The eighth week of Mythic+ in this season is over, and Nightstalker314 is taking a look at the weekly data provided by Raider.IO. With voidcore upgrades available, run metrics didn’t drop overall; they increased slightly by 0.54%. With 9 extra item levels and even more incentive to farm keys at +10 and beyond, the focus clearly shifted towards the high-end. And despite the Ascendant affix, success rates got boosted by the overall power gain to a new record. But let’s look at the details.
Weekly Total Run Performance Compared To Other Seasons
Not all regions saw an increase in activity. The US servers dropped by 2.48%. Meanwhile, the EU was more invested with 2.33% more runs. The increase was even larger in Korea, with 2.77%, but on a global scale, its absolute value doesn’t have a big impact. CN and TW servers both reflected the global trend with 0.57% and 0.52%.
Regarding the four regular regions, MN S1 is still ahead of all TWW seasons for total runs. And the drop-off from week 1 is also getting closer. All in all, MN S1 has been quite stable from week 2 on. With week 9, the devs uncapped the crests. And in week 10, we will get another dungeon event quest week for alt gearing. After that, we’ll see if MN S1 can keep the 10-15% drop off pattern of previous seasons. Bonus rolls have clearly reduced the reliance on vault RNG for now.
Total Runs Across All Dungeons
The split across all dungeons didn’t shift much this week. Skyreach climbed two spots within the order. With this, the two best-performing dungeons hold the top two spots. But ranks 2 to 4 are within just 6,200 runs. Ascendant was the worst affix so far during this season. And despite the 2nd appearance, the overall power boost from upgrades increased the overall success rate by 1.05 percentage points to 92.52%.
The order of favorite dungeons was almost coherent with their in-time percentage. Pit (94.00%) and Skyreach (93.61%) were the two easiest and most favourite dungeons. Seat (93.11%) and Terrace (92.56%), though, were close behind, but way less popular. Academy (92.30%) and Spire (92.23%) were still within just 2 percentage points. And the gap between Nexus-Point (91.69%) and Maisara Caverns (90.06%) was once again the largest within the roster. But Caverns improved the most in the last 2 weeks. Maybe practice makes perfect.
Split Across All Key Levels
90.25% of all keys were completed at key level 10 or higher. With a 32.96% share, +10 was still the most popular key level. But +12 was catching up with 21.85%. For China, these metrics are more extreme, as usual. Almost 95% of all runs were already at 10 or higher. And the gap between +10 (31.32%) and +12 (25.15%) was much smaller. For week 9 so far, their order has already flipped. The voidcore farming kept the total numbers for +10s just above the week 7 value (+0.94%). Key levels 3 to 9 dropped by 11% to 26%. Level 12 run numbers increased by 18.81%. And only key level 18 and beyond saw a larger relative growth. With the first timed +24, MN S1 now has the highest key level ceiling during a regular season after the key level squish.
The overall increase in the success rate (+1.05 points) looks good. But this is mostly due to all keys above level 11, where Ascendant was no longer active. Between 5 and 11, the in-time percentage dropped by up to 2.78 points. Only key level 10 improved by just 0.3 points. This affix is still punishing. Meanwhile, the upgrade benefits increased the success rate for key levels 12 to 22 by between 0.4 and 15.71 points. With 97.11% for key level 10, we saw the highest value for vault farming in all of M+ history. And with a better affix, week 9 might once again beat this value. M+ has never been easier.
Conclusion and Week 9 Forecast
Power progression has almost hit the ceiling for this season. Usually, M+ got easier from season to season. But where can tuning even go from here for the average player? High-end players will always find their limit. Maybe in Midnight, the tuning will get harder instead of easier from season to season.
As of this writing, 120 hours after the US reset, hourly numbers for the major regions are all over the place. US runs are 6% behind. For the EU, the drop-off is close to 19%. Maybe these players capped out all crests below myth and saved themselves dozens of extra runs through trade-ups. The lifted cap barely impacted CN numbers, though, they are almost identical to week 8. We will do further analysis on this in the next breakdown.
