Do not hurt legit players with an "anti-boosting" measure

Prefacing this by saying I don’t like boosting and wish it was banned in any shape or form. (including paid boosts from blizzard)

But banning it should not harm legit players just farming instances for gold. Paladin tanks aoe-farming Strat UD was a very popular gold farming method back in TBC, but with these new changes allegedly limiting you to 1 minute in combat before mobs start spamming unavoidable stuns, you can’t do that anymore. At least, not in any decently quick/efficient way. This is just one example, there’s lots of other instance farms that get broken by these anti-boosting changes.

To stop boosting, you don’t need to make drastic changes like this, you just need to cut EXP gains. This has been suggested countless times, just something simple like “if the mobs are grey to anyone in the group, exp gain is reduced by 95%”. That’s it. That’s all you need to do to stop boosting, at least for levels 1-55ish.

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They added anti-boosting to stop you from farming strat on purpose.

It wasn’t a mistake.

These changes are on purpose.

Can you stop trolling for once? All you do is rage bait, nothing else.

You have no legitimate claims on how this help solo farmers or solo dungeon leveling, all you talk about is how it will stop RMT which it wont, stop coping and stop trolling in the forums.

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And legit players farming strat for gold is a bad thing because……?

It drastically messes with the market because bots farm Strat and sell their items for real money. It directly ties into RMT. Do some research to sound more knowledgeable before posting on this forum. I’m all for opinions, but they should be backed up by legit facts, otherwise your opinion is moot.

Considering you need a fairly geared prot paladin to solo farm it, no they don’t lmao

Even if they did, nerfing a gold farming method isn’t going to stop RMT, it’s just going to make the bots move to the next best farming method. Gonna nerf that too? And then nerf the next one? Where does it end with hurting legit players in an endless cat-and-mouse game with bots?

“legit facts” lmfao

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Because if you can do it bots can too.

Also it’s way to easy to make gold which causes rampant inflation.

Also gold sellers will do it to sell gold.

You don’t need gold cap. You can make due with less gold.

better ban all methods of acquiring gold then, because “bots can do that too”

bots can quest at max level, remove gold from quests

bots can kill mobs for gold drops, remove gold drops from mobs

bots can sell things on the AH, remove the AH

lmao

gold cap

Ah yes, of course, wanting an easy and consistent instance farm = “you just want gold cap”