MVP: Merit Value Points

Rate the people you group with. Earn a social rating, unlock titles and achievements, and climb the ladder of the best players.

The more players use MVP, the better it gets. Votes travel from player to player, so every new MVP player makes the ratings bigger and fairer for everyone. Tell your guild and your group mates about it!

Formerly Good Pal. Same addon, new name: your votes, ratings, titles and achievements all stay.

Some players make every dungeon a joy: they help, they're friendly, they share the loot fairly. Others leave halfway through. MVP lets you say so. When your group ends, a pop-up asks how it went, and every vote builds a social rating that every MVP player can see.

Rate your group

• The pop-up: when a group ends, it lists everyone you really played with: questing or fighting near each other, or a dungeon, raid or battleground together. Just sitting in the same party in a city or an inn doesn't count. Give each one a Merit or a Demerit, with an optional reason (Helpful, Skilled, Fair with loot… or Rude, Left early, Ninja looter…).
• Comments: add a few words to your vote ("Great tank, kept us alive!"). They show in tooltips, on the ladder and on the player's own My Rating page. The mature language filter (on by default) turns swear words in what other players write into #$@!.
• Right-click to rate: right-click a group member, pick Merit or Demerit, then choose a reason from the list and add a comment if you like.
• Rate later: the Groups tab keeps your last groups, so you can rate them later. Clear the list with one click; your votes stay. Each of your characters keeps its own groups.
• Left early: a player who leaves a party dungeon before the end gets a Demerit (Left early) by itself, and you can change it when you rate the group (up to 30 minutes after it ends). Never when the leader removed them, when the group ends together or votes to abandon, after the last boss, or in raids. One click in the settings turns it off.
• Roles, even without Dungeon Finder: MVP knows who tanked and who healed from the Dungeon Finder, from other MVP players (they share their spec's role), and from the classes that can only be DPS. When it still doesn't know, pick the role in the pop-up with one click.

See who you're playing with

• Know who joins: when a rated player joins your group, a line in chat shows their title and rating. A low rating comes with a warning sound.
• Looking For Group: in the game's own Looking For Group list, the MVP logo and the rating show next to each group's leader and each player looking for a group, and the best-rated players come first. In its tooltip, the logo sits next to every rated player.
• A badge on your frames: the MVP badge sits just outside your party and raid frames, so it never covers names, health or role icons. It finds a free side by itself, for rows and columns alike. The MVP's badge shines gold, and in parties players rated 15 or more get one too. Choose outside, inside, MVP only or off.
• Tooltips: hover any player to see their title, their rating and the newest comment about them.
• Their achievements: right-click an MVP player (or click them on the ladder) and pick MVP achievements. They show right away and keep up to date by themselves.

Allies

• My Allies: everyone you gave a Merit, with who's online right now (with or without MVP), a tick when they gave you a Merit too, and Whisper and Invite buttons to play together again.

Ratings, titles and ladders

• Social rating: every Merit is +1 and every Demerit is -1.
• Titles: from Stranger to Friendly, Reliable Teammate, Trustworthy, Sigma, Goated, Built Different, Absolute Unit, Paragon of Friendship, Exalted, Legend of the Realm and Gigachad (500+). At the other end: Sus, NPC, Lazy Peon, Rage Quitter, Ninja Looter, Pull Goblin, Leper Gnome, Griefer and Irradiator 3000.
• Badges: The MVP (number 1 on the ladder, rating 5 or more; there is only one), MVP of the Week (number 1 of the last 7 days) and Mentor (Merits from players at least 5 levels lower).
• Ladders: everyone, the best tanks, healers and DPS, the Mentors, and this week. With search and filters (all players, your guild, your friends, people you grouped with).
• Guilds: the friendliest guilds, by the average rating of their players. Number 1 is the Friendliest Guild.
• 31 achievements: from your first vote to Legend of the Realm, with Lifesaver for healers, Old Friends, Jack of All Trades, Second Chance and many more. Click an achievement in chat to open it.
• My Rating: your title and badges, your progress to the next title, your stats, what people know you for, your roles and what people wrote about you.

Fair play first

No group, guild or pack of alts can gang up on a player.

• One vote per player: a new vote replaces your old one.
• A vote can change for 10 minutes after you cast it, then again only after you play together. Taking it back always works.
• You can only rate people you really played with (questing or fighting near each other outside cities and inns, or a dungeon, raid or battleground together), after some time together (3 minutes by default).
• A vote only counts when it comes from the player who cast it, so nobody can vote in someone else's name.
• One group: at most 2 Demerits count (votes within 3 hours).
• One guild: at most 3 Demerits for a player count.
• A player's own guild: at most 3 Merits count.
• Grumpy voters (70% or more Demerits, 10+ votes): their Demerits don't count.
• Votes from players rated -5 or lower don't count.
• Votes from characters under level 10 don't count.
• Demerits stop counting after 90 days.

Tooltips and My Rating show how many votes didn't count and why. Demerits and their comments are anonymous; a Merit comment shows who wrote it. Hide anyone's comments with one click (players on your ignore list are always hidden), or turn comments off in the settings.

Shared with every MVP player

Votes travel through a hidden chat channel, your guild and your group, so the ladder grows with every player who uses MVP.

• A chain from player to player: MVP players pass votes on to each other: from guild mates to friends, to their friends, and on to their guilds. You see the votes of players you are never online with.
• Fast: a new vote reaches everyone online within a minute or two, and your whole guild at once. When you log in, you catch up with what happened while you were away within seconds.
• Fair: votes passed on by a stranger only count when 3 players send exactly the same ones. A friend or a guild mate is enough on their own.
• Light: only what's missing travels, never the same thing twice.

You can turn the hidden channel off and share with your guild, group and friends only.

MVP also catches up quietly with a player when you see them or when a friend comes online, so what you see of them stays up to date. It never writes in party chat. When a newer MVP is out, one line in chat tells you (one click in the settings turns it off).

How to use

• /mvp opens MVP (/pal works too).
• /mvp rate rates your last group again.
• /mvp pals (Allies), /mvp guilds and /mvp achievements open those tabs.
• /mvp test shows the rating pop-up with sample players (nothing is sent).
• /mvp status shows the connection to other MVP players.
• Minimap button and an entry in the game's addon list.

Support

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment. Screenshots help a lot.

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