Gold doesn’t speed up the cooldown. Even if you’re buying all of what’s available in the market, it won’t be enough to craft full sets for an entire raid within the first week.
Just because you don’t care about the reason doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
I’m perfectly capable of controlling myself. You seem to misunderstand the fact that I am choosing to be competitive, and being competitive requires me to do this since everyone else will, as well.
You can assert over and over that alts are not necessary, but I think you seriously underestimate their value, especially early on in TBC.
Damn. Was fairly interesting talking to you, but if you’re just going to resort to insults, I’ll be putting you on ignore.
My point was that the boost allows me to instantly swap to a different alt in the split raids. Saving several days worth of time not having to get 57 levels is tremendously beneficial for that purpose.
I have a Field Marshal Druid and a Grand Marshal Priest, so I just barely qualify for your multiple 60s statement. Through all of Classic I’ve not been in a guild that requires alts for split runs. It’s been a rather unpleasant and unsatisfying experience being strung along by people that advertise themselves as hardcore, but aren’t, so I intend to go even further in TBC.
However, I’d like to point out… I hate leveling. So do most people. And that’s why these boosts are such a huge problem. Having the leveling be such a huge deterrence serves as a barrier against those who aren’t willing to level multiple characters like I did. Like I said earlier:
And I’m saying anyone who wants to play TBC can just level a character instead of getting an instant 58 boost.
Your dismissive response of “just level a character” works AGAINST boosts.
Okay, so when we clear Black Temple, then need to go to Magtheridon’s Lair, then Gruul’s Lair, then The Eye, you think it’d be faster to fly than to have summoning alts and clickers ready at each of those spots? I doubt it.
Don’t forget we then go to Hyjal, then Karazhan, then Naxxramas, then Ahn’Qiraj if we still need Scarab Brooches, and if, – god forbid – we still need a Thunderfury for some reason, Molten Core. Flying in Outlands won’t help us there.
It was one example of the uses for the boost.
And again, your incredibly dismissive responses can just be used against boosts.
“If you want to be level 70 so you can actually play the content you enjoy, that’s your problem.”
Not sure why they would delete the ones they have. That’d be pretty dumb. But if they have a full account of summoning alts that they use, there’s no reason not to boost one of them to 58.
Explaining why you aren’t competitive (and never were, even if we go back even to Molten Core) does not refute the fact you aren’t competitive, which is the whole point of me calling it out in the first place.
I don’t care why you aren’t competitive; I was simply saying you aren’t now, if you ever even were, so your statement about being competitive with one character is invalid.
I’m not sure how many times I have explain what elitist actually means before you finally understand.
They’re all time sinks was my point, and saying “it’s not an achievement; it’s a time sink” is faulty logic. The two things are not mutually exclusive.
It can be an achievement and a time sink.
Also, I specified years of military service, though I s’pose the reason I did so was not clear, so I’ll explain. I’m not saying it’s at all on the same level (pardon the pun) as leveling in World of Warcraft, but the state of having served for X amount of years is nothing more than time spent.
I was also thinking of the benefits of serving in the military (as disproportionate as many would argue those may be), such as tuition.
Uh, no. The fact I’m saying I’ll do it very clearly means it is my will. More specifically, my will is to remain competitive, and I am willing to do things I don’t like to do so.
For what it’s worth, I hate leveling. I love boosts on a very shallow level, but I think they’re bad for the game, and they do me more harm than good.
And the fix for people who don’t want to level is to stop being lazy. Therefore we should remove buffs.
I can easily just use your dismissive reasoning against boosts. Please try to provide a real argument for why boosts are good instead of using a lazy, dismissive response to everything.
Alright, bud. You are demonstrably wrong about that, but there’s not much point continuing to prove it to you.
I do, actually.
But how many other people do? And how many people will solely because of this boost? That’s the point I’m making.
Looking up your raid progress is not elitism.
Please, for the love of god, actually look up the definitions of elitist and elitism.
Don’t worry, I’m done with you. Out of respect for the exchange of ideas, I’m responding in full, but I’ll be ignoring you from now on since you could not actually hold a conversation without resorting to insults.
That’s an incredibly naive way to look at it, though.
Use murder, for example. Murder is clearly a problem, and it is a problem that will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. If someone proposes something that will increase the rate of murder, or make murderers more effective, your logic of “the real problem is murder” is not a valid justification for that proposal.
I am saying that botting exists. Blizzard either cannot or will not ever do enough to stop it. Botters will use this boost to the extreme detriment of all legitimate players.
Unless you have a solution that is better than “Blizzard should do something about the bots,” I’d rather go with the tangible, obtainable goal of “don’t add level 58 boosts.”
