Because in Blizzard’s excuse for greedily forcing this retail feature into TBC, to soften the blow, they explained that the boost only skips vanilla content, and not new TBC content. The leveling areas for the new races is new TBC content.
It is an inconsistency. However, IMO, the question should not be, why can’t blood elves and draenei boost, too? It should be, why do they have to level alone? Why not remove the boost entirely, so those races have the company of more characters of other races while they are leveling, and thus can more easily form groups for dungeons/elite quests?
So are you volunteering to roll a level 1 at launch to make sure anyone leveling has someone to play with? Do you think most people with 60’s will be doing so?
And oh yeah elite open world quests are going away.
Screw that, I am gonna be in dungeons getting boosted as much as possible. Then I am gonna consume legal mind altering substances for the rest of the time.
Why would I do that? I have three 60’s, and don’t plan on leveling any more any time soon. I’m looking forward to doing quests and leveling them all up in Outland.
Your question has nothing to do with what I said, which is that, IMO, everyone leveling new characters should start at level 1 together, as it was in TBC. Having more people starting at the same level benefits everyone leveling. More people around to group with, socialize with, etc. This is all part of the TBC design, or it was until modern Blizzard got their greedy hands on it and jacked with it.
The purpose of the boost is to let people skip the “vanilla / classic” content. They are treating the boost as if the player who’s buying it briefly played classic and leveled a character to 58.
Blood elves and draenei were not in the game during classic. They are part of TBC. They are TBC content. Therefore, you cannot skip leveling them or you would be skipping TBC content.
The approach blizzard is taking with the boost is that a new player who uses the boost gains the ability to catchup slightly but should not end up with an advantage over an existing player who doesn’t use the boost.
If blizzard allowed a new player to boost a BE then that person would have something that no existing player could have obtained during classic. I mean, i don’t have a blood elf or draenei yet and i’ve been playing for what, 20 months?
It’s not hypocritical and honestly makes perfect logical sense. Letting new players catch up by skipping ONLY classic content.
This is the exact reasoning. Belf and Dranei should be rare sights at first (at high levels, anyway- there’s gonna be a FLOOD of belfs in eversong), just like in original TBC.
I believe they said they would consider removing race restrictions later on, so if this is a dealbreaker for you, just wait for that.
Im sure there will be a boost available for the new races on release. It’s not like those races are forced to level in their native starting zones so allowing a boost for them only make sense.
Uh I’m just pointing out that if you roll a blood elf or draenai that you are forced to level 1-58 just like everyone else. I’m well aware they have a new starter area, but the VAST majority of thier time will be spent past those zones. You know the whole area people are skipping if they aren’t hamstrung by a restriction on a service added to catch up kek.
It’s another example of a lack of clarity as to why it is being added when it’s one of the last things players have asked for.
It’s not a bad faith argument. It’s another bullet point to say hey look this doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Who asked for this?
I don’t remember seeing the forums or reddits being filled with “let’s add paid character boosts”. It’s being added under a “some changes” disguise akin to politicians stapling extra amendments and such to bills on the house floor.
We are giving you prenerf bosses yay!
We are addressing the seal disparities between horde and alliance.
We are adding a monetized level boost!
QoL changed to the arena system to be more like they were near the end of tbc!
Yeah, it’s weird. I’m not a fan of the boost, but if it’s there, might as well do it right.
Doesn’t matter to me. I love the starter areas for the 2 new races, I will be playing them from level 1.
IMO it’s just another funky thing to show that the new dev’s don’t fully understand what WoW was. I do appreciate that they’re trying their best to add a little bit for everyone, but I hope this bandwagon doesn’t continue, or Wrath won’t even be recognizable as Wrath.
Belf and dranei will be available be play during pre patch. If you were unaware of this does it change your opinion?
If you were aware then I believe the argument you provided is moot. The idea of boosts goes against leveling in general. If the boost is to be implemented restrictions as to what races can be boosted feel largely arbitrary. Especially because those who want to play the new zones from level one are free to do so.
Just to be clear I’m anti-boost in general I just found your argument insufficient. I could be missing something though. Thoughts?
At the point of pre-patch. We’re no longer in classic vanilla. We’re in pre-patch. As someone with 6 level 60’s i stand to gain nothing from the boost. Im giving my opinion on how blizzard might be rationalizing the decision.
I can see this happening. If I could boost a Draenei or Blood Elf, I would 100% choose one of those. So I can see why the choice, it means new players who want to choose one of the new races have a larger population of players also leveling with them.
I am all for boosts. I agree- they should let the new races be boosted. I am extremely keen to boost another class though. After leveling a warrior to 60, I am still so burnt out- even when i got him to 60 a few weeks after release.
The boost isn’t a feature for existing Classic players. Allowing the new races to be boosted would cause a lot of existing Classic players use it. That isn’t its purpose, so Blizzard doesn’t allow that.
Blizzard has offered the boost with every new expansion since 2014. They allow existing players to use it, but it isn’t for them. Instead, each boost adds tens of thousands of NEW players to the game. That is its purpose.
