I'm wondering if we can get access to higher end gear on the PTR so we can test more scaling, resilience etc etc.
There are a lot of retail videos of people in season 3 PvP gear, tier 5-6 etc so it would be easier to compare damage calculations and such if we can equip the same gear.

The raids does not need to be available if you are planning on releasing the server and developing the later raids later on.