Thing is, they don’t need you to “test all of it”. The stress test is literally for you to be a warm body, logging in, creating a character, and populating a zone.
If you wanted to play Alliance, you could have deleted all your Horde toons.
My one hope is that I actually get into this stress test!
I’m not sure I understand. One cannot “populate a zone” if they can’t easily make a character on the other faction, unless they want to repeatedly delete their characters. It doesn’t encourage stress testing. Why wouldn’t we want to test more? That’s the reason we’re there.
I did, and it didn’t feel good either. I didn’t get to test out some other things on Horde afterwards, because I didn’t want to delete my lvl 10 Alliance.
Sure you can. You’re one warm body in Durotar. They wanted hundreds in Durotar, hundreds in Elwynn, hundreds in Mulgore, etc.
The stress tests are not about your experience, directly. They don’t care if you only get to make toons on one faction, as long as during that 2 hour block, you’re making toons. The community will naturally spread itself out, and they want to test the stress.
You are a tiny cog in a giant machine. Not every cog on both sides of the machine.
Boo hoo?
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![:man_shrugging:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/man_shrugging.png?v=6" ":man_shrugging:")
Not sure who spit in your cereal this morning.
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Not this morning. Months of whiny posts about how person X didn’t get the beta experience they wanted. It’s testing. Its not for you to enjoy. You are literally a warm body helping them.
Come August 26th @10pm UTC you’ll have all the justification to complain about any issues you see, but the point of the testing is to avoid you having to see any of those issues on the live game.
All these constant threads about “my stress test experience wasn’t fair” or “I deserve beta” are irritating whines. You aren’t the focus of their testing. You don’t need to make toons on both sides. You don’t get to have access to do what you want.
The testing is for them to make sure their product is improved. Anything before August 27th is about them not you.
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Starting zones are one thing when everyone gets on. The next major crush is def going to be AQ opening. That and it gives people more to do for the test.
we also were able the following week to get to lvl 10.
our lvl 10s went on crazy adventures like completing " the weaver" questline and “sons of agrul” fighting lvl 17s-18s in a raid of lvl 10s yes we died a lot but we completed it. so if our toons get wiped it will be very sad for the small group of us who did them quests but who knows we can group again and do them again and have an idea of what not to do this time. -tainted shammy-
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You quoted it as me saying it by accident ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
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Interestingly, I was on my computer at about 10 pacific time. I was a part of the first stress test. The “beta and stress test” was removed from my launcher. Today I got a notification (pop up window that I saw because I was surfing the web) saying that “beta and stress test wow” was starting an update. I still don’t have a “beta and stress test” option in the launcher drop down.
Can’t wait to contribute more numbers to the stress test. I was a tiny bit peeved the first stress test because I couldn’t get in, but I gave Blizzard valuable statistics (by being stuck in queue forever). Stress Testing is about testing the stress on the server, not bug reports on that one level 43 quest mob in the Plaguelands. That’s for folks in the beta.
By deliberately avoiding high-stress areas to pretend you’re a beta tester, you’re not providing the developer team with the data they need to help make launch smoother. There is plenty of time to hunt out the last few kinks in the plate when Classic drops in August when you get to level at your own leisure, but helping Blizzard understand how to make the first few weeks not hell (even if you think you’re just the one number) is more important for the duration of the stress test.
So, I surfed the forums a lot during and after the stress tests. From what I’ve gathered, but isn’t official. The most official we had was a customer service GM saying that ‘If you were in this stress test you SHOULD be in the next stress test unless they decide to change it.’ That’s what she had heard and stated.
The reason the beta/stress test application was removed from most battle.net launchers is because people kept exploding on the forums and opening tickets going “I HAVE THE OPTION DOES THAT MEAN I HAVE BETA???” so they removed it in between the stress period to avoid confusion and wasting Blizzard’s time saying ‘No.’ to a thousand people a day.
The people that didn’t have the launcher removed like the rest of us, were the people that had more than one PTR account and that bug that prevented them from getting the first stress test invite, so they had a separate wave of stress test invites once the issue was resolved. When Blizzard removed the launcher, it seems they forgot to move it for those that had the second correction invites sent. And all of that was later fixed and removed.
The game still exists, and it still updates in the background of your launcher. The client is still on your computer and you can log in manually, but you just get ‘no servers available’.
There is no official word on whether our prior characters are wiped, or if level cap is upgraded, or anything. For me, it does make sense that they’d keep the characters and raise the cap, or delete the characters and raise the cap. We hammered the logging in processes and the starting zones. So, now it’d make sense for us to stress instancing. Which would be accomplished by raising the cap and having thousands of people trying to slam into Deadmines and RFC. So in my mind a cap lift to 20 would exist, since deadmines is 18+. Granted we could … probably… do it at 15 if we capped there and just twinked ourselves to the max.
For the final stress test, and this is just my thoughts on it, I feel it would make sense to wipe the stress test servers and treat it like a PTR where you create a character instantly at 60. We are not stress testing to test leveling up through the game. That is beta. But making everyone start at 60 would stress test raids, world PvP, and countless other zones through exploration and world PvP as well as Alterac Valley / other BGs.
This is just my speculation of course, I could be dead wrong on everything I said, so don’t hold me to it.
To respond as the person quoted:
Level 10 is also not a contested zone. Durotar doesn’t PVP flag you.
Odds are the stress test will test the things that went wrong last time and see if the changes were in the direction they were looking. So I would expect a lot of log on issues, layering mishaps, and all the things that cause a lot of upset people. But end of the day that is what stress tests are suppose to do.