I know many people are against this and many others want this. But Boost runs now ruin the game. At least for me. When I started playing Classic on release. There were no major problems because you always found groups to go on adventures with. But it’s dead now. The whole idea behind Classic has now flown away.
You rarely find groups for dungeons or other elite quests. The only thing you see is Mages and their boost runs spams in all channels. How fun is this when you want to start with another class? To just stand there and get xp to the opposite of gold.
My suggestion is to remove xp if someone in same party that is 10 level higher.
FIRST you have to decide what you want. Do you want Classic based on the 1.12.1 data or do you want a modified version, Classic+. This is a big question because in Classic+ you open up for all kind of changes and you may not like many of them.
I think that your idea is a good idea. It would make the game “better”. The problem is that this changed would be used as an argument to add all kind of changes… I know this is a slippery slope fallacy, but, we know for a fact what changes eventually lead to.
This is exactly why Blizzard didn’t want to release Classic for so many years. The expansions cater to a completely different audience to what the audience in 2004-2006 was. Everybody back then had max. 2 years experience in a relatively hard game and was all enjoying it together: and now that isn’t true. The players are different now, and the game reflects that.
Boost runs are stupid, but they’re what happens when you take a 2004 game and put 2020 players in it.
I agree to an extent, but it’s also what happens when players are BIS’d and waiting for AQ40, they want to play an alt but they don’t want to repeat the quests they did before so they boost. That being said I herb and I’ve seen lots of horde and alliance in the 30-50 zones levelling the old fashioned way, I don’t think the problem is as bad as he makes out.
Yeah it’s definitely not a huge problem. Unlike retail servers, where any trade chat is just constant spam from guilds boosting players through actual end game content. That’s a total crapshoot.
Well, seeing as there are no levelling dungeon groups and a lot of boosts, it is clear what people prefer to do / spend their time and gold on, no? You are the minority.
Most people leveling now are leveling alts, going into RFC or Wailing Caverns would slow down their leveling, also they can have a 60 guildy kill the bosses for them and do the quests in minutes. Scarlet Monastery and up is where you’ll start to see LFG’s.
Over a year now in fact. But it’s not me who "spam the forums. New characters make very similar threads and I respond to them.
I am simply trying to get OP to think about what he really ask for. I don’t think he fully realize what the consequences are of his suggestion.
Basically. What are the odds that the game will become better with changes? It’s not like people generally are very happy with the changes we have got already. Many or most changes are a reaction to other changes and almost all threads use unrelated changes as an argument to add more changes.
Not really. Unlike real vanilla, classic has not a MASSIVE influx of new players every day.
Therefore you can’t find as many other noobs doing elite quests/dungeons, and for raiders leveling alts, buying boots is just straight up more efficient.
The only real difference is that the alt guys in real vanilla would not buy boots, but get boosted by guildies.
btw why does a lvl 14 paladin complain about this? can’t you find at deadmines group AT LEVEL 14?
Boosts do not ruin the game. People are paying to get boosted because there aren’t enough people running old content. This is the reason sharding was put into place.