If possible, and applicable, I would like to apply as one of the moderators of the World of Warcraft speedrunning posting community. As such, I'd do my best to provide the best resources I could, and time, to the community.

I have nearly 11 years in knowledge pertaining to World of Warcraft, it's lore, it's changes over patches, and other misc. information. I have nearly 4 years in high-end Ocarina of Time speedrunning and routing experience, and I am easily approachable for help and encouragement (concerning routing and running, etc.), and I'm always active and would know what to look out for during verification.

This isn't to say sadrunslive is doing a bad job, but it would allow us to have some extra man-power when it comes to verification and postings. I'm very active on the forums, and am adamant about introducing guides and resources, that of course would take some time to produce.

[ Some of this kind of information is archived in old threads, where it should be in Guides or Resources ].

I will add you as a mod as I think you share a lot of the same ideas I do about the game being a speedrun. My main goal is to keep relevant runs in the forefront and give the game a reason to be run, and keep it from becoming a mess of 100 categories with 1000 possible modifiers. I understand you want a lot of categories added, but categories need runs before they can be expanded upon. Runs need videos at the time of submission to be verified, we do not accept screenshots unless expressly stated in the categories.

I appreciate the addition to the WoW Moderating team for speedrunning. I also believe we share a lot of the same mutual cares and respects about this game being more than just an MMO, but also a speedgame.

• My main goal is to keep improving, keep finding more routes, and to ensure the integrity of WoW isn't "meme-filled".
• By "meme-filled" : I mean like you stated, a lot of categories are arbitrary modifiers that make slight changes.
• There was a debate a long time back I remember about allowing heirloom rings, but here we are :p

The only thing I can say about me getting more runs up and getting the videos up, is that I render everything from OBS, then re-render to compression in Vegas to about 500mb, and that's about 8 hours to upload on my crappernet. That's the only reason I was using my submission spots as place-holders, they aren't on the board yet, not verified, and are more so I can edit the posting sections without "mod, he edited it again", but I do also want to help, of course.

All Vanilla Dungeons All Crusade Dungeons All Wrath Dungeons Level 1-20 (No Heirlooms) Level 1-20 (Heirlooms, 0%)

(I plan to have videos completed, uploaded, and rendered within 2-3 days for these categories).

I, could honestly care less about Raids eventually getting their own tabs, I think raids are way to much of an over-world thing / should be a group effort thing anyways. Blizzard already sponsors guild-races at events to speedrun raids anyways, that's exposure to it enough that we don't need to do it, it would be arbitrary to add here I feel. I'd say into the future there's possibly a chance we could do IL boards, but that's still a far stretch for Raids.

C~

One of the only things we have asked for, that wouldn't be too hard, would instead of using Potion and No Potion, is it possible to have three tabs set to (0%,300%,600%) this isn't adding more categories, rather just organizing our board further, and there's an in-game stipulation to that titling of a category, because they could of used an Elixir. This was just a suggested by myself and biscuit approved to be a good idea.

The reason it's potion and no potion is because technically speaking, rapid mind is a potion and ancient knowledge is an heirloom. Ancient knowledge is boa, like every other heirloom, it just doesn't share the item quality. To make it easier, it's just been lumped together for simplicity's sake, but if you want to go through and recatigorize the runs based on usage, be my guest, but I believe it's going to fracture runners more than anything. If you think it will be better, go ahead and add it.

I can see the reasoning behind potion and no potion now, as it doesn't share the item quality. I wouldn't mind going through and watching which ones (and sometimes, time is obvious) which used 0, 300, and 600.

It may fracture runners, but it's going to make runners realize what they are getting themselves into. The potion runs are actually rather optimized, and a newer runner may not want to take these on, especially if they aren't as financially invested (gold-wise), nor time-wise to have a lot of time to run.

Edit: The newly added IL's, which are shorter, and the new method behind IL's and Dungeon runs I think will bring in a lot of popularity. Heirloom runs are fun, but once again, it's almost as if we need a max toon to be able to do these, so why not have a separate board for the higher toons, who may have already gotten decent times in Heirloom runs, and also dividing it up once more to 0%, 300%, and 600% divides that investment up once again. I think me and Conjuredbiscuit just had that idea simply because it was a wording stipulation, and experience stipulation.