On boosting

[Brewstep-tichondrius]

@Sensation-malganis

TL;DR Blizzard needs to take an official stance on boosting and boosting communities.

I’d say this is a pretty clear stance.

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@Pantheaeu-area-52

However, in more recent times (with Shadowlands being the worst offender) it’s feeling more like a necessity in order to simply be able to afford to raid and play the game. The cost of raiding has gone up ~5x purely from alchemy, then we also factor in that if you want to get a legendary ready it can cost more than 1 entire WoW token. If these costs are toned down (via resource acquisition or reducing the cost to craft) then the necessity to boost is also removed and it goes back to being a novelty to buy elusive items.

Agreed. The only real way to combat boosting that I can see is to lower the gold cost to raiding and doing content. Most boosters I know are either whales hoarding gold and paying for their sub and BMAH items… or raiders/M+ers just looking to not farm tedious chores to have the gold to raid/M+ and be efficient with their time, which in my experience is far more people than the whale category. If there was far less cost to playing content, most of those folks wouldn’t be boosting.