To be fair, I was boosting in vanilla on my mage and if it wasn’t allowed you would think it would have been nerfed in the past 15 years or so…
Turn off raid xp.
Players killing grey mobs grants no group xp.
Boosting fixed without ruining AoE farming.
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I highly suspect the boosting market is pretty much fueled by IRL currency.
The runners are usually not the best of english speakers, use macros with chinese characters. Like how is that not a massive red flag right there? If they were chinese speakers, playing legitimately they’d probably be on an asian zoned realm due to latency and proximity to same language speakers.
If you’re using chinese characters on a US realm… Come on really. What do you think they’re doing. We’ve known about chinese gold farmers for over a decade, there’s a song about chinese gold farmers and wow on youtube.
As for those paying the runners, well… if you’re boosting because “the grind sucks”, well me thinks you’d also buy gold with USD for the same reason. Is grinding for gold any better than grinding for exp?
It’s probable that the majority of boosting is fueled by USD. (yes, I do know there are some legit players who sell runs to keep the gold themselves, but they’re the minority)
And again… All of this stuff is databased and logged. The evidence is there for Actiblizz to review and act on if they desired. The fact that they don’t, means they really dgaf.
Let em do their boosting all they want. I see it as a way, that gold sellers can profit off those people, and of course, blizzard can ban the people buying gold simply because its a violation of the ToS. Use at own risk folks.
I’m on a dead server and I wish I could boost, mages don’t go for it where I play.
Be happy you could boost if you wanted to, you don’t know how nice something is until its gone.
I find it’s nowhere near the vast majority. How do I know? I regularly /ignore any player who offers a boost or asks to buy a carry, whether it’s in General, Trade, or LFG. Not one of my characters has hit the 50-player cap on the ignore list, but I see very few people looking to buy or sell boosts any more.
Now, one part of that is my choice of realms that I play on. PvE realms IME still have a lot of leveling going on. PvP realms do not.
(I’m on Mankrik-Horde and still regularly see RFC and WC groups getting together that are not carries, as well as RFK, BFD, SFK, etc. I’m also on Atiesh-Alliance and part of a social casual leveling guild with around 600 accounts, 900 characters, and usually 50+ online in the evening. I never lack for groups either in-guild or out - though admittedly having my highest two a 32 prot warrior and a 23 holy paladin makes it easier.)
Not that specifically, no. But players in vanilla did speed grind dungeons like SM Cath and Mara once they were 60 with some gear, and players in vanilla did find plenty of places where mob AI glitched.
Vanilla was constantly being patched, and many of those issues persisted for several expansions. They did start diminishing gold returns from low dungeons in a later expansion, so it was on their radar. Just not handled in vanilla.
Now, do you remember what J. Allen Brack said immediately following his “No. You think you do, but you don’t.” He continued that a legacy server would involve unfixed bugs, bugs that players would wish were fixed. Even during the development and near release of WOW Classic, one of the themes was that they were restoring vanilla, not trying to make development changes because they thought it would be better that way.
Seriously, if I’d like to see anything done, it would be a similar policy as they have for gambling ads. Gambling itself isn’t against the game rules, but advertising about it in any public channels is and can be reported as spam. If everyone who found boost/carry chat “spammy” reported it as such, and Blizzard chose to follow community sentiment as they have in some other cases, it could be cut back on considerably. (Those players could make their own channel, call it something like LFG-boost, and avoid it coming to that.)
I’ve not observed this at all.
They’ve nerfed xp earned in these situations multiple times. They reduced it even more during BFA.
I agree with that so much, but its up to Blizzard though
LMAO! you realise we actually did do this in Vanilla right? SM was my paladins second home for that very reason. sorry but no this is not a new thing in classic we did it in vanilla for alts and guildies.
While that’s true, I don’t remember it being very common until the end of vanilla and the beginning of TBC due the new races.
Obviously for guildies it was common, but those weren’t advertised like boosters are doing today.
I wonder how much boosting would be reduced by removing the exploiting bots.
I earn my gold from my professions and the AH I use some of that gold to buy boosts to get thru the rougher questing periods on alts. I mix both questing and boosting. Because I like to make gold and keep growing the amount I have instead of just giving it all to a mage. Also because these toons are primarily for more daily cooldowns for profit and it makes no sense to put a couple thousand into boosting toons that will only make me a couple thousand; but a few hundred gold I can do. Something I really should have been doing a very long time ago.
it was verry common… people just didnt sell them like now because we had close knit guilds…
You know… in the end, it seems like Classic isn’t for you.
Retail 
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A lot of people saying boosting was common back in vanilla, but I can safe for certain it wasn’t on Shadow Council. That server barely had 3-4 guilds capable of doing BWL and higher, and the vast majority were running around in PvP blues w/ a mix of MC purples.
Boosting is very much a new thing to me, a player that wasn’t on a heavy pop server and someone that never tried private. I honestly do not like it and wish people would stop, but I also don’t believe Blizzard should step in and block players from doing it.
Boosting does not require raid gear. It actually requires a certain amount of resistance gear in some cases and the rest can be like level 55 greens.
Just ban advertisement for boosting or carries in game and you wipe out the overwhelming majority of the problem.
The problem, and reason blizzard doesn’t actually do so, is it requires a paying a human to do the work and actually read chat and make decisions at a time when the money men have largely already nuked the cs division from the company to save costs… It’s also why right click report exists, and no one ever actually reads the reports anyhow unless you appeal (and even then you’re 50/50 at best)…
As with many things in Vanilla, things were not fixed until it became a larger problem or was simply fixed in TBC.
Ok Karen. Honestly what do you care.
Boosting is a symptom of there simply being VASTLY too much absurd levels of gold existing in the economy, and comically easy ways to farm even more.