This is something that the community has been having some discussion over for quite some time now, and after reviewing the potential for a leader board for Individual Raids, I decided to implement, and create the entire Individual Levels board earlier. I've added all of the raids listed below, as it is every raid up until the release of WoD raids. I figure until we transition WoD off of our leader-boards (huge community discussion in the distant future).

Molten Core Blackwing Lair Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

Karazhan Gruul's Lair Magtheridon's Lair Serpentshrine Cavern Tempest Keep Battle for Mount Hyjal Black Temple Sunwell Plateau

Naxxramus Obsidium Sanctum Vault of Archavon Eye of Eternity Ulduar Trial of the Crusader Onyxia's Lair (85) Trial of the Grand Crusader Ruby Sanctum Icecrown Citadel

Baradin Hold Bastion of Twilight Throne of Four Winds Blackwing Descent Firelands Dragon Soul

Mogu'Shan Vaults Heart of Fear Terrace of Endless Springs Throne of Thunder Siege of Orgrimmar

• While many may, or may not be against this decision (granted, it was a personal one), I feel like it being away from the main board, a completely separate board, isn't hurting anyone, and possibly new speedtech could be discovered through Individual Raids.

• With individual raids not requiring the farming of heirlooms, certain rings, expensive potions, and rare elixirs; I feel like players can still crush their old raids, farm their mounts, but submit times with confidence.

I'm open to all discussion, opinion, organization of the board, and more. As far as verification is concerned, I'm not burdening sadrunslive with the mundane task of having to organize that board, nor verify, but he is all-willing!

Positives: Separate boards, playing their mains, chances of mount drops, chances of rare drops, in general, less RNG for Rare Mobs. Possibly even more competitive.

Negatives: Getting people to start recording and uploading individual raids / small video files. It being more activity feed for the game in terms of records, but users can turn this off themselves in their own options for the game.

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 ].

Something I brought up around the end of 2014 on the SpeedDemosArchives Forums was an idea about World of Warcraft speedrunning and categories. I've looked through the previous forum posts here on the speedrun.com page for World of Warcraft about suggestions as well, and thought I'd supply a few of my own:

• All Classic Dungeons (RTA)

• All Burning Crusade Dungeons (RTA)

• All Wrath of the LK Dungeons (RTA)

• All Cataclysm Dungeons (RTA)

• All Classic Raids (RTA)

• All Burning Crusade Raids (RTA)

• All Wrath of the LK Raids (RTA)

• All Cataclysm Raids (RTA)

¤edit: of course we would want to include the time taken to travel between each of the dungeons, giving the run some of the site of the overworld. it doesn't really matter that their flying dungeon to dungeon, but who knows, maybe certain flight routes are faster or slower.

¤edit2: i don't really think of this as anyway of us to inflate categories onto the board, or any of the sort, rather I believe it will allow us to utilize characters we've built from the ground up, doing a repetitive speedrun type motion, rather than doing the same with a level 1.

¤edit3: i really don't think Individual Levels works well at all, but categorizing them as a group, this i can see as a good idea. complete a dungeon, hearth or teleport out, and get to the next, once your "expansion's dungeons" are done, speedrun is done.

You get the point. Right now, I think it would be easy, and simple to keep it on a basis of (Normal) modes only, nothing being in a (Heroic) mode [unless it needs to be], and to just play characters that you would normally enjoy playing the game on, anyways. If these categories were added, I'd personally spend the next day or so completely filling out and routing them to the best of my ability for Mage classes and non-teleportation classes with Hearthstone.

There would be a strictly defined ruletset, but this is one way to get speedrunners out of the leveling mentality and into one more of "completing" an entire section, or portion of the game's history or lore.

There's much more that could be posted about, including a more defined ruleset if it was to be accepted, I personally wouldn't mind sitting down and watching hours of runs like this, it'd be more fun and interesting to me. Let's hear some community opinions?