On a daily basis I run into people who participate in keys and have no idea how to play their class properly. For example, this blood death knight queues up for our 9 Junkyard run. His gear looks decent enough so why not. Half way through I realize this death knight isn’t using any of his mitigation. How can this be? This is so wrong. Players should not be able to get this far into the game and participate in certain levels of content when they have zero idea what’s going on.
Here’s a suggestion. I believe that Blizzard can implement walls to content. In order to do a 9 Junkyard you have to complete an 8 Junkyard. Perhaps not that strict of a wall but you get the point. Maybe he has to do at least a 6 in order to be able to queue up for a 9, complete a 10 in order to do a 12, etc.
This is an actual problem and implementing a system like this would ensure that players know what is going on and thus make a more enjoyable gaming experience for EVERYONE.
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Some of that is because so many people buy their way through but a lot of it was also because of corruption, essences, and azerite giving a lot of players with little experience massive power boosts.
What are these keys you are speaking of?
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Kids, don’t do high keys if you don’t understand how to play your class
That is a good healer if the Blood DK lived more than a minute.
I dunno if it would work really.
Say that dumb DK gets carried through a M6 by a couple other good players? Then you’re still left with the same problem. And he may not even realize he’s junk at his class if he often gets carried by better players without even knowing it. And when he does wipe? chances are he blames the healer. -shrug-
I think the Mage Tower was actually a really awesome solution to things like this. Create a class/spec test, something actually challenging, and give it cool cosmetic rewards. encourage people to fling themselves at the challenge and hopefully get better, without actually gating them from content based on skill.
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Wouldn’t your proposed system just kind of punish all the people who know how to play their class well enough to jump straight in, without actually solving anything because players can just be carried through low keys first?
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Most “bad” players are just on autopilot.
This game doesn’t exactly encourage you to do otherwise for like 90% of it.
There’s no punishment involved, only proper progression. And the restrictions don’t have to be crazy. Perhaps 2 or 3 levels in between.
There are all kinds of metrics you could use to determine whether a player routinely plays their class effectively. I bet Blizzard already collects that sort of data and could easily use that data to “rank” each individual toon relative to their peers.
We can measure things like:
- Buff and cooldown uptimes
- Utilization of core abilities
- Healing received as % of overall party/raid
- Use of taunts
- % of “first hits” on trash and bosses
- Downtime between pulls
Of course, none of this prevents someone from just letting a friend/relative play on their account who may or may not know what they’re doing. You never really know who you’re dealing with online.
But it would be 1) interesting and 2) useful to find ways to measure the overall performance of each role and uses that as part of a strategy to help players make decisions about who they want to run with.
Just spitballing, but I’d certainly like my idea over Raider IO.
I lost my keychain so I really don’t know. I just wonder why we need 8 or 9 of them. Thought 1 would be enough
So if we bring up an alt and we know we’re perfectly capable of hopping into a 7/9/whatever, we have to wait, and do 1 then 3 then 6 first? Again, a restriction that interferes with people who are capable and yet does not actually weed out the incapable.
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The simple solution to this is - play with your guildies
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How was his IO and was it as a tank, or mostly dps for him higher keys?
A native PVE rating would be great. If only because I wouldn’t have to update an add-on every day
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luck of the pug draw mate. sometimes you just gotta suck it up and blame yourself for inviting the wrong person. Happens to everyone but its not like it happens with every pug in every run. its a minority issue at best.
Use Raider io if you’re pugging.
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There can be exceptions for alts once mains have proven themselves. If your main has done a 10 then an alt would have immediate access to a 10.
Dangerous. If I get that 10 on my warlock it’s entirely different on my tank.
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