The boost is coming and in some ways it is a good thing!
It will bring players back to the classic project. That is a good thing.
It empowers bots and that is a horrible thing. I will be fine with the boosts as long as there are fresh TBC servers with no boosting or cash shop available (for at least 6 months). I’ll happily start back over from level 1, leave my geared characters behind along with the gold to buy their epic fliers, transmutes, bank alts full of profession materials etc… In order to play on a fresh server.
I feel the server would be very popular, it would start at the beginning, making the old world and the journey validated again, and it would be comprised of a community of players who are willing to give it all up to start again meaning their very mindset is less likely to foster to gold selling, RMT, and mage boosting. On the flip side, those who spent hundreds or more are likely to stay with their current servers as they are vested in them.
If no people (or fewer) buy gold, then the bots are inconsequential. Plus there would be more people on the ground to report the bots meaning blizzard (hopefully) would be willing to do something about them. They allegedly ban some bots - I can only assume it is the bots with the largest pool of reports.
Boosted bots on other servers would be able to immediately slink away into BRD and make 200+ gold an hour, or more after the level 250-300 profession materials become much more valuable with the release of TBC.
I am not against the boost. More players for the classic project as a whole keeps it going - and allows us to get to wrath as well. I never played wrath - I finished sunwell and was annoyed with the deathknight and how OP it felt when it started at level 55 in the prepatch for wrath so I stopped playing around then… But I heard wrath was great from many friends and look forward to trying it out for myself this time around.
But I feel like fresh servers are a MUST. This is where I will be playing. I know my voice is in the minority, but many voices are silent as they are not currently subscribed until the fresh server announcement is officially made. I have a few friends waiting for it.
Then how do you quantify a retail boost? In retail, multiple expansions are skipped by a majority of the player base, time after time. That’s where this whole issue started. Boosting should not exist. While there’s 33% faster leveling 1-60 in TBC launch, and that % only increased throughout later expansions. It’s a fair paradigm, that forces people to learn their classes and actually Play. The. Game. Get mage boosted and buy gold, that’s certainly available, and community driven. Stop filling blizzards pockets on these greedy microtransactions.
Lmao. Go play Black Desert or Final Fantasy XIV if you want to skip subpar content. This lore and gameplay is the best you’ll ever see for an MMO. Enjoy it breee
We are not talking about retail boost so I really don’t understand what the point of this is but I’ll bite. Even with the reduce XP required to level in TBC, leveling in retail wow is still WAY faster. People are skipping content in retail if they level a character either way. I leveled a warrior from level 1 in retail about a month before Shadowlands came out. I went right into Mist content via Chromie to level there and got to 50 in just 2 zones playing for just a single day.
Good lord, I have seen so many people say this. Wow is not a hard game. Give me any class any spec and within 2 hours I’ll know how to play it. I don’t need to play a class 1-60 to understand it. I also know most of the current wow player base can do the same. If you don’t believe that is the case, then that is really just reflecting your skill in the game.
You keep on talking about playing the game but then say you are fine with mage boost. What do you think the people are doing while they are getting mage boosted? Spoiler, they are not playing the game either. So what is it. Do you want people to play the game or not?
We dont like mage boosting or paying blizz to do it for us. Can we have neither?
This is simply a blizzard cash grab and I’d wager 90%+ of the actual classic population, not retail, absolutely hate the idea.
Boosting in any form is unhealthy for the game. Leads to a dead world and fotm rerolling. Meta chasers also see this as a golden ticket to insta roll the best class and then the class scale is tipped so out of whack that raid comps suffer and gear droughts happen.
Boosting is just bad period, unless you are Bobby Kotick and stand to make another 100 million dollars in bonus pay so you can lay off another 80 employees.
Cool… thanks for your addition to the conversation.
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Have you been playing Classic? Do you know what the world is like right now?
There isn’t going to be “fotm” rerolling. We already know what is going to be strong in TBC. Also again, have you played Classic? Do you see how many fury warrior are running around? Did those people need boost to reroll to a strong class?
Yes, retail is at a point where you have multiple options on how to level based on the geographic complexity alone. Not to mention leveling in retail can be done by an 8 year old (seen it happen). But sounds like you had a good time, and that’s what’s up.
You would be surprised how many “New” players came to Classic wow at launch a few years ago. “How do you define New?” Think about 2004 -2006 when and a large majority of people didn’t have the compute requirements / ability to progress. Now, Classic is a different experience for most, especially if you didn’t get progress back then, so yeah it is a lot to take in. I’m not saying it’s hard, but there are a lot of elements to the game to figure out… not just learning your class**
I don’t think you understand what a microtransaction is… When I say “Play The Game” It goes like this; hit the power button on your PC, plug in some comfortable peripherals, find some friends (high level mages), and start fighting. That is what we were brought here to do.
This made me stop leveling an alt. You might say blizzards decision caused me to unsubb until TBC right? The answer is yes it did. I was leveling an alt for tbc and seen the boost and said to hell with doing another 60 ill just wait. A lot of you would scream, SEE BLIZZARD!!! You force people to quit!!! rawwwwwwwwwrrr!!!
But when I come back if i boost I have to pay them w/e the boost is which is probably MORE than my sub from the time I unsubb to tbc release
Its a win/win for blizz Activision are the elite of milking money outta sheep gamers.
If you are someone that did not play Classic back in 2005, but did play wow in later expansions, you understand how the game works. Sure you have to learn some Classic only mechanics, but none of those are hard and do not require leveling a character to 60 to understand. But you did have to level in Classic and will still need to going forward, so its really a moot point.
If you believe that Classic TBC is going to bring in a massive amount of new players that never played wow at all then we are just going to disagree because I don’t think it will.
At the end of the day Boost is going to bring in a large amount of players that did not play Classic. Weather it is retail players or people that played TBC back in the day. Leveling is a massive time sink and being able to skip that is a positive to a lot of people that also has no negative impact on 70 content.
If you enjoy leveling to 60, you can still do that.
If that’s true then why are there a whole bevy of new quests to show boosted characters what skill levels, talent points, and class trainers are? Surely if the boost was for people who had already played Vanilla/Classic content these quests would not be necessary?
Because it doesn’t take them long to add the quest and there is going to be a handful of people that it will benefit and it doesn’t negatively affect people that do not need them.
But to answer your question on why they added them. I don’t know. I didn’t see anyone on the forums or Reddit or in game ask for them to add those quest. But it’s no big deal that they did.
Did you really need to ask this or are is this comment suppose to be some sort of “got ya”
Of course we are going to play… the boost will allow friends to hop into the action who quit at level 30 and it will be fun like always. It’s principal of following the greedy retail store scheme, which is a core fundamental of classic, to bring back the essence of achievement. P2W is just getting old overall… that’s all. I know devs and sw companies need to make money, but blizzard is extremely established and reports very high earnings. So, this isn’t really about the game, the game will always be great no matter what. It’s about Blizzard turning into greedy scum, taking every angle they can on the store, and giving lazy c-level people 2mil bonuses etc., That’s a separate thread lol
Who did you think was creating classic?! The retail devs gave you classic wow and you expected something else?!
The moment you realize that you are nothing to them the better. They are there to make $$$. If you cant handle that you know what to do. Either the product is worth it to you or it isnt, No amount of you trying to tell others to play your way changes that
