Originally Posted by Rayeth

This has a huge effect on things in my opinion. Now I'm not in any kind of server first (let alone world first) guilds, but I do like to progress through content and see what is out there. But when an entire zone has been cleared on the PTR before the patch is even out to everyone, I can't really ever see a "race" happening like happened in Naxx with the 4H or BWL. There is no mystery that will drive on a top guild to say lets see what no one else has seen. I bet Nihilum already has the content on farm before it leaves the PTR. So the competition mentality is gone from TBC.