I hope they don’t nerf the SOLO leveling of mage AoE leveling. That leveling path was really fun to do, unique.
Too bad farm bots had to make the mage class the exploiting class of choice.
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The way the blue post was phrased made me think they plan on addressing the pathing exploits associated with boosting rather than just smashing Mage’s aoe capabilities.
We have some ideas for adjustments we can make to reduce its impact, especially in current hot-spots like Maraudon.
That sounds like they plan to address mage aoe only where it’s specifically an issue (ie boosting).
So, many of the fixes for mage boosting I’ve heard of range from an AoE cap, to fixing pathing issues in Maraudon, ZF, SM, and others, to limiting experiencing of low levels in a party, to making questing experience high to compete.
All of the aforementioned changes shouldn’t affect solo AoE grinding too much. As I recall, very few pulls had more than 10 mobs when leveling as a mage, so a hard AoE cap shouldn’t affect that too much.
The easiest fix is just make it so that if the mob is grey to any person in the group then no person in the group gets experience. Additionally, all raid zones should yield zero experience. This right here will fix damn near all boosting except for Strat and Scholo. This also seems to me it would be by far the easiest fix.
If the fix is pathing, then they will just find other methods of pathing. It will not fix the problem. Pathing bugs are not used in any zone before SM. So this would not fix anything pre level 35 boosting.
This would not affect a mage solo aoe leveling at all. That continues to be my stance. Do not change that class, change the thing that is making that class exploitive. Get rid of the xp gains for other people.
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I’m curious how they are going to handle this. I just hope they don’t try fixing a problem and cause another one to happen. Hopefully this time around the mage boosting is fixed (without causing issues to the class itself) and we see more people grouping for 5mans so we can get some nice gear upgrades before going back to questing and then rinse and repeat 15-60 unless you like to just quest the whole way which is fine too. I like the idea of summoning stones. Want to do Blackfathom Depths? Have fun waiting for the entire party to run over if they don’t have flight path and no warlock nearby to help…especially with this 12 month season timeframe, we need all the help we can get with traveling!
I’ll be playing a mage as my main btw and shaman as my 2nd.