MMO’s dont have a static end… so there is no “winning” in almost any mmo so that’s clearly not what the expression is referring to.
But players with WCB do more damage, the primary goal of a dps/threat class. In a game where buffs, gear, enchants, levels, skills etc all exist to do the same… being given a large dps boost in exchange for a monetary contribution is analogous to buying gear. Its trading $$$ for a boost to the primary metric of your characters power.
So is having two accounts by itself pay to win?
Does having two accounts increase your damage, the primary metric of your characters power?
No, it does not. Players are free, however, to employ “clever use of game mechanics” which I think you are confusing for “pay to win”.
Clever us of game mechanics shouldn’t require spending $$$ which is entirely the point, and the distinction between that and P2W.
Spending $15 more a month isn’t “clever”
Plenty of alliance get WCB without 2 accounts by using coordination over a third party service, like discord for example. Your PVE power is only being measured by third party addons or services, like details and warcraft logs. So are the people getting WCB without 2 accounts not paying to win? Why aren’t you able to do this?
Plenty do? Citation needed rofl…
Horde/Alliance relations definitely arent so great on a PVP server that Horde are just lining up to offer to MC alliance players. Cool story tho
They’re the measuring tool… Your thermostat isn’t making it hot… it’s just telling you that it is…
I personally have multiple accounts so I don’t need to. But I lliterally don’t know a single person who is getting WCB unless they have 2 accounts, or they’re hitting up someone like myself who does. Another cool story tho
Oh right that makes sense, you don’t know anyone doing it so surely it isn’t happening anywhere else. Got it.
just make it a personal one time buff instead of a zonewide buff. melee dont need any help
How should they do it, make it so that alliance can also get WCB without the need to be MC’d?
Only way i can think of to make it work.
I personally know 4-5 (5th unconfirmed) people that have purchased horde priest accounts that only exist for head resets and WCB. Apparently they bought them for like $90 or something and consider it absolutely worth it.
It is definitely the most toxic wbuff of them all and an immense annoyance for anyone trying to minmax. Unfortunately phase 6 is extremely late and it probably isn’t worth fixing at this point for Blizzard. I guess it would be nice for permanent classic servers but I somewhat doubt a change will happen for those.
which they apparently also use to rez dispel.
So if you hit the wall in rbgs at 1800, due to high rated groups, and someone says we can carry you to 2100, pay X gold… what is that?
Imagine paying extra money for maximized dps in an old expansion of the game. Additionally, that is outdated and players already cleared. lol
Plenty of people do it. it doesn’t sound like you understand this part of the Classic player base.
imagine paying $25 for a mount that looks only slightly different than one available for free in a game lol.
None of which is the point but thanks for sharing
You not being good enough to do it yourself.
You mentioned paying money. How else are people getting carried? Not buying gold/tokens?
Me personally, I’m not going to strive for gear that someone who normally wouldn’t be able to obtain, paid for. I stopped after 1600 thinking how it would pan out within a few weeks. Now it’s a total circus. Each their own.
GDKP, raid gear sales, and arena carries has existed for a very long time. Varied from server to server, some claim GDKP existed as early as vanilla. I definitely did raid gear sales in WoTLK and remember people selling arena rating boosts in TBC.
So I hate to break it to you but if you’re just picking it up now you either haven’t paid attention or are too green to know any better.