There’s no way to stop this mess, so perhaps a more rigid solution needs to be there. Add an item level requirement for each keystone level, it being an item level of lower keystone required to do it.
This would end the M+ boosting or at the very least, make it extremely long and a time sink for the boosters.
So for instance, to join +12/13/14, the ilvl requirement would be the gear that drops from 10/11, 203.
To join 7/8/9 which drop 200, the ilvl requirement would be 194, which drops from 4/5.
I think a lot of people who buy m+ boosts specifically are only after score or the weekly items: not necessarily the gear that drops. Besides, +15’s drop 210 gear, you can get that pretty easily anyway even without boosts (the requirement would be 200 at the most). I don’t think this would change much, aside from becoming an annoyance to the rest of the player base.
I’m gonna say no. M+14 can be done in 190-ish gear if people play well mechanically (but smoother at 200+, and dependent on affixes). That’s of course exceedingly hard/very unlikely for a pug to pull off. I don’t see how you could target boosting without hurting coordinated groups of friends who can run dungeons at lower gear levels (like if it only applied to LFD you could maybe circumvent it with adding battlenet-friends, and targetting that would hurt the aforementioned players). (Edit: That is if you should really target for gold boosting, and not their obnoxious add spam.)
That is an awful idea. Keystone Master was completed way before it was even possible to get 200 average item level for your character (barring EXTREME luck).
The only way this could even work at all would be:
2-10: Unrestricted
11-14: 175 ilvl
15+: 180 ilvl
If you put the barriers anywhere higher you prevent players from progressing their keys in a normal way in the start of the expansion.
Just like the others though, I’d like to know why you think M+ boosting problematic?
Check how many runs they had. Do they have like 8 timed at that level? That’s a tad risky. 20+? That’s more like it. Looking at RIO score only is a bad habit. There’s plenty more context in there, easy to look at: number of keys completed, number of timed vs untimed keys, which weeks those keys were completed with, and so on and so forth.
If you vet the people you invite a bit more throughly than “lol 1.3k rio, invite”, you’ll have a much better time in keys.
So people with the ability to do high keys in low gear is gonna be prevented why?
Why do i have to sit and do 5’s or w/e if my damge level is already high enough for 10’s or 15’s.
This is a stupid idea that would hurt the community as a whole.
It would prevent people from boosting friends/guildies to help them get gear to run higher keys. I’ve both done that and benefitted from it and no gold has changed hands whatsoever. Yes, there need to be some rules, but ruining something for the majority because of the few who find ways to take advantage isn’t a solution.
The solution is taking more care over who you invite to your keys and not relying on RIO score alone.
I think it puts pressure on the younger generation to buy wow tokens (can’t fathom why anyone over 30 would ever do this). I would never invite them to m+ anyway, I simply glance at how many successful timed runs they have.
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