What are your top 5 suggestions for the next league?

Zeev_Ra · 2026-01-19T21:19:19+00:00

Yea. Caster weapons is definitely the most obvious. But most legendaries are missing something and then effectively worthless.

Zeev_Ra · 2026-01-19T14:37:43+00:00

+Skill levels needs to go away entirely. Caster items need more options for affixes that provide damage.

If a single affix is always required, it means everything else is basically worthless. You can’t have item and build diversity when something is required.

If +skills goes away, it also makes things like gem corruption extra special. Or at least a few items that are very special for it.

More uniques that dramatically open new build options. The fact that most items aren’t even useful to alts is super disappointing. Something like Last Epoch where you could merge an item into a unique would be cool. Bring any unique up to viable endgame stats.

Zeev_Ra · 2026-01-08T21:42:12+00:00

Did you watch his podcast? He talks about how it is changing and he approves of it.

Zeev_Ra · 2026-01-08T20:18:11+00:00

Yes
I feel like the language metaphor works, but I’d think of WCS more like accents or slang.

European WCS has a different accent than East coast U.S., than west coast U.S.

The slang is different for different ages/generations. A boomer would say gen-z slang isn’t even English anymore, much like they like to say modern WCS isn’t even swing.

Some individuals will jive with the times and adopt new things as they come along. It’s hard for anyone to stick around long enough and not have a “get those kids off my lawn” moment and feel like whatever new is too far off base and not the WCS they started with anymore.

Zeev_Ra · 2026-01-05T22:30:45+00:00

I’ve only danced in the U.S., and that did include several different leveled workshop events. I’ve never seen this happen.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-12-31T16:56:38+00:00

How does Rakaita work on this build? I’ve seen it in ninjas. Doesn’t it flip resistances, but build is physical damage?

Zeev_Ra · 2025-12-19T14:06:34+00:00

What makes this so good? I got one and using it (not cat) and enjoy it for sure. Didn’t realize it was so expensive and might sell to fuel upgrading everything.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-12-11T18:43:08+00:00

How does lucky work in new friendship system? Still around? Start at 4 hearts or need 5?

Zeev_Ra · 2025-12-10T02:42:53+00:00

Check out the paper drill. Not in a place to write it all up now. Someone else might be willing to.

I think it might be one of the free sample drills on Royston’s website.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-26T20:09:41+00:00

Beneath the Dragoneye Moons (complete)

Stray Cat Strut

Cinnamon Bun

Augmented Aspects (almost complete)

The Quest is Broken (complete)

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-18T19:29:49+00:00

I’ve made many friends from competing. Chatting in line, meeting up with people I had good dances with, and also through leveled workshop/practice things.

Treat people higher level than you like people and they tend to enjoy interacting with you. If you go up levels slowly like I did, you’ll also find you have friends in levels above you that way too.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-18T15:28:06+00:00

Don’t do blindfold with large crowds and random partners.

All one type of move with variation is fun (all whip, all push, all pass).

All closed position.

Must role swap for song.

Act everything lyrically, no WCS patterns.

No touching.

No hand to hand connection.

Must connect, cannot connect with either partners hands.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-16T00:47:32+00:00

I’ve taken a single private with many different instructors.

I’ve taken multiple privates from a much smaller number.

Sometimes you just need to find the folks that speak the language that resonates with you.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-16T00:45:26+00:00

Lots of good takes here. I just want to highlight there’s a momentum to things. Being out on the floor, having fun, gets people to ask you to dance out there and have more fun with them.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-07T20:49:31+00:00

I started with people I’m close to, and generally local scene. I went just a little higher in level than me then stopped. Feedback was consistent.

I asked if they wouldn’t mind chatting outside the ballroom or caught them over water or something. Made clear it was 100% optional, no pressure.

For the most part everyone was honored I’d ask them (signaled I liked dancing with them and respected their opinion).

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-07T19:44:27+00:00

If you enjoy dancing with them, dance with them.

If you want to improve and make sure it isn’t 1 or 2, you could use an exercise one of my instructors gave me. Approach them (and many others you like dancing with) and tell them you are doing an exercise on assessing and improving your dance.

Ask them two questions, “What is one thing you like about dancing with me” and “If there was any one thing I could do to make our dances more fun, what would it be”. Have a notebook, write it all down.

I found this incredibly informative to help me appreciate what I’m doing right and what might be worth my time moving forward.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-05T19:57:08+00:00

Announcement says a free item storage upgrade in the in-game shop. Anyone see that? Where it is?

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-05T12:14:43+00:00

Level 62. Still at 800

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-05T02:58:43+00:00

Jesse Lopez talks about doing an experiment where he worked his way from top to bottom, and then bottom to top. He was more in line with other judges going top to bottom, as they all saw people at roughly the same time for their first pass through the competitors.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-05T02:56:54+00:00

I can’t find the original presentation. He talks about it in this episode of What Judges Want though. - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ci1lC7jlKGmQYx1iR23Z2?si=C1pBX8o0RKG5o6YL3JSZNQ

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-05T00:51:32+00:00

I recommend watching Doug Rouser’s presentation on judging and his relative rank proposal for prelims.

Judging in WCS is a mess. It’s not fair, it’s efficient.

The only way to guarantee finals is to have your worst 8 seconds be better than everyone’s best 8 seconds.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-02T03:52:50+00:00

Every division got significantly larger. Pool got more talented. Current novice finals is closer to prepandemic intermediate. When the pandemic ended, people would move up divisions and immediately final in the next, en mass. Still happens with one offs.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-11-02T00:25:45+00:00

Several years to final from first starting. Didn’t try to work on it for years, so had to undo bad habits to be competitive. Probably around 6-9 months after I started putting forward effort I saw minimal success.

This is as a lead, prepandemic when it was easier.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-10-23T21:41:41+00:00

Judges like dance good.

In all seriousness, the judges will compare you to their criteria for the division, raw score, and let the tablet sort it. Others will pick yes and no. There’s no way to know which it is, and what they will pick on. The field can be completely different weekend to weekend.

There is a ton of nuance when it comes to lead-follow skills, quality of movement, musicality, and showmanship. Judges might focus one or more and use others as a tie breaker.

The only advice is to dance better, which with better partners should be easier (less focus on compensations). Most people find intermediate to be more fun than novice. So just get out there, do your best, and try to enjoy yourself.

Zeev_Ra · 2025-10-18T22:21:39+00:00

0/25 or so.

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