World firsts on the PTR

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2-14-2008 @ 4:40PM

Mellisande said...

Personally, I'd have to say that I strongly disagree. I think that kills on the test realms are the only ones that count. Why? Because this is the first time people have ever seen this boss. The people who kill it on the PTR's are the ones who develop the initial strategies and see if they work. By the time the new encounters go to the regular realms I'm sure that all the top guilds have the fights down pretty smoothly. It's just a matter of who gets the patch first or the required loot to kill a given boss. No, the ones on the test realms who are the first to figure out how the encounters work are the real first kills.

IMHO of course! :)

2-15-2008 @ 5:54AM

Ben said...

I absolutely agree with Mellisande: PTR kills, if anything, count MORE than live kills. Every raid instance from BWL forward has been run on strats developed on the PTR, and here's a sneaky little hint: the first three live kills will be done by the guilds that got the first three PTR kills. They may shift a bit {ptr kill one makes live kill 2}, but not much.

Boss tuning may involve tinkering with exploits, etc, but it doesn't make enough difference to be a major upset in the "PTR first, Live first" factor.

If D&T had gotten the PTR kill first, this wouldn't even be a question. Is it so unthinkable that there's a new major player on the bleeding edge raid scene?

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