Third point is a little unreasonable. Others fine.
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1 & 2 are fair.
3 I cant agree with, itâs not up to blizzard to police what people can trade each other, and there is legitimate reasons to move gold around low level characters that arenât in any way related to the BMAH. Also if you implement the first 2, there is no reason for this. since the bmah rerolls items daily you cant really abuse it in the same way.
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I purchased t3 xrealm, itâs not really that shady tbh. You usually contact a trusted seller who has gold on a few select dead realms, usually non-English ones with very few players. Itâs not like they transfer milions to whatever server constantly.
You pay the guy a fee (thatâs how he makes a profit) + your budget for a specific item, he will check the dead realms for the item you want and contact you when itâs available. He will then trade you your budget on the realm and you can bid on the item, if you win, great. If you get outbid over your max budget you get all the gold back, at least that is the guy I bought t3 through operated.
I guess at the start and later on a little bit of realm transferring has to be done, but I just see that as a starting investment for the guy. And then wow tokens just cover the cost.
Bear in mind this was over a year ago and I havenât played in months so idk if anything has changed but I donât really see the problem with it. I bought t3 shoulders for like 20k, itâs not like every BMAH item on every realm will instantly have a gold cap bid on it because of those âpesky boosting communitiesâ. At the very least very much not an exploit imo.
How the gold gets there is the most irrelevant thing ever once you have so much of it, you can spread it around to random servers like it were butter on bread.
The problem is that its encouraging people to use trials to parachute to random servers to steal deals and create unorganic competition with the actual population of the server, its basically abusing the mechanics of class trials and the BMAH in a way that I can guarantee blizzard didnât intend.
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You have been away from the game a long time.
1: using temporary trial character to go snap items not from your server is not an intended way of using the character trial nor the BMAH. Nor is it fair for people of that server.
2: things have changed and the boosting has taken such proportions that most items go for millions, not 20k.
How is that something new? People kept buying token gold on dead servers to get T3 even nonboosters done and do soâŠ
I can see that, people used to farm mounts that way on trial characters and they disabled that. I just used level 1 characters so it was very hectic and nerve wrecking in dalaran sewers with people having fun farming me and another few lvl 1s 
I am very much against limiting in what players can trade each other, so I guess you would have to restrict new characters from looking at the AH although that wonât stop it because you can make the characters on target realms in advance.
Honestly it seems like a non-issue for me, but who knows.
Oh I am very much aware of the price of t3, they were going for milions last year as well. I just happened to want shaman t3 which is generally not a very desired set I am just saying that itâs not like you literally donât stand a chance on your specific server because of it. Itâs not really a new thing either, people have used dead realms for this things for ages afaik.
Its happening all the time (especially in the EU region), its clearly an issue on certain servers.
Iâm also not for limiting what people can trade either, but for example newly boosted characters cant enter raid instances for 24 hours after the boost and trial characters cant at all. If you put the same restrictions on using the BMAH you would get rid of 95% of this behaviour because there are enough realms out there and a 24 hour lockout would prevent you from targeting any specific item since well on any given realm it can be a long time for something specific to show up on the BMAH.
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So much this. I boosted a ton during BoD to afford 2 of my t3s, I lost several pieces and had to wait a couple of extra days for another piece to pop up cause people native on those realms had gold saved up
Boosting communities will watch the BMAH on a multitude of servers for a customer. When the item the buyer wants comes up, they will give the buyer the gold on the relevant realm to bid on the item and buy it.
The buyer pays the boosting community in gold on their main realm. This will include a fee for the service and the gold trade.
Players can also roll a character on a quiet realm and buy tokens to get gold for purchases from the BMAH.
Iâm not sure either can be classed as an exploit.
If the booster was accepting real money then they would be violating the terms.
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I donât think anyone is saying that it is against the ToS, but being BMAH mules doesnât really feel like its what class trials were designed for. Blizzard could easily break this if they wanted to.
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Just ban trial characters from doing this?
How simple is the fix? ^^ that easy.
Letâs see if we can keep the traction of this thread and hopefully we see a positive ending.
I too am so sick of boosting communities. From the plethora of multiboxers who may or may not be operating solo, to the endless spam of WTS JAINA NZOTH 5MASK UBERDUBER PAY USTOWIN AND GET ITEMS.
Give it a rest you lot.
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The opening post does. Is there a level requirement to access the BMAH? Low levels could also be summoned there.
I donât think there is anything wrong with restricting class trials though. You donât need the BMAH to test out a character.
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there isnât persae, but low level alts canât use a lot of the items on the BMAH, the whole purpose of using a trial Is because if a mount requires say level 90 to learn you can just use the trial and learn it instantly.
Problem is simple:
Trial characters have advantages they shouldnât have. Limit the side use of them, since they are used for everything except âtryingâ a class.
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Same can also be said about destroying rainforests in Africa. It doesnât matter and it brings in money - but in the end, we all will pay for it.
Greed is like a cancer, it grows with no control until it has affected everything itâs attached to in some form.
It can be applied to boosting communities in WoW too, they will not stop at any degree to get playersâ gold from any activity. It would not surprise me if soon they will offer packages where boosters do everything ingame for customers so they donât have to play at all. And the sad part is that there are people who will purchase it.
There are people who need gold.
I need gold too but do you see me boosting people?
If a boost option is up, it is because people pay for it.
Is not like boosters try to suck off your gold specifically with 300 diff options.
That is your choice.
If a person love spamming dungeons all day, might as well get some gold while doing it.