ToS Progression, Withered J'im, Pet Battle Bonus Event, Fireworks, Tweets, DLC #588

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Top Necromancer Builds From Week 1

Earn Double Gold from Quests Starting July 5 During the Midsummer Festival Event

Tomb of Sargeras Progression
Method has downed Fallen Avatar after 453 attempts to reach 8/9 in Mythic Tomb of Sargeras. Method is also doing coverage of the race!

World Boss - Withered J'im
DEADLY: Withered J'im is up again this week, rewarding players with Artifact Power and a chance at item level 860 loot.

Weekly Bonus Event - Pet Battles

An extra weekly quest and rewards are here— the Pet Battles bonus event is underway!

This Week
All week, get out there and fight with your mighty minions. When the time comes to take on other players, open your Pet Journal and hit the “Find Battle” button to be matched up with an opponent whose team is competitive with yours.

Look for the following all week long:

• Archmage Timear near Violet Hold in Dalaran has a quest for you.
  
  • Quest requirement: Win 5 pet battles versus other players with a team of three level-25 pets.
    
  • Reward: One Ultimate Battle-Training Stone.
    
• Passive bonus: All Pet Battle experience gains are increased by +200%.

One Night Only! See the Fireworks Spectacular July 4

Midsummer Fire Festival may be ending, but it won’t be without a brilliant light show during the Fireworks Spectacular!

Make your way to any capital city, or venture out to Booty Bay, to celebrate the finale for this fiery festival with an hourly firework extravaganza.

We hope to see you there!

Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.

I’ve noticed in a lot of competitive games; Mobas, shooters, sometimes MMORPGS, that people talk a lot about this hidden stat called MMR a lot. Often they go to external websites to see what it is or how to manipulate it or whatnot. My question is that why is the MMR stat not visible within the game, anywhere? For example, in hots last season I made gold 3. Yet I was being placed with Plats and silvers sometimes and asked “What, is my MMR too high/low? How do i find out what it is?
MMR (matchmaking rating) is a tool that developers use to try and give you a good experience by finding players of similar skill for your team and the other team. If skills on your team are radically different, then you can’t do things like coordinate with your team for awesome combos. If skills between your team and the other team are radically different, it tends to mean you win or lose games not because you made good decisions, but because the teams were just super lopsided.

It may sound weird, but MMR isn’t really something you are supposed to get better at. I know, heresy, right? Realistically, players do tend to get better, because playing more games does tend to make you better at something. But there is probably a cap. While it is aspirational to think that if you just keep playing League games that you could one day go pro, but for the vast majority of players that’s just not going to happen.

Exposing MMR sets the expectation with players that it’s a bar that they are supposed to fill up, like an experience bar, high score, or some other form of progression. Even worse, it can lead players to make decisions to try to get their MMR to change, not decisions that help to win the game. Players, being players, try to game their MMR. And if the matchmaking system is doing its job, everyone in your game should be close to the same MMR anyway. Just remember that MMR isn’t deterministic. You shouldn’t assume you’re going to beat someone with a lower MMR just because their rating is lower than yours, and it doesn’t mean matchmaking is “broken” when you are occasionally matched with someone with a different MMR, and it doesn’t mean MMR is broken if you can’t beat someone with a lower MMR than you. For all of these reasons, it’s better just to keep it hidden and not a big topic of conversation.

TLDR, MMR is not something players are supposed to focus on - it’s a developer tool, not a player metric. Think of MMR as something like frame rate, or IP address - something mostly behind the scenes.

Instead, focus on your rank. If you are Gold 3, that’s the measurement of your progression. If you win more games than you lose, maybe you can get to Platinum. (Source)

Dark Legacy Comics #588
DLC #588 has been released.

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pet battles and withered jim. sigh.

[burkhartt]

yay a shot at arcanocrystal. which doesnt exist...

[Babblet]

Another bonus roll and no crystal.

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Think of MMR as something like frame rate, or IP address - something mostly behind the scenes.

Ghostcrawler, please turn in your glorious PC master race card.

[Corruptus]

"We are looking into world boss rotation, meanwhile enjoy the same boss two weeks in the row!"

[Tisane]

453 attempts o_O is there any boss fight in history which took more attempts than that? (During a world first race ofc)

[gdr441]

wtf is an arcano crystal? been killing that pos world boss since legion came out and bonus rolled NOTHING.....

[Fritters154]

453 attempts o_O is there any boss fight in history which took more attempts than that? (During a world first race ofc)

Pretty sure M'uru and H Rag were both around 500+ attempts, but this one is definitely up there.

Not sure how much time was wasted on C'thun when it was bugged and actually impossible to kill.

[sirethas]

453 attempts o_O is there any boss fight in history which took more attempts than that? (During a world first race ofc)

I think heroic Ragnaros in Firelands did take more attempts for world first and mythic archimonde was close to this number

[Doomchicken]

Betting KJ dies in under 100. Not that it matters (and i'm probably going to be wrong), but it would be p funny :P

[Senea]

453 attempts o_O is there any boss fight in history which took more attempts than that? (During a world first race ofc)

It took Paragon over 500 attempts to down Ragnaros in Firelands

[Azarak]

Regardless 453 attempts is a hell of a lot and its not even KJ.

[Phagelives]

453 attempts o_O is there any boss fight in history which took more attempts than that? (During a world first race ofc)

heroic Ra-Den at 503 attemps during MoP

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heroic Ra-Den at 503 attemps during MoP

Must've been hard, because Raden had limited pulls just like early LK - 30 pulls / week.

[Will]

Why are Ghostcrawler tweets making it to the front page even when they're not WoW related?

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heroic Ra-Den at 503 attemps during MoP

Yeah nah, that number is made up. It was killed 16 days after Lei shen 25 HC, so more like 60-90 attempts.

[aisatsana]

Why are Ghostcrawler tweets making it to the front page even when they're not WoW related?

yeah, wondering the same thing

[Kynario]

Why are Ghostcrawler tweets making it to the front page even when they're not WoW related?

Because he's one of the biggest elites of the gaming industry, and some us are interested by his opinions? Also, MMO-Champion isn't strictly a WoW site. WoW is the current "champion of MMO's" but that can change one day. Moreover, he often talks about gaming systems and development which is still relevant to WoW.

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Pretty sure M'uru and H Rag were both around 500+ attempts, but this one is definitely up there.

Not sure how much time was wasted on C'thun when it was bugged and actually impossible to kill.

Muru was killed within 4 days from opening second sunwell gate, by SK gaming. I dont think that was 500+ attemps, but it could be, cant find info on that.

Cthun stayed alive for 86 days from twin emperors death, Ouro 87 from twins death. (Cthun died 1 day after patch then Ouro so that makes Ouro harder than Cthun)

Original Ragnaros from Molten Core stayed alive only 74 days from majordomo's death but overall 154 days from molten core opening which is longest lasting raid instance ever.

Kaelthas over month to kill and Alar even more, Keal was killed after release of Black Temple.