Okay, first off the ones that typically boost, like say they buy all 20 keys in time for both fort and tyrannical, then immediately turn around and try to join a 20 pug. Simply are problem players that cause a ton of issues, and is why I pretty much always check IO to see if their legit or not. Given if you boost to your score you didn’t earn it, meaning you didn’t learn the dungeon and encounters enough to know what to do, when to do it and how to do it. Given it matter a lot at the high end M+ level that you learn encounters inside out as things hit hard.
Second personally I have no issue with boosting and people that buys boosts. For some its an effective tool for them to get clears in for their vault. For others its their way of getting KSM and that’s fine. Just don’t sign up for keys expecting to just be carried until you do enough runs personally to know the encounters well enough.
Third as I’ve said before, I take no issue with boosting, and I boost keys once in a while to make some gold instead of buying tokens. I take issue with people that use boosting services to inflate their scores, the turn around and wreck others keys. Cause they have no idea what their doing and typically just AFK at the start of the run while the boost is occurring.
So yeah, IDK why people get so wrapped up with people that buy boosts, its not a problem. I think it just stems from ones that bought their scores wrecking others keys, which is their fault for not looking at their IO scores when they seem to be a bit sketch. I.E. they have all 15’s in time for all keys on both week. It was amusing to see all the threads when blizzard added their own score system about how this would kill IO. It didn’t seeing as the blizzard score doesn’t show the number of keys they’ve run and what each spec score is like IO does.
Hear here! I don’t mind one bit helping legit players get better. In fact, I’m slowly coaching my entire, admittedly small guild on how to get better at each chosen class/role in m+. I spend a lot of time slowly helping them progress from being scared of doing a Mythic 0, to finally bugging me about running +15s(which I LOVE getting bugged about!).
It’s so infuriating getting players that have a high rating/ilvl but lack any semblance of skill or desire to improve. There’s a lot of them lately too.
I agree 100%. I would rather spend hours of my in game time helping even a stranger get better by playing/talking/enjoying the game together than to get pugged with the 2400 baddie.
I don’t like to have to spend so much time investigating if someone is legit or not, it’s really not fair but it’s becoming more and more common as the OPs attitude becomes more and more prevalent.
Anyways, not meaning to ramble on, it’s just that this outlined my primary issues with Boosting and why it’s not all innocent and a good yhing. It’s a freaking disgusting plague. And super annoying for gaming purists when the two cultures collide.
I boosted my m+ score so I could run +2’s to upgrade my gear instead in a low-stress environment. I wish this score was account wide… I’d run +2 all the way to 12/12 upgrade.
Boosting has been a thing since well before the token was ever a thing.
People aren’t going to stop just because the token exists now.
According to players on these very forums, gold is super easy to make and if you can’t make hundreds of thousands of gold in a short amount of time, you’re a terrible player and need to get good.
So the token isn’t pay to win in this scenario, clearly as per this very forum gold is super easy to come by. Just get good.
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How do you erase beating enemy teams to accomplish a rating goal and learning how to play your class and be aware of your environment? You have 30+ weeks to learn DRs lol
Seriously? What is this “you should have”? In what way does someone’s choice to “boost” impact another’s play, violate their right to enjoy how they play their game? How did one player’s opinion somehow translate into WOW fundamentalist dogma?
As for me and boosting, for years I enjoyed my solo adventures as a hunter, then came the Order Halls and battle pets specific to an Order Hall. I boosted two alts to make it a bit easier to get the pets.
Was my play in WOW horribly corrupted? Were those 2 boosts me succumbing to the dark side? Some clearly would say yeah, but me? I had fun and love the cookies
**I am editing this to acknowledge the frustration of players when a boosted toon cannot “carry their weight” in a group situation. I imagine that would be totally frustrating . . . and perhaps shows way more than a smidgen of disregard for the fun play of others. I get that.
I really cannot imagine taking my boosted druid into any group play situation without fully mastering her skills. She was created for the specific reason of getting the battle pet Broot. I love using her raven form to explore and do the daily pet battles. This is what is fun for me . . . and in no way I can see how it might detract from others’ enjoyment of their game.
I personally will just continue to play TBC classic, because I find it, and soon to be wrath classic, far more entertaining than anything shadowlands has to offer. But hey Retail gold lets me play for free. Hehe
Been trying to follow this thread so I don’t repeat anything, but I’m a wee confused.
From what I understand a boost is just getting a character to 50 or 60? So I have two hunters plus other alts on both Horde and Alliance. I’ve taken about 4 through the whole game before the level squish an two since then. I wanted a human hunter ( since I have two others,) and just boosted her in Bfa to 50. Been my main since.
So what?
I’ve toyed with a carry because from what I’ve read they help, not do it for you, and you learn how to play better.
I’ve been in guilds - their patience is very small.
now imagine if we could buy titanforged loot upgrades we could all be cutting edge ahead of the curve mystic raiders that everyone worships and follows on twitch
The term ‘boosting’ has become a generic term to describe buying a carry. Blizzard sells level boosts, which I don’t thing anyone is arguing against. The discussion is about paying for a carry to get gear and achievements.
I also dislike that raid.i.o and refuse to be judged. I’ve played since Mist’s. Going into dungeons are a nightmare. People leave you behind all the time and don’t help.
I read all the notes on boss encounters, but of course make the occassionally mistake. I have damage meter and usually in top two on normal and heroic.
So, if I don’t and can’t spend all day, nor spend evenings playing but would just like to experience (& learn a little along the way) some of these more difficult encounters, and maybe get a little bit better gear I don’t understand the “shame” factor.
No, no one cares about skipping levelling to 60 and anyone in this thread talking about levelling boosts is confused
A boost is paying other players to clear content for you so that you unlock achievements on your account that you’d otherwise not have been able to earn without better players doing the work for you
Like I said, from what I read you do it with them. Learning without the pressure. So why should anyone care? I don’t care about achievements. Better gear would be nice as long as I’m doing it along with someone who is more teacher than elite judger.
That’s not what a boost is. You aren’t paying to learn, or be coached. You are paying to go jump in a corner, die horribly, and let them do the job for you. There is no learning in the equation. Zero.
Yep, you wanna learn how to raid? There are learning groups, guilds that will teach you, casual/alts run you can see sometimes (unrelated but at 19:30 eastern time tonight, my guild is doing full clear of normal with alts, and we pug a few spot every time, we’ve yet not to clear the whole thing).
I get that.