Lately over the past week, when I go into timewalking dungeons, all there is or seems to be is a level 11 fury warrior telling me and others to stay at the start and don’t touch the mobs. They are Power Leveling through timewalking dungeons other characters that are paying for this service (which is why? what’s the point, leveling is so easy!) I was even offered early on when I thought this was a one or two time thing that they are doing it wrong, they are missing out on higher % of xp and not taking advantage of the events. They even offered me 25% of their “in game gold…” as payment to help them. I laughed and said No, this whole situation ruins the integrity of the game.
Now, I go into dungeons and that is all i seem to get. a level 11 warrior breezing through the dungeon and at times telling me to stay put. This isn’t fun. I want to run through a dungeon as my healer, or dps on an alt to have fun, not sit there because you are getting paid real money to abuse a system in the game that is most likely against game policy.
Assuming this type of behavior i can report in game or is there another proper method of addressing this? Unless I go in as a tank to fill that slot, I tend to get these groups whom are just speeding through and telling me not to pull mobs or do anything.
They aren’t doing anything against the rules, unless you have confirmation of RMT or there is abusive chat/profanity. If there is, by all means report them. Otherwise there’s really nothing to report. You can try to vote kick the individual and see if the majority would rather not have that experience however.
As a matter of fact, I’ve only come across one level 12 in a Timewalking thus far. And I’ve leveled five characters through Timewalking now. Mostly on my own, because I can’t queue my Horde characters with my guild.
An xp locked player grouped with a leveler in a dungeon means the leveler gets only 5% of the xp they would otherwise. I wonder if this is disabled in timewalking dungeons, or if there is a new exploit that allows paid carries in this way.
This is as of this past week when i’ve really seen it. prior i haven’t seen it when the start of the 20th anniversary happened. I happen to have screenshot of them proposing my help for gold in game. I litterly left that group waited 10 min. requeued and I got the same warrior which we both chatted, “You again”. kind of funny. but I can’t paste screenshots here.
non the less, this is more recent an uptic.
You are right, I can’t provde it, but given the nature of how this system works. low level warrior (that i’ve seen) queues as tank as Fury Spec and their gear is that of a set with Gems and sockets (I have to get a snapshot of all their gear cause it’s not just heirlooms or random drops.).
The likelyhood of abusing an ingame mechanic and in this case, the bonus XP with the finish dungeon xp bonus you can speed level a character rather quickly. As mentioned, it is difficult to find proof this is happening but a common theme stands.
Tank is warrior. level locked 10-11
there is a consistant character not moving when in dungeon (they sit back at entrance)
soon as dungeon is done, queue box is up and if no one accepts right away you see both the warrior and carried toon drop right away.
Suppose I’m just venting because if I get into said dungeon with this situation I can’t just leave cause i get a deserter debuff. I can go ahead and either heal or dps but then I pull mobs and I die cause the tank isn’t a tank.
TW was much more fun when we would level-down and get to use legacy legendaries which fit perfectly well with the theme of the event.
Now we get some neutered experience so Blizz can set it and forget it which leads to low levels nuking areas and it just not being fun for the rest of us.
The core issue is Blizzard’s scaling is so off. Level 10 can blitz through entire dungeon while level 70s will struggle in a single pull, esp. that goblin boss in the mine.
Ive only seen one in my 6 toons Ive leveled this event.
Tbh it was hilarious. Just ww spamming and everything melting.
Its pretty disengenuous of op to suggest its a very frequent thing.
This is because after 2 dungeons, you are almost lvl 20
You level so fast, sub 20s are almost nonexistent.
Fun detected.
Tbh I was thinking about making one to help people.
The person I ran into was super nice and ran with us for literally 3 hours. They were doing it to help people level. Nothing more. Didn’t expect gold or anything.
I don’t know how accurate that is, but most of your xp comes from dungeon completion. Not the actual mobs and bosses. Which is why zerging to last boss is so common.
I’m pretty sure it is, or the level 11 fury warriors I have encountered while leveling my own characters, do not have XP locked. I’ve encountered up to at least a dozen so far, most recent being this morning and I’m almost certain that a lock in the group was the “carry” just based on the behavior of the lock.
In the open world, keep in mind I’ve only ever seen this recently, in Tanaris, I’ve been using premades to do the World Bosses and on a few occasions I’ve had the “debuff” about a player in my group has XP off (this has been while I am on a max level toon).
I do recall some years ago, maybe my memory is bad, but XP off players do not queue with XP on players, but this may only be for PvP queues?
I’ve never seen the “XP OFF” in any dungeons I have ran. I also rarely pay attention to the xp I’m actually getting while in dungeons.
First encounter with a level 11 warrior a week or so ago, TBC, at first I was like, hold on, tank is in Fury spec “this won’t end well” … then they said “keep up” … no kidding haha
I tank ALOT of timewalking dungeons for the bronze (and I find them relaxing). Maybe I’ve seen two or three level 11 characters max and neither one of them told the group to stay at the start.
I have qued around 50-60 timewalking dungeons this week and I have yet to run into a lvl 11 twink, I see them hanging out at he holiday event area though.
