The Burning Crusade Anniversary Phase 2 Overview
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Serpentshrine Caverns Parsing Rules
Hydross the Unstable
Damage done to Pure/Tainted Spawn of Hydross is removed.
The Lurker Below
Damage done to Coilfang Ambushers is removed.
Leotheras the Blind
No rules.
Fathom-Lord Karathress
No rules.
Morogrim Tidewalker
Damage done to Tidewalker Lurker is removed.
Lady Vashj
Lady Vashj is removed from ASP (Damage, Healing, Speed).
Tempest Keep Parsing Rules
Al'ar
Damage done to Ember of Al'ar is removed.
Void Reaver
No rules.
High Astromancer Solarian
Damage done to Solarium Agent is removed.
Kael'thas Sunstrider
Kael'thas is removed from ASP (Damage, Healing, Speed).
Other
Power Infusion
The amount of Power Infusions you can receive is capped at the amount a single priest can provide over the course of a fight.
Various Buffs
Battle Shout from the Warrior Class Quest is banned.
Traces of Silithyst is banned.
Fire Shield from Alterac Valley or Terrorspark
Whipped Frenzy
Blessing of Blackfathom
Mr. Pinchy's Sunder Armor
Eskander's Shred
Battle Squawk from Gnomish Battle Chicken
Various buffs/debuffs acquired from outside the fight are generally not allowed.
Please report to us at [email protected] if you see this or have any questions.
Misc Healing Exploits
Using Crystal of Zin-malor or Life Tap to pad healing parses will invalidate your parses.
Complete Raid
Complete Raid on Warcraft Logs means doing the full raid in one go. This has a clear starting point and ends when the last boss is killed. The Start/End point can be seen in the Speedrun rules below.
Doing a Complete Raid rewards you with Complete Raid parses. This includes Speed parses for Guilds and Boss Fight DPS parses for personal parses.
Boss Fight DPS
This is the parse for all boss encounter DPS combined, only counting kills. This requires you to do the full raid in one raid day.
Boss and Trash DPS
This is the DPS parse for all boss + trash encounters combined, counting everything. This requires you to do the full raid in one raid day. Everything (unless explicitly said so above) is included for overall boss/trash, even excluded adds, and downtime is not factored in.
T5 Speedruns
This article lists all the speedrun rules for T5 (Serpentshrine Caverns & Tempest Keep) on Warcraft Logs rankings for Fresh Anniversary Servers. If you have any suggestions or questions, please join us on Discord to discuss.
We have some general rules for Speedruns: - No pre-clearing is allowed. - Don't skip trash or pre-position using methods such as stealth, pre-summoning, or similar.
You should also read the general Speedrunning Rules on Warcraft Logs article.
Also note that speedruns also need to follow the banned parsing list. Any buff banned for parsing is also equally banned in speedruns as an invalidated boss fight will also invalidate your speedrun.
Speedrun Video Requirement
For the top 5 guilds at the end of the phase, you must upload a full, uncut video clearly showing:
Instance being reset before entering
Any in-instance assembly/summon prep
This video should be uploaded to YouTube and linked to the corresponding combat log.
SSC Rules
All parsing rules are primarily created based on community feedback, suggestions, or proposals. Join us on Discord to contribute.
Start Point: The Lurker Below or the trash pack closest to the instance entrance.
End Point: The run ends with Lady Vashj kill. You cannot validate your run by doing trash after Lady Vashj is dead.
SSC Trash Requirements
All mob packs around the following mobs:
6 Underbog Colossus (ID: 21251)
14 Coilfang Shatterer (ID: 21301)
16 Greyheart Tidecaller (ID: 21229)
6 Coilfang Fathom-Witch (ID: 21299)
20 Tidewalker Depth-Seer/Harpooner/Hydromancer/Shaman/Warrior (ID: 21224, 21225, 21226, 21227, 21228)
6 Vashj'ir Honor Guard (ID: 21218)
TK Rules
Start Point: TK speedrun starts with the first trash pack pull.
End Point: The run ends with Kael'thas kill. You cannot validate your run by doing trash after Kael'thas is dead.
TK Trash Requirements
11 Bloodwarder Legionnaire (ID: 20031)
3 Bloodwarder Vindicator (ID: 20032)
12 Bloodwarder Squire (ID: 20036)
4 Tempest Falconer (ID: 20037)
4 Phoenix-Hawk (ID: 20039)
4 Crystalcore Devastator (ID: 20040)
10 Crystalcore Sentinel (ID: 20041)
1 Astromancer Lord (ID: 20046)
2 Nether Scryer (ID: 20045)
4 Crimson Hand Battle Mage (ID: 20047)
In addition, WarcraftLogs also released its Tier 5 Progression rules, which will be in effect during tonight's Race to World First.
T5 Progress
SSC/TK Rules
As SSC/TK is a combined raid, we're adding some restrictions for the first 5 guilds to clear to prevent multiple raid groups from clearing a raid each for a combined rank.
Maximum of 28 unique characters allowed per raid group
You need to enter fresh raid instances. Having someone else pre-clear trash or skip ahead to summon while you're in the other raid is not allowed.
All bosses must be killed.
Please keep in mind that these rules are in place to allow for competitive and fair progression rankings. If you have feedback, questions, or concerns, please join our Discord to discuss.
If you suspect anyone of not following the rules, please report the logs to [email protected]
We highly recommend you save videos of your progress raid to prove you followed the requirements.
Spec Detection Updates
Read the full TBC Fresh Spec Info article for more.
We are making a few changes to tank detection in this phase.
Protection Warrior now requires 80% of hits taken in Defensive Stance (was 90%).
Warden has been reintroduced as a Spec, but not as a main/off-tank distinction.
Guardian = Now requires 80% of the fight to be spent in Bear Form (in addition to the other requirements)
Warden = The spec assigned tank druids that spend less than 80% of the fight in Bear Form. The tank requirements are otherwise identical.
