Beta Tester of The Year Awards...Follow

Sinrah of the PvP Server... I salute you and nominate you for the Beta Tester of the Year (even if you are horde)! It is Beta Testers like you who keep me interested in buying and playing this game.

Here is his post entitled "Blizzard Hates Us!"

"Hello, and welcome to the Blizzard World of Warcraft Forums. We hope you enjoy your stay and will do everything within our power to ensure your comfort. In order to help you fit in, we have provided you with a list of things to say while visiting the homes of our various classes.

Please feel free to complain about any of the below topics, but remember, only choose one class, and assume that you are all alone in your gaming experience. YOU are all that matters, and it is not like every single class has their own problems. Upon choosing a class, please refrain from cross-contaminating yourself with the others, for they are now your sworn enemies in the field of nerf warfare! Good luck, and god speed.


Mage Forums: Blizzard hates us, they took away our invis, we barely do any damage, what is our role anyway?!

Warrior Forums: Blizzard hates us, they took away our charge in combat, we can be kited by any class with snare, fear, or root.

Druid Forums: Blizzard hates us, all of our forms are worthless, root hardly lasts, we are required to carry 3 forms of equipment, and we still suck!

Rogue Forums: Blizzard hates us, stealth can be easily detected, we whiff like crazy, and remorseless, one of our coolest talents, is unusable to solo anymore!

Paladin Forums: Blizzard hates us, we have too much shielding and not enough DPS! I have no range attacks! Why am I only good against undead?!

Shaman Forums: Blizzard hates us, we have too many useless totems, and now they even nerfed our snare totem!

Priest Forums: Blizzard hates us, we can't solo for crap anymore and now we are barely even the best healers anymore!

Hunter Forums: Blizzard hates us, we are labeled as a DPS class yet our DPS is weak. The higher level we get the more our DPS falls behind! We hardly have any group utility or desirability!

Warlock: Blizzard hates us, what exactly is our role? Our pets are worthless except voidwalker to hold aggro and he barely does that. All of our channeling is annoying and broken and our soulstones are worthless!

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Point trying to be made:

All classes have problems but we are all here to try to Beta test this game. At times it can be frustrating because you begin to think of it as a released game, due to all the time you have invested. We all have our problems, all feel nerfed into the ground at times, and feel like the kings of our domain at times.

By remaining objective and doing our job as Beta testers future generations of gamers will thank us for our patience as we ourselves, not just Blizzard, attempt to release without a doubt one of the most impressive MMORPGs to date."

To read how others responded to his post, check out the following link:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=460609&p=1#post460609

I would also like to nominate Ultimus, an Undead warlock. Not only has he been totally relentless in his suggestions for changes and new ideas, he also did something few people have the guts to do. He played his Warlock to the level cap, then, to make sure all of his impressions were correct and he could offer the best critique possible, he re-rolled his capped warlock and started over from scratch. He proceeded to max out this character as well, and published a full review of his activities on the boards. Some of his ideas were truly off-the-wall and mind-boggling, but he was very inventive and you have to admire his dedication.