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Editorial - Competitive PvE

Posted May 12th, 2008 by Xerin

How fast are you?

In this week's editorial Byron "Messiah" Mudry takes a look at the current push on PvP competition by Blizzard and asks the question, "Is there any way for non-PvP / Raiders to compete?". As the PvP aspect grows a significant portion of the Warcraft audience has been left out of this competitive e-sport, simply because they dislike PvP. To many players that play an MMOG they play for the social and cooperative aspects. While raiding is an outlet for some, where they compete against progression, there are many other players out there that simply do not have the time that raiding requires. Yet these players still want an opportunity to better their group play abilities. Why should they be left out?

"Messiah" and a group of guild mates recently found an outlet for their competitive nature. Are "Timed Heroics" for you and your friends?

That's right, we started doing timed heroic instances for fun and competition. We started this by accident, when we noticed one day that we were blazing thought heroic Hellfire Ramparts. Someone looked at the time when we were done and said "Cool we did that in 45 minutes". Being a competitive group, one of us bragged "Betcha' we could do in less than 35 tomorrow". Needless to say, everyone was online early the next day eagerly awaiting the others to try. We did it in 34 minutes, then 30 the next day and then 26, which is our current record.

Read all about it in the Editorial - Competitive non-raid PvE and then visit our forums to voice your opinion on this. Better yet, do you have a record time in a heroic?


Comments

Interesting idea. I have to say first off that I'm not thrilled with the concept of computer games as 'sport' -- 'sport' to me implies actual physical activity, and computer games don't quite fit that bill. Still, I remember as kids on some days where we didn't have enough people to play hockey, a friend set up 'Atari Olympics', which was fun and competetive.

Since the notion of the 'e-sport' seems to be taking hold, I think timed Heroics is just as valid as anything; it's kind of like r...

Definetly, but it should be optional whether you're timed or not.

I could see something like this really taking off! That would be something really fun to do imo!

Some other things that might be something to take into account also would be things like the amount of healing needed during the run (the less healing needed, the more points given) and/or the disrtibution of damage done through the group.

I'm sure that people could figure some other type of rating system that you could also implement. I'd bet it could really take off though!

Those people should start doing the ZA timed runs. Get that bear mount and be envied!

In response to the article, it's all about finding a raid guild that runs when you do. Find a casual one whose schedule fits with yours, or one that has no schedule at all.

I like the idea.

Throw in a gold bonus or something to all group members if you complete it in X amount of time and suddenly the daily heroics will be even more attractive.

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