• Whiteknight

Restricting the players who can test the content to just the top 5-6 guilds is precisely counter to what QA is attempting to achieve. You want a broad range of testers. With different styles, gear, class makeup, etc.

Just to give an anecdotal example - I'm willing to bet the top 5-6 guilds don't use a protection paladin as a tank. When they started on Kalec, they'd throw their warriors at it, and maybe a druid or two.
We tried it for about 2 hours using a prot paladin. We filed our feedback that we thought paladin taunt restrictions made it unnecessarily hard. They changed paladin taunt. I'm not conceited enough to believe that they did it in response to our ticket - bliz has known about the issue for a while. It's a real problem in hyjal, among other places. The point is, we went in and did it how we'd likely be doing it on live - which is perhaps a little different from the top 5-6 guilds. And we filed our QA feedback. 'Ping - remember this taunt issue? It's a problem for Sathrovarr too...'

We weren't able to kill him in the short time we had to try him, but we were able to give meaningful feedback. And convince ourselves that, though it's a challenge, it's certainly doable for our raid group. I'm disappointed I won't be able to actually kill him on the PTR, but that's much more about getting a taste of new content after being bored for months.
Disabling Kalecgos on the PTR now means that the non-frontrunners will get to look at Brutallus next. And ensure that he's not overtuned for guilds that don't have 'Nihilum' in their names. It's goodness.

I think folk would be a lot less stressed and frustrated if they just accept that world firsts on most of sunwell - or even server firsts - are simply meaningless this time around. There'll be another day for those. Just step back and look at the content - it's really good. The 5man is awesome, the raid bosses are challenging. The quests are cool, the event is cool. There's new content!