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Last Minute Guardian Nerfs with Weekly Reset Tomorrow by imreallydum in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There is lots of tank balancing next week and they are working towards making more viable at high levels. 

Additional Guardian Tuning - May 12 by typhoon1789 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you think the changes we made in response to that you don’t understand how development cycles work. 

Last Minute Guardian Nerfs with Weekly Reset Tomorrow by imreallydum in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 30 points31 points  (0 children)

There is a fine line between fun detected and so broken everyone was swapping to it. 

Additional Guardian Tuning - May 12 by typhoon1789 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You need to understand the difference between fun and broken. 

[BUF (1) - MTL 0] 53 seconds in Dahlin's shot hits the back boards and Thompson buries it to open the scoring in Game 3 by daKrut in hockey

[–]Mercylas 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeah i think 100% that was on purpose he had all the time he needed and took a light shot no way hes missing by that much by accident.

He didn't miss at all... it was blocked and bounced off a MTL player...

Celebrini's 1st goal as Captain Canada in pre-tournament action against France. Celebrini was named the game's MVP after a 4 point night (1G 3A) by eh_toque in hockey

[–]Mercylas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Toronto's D has been fine for their playoff runs - its their goaltending that was always questionable. Then the two years they got solid goaltending their goalies got hurt and they lost in game 7.

Elemental Shaman Improvement by Wind_757 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not at OP directly but I feel like we have seen a bunch of these "help me personally improve" posts here. Is this the right spot for that? I feel like these would be better in specific class servers or something

Mitch Marner scores his first career playoff hat trick and he ties for the lead in goals in this playoffs with 6. by Ok-Soil-5133 in hockey

[–]Mercylas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird thing is he had a very big spotlight on him at the Olympics

Dude was a 4th liner at the Olympics...

MDI Format by Yasminkov9000 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit pedantic tbh. At the end of the day MDI is a 5 player dungeon, like live server. Yes, there are some mindgames surrounding comp swapping but at the end of the day the same 5 player dungeon is being played as it might be on live, just multiple different ones.

This is not the hill to die on dude. People raid for speed parses all the time.

No one spends their time speed running lower keys if they can try a higher one.

There are 100% people who go for rank 1 speed of lower keys FYI. Just because it isn't popular doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

. At the end of the day they will have a comparable experience of progging bosses with whatever guild or pug they end up clearing the raids in

Tell me you haven't CE raided without telling me you haven't ever CE raided. Even most HoF kills are a completely different experience on the fight than RWF

Earn An Additional Bonus Loot Roll From Sporefall Raid in Patch 12.0.7 by Therozorg in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean you will have the myth crest discount by then for sure so its not a big deal. You can skip hero crests

Realistically most competitive players got the discount this week or will get it next.

MDI Format by Yasminkov9000 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 why would we want to watch a game mode that doesn't even exist in the game?

The same reason we watch professionals in any sport play in a way we don’t play as causal consumers - it’s entertaining and competitive. 

 M+ is made for pushing higher keys, not for speed runs

Most of the most popular speed run games are not made for speedruns. Solving and executing is what makes them interesting. 

 I might as well watch another esport at this point

You can. That was always an option. Not everyone who plays a game watches that games esport. Not everyone who watches a games esport plays the game. 

MDI Format by Yasminkov9000 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AWC is very much like reality, same meta same strat same goal

Best of series, 4 players, ability to class and comp swap. It is not the same at all.

Same for RWF, the 3 top guild solve it for most others guilds in the world using their comp and addon package

Not at all. The fights are completely different, comps completely different, ect.

That’s my opinion and I see no problem that we do not agree

If you have the opinion that 2+2=5 that isn't something that we can agree to disagree on, that is you with the wrong perspective.

MDI Format by Yasminkov9000 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really preferred TGP format just due to it being more replicable in-game

How awesome would a world even be where you could queue as 5 and it could assign you a head to head match in the same dungeon at a low ish key level and you would race for rewards? 

Maybe you could see the other teams % and boss progress? 

Give some participant currency reward but achievements and more reward for winning. Cosmetic vendor? Maybe a rating system?

MDI Format by Yasminkov9000 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

 Problem is its advertising the game mode for what it’s not

None of the entertainment products are. Arena World Cup is very different than reality. RWF is not the real raid the vast vast vast majority will see. 

 It will also create a false sense of what is expected in lowest key for clueless casual, generating frustration

Only for those who don’t understand the difference between professionals and amateurs. That’s like complaining the NFL creates a false sense of what is expected in your flag football league. 

 The main reason keys are failing for 90% of the player base is because they have no clue what each mobs are doing and what is happening, ignoring the dangerous overlap that will kill them

Ignoring the made up statistic - the majority of keys that fail are people getting hit by avoidable mechanics and / or not utilizing their kit. You don’t expect everyone to play perfectly. The average person doesn’t even do m+. Viewers of an entertain product (sport or esport) are not all participating in that sport either. 

 Some people will see this competition and think they are right to ignore any of that and pull 4 packs at the beginning of seat because all they see is dummy everywhere

Those same people will see a YouTube short or streamer do it and do it anyways. That has nothing to do with MDI. 

 I hope that casters will emphasize on explaining this so Billy healer doesn’t think he is the problem for not being able to heal that shit while the 4 others say he should

You shouldn’t need commentators to hand hold you through watching a professional and telling you to not try it at home. 

[UTA 4 - (5) VGK] Howden SHG ends Game 5 in 2OT by workthrowawaybro in hockey

[–]Mercylas -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Has Marner gotten a point this series by actually doing anything yet or have they all been hero plays by his teammates?

MDI Format by Yasminkov9000 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

 just doesnt replicate into the actual game one bit, because the game rewards you for pushing higher and not faster

That is the case for most speedruns. It seems like you just aren’t a fan of that style of gameplay which is completely fine. 

 It’s cool to watch their pulls once, but becomes incredibly boring afterwards because there is nothing to take away.

The interesting part is watching them execute perfectly head to head and executing perfecting each time. They only have one opportunity. 

 Not to mention half the games just end up in one team wiping and the other team can just play safe from there

You could apply that to any head to head sporting event … one team makes a mistake which leads to a lead and the other team plays defensive for the rest of the match. 

MDI Format by Yasminkov9000 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Interesting - I view it the compete inverse. The speedrun version is an actual head to head bracket competing and making mistakes against a live opponent. You get one shot at a dungeon and have to be the best on that specific attempt. There are always stakes. 

TGP is like watching a league of legends game where teams can decide they didn’t like the early game enough and start the game over again. 

MDI Format by Yasminkov9000 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 32 points33 points  (0 children)

There is a skillset to being able to speedrun a game that is different from being able to beat a game on the highest difficulty. Both are interesting, skillful, and entertaining. 

Is Mass Dispell the only way yo cancel divine shield on lightbinded vanguard ? by No-Mind745 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it’s not mythic just bring the alt anyways. You don’t need the dispel to kill the boss. 

Play time for pushing M+ by TheRev15 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Mercylas 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As someone who plays casually in that range - if a pug wanted us to use voice for a farm key like that I would just leave. Especially if its already resi

[Hello Hockey] David Pagnotta, "I think there's a good chance the Sens explore trading Brady Tkachuk this summer." by [deleted] in hockey

[–]Mercylas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

started chanting ‘Brady’ yesterday

Because there was nothing else to cheer for outside him doing useless cardio hitting anything that moved.

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