Pro tip, the boost does not remove levels 1-58 for anyone who wants to level through them.
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That may be true, but for a lot of people, it’s a horrible experience. It’s slow, it’s annoying, it’s as if the vanilla devs had literally no respect for players time. WTF even are the shaman totem quest.
This isn’t the same as leveling when vanilla or classic dropped. People were everywhere, it’s easy to find groups for dungeons and random elite quest. (Just did the wetlands elite quest today for the first time since vanilla and it was so fun).
Leveling 1-58 in TBC was long and lonely. You were lucky to find groups for dungeons. Luckily they nerfed a lot of elite quest so they could be solo’d. If you’re in a guild you just get to hear them talk about all the cool new stuff while you kill turtles in South Shore.
I very vividly remember leveling in vanilla. I know exactly where I was standing when I hit 60 for the first time. I don’t remember a single thing about leveling 1-58 during TBC except how easy the tower quest in WPL were after the nerf.
TBC started the second you go through the portal for the first time and for me, and potentially a large portion of the player base, Azeroth didn’t matter again until Wrath.
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Especially given that these are supposed to be museum pieces, if someone wants to skip the 1-58 exhibit and skip to the Outlands exhibit, more power to them.
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They couldn’t have thought it was that important a part of the game considering they added Recruit a Friend.
Which gave you a 200% XP boost and let you skip 30 levels entirely, and was 100% used by people as a paid boost option.
and you could get a fair bit more than a single level 58 out of it.
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Pretty much boosts are just a full measure to do what they explicitly implemented as half measures in TBC originally. TAF, streamling and speeding up the leveling process etc…
Folks seem to forget about this little nugget. RAF was basically Blizzard saying, hey, get a friend to play and skip basically all of the Vanilia content.
I would be down for the RAF instead of the boost. Help people get through quickly if they want, prevents bots from getting to 58 instantly.
They would also need to revoke any RAF sent from any account that got banned, so a banned bot couldn’t RAF itself.
Honestly surprised. This would actually work IMO.
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Is this the 4th time you said this? Still not a relevant statement.
WoW kills the mmo player.
Player kills what made an mmo an mmo.
It’s sad.
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Is it a problem i’m advocating for a good suggestion
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It would mostly be worse for everything else people complain about with the boost about players bypassing content.
With a single RAF I could probably get a level 60 of every class on both factions in the 90 days. As it stands right now the most I can get out of the boost is a single level 58 character.
and the impact on botting either way seems minimal since bots don’t need a lot of time to set up a new account anyway. They’re bots, so they’re already capable of playing 24/7.
Don’t get me wrong if it were up to me I wouldn’t have ANY boosting, paid or dungeon, but RAF is worse for the game than the current paid boost is.
It is however, better value for the customer assuming the same cost.
It actually is.
TV killed the radio star.
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Never did I think someone would say RAF is worse than a boost. Thanks for proving me wrong. Also, the RAF should end at level 58.
All of the other things would be easy to address. One character. Limited time.
At that point you might as well just not do RAF and make it a paid +200% XP boost on a single character.
Which would work better, but isn’t really RAF in the sense of what I was referring to.
So why not just the boost?
Because I think it would be a happy medium.
Minimizing the impact of bots by the virtue of needing a high-level unbanned account to refer you.
Simultaneously, helping those to “skip” 1-58 if they are so inclined. If they have friends they are looking to play with, surely those friends who are already playing would refer them.
Except that its not irrelevant content, some of that content is still very viable in TBC for reasons I am not going to explain or I may spoil the rude surprise coming to those boosters who think “TBC is where things begin”.
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Except bots can abuse the RAF system even more to level multiple bots.
I’m still not sure why people don’t just put the same amount of whining they are about boosts into actually pressuring blizzard to deal with bots.
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It’s irrelevant by today’s standards, and that’s what Blizzard is designing for. To me that’s contrary to what should be a Classic server.