#1 - April 17, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Blizzard Post

Here is an outline of what is currently available on the Rise of Azshara PTR.

  • Now Available for Testing
  • Heart of Azeroth system update: Introducing Essences
  • New Zone: Mechagon
  • New Arena: The Robodrome
  • Mount Equipment
  • Crestfall and Snowblossom Island Expeditions
  • Ashran Epic Battleground

Our initial testing will be primarily technical, so some Rise of Azshara features will be locked/unavailable for the first few days while we work on initial concerns with the above content. Please note that Ashran may not easily complete a queue in the PTR.

  • Coming Soon
  • Heroic Battle for Stromgarde
  • New Missions
  • New Zone: Nazjatar
    • Explore the new zone including quest lines, World Quests, and World PvP Events focused on strengthening alliances with the new aquatic races
  • Heritage Armors
  • New Profession Recipes
  • New Raid-- Azshara’s Eternal Palace
    • As always, we’ll coordinate the testing of this new raid’s encounters via scheduled announcements.
  • New Dungeon-- Operation: Mechagon
  • Pet Battle Dungeon: Stratholme
  • Direhorn Training quests
  • Updates to Brewfest

We plan to do a wipe of all characters in a few weeks after getting focused feedback on the Heart of Azeroth Essences. This will allow us to test the feel and pacing of obtaining them all naturally. We’ll give you a heads up on that character wipe here in this forum.

Get into the PTR!

The PTR is now available. To log in to the PTR, simply create a PTR account and copy the character you wish to test from your account. Step-by-step directions can be found here.

Note : World of Warcraft PTR realms are only available to players who have a full World of Warcraft account.