing the next beta patch for release and wanted to provide all beta testers with a heads-up that a character wipe will be included. Please note that, as with previous character wipes, this wipe will also affect gold, items, followers, and artisans.

We're hoping to release beta patch 10 before the weekend (potentially as soon as tomorrow evening), but we don't yet have a precise ETA. We'll provide more information as it becomes available, and patch notes will be posted once the patch is live.

Thanks for your continued feedback and testing!

01/18/2012 11:08 PMPosted by D3BETA

Are you going to turn off the servers before or after patch release? If yes, could you tell us for how long the sevrers are going to be off?

Yes and yes! Once the test server is brought down for maintenance to deploy the next beta patch, we'll put up a post about it in which we'll include an ETA for downtime (if we have one). This is also the location where we'd provide updates regarding maintenance should the process take longer than expected. :)

01/18/2012 07:05 PMPosted by Bruticus

Is it normal to not release patch notes until after it goes live?

Totally normal! In this case, "live" is referring to when the patch has been successfully deployed to the test server and we've confirmed that there are no issues with it, not necessarily when maintenance is over and the test server is back up again.

We do this just in case we need to make some changes during the patching process. That's very rare, of course, but we like to err on the side of caution.

As always, patch notes will be posted to the launcher and to this thread: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3123246179

Quick update for everyone! We've discovered a few issues with Beta Patch 10 which could affect player login. Instead of releasing the patch as-is and addressing those issues later, we felt it necessary to take some time to resolve them now. As a result, the soonest we'll be able to release Beta Patch 10 is next Monday, January 23.