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In World of Warcraft TBC Classic Anniversary player community, there's an almost ironclad rule: open your Warcraft Logs (Logs for short). If it shows a Purple percentage rating, you're a skilled player; if it's Green or lower, you're probably not very skilled.

Using a simple, intuitive number to judge complex things sounds efficient and straightforward. But the question is, is this number really that reliable?

Perhaps a rating doesn't fully represent a player's skill. Below, I'll discuss in detail why we shouldn't blindly trust this score.

What Boosts Your Score?

To analyze the reliability of this number, we must first deeply understand what influences it, or rather, how players achieve high scores.

Kill Time

First, one of the most crucial factors affecting the score is Kill Time - the total time your team takes from starting the fight to successfully defeating the boss.

Kill Time affects the score far more than many players realize. On WoW BCC Classic Anniversary player forums, a player shared their experience: in Phase 2 Overlord of Outland, their team killed Hydros in just 1 minute and 46 seconds, earning them a high Warcraft Logs score of 98.

However, another player using the same class only scored 82 points after killing the same boss, despite having perfect skill timing. What went wrong? Their team's kill time was 2 minutes and 37 seconds.

The reason is that the faster the boss dies, the larger the proportion of time players spend using burst skills in the overall fight, resulting in higher raid DPS and thus a higher Logs score.

Therefore, the player with the 82-point score wasn't lacking in skill; they were simply unlucky enough to be in a slower raid group.

Raid Composition

Besides kill time, raid composition also significantly impacts Warcraft Logs scores, a factor often overlooked.

Take Survival Hunter as an example. A Survival Hunter's damage output skyrockets when grouped with Feral Druids and Enhancement Shamans; however, if placed in a group full of Healers, even the best players will struggle to increase their damage.

This frustrating situation has occurred in some Guild groups: their melee groups are already full, and there's no room for a Survival Hunter, so they have to put them in other groups.

This directly leads to a decrease in Survival Hunter's Logs, but this doesn't necessarily mean the player is bad; it's simply because the team composition doesn't allow them the opportunity to shine.

Assignments

Assignments are another frequently overlooked factor affecting Logs scores.

The simplest example is from TBC Anniversary event long ago, where someone needed to click on the cube during Magtheridon fight.

If you were assigned this task, you'd have to frequently leave the boss, naturally lowering your Active Percentage and consequently reducing your damage output.

A similar example exists in Phase 2 Overlord of Outland. For instance, in Fathom-Lord Karathress boss fight, if the strategy dictates that Druid should pull Caribdis to the sidelines for solo engagement, Tank will lose a significant number of attack opportunities.

Random Number Generation

Finally, the most frustrating factor is luck, professionally known as Random Number Generation (RNG).

Like other MMORPGs, WoW BCC Classic Anniversary features a "critical hit rate" mechanic. When a player triggers a critical hit, they deal significantly more damage than usual.

However, even with various gear and items to increase your critical hit rate, it can never be 100%. This means that if you're unlucky in a fight and trigger fewer critical hits, your Logs will be low.

Furthermore, if BCC Anniversary players focus too much on Logs scores when tackling bosses, they'll experience less enjoyment in game.

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More Reasonable Evaluation Criteria

So, if Logs can't determine a player's skill level, then what should we base our recruitment decisions on?

Consumables

Many players pay attention to whether their teammates drink Haste Potion, use Super Sapper, eat food, or use Wizard Oil while fighting bosses.

These Consumables significantly improve a player's damage output and survivability; therefore, a player who doesn't use Consumables will likely have lower skill and damage output.

However, in BCC Anniversary Phase 2 Overlord of Outland, acquiring Consumables requires a significant amount of Gold. Many players spend hours acquiring Gold that might only be enough to complete a dungeon run for one or two hours.

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Active Percentage

Skilled players maintain continuous skill usage throughout the entire raid, avoiding moments of inattention. This significantly impacts their final damage output and the entire raid's kill time.

Positioning and Response

Have players taken unnecessary damage hits due to excessive focus on DPS? Did they switch targets promptly when necessary?

These factors aren't directly reflected in Logs, but they are crucial indicators of a player's skill level.

This explains why Warcraft Logs shouldn't be the sole criterion for judging a player's skill in WoW TBC Classic Anniversary, and what we should focus on more.

Of course, this doesn't mean we should completely abandon Logs; however, they are clearly not as reliable as we might think. If your Logs score is low, don't be discouraged; it doesn't necessarily mean you're bad at the game.

Nearly a month has passed since the release of Phase 2 for WoW TBC Classic Anniversary, and while top-tier players have mostly reached BIS gear, many casual players are still struggling through raids and dungeons.

In WoW TBC Classic Anniversary, the progression gap between different player groups has actually become quite large. The root of this divide does not originate from Phase 2 alone; in fact, the trend was already present during Phase 1, and Phase 2 has only widened it further.

Phase 2 Raids

BCC Anniversary Phase 2 raids launched in a nerfed state, which lowered the requirements for positioning, ability usage, and even gear. Along with several new speed-running techniques, some players claim that Phase 2 raids are extremely easy. Nevertheless, a significant number of players have still not managed to complete them.

The efficiency of clearing all raids has not been as high as expected either. Only truly hardcore groups can compress the run time to around ninety minutes, while nearly fifty percent of players cannot finish all the instances in a single night.

These players typically take on Serpentshrine Cavern one evening and The Eye the next. That means each character requires two raid nights per week. If you maintain two characters, you will spend nearly half of your week - or even more - engaged in raids. For busier players, it might take two full weeks to complete all the raids.

Multiple Characters

Having multiple characters is precisely where the gap originates. The most hardcore players can manage several characters at once and clear instances with remarkable efficiency. Once one character obtains the best loot, they immediately switch to another character, develop it as a main, and rapidly pull ahead of others in terms of gear.

All hardcore players are doing this. Their raid groups do not need an entire evening to finish Serpentshrine Cavern or The Eye. They complete their tasks extremely quickly and then move on to the next raids. This advantage began accumulating in Phase 1. A casual player might only reach, by week three or four, the progression that hardcore players had already achieved in week one.

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Trash Mob

Trash mob mechanics are another major culprit. These mobs block your path and waste your time, and they are threatening in their own right.

In the past, you could clear trash in seconds, as in Karazhan. Now, however, you need extensive explanation and coordination. Once a mistake causes a wipe, players repeatedly drop out of the group.

For ordinary raid teams, this makes boss encounters like Kael'thas Sunstrider extremely difficult. No player wants to reclear trash after a wipe, and the group will almost certainly disband as a result. If players choose to leave, they might not have time to rejoin the raid until the following week, which severely slows down their progress.

Split Runs

Hardcore guilds encounter none of these problems. They clear instances with great ease and have highly optimized rosters. But that does not mean faster clearing teams are necessarily more skilled. Hardcore guilds are accumulating far more gear than anyone else through split runs.

The world's fastest guilds are conducting four or five different split runs. In doing so, they secure more and more gear for their core members. Assuming Black Temple or Sunwell Plateau opens in an unnerfed state, these guilds will enjoy a massive item level advantage over everyone else.

Consumable Costs

The gap also appears in consumable costs. When your guild wipes repeatedly, each wipe consumes more consumables. Everyone uses food buffs, elixirs, and flasks. These expenses add up significantly. Essentially, each raid attempt takes hundreds of WoW TBC Classic Anniversary gold. As soon as something goes wrong, people immediately leave the group.

Moreover, the most hardcore players never have anyone leave their groups. Therefore, they do not need to replace members during an instance. That is precisely why ordinary raids take so long.

Loot Systems

The soft reserve run system fails to keep players around. There is no mechanism binding players to a soft reserve group. They have no incentive to stay; once the item they want does not drop - or does drop - they leave immediately.

In contrast, other loot team such as GDKP, you will never see people leaving. Most players may dislike GDKP, but the current pickup group environment is unnecessarily harsh. If you are currently in a TBC guild, the experience can be quite good. If you are in a pug, however, you are likely facing a 7-hour raid ordeal.

Casual players are forced to do all sorts of things, such as constantly recruiting in trade chat to fill their groups, only to spend an entire evening without defeating a single boss. Meanwhile, other groups keep pulling ahead. They have split runs, and when they merge everyone back into the main team, they will be ten item levels above the average player.

WoW TBC Classic Anniversary has performed reasonably well up through Phase 2, but the official team clearly needs to offer more support to casual players. Otherwise, those players may fall so far behind in progression that they choose to quit.