by Imbaslap » Thu Jun 04, 2015 1:38 am
Some of these guilds have been testing since open beta prior to release.
the bugs encountered in MC were unable to be tested due to some MAJOR bugs preventing any 40 man raid from progressing to baron geddon at the time. I wouldn't take shots at the current MC version saying it wasn't tested and gives us an unfair advantage when every boss encounter, trash encounter, hell even testing lava damage in BRM. those things take time, time for 40 people to look for things. Devs had a small time table during open beta, reducing the amount of time 40 people could test. The real comparison you should be making about raid content would be azuregos, kazzak, dire maul. Not a rushed MC to compete with release.
from the open beta, AQ20 and ZG was fully working with a few minor scripting bugs on 1 boss in each raid. expect beta testing of those to be smooth as will be AV since that was scrubbed in open beta. check out normandah's stream highlights if you want to look through the testing videos.
I don't see the advantage on a 11 year old game with bwl content as every strategy is on youtube and google right now. The quality of BWL and AV testing takes time, researching source data, videos, and keeping it within the current patch release of the server(as best as possible). you make it sound like retail and every guild knowing the strategy of the boss before it releases on the live realms. /facepalm.
also, any guild not giving enough data or reports to the dev will get removed from the test team. its not some dog and pony show of 40 people logging in and saying "its good".
TLDR, can we get a fresh NEW public test realm copy of all the characters in the 7 guilds participating in the testing? I am sure most of these guild's rosters have changed since the Kazzak player testing, and will need updated for AV and BWL testing as well.