not the fault of blizzard that this is the mind set of a bunch of players.
can’t find competent tanks/healers? what’s your definition of competent? because i had no issue as a warlock getting tanks or healers that knew how to do their job. as for boosting, yes the gear is bad but the point of the boost is to skip the vanilla leveling and be able to enter outlands for questing, not that you are giving pre-raid BiS and are ready to dungeon spam and kill everything without trying.
as for not being able to quest, might i suggest forming a group to make mobs easier to tag?
Make your own journey. Just because 70% of the players are spamming dungeons to level fast and such doesn’t mean you have to. There are plenty of people just grouping together for quests and making new friends. Yeah there are lagg issues and massive overpopulation… but that’s the experience of playing ANY version of WoW at launch. Just chill, have fun, and enjoy the ride. See all of you in Outland or in the Arena brothers and sisters.
Whenever i read “bad healers” or “bad tanks”, not to say they don’t exist, but i always imagine the DPS that make both of their lives 100x harder the entire run while being carried and don’t even know it.
I would suggest changing to a medium populated server. While not perfect, and still a considerable amount of poor sportsmanship, it is noticeably better in my opinion. Also, Blizzard can’t fix the mentality of modern gaming. That is up to the players themselves. I only gripe when their play affects my gaming directly. (which isn’t always the case.)
Anyways, it sounds like you enjoy the game, but likely need to transfer or reroll.
How about not being taken to dungeons because I am a shaman and not naxx geared and in the odd instance I find a group I end up laying waste to their dps? Yeah real fun begging for groups with that
I’m able to quest but my experience is that the boosted gear is absolutely miserable and the XP rates are absolutely terrible by doing quests. The Outland greens are decent and all but everything still takes an eternity. Can’t get into a single dungeon group because everyone wants Naxx gear for level 58 Normal dungeons and everyone lied to me when they said the community was more social here than on Retail because the literal only social experience I’ve ever had in TBC Classic thus far is some Chinese Mage Booster trying to sell me something I didn’t even ask for.
I don’t care what TBC was back in 07. I didn’t play back then. But this is easily one of the least-enjoyable experiences I’ve ever had playing WoW and feels like without a shadow of a doubt the biggest waste of Retail gold ever.
it aint blizz fault you fell for the boost meme. What did you expect? Classic Raid-tier gear for free? You got your lv.58 boost, but none of the grind or effort to get decent gear for your class through dungeons or questing. Gotta do that on your own.
If you want pay 2 win, just stick to retail where LFG and trade chat is full of Mythic carries for gold/tokens.
Sounds like there’s an opening in the market that you can fill.
As a tank, it’s really great to fill groups in a nanosecond after an LFG post. I got 20 unique dps whispering me when I and my healer friend wanted to do Blood Furnace last night in an instant. People are also paying for tanks for runs.
The demands high since a lot of people are running dungeons so you need more tanks per dps - and tanking in BC is rough with strangers unless they’re focusing down your target and being a little mindful of threat. Better to not tank for strangers and avoid the heat.
Treat TBC Classic like it’s retail with a dungeon finder and you’re gonna have a bad time.