Reacting to The Great Push Exploit Drama

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A few days back the final day of the Great Push was played, and in classic wow fashion it did include a little bit of drama about a certain strat that the Echo players used. In this video I'll be going over my general thoughts on the tournament and the strat.
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[@spiele1111111112]

Group 4: did not watch the tournament, didn't see the wowhead article but watches max' video anyway

[@TheKoedijk1]

This is the way

[@cH4iN123]

Group 5: All of the above, but havnt played WoW since +2 1/2 years.

[@mblulz]

i just like Max's voice xD

[@00771kevin]

100% true

[@arkstok]

"They try to fix every problem but they do it the wrong way" Yep thats blizzard

[@adverbs626]

and you know what? people keep giving them money. If you want to be judgemental, perhaps you should put your money where your mouths are :)

[@zacharystanphill748]

I love how you went from “That Mini-game” to making a 30 minute video, explaining the awesome drama of the event. Blizz made a good event for M+! I even think that it’s more fun to watch than MDI.

[@vanyel_etc8695]

It was way more hype imo, waaaay more hype

[@vincenzomusella5363]

@@vanyel_etc8695 no shit it’s new

[@zacharystanphill748]

@@vanyel_etc8695 it’s always nice to have some hype and rivalry.

[@WoWWyrdSisters]

The inconsistent muting of f-bombs is hilarious.

[@vanyel_etc8695]

Hahaha totally random, love it

[@firstnamelastname1749]

lol trying to copy blizz enforcement on rules.

[@lukeshelbourn3256]

I wasn't paying attention to where the muting was but it could be because youtube frequently demonetise videos if there's swearing in the early part of the video rather than the mid or end points. Perhaps because they only listen or monitor the first few minute of a video.

[@3lit3gn0m3]

@@firstnamelastname1749 Or Blizzard problem solving in general. It's great.

[@teraxe]

I actually loved the last day. You had one team smashing a straight up strat, you had another team spell stealing Fungalmancer and dragging them throughout the dungeon, and another send bombs across the dungeon to help clear. Was great that you had 3 distinct approaches.

[@reborn6303]

Easily the best take with multiple viewpoints, most of what’s been said applies to almost all aspects of competitive mmos

[@theparadisesnare]

There are other competitive MMOs?

[@deathwrow9652]

@@theparadisesnare Meaning, a MMO that has a competitive aspect.

[@hardthing100]

"with their anime avatars" man, why you gotta do me like that

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

Straight disrespek

[@KeruptR47]

There is a reason the saying "Exploit early and often" has been a thing with WoW for pretty much its whole life

[@wiskeeamazingdancer4964]

Except ICC

[@warhorsett1748]

True Respect for your guild competitors. The great push is awesome!

[@xerrath8658]

Honestly I find it interesting to see how the top players come up with new strata it makes a casual player like me want to try it.

[@Tauroi]

And it is much much much easier than this mdi shit people try do to after every mdi

[@drozone3658]

I’d agree if it was bringing a new class or new strat and not abusing a mechanical they know is not work correctly

[@xGaryHUNx]

Thanks for giving background info for casual viewers, it was a great video!

[@jonteguy]

It's very cool to see a top player from US defend people and their competitors from EU. I agree, it's all on Blizzard honestly. Admin your shit better, be clearer on what is allowed and not allowed so these gray-zones go away and people don't even consider them anymore. *It's ok to be harsh for competitive integrity Blizzard. But you weren't, so this happened instead.*

[@vanyel_etc8695]

100%, they let this be a fuckin free for all and the players did what they want. Echo found a strat that worked, so they took it. Blizzard watched for 5 hours and enjoyed it. I wasn't rooting for any team, just enjoyed the event, and I fucking loved it! It was weird, it was cool, it was 2 tanks, it was buggy af which caused echo to have to adapt a bunch of times to get mobs inside it, it was fuckin solid. Bosses being pulled to the corner of the map and shit, idk it was sick and they still only barely made the dungeon work as well, which to me shows how fucking ridiculous tyrannical actually is. Even echo, who knew what was going on, barely got away with their strat. That's cool as shit.

[@Augmentfluup]

clearly, this was allowed, based on the no actions from blizzard?

[@Handcannon77]

Whats "cool" about a top US player defend EU players lol? The stupid US vs EU bullshit is just a meme that autists in twitch chat propagate and actually believe in, none of the players themselves really give a shit about it...its pretty normal for US players to respect and defend EU players and vice versa.

[@dre2931]

What Handcannon said, its a propagate. Don't fall into it Vanyel. EU gamers are actually really skilled and I enjoy watching them as a NA gamer. The different styles, environments we have within a raid or even a 5 v5 is interesting and I learn from.

[@TheBloodygeneral]

People are looking at this all wrong, the problem here are not the plague borers, the problem is the infinite md. Blizzard pretty much just allowed a permanent buff to be exploited. Now just imagine a team found a way for their mage to keep permanent combustion, would that be allowed, would that be fair.

[@TheBloodygeneral]

Also his opinion is biased as fuck, before the competition started he said that echo was gonna destroy everyone that it wasn’t even gonna be close. Also just imagine how Max would feel if echo bugged the shit out of sylvanas and got world first, he would be mad salty.

[@Daccura]

@@TheBloodygeneral Yes exactly, that is a very good point.

[@dereckromanrivera7173]

It was all really exciting to watch! I loved watching that plagueboarer strat, I didnt watch it all till the end but watched a few hours of the games. So all this drama comming out I found it really strange. After reading comments and watching some of these videos it seems that a lot of people just seem confused and seems like it was bound to happen with the rules being so lose? I was pretty much only surprised by the hidden UI, thought the whole point of it being streamed was to see what they were doing? I understand that it was in a personal stream but in a hosted tournament that just seemed strange, but hey if it is not against the Rules then thats fine but I think that particularly needs to be specified, if everyplayer had their UI hidden it would be fairly boring to watch. Anyways the great push was amazing to watch I loved it! I do hope they sort out some of these rules to lessen all this drama, make it more streamlined and not further stain the competition.

[@JC-ok4yx]

I was following the tournament but not watching. To see it come so down to the wire and know a bug was the determining factor just cheapens it to me. It would be like if in the NBA you had a great 7 game series that came down to the last few seconds and a player “flopped” to get a foul shot and won the championship. (Odd analogy but still)

[@simonvietjohansson8069]

One thing to consider as a devil's advocate is the tiebreaker format: A key level up is a key level up no matter in which dungeon. And the first tiebreaker is highest individual key. That means that (in this case) the highest individual key is by far the most important strategy to focus on and as such spending excessive amounts of time on a single dungeon (assuming you can choose between 2 keys that are both grindy level-ups) is a good strategy. This means, that focusing on finding these tricks to push the one highest key further is taking a lot of practice time (the fixed cyclone bug, however many attempts it also took to nail this strat...) that it is also likely that Echo did not have time to map out as optimal strats as other teams on the other dungeons because the focus was on pushing tiebreaker 1. If their other dungeons are slightly more sloppy and they have a worse tiebreaker 2, who cares? To that end, if blizzard does not come down hard even during the preparation time on a bug like this, they have effectively screwed one team over at competition time by destroying their prep - so saying that they should stop during the X hours they were watching is also not completely fair. People have been preparing for TGP for weeks, and if you get told *on the day* that you have to change strat you have a distinct unfair disadvantage which I also don't support. Ideally, in addition to the ruleset of allowed (known) bugs, the rules should probably be locked in ~a week before the event so that people can adjust their strats to #TheListOfForbiddenBugs

[@jockeberg8353]

Group 4: I don't even play wow anymore dident watch the tournament but i don't really wanna start watch it when i hear stuff like this.

[@janjankovicjahoda]

We are entitled to use the product we pay for at it current state. If there is a bug we can use its Blizzards fucking problem not ours.

[@Dysapera]

How do I get that ICC gif background on the desktop? that looks hella dope af

[@janjankovicjahoda]

Its called Wallpaper engine it is on steam, hes talking about it at: 17:25

[@Dysapera]

@@janjankovicjahoda I've got wallpaper engine now but couldn't find the exact one max is using so far

[@srq_Tom]

Hey Max, just wondering if you could do a video on making the jump from heroic raiding to mythic raiding. I myself raided (at various levels of hardcoreness) from Vanilla - WotLK and then left the game at the end of WotLK. I came back for BfA and enjoyed raiding heroic. I am considering getting into mythic raiding, but I am not sure where to start to make the jump. Different raid difficulties wasn't a thing when I left. I have done a few fights on mythic, but not many. In any case the jump up to mythic seems to be pretty steep.

[@1700NX]

I loved the great push and was super fun to watch. I’d love to see them make it where you could watch a specific team’s POV rather than the ones blizzard is forcing you to watch. So watching an entire teams 27 run or swap to another to see what went wrong and just have a team selection tab on the screen and like an overview of the other teams in a small window. That would make it easier to watch

[@rabrhee]

I thought the same, the split screen or one short term view a lot of the time was suboptimal. Max in this vid states that the individuals were allowed to stream their runs, which gives exactly what you are asking for. Making that clear on the main page would have helped a lot, with links to indivdual streams. But then maybe that would need warnings about mature content perhaps.

[@malenky4057]

The biggest thing here is that Echo were doing it for 5 hours straight or whatever. That's enough time for Blizzard to go 'hey, are we ok with this?', and then enforce their ruling. If that did happen, then obviously they were ok with it. If I remember correctly, another team even tried to emulate this strategy.

[@hekev]

Well they might've not known Echo used the MD bug during the race, sometimes in sports there is no immediate penalty for misconducts. I would've not been mad if they disqualified the run after the competition. That being said, if Blizzard didn't know how Echo actually did that, they could've paused the race and investigate it, ask Echo and then make their decision. After that just make casters announce the conclusion and avoid all this unnecessary drama. Blizzard failed big time with this situation by not giving any official statement or have they?

[@Sajxi]

Dorki's team successfully emulated the strategy, but that was after they had dropped out from the competition.

[@Sajxi]

​@@hekev They probably knew. The administrator is watching in-game and can see what's going on, including the combat log. The crucial part that most people seem to be missing is that the rules aren't written in black and white. Bugs are discouraged, but not de facto disallowed. Blizzard officials use sole discretion to permit certain exploits/bugs, and in this case they deemed it acceptable. I assume the administrator thought the strategy still required enough finesse and skill for it to be allowed.

[@havtor007]

@@Sajxi "Blizzard officials use sole discretion to permit certain exploits/bugs" And that is a problem as that means if you are allowed to use or not allowed to use an exploit or a bug comes down to the person following you around right then and there not actual rules. The real problem was that blizzard was quiet to the audience there was no talk from blizzard it took 3-4hours before someone part of the event even talked about and said it was ok for them to use it. It tarnished a very good event up until that point.

[@valky994]

this is exactly the same thing as with the "Fountain Hook" from dota2 back in the day, one team "abused" an interaction and got out of a big disadvantage and won the game in the end, after which said interaction was fixed, not many people were mad, and in the end it became one of the most iconic dota2 moments in the history

[@Mcrobrob1]

Dude first thing I thought of. Pro gamers though to pull any of these “exploits” off

[@d3iz3l1]

Hahaaa I love it my dude, but can't forget about the fan boys of the other teams trying to think reasons to discredit their win but i love watching you high end players come up with the crazy stuff it makes it so much more enjoyable to watch

[@brandoncrawford8133]

The bug they used wasn't some auto win big. Doing a 28 while juggling plague dudes and using them correctly while anything at any point could go wrong. Super fucking impressive imo. Sad to see my boy JPC lose though, I can certainly feel for their team.

[@user-mw9tb1is7z]

if there was proper rule set and admins with balls they wold not be able to even step in dung with 2 tanks to try pull it off (going in dung with stacking class/spec) is red light for abuse on something

[@cyclopsboi]

the great push was cool as hell, I also happen to really like the mdi. I would be down for more of the great push as well, better rules and hopefully a much better prize pool.

[@Daccura]

It's kinda a bummer that Pleaguefall was the dungeon pushed highest and was the deciding factor. For me the +26 Dos was absolutely nuts and is my personal winner. That run was just insane.

[@wolfsnow711]

17:20 Preach you’re the best Blizz is so inconsistent, I wonder what do they even think asking world first guild to not use exploits, yet NOT FIXING exploits ASAP Btw have some swearing been edited out? Why even bother D:

[@Tensooni]

Hopefully some inkling of this drama will be left for the next event of this type, to get some hype, memes, and rivalry going. Like the whole 'candle' thing. I don't like it for the rage, but its cool to have people emotionally invested; makes victory sweeter, and defeat more bitter.

[@men3em]

Where can I get that animating wallpaper?

[@FishAndKid]

Why does no one mention that in just Shadowlands MDI bugs like this and bigger have been a thing used over and over. Skipping half of the phases on last boss in Spire, making bosses literally just stand still and not cast any abilities, pulling "non existent" mobs in mists, it being patched and then finding a new work around the patch to pull mobs again and so on?

[@crazyblade9441]

Loved the push. Only complaint that I have is that the bug was used from a class not the dungeon itself. For example if the mobs were global Afro and the hunter used feign death to drop aggro, or perhaps a rogue or a night elf stealthing to drop aggro. My only complaint was that it was a bug that allowed an ability to last for a time that is clearly not intended. At the end of the day however blizzard should have had an admin or something ask them about it during the event. And stop it before they started running the highest key levels that gave them the win.

[@ThatTommyGirl]

I would like the rules to be more consistent next time for sure. I really liked the tournie otherwise. Just a weird end... so guess I'm in the first group.

[@zilnon]

We can hate on KZbin all we want. But just the fact that we dont have the option to pause and rewind on twitch makes KZbin a much better viewer experience if you dont care about the emote spamming in twitch chat

[@godhand2018]

Facts. KZbin streaming is pretty nice honestly if you don't care about chat. You can do and say what you want aswell without having to be afraid of being randomly banned.

[@teh_blazerer]

Thank you for uploading

[@Trohuz]

If it just had been on KZbin (especially without player POVs), I wouldn't have watched. Also those damn Kin'Garoth bombs give me ptsd..

[@scrummpybear]

My rwf days ended in cata, mainly in wotlk though, be glad they actually talk to you, for us they just looked after and banned us.

[@treecat125]

I feel like the same casual players who flame Echo for using bugs to time dungeons are the same people who flame Blizzard for fixing bugs.

[@roninkoans6065]

Wait... blizzard fixed a bug? No wonder we aren't getting 9.1 until 2032

[@raulvenegas1925]

i mostly complain about Blizzard not giving us mortals enough time to test the bugs we see on the MDI, like the spider toy on Sanguine depts, the Robot buff on Necrotic Wake, etc, etc, etc... it happens on tournaments and the next reset blizzard fix it on retail so no one else enjoys the gameplay we saw during the tournaments...

[@andrewleung5620]

Anyone know how to download Max's animated wallpaper?

[@Unitos_]

It's a steam app called Wallpaper Engine. It's about $4USD and the wallpapers are free from there forever.

[@xelcor6193]

There was an example in Bfa with the 2nd Boss of Kings Rest. If you opend the cage very fast then the Boss Bugged out and didnt do mechaniks for the rest of the fight. Was at least in 2 Mdi seasons i watched but the bug existed since beta i think. EVERYBODY USED IT and it made a Boss just Melee the tank. The Casters always mentioned it.

[@trevorworkman2060]

My cat's name is Echo and he kept looking around while I had this video playing.

[@Kinai_3]

Max, please just don't stop ever, like never ever, please

[@MountaindewM]

Don't care about the outcome but for some like me. I hear Echo and remember they were Method which is a guild that bought gold from Gallywix. Still don't care but if there is a bug then Blizzard needs to do their job and not allow that to happen and there should be some more unique strategies since those are what makes it really interesting. Also Wallpaper Engine is an awesome app. I saw it on TikTok and immediately knew I needed it in my life.

[@echi258]

Imagine if they used the strat that they used for the +30 that was a bug that would break everything

[@Evolixe]

Honestly would've been better imo. At least that was all within the boundaries of whats normally possible. They just used their class abilities in a way that let a pb explode without killing it and it was all expected outcome of said abilities. They broke the dungeon, not the game. In TGP they broke the game, not the dungeon.

[@xihehan6512]

The infinite MD is clearly a bug though. It is not ambitious due to boss mechanics. This event, after all, is a tournament instead of guilds voluntarily race to the world first. I am not sure if Max is into this mythic plus pushing thing. I am just saying having bombs airdrop to the tank literally renders the dungeon almost meaningless. After all, though, I think it is bliz fault for not even understanding their own game.

[@roninkoans6065]

Yeah the tool tip of MD says it works one way and they found a way to make it work outside of that definition, but if blizzard took the time to fix that bug we wouldn't see 9.1 until 2023. I mean there's still fish in zul drak that can kill you while you're on the bridge or even in the boss chamber that isnt even over water.

[@Nagassh]

Not sure I even blame Blizzard for this, at least on a programming "a bug exists" front. Formula 1 has stewards that have to call whether a driver is abusing the limits of the track or chalk up whether a crash that potentially ruins someone's race is unsporting or dangerous enough to penalize someone involved or just a racing incident where no punishments are handed out and it's chalked up to racing just being like that. I blame this great push drama entirely on the guys running the show who didn't tell Echo to stop abusing this mid-tournament. All it would have taken is a 3 minute conversation and someone with the authority and common sense to make the call.

[@Zomious]

Respect to Max for keeping it real.

[@chandlersun3877]

The officials job is to put a line not to cross, and player’s job is to push towards that line as close as possible to gain advantage for the competition.

[@DarthPlaguais1]

If Blizzard want to expand this have all dungeons be included next season and split them over 2 weekends. I think 2.5 hours on average was dungeon is a little short, 3-4h is probably the sweetspot

[@durth7556]

i miss legion warlock so much :c

[@gettheraven]

Blizzard should have weeded everything out before putting it on live or continued testing on live to circumvent them. Anything left out there for players to discover for "themselves" is fair game. They found the weakness, it's thiers for the taking. On that note, if a person broadcasts the bug and turns it into an actual guide to make the knowledge available/easier for everyone else is another story. If you don't put in the work, you're not entitled to the reward. I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL, MAN!

[@clarkh3314]

Max with the hammer of truth, pog

[@tingmann]

I agree mostly, whatever it takes to win is fair. But not knowing what its like to play at highest level is normal. These tournaments ARE for people who cant play like that. They are not for hardcore players, not for echo method etc. They are for normal players to entertain them, promote game and get money. And from that PoV, echo just revealed that game have bugs, bad ones, and devs are ok with players exploiting them. Not a good look, PR wise.

[@Mrzombieman]

i really liked the great push it was actually pretty cool.

[@TiggerChickN]

Category 1 here, although I did have a team I was rooting for more than the others. It was interesting to see what Echo had problem solved, but OTOH it ended up being pretty boring to watch and it was clear pretty quickly that the tournament was over early on Day 3.

[@madrox4132]

Shit, let's go revisit all of Ulduar hard modes at release

[@LDaemontus]

The words spoken at the last five minutes resonates. Even as a casual player, I am so tired of every patch or balance updates always breaking my talent trees just because a handful of people complained that they were represented enough or because a handful of specs did slightly better therefore they needed to be nerfed for some reason. Its why the concept of maining a character for an entire expansion no longer makes sense because every update, every new raid or dungeon will always mean you most likely have to rotate to an alt for that particular content because your previous rotation got broken by an update.

[@Mitch9003]

great video. thanks max

[@jobby82]

My big thing is this isnt the first time an "exploit" has been used this season in M+ esports, in MDI in Mists at the beginning of the season teams were pulling extra packs through the walls in the Labyrinth and Blizzard patched it after seeing that, but no one had an issue because every team eventually ended up using that strategy but it was a surprise the first time a team used it and no one got pissed off they were getting good times using an exploit. The only reason the other teams didnt use the Plaguefall MD strat in TGP is because they didnt have enough time to adapt it.

[@phaton89]

I absolutely watched the full weekend of TGP because I really love M+ and it’s just unfortunate that this whole situation came around. The bug did sour what was otherwise a great weekend of gameplay. I’d have loved to see Blizzard come in with more consistency on rules with this. It’s been a problem for absolutely years though so we can’t really fault Echo for what they did, I just wish it didn’t exist. Hopefully the next one will be better!

[@edhall1720]

I hope he sees this bro

[@Stouf711]

Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't the MD bug been in the game since alpha? Sounds like an intended bug if it hasn't been fixed yet.

[@poorwowgameplay]

I demand appeasement by Max sending me a donut!

[@hockey527]

@Limit Maximum Its kinda like golf playing against the course and then being compared to the other plays

[@hubertwebb]

My take on it is that for future GPs, they should allow bug abuses then fix it after the tournament (barring 3rd party cheats/programs). I kinda see M+ as speed runs. And speed runs often utilize such bugs and glitches.

[@FreedomLakzY]

Doesnt matter if blizzard fix it or not , bug is a bug , using a bug is not right at all , and as a Pro player, u know that, thats enough talk

[@masterdekoy]

It sucks as a fan of wow M+ as it highlights the lack of effort they put into events like this which highlight something I really enjoy and put a lot of time into. The great push is an awesome format, and was really close the first 2 days. The last day was a team exploiting a clearly unintended interaction to run away with it. As a fan outside the M+ community looking in, it makes our game look like trash.

[@paranoidjd1351]

It was a fun tournament, but did end weirdly. But that's nothing to do with Echo - if there's any blame, it sits with Blizzard for their inconsistency on things like this. And let's not forget, what Echo did was still incredibly difficult and they do deserve props for pulling it off regardless.

[@johnwarner4178]

Incredibly difficult, yes! All these haters acting like they could start doing this in their weekly pug 10+

[@michaelyun2407]

Is blizzard tradition from when I started playing ie anymore remember ICC bug? The deaf dragon bug? And there are way more bugs. I use to raid pretty hardcore top 25 guild years and years ago. All these people who doesn't know when a first kill happen there are tons and tons of bug. Even mid way they get hot fix. Now is coz of MDI people are using bugs. Now I am pretty sure the admins should have said something and get the other GMs on board about it. They need to do a better job like give a yes or no. They didn't say a thing other than pointed out is a bug.

[@__-fi6xg]

Well should the game even have bugs like that in thefirst place or is it unavoidable?

[@michaelyun2407]

@@__-fi6xg there is going to be bugs. That's why there were game tester who specially test for bugs. These people purposely try to brick the game. But won't blizzard rather than have tester the put them on PTR and get people to test them. Friend use to be a game tester for EA and he had to do the same thing in a game 8 hours a day by then he didn't even want to play it any longer. In this case the admin needs to say No or Yes but they didn't. So is the admins fault. With progression a lot of time weird stuff happens and you won't know why it happen. The problem is do you wipe and try to understand what happen or continue? That's the issue if you ask they will say no but if you don't say a thing most of the time it will be OK unless is a obvious bug.

[@AlyxandraLoF]

I agree with this in terms of raid bugs the problem I have with what echo did is when they showcased their +30 strat blizz both hotfixed it and moved it to tryannical specifically to discourage them using a borer the entire dungeon. Blizz very clearly was looking to hotfix bugs for this event. I don't think anything will happen but this was real shady and blizz showed very clearly that they wanted to stop teams from using borers to kill the entire dungeon.

[@AUTiger0325]

I watched the entire tournament and for me, things like these are the reason TGP is so much better then the MDI. These clever use of mechanics are so much fun to watch. It’s not as if echo made the boss a cake walk. I watched Gingi die 3 times during the run. They used a way ( exploit, bug, whatever) to time a 28 PF for the first time ever. I hope they keep doing this.

[@nervio2701]

it was pretty cool, but i think a good change would be to activate only 2 different dungeons every day, that way you have more excitement every single day

[@RetroGenetic]

Forgot the faction who doesn't care which team wins but thought "Damn, that's cool. How did they even find it?" :D

[@RetroGenetic]

Bit of tooting my own horn, I love how I got this thought again (as I forgot I had watched this before) :D

[@spookyturbo1618]

Shout out to Wallpaper Engine gang!

[@camper2908]

You know what is it really sad?? Tht i tried to use this bug today and it's fixed. I can redirect agroo to the tank. But when I FD, plagueborer just go back to the patrol position. No tp, just go back, which is sad tht in tournament it works.

[@Laykolol]

Ask method for video from four kings in mogushan vault where they just skipped one boss by a bug and never released video because of it

[@chiggn7456]

i think its ok if teams use bugs an glitches if blizz alows it, but i dont feel that as a real win, feels somehow a bit weird for me.

[@DJBlackNGold]

Blizzard should have not just sat on the fence with that one but I also feel Echo talked around the infinite MD to get Blizz to not really do anything. Everyone is in the wrong to some extent, but blizz mostly for not just saying "no don't do it" Blizz needs to just actually set a clear definition of exploits.

[@HEYDW1]

MDI should go back to once off tournaments for blizzcon like it used to be. Shame it won’t because of the KZbin contract but much better being able to watch players streams and the official stream

[@nolabets3130]

I saw so many anime avatars yesterday

[@jamaisvu311]

I just love how real this guy is. I know he's GM of the #1 guild in the world, but the guy seems like one of my buddies I'd be watching. Love it. Keep it up man, we appreciate you.

[@Blackwidow391]

i mean theres alot of legit reasons to hate echo this aint one of them

[@deathbower]

Out of curiosity, what would those legit reasons be?

[@Blackwidow391]

@@deathbower largok for one and i just hate most of the major guilds

[@razien9941]

@@Blackwidow391 what did lorgok do ? and you "hate" most top guilds ? why hate ?

[@Blackwidow391]

@@razien9941 lorgok is a sexist creep and i cant stand most high end players attitudes towards the rest of the playerbase

[@richardjones8846]

i literally told people about this from day 1... no one listened to me... now look where we are. smh.

[@vicsterX]

I watched MDI and TGP for tips on routes for each dungeon. Then realised I mostly pugged my m+ and those people I went in with will have their own thing inside the dungeons :(

[@spamwise249]

There's little worse in a pug than having a tank try to do MDI pulls. If you're not organised it's far less efficient than doing it normally.

[@vicsterX]

@@spamwise249 Tanks pulling half the dungeon in one go without any CDs is one thing, but I'm talking about routes. I don't mind pulling one pack at a time as long as we're not discombobulated - not knowing which necessary or unnecessary pack to pull for efficiency.

[@rabuleacornel3024]

All MDI was s treamed live on KZbin Max incase you were wandering not just on twitch.

[@WatermelonFarmer36]

Exploits are cool, it was still pretty hard and they only had 5 hours to pull it off because they have to hide their strat. I think its obviously gray but this specifically felt cool to me

[@roninkoans6065]

On one hand yes the misdirect tooltip reads that it works a certain way and method forced the coding to work a different way and thats literally the definition of an exploit, but on the other hand if method hadn't done it then eventually someone else would have. But in my opinion snapping should have been fixed and ended in BFA the fact it wasn't tells me blizzard doesn't care about their game or pretending its a legitimate e-sport. Hopefully morheims new studios and RIOT can put together some legit mmo competition so blizzard either pretends to care about their mmo or just gives up completely.

[@Tyberes]

Team 1 here. It's kind of a thing in fighting games you see sometimes where a big tournament will be won by someone playing a relatively safe character. And like people will complain but I don't think that's fair to the professional playing. It's their job to win no shit they're going to take dhalsim or whoever. I think the faults lays at the developers feet for allowing safe or boring or unexciting characters to be as powerful as they are. Same thing with this, no shade on echo for using a cheesey strategy that Blizzard just openly let them use.

[@hushpuppi3]

It is totally not the same thing

[@Nightxcloud]

Me just now hearing about this just now "hey wtf man leave my anime twitter avatar out of this"

[@toreole5831]

The problem with people saying that he hides his ui is twofold: 1. theres an obvious animation for MD, 2. the buff also appears on the one who was the target of MD. You cant hide that.

[@sukk2211]

They stacked under a big mount to try to hide the visuals as much as possible, idk if they did that the whole time but clips did show them trying to hide it. Again tho, it’s on blizz whether there will be consequences for this bug since it was a blizzard tournament

[@Talkshowz]

Even with Echo using this strategy/glitch it was still so close. And if you watch those final day pf runs they are hanging on a knifes edge and it took them all 5 hours to get it done correctly. Also they used a version of this in one of their mdi runs in NW where they keep snapping a mob that throws axes with them the entire dungeon. These mechanics have been part of the game for months so yeah like Max said here...it's on blizz. If they didn't want this mechanic to be "exploited" by players they had months to fix it.

[@renegregersen6099]

One thing is, if the got the green light to use it, why do blizzard noot tell the other teams that the thing are legit to use ???? and not for fun that they saved the PF for the last day, so others could not use the same thing

[@pouljin]

I am in group 1 watched it and wasn't rooting for anyone in particular. Was kinda bummed to see it end that way. Was way better than regular mdi

[@zacharystanphill748]

What doesn’t make to sense to me @maximum is that they stopped them using the cyclone/Mc strat, but not this one. It would make more sense to not allow a MD bug but cyclone clearly doesn’t let people die - it stops damage. The first strat seems more 10000IQ and the latter seems more like an s exploit

[@user-mx6yk7er4h]

They stop using cyclone/Mc strat because it get fixed. The bomb now always die, even if you cycloned then.

[@zacharystanphill748]

@@user-mx6yk7er4h I know that. I’m saying that the MD bug is more of an exploit than the MC/Cyclone strat. Blizzard allowed the first but disallowed the latter - the one that seems more in the confines of the game.

[@blake7285]

Sorry if you are at an event with officials watching and they do not tell you to stop or penalize you in any way then its a legal move.

[@Martin-sh6fv]

The problem isn't that other teams didn't think of it, it's WHY they didn't think of it. Like i don't think anyone expected misdirect to work that way so it's obvious no other team thought of doing it except the ones who discovered the bug by accident. If blizzard continues to allow use of bugs it's gonna turn every high end m+ player into rextroy and deliberately looking for bugs that can give them an edge.

[@drdode69]

plus the a version of the strat was used prior to great push to get a mythic 30 plaguefall kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIunkJaQeZyfadE

[@frooeessaa]

Isn't dorki in his guild?

[@Teol33]

I love how dungeons have become apart of wow esports. Who would have thought the participation trophy content of wow would bring in viewer numbers.

[@DreaxDK]

People complaining about their classes not being represented enough in the season *Cries in Fury Warrior/ Blood DK*

[@Ceece20]

Just about every tank, but yeah blood DK even more.

[@coolst0rybruh]

i am assuming "on accident" xD