r/CompetitiveWoW

I've seen a lot of posts along the lines of "what score will the cutoff land at" etc, and I wanted to share some more information about how the cutoff actually works. At a glance the cutoff is just a number that keeps moving up (or well, almost always up) but the rate at which this number changes fluctuates quite a bit and at some points in the season it seems to slow down only to then pick up again.

Now, this score number only tells half the story. While yes, it is true the number that is shown is the number to beat at that point in time, this is just a proxy to the actual underlying information that is used to determine who get the title and who does not. As everyone (hopefully) knows, the title is awarded to those who end the season in the top 0.1% of characters. The number of slots that represent 0.1% of the total mythic plus population grows monotonically over the season and as of the time this data was collected there was 1471 slots in the EU - meaning that there are around 1.47 million characters who played a mythic plus keystone so far this season in this region.

Now, these 1.47M characters are far from evenly distributed from 0 to 4364 (max score at the time of writing). A lot of characters cluster around important break points where there are rewards, such as the 0.1% title, but also around points which are hard to break through, like resilience levels. Ever since resilient keys were introduced, the title has seen large breakpoints around different resilience levels since the access to keys (and especially resilient keys) become much lower for each level increase.

What this means for players that are looking to figure out where the cutoff may end up, or trying to figure out if they are safe at their current score, the best metric to look at is not the current score and its trajectory but rather how many characters are in the brackets above and below them (and the cutoff). As of this writing with the cutoff at around 4127 score (~22 resilient), it only requires 30 score (~2 keys) to pass almost half the population inside the cutoff. That is to say, there are almost as many characters between 4127 and 4157 as there are characters between 4157 and 4364. Assuming a player climbs to 4157, it would now require 690 individual characters to all bypass 4157 to push this player out of the cutoff range. This will take a lot longer than it sounds for the title to just rise another 30 score. The title went up almost 30 score last week, but that included passing by a much easier barrier than what is ahead of the cutoff from this point forward.

So, as we get into the final weeks of the season, I would encourage anyone who is anxious about falling out of the cutoff or trying to predict where it will end up, I would strongly recommend to have a look at how many people are in and around the score you care about.

Now as an aside, one might wonder why there is such a clustering here, and the answer is mostly that there are a around 1400 characters with resilient 22 in the EU right now whereas there are only around 230 characters with resilient 23. This means that the available 23 keys is vastly lower than the number of 22 keys (and a lot of these 23 keys are held by teams). This also means that there are way fewer people who will be pulled up (be it by paying or by being invited by people with one resilience level above them) to 23s than it is for 22s.

I hope this made sense even through some rambling, enjoy the data and would be interested to hear any thoughts or comments :)

GL in the push streets!

Can find the release here:

https://github.com/Wobblucy/AwowlabOverlay/releases/tag/v0.1.0

How it works:

1. first pass over your logs looks for encounter or challenge mode "segments" and simply takes the offset into the combat log.
2. Once you select the a segment it actually parses the data down.

Basically trading a little bit of responsiveness for consuming less memory.

Full disclosure on the limitations:

1. the combat log is only written to at the end of boss combat so you cant get mid pull statistics from this tool. m+ logs are written ~every 2 minutes during trash.
2. You have to be advanced logging locally for it to work.
3. the thread priority is set intentionally low to prevent any possible performance interference with the game, parsing is fast (sub 1s generally) but it will take a backseat to your other processes.
4. Window only currently. This is a breakout of a much larger project relying on build targets so it isn't a separate project. It might run on linux (awowlab does on proton apparently) but it is not something I plan on supporting currently.
5. I'm not paying 200$ a year for code signing, if you are not comfortable with "run anyways" feel free to build from source.
6. IMGUI + GLFW as the current front end for Awowlab means making it pretty is hard. Maybe one day I swap that for something more appealing, but it would be substantial work, and today is not that day.

Some bonus features I missed from Details:

1. Boss phases - you have to set these manually but the list builds from enemy spell casts, emotes, or you can use raw time to split.
2. Mob weighting - lets you remove the "garbage" mobs from the meters so you can see who is padding vs who is actually moving your dungeon forward.

https://imgur.com/a/WFV0ZU4

PS: To the devs out there:

Happy to take issue and pull requests under consideration, but this is also a side module of a hobby project that is generally worked on like 2 hours a week, don't expect fast responses :)

Open to any feedback, can just dump it here.

Hello everyone. I noticed that I cannot post my characters looking for a team here, and I've also noticed that the raider.io M+ team finder tool is basically dead. Is there anywhere that people can go to find teams that is actually active? The last time this question was asked seemed to be a year ago, and I didn't really find anything useful on that post.

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PsybearTV Youtube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFTFiDeXIMo

I recommend watching the whole video, it's rare for someone get a whole 1 hour with Ion, and the interview was really well done.

The interview is mostly about competitive content. I'm really excited for Mythic lockout changes!

Wowhead summary: https://www.wowhead.com/news/psybeartv-interview-with-ion-hazzikostas-the-mythic-raid-lockout-addons-8-week-382061?utm_source=discord-webhook

Hey all, I'm looking for an addon to show my party's CCs and CDs. I've attached a screenshot of what I'm looking for

Hi, r/competitivewow! Our devs have been working around the clock on this new feature, and we want to maximize what it can really do. We want to make sure you are getting what you need from it!

Our thought process was this: we have an immense amount of data collected from runs that other platforms are missing. What can we do with this data to develop an extensive Talent Build feature that goes beyond what an article guide can offer? How do we help people personalize a build based on their individual playstyle?

All builds suggested have a minimum of 40 verified successful runs to qualify. Individual talents (thousands of them; this has been a very long process) have been classified based on how they interact with mechanics, and talent changes have been highlighted according to that. For example, you could be offered a build summarized as "trades less mitigation for more movement speed".

We've also developed the Advanced Diagnostics section specifically for theorycrafters, hoping that would be helpful to you.

We want to make sure that talents are classified accurately and the reasoning behind each build makes sense. Since there's so many talents to sift through, we want to make sure we didn't miss anything and get feedback from as many players as possible.

We look forward to hearing thoughts on the feature! If there’s anything you’d like us to keep in mind, we’ll let the development team know.

The feature can be found at https://raider.io/specs or at the top navigation bar.