While doing vault keys the last couple of weeks I’ve been noticing quite a lot of ~3k IO players that are quite honestly extremely low skilled. I’m talking about 665-670 ilvl dps that are doing 1.5-2m overall, barely interrupting, and never using defensives. I don’t know if it’s because of resilient keys or the mount reward…or maybe people are buying their IO, but there seems to be mega IO inflation this season. Of course a little bit was to be expected, but it seems absolutely massive.
As ever, the recommendation to find a fixed group of players to play with is ever-present. The group finder is IMO the last resort when doing group content, and that only becomes more true as the content gets more difficult. Making a few social connections can go a long way towards improving consistency with group performance. 
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When you see a player like that you can be fairly confident they bought the score. Very rarely they got carried by friends/guildies.
Key selling is cheaper and easier than ever with resilient keys.
What did you expect with a season as easy as this one?
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Over a season you’ll eventually see some bad players (not excluding myself here) float upwards. When the season is easier they’ll go higher.
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Yeah if you’re trying to go places in M+ or Raiding, you’d need to get a guild. It’s the only way. I feel for the PVE side. It sounds like a real nightmare.
If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go with friends.
The reward cutoff key level is usually a bit of a mess. gotta go above the level of rewards to consistently get good people
I prefer regulars to hardcores, I like the 3k range because they are people who got their goal and don’t care and are more chill usually, whatever that range is where the hot keys are, I will be playing there
M+10 they get all weird when you flirt with the tank because they are raiders but M+13 they are more used to it by then, the hardcores are all pushing 17s now and that is fine with me!
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OP doesn’t know what KSH is and thinks it is the exact same as KSM.
That’s what I meant, you couldn’t figure that out?
Oh cool means i can get 3k io lol
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100%. Even more so when hero+myth track extends ilvl and everyone has access to heroic raid trinkets.
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If there’s cosmetics anywhere in the game, players that aren’t really about the content itself, will still drag themselves through it for the rewards.
I see it all the time in PvP- people want their 1800 elite set colors, but they don’t know the basics of PvP.
People that don’t know what “spin” means, and folks that’ll fight on roads instead of objectives.
But they’ll still do it, in hopes of failing upwards to get their reward.
It’s no different in PvE.
Lots of people paid for those fire owl mounts back in DF, through carries.
It just goes to show, you can’t really judge someone by what they’re wearing or the mount they are riding lol.
Tons of people just buy this stuff nowadays.
Scores are also very inflated as well, might be a result of this, idk.
PvP has paid carries as well, through win-trading, they just know the (frankly outdated) system too well and how to game it.
I always thought that the number of people buying their rating was pretty low…or at least they weren’t bad enough that it never really crossed my mind that they were boosted, but lately I’ve been seeing a lot of people where them being boosted is the only thing that makes sense to me…and if they didn’t get boosted then I’m just perplexed.
No. It is not what you meant because you clearly did not say it or anything close to it.
KSM still gives mount. You don’t need KSL or KSH to get that. KSL is not comparable to KSM. And KSM never sits at 3k which is what you also said. So no, you have no idea what you are talking about. And it is 3k for S1 is giving a KSL. Almost no one ever gets a 3k+ in S1 of keys so that is why it is KSL. KSH is awarded for a lower score than that by far for S1. KSL, KSH, KSM, KSC, KSE.
The services channel makes me think otherwise.
If you just Google “WoW Boost”, you’d see how prevalent it really is.
Anything can be bought lol, it’s kinda depressing.
You know people make typos and make mistakes all the time right? It’s about the idea and everyone but you seem to understand that what I meant was the 3K achievement now is worth whatever the achievement right before it was.
Which is not a KSM thing and only ever is needed for a KSH towards the end of the expac. You need lower than 3k up until final season of it. Even saying KSL is the new KSH would be wrong as a KSH this early into the epxac is usually lower than 3k. Not a typo. You are just wrong. Even if title was meant to say KSL is the new KSH even that would be wrong. You don’t need a 3k to get KSH in S1 of keys anyways. And… KSL =/= KSH or KSM. Change title name and you’d still be incorrect.
I think you’re completely missing the whole point which is that 3k IO in the past usually meant a certain skill floor and that has been shattered…and while I made a mistake in the title that I used, the point remains identical. It also seems like you don’t understand the rewards either which might be contributing to your confusion. You say…
You do realize that you get another mount at 3k IO right?
It’s very depressing. 
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