Mob Behavior and Recent Mechanical Changes (Boosting Changes)

You only play a level 11 Troll Hunter?

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One of the most common pieces of feedback we’ve received (and observed ourselves in our own adventures) is the concern about pervasive sales of dungeon boosting services in-game. It often overpowers chat with advertisements and makes certain channels hard to use for their intended purpose.

It’s also no secret that the gold from many boosting groups is used for illicit activities such as Real-Money Trading (RMT), as much of the gold that players pay to boosters is then sold for real money back to other players.

Now that we’ve seen the final major content release of Burning Crusade Classic, we will soon adjust the behavior of creatures in most dungeons (including the new dungeons coming in Wrath of the Lich King Classic) to make it significantly more difficult to endlessly snare and kite enemies. Additionally, we will implement a reduction to group XP earned when there is large disparity between player levels in the same group."
Blizzard Reducing Efficiency of Boosting Groups in BC and Wrath Classic Dungeons Soon - Wowhead News

Logically, the opposite would be true, right? Mob runs away, you should be able to slow it, no? No no no, you’re right, you should slow mobs before they get to the tank. Min/max.

If you don’t see it as harmful, that’s you denying reality. Sure, the concept of leveling isn’t just to get to max level, but having a friend help you kill some mobs that are 3 level lower than them is harmful, to both players, as it’s counter intuitive to actually leveling up at all.

Again, this is from a lower population server perspective. Not everybody plays on high pop servers. Mostly to avoid people like you.

There’s a difference between maximizing EXP and completely gutting it though, right? 3 levels, 90% difference. I know, it’s a hard concept, but not everything is about min/max’ing.

Nor would it if there was a 5 level difference between the highest and lowest player in the dungeon. Thanks for coming out.

Strawman, oh how easy you are to dismantle…

Nah, just calling out a troll for trolling. That’s just an insult though, not my argument, nor my position. Good talk.

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