With the changes comming with TBC, mage farming in dungeons and boosting will be a thing of the past.
The slow effect of Blizzard will be removed after 30seconds. This means that an already bot controlled open world will get even worse for the avg player to farm gold.
You cannot compete for 1 node vs 10 bots, nor 1mob at elemental plateau.
When Blizzard cant even ban bots, how do they even come up with this as a solution to counter gold buying, it will make it even more comonn.
There where already thousands of bots daily running LBRS in BRM (Everyone who’ve been to BRM for the past 4months on Anniversary knows what I am talking about).. These bots will now be in the open world instead.
WoW token is obviously going to be added to TBC in a hidden patch, and this is a preperation for it.
In what world would banning boosts force you to buy gold? Wouldn’t it give you less of an incentive to buy?
Also, as expected, mega realms were the issue for the high consumable cost, not banning GDKPs. Now with people taking a break until TBC, the economy is stabilizing. Mongoose is 9 gold, lotus is 50, juju might is 4, firewater is 8.
Its boosting and dungeon farming, wich means that tens of thousands of mage bots are forced to the open world with an already bot infested environment.
Mage dungeon farming requires no gear compared to a Paladin, wich makes it easily accseisble for bots, and now instead of being in dungeons, they are in the open world stealing ur nodes and primals, gems, primals and any crafting material they can set whatever price they so wish on the AH.
Meh, players will always find the most cheesy way to farm in order to get ahead of others. I am glad Blizzard is nerfing silly things that degrade the game into the ground. Just take up skinning or just run dungeons like normal people, or daily quests. It will not make you much but it SHOULD make you enough. Though I guess it is never enough is it?
It doesn’t mean this, in both cases - with or without boosts - somebody need to farm openworld resources, because people need them anyway, with or without boosts.
No matter how rampant bots are and how brutally they force Primals (along with other supplies) price down due to oversupply, you will still be able to make solid gold thanks to daily quest hubs. Something that wasn’t present in Vanilla and your only real option was truly buying gold.
Seeing the amount of cheater bans on the forums like the US CS forums I don’t agree with that they can’t ban bots. It’s just with this posters often mean they “won’t ban bots immediately on detection.” which even then, varies.
They want you to buy the boost and WoW token from them which they plan to introduce in TBC but I agree this is a major change and I can’t get behind it, leave the game the way is was designed and make the WoW token cheap enough that it would make running bots pointless - but they won’t because they want that sub money that the bot owners are paying them.
The sub money they pay in a country where game time is dirty cheap? You do realize that different countries have different prices for the sub right? In turkey the sub for one month aperently consts 400 TL roughly 8 Euro. (Thats not much less but less). If Blizzard could 100% detect and instantly ban all bots they for sure would as it would generate a lot of consumer good will and they would earn even more from actual players then.
Blizzard should change Mage blizzard tooltip to “Slow effect doesn’t work after 30 sec” with smiley face and eggplant emoji. Whenever they bring some change into the game, it’ almost always bad. It so ridiculus how they changing core class mechanics so they could sell you their “legal” boost and they never even considered that many people love playing Mage class because of the fun factor solo AoE farm can bring and how class will feel like a empty shell without it. This will not do anything good if they first do not solve problem of overcrowded Mega server being super contested with players and armys of Bots on top of that ,roaming around every mine and herb nods and whatnot. Even quests will be near impossible doing in first month or two and only viable option for many will be leveling through instances with group of friends (if you have them) . Mage SP leveling was one of those privileges which gave player semi independance and now it’s taken away and everyone is thrown into meatgrinder of super dependencies of factors they cannot control.
I belive Blizzard under ownership of Microsoft cannot introduce AI tool to disable automated botting abilities of trade or using mail for suspected characters before investigation. Pre-TBC returning players experience of leveling in gold sell or boost commercial spammed all means of connecting with other players environment is not positive I must say after trying to start some characters pre-tbc in classic.
I agree. It might not have been originally intended, but AoE farming dungeons has become an integral part of mage identity, gameplay and class appeal. Removing it is the equivalent to removing mage food or warlock portals or rogue pickpocketing
Im making gold by solo farming dungeons and TBC have some good pulls in Steamvaults that you can duo with a mage friend.
It’s hard to boost nowdays because it takes 1hr to fill a grp and there are 20+ mages on every layer outside all of the dungeons trying to fill groups.
Some people enjoy doing more challenging things for gold instead of skinning, herbing or mining like a bot
Removing ways to farm gold is always bad. Be it GDKP or aoe farm in dungeons. Just because most people are too bad for it doesnt mean it should be banned/nerfed.
At some point you will have everyone farming the same garbage and then its not even worth to farm anymore. But hey, just buy wow token - thats the strategy. I dont even need to look up the CEO of Microsoft/Blizzard to know what he is with this type of revenue goals. Just squeeze everything until its completely dry. For thousands of years. Disgusting.
Not if it harms the game. In this case it can affect how people see classes as viable to play or not. It affects the economy overall. Frequency of bots and gold selling and probably other things. Players are a lot more exploitative today than back in 2005-2010. Not doing anything to prevent the worst of it would be irresponsible.
I used to think of mages as good PvP players, now I associate them with people that need to boost/abuse game mechanics in order to put food on the table and feed their family.
