Is Blizzard promoting pay-to-win

Neither were visions. Mythic dungeons aren’t that hard either really. People buy for a guarantee regardless of difficulty.

I’m not fully convinced that it was just the deaths. I was surprised that I got 0 stars though. There is probably a point loss in the background for each death. I’m not sure how much that is though. I managed to 5 star a run while dying twice (beat par by 1 minute each floor and 100% cleared). The weird part was the first death didn’t display on the counter when I went up a floor, but the second death did.

Sad part is, there’s nothing to miss out on. lol

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Shhhh, they don’t know that!

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People have been spamming adds for Torghast carries since the expac came out tbh.

this was on the subject of PvP but it applies

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No it’s not a M+ (you get a choice to focus on a speed-run or bonus objectives, or a blend) and if people won’t bother to figure out how to acquire bonus points and completely ignore the time part of the score, then that’s on them, not Blizzard. Lazy people with money to burn will always appeal to paid carriers and it happens as long as Blizzard allows it, but that’s not the same as Blizzard promoting pay-to-win. P2W is more like when they put 259 item-level gear in the cash shop.

I will say it’s on Blizzard for not explaining the bonus objectives in-game, a simple poster in the Torghast lobby would’ve gone a long way, but you have to go to Wowhead to figure it out. Shame on Blizzard for that oversight.

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Carries will actually be a detriment to the score in their runs.

not remotely. but people were already buying/selling torghast runs, so i’m sure that will continue.

No you can’t.

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Actually depends on your score . 5 stars not so sure about but 4 definitely

We get it, you’re a shill…

I’m pretty sure you can. Look at Brewa’s score HERE

Take off the +2 he got for almost completey ingoring the timer and he’s got 176 points. You need another 24 points to get a 200/5-star run. You can get another 30 points as follows:
+15 Highlander - No Duplicate Anima Powers
+10 Trapmaster - No Trap Damage Taken
+5 Robber - Throw a Ravenous Cell at a Broker and Loot the Resultant Orb

Doing those with a zero time for score is completely possible.

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And you are the most pleasant person I have ever encountered.

Nice to meet you. I am sorry that it offends you that I am having fun. I will try to refrain.

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There is nothing in Warcraft right now that is ‘pay to win’ you can’t ‘win’ in this game, not really. Please go and play a game with actual pay to win mechanics, then come back. Please educate yourself on what pay to win actually is.

It’s really tiring trying to explain what pay to win is to people who have no bloody idea.

Brewa had 4 stars, not 5.
For 5 you need perfect time and 100% competion.

Yeah there is, you can buy tokens, sell for gold and buy boosts. Doesn’t bother me, but seeing someone say pay to win doesn’t exist is just wrong. If you can buy currency in the game and buy progress/rewards through that, that’s pay to win (branch of skipping big portion of gameplay/grind to get to reward faster through paying with real money).

As long as the option to learn to play the game well enough to achieve these things on your own is free, where’s the issue?

None of that is some kind of insane unachievable goal either. Kinda why sales are so rampant in the first place. Anyone ok at the game can do them.

If it was some kind of premium service you wouldn’t see it advertised everywhere.

No, because pay to win would be paying Bliz directly for gear that is better than you can get doing in-game content.

Yes they are and they have been for a while now…

Yes you can, if you bothered to look at Wowhead and count you would know that.