Aye. Raider(dot)io went live in 2017. This game went live in 2004. Thirteen years without raider(dot)io seemed to work out just fine.
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Have you tried to get invited to any M+'s above 20? The competition for keys above 20 for DPS is insane, impossible to get invited to them without 2600+ IO and several timed 20’s under your belt.
It’s pretty amazing the difference of trying to get invited to a 19 as compared to a 20 when applying to pugs. I’ve done about 40x SMBG keys at 19 (Mainly to reroll my 19s) but still cannot get invited to a 20 SMBG because 50x people apply to those keys within 1 minute of them being listed, then the person listing the key just invites the 4x people who are 2800-3100 IO so its impossible to compete.
Yes, we hear that. Even Blizzard hears that. Everyone dependent on 3rd-party sites and the API will need to wait for the API to be fixed.
Everyone has such-and-such and this-and-that reasons for needing the API fixed right now, this minute. Demonstrating how put out one has been due to a malfunctioning API won’t get it fixed any faster.
As a tool used by a small subset of players, it will be fixed when it’s appropriate to do so. When more people are affected by the buggy API than are affected by, say, Trading Post issues or login issues, then it’ll get top priority.
Might sound silly, but one player’s desire for the Trading Post to work properly is equal in all regards to another player’s desire for the API to work properly.
Anyway, the Trading Post wave seems to be on the decline, the API wave seems to be gaining momentum, so the fixes probably aren’t that far off.
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Exactly my point Darrwinism, I’m half 20’s half 19’s.
Doesn’t your key upgrade if you do a timed 19? Why are you looking for a 20+ when you could post one yourself?
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I think this is your problem friend, you keep saying x is not broken in game etc. but you fail to see the point that the topic of Blizzards API is a part of their service. Not once have I claimed I couldn’t play the game.
Both things, Trading Post and Blizzards own armory site is the same thing - services provided by the manufacturer of the game. You can continue to be blind to that fact as much as you want but at some point, ask yourself why the player base relies on third part sites? Is it because of the seeds planted during the Elitest Jerks days? Is it community driven? Do you see Official Blizzard announcements pointing to third party sites for support?
Anyway, I’ve wasted too much time here; let’s hope Blizzard can update this forum name to reflect what it is and get their services fixed. Either fix it, own it, or discontinue it. Otherwise, they will continue to have people like you that will try to rationalize why things are the way they are and why we should accept it.
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I feel this. I crossed 2600 in the hopes of getting into more 20s being a fairly easy week only to sit in queue for ages bc Raider(dot)io can’t pull info to reflect my few chested 20s. On top of that I chose to play a ZERO lust/rez class lol….so yeah…fun times.
They can see my score in-game but have no additional info outside of that. You will get overlooked 100% of the time if you don’t have some successful 20s under your belt already and unfortunately that’s where raider(dot)io comes into play. Blizz should include additional info in-game to show many chested keys you have for the lvl that you’re applying for. Take that dependency away from the Armory and Raider(dot)io.
Also….the guild hasn’t even dated. I removed this toon from the guild over a month ago.
A 20 Shadowmoon Burial Ground key is basically gold. As I said in my post I do 19 Shadow Moon Burial Ground to “(Mainly to reroll my 19s)” in hopes that my 19 will then turn into Shadow Moon Burial Ground so I can get a free 21 Key.
Attempting to time any other dungeon in a 19 pug group is a total coin toss and just not worth attempting because…
- I know SMBG is a free (+2 19), which is the easiest way to get a +21 key.
- Excluding SMBG, attempting any dungeon other then court of stars on a +19 (Which I still seem to have around 50% success rate since people mess up the starting trash all the time) is a sure fire shot to deplete your key and get an +18.
This is just what happens when +20’s give a 421 slot in vault and they somehow have 1 dungeon that’s easily 2x easier then the other 7 in the rotation.
Any blizzard response on this topic? All 3 characters are showing from early in the week maybe even before the reset. Going to see if resetting password does anything (suggested at the top)
It’s a known issue. There really isn’t much information beyond that. There is no workaround or way to force it to update beyond logging out and then back in, or to change your password. If neither of those work, then it’s just a matter of waiting until it does kick back in.
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They do. One of the SFAs acknowledged it back several days ago. But there have been dozens of these threads and I’m not going to go dredge it up. It has been acknowledged and they are working on it. This happens now and again. Oftentimes it only gets a hiccup on a character or two, usually, those who have changed their name or server transferred. This time? It’s far beyond that and is affecting a larger number of players.
Have nothing to do with a website bug. It’s not an in-game issue, there isn’t anything the GMs can do anything about it.
The website, when it borks, it usually will not merit a Dev post or anything of the like. While it’s a big huge thing for those who push higher-end content due to people hinging their existence on raider.io and the like, the majority of players aren’t having any issue in the slightest, save for their transmog or achievement things updating.
Hopefully with the reset tomorrow, it will be fixed. There hasn’t been any guarantee that’ll be the case, but often times that reset can do the trick or allow for a fix to be pushed through somehow. We’ll all just have to wait and see.
PS - all the staff you listed and whom you think you’re addressing? You’re not. This forum is one for players to assist other players. It is not a contact point for any staff at all as absolutely NONE of them come here. Our SFAs are the only staff you’ll see posting here, and they do not pass along notes or feedback. The only way to do that is through the appropriate forums.
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You won’t find any argument from forum regulars regarding the name, but Customer Support is commonly mistaken as Customer Service.
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Read the stickies.
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Under normal circumstances, those workarounds do the trick. It doesn’t hurt to try and suggest folks give it a shot rather than do nothing at all. Sometimes it nudges the update. This time, it doesn’t seem to be, but it doesn’t hurt to try.
As I said, there have been so many threads about this that have been moved or buried or mushed together - I have better things to do with my time.
If I were lying? It would be removed or pointed out so that I might educate myself better and to stop spreading falsehoods. The regulars around here hold one another accountable, as well as our SFAs if we misspeak. It was acknowledged somewhere over the past several days. If I find it, I will happily share it. But I’m not wasting any more of my time trying to help folks who want nothing more than to bicker and argue incessantly.
The naming of the forum, it’s a constant point of contention for everyone, I will not argue that. We are a forum for players to assist other players with SFA oversight. They offer advice and information when they can, and they keep us hoodlums in line. But they are the only staff you’ll see on this forum, and their scope is limited. They don’t have a hand in fixing this site.
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We had gearscore addons iirc 
Just had an update on this - there do appear to be some issues that are being looked into. While it’s true there are some workarounds that sometimes help - at the moment, it’s probably the website. Being worked on, but unfortunately, I don’t have any ETAs or more info at the moment.
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Thank you so very, very much!
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We did indeed. I don’t want to put words in anyone’s mouth, so I won’t… but in this thread I’m personally talking addons or ranking systems dependent on the API or a 3rd party site. Gearscore, IIRC, pulled the info from a mouse-over of the player, or at the most, an inspection, and wasn’t dependent on any such thing.
So, yes we did have Gearscore since the earlier days, but that’s not really relevant to what we’re talking about here. The discussion isn’t about player ranking addons, it’s about dependency on the API and/or 3rd party sites.
In my comments, I don’t mean to debate whether or not the game got along fine before any “gear / player score” addons came out (which it did, but that’s another conversation for another time); I mean to state that the game got along fine before people were dependent on the API and 3rd party sites for rankings.
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It was API-based. It pulled from the Armory. You get new gear and without doing anything yourself Gearscore would update. It wasn’t done through someone with an app doing mouse-overs or inspections.
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Really? I remember just mousing over people in game and it coming up with a number based on their ilvl, and whether their gear was gemmed and enchanted. It’d just place a number under their name, like “9373”. Then you’d compare that number to the “recommended” score for content, which was on a small chart in the addon options.
So it’d say, like, for XYZ dungeon you’d want people above an “8500” or something. Arbitrary numbers for the sake of argument.
The addon wasn’t making calls to the armory from within the game, was it? Is that even possible?
Are we talking about the same thing? The Gearscore (later Playerscore) addon I remember didn’t have an associated site. Just numbers generated that went in tooltips.
I mean, if you’re correct, fair enough. But then I withdraw my earlier opinion that this game survived for a very long time without people dependent on API calls and ranking sites. I thought that didn’t come around 'till raider IO. If it came around with Gearscore then it was ten years before that.