wow Mythic+ Shrouded Hero Titles Going Out, Some Disqualifications

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Blizzard have shared that the Shrouded Hero title will arrive to players today an that they've disqualified players for abusing an exploit in both EU and US regions.

Season 4 M+ Title (Source)

The Mythic+ Shrouded Hero title will be going out to players today.

In this region, we had to disqualify some players who abused a buff from sharing a legacy quest to achieve their top scores.

The cutoff score of 3120 did not change following disqualifications.

Congratulations to all Shrouded Heroes!

[Couroxz 0]

I personally managed to reach 3321 score in S4 bringing me to the position of world 11 in my spec.

I did use the buff for 2 or 3 dungeons unknowingly, because apparently at that time it started spreading through the high end m+ community, but literally the following day, me and my team decided to not use this buff anymore, acknowledging that it is a potential game abuse and so, despite all others in our bracket using it, we did not (anymore).

Yes, we managed to do the world 1st Upper Karazhan run using that buff at the time, but we had ensured our position for the title way before that before those couple times and prior to anyone even being aware of its presence.

Yet, half of our team did not get the title, the other half of us did. It's a weird punishment honestly, and I can't easily explain it.

I could probably understand the ban applying to players consistently abusing it and actually managing to get the title ONLY thanks to solely runs with the buff, but punishing players that had ensured their position beyond the cutoff without runs involving the buff is just a little bit silly. I am quite certain that most (if not everyone) agrees with this stance. I have quite a few friends on 3.3k+ score that lost the title only because they used that silly buff over the last week of the season, which really doesn't make sense to me to be honest.

You can be the judges on this, but actually not distributing the title on realistic criteria and banning half of the players in the top m+ brackets just undervalues the significance of the title. Personally, I don't really care much about it (after all, raider.io shows the actual rankings in reality), but if you are trying to achieve something with your m+ reward system (part of which is the award of this title), maybe you should consider the essence behind this title and what it's meant to represent.