The perils of progressive testing

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2-28-2008 @ 10:22PM

Pappagallo said...

What the process needs is greater transparency. Ideally a "testing timetable" for each patch. As you mentioned above, the QQing over Elemental nerfs would have been tempered if people had seen the buffs coming. If Blizz put up a rough timetable, maybe not tied to dates, but with a list of phases, like:

Phase 1
- Elemental shaman nerf
- Lifetap nerf
- Arena mana regen through drinking nerf
...

Phase 2
- Fine tuning of previous changes based on feedback and analysis
- Flametongue buff
- Toughness buff
...

People would freak out less if they saw that a) changes weren't set in stone and may be altered at a later date and b) there were some buffs in the pipeline to balance out the nerfs.

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