Frankly, I don’t know nor do I care. For me personally, being able to play my alts and farm on one character is already enough. The change allows me to go as hard as I like on a farming character (up to the 30), and then play regularly on any number of other characters.
For those that want to go harder, they now have an option to and you’d better believe some will. I know a guy who levelled an entire second mage just to avoid paying respec costs.
But the point remains; if the intention was to remove an unhealthy playstyle, the hotfix undoes that.
Literally every bot that this change was intended to limit. Now they just have multiple mages per account and swap to the next when one hits the limit. The only people it hinders are players that enjoy instance farming. Not bots.
Didn’t they state it was to put a stop to botting? Or at least to slow it down?
Didn’t exist because of… knowledge. Or lack thereof, I suppose.
Because people farm more, yes. That’s not exclusively limited to dungeons, mind you. Raw gold farms pump a lot into the economy, but most dungeon farms are for the BoE items, not the gold itself.
I don’t think so. Blizzard was far less interested in restricting the gameplay of people who actually played the game a lot back then.
Uhh, sure. EVERYONE is selling gold. /facepalm.
Not at all.
Exactly. The continued adjustments to this change only continue to alleviate the issue for BOTS while leaving the restrictions for most legitimate players.
How many REAL players are going to level another mage alt to farm more instances? Not many.
How many BOTS are going to level another mage to farm more instances? All of them.
1 Like
Yes, which is why the limit is pointless now. It does nothing to prevent botting when they can just boost multiple mages per account and switch after hitting the cap.
I don’t have any actual statistics but my guess is the number of people running more than 30 dungeons a day is very low.
1 Like
Exactly, it will take no time for these bots that are already spamming boosts to level additional mages.
I know what you’re saying, but Blizzard may have data that shows otherwise.
Even if it’s only 1% of the playerbase, that’s 1% affected by a change meant to limit botting that no longer limits botting. its a change that has no benefit but still hinders the community, even if its in the slightest. a change with 0 benefit is pointless 
I love having such a fun toolbox of abilities to utilize on a moment’s notice. The entire DPS parsing nonsense is cancerous. To me “playing to my potential” is making use of all of them. Players who min max and only focus on one aspect do not get the point of the class.
1 Like
30 per day per character excluding 40-man raid is fine. You need some vitamin D.
4 Likes
Hmm, the words used were “exploitative and automated gameplay.”
Which leaves me wondering whether there may be some significance to 30 unique instances/day as a restriction that somehow helps with identifying botters, or if it’s some some arbitrary restriction that signals “look, we’re doing something,” when it doesn’t actually do anything.
It could also mean that for some reason they are suggesting that running more than 30 unique instances a day is exploitative.
It would be helpful to have some clarity on what this change is intended to achieve.
EDIT:
There’s a little more clarity given in the Hotfix:
1 Like
agreed 
I don’t main a pally because of the amazing dps lol
1 Like
It’s amazing to me how people use “it doesn’t affect many people” as a justification for this change.
Like, if we just massacred minorities in our country, would that be okay since it doesn’t affect many people? I’m guess (desperately hoping) the answer is no.
Not for you to decide.
Right, it’s for the game developers to decide and it was a good decision.
2 Likes
Are you really asking why people don’t care about something that doesn’t impact them?
I think it was their intent to limit the amount of gold entering the economy. Whether or not this change furthers that goal is an open question…
Yeah this a weak reason to support the change. If people have more time or ability to dedicate to something then it shouldnt be a level playing field. Im sure you got your soccer participation ribbon on your wall tho.
Yeah, I think the wording in the hotfix from the 8th gives some better clarity.