I first want to start off by saying all of these changes are a collective thought to what everyone in the community seems to want and we've been discussing it in the unofficial discord and wanted to wait to put it all in one forum post.

I should also note, this post is both for VGP but is also for the summary of all the things we would like to see happen with Wizard101 Speedrunning as a whole

Obviously VGP is the only mod left from the old days of Wizard101 Speedrunning and the man is a legend, but I think it's time for some new mods to be added and everyone seems to agree. Possible people to be added would be Fraxker, Myself (Malamber) and SamNotWell. All of these people have been a huge part of lowering the times and coming up with guides and new strategies to make the times even lower and they are all people that really enjoy speedrunning Wizard101 and want to help with the moderation of the game.

In my honest opinion having an official Speedrun discord can help wonders introducing new potential players into our small and welcoming community and hopefully grow it. Fraxker has gone and made an official discord for it if these changes get implemented and we would love it for you to join it VGP, so we can finally have an official discord :)

Link: https://discord.gg/kRa8mct6vW

Everyone in the unofficial Discord and even others like Tech and VGP have been open to the Co-op category for a while provided both perspectives are shown for verification. SamNotWell and Myself have actually made a "mock up" run of sorts to demonstrate what Co-op would be like. Not only is this a very fun category that I think a lot more people would run as opposed to solo categories but it also opens up the door to a bit longer runs like Krok% etc. Overall I just think Co-op is a really cool idea and after all, the game is meant to be played with friends!

Co-op General Akilles% in 17:38 | by SamNotWell & Malamber Link:

I'll just end this big forum post off with a big thanks to Fraxker, SamNotWell and ItzGray for all the suggestions, and help with coming up with the ideas and sharing their opinions on this. I would love to see these changes be made and I look forward to seeing where this goes and thanks for being awesome VGP :D

Nice post! I took a look at it and here's what I've done:

Mods: I don't mind adding another Verifier or two to test the waters of things with potentially getting new mods on board. To be safe, I would likely wait a bit before making new people full mods, but verifiers at least could look over other people's runs and we could get them approved faster, since it wouldn't just be me. If I added people as verifiers though, I would still like to look over their own runs personally for a while, just to be safe. But I could delegate other people's runs to them for verification.

Discord: I added the discord you listed under w101's speedrun page. Originally I think people were coming to my discord as sort of an unofficial place to discuss things, but I don't think it was actually listed on the game's page. If it is there somewhere, let me know and I can try to remove it. Otherwise, the discord you listed should be the one showing now.

Co-op: Decided to just go with it for the four main cats, modified the rules a little at the bottom to add clarity. So Co-op runs will be separated from the singles runs and have a few additional rules. It should work if people submit runs though it, my tests seemed to. But let me know if there are any issues upon submission. The individual levels I didn't add Co-op cats for though. One is a dead run, the other cannot be done with someone else, and the third (unicorn way) while it COULD be co-op up until rattlebones, I didn't see much point. But if you guys think we should have that Co-op as well, I can still do it.

Regarding Legacy runs: I'll likely remove this marker at a later point and merge the two leaderboards since it is becoming redundant. The purpose of separating them before was because the game changing update that caused them to be separated seemed like it made runs slower, and thus, older runs would've had to have been invalidated if not stored this way. Since the new runs seem faster for most cats now, it seems pointless to still have it, besides non US server runs, which still use an older version of the game. So if we find out the non US servers get the update and all cats have been beaten their legacy counterparts, I'll probably merge both boards again.

Thanks for your post and interest in the community :)

Regarding the potential merging of Legacy and Current, I would recommend to add Legacy/Current filters beforehand while its easy to apply to all the runs that are categorized under their respective wizard city patch. This way it will be easy to tell which runs were completed before the wizard city patch and afterwards.

I think currently HL% Current is the main thing that is still needed and most likely will be for a decently long time. All other Legacy WRs have been beaten on Current. I agree with Tech's suggestion to still have it as a variable but not as a subcategory. Maybe until EU gets the update there could be a subcategory for EU potentially because despite it being the same as Legacy, it is the only one possible to run currently.

Rather than "Normal" just do "Solo", self explanatory. Would agree the merge makes sense after EU server updates.

I agree it should be "Solo" and "Co-op". It just makes more sense.