Please feel free to explain how farming gold is not playing.
Players are selling boosts.
That is not “pay to win”. That is the community. This has existed before you could buy gold with $. But some of you knuckleheads think that the second $ drops in, its “pay to win”.
I did GDKP runs even back in Wrath, and all the sudden, some people who never actually touched a game where you “had” to pay hundreds of $$$ or get wiped off the screen think this is “pay to win”.
Some of us easily can even pay for these boosts without $… like me.
I said that?
pay to win—in order to get your foot into a solid guild, you must provide achieves/logs and show your gear. many many players wind up resorting to buying carries/boosts with gold or REAL MONEY just to get into a guild. players have convinced the community that boosting helps everyone–players can get into guilds (w/zero real xp) and boosters make their gold…blizz also wins by ALLOWING boosting for it makes them more money via fomo and need for instant gratification
I’m not sure what you’re asking, but make friends and join a guild with nice players and i promise you won’t have to keep thinking that anyone with a high ilvl is a mean tryhard elitist. There are a lot of genuinely nice players out there who are happy to teach
Pugging is definitely rough and most likely a horrible experience, but as soon as you have one nice person to play with everything in the game becomes so much friendlier (and when you find that person, you won’t have to pay them to play with you)
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if you know of a guild, like what you describe, please share…i would LOOOOVE to join a guild with a guild mentality that runs content to earn achievements. i’ve only been back about a month and have YET to find a guild on either faction that is what you describe. i am told by the vast majority: git gud and buy boosts
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At this point, your making crap up or talking about this miniscule population cause that “token” touched you when you were little. It’s pretty damn impossible to buy a “sweet parse” (without someone actually controlling the joystick for you), and most guilds ain’t going to care bout your epeen score.
This is a good analogy for buying a carry I think.
On one Skyrim save I did the whole infinite enchant bug just to try it, and sure I had godly weapons and gear but I quit that run faster than any other, by far. When you get the best stuff with no effort where is the satisfaction and fun? I’ve never bought a carry in WoW, so perhaps it’s different, but I imagine it would be a very similar experience. It’s like people are forking over cash to take the fun out of the game. I just don’t get it.
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I stopped playing with guilds because my degenerate schedule doesn’t allow for it anymore sadly (i play between midnight and 6am EST) but small ~20 people guilds have generally always worked out the best for me
The day raid consumables stop being ridiculously expensive is the day I might care about boosting being a problem.
it’s called account share (hop on booster discord and give them auth #)…boosters/carriers provide that service daily. how do you think mt/torghast boosts/carries happen? i have yet to find a guild that does not heavily rely on parse too…so i guess most guilds are about epeen size? if you know of a solid guild that does not rely on that, please let me know.
That practically sounds like “as god intended it!” Lol
It’s nice you help - I don’t think I understand the, “you die” part. From what I read on two different sites that’s not how it works. Idk
I’d like to try more difficult content, but if the majority of the replies on this thread are who I’d be hoping to play with one might at least comprehend why one doesn’t.
I haven’t done it. Toyed with the idea since gear and progression for players who don’t do this isn’t even close to bfa… well, one might see why one would think about it. For me it wouldn’t be for fake achievements or more cool pixels to show off. Just to play stuff that’s always looked interesting that’ll I’ll never get to play.
I caretake my beloved. And I will never be able to spend six hours a day everyday. I don’t like cheating a game, doesn’t mean I don’t want to play it.
So, still can’t figure why anyone else would care.
Tried it…my son even came over to be with hubby on Friday nights. They kept raising the bar and after only three friday nights some lost patience- especially after guild leader yelled at me. So…yeah…no
Oh, and you network. Curiously when first starting out how many hours did you spend playing, networking, and watching videos to gg?
Just because a person doesn’t find a certain aspect of the game fun doesn’t mean it isn’t fun in other ways.
I just think of a simple example: let’s say somebody enjoys contributing to the economy. But in order to more easily and effectively farm/grind for mats, you need better gear. Especially if you want to be farming for current mats. So you pay out of pocket for a few tokens, pay for somebody to carry/boost you through a dungeon multiple times, get yourself a complete gear set, and now that you’re better geared, you can now go out and farm your mats with much more ease.
For some, that gear isn’t meaningful unless there’s hours/days/weeks/months of work put into getting it. Others could care less. They just want the gear so they can take part in another aspect of the game that is meaningful to them.
Now, I’m not saying that this is the case for everybody. It’s just another way of looking at things. As they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I personally dislike the PVP aspect of the game, but for others, that is what the game is all about. Not everybody is going to get the same joy and pleasure out of the same aspects of the game as everybody else. Personally, I think that would be pretty boring if that were the case.
Don’t buy a boost where you have to play. You’re just paying for an invite.
Also never pay anyone to take control of your account (piloting).
What we’re talking about here is joining a group, and basically being AFK until you can collect the reward at the end.
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The majority of the replies in this thread are advocating that people not buy boosts and actually find a proper group of people to play with for the sake of accomplishing that thing. The reason why people like me are so adamantly against it is because boosting is bad for the game in every regard. All it does is help people with a 1-off, but the long term implications of it are horrendous. Just look at Alliance side LFG during primetime for arena if you want proof of that.
If this is what you actually want, take it from me, find a group. You do nothing beneficial whatsoever in any regard by paying people to do the content for you. You’re in Murloc Spot. You can reach out there and try to find good people to actually play with if you’re willing to work with them to figure out logistics like timing.
No content will require you to sit around for six hours. This isn’t an issue.
Sharing account info is definitely against the ToS. Most mythic raid carries pretty much just have the carry go instantly die and stay dead until the boss is killed.
it is against tos, but blizzard is ALLOWING huokan to advertise mt/torghast/pvp carries…huokan has been using ‘hc’ for their ads too to try and fool people…adverts are supposed to be in trade chat too (tbc’s lfg channel is NOT usable), but blizz does not care
Depends what you’re buying a boost for
Late in the tier, sellers are overgeared and can easily clear the content even if you mess up mechanics and you’re allowed to try to contribute to the run
Some bosses or weeks you’ll be outright told to tag and jump off the platform to die so that you don’t wipe the group with a mechanic and waste everyone’s time, because when sellers fill spots with boostees they take into consideration how undermanned they can be to clear the content. Sometimes groups take on too many deadweight and wipe on nzoth and have to apologize
In pvp it depends on the rating and the class you’re playing. A priest wanting a carry to 1800 might be told to go healer spec and told when to press healing buttons while the 3k rated player 1v2s the enemy team
A boost to 2400 requires a minimal amount of selfplay where you’re told what to do, while a boost to 1400 requires absolutely no output from the boostee
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I didn’t say anything about blizzard enforcing it. World First guilds have been caught dozens of times on streams and videos sharing accounts and Blizzard doesn’t care.