Chat is nothing but GDKP/Boost spam or people asking to hop layers at this point.
And just like layers, the Chronoboon is still in the game, completely damaging its open world.
The automated report system still is being shamelessly exploited and a real annoyance for people like myself, constantly being required to write tickets to get false penalties lifted.
Now we even have a PvP system that renders gear that was once very special, and for people like myself, who never intended to put in the effort unobtainable, meaningless. Everyone just receives it as a handout now.
Thanks to all that the quality of the community rapidly goes downhill and people who want to play Classic are once again driven to private servers.
The fact that a large portion of players just tolerates all this garbage also means that its only a matter of time for the WoW Token to be introduced to Era. Lets be honest, you will all do nothing.
People wanted Classic to flee from all this junk and here we are watching the game die once again.
The automated report system still is being shamelessly exploited and a real annoyance for people like myself, constantly being required to write tickets to get false penalties lifted.
That’s a new one. What are you doing that gains the traction of so many false reports?
I’ve been playing a bit on Whitemane recently so I know the boost/GDKP spam is a problem there, but just like 2019 you get a better experience on a PvE server. You just miss out on world pvp (which can be a dealbreaker for some, and I can understand that).
Im leveling on whitemane and can agree with all the boosts/gkps being offered in chat.
Chronoboon did nothing for those that pick up the world buff and raid log anyways. While the world was alive at low levels. The 50+ zones are just about empty. At Felwood I saw some 60’s from both factions up and about. But still surprisingly a hand full. I’m not sure if people are pushing toward 60 or give up early. I know I see complaints about 60’s ganking in redrige, duskwood and especially STV. I hope those guys arent scarying people away.
Dont know where you were for launch but after a phase or 2 things went downhill really fast. Pretty much a super sweaty RMT nightmare. Not surprised to see it happening again with the influx of players.
So far the most fun Ive had with Classic was when the clusters were dead post TBC launch. Id feel bad asking for it to return to that state so I wont but the game is at its best with a niche audience, not a mainstream one.
Even so, its up to the individual player to find a group or guild that stays away from that stuff and just plays the game without exploiting it.
Chronoboon is awful and should be removed from era. They should have instead made world buffs infinite duration but lose able on death to encourage pvp
I said this on another post recently: People say they love the “classic leveling experience” its about the grind, the interactions, etc… LOL! what a joke. Over half of the population for classic buy boosts, does gdkp, buys gold. Its a swamp and its infested. People dont actually care at all about the experience ur suppose to get, nor do I. even tho i dont do any of the above theres really no point to invest as much time into it as people like this when they can just “cheat there way to the top” and get the best gear.
This is how they fix it: Ban gdkps, do SOM anti boost mechanic, add joyus journeys, dont add max level boost, no wow token. This is a start.
Baseless and misplaced blame, you’ve admitted as much before with the drop in population being the primary cause of these woes. Yet for whatever reason, you deem it appropriate to give instanced PvP queues a free pass for destroying wPvP more than the boon ever could
Chronoboon single-handedly removed the reason for raidlogging due to world buff timers. Was this the only reason people raidlogged? No, but it elegantly resolved that specific issue. It’s working as intended.
Clearly is not retail as I have stopped playing retail to play Classic Era.
Player behaviors can be ignored. I will have to see how some things are once I get to 60 like the GDKP, but so far, everything is about the same as I remembered it back in '05.
I am currently leveling in classic era and all lv50+ zones are dead. I am willing to bet 90% of people are still raid logging and the only thing chronoboon prevented was pvp really.
I’ve watch some BWL/AQ/Naxx runs and at first I was like “what the hell are they talking about EVERYONE BOON!” then I got it. Oh, how much fun is that… you boon for a boss and then boon again to save the buffs. lol man that is revolutionary.
Just get rid of Wbuffs or leave it alone and let pvp happen.
Before chronoboon was introduced “pvp” was the last thing that was happening when it came to world buffs.
Priests camping portal zones for hours as a ghost just to disspell buffs, NOT pvp.
People not logging in for multiple days because they needed to save their buffs
Warlock alts out of bounds summoning entire raids to avoid traveling with buffs
This romanticized idea of fully world buffed raids engaging in pvp on their way to raid happened for like 1 month before everyone did everything in their power to circumvent it
Oh, how I watched people totally ignored said priest instead of killing him over and over again. The sad part is you dont need wbuffs to raid. I didnt give a sh1t about it and I would go around ganking people in felwood or BB. My guild use to camp BRM and force people/guilds to layer hop.
I can see wbuff being a necessity in a sweaty hardcord guild but for the normal raiders it wont help them not stand in sh1t, not die in trash pulls. Just get rid of it for all i care. =)
I personally don’t like world buffs cuz it makes the already easy content even easier and the whole cooldown timer schedule weaving you have to do to get them all is just annoying.
If world buffs are going to be a thing in classic though then the chronoboon was necessary to stop the community from ruining the game for themselves because the masses cant help but conform to the meta the tryhards create.
My guild in classic was a pvp guild as well as a somewhat tryhard raiding guild, and the world buff meta really conflicted with this in the later phases of classic, half the guild wanted to wipe alliance on the way to raid and the other half would throw a fit and ruin the vibe of the raid when people died and lost their buffs. Chronoboon allowed both to co-exist
