Last edited by keldarepewpew; 2020-08-04 at 04:31 PM.
Here's what would happen to m15 pug reqs without raider.io:
link keystone master season four
be a dh or a rogue, or a hunter
ilvl 480 or higher only
At least with RIO you can start from scratch, slowly work your way up, and reach the score pug leaders require, if you're actually capable of playing at that level. Without io score, it would either be completely impossible as early as 3rd week of the patch, or almost impossible, because you would only be left with people who don't have any reqs at all for their groups, and that's incredibly rare.
Gearscore is what got me to give up raiding in WotLK. Absolutely in agreement, but how do we stop the community poisoning itself with this stuff? They'll just make another addon. Many people would rather "be efficient" than play a video game. It's why we see, with infinitely more ability to be efficient with literal foresight, what's happening in Classic.
Ingame statistics for MYTHIC DUNGEON X with HIGHEST KEY and HIGHEST AMOUNT OF KEYS would been the best replacement for raider.io.
I dont care about pusher from easies week, nor do I want seasonal players to waste 60 minutes of my evening for just wanting to farm echoes.
Raider.io is not perfect either way, it is tailored for pushing and not for farming, so its just a mediocre tool for me, I would like a direct ingame statistic as tooltip info. I join/invite rather a dungeon farmer with 200 keys done in 15+ as a pusher with 10 keys done in the easiest week of the year. Later does not know at all most affixes, not used to PUG routes and is clearly just as bad a new player - most likely toxic as well since R.IO means more than actual ingame experience.
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You have a loose definition of "every" if you haven't even completed two dungeons in the 8 months since 8.3 launched. You've also completed a total of 5 dungeons in the last month. It looks like you do raid which leads me to believe you're mostly doing M+ for the weekly chest anyway. If people are declining you for 15s, it's either because you're applying to one of the two dungeons you have yet to complete on 15 or you're trying to join a group with people who have unrealistic expectations. Seeing as you don't seem to even do very many dungeons in the first place, I fail to see why this bothers you. There's a million reasons people might decline you from the group and if anything it has more to do with you being a Warlock than anything else.
Gearscore? Wrath? Where was I during all this? In Wrath, they used to just ask me to link the achievement. My favorite was Onyxia and I would link the classic Onyxia, got the invite every time.
It anoys me cause the people sitting there have retarded exceptations i only raid/dungeon casually and want to get my 15 which im more then qualified for, done for the week so i can do arenas. But i get declined by people who hope the MDI team is gonna sign up for their 15.
Lol! That's some pure, grade-A, bullshit right there, if I've ever heard it.
If your "community" relies so heavily on a 3rd-party addon to a game, to even be a "community".. Then you don't have a "community" at all. The GAME, is just fine, MILLIONS of us have never needed "w/e addon" and will never.
An "addon" doesn't = the fuckin game.
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I've found a number of twitch streamers that I would have never watched if not for R.IO. I imagine many other players are the same way. If you don't think that's fostering a community, I don't know what to tell you. Both Dratnos and Tettles, both MDI hosts, also frequently submit articles and just recently casted 10+ hours a day for top M+ teams during the last push week. So yeah, it's not just the add-on at this point. If anything, it's more bullshit to think that simply because a website isn't "officially" sanctioned by Blizzard that it's somehow fostering bad player behavior.
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It just sounds like you're butthurt about getting declined and are blaming an add-on for behavior that would exist even if the add-on didn't exist.
The r.io addon shows up as additional information on the tooltip or in dungeon browser. If you do the privacy settings these additional info will simple not be shown, your char will look like it never did any m+. Players going to your character page at r.io will see a missing page and can conclude that you have the settings.
Your best runs will still show up on your official armory character page, can't deactivate there.
I suggest you try the addon for yourself to look which information it provides about you and other players. Then make an informed decision to turn your info off or not.
Im butthurt that people always think so narrowminded that they believe that they need mdi players to finish a 15 or that they need to stack whatever classes they saw in the mdi. Things like groupfinder and rio facilitate this behaviour. Im not saying its the cause, bit it does make it easier to do the barrier for looking at a number or checking achievements is not the same.