The Diablo III site has been updated with the news that a public test realm for the game will be forthcoming and that interested players can check out v1.05 before it hits live servers.

Patch 1.0.5 will soon be available for testing on the PTR. Once the PTR is up and ready, we'll enable posting in this forum and the PTR Bug Report forum so you can share your feedback and report any issues you may experience while playing. 

In the meantime, be sure to check out the patch 1.0.5 PTR patch notes and the information below to find out how to set up your PTR account. 

Read the full post on the Diablo III forum.

The PTR patch notes actually look like an improvement to the game.  

Guess JW must have went on vacation while the rest of the dev team worked on this patch, hah.

Originally posted by Gorwe
Lol!

I click on that link and I get following message:

"This topic has been deleted."

WTF???

I also get that message..they saw people saying it looked like an imporvement to the game and realized they must have the wrong notes up.

Originally posted by Xstatic912
@ fivoroth

Yea, I plan on doing the same thing.. But man is TL2 awesome.. The pacing, map sizes, skills etc and yea there looting drops is much more interesting.. I could be lv 13 and use a level 20 item, that's cool..

All these changes to D3 is lining up for the xpac to be much better than the original, which is similar to what happen in D2..

I am quite happy that there are quite a few ARPGs coming out. D3, TL2 and BL2. This is my favourite game genre and it has been severely lacking in the last few years. Now we are spoilt for choice with 3 very good ARPGs. I will probably play D3 for the PvP and for the item hunting thrills whereas I will play TL2 for the hopefully crazy good mods. Runic released the editor, so we should have a LOT of mods. 

Originally posted by fivoroth

Originally posted by Xstatic912
@ fivoroth

Yea, I plan on doing the same thing.. But man is TL2 awesome.. The pacing, map sizes, skills etc and yea there looting drops is much more interesting.. I could be lv 13 and use a level 20 item, that's cool..

All these changes to D3 is lining up for the xpac to be much better than the original, which is similar to what happen in D2..

I am quite happy that there are quite a few ARPGs coming out. D3, TL2 and BL2. This is my favourite game genre and it has been severely lacking in the last few years. Now we are spoilt for choice with 3 very good ARPGs. I will probably play D3 for the PvP and for the item hunting thrills whereas I will play TL2 for the hopefully crazy good mods. Runic released the editor, so we should have a LOT of mods. 

Don't forget about Path of Exile.  IMO it's the spiritual successor to D2. =)

Originally posted by Acidon

Originally posted by fivoroth

Originally posted by Xstatic912
@ fivoroth

Yea, I plan on doing the same thing.. But man is TL2 awesome.. The pacing, map sizes, skills etc and yea there looting drops is much more interesting.. I could be lv 13 and use a level 20 item, that's cool..

All these changes to D3 is lining up for the xpac to be much better than the original, which is similar to what happen in D2..

I am quite happy that there are quite a few ARPGs coming out. D3, TL2 and BL2. This is my favourite game genre and it has been severely lacking in the last few years. Now we are spoilt for choice with 3 very good ARPGs. I will probably play D3 for the PvP and for the item hunting thrills whereas I will play TL2 for the hopefully crazy good mods. Runic released the editor, so we should have a LOT of mods. 

 

Don't forget about Path of Exile.  IMO it's the spiritual successor to D2. =)

Yeah, Path of Exile is currently my favorite, D3 was meh, T2 is allright and ill be playing it inbetween the 1 week races in path of exile.