Can we finally make boosting a bannable offense in classic era? Sure, it may have been ok at launch but now its just ridiculous. Every cluster is filled with “WTS BOOST” stuff all day and its flooding the LFG/trade channels. Normal players can no longer find groups because of it. Also, most of them are just gold sellers anyways. Retail was made 100% better off when it was made bannable there. Can something finally be done about it?
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I doubt it cuz blizzard would lose 80% of their subs. LOL
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Boosting is something else. I was astonished how fast someone went from low 50s to 60 I think in a day or so.
I don’t have that kind of cheddar to spend on gold, but there does seem to be an innate RMT mean, or at least incentive, to do use RMT.
It took me Sat-Tues to grind from 53 to 59. x.x;
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I have notice it a bit more difficult to find dungeon groups on my warrior then hunter a month ago.
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No. This is exclusively a megaserver problem. Consider playing on the less densly populated realms if it is unbearable.
For reference, the PvE West Cluster is composed of 4 realms:
While the 13 PvP East realms are made up of 2 separate clusters of 5 and 8 realms:
Additionally, 3 OCE PvP realms are clustered:
Further, the RP realms of:
- Grobulus (RP-PvP West)
- Deviate Delight (RP-PvP East)
- and Bloodsail Buckaneers (RP-PvE) *
are available.
As you can see, there is no shortage of places to choose for playing Classic Era outside of the free Xfer realms. If megaservers aren’t for you, consider playing on any of the realms listed above.
*Bloodsail Buckaneers is currently host to a large portion of the ‘hardcore’ (1 life, no revives) playerbase.
I’m curious how 60’s will look. Gonna do another post on my impression on Era once I hit 60 (probably by the end of the week) and then another post eventually on how raiding goes.
Dungeons between 50-60 so far are kind of a crapchute. (at least for a DPS)
I think they will be ok. There is a large population that are in the 40-50 now.
As far as raiding. I know no idea since I joined a guild. I dont even bother looking at LFG for raids.
Hardcore will be worth it for the sole reason that there will be no boosts
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I’m in a guild at the moment and been through a few since I started, all of which tout ‘leveling guild/friendly/helpful’ but aren’t.
As someone who use to be an officer in guilds back in the day and an FC lead in FFXIV, the ‘circle’ in guilds are almost impossible to get into.
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Have you not seen LFG channel lately? Its 80-90% “WTS BOOST”. Its harmful to the gameplay of normal players
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Completely and utterly wrong. There are no mega servers in era and yet there are plenty of boosters now. What a dumb post.
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I’ve been in two leveling guilds… One was ok and Hallowfury (currently on my war). Both have been ok and very active. Just what you want in a leveling guild. =)
I tend to ignore chat unless I am looking for something. But, yes… I do agree with you it sucks to have 90% of chat full with boosts sales.
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The PvE realm population is terrible right now. Hard to get any groups that are 50+. Plus, I want to to PvP. You are telling me I cant play the game how I want to because of this stuff? Why would I join a European server cluster if I am not European or OCE for that matter? Also, the RP servers are filled with hardcore BS players only and those servers are ruined because of it. So no, there are no other server clusters to go to
The President of Acti-Blizz sells boosts along with almost all of WoW’s dev team over on retail, they will never ban boosting.
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Except for the ones Blizzard actively maintains free Xfers to from all other Era servers. The OP bemoans something that is exclusively observed only on the highest populated realms while simultaneously saying it applies to all of Classic Era.
You’re entirely wrong.
50-60 takes only a few hours, not an entire day.
a few hours? how, please do tell…
Well I don’t do drugs or boost so for ordinary people it takes longer.
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Your claim:
My advice:
I even provided a list of all the NA options for your convenience: the 2 PvP east clusters and 2 RP-PvP realms.
The solution to your problem already exists.
ZG boosts takes 10-15 mins a run on average & 1.5-2 runs per level.