Fresh Ahn'Qiraj Progress, Parsing, and Speedrun Rules

This article has all the various rules for parsing and speedruns in Ahn'Qiraj for Fresh Anniversary Servers on Warcraft Logs rankings.

Pending poll results, these rules (with the exception of Flasks) will also apply to Hardcore Fresh.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please join us on Discord to discuss.

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj Progress Rules

All bosses must be killed for full progress.

Boss Parsing Rules

All parsing rules are primarily created based on community feedback, suggestions, or proposals. Join us on Discord if you'd like to contribute.

The Prophet Skeram

Damage done to mind-controlled players is excluded.

Silithid Royalty

Damage done to Yauj Brood is excluded, and damage done to any bosses before they heal to full is excluded.

Battleguard Sartura

No rules.

Fankriss the Unyielding

Damage done to Vekniss Hatchlings is excluded.

Viscidus

Viscidus is excluded from All Stars, and damage done on the fight is excluded from Complete Raids (the time still counts).

Princess Huhuran

No rules.

Twin Emperors

Damage done to unmutated scorpions and scarabs is excluded.

Ouro

Damage done to Ouro Scarabs is excluded.

C'Thun

Damage done to the Giant Claw Tentacle is excluded.

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.

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 also 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.

Cooldown Restrictions

The only restriction for cooldowns in AQ is Recklessness. Excessive use of Reck (Currently any more than 3) will disqualify your run from Complete Raid metrics.

Other

Power Infusion

As PI on Vanilla is a pure dmg% increase, we attribute the damage gained back to the priest.

World Buffs

• Battle Shout from the Warrior Class Quest is banned.
• Traces of Silithyst is banned.

Items

The items currently banned are:

• Battle Squawk from Gnomish Battle Chicken

Excessive Life Taps

Excessively using Life Tap to pad healing parses will invalidate your kill.

Speedrun Requirements

The requirements below are needed to get a Complete Raid ranking for Fresh - AQ40, which includes Boss Fight, Boss/Trash, and Speed rankings.

A Complete Raid parse requires the full raid to be completed in one run. It is recommended to have multiple people combat logging in case of disconnects, releases, and general bugs.

We will also be moving towards using more general speedrun rules in all raids. You can read about these in the Speedrunning Rules on Warcraft Logs article.

Start and End Point

The Complete Raid (speedrun) starts with the pull of the Obsidian Eradicator or Anubisath Sentinel.

The run ends when C'thun dies.

You cannot validate your run by killing trash after all bosses are defeated.

Trash Requirements

Trash requirements are done mostly by the community. Join the Discord to contribute.

• 3 Obsidian Eradicators
• 8 Anubisath Sentinels
• 6 Qiraji Brainwashers
• 6 Vekniss Warriors
• 29 Vekniss Guardians
• 6 Vekniss Hive Crawlers
• 6 Vekniss Stingers
• 8 Qiraji Champions
• 4 Anubisath Warders

As these are the Era requirements, there might be changes.

Penalties

These are penalties for the Complete Raid metric. This includes Speed, Boss Fight DPS, and Boss/Trash Fight DPS.

Flask Penalty

Using [Distilled Wisdom] is limited to 10 total uses per raid, and [Flask of Petrification] is limited to 5 total uses per raid in Warcraft Logs combat. Using more results in a time penalty of 1 minute per additional flask. Outside of combat, you may use any number of flasks, as this can't be reliably tracked by logs.

The definition of "out of combat" is whether or not WCL thinks you are in combat or not. This may not match the in-game behavior, so plan accordingly. For example, trash fights can get combined on WCL if they happen too close together. Boss fight combats end when the ENCOUNTER_END event fires in the log, etc.

The number of flasks used can be easily adjusted, and we're hoping for more feedback to get to an agreeable number.

Swap Penalty

There is a 1-minute time penalty per character swap.

Time Penalty

Instead of having 'Without Skips' and 'With Skips' categories, we have implemented a time penalty for missed trash mob requirements.

If a raid partly misses the trash requirements, it will face a time penalty, which is 300s / [mob type count] for each missed mob.

Contact Us

We are always happy to hear your feedback or discuss topics on Discord. Join us to improve the raid requirements.

If you have any questions or feedback, you can also contact us at [email protected].