This are suggestions from a casual m+ player, i normaly only do m+ for gearing my character for raid, or playing with some friends but we are a group of 3 so we have to get 2 more people from lfg, but this is just my opinion.
The Timer should be “cosmetic”, now before all the io junkies and tryhards burn me to the ground, hear me out.
It should still affect rankings, as in doing a +10 in 20 minutes should give you more ranking than someone that has only done it 40+ minutes, i just mean that even if you do a +5 in 1 hour, it shouldn’t get it’s level demoted, you should be able to choose at the end of the run if you want to upgrade it or lower it, but to me keys should get deranked if you don’t want to.
Maybe upgrading it should be locked behind beating the timer, but at leat, let us choose if we want to keep trying that level or try do it on a lower level.
I make this sugestion because it helps with the gearing of people that just want to spam 10 to get their vault , or they are farming crest, or hero gear on 7, without the fear of getting some random on lfg that burns the key cause he dies 100 times every single pull and now the key gets burned, i have to get it back up to a 10, just cause i trusted that the random guy i invited knew how to do the dungeon and wasn’t just some guy that got boosted, not everyone has a 5man group they can just queue and know what they are going to deal with.
As someone that normaly only do m+ with randoms from lfg, when i think about having to deal with that i don’t even want to make a group, and i don’t even try to queue for lfg as a dps because if i’m not a meta class, and even if i am a meta class, i’m a ragnaros player so people just go “hmm rag player, don’t want to deal with that” so if i don’t have 1k more io than them i don’t even get into +7 groups, if i’m not the one that makes the key.
Also this could open things up for new metas, like some classes that are better at doing “low” keys faster, but some classes deal better with really high key levels, who does the keys faster and who can do them on higher level.
I repeat this is just my opinion as someone that likes raiding more that m+, has to deal a lot with not getting invited to groups cause he is from ragnaros(yes there’s people that don’t invite just cause of your server, sometimes they just do it so they have someone to blame if things go bad) so i have to make my own keys and it’s a roullete of “did this guy get boosted or has he really donde this dungeon and knows what to do”