Mythic Plus rating system transparency - addon developers

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  • copied this post from tech support to API discussion per MVP suggestion
  • copied this post from API discussion to UI and Macro per MVP suggestion

Greetings!

I wasn’t sure which category to put this under, so I am placing it here. If there is a better location for it, please relocate it or let me know!

I am a co-developer of the Key Master (Key Master on Curseforge) addon which focuses on an on-demand in-depth overview of a players mythic plus season progress, ratings gain calculations, and group run key selection optimizations. It currently supports over nine different languages and is actively used (as of 9/11/24) by a guesstimated eleven thousand WOW players with over one hundred thousand downloads.

Since the launch of our addon at the beginning of the year (2024), one of the most overly laborious and frustrating guessing-game tasks has been chasing the mythic plus ratings algorithm prior to the official release of an upcoming season; and even days (if not weeks) into the live season to get it right.

I have previously reached out to Blizzard’s support staff to get in-touch with someone in-the-know to provide specifics ensuring that our built-in ratings algorithm is accurately representative of what World of Warcraft uses to make these calculations on the back end, to no avail. The reasoning I tried to reach out is because not only does this algorithm get changed/tweaked seemingly every season, but I can also not find anywhere that officially states or tracks these pre-season specific algorithm changes.

I have also reached out to other third-party web sites that showcase mythic plus ratings of which I was informed that they do not have pre-access to these changes either; everyone seems to have to guess their way to accuracy.

I humbly request that either the mythic plus rating system algorithm (both pre and post season launch) either gets its own project page where we can stay on top of accurately supporting changes or those that develop mythic plus support tools get some sort of access to someone within the development/support team to assist. This would be a massive help to ensuring users get the best experience with the most up-to-date information the moment it hits live and save countless hours of guessing to success.

Thank you!
Strylor

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the addon forum is located here UI and Macro - World of Warcraft Forums i think not sure this is the forum for web api not in game api

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Thanks, I had an MVP over in the support forums direct me to this one.

Having had a quick glance at the forum you suggested, it doesn’t look appropriate either as this request directly address WoW engine mythic plus rating calculation transparency. I am however happy to copy it over there so that it finds somewhere that can be noticed by the appropriate Blizzard staff.

Strangely enough, this seems to be quite an elusive topic with no appropriate place to have a discussion about it.

Any further suggestions are appreciated!

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unfortunately bad advise you should look at the game lua code thats about the only advise i can give you the api has no exposed rating calc info in it

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Yes, which is precisely why I made this post. I feel we are “past due” for some exposure on that under-the-hood calculation.

Thanks!

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