That is the purpose of test yes, things dont always work that way though and many bugs still go to live even when reported.
Its not a bad bunch there, most are very helpfull and they do raid, but are a far cry from being Hardcore raiders.
The population is not very high which means its usually easy to get to content uncontested, but hard to find enough people to do alot of it. I have seen guilds with more people on at the same time than I have ever seen on the whole server at one time.
As for world first or disco, you do get credit but the rest of the servers will never know it because stats are not published anywhere for test server. There was a rumor that may change, but its just a rumor.
Even with the attitude in this thread
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/p...opic_id=347951 I would still be happy to transfer to test, but I refuse to struggle a lower level toon through to reach where I am now again.
Would be nice if they did allow server transfers to test and make it a one way thing.