I bought the cheapest bundle on the black friday sale, used the boost. I don’t feel anywhere near ready to jump into endgame.
You cant be serious… there’s no 1 that can believe that you just have to be a contrarian just to be a contrarian… you can’t be that… (insert bad word here)
I am 100% serious.
There is a rather large amount of the community I’ve seen in the game, and on the forums, that just can’t be bothered with Rep grinds. Despite wanting the rewards they offer. Because it takes a lot of time, or they find that gameplay to be tedious.
It’s also NO secret that you can cheese most raids a few weeks to a month after RWF ends due to the nerfs they implement. You just farm M+ gear, and join a group of really high geared players who just farmed M+.
It’s also no secret, that while yes I believe M+ is a challenge, a LOT of the M+ community argue that M+ is actually really easy for anything that’s not 20+ and that key number is always increasing when they talk about it.
So in theory, yeah, there are players who just aren’t suited for certain types of content, versus those who are.
Not to mention, where is the outcry from the typical Forums crowd? The ones who complain at say a new Store Mog. That is solely intended to be a Pure Cosmetic ONLY from the shop?
Because doing this literally takes Cosmetics that you earn in game, which is something they say ALL cosmetics should be. But then handing them out for $60usd.
This is highly arrogant.
Elite PvP and Mythic Raiding Appearances aren’t even locked to being “good” it’s locked to paying in game gold, or having a team of people that know what they’re doing.
Only Elite PvP is achievable somewhat on your own these days with Solo Shuffle, and even that has Team play involved.
So it’s disengenous to try and act like the 1 type of gear players can earn effectively on their own and by themselves as a solo feat, is somehow them just not being as good Billybob and his nephew Georgie who is an obvious carry for the team, with an ilvl score that isn’t even fit for the normal raid. But they both get the appearances because they’re part of a team that mostly knows what they’re doing. Like those appearances are not down to an individual.
It kinda already is. If you get X renown on a DF rep, you can get on a fresh alt and buy the cosmetics and most of the other items off of the Renown vendor.
War Within will work similar to that, but a bit better. They’ve said they still want items that involve any kind of player power to require the alts to be renowned up somehow too. But they’re looking at the system with those things in mind.
Edit:
The concept is the exact same.
Taking a COSMETIC reward, and giving it out without the work, but instead using a credit card.
There is no reason that a Mythic Tier appearance
should not also be sold by Blizzard if they’re willing to just sell cosmetics obtainable in the game through their systems.
This is just flat out not true.
You get taken to Renown 20 for the first 4 reps
2 go to 30, 2 go to 25.
20/25 is a LOT more then half
and 20/30 is like 68% or so, which is almost 3/4 of the way done, not “a little over half”.
The only one that gets a little over half is the Loamm one.
Not to mention the significant rewards from those reps are granted at like renown 19 or 22. Making them freebies now.
Like at least when they introduced a SL Renown Catchup it was fragmented.
You had Renown and then actual Rep. Which both rewarded different things entirely. Not to mention that the Renown catchups were obtainable through in-game gold, and not through a cash shop boost.
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All this effectively means is Blizzard won’t stop at any point to make a buck. I know it is stating the obvious and all the forum defenders are going to slap this one down but it still needs to be acknowledged.
The mantra used to be all about the gameplay but this move shows how very far they’ve strayed from that path.
Once I get to “grind” status is usually the point I call it quits for 8 to 10 months. Then come back roll a lowbie and repeat.
Bring Your Hero up to Speed with the Enhanced Level 70 Boost
get real and stop charging gouger prices for the boost and maybe I’ll buy one.
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What did you win? Your way to some boot cosmetics? 
Suggestion: let us use this enhanced boost on characters already level 70. Some of us have too may alts as it is and I would rather boost the gear and rep of my main.
Thanks.
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This is actually the root of my issue with an “enhanced” boost. I shouldn’t feel any pressure (or desire, really) to “boost” a character that is already at the cap. Level boosts, I am fine with. WoW is designed to begin with the endgame. But paying to skip establishing yourself in the beginning stages of that endgame? That feels off to me.
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It is off I and I wouldn’t buy a separate boost for this but since it came with the expac it’s like… why not? Ya know?
Key word: marketing.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have a boost bring someone up to where a lowly or moderately played alt would be (depending on your playstyle).
Some people are simply ok with it. Or are people “conditioned” if they disagree with something?
If people are interested in these boosts, Bliz will make money and continue to offer them. If they fail because players believe it to be pay to win and are offended, Bliz will remove them and offer something else. I assume it’s mostly alts using it anyways, but if it helps someone new come into the game, it’s a good thing.
Personally, I don’t see an issue adding things to a boost that any alt would be at/under. Heck, some people will be buying this with in-game gold. If they offered this right at the beginning of an expansion, to get such a rep boost and gear in season one, I’d be offended. This late? Not so much. Timing it with the expansion purchase timing means it’s out there anyways.
This kind of thing makes me not want to play anymore for real. It’s just depressing.
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If your enhanced boost lasts more then 4 hours consult your physician
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Are you even playing?
I wasn’t. Wasn’t really interested in DF.
So do the same thing. Oh, you can’t? Must have been playing WoW instead of earning some disposable income.
Yea, this doesn’t feel like a good trend. Allowing to jump into the game with a load of stuff feels like cheating.
There’s also the fact content is getting easier and faster. Is it just so boosts have less of an impact? Idk, faster pacing is nice for alts but seems the game itself has suffered from it by losing proper narrative/progression development. Anyway, this might affect the game health overall with people feeling less motivated to do stuff and more pressured into spending money.
I had hoped Warbands would help content get better pacing and progress, by adding some cross-character progression, as things would get a little slower but many alts would benefit from it, but now Idk where it is going.
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You aren’t using the argument that none of your characters are at 20 yet as a reason why this is bad either.
I meant I wasn’t at 20 renown with anything because I wasn’t very interested in DF.
Being able to use the boost on my main would be cool.
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Yes. But they were acting like the idea is offensive because they’re not even at 20. If you aren’t there now, you barely played, which makes that argument pretty irrelevant. It’s not like someone grinding every day is getting passed up by someone coming back from not playing since BFA.
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