That’s what they seemed to indicate during the deep dive video. However, I also see this as an opportunity for those of us who’ve been playing for a while, and want to try something different. Warriors and paladins are netoriously slow levelers. Some folks might want to boost one of those.
It’s a remade version of a fourteen year-old expansion of the game.
Get the hell over it.
And another thing; it’s funny that you say Classic should be about the experience but I sure as hell don’t remember there being players with years-old knowledge of old content playing back in 2006 when I first started playing.
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I’m trying to level a Warrior. I’ve gotten to level 20. I’m buying a damn boost lol.
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name changes were in it too
Accomplishment, value, classic.
One of these words don’t belong.
Lol. It’s a 15 year old game. What achievement is there?
Super Mario Bros. is 35 years old but people generally consider beating it in less than 5 minutes an achievement.
Super Mario Bros. is a game that has an ending, and the first game still had a secret that allowed you to skip ahead in progression.
World of Warcraft is a game that never ends. Every piece of content that TBC Classic is promising is still in the retail version of the game and has already been conquered by people at least 12 years ago.
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I do love the passionate. Thank you OP for this beautiful post.
I think you missed the point. My point was because a game is old and people have beat it before does not mean there is nothing to accomplish in it.
Anyone complaining about these boosts is just being obtuse. It doesn’t hurt anyone and I hate to break it to you all but a lot of people loathed Vanilla because of the tedious, unfun level grind. I did it a few times and it gets old.
If you’re worried this will make TBC more “retail” well another news flash, TBC was the first giant step into retail with flying mounts, pvp gear being used in pve, broken classes and many issues you still see in retail.
If you hate retail that much then stay in classic vanilla.
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Well, according to the new survey (check classic wowhead), they might not even be able to do that. Get ready for the forums to get really loud over the next 24hrs.
I hope they charge $100 +
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Just release a couple fresh TBC servers with none of that boosting bs, so whoever wants to pay to play a watered down version of the game can opt to do it.
And the rest of the players that enjoy the leveling experience and want to play on a server with a good economy without the vanilla hoarders and thousands of tailoring/alchemy alts, get to play the version of the game they want to.
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So quit and move on, quit whining
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This is hilarious on so many levels. First and foremost the Classic experience is vastly different from Vanilla, so comparing accomplishments is silly. Leveling isn’t at all some major accomplishment. People have multiple 60s on multiple accounts these days. If Blizzard wants to offer a ONE time 58 boost that can’t be used on BE and Draenei, I can’t even imagine the issue. I mean you’re foaming out the mouth about “skipping 99% of the base game” you clearly haven’t been playing Classic at all. What the essence of the game should or shouldn’t be is irrelevant because Classic exists and how the game is played is vastly different from what you’re describing.
This isn’t the first release of TBC.…This is meant for people to either experience TBC again for nostalgia or for people who missed out on the release of TBC the first time around. If a buddy wants to come back and play TBC but hated Vanilla so didn’t bother playing Classic, he can now come back and experience TBC similar to how he did back in it’s original release. This is a win for everyone, I feel like trying to gatekeep that experience adds nothing of value to TBC Classic.
TBC CLASSIC should be about playing TBC CLASSIC…
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Stop posting, OP.
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Because Blizzard is part of Activision. The company has shareholders it wants to make profits for. They are not in this business to hand out freebies.
I want the boost, if you dont like it, dont use it! Yes I am already 60 but have friends that are casual that want to come back and play TBC but cant do the long grind.
then they cant do tbc 
youll have fun when they quit cause they cant do the rep grinds
Not a real argument.
You could also argue that with the boost they won’t quit but without it they will.
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