Blizzard, please revert the 30 instance cap change. I honestly never thought this would affect me, but trying to farm SGC on my warrior and then wanting to run dungeons with guildies… yeah this is bs and a bs change, ban botters and do real investigations. Not these dumb changes.
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Stopping people from just cheesing the first couple of bosses of a dungeon to get one piece of loot? Sounds like it is working just fine.
I mean, SGC is BIS, at least for a long while, but it isn’t like there aren’t pieces that are 80-95% as good out there, especially now that ZG is out, and AQ is around the corner.
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Nope, the change is good and welcomed.
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dumb reasoning, not cheesing anything. I’m playing the game, persuing an item that is at that palce in the dungeon. Cheesing is causing the game mechanics to not function as inteded. Everything I am doing is an intended function of the game.
And you can still do it, you just have a limit on how much 
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#nochanges should be exact same limitations that existed in classic. Or I should be under the same limitations other players took advantage of earlier on.
Yeah that boat sailed long ago, sorry.
Blame the people who didn’t get the message from the 5 runs per hour rule.
Imagine fixing a sympton and not the problem and calling it a solution. Put real work and effort into banning cheaters, botters, and gold sellers, and not punishing legitimate players. Believe it or not, that is possible to do.
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I think you would be complaining even more if they fixed it so you couldn’t snipe single items by soloing dungeons.
The problem is mages and hunters abusing pathing to generate income to sell gold. Not warriors farming a 1% epic item drop, fix the path abuse. Or just implement more strict policies on buying and selling gold.
But nah, better put dumb limitations on how people can play your game because it’s the most cost effective strategy while bastardizing your gameplay.
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Only a small fringe group is having their game play “bastardized”. To the benefit of everyone who is involved with the economy.
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What you just described is called an exploit. Cheesing is doing something in the easiest and fastest way possible.
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This is yet another “Change the rules TO HELP ME” thread.
Good luck with that.
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Anyone can wave their hands and say MEANINGLESS things like this.
Do you have an actual plan? Something better than Blizzard is doing? You criticize Blizzard’s plan, without offering something better.
Until you have a better plan, I like what Blizzard is doing. At least they are doing something, not waving their hands and saying “you have magic – just solve it!”
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Well you see, unlike you I actually have a college degree in engineering, it would not be hard at all to collect data determine what are, and are not, bots and ban botters in real time. There are a million metrics you can look at to prove that a player is a bot, from collective settings to path behaviour to actions per minute, to action orientation, direct tafficed resources, bounce rate, passive/active fingerprinting etc. etc. etc. Blizzard is already reading every program that passes on your RAM for " Security Reasons". But nah, Keep believing this small indie company doesn’t have the resources to solve this problem if they wanted to. Would take me 2 days to write a Machine Learning algorithm to get rid of the feral farming bots in feralas real time. Blizzard does what they do, how they do it, because botters are profitable for blizzard.
Anyone can Google what you just spat out. Saying something and doing something are two completely different things. You say you have a degree? Post an imgur link of it or it doesn’t exist.
Why do you feel that the “intended” functionality of the game is so important up until the point where the intended 30 instance limit hits you in the face? They very clearly intended that, it wasn’t an accident.
Wow, really? You should offer your services to gaming companies. Botting has plauged most popular titles since their inception.
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Swift execution and Annihilation sim better
SGC is not BiS for DPS anymore once aq drops
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This is such a short sighted take on this issue. The problem with this cap is that it effects LEGITIMATE players possibly more than bots, because of the sole fact it’s on a per realm basis. Bots in large part aren’t tied to a specific server. They can and will level characters on multiple servers as they’re unguilded and have no real ties to the community on said servers. When a bot hits their cap, they log onto another realm and keep botting. When a legitimate player hits their cap(and it’s absolutely doable and NOT hard at all, it just requires free time), they have to stop running instances for the remainder of the day and wait 24 hours to continue farming or doing whatever it is their doing. They’re not going to go level another character on another realm, they are tied to their guild and the server they chose. And if their account gets banned, they’ll just get another one. Call me highly skeptical that Blizzard will hardware ban anyone and prevent additional account/subscription purchases.
This is a blanket solution that is doing very little to address the root problem. I’m not saying they’re not banning accounts, they are… but they’ve instituted a change that isn’t authentic to vanilla in order to do it and it has affected how legitimate players choose to play the game. And frankly, anyone claiming this isn’t possible while playing normally is utterly naive to how the game is played in 2020 versus 2005. This is absolutely a change that didn’t NEED to happen in order to combat botting. Who am I, or you, or anyone else to tell other people how they should play the game? People have been spamming stuff like arena/anger farms for HoJ/SGC since September, long before botting was as widely spread as it is now, and it wasn’t a problem then. The entire concept of an mmorpg is time=reward. If someone wants to devote 8 hours a day to running a single dungeon to farm a specific item, they should be able to and the only thing that should stop them from obtaining said item is RNG on drops. Not some arbitrary instance cap limit on a 5 man dungeon. The cap may not hurt you, and that’s great but rest assured, it IS adversely affecting legitimate players. Many of them. And if your first reaction to that is “too bad”, that’s an extremely immature response.