I for one applaud Blizzard’s decision to allow one boost per account.
It’s great because it brings people in that wouldn’t play otherwise, and hardly dilutes the value of playing because it only skips over old content.
More people = more fun.
More fun = more money for Blizzard.
More money for Blizzard = healthier prospects for WOTLK and Classic +
Kudos to you Blizzard.
How to Shill.
Go Boosts!
Retail low level alt approves of boosts. Imagine my shock.
I’m looking forward to six months down the road when we can buy as many boosts as we want.
But the slippery slope is just a fallacy, remember?
You’ve confused the direction.
Onward and upward!
Yep! And raiding will still require effort regardless.
Bring it!
Idk, idc if people skip 1-58, that’s like 1% of the game.
Boosts definitely will not ruin the game. People just want to be snobby and have everyone put in all the time and effort they did in classic to play it. Ridiculous some people have lives now as opposed to when TBC was out. Be real release the fun!
Crazy how having a life didn’t exist in 2007.
I wonder how we made it through those times with absolutely no one doing the jobs we ourselves now do.
Thank God they invented adults in 2015.
Of all the statements people make in favor of the boost this is the one that confuses me the most.
“Vanilla content isn’t relevant!” Ok well that’s an opinion we can talk about that.
“I want to play with my friends on launch day” hey it’s a social game I get it.
“I can’t level to 58 because I can’t no life the game” come on. Leveling isn’t grinding rank 14 or anything crazy like that. It doesn’t require no lifing. There were people with jobs and lives that played back in 2007 too
a lot of people were high schoolers when they had that kind of time in vanilla and tbc. a lot of vanilla/tbc players are essentially older millenials. myself i was like 19-20ish when vanilla released. if you don’t have MORE responsibility now than as a teenager, lol. you can make that dig. but games like this aged with us as we got older. most people were not in their 30s or 40s with careeers and families. those people NOW have these things. it’s not a hard concept to grasp. games with mass appeal as wow did initially are almost never made or marketed to adults with real responsibilities. they’re made for kids and teens.
I’ve seen multiple surveys done at the time placing the average WoW player at around 28 
so idk
Nothing anyone can do alone in the old world will matter for TBC. The community will not wait for them to catch up. People having to level up in the old world will be very fair behind.
Is your guild going to wait for people to level from 1 to 70 before raiding or is that leveler going to be too late to get a spot on the 15 smaller raid roster? People who are 70 and attuned will get to go to the raid over people who are still level 62.
I think most of the people opposed to the boost are instead proposing people level their TBC toons now or during the prepatch. The situation you’re describing doesn’t necessarily have to happen in a world without boosts. People can just level to 60 now pretty easily before BC drops. Especially once the prepatch 1-60 leveling nerfs drop.
theres this crazy thing called the prepatch many people are going to be using to get paladins and shamans to 60 before release
If people wanted to play classic they would already have a level 60. People who want to play TBC and don’t like classic shouldn’t have to play classic. I leveled 6 characters and it sucked.
And what about all the people who don’t start playing until TBC launched? If people didn’t want to play classic why would they play classic now just to get to the game they actually want to play? I don’t understand how it’s so difficult for people to understand leveling in classic is not fun for a lot of people and there is little to gain by doing it it’s weeks of wasted time.
PRECISELY! this is what I’m saying. People just need to come out and openly admit “I don’t want to level to 58. I just want to pay money to skip it.” I don’t agree with it but it is honest. It is the utter dishonesty people are saying like “oh I can’t no life the game so I can’t level.” That was what I pointed out in my original comment in this thread that you replied to. Then you deflected to saying they’ll be behind everyone else if they start right when TBC pre patch starts. I’m pointing out that that also isn’t true, someone could easily level to 60 now. That is even more true with the pre patch leveling nerfs. With all the 2.4.3 changes people could get to 58 in about 3 days /played.
They just don’t want to. Just come out and openly say that instead of insinuating that leveling to 58 just can’t be done on a casual schedule or something.
The point isn’t people being honest the point is the leveling part of wow sucks and it’s a chore especially in a dead world.
How do you know much free time people have? Who are you to judge others? What about people who only get to play on weekends? If someone could only play for 5 hours on a Saturday how many weekends of playing would it take for people who don’t already know World of Warcraft would it take to get to 60? And is that going to be something where they will feel like it’s time well spent? The quest rewards for non-group content is terrible in classic.
Anyone who starts leveling at level 1 when TBC starts will be very much behind and everyone who boosts to 58 will still be behind people in T3 with epic mounts, but they won’t be three to six weeks behind. There was no deflection.
People who don’t like classic won’t be playing until TBC comes out. People who don’t like classic don’t want to play classic if it was as simple as playing classic they would have already done it. Paladins and Druids suck to level in classic especially if someone chose Resto to level in dungeons and turns out there aren’t’ any groups.
Three days played is 72 hours that’s 14 weeks at 5 hours per weekend to play. you make it sound like a casual player will just sit down and knock it out over a couple of days. It’s not enjoyable game play and I hope people are able to boost around the terrible and irrelevant content so they can actually get a taste of end game content instead of always being behind.
No I do understand we’re on the same page. That is exactly what I’ve been saying this entire time. Look let me quote myself.
I literally understood what you are saying before you even posted in this thread. I get it. I have acknowledged this several times. People do not want to level to 58. I don’t know how many more times I can show you that I’ve been saying that this entire time.
Here is Heyford-muradin “People don’t want to level up to 58!!!”
Here is Velenno-Windseeker “People don’t want to level up to 58!!!”
There is no disagreement here. There has not been in this entire thread.
No check out many of these boosting threads. A good chunk of people are just straight up admitting they hate leveling. A bunch of others are saying that leveling can’t be done cause they don’t have the time.
Not judging anyone. 5 hours is hardly enough to even raid log in BC, much less get prepared to raid between attunements, reputations, gear, gold, etc. I’d say realistically you aren’t going to be able to accomplish a whole lot in the game playing under 10 hours a week. Leveling from 58 to 70 alone is probably going to take around 40-80 hours.
Ok leveling in healing spec is silly. Any hybrid class can heal any dungeon pre level 60 just fine without being specced into it. You’d just be making yourself 5% better at healing Scarlet Monastery at the cost of making yourself 100% slower at questing out in the world.
At 5 hours a week it is going to take 10-20 weeks to get to 70 from level 58. Probably another few months for reputations, attunements, and gear. I don’t think 5 hours is a realistic amount of playing time. They will still be behind in endgame content with that low of playtime.