I see the term boosted or carried getting thrown around all the time towards people. But what does “boosting” someone look like to you? Let’s say you have a 3k IO player and he wants to help his 1k IO friend get a hang on keys more.
Just because you play with a higher score and skill level player does that mean your carried? Or boosted? I never understood why people use this towards others.
Or let’s say you play with some gladiator players but you have never reached 1800 in PVP before, are you getting carried? in my eyes the person is still putting in the effort and trying their best.
Not everyone is boosted you know just because they play with their friends that want to help them achieve a higher rating.
When people talk about this they are referring to the practice of having a lower level player tag along so they will get upgrades in level and gear level that they couldn’t otherwise get.
Some times the lower level player has to pay in gold. It is against the rules to pay with real money (or so I’ve heard).
It’s not about teaching a friend how to play the game.
I boost everyone I play with
Buying the product labeled “Level 80 character boost”.
Anything else is just people playing the game in a way you don’t like.
Smells like bait, but… if you pay for it (in any form) it is a boost. If a friend or guildy does it free, then it is a carry. I know that is not the answer you and Luuba wanted, but you both are getting carried I am sorry to say.
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If someone is buying dungeon and raid clears strictly to have loot funneled to them, I consider that boosting. Not necessarily an issue to me though. People have been doing this sort of thing since forever by paying gold.
Power leveling is also boosting, though I don’t really see the harm in that so long as it’s also for gold only. This is another thing that has existed since forever.
Boosting to me is when you and your buddy are on a trampoline and you land just before he lands, increasing the rebound of the jump and boosting him higher
I haven’t done keys in any sense this season.
When/If I start and I am running with friends who are ezy’ing 11s/12s and going into 13-14s I am getting boosted regardless of how I cut it because they’ll make short work of a lot of the mechanics the average PuG might make in the keys I start in (maybe 5-10).
But the most important thing is to not care about accusations about boosting, you don’t owe strangers a reason for your success. All you should care about is if you’re having fun - if the answer is yes then you’re doing it right.
OP is a troll but for anyone else who actually doesnt understand
the distinction in terminology between boost and carry is boost is paid for service. a boost can also be a carry but a carry is not always a boost.
friend carrying your level 1 gnome just because? not a boost.
you paid your friend for it? then it becomes a boost.
literally not rocket science to understand these terms. you have to actively try to not understand them to make it any more complicated then it is.
Putting in effort and trying your best don’t mean you didn’t get carried/boosted, effort or lack therof has nothing to do with it it’s all about was the end work you put in proportional to the end work others did, if everyone pitched in equally then it’s not boosting but if your best is like 20% of what your mate is doing then you are being carried.
If I try my best in a raid doing a boss but fail, die, and do 1m dps overall when the rest of the raid did 5m I got carried on that boss.
Nah, only if their performance isn’t up to par compared to the rest of the group. If that 1k player rivals the 3k players in damage, uses defensives/stops/interrupts well then only a fool would call it a boost.
I’d say carrying/boosting is all about performance. If someone got through a piece of content that they wouldn’t had if the rest of the group played at their level, then they got carried/boosted.
For example:
if a DPS is doing 6m dps in a +14 floodgate, whereas the other DPS did 9m and the tank dies 5m, then that DPS got carried/boosted regardless of his ilvl and score.
If a tank needs 2.5m external hps through a +14 key, then he got carried/boosted by the healer.
If the healer constantly failed heal checks and was only able to produce 3m hps at best in a +14 key, but the DPS and tank managed to compensate for that then that healer got carried/boosted.
If someone is doing 50% of the interrupts by themselves and isn’t a prot pala, then they carried/boosted the rest of the team (given that those interupts were needed to survive).
If you’re playing on a bracket and queueing for dungeons that you cannot carry your own weight and someone helped you to get there you’re boosted. Simple.
I surely don’t know. But I do know if you ever see me with a high score in anything, I most certainly achieved it by being carried.
For money. The rest of the arguments are too tough to work through and highly subjective.