I'm also puzzled by the "onemonthlol" angst I'm seeing everywhere about these invites. Granted, the "Renaming" and blank OK boxes are pissing me off too (all 4 characters have one or the other), but still, if you planned on making a BE/Draenei, the test will give you valuable insight on where and when to go for questing that will speed up things in retail much more than pvping would.

I'm actually finding it hard to log in to my Warlock and pvp, as he only needs like 2 pieces of pvp gear. Seriously though, even if he was a green machine, any gear he'd get from PvP currently will just be gone after leveling regardless. The faster option would seem to be to learn the 60-70 quest chains, and then nail it out to speedy perfection on retail. (At least, for folks who got the most recent wave and didn't already do so.) After you're 70, it's not like you're going to be wearing more than one piece of HWL gear anyhoot, and at the 60's rate of honor gain it will take exponentially longer to save up for level 70 items to buy after the grind. (The friggin gems cost as much as 2 sets of HWL shoulders iirc.)

It seems that the main source of the angst is the inability to test 25 man raids in time? I suppose it's understandable if all you want to do is raid. But in order to raid you're going to have to get to 70. Might as well get to know the process and use the blessings you're given. I know I will (if they ever fix the damn OK/Renaming crap). Yeah, Blizzard did kind of drop the ball on testing BC raid content here, but I wouldn't complain about being given the opportunity to test.

edit - That ytmnd made my day.

I'm thinking most people that are upset, are so because they were pretty excited about the opportunity to test raids in the beta, and now that they've finally gotten an invite, they have very little time to do so if they're forced to level to 70. It's very understandable to be honest.

If you haven't been checking on an hourly basis (like me), the rename/okay bug is fixed as of the latest patch.