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.
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.
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.
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).