How to Get Into the PTR

#1 - April 30, 2019, 8:45 p.m.

If you’re still not testing the PTR (Public Test Realm) with us, and you want to, we’ve made it easy to get started. Just follow these steps:

CREATE A PTR ACCOUNT:

• Log in to Blizzard Account Management.
• Select Games and Subscriptions.
• In the Starter Editions & Public Test Regions section, select Create PTR Account.
• Click the Create Account button.

JOIN THE PTR:

• Open the Blizzard Battle.net App and select World of Warcraft from your Games list.
• In the selector above the Play button, change your Region / Account to PTR: World of Warcraft.
• Click Install to install the PTR client. This becomes a Play button when ready.
• Click Play to log in to the PTR, and select any of the available Test Servers.
• Create a new test character, or copy over a character from your live account using the Copy Character button.
• Enter the game and test the new content!

#5 - May 1, 2019, 6:06 p.m.

This is already the case, and has been for a very long time. I just did clean installs of the retail game and then the PTR, and the PTR download was about 1/10th the size of the retail download.