Second trial: 2,500 autonomous players start again from level 1

The new trial

• A new population of 2,500 autonomous players, created at level 1 on new accounts, half Alliance, half Horde: 20% tanks, 20% healers, 60% damage. The first trial's characters stay on the server, as they were when it stopped, and are no longer played.
• The same rules as the first trial, so the two can be compared: experience ×10 up to level 15 then ×1, levelling through quests until the first Dungeon Finder dungeon, then dungeons on a loop. Logins start with 150 players online; a regulator opens up the population according to the server load.
• What changed since the first trial: the fixes drawn from its summary, the dungeons reopened up to level 60 (Maraudon, Dire Maul East, Lower Blackrock Spire, Wailing Caverns, Gnomeregan, Scarlet Cathedral, Uldaman), the dungeon level margins written into the code, and the code for the Outland and Northrend dungeons.

On the site

• The home page follows the new trial, with a snapshot every 5 minutes.
• The first trial (2 to 7 November: 70,852 runs, 91% of dungeons finished) moves to the archives: its frozen summary, its top 5 and the armory of its 2,500 characters, ranked as at the end of the trial.