Savage

AAC Light-heavyweight Tier (Patch 7.0)

The item level cap for AAC Light-heavyweight Tier is iLvl 735.

Frequently Asked Questions

[Naming] Why is the tier abbreviated with "M" instead of "A" or "R"?

When The Arcadion was announced, the immediate problem was what letter to use to abbreviate the tier as A1S - A12S is already used for Alexander.

There was brief discussion to differentiate the two with a scheme like "Ar1-4S", but that was quickly deemed unpalatable. Instead, the letter "R" was proposed because "R" was the second letter in "Arcadion", and "Ar" sounds like the letter "R" anyway.

However, when the tier landed and we learned the full names of each encounter, there was a debate over whether to use "R" or "M", given "M1", "M2", etc. was in the name of each encounter.

That being said, there were two possible naming conventions the development team would use for the subsequent tiers:

  • AAC Cruiserweight M1 (following Omega)
  • AAC Cruiserweight M5 (following Pandæmonium)

Without knowing ahead of time which scheme the development team would take, I chose to go with "M" instead of "R" because while both "R5S" and "M5S" are workable if the first encounter of the second tier is named "AAC Cruiserweight M1", only "M5S" really works if it were named "AAC Cruiserweight M5" instead.

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