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Excellent movie and first time trial speedrun that I've seen. Hopefully other guilds take challenge and try to beat your time (and fraps it). There seem to be speedrun category at warcraftmovies but unfortunately there are no new 10 or 25 man movies in there. This movie should definately be there.
Not only this movie is great speedrun, it gives nice insight how world class guild raid leader is different from your average guild raid leader. Speech is fast but at the same time calm, clear and easy to understand. Even minor details are noticed and very few mouse or keyboard moves are wasted.
I think it's safe to say that ZA timed trial has been success among the better guilds and Blizzard should notice that. In end of the movie, it's argued that it might be possible to beat timer by ten minutes. In the future instances Blizzard should prepare for that and give even better rewards for the fastest guilds. Either do it by rewarding best groups per battlegroup/continent weekly/monthly or just make several tiers of time trials (several minutes apart).
Speed, if properly supported by developers, can be great way to create competition among the best guilds in MMoGs. It takes very little development time compared to creating extremely difficult instances for the minority. Although I'm not sure if all world class guilds would be happy to see this, as it wouldn't be possible to "brute force" best results by just adding more raid days/hours. You get only one shot per instance reset but IMO that's great way to test teamwork and personal talent.
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