Quote:That sort of thing should have been hammered out before any live player got there, unless you really want to believe that Blizzard's raid team was lucky enough not to encounter this sort of thing in all the time they've allegedely been "testing" Lady Vashj.
Something as simple as Blizzard's raid teams class balance can really mess with their testing. Take Shade of Aran, for instance. His death script is really buggy. But what's he commonly doing when he doesn't die properly? Casting Polymorph, casting Arcane Explosion, casting Blizzard (actually casting it, not just having it in the room).
The amount of time he's casting a Blizzard during the fight is very, very small. Chances of death there are pretty low for one QA department to pickup. Dying right after the Poly call goes out has an incredibly low chance of happening -> and effectively zero depending on what your group's DPS is (many groups beat it no sweat, many groups force a poly before he calls water elementals). Finally, casting Arcane Explosion does have a long time ... but DPS is effectively nil during this. This has the highest chance of happening if you're full of classes with DoTs.
I could easily see 4 groups constantly testing Aran and not once experiencing this. By the same token, having the entire playerbase inside Karazhan and the issues become readily apparent.
My point being, at some time we have to stop blaming the QA team for bugs that are really hard to catch and start blaming the raid team for having them in the first place.
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