What % actually got the armored drakes?

xyruul · 06/19/07, 5:27 PM

There are 3,264 5v5 teams in Vengeance on the armory, the top 8 got mounts. Thats half of the .05% it was quoted as being.
Anyone else ask around and get results for their group? I heard 2's and 3's got the full .05% but I didn't confirm with any teams myself. I only asked the teams in 5's

Yes · 06/19/07, 5:36 PM

No one in 5s got it on ruin as far as I know. Quite odd, I am waiting for my ticket.

Corfius · 06/19/07, 5:39 PM

On Cyclone in 3v3 my team didn't get any (we were 16th yesterday out of 8500 teams or so). Another team who were 14th didn't get anything either.

*edit* We got the duelist title too. We were definitly in the top 0,5% (even if they only took the 5000 teams on the armory). It seems the % was moved lower without notice.

Chosimu · 06/19/07, 5:40 PM

Yeah... my 2v2 team was most certainly top 0.5% but we got nothing.

Furio · 06/19/07, 5:41 PM

As far as I can tell, the Reckoning Battlegroup has not received Titles or Drakes for 3v3 or 5v5. Perhaps it's Bonechewer only.

Crossbones · 06/19/07, 6:06 PM

Originally Posted by Yes

No one in 5s got it on ruin as far as I know. Quite odd, I am waiting for my ticket.

our 5v5 got theirs. Me, being only in the 3v3 and 2v2 teams did not get one.

Aphyrax · 06/19/07, 6:09 PM

Has anyone gotten a drake yet? Maybe they are verifying all the drake winners by hand and kick out all the exploiters that had others level their arena team for them (which incidentally is what I proposed in another thread). They did the same thing for the arena tournament after all, even though for different reasons.

EDIT: Too late, someone posted that they got theirs.

Corfius · 06/19/07, 6:14 PM

Some people apparently got theirs and some didn't. I can't find a specific pattern to those who didn't and those who did (overall rank compared to people who got them, if they played their 10 games last week etc.).

It seems Blizzard messed up.

Bibdy · 06/19/07, 6:17 PM

Show of hands who expected this kind of thing to happen. This predicament, the tournament exclusions and the tournament itself are really speaking volumes about how poorly implemented this whole arena system is. They really need to get their acts together before they start promising even bigger and better rewards for the winners at the end of the next season.

xyruul · 06/19/07, 6:20 PM

Now that the WoW forums are up, there are hundreds of complaints about the lack of drakes, guess we'll get a response soon enough

probiscus · 06/19/07, 6:30 PM

A few of my guildies got bumped out of the top .05% (after being there the entire season) yesterday, due to games bugging out and them losing about 100 points w/out ever having played a game.

The screenshots of the convo's w/ the GM's are pretty infuriating - basically the GM saying "Have you checked the main WoW website? It has lots of information about the game there."

Keline · 06/19/07, 6:37 PM

For some reason I don't yet understand decent ingame customer support is not possible in this genre. Writing a ticket about something more complex than "Stuck!" is pretty much a waste of time.

Aphyrax · 06/19/07, 6:46 PM

Originally Posted by Keline

For some reason I don't yet understand decent ingame customer support is not possible in this genre. Writing a ticket about something more complex than "Stuck!" is pretty much a waste of time.

Think about where GMs sit on the food chain. I would think many are quite knowledgeable, but for the sheer abuse potential they probably have a very strictly defined set of things they can do. And since its a first-time thing, Netherdrake issues are probably not on the list.

I transferred my character between accounts while being the leader of an arena team. That left my team stranded, because I was kicked off the team when I transferred but nobody else was made leader (I was still listed as being on the team and am still listed twice on one of my teams, I guess you get a new player ID when you transfer, but they don't completely purge the old one). So I pentitioned a GM. He didnt know what to do and told me to petition again. So I did. The new guy refered me to some restoration specialist, who (after I told the same story the third time) refered me to some senior restoration specialist who was finally able to help me. So issues with character transfers need someone on the third tier of GM power to be handled. I would not expect anything less when it comes to Netherdrakes.

Keline · 06/19/07, 6:53 PM

Yes and that makes some sense (the first GM should have been able to redirect you though, making you petition again should get him fired imo)

but straight out telling people to read stuff on the website when it clearly won't help? Sorry, that's unacceptable

Yes · 06/19/07, 6:56 PM

Originally Posted by Crossbones

our 5v5 got theirs. Me, being only in the 3v3 and 2v2 teams did not get one.

Interesting. Our 3s team got theirs (3rd). We placed hmm, 7-8th~ out of 4146 teams, so that certainly should put us in the clear.

Crossbones · 06/19/07, 7:22 PM

It's probably just a misplaced decimal point which is dumb since it is the most obvious thing to doublecheck. Not that I have the riding skill to use mine anyway.

Huntemup · 06/19/07, 7:32 PM

My 2v2 team was not awarded a drake. We did get the "duelist" title. We were 40th out of 13500ish teams as of Monday
night. So we either got bumped out of the top 68, or they only awarded the top .5% of the top 5000 teams, rather than of the cumulative total.

Corfius · 06/19/07, 7:36 PM

There's a theory going around that hasn't been disproved so far. If 2+ teams are tied (same rating) only one received a drake.

For example on one server 2 teams are tied at 2400ish. Only one got their drakes and a lower rated team on the same server got their drakes also.

So far it's not:
- You must have played 10+ games last week (it's not true)
- The percentage changed (as teams with lower ratings got one while teams with higher rating got nothing on the same battlegroup)

Still nothing from Blizzard

Vitae · 06/19/07, 7:58 PM

My 2v2 team (tied for 13th or so out of about 14,305) got our drakes - tied for 27th place 3v3 (out of about 8k or something) did not. The 34th rated 2v2 team (not tied, though there were 2 teams tied for 32 above them) did not get it either.

Neera · 06/19/07, 7:59 PM

Originally Posted by Furio

As far as I can tell, the Reckoning Battlegroup has not received Titles or Drakes for 3v3 or 5v5. Perhaps it's Bonechewer only.

I'm also on Reckoning, but 3v3 got their drakes (at least on Firetree). There's a warrior that received two in his mail (for 2v2, and 3v3).

But for 5v5 I'm not sure, according the armory update today my team should have received armored netherdrakes but we didn't.

Huntemup · 06/19/07, 8:01 PM

Blue Post from the Official PvP forums.

We're currently in the process of investigating instances where the end-of-season rewards may not have been provided to teams that should have received them. As we're still in the process of collecting information and investigating we're unable to comment at this time on what exactly occurred, or if there was indeed an error in how the rewards were provided based on the stated criteria.

We'll provide more information as soon as we have a clear and final idea of what the issue is and how it will be addressed if necessary.

-Drysc

Link for good measure: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...o=12&sid=1#237

probiscus · 06/19/07, 8:02 PM

Originally Posted by Keline

but straight out telling people to read stuff on the website when it clearly won't help? Sorry, that's unacceptable

For some hilarity:

Just a real bummer for the guys that worked hard all season to specifically GET the mount, only to be hosed out of it by the smallest % at the last minute due to no fault of their own. Then to be met with such impudence / ignorance from a GM is pretty mind boggling.

Crossbones · 06/19/07, 8:21 PM

the arena is "separate from the game" ? That's pretty insulting.

Yes · 06/19/07, 8:26 PM

Clearly we must go to worldofwarcraft.com, because it has a lot of information for people new to the game.

gia · 06/19/07, 8:35 PM

Sounds like the GM was clueless and thought the player had a problem with the Armory. He clearly had no idea what the arena was.

I'm very curious to see what happens here in euroland tomorrow afternoon. Also, a couple screenshots of armored drakes would be nice.