Yo HOSS, you started a thread title with " world first backpedaling " and the first thing in the thread is: " i wonder who will do it " and " i guess method "
Bro, you're a gladiator in game, but here on mmo-c.com as a poster bro.. you're not even a challenger
And its not as practically cheating as you want it to be. Its not even close. There are exactly zero rules (implied or otherwise) that say one group can't use a strat that another group used. That comes with the territory of streaming something like the RWF. They made the choice to stream their attempts and kills, which means they made the choice to "risk" another group seeing it and saying "hey! That worked! We should do that."
But based on your judgement of using a strat that someone else came up with and tested, its safe to assume that you dont read any guides or watch any videos before stepping into a raid or 5man, right? Since, as you say, thats practically cheating.
The main problem with this, especially since there is a world wide release at the same time, is that this would just reverse the advantage to EU guilds. For example, the game comes out say on a Wednesday and everyone levels and starts grinding gear from the available sources and then the following Tuesday the raid comes out for NA. Now, because of this agreement, they're just sitting around with their thumb up their ass while EU guilds still have an entire day to finish up whatever content is available. This is specifically talking about content you get loot locked on for a week. While there isn't more sources of gear available for EU guilds for that day they do have an extra day to get things done. This may seem like small advantage but when the current practice is to gear up multiple characters then this extra day is pretty big.
Yup, and the people doing the race aren't all that worried about it either.
https://twitter.com/echoguild/status...67326380060673
Fairly obvious the people that seem to worry about it the most aren't actually participants. Just people looking for a reason to be bitter and spiteful on the internet to other people.
It's true that there are more factors to consider here, to make it "truly fair". But it would still be a better basis to count from the raid opening. It wouldn't completely solve the problem due to other aspects also influencing the result, I agree, but it would still be better than doing nothing about it.
The issue with guilds streaming their progress is a risk they can theoretically avoid, but they don't because it gets them a lot of viewers, subs, reach and so on. They know fully well that they have a disadvantage in the race when they stream their progress and strategies, and technically they don't have to, but they do because it's more important to them that they get more financial support from their streaming.
The NA guilds waste a lot of time beta testing broken boss mechanics that EU then doesn't have to deal with (stalling at bosses with broken or overtuned mechanics), so under that metric, the guilds that start first are actually at a disadvantage. There's no perfect metric. As all the top guilds say: world first is world first.
I'm from the EU and the amount of hurt the EU region has over this is pretty hilarious.
Limit had to face sludgefist being bugged, it was so bugged they went for split clears instead.
If that boss hadn't been bugged, they probably would have an advantage greater than 24 hours on Echo.
Echo played poorly (for their own standards and they very well know that), there's no excuse for that.
Time to face reality or you're gonna be even more triggered when they lose again next race because global lockouts are not happening.