First M+ Invitational Race Thread

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UPDATE:

Finally the tournament starts tomorrow with our friends in China. We will see up to 40 m+ runs per day during the regionals! Here is the schedule for the MDI Event:

PDT: Pacific Daylight Time
EDT: Eastern Daylight Time
CEST: Central European Summer Time
CST: China Standard Time
AEST: Australian Eastern Standard Time

MDI Regionals Day 1: China

PDT: Sept 15, 09:00 pm
EDT: Sept 16, 12:00 am
CEST: Sept 16, 06:00 am
CST: Sept 16, 12:00 pm
AEST: Sept 16, 02:00 pm
Estimated duration: 8 hours


MDI Regionals Day 2: APAC

PDT: Sept 16, 09:00 pm
EDT: Sept 17, 12:00 am
CEST: Sept 17, 06:00 am
CST: Sept 17, 12:00 pm
AEST: Sept 17, 02:00 pm
Estimated duration: 8 hours


MDI Regionals Day 3: EU

PDT: Sept 23, 05:00 am
EDT: Sept 23, 18:00 am
CEST: Sept 23, 02:00 pm
CST: Sept 23, 08:00 pm
AEST: Sept 23, 10:00 pm
Estimated duration: 8 hours


MDI Regionals Day 4: NA

PDT: Sept 24, 09:00 am
EDT: Sept 24, 12:00 pm
CEST: Sept 24, 06:00 pm
CST: Sept 25, 12:00 am
AEST: Sept 25, 02:00 am
Estimated duration: 8 hours


MDI Globals

PDT: Sept 30, 09:00 am
EDT: Sept 30, 12:00 pm
CEST: Sept 30, 06:00 pm
CST: Oct 1, 12:00 am
AEST: Oct 1, 03:00 am
Estimated duration: 5 hours 30 minutes


MDI Semi and Final

PDT: Oct 1, 09:00 am
EDT: Oct 1, 12:00 pm
CEST: Oct 1, 06:00 pm
CST: Oct 2, 12:00 am
AEST: Oct 2, 03:00 am
Estimated duration: 5 hours 30 minutes

Stream available on Blizzards official Twitch acc. Streams from players are not allowed.

Rules:

- Best of 3 (single elimination = looser is kicked out of the tournament)
- Keystone difficulty +17
- Free class/race choice
- Group setup can be changed between the runs

- Dungeon aura sets all items to 935 item level (incl legendaries), except weapon which is bolstered to 950 item level
- Relic traits are deactivated
- Trait level 52
- Nearly all gear pieces are available
- Some items have tertiary stats and sockets
- All enchantments and consumables are available
- Professions are not available

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The M+ Race is starting today. I hope you guys are enjoying this thread like all the other progression/race threads out there. Please share your opinions, your insights and your secrets detected by watching streams or by participating on that tournament by yourself. QQing, trolling, baiting and a lot of drama is always appreciated.

I wish you all the best of luck and a lot of fun by participating in the tournament. May the best and the most tricky group win! Don't forget, cheating is allowed as long as you aren't get caught!

If you missed the TESPA Dungeon Race in DEC 2k16 (which can be taken as a pre/test run of the global Invitational), just take a look how the cut-offs will look like (and get insight how bad US players are )

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/105304999

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I'm still unsure how this will work. From what I understand, the "Proving Grounds" stage we're in from today for 2 weeks seems very very intransparent: How would you even know which team has done which dungeons? When it goes to the Tournament Realm after these 2 weeks, then it might be slightly better, but even then, you would have to watch the streams to know how it went.

On the progression Raiding, at least you have wowprogress or raider.io to track the progress of all participating groups, but here, it's just weird.

[Deleted]

I'm still unsure how this will work. From what I understand, the "Proving Grounds" stage we're in from today for 2 weeks seems very very intransparent: How would you even know which team has done which dungeons? When it goes to the Tournament Realm after these 2 weeks, then it might be slightly better, but even then, you would have to watch the streams to know how it went.

On the progression Raiding, at least you have wowprogress or raider.io to track the progress of all participating groups, but here, it's just weird.

You can check the m+ leader board on wow progress (not a classement of the teams but of the best dungeon runs)

[f4ncybear]

I'm still unsure how this will work. From what I understand, the "Proving Grounds" stage we're in from today for 2 weeks seems very very intransparent: How would you even know which team has done which dungeons? When it goes to the Tournament Realm after these 2 weeks, then it might be slightly better, but even then, you would have to watch the streams to know how it went.

On the progression Raiding, at least you have wowprogress or raider.io to track the progress of all participating groups, but here, it's just weird.

There was a blue post with a rulebook yesterday.
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/1...unds-are-here/

Their goal is to complete the highest keys in time, to track progress just look for highest completed keys during the week on raider.io/wowprogress.

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Anyone knows which high profile grps gonna stream and where?

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Anyone knows which high profile grps gonna stream and where?

I suspect you might find a lot of the most competitive teams won't stream, as completing keys at the very highest levels may require the development of strategies that those using them probably don't want to share. It is a competition after-all.

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so the affixes in the upcoming 2 weeks are:

first week: teeming + quaking + foritified
second week: raging + necrotic + tyrannical

Imo the second week is quite the worst to push keys in the 20's, the first week offers the best affixes for 23/24 pushes.

[Lord Pebbleton]

I didn't get one thing: are they competing for highest key completion within time, or fastest times?
Or both? As in, If someone manages to run a +23 with 1 minute to spare, the competition must complete another 23 with more than one minute to spare?

[Fleckens]

I didn't get one thing: are they competing for highest key completion within time, or fastest times?
Or both? As in, If someone manages to run a +23 with 1 minute to spare, the competition must complete another 23 with more than one minute to spare?

I assume that's how it's going to work yeah.

[Rioo]

I didn't get one thing: are they competing for highest key completion within time, or fastest times?
Or both? As in, If someone manages to run a +23 with 1 minute to spare, the competition must complete another 23 with more than one minute to spare?

I imagine extra time is only used to decide ties.

[Lord Pebbleton]

I imagine extra time is only used to decide ties.

So what would be better, me completing a +15 with more than half the timer left, or another guy completing a +17 with less than half the time?

[Greevir]

I thought race threads weren't allowed...

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So what would be better, me completing a +15 with more than half the timer left, or another guy completing a +17 with less than half the time?

a +17 in 20min0sec is better than a +17 in 20min1sec.

[Mamut]

a +17 in 20min0sec is better than a +17 in 20min1sec.

And what this have to do with the quoted question?

[Mistaziggla]

So what would be better, me completing a +15 with more than half the timer left, or another guy completing a +17 with less than half the time?

I'm pretty sure that if you complete a 17 in time it will always be better than a 15, no matter how much time is left.

[Temp name]

So what would be better, me completing a +15 with more than half the timer left, or another guy completing a +17 with less than half the time?

The guy doing a 17. The main point is to complete the highest dungeon possible, then if there's a tie, you look at completion times

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And what this have to do with the quoted question?

Everything?

[Mamut]

The guy doing a 17. The main point is to complete the highest dungeon possible, then if there's a tie, you look at completion times

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Everything?

Like what? Read the question and whats he replied.

[dreamdaddy]

What specs would you guys be surprised to see played in the M+ cup? I don't think we'll see any Frost DKs or Surv Hunters, and I wouldn't be surprised to not see any Prot Pals make it in.

[dirtybrew]

Any reason why Prot Paladins are considered bad now? They were considered one of the strongest most versatile tanks in M+ not too long ago.

[Onikaroshi]

Any reason why Prot Paladins are considered bad now? They were considered one of the strongest most versatile tanks in M+ not too long ago.

Think a lot of it boils down to low damage when it comes to pally tanks, they're pretty low in M+