Pretty sure its not just for testing, merely for the fact that if people saw them release 1.05 with that missing they would flip their lid and crap their pants. Blizzard is usually straight forward and has to explain things in great detail since there are some people who eat paint for a living.
Plus if they wanted to test drop rates, they'd just turn it into open bnet style and you kill a quill rat and 500 items pop out.
One thing I can figure out is this. If drop rates are on the server (which they are), why can't they just apply these kinds of changes right away? Like, why do we have to wait a week for this crap?
Plus if they wanted to test drop rates, they'd just turn it into open bnet style and you kill a quill rat and 500 items pop out.
Because that would be too easy, and logical.
....what?
its a base drop rate increase..(i.e. 1.04 droprate of 0.02% is now! 0.04% !!!!! ) I'm not going to get into how MF works...but Google is out there.