Please look forward to it

[Nekodar]

Sadly, now when I see them say, "Please look forward to it", I actually start worrying.

If any game needed a test server, this is it. Rushing out content to appease the masses isnt going to solve anything and it risks seriously breaking the game overall... aka hunts.

I really doubt a test server would have exposed any problems with hunts.
For one, there'd be no reason to zerg the hunts on a test server, so it would have been more about testing and seeing that the elite marks appear as they should under normal circumstances, and such.

Maybe someone would have pointed out the rewards as being too high, if the rewards would even be listed on a test server...

[Teirshin]

I really doubt a test server would have exposed any problems with hunts.
For one, there'd be no reason to zerg the hunts on a test server, so it would have been more about testing and seeing that the elite marks appear as they should under normal circumstances, and such.

Maybe someone would have pointed out the rewards as being too high, if the rewards would even be listed on a test server...

Rift used test servers to great success. Plenty of people played there primarily, raided and dominated in the constantly changing content. It gave some hard core players even more challenge because they were always having to adapt to mechanic changes and such. Its certainly not for everyone though.