most people who have been subbed to retail all along (like we have) have done the vanilla/tbc leveling 39487593847593478593485 times. it wasn’t until recently that you could just choose wherever you wanted to level. the fact that private server players see it as “special” or whatever doesn’t matter to me, or blizz. i releveled the same pally 5+ times in actual vanilla. and again in tbc. and again in wrath when i came back with my new account. i have 20+ characters on this account alone that have done vanilla and tbc leveling. the fact they don’t understand that is hilarious to me tbh. “sanctity” my behind.
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Could you do this in Vanilla!? I don’t think so.
Could you do this in TBC? Totally.
Guess that settles that 
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lmao nice way to move the goal posts.
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LMAO please tell me youre trolling
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They could have added those areas at any time. Those areas have nothing to do with the rest of TBC.
THAT settles it.
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You mean the areas specifically designed for the two new races that they’ve already clarified will NOT be eligible for the boost?
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NO it DOESNT LMAO trolling so hard
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They are 100% trolling.
Paid actor hired by blizzard as a Yes Man to push the retail agenda.
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Dungeon boosting is a much smaller problem in TBC… the best class for it (paladins) can make 500g/hour in Strat or Scholo soloing.
Which means your boosties need to collectively clear 500g/hour to be worth the time.
Are people still going to want SM runs at 50g per arm/cath lockout, per boosted player? Especially when the xp penalty is higher since you’re being boosted by a 70, not a 60 now?
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yall private server players got the #nochanges you wanted for classic at the expense of everyone else. you had your time in the sun. now they’re catering to retail vets who want to take a trip down nostalgia lane. don’t like it? don’t play. isn’t that what you told all of us?
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“Oh hey WoW is reintroducing TBC! That sounds like fun. Wait a sec… i would have to start at level 1 and spend a huge amount of time levelling through content alone before i get to outland and can play with my friends, and still be weeks behind them in every other aspect? Nevermind”
also a very real possibility.
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they can make even more by selling raid gear, arena rating, and whatever other character progression they want. oh but THAT would be ridiculous of course, your characters actual progression through levels though? (you know, one of the most fundamental aspects of most rpgs) that doesn’t matter at all! boost away!
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Some of y’all are so sarcastic it seems like you’re playing both sides…and it’s sus.
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Pay to win is always an interesting topic. Most discussions are always limited to only the RMT aspect where someone can invest real money to gain an advantage in a game. No one seems to consider the other form of pay to win that exists where someone can invest TIME to gain an advantage in a game.
What I find interesting is the fact that these two populations are inversely proportional to each other through the relationship between their forms of payment. All people receive a 24 hour allocation of time at the start of each day; that is to say we all start off on equal footing as far as time goes. People trade that time for many things: money through work, family, friends, sleep, etc. Some people end up with lots of time left over while others have traded nearly the whole allotment.
If you listen closely to most of the boost detractors, they tend to talk about how boosts somehow cheapen their accomplishments. What they are really trying to say is that it minimizes the VALUE of their TIME investment. This is understandable since they have chosen to trade their abundance of excess time for game progress and people using boosts are trading their TIME for MONEY and then converting that into game progress at a much more efficient rate.
Both approaches ultimately trade time for game progress. They are both pay to win, just using different currencies at the checkout…
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I think the people who are okay with buying boosts with gold instead of from blizzard just like the illusion of working for it they get because they’re sitting in-game.
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those aren’t the same thing and your slippery slope argument is a poor one at best
if you want classic leveling play on a classic server. those aren’t going away
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I think you’ve got it backwards there mate.
The private sever players are the ones asking for boosts.
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they may not be the same but they are all character progression
if you want boosts play retail, that’s not going away either
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1 i never played private servers
2 classic was/is pretty fun, ive enjoyed it immensely
3 dont like it? go back to retail
4 another monk go figure
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i imagine a lot of vanilla/tbc alliance pallies (such as myself) saw the #nochanges brigade and what they did to classic so we didn’t invest in a pally in classic cuz it seemed like blizz would never do the right thing towards pally players. so we played other classes and did other things. at this point, when i boost my dwarf pally, he will be a reroll of a toon i’ve literally played since the beginning who would ALREADY be leveled if it wasn’t for their BS. there’s a reason that that specific thing is happening. it’s cuz blizz knows from actual tbc (not private server) data that people will either quit or reroll horde for seal of blood. i know i did (quit i mean)
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