Just a suggestion for blizzard if they bother to read.
however i think the boosting issue can be solved and the player base kept happy with 2 simple fixes/changes.
Revert heirlooms back to their original state of bonus xp, people were more inclined and excited about leveling with the old heirlooms as the xp bonuses were great for alts, i think if the changes have shown us anything its what a mistake changing them in the first place was. Time to revert them back to xp bonus splendor and do away with the terrible changes we were given.
provided change one was done so people have a legitimate fair way to speed level alts, Xp could be nerfed into the ground for all players grouped up X or more levels apart, this would resolve the issue of grouping with higher levels to be boosted and encourage play and grouping with players around the same levels. what that range is i don’t know but maybe 5 would be fine?
Either way with these 2 simple changes you fix the issue or power leveling without punishing anyone and fix an error that shouldn’t have occurred to begin with.
Why not just ban the boosting communities outright? oh, wait, because they bring in millions of dollars in token sales. that’s all that needs to be said here.
You know this happens to you because you [edit: “most likely”] have engaged in their services before or have interacted with someone in that community right?
Here’s a hint:
^^^ That isn’t Blizzard’s territory, and you have to friend or follow someone or some specific Discord to get that.
Regardless, spam in-game is a part of what online gaming is. There isn’t a single online game in existence that doesn’t have it. There are plenty of addons to help you filter all that out.
“Boosting” doesn’t tend to mean power leveling, though. People might do that, but you can pretty much powerlevel solo now and that’s not what most mean anyway.
“Boosting” = “Paying gold for a carry.” I don’t really care if people do this but I reserve the right to think such people are paying to not play the game. I’d rather play for my mediocre gear than spend money that buys gold to get a slightly higher ilvl or otherwise skip the point of most content.
I don’t know about everyone but I essentially play in order to upgrade my gear. Once I hit a gear plateau I start bringing up alts. So paying for a carry would only cause me to abandon a character quicker, and for that reason it’s silly to me.
But other people can have at it, I won’t care. But I also wouldn’t care if they banned carries, what with it not affecting me either way and all.
All of that aside from the discord one is a banable offense however. The last point only if its done outside the service trade channel.
All of what you said, at least on EU, are all RMT sellers and those couldnt care less if you just bann them. They would just return with a new account.
I play on a high populated server and I never get in game mails, Discord spams ( has nothing to do with blizzard, leave spamming servers). I also never seen calendar invite spams or almost anything you mention here. “every in game chat spam” is also an exaggeration, you can just leave the chat channel they are spamming or put in on a different tab.
As i said: EU. If they are indeed boosters for gold (and it not just being a bait to lure you into RMT) then they are still breaching the rules if they advertise anywhere but the service trade channel. So Blizzard did already outlaw it, just their execution of said rules is lacking.
If people wanna waste their resources getting boosted have at it as far as i care.
On topic, you can level cap from starting levels in a few days as it is without playing 24/7, i could only imagine how fast leveling would be if looms got reverted back to their old good selves
Dragon flight leveling is good that being said the new player experience is bad for multiple alts / veteran players so giving xp boosts back to heirlooms is a good fix/bandage but truly the focus needs to be on-boarding new players and fixing the early game experience
Wouldn’t mind an heirloom revamp. The rested bonus thing seemed to be a rushed idea. Quick fix to replace the xp bonus removal. When they should have just buffed the stats to make up for the xp nerf, instead of some gimmicky rested xp thing. Power leveling was always a thing since TBC days at least. Until Blizz nerfed just about every way folk used to do it anyways.
