Did TBC have a boost? No. Obviously the devs at the time didn’t think it should have one. The 1-58 content was a HUGE part of the game. The designers at the time knew this. They designed the game around the expectation every character would take that journey. Every quest reward, rep bonus, item drop is designed from that perspective. TBC was not made to start with a fresh 58. It was an EXPANSION past the previous content. This boost goes in direct conflict to how the game was designed.
But hey…as Brian Birmingham said, “The playerbase has changed, so the game must as well.” At least he’s upfront and honest about the fact they’re not trying to recreate the TBC experience. If only posters on the forum could be that honest.
Yes it’s 2021 not 2007, are you only just realizing this now? The game was still new back then, it’s 14 years old now, vanilla content is 16 years old and the worst leveling experience in the entire game on repeat playthroughs.
It is not. Its a time waster. You may think it is, but you’ve also been mindlessly posting whatever ignorant garbage you can on every boost related topic.
Boosting does not take away the TBC experience. You’ve just completely contradicted yourself. The TBC experience starts at 58, not level 1. Thats the Classic experience.
Everything in TBC is part of the TBC experience. That is a simple fact. One that you’re incapable of grasping, evidently.
I’ll tell you what I told another troll: delete your character when TBC launches. You’re playing a night elf. That’s a Vanilla race, not a TBC race. Only Blood Elves and Draenei are TBC content. You’re a druid…TBC didn’t add druids, so clearly druids aren’t TBC content.
The list could go on and on but I know your head is so deep in the sand you’ll never understand that an expansion simply adds to the game.
a lot of people talk about how it “devalues their accomplishment” and think anything post wrath is “not really wow.” i think to some of them they think they’re getting a do over and that classic versions of wow are on the same level as retail. which is like saying the nintendo classic games you get for a pittance on the wii store or whatever it was was on the same level as the current $60 games. they’re not, and the focus is to get you to pay for the new games. it’s the same in classic with them wanting you to graduate to retail. you cannot go back in time. you cannot re-experience tbc for the first time, a second time. they’re chasing a dream of what can never be.
people seem to forget that being forced to reroll 93487593847593847593845 times was because their private server of choice got smacked down by blizzard. most people who have played retail didn’t just yolo switch every time a “new” server popped up as they already had tons of gold/mats/mounts/alts. the last time you COULD do it at all in retail was before ulduar was released. in WRATH.
You seriously need to take the blinders off. It’s 2021, not 2007. Yea back then we didn’t mind leveling from 1-60 before getting into Outlands. But back then a vast majority of players were new to the game entirely. The population was still growing. To us it was either a brand new game, or a game we were still learning the ropes. Personally, I really started to get a good feel for the game in TBC. In Vanilla, I was still very much green.
But these are different days. The amount of brand new players imo is going to be extremely small. This TBC is for people who have been playing the game for years. They’re here to play TBC content, not Azeroth. And even then, they may not decide to boost as the 2.3 leveling changes will be in from the start. It’s not mandatory, and it’s not like every single account is going to be buying one.
I know you’re trolling, but you really shouldn’t lie about what people say.
Your stance is that if something wasn’t explicitly added in TBC, then it’s not relevant TBC content. Therefore, according to you, you can’t play your night elf Druid. That’s a race and class that were added in Vanilla, not TBC. So guess you have to delete it.
So hilarious when someone’s argument gets shredded so hard and their logic shown to be so flawed they have to try to turn it around.
Except this sub discussion is specifically about leveling content. Not every single thing in the game.
Maybe you just don’t understand that back in the day people took their level 60’s into outlands and didn’t relevel from level 1. Kind of hypocritical you aren’t whining about that which is going to happen again in TBC Classic.
According to your own argument, your very character isn’t TBC content. But instead of admitting how flawed your reasoning is you’re trying to change the subject.
You said 1-58 isn’t TBC content because it’s from Vanilla. So are races, classes, mounts, bgs, auction houses, and a million other things that are all required in TBC.
To say that is relevant content but this other stuff isn’t is not consistent in the slightest. It’s ALL part of TBC.
You know it’s possible to just say you don’t want to level and would prefer to boost without trying to come up with these absurd arguments trying to justify boosts have no impact. But clearly you lack any confidence in your preferred play style.
