I Ask You!
What do you expect to Happen?
What do you Hope to occur?
I am hoping for a fresh wipe of all characters made and to have a stress test of starting Zone Leveling. I would like to know more about what to expect on Launch Day.
Any idea if they have sent out the email invs yet?
They took away the stress test account for a lot of people(except a certain specific group of people). I think that means that characters were wiped for those. If they don’t make it even, expect a lot of rage.
My sub is supposed to end shortly before the next test. So I’m not sure if it’ll let me in again.
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I kind of hope they wipe if they don’t raise the cap again. I’d like to roll Horde this time. ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
I forgot to mention that I hope they remove the PVP server faction limitation. It makes it harder to stress test specific areas when they are. I don’t think people would’ve been as upset that their faction didn’t get much going on as the other, if the were able to make a character on the other faction.
I had to delete my lvl 5 Horde the first test, so that I could join in on the SW stuff then.
Have invites gone out yet? The stress test disappeared off my launcher.
I hope I get back into it.
I’d like to see it go to level 15 or 20. An extra day or two would be icing on the cake. It would be nice to run Deadmines!
I hope its the AQ opening event where they have everyone in a zone and then the gate unlocks and all hell breaks loose.
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I can’t wait to level through the old zones again. I miss the old STV and Barrens.
I expect a bunch of people complaining because they can’t get in the server to stare at Asmongold.
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That wouldn’t be a stress test tho.
How would it not be a stress test?
That tests my peace of mind. If the first test was to happen again, I would think Blizzard has failed us again and not learned from pass lessons.
I think new random invites will be going out. I think they might have cleared the servers too, why else would they make a Battle net patch just to remove the stress test option from our apps?
It will be annoying if they did wipe the servers, 24 hours roughly to play is going to be hard to get back to 10 and then to whatever cap they implement, if it’s higher, IF I get back in etc.
Cause a stress test idea is to test the maximal load servers / infrastructure can handle in a short period of time.
not over multiple days… that’s just a beta.
The same thing as last time tbph, I expect and hope that the servers will fail under some crazy edge case and they can fix it before the real game launches. Not only does it make the game better, it also is fun to read the forums during these kinds of things.
I deliberately used the time to avoid the streamers, their events and the GMs and to actually treat it like a beta and to bug hunt and report incorrect things, since I’m not actually good enough to be included in the actual beta apparently xD. I had to say I had a blast levelling to ten and doing Teldrassil and Darkshore. Found quite a few issues with hunter and the odd quest mistake, but for me the stress test is a chance at helping the beta development. Sure, I helped out trying to login during the initial 2hrs too, even though I’m in the UK and the hours were ungodly.
Well, your account has been deleted. Presumably the characters went with it.
Except you weren’t asked to stress test contested zones. You were asked specifically to stress test starting areas, where the PVP flagging isn’t an issue.
maybe we get a 20 - 30 stress test or something like that.
This!!!
The stress tests have a multitude of more people than the beta so it would be a great opportunity to test high stress areas.
I personally didn’t have any issues in the stress test but there wasn’t really much going on so it’d be nice to see how the server handles hundreds of people in one place casting and getting hit by hundreds of different spells.
I’m not referring to PVP flagging. I’m referring more to the server faction limitation, where you can only make a character on one faction at a time, since it’s a PVP server . Does it make sense now?
It makes it harder to stress test zones if you can’t easily switch factions when a stress test event is occurring in the other faction. The PVP server limitation shouldn’t be enabled for the duration of testing.
For instance as I mentioned in my post, during the initial stress test, I had a leveled a lvl 5 Horde. However, most of the stress testing ended up being on Alliance that time, so for me to participate, I had to delete my lvl 5 Horde, so that I could make an Alliance, because PVP servers back then do not allow both factions at once.