Alt characters are ruining shuffle’s end of season competitive integrity

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So many alt characters eat up spots for the rank 1 shuffle title (top 10). On rsham alone there are 3-4 alts in the top 10, and about 1/3 of the top 20.

As far as I know, these alts still take up slots for the top 10 title at the end of the season, making it extremely discouraging to push for it (especially on low represented specs where one or two players basically run the entire top 10).

If this isn’t how it is anymore in terms of title distribution I’d love to know, but the stats on drustvar make it seem like this is still the case.

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Alts don’t actually eat up a slot as of the ret rework patch (last season).

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That’s actually great to hear, but it seems like the rating prediction on sites like drustvar haven’t adjusted for that. Right now it still has the cutoff as top 10 including the alt characters, so idk how to know what rating to ease up at

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Alts seem to be taken into account on third party sites. Keep in mind that if people move in or out of cutoff range it won’t be adjusted until the next ladder refresh, etc, etc.

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Any advice for how to figure out a cutoff then? I guess I can use blizzard ladder but if someone’s alt is on a different bnet account isn’t it not considered an alt?

Edit: nvm read your response wrong

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alts are factored into the cutoff already

there’s 8 spots now (80,000 resto shamans on ladder)
and 2 alts (dyllbar and seafood)

the 2 alts don’t actually eat a spot and if they were deleted there would just be 8 spots
not room for 2 more players

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I do be seeing a lot of fresh accounts at the 2100-2200 mmr range though.

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I guess people don’t watch twitch. MOST, and I do mean MOST of the top players are doing some form of “All specs to 2400” challenge. Literally these people (like top 10 top 20 players IN THE WORLD of both regions… are leveling/gearing and ranking EVERY spec in the game to 2400… for F@$9ing content.

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so what?

how does this hurt you? most of them have never played half the specs so if you’re losing to them on your main at the bridge to 2400 do you really deserve 2400?

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Matchmaking mostly takes care of this; if they’re playing far below their skill level on the spec then they’ll win most games and shoot up, and if they aren’t then they’re just another player. Maybe with better fundamentals, but offset by their unfamiliarity with the spec (and/or undergeared).