Did anyone get a chance to play on the test server?
If so did they have attackable Dummies like on Pendragon, so you could try various things out?
Was just a clone server, nothing special.
Heck they didn't even give you template characters to play with.
I wanted to test Squiggies and Magus at T4.
Yeah I finally got on it. Man the difference between the PST DoT's and teh current ones on my Magus are night and day. I can see why they're boosting everyone else too.
It did lack certian testing features though, like free respects and attackble dummies and free flights. Kinda lame on that front, I'd have liked a special item vendor, for crafting testing, have free gear templates, maybe even a level adjuster.
But atleast we get a character copy.
A tip for those who want to test out there, you can use the social window to find everyone on the server by doing a search from 1 to 40 with everything blank.
If you agree with me that these features would help you help them improve the game, please feedback them with me.
If they just gave everyone access to everything in the game on the test server, everyone would go there, see and try everything, then quit because they've done it all. Well, maybe not everyone, but you get the idea.
Not true. The WoW servers were very successful. Sure the majority of people on them weren't actually testing anything except perhaps inadvertently stress testing, but for those who were the templates+gear sets+free respecs allowed for a much better test run. Ultimately the serious RvR will take place at rank 40 and it makes little sense to not offer rank 40 templates. The only reason I can see not to is that this game is quite new and they want to keep some of the luster that the achievement has. But for future test realms I really think they should put templates in, or at least the free gear vendors and free respecs.
I dunno Grand Master GitCrusha, I find that people play for bragging rights, and there are no bragging rights on the test server.
However I can see why they might not want to offer the level ability to cap, and character Xfers make sense.
But they should offer free respects and flights, as well as test dummies.
I dunno, I can see why they'd want to keep some of the game underwraps on the test server. Maybe it will get better over time.
See the thing with Wow's test server is that it was only up temporarily.
Mythic's will be up alot more often than that.
So it's harder to give everyone the super duper stuff.
I still think a 40 template with crap gear would be nice.
Even if it's RR1 so no one can say anything lol.
Just so we can see what the changes really mean to the classes in the endgame.
And just get a feel for the new flow of things.
It really made a difference for me in WoW in choosing a class.
I know this isn't Wow, but it's still nice when I'm taking time out of my playtime that I pay for to go test stuff that I get to try a max lvl char for a bit.
I mean my lvl 10 SH is not gonna show me how meaningful the changes are in terms of dmg. You may not know the class well, but you can still see if their dmg is really keeping up with other ranged or not.
Plus, I didn't get to see Reikland Factory at all in there. Only T4's really bothered to test anything RvR related.