Is boosting really worth it in the long run?

A point I haven’t seen on this thread yet is it’s really a tradeoff for the buyer. Time versus money. Most people have more of one than the other. In such an alt unfriendly expansion it’s well worth the gold for me at least to cut down on the time to get an alt where I’d want it to be.

I am not sure I fully understand the context. Is the issue about players boosting and not knowing what to do?

To be honest, in my pugging experience, even before there was boosts, there will be players ignorant of mechanics and/or ignorant of other classes capabilities. I have had plenty of non boosted players ignoring mechanics and wanting others to compensate instead of following the mechanics.

It’s really the player and not the boost that’s the issue. I don’t think the boost makes it any worse. Those who wish to learn will learn. Those who don’t won’t. Leveling in wow currently does not teach players how to play the game. Opinions on something like proving grounds are split too. So really a community/player issue more than anything else.

let me get this straight… these people charged someone for a “carry” then pugged you as a tank, and not only didn’t tell you it was a carry… but also didn’t give you a cut?

just wow, rofl. that’s some next level douchebaggery

I boosted six (seven?) alts in MoP (one freebie, five bought). I wanted a mini economy, at least one of each profession. Never really played them.

Legion pre-patch, like millions of other players, I used the invasions to level alts. Their gear was too sh*t to play as alts in Legion. (I played far enough to get 7 of the class mounts and all 36 artifacts.)

I boosted my main Alliance character (again) to 110, using the Legion freebie. Plan to get him to 60 and support my Alliance alts with ores/herbs/gold.

A lot of people do this. When you see people advertising carries for half of what other groups are selling for, it’s usually 1 person who pugs 3 other people and just says they are “helping/carrying a friend” in the group finder.

ah makes sense… I’ve seen that alot in the group finder descriptions

Total complete and utter waste of time and gold/cash to buy a boost. The only exception to that is if you just want to gear an alt and your guild doesn’t help with that. Getting an alt to a playable level is very, very time consuming. Especially in BFA.

I never said that them purchasing a carry would make them any better, it’s obvious they should be researching their class, the raid or dungeon etc. that they intend on doing. This is why raiderio/wowprog/warcraftlogs exist, even with raiderio and more so with wowprogress you can tell who purchased their carry, heck even without you can typically see how bad of a player they’re, if they ask stupid questions before hand which most do is a pretty obvious indication as well. Being picky in pugs is how you get things done, I have no sympathy for those that have issues with pugs because they didn’t have standards when they invite people.

As far as carrying people ruining theirs/others or even the games experience that’s on the individual being carried.
I came back after quitting for a year and I know the struggle, I was 453 out of 455 which was the highest ilvl you could be back in Eternal palace or w/e. I was and do outplay people of higher ilvl, the only thing that was noticeable was the gap in corruptions when they came out and not having proper ones at the start but it only took me a month to get caught up at most, maybe 2-3 weeks at minimum I’d say.

But there’s no excuse for wasting other people’s time, there’s plenty of guides/videos and such out there.
I don’t know about you but I’m not interested in holding people’s hands through content they should be researching themselves before even attempting it, I’ve never had someone hold my hand and I rarely if ever offer my assistance. Of the handful that I have they’re all in top 50 guilds because I saw they were putting in the time/effort and had potential to be great players. Most just want the answers for everything without ever looking up wowhead/google/icy-veins/class discords etc. that have the answer for every question 10000x over asked and answered and pinned in their comments. No I don’t think people should cater to people that are too lazy to watch a youtube vid at minimum to get a general idea of mechanics for the content they want to do.

I believe he is referring to paying gold for ilvl boosts, achievements, and other cosmetics though a community of players selling the service, not the token provided by blizzard.

Forget the cut, I left less than 5 minutes in. I don’t sign up to an M15 to carry someone unless it is a guild run and it is very easy to tell when someone is not meant to be playing at that level.

It is never worth it; you’re paying to skip the game.

Sense does not make.