We got ours.

Will trade beta spots for dreamfoil.

Don't think we've heard anything yet and haven't heard of any eu guilds getting one yet

You ruined our server! :\

give us beta info and maybe we won't be around so much!

All you have to do is think back to the Naxx PTR, who was there? Who downed the first few bosses? Who did they get the most helpful feedback from?

Damnit give me my keys!

So the EU and US CM posts are a bit confusing... are they actually sending out formal invites to blizzcon/contest winners yet?

Have any of the guild "25" type folks actually gotten an activation key yet?

Demanding keys on EJ's forums is a sure-fire way to get a beta invite.

I'd guess Blizzard is still processing the names (and hopefully deciding to allow 5 more people per guild!) and fleshing out more in Alpha before handing out the Beta keys. I wouldn't except to see them sent out until after the Hunter Talents, but I'm just guessing at their priorities.

The CMs clearly said that the invites are done in phases, and then said the blizzcon/winners haven't received any keys yet.

I demand keys for my Hakkar killing guild!

On a more serious note I just wanted to bring up a humble request to those of you who will be doing the beta test to please work on getting some info on how the new resilience stats will work out with the existing defense system. I.E. are (boss/raid/all) mobs getting a large boost to +crit to make up for the new anti crit stat?

Comments on how easy/hard you find various dungeons in tier 3 and/or how quickly you are finding yourself replacing tier 3 slots would be interesting to know as well.

Also on a longer term note a heads up on the first raid dungeon that has an encounter that will require a shaman/paladin would be wonderful. I am not sure how likely it is that anyone will come across such info soon, but knowing as soon as possible if there are any encounters that have a hard block to them would be nice.

The small friends and family guild I am in is very excited about the raiding game in the expansion. We do not have the numbers to 40 man, and have only had horrible experiences trying to be part of a coalition as a guild, yet we all love to raid. One of the things we are most interested in now is trying to figure out how soon we can close the gear gap in the expansion and work on the new raids. We know we are already at a large disadvantage in terms of group skill as we have not had the opportunity to learn aq40 and naxx, but it will be a huge moral boost knowing that the gear gap will not hold us back too much.

Well from what the leaks seem to suggest is that defense will still work the way it does - it increases parry , dodge chance and gaurds against mellee crits etc etc . The new resilience rating seems to be something that decreases the chance for any crits - mellee or spell - on the target which appears to be on the pvp arena sets to a fair degree.
This is just what ive gathered in reading the info about it . This may be inaccurate and for that i apologise but just wanted to offer a helpful hand so to say .

My Guild has seen no keys.

We have C'Thun down, and 5 bosses down in Naxx, hopefully 7 after tonight. We're furthest ahead on our server, but yeah, not that far in. We tested AQ40 and Naxx on PTR, so not sure how the invites are coming out. I don't really expect one, TBH.

It wont go by progress, especially with the expansion catering to lots. If i manage an invite it would be fun raiding with large pugs of geared endgame raiders.

I'm kinda hoping I never get a beta invite, because I'm afraid I'll be hooked and neglect my main characters...
Trying to stay away as much as possible from TBC info too, so I'll have that wonderful feeling I had as a newcomer to WoW, even though I did play both US and EU open beta (up to about level 30something).

I feel likewise about the guild getting invited, and I'm ashamed at how overly selfish that feeling is.

You never know. We've already seen Tigole prefers posting here to the social wasteland that the R&D forums have become :p. I've seen shit get done through informal channels. For example, I made a bitch post about 6 months ago on the FoH boards about the EQ2 trial being completely fucking borked and enumerated the things wrong with it that went unfixed for months. It just so happens that SoE employees read those boards, and fixes to all the bugs I listed were applied within 2 days.

Bottom line is you never know who reads these boards, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease. That being said, I will continue to bitch about my guild not getting a beta invite, seeing as Kel'Thuzad appears not to have staying power enough to keep us from beta testing :p

That's very true. I'm sure if there are specific people overlooked that folks in Blizzard may want in the beta at some point, and they find out about it through a forum post, they may hook them up. I wouldn't be surprised in the least. I think Fury is a guild that deserves beta keys because I know for a fact they've spent quite a bit of time on test for the last two raid dungeons. If you truly want the raid content tested, it's a good idea to extend invites to the people that have helped test zones on the PTR, at least imo.