Please dont do this, dont add the boost and not the mount either, it will ruin the whole immersion. I want to voice my opinion cause this is important to me. The boost will make an even bigger bot problem and ruin the economy. Most of the game is leveling and thats how it should be, it shouldnt be skippable. Thats what they do in the fake servers, it doesnt give you any motivation to play. It just make people quit earlier.
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Most of classic* is leveling - that isn’t TBC.
Give us fresh servers and I would agree with not having a boost. Until fresh servers for TBC are announced, it has to stay, lest a great many TBC players aren’t bothered to come.
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But, no it’s not.
TBC = 58-70 is the leveling part.
You’re always welcome not to use the boost
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It won’t make the bot problem bigger and ruin the economy more than if there wasn’t a boost.
Most of the game is rep farming, consumable farming, gold farming and raiding honestly. If you like levelling fine, don’t use a boost. It gives a lot of people motivation to play, knowing that they won’t have to gather raptor feathers for the 15th time, but can get to the new fun, hellfire and go kill hellboars
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Leveling will be faste when the prepatch hits, its like 15% less xp needed overall, with should increase the levelspeed alot ( lesser traveltime and you can skip some quests you dont like ).
Its not about the individual that uses the boost or not its about the impact this boost will have.
Ok gimme me a chance to see things differently for you, just one:
Can I ask you an easy question.? (copied that from another post of mine)
You have an own busyness, you sell (idk man 
) oranges. You have 5 employee. But teaching them how to sell is kinda a long process.
Suddenly you get an offer from another company: They will give you any amout of employee (they will have the skills to sell oranges) you order for a resonable fee and you know that oranges will be in demand, like big time.
How many would you order ?
TBC is just an expansion of classic, is it not? They are still part of the same game.
Leveling has always been the “foundation” of oldschool mmo’s. It was intended to be a long, time-consuming journey you had to go through.
If you wanted endgame you had to first get through the beginning.
Classic and TBC both had this oldschool mmo feel that is so rare these days. You couldn’t pay to win or pay for convinence. You had to do it the hard way.
Classic and TBC was never very casual friendly. It’s designed to reward players for spending time in the game.
It’s not a race. Even if you’re a slow leveler or simply don’t have much time to spend on leveling, there will still be plenty of people running dungeons, gearing alts by the time you reach 70. You could start leveling right now and you’d probably reach 60 before TBC launches. And as someone mentioned the XP gain will be increased once pre-patch hits.
If you have so little time to spend that leveling is not an option for you, or if you simply just don’t want to level then the game was never meant for you in the first place.
Boosts are not in line with an authentic experience.
Don’t make TBC the new retail.
And those who don’t mind leveling but are considering boosting, help us get fresh servers instead. You’ll have a great leveling experience and a more “equal” start. No gold or gear advantages etc.
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They will, it is this slow heating of water with frog example again. Now they say only one per account, but we can be sure in few months they will lift that restriction. Basically all retail features will slowly one by one added to game in my opinion. I just hope I will be able to have still some fun in TBC because Wrath will probably be just another version of retail.
But on topic of fresh servers I don’t agree. Classic was fresh and see how it looks like. It is not worth to start new servers just for few weeks of fresh experience.
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TBC is part of core game, whether you like it or not.
Remember why they called it an expansion, it expands the game universe… not replace.
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But it would not hurt to give people who want that a couple of fresh servers, right ? There are way more of “us” than people think esp. in the US.
I agree 100% sadly.
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It would not hurt me ofc. But it would hurt Blizzard by selling less boosts. So it will probably not happen. And I believe most people does not realize how fast would fresh servers be flood by bots.
mh… fair point, but loosing subs is not that good either ^^
They will try yes, but its a different thing if botting was a thing for 2 years or when the server is fresh. And i would bet my green a*** that we will report those bots like crazy, because they are one of those reasons we went there in the first place.
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When classic started most of us tried same. Report bots like crazy, but still ended up like this. Bots are problem for 15 years. Fresh servers will not solve this. And I believe botters would specifically target fresh servers, because less gold in economy creates higher demand.
Yeah i can see your point althou i dont see this as something completly black or white. I think its more a tendency like infaltion itself. Less bots = the lesser impactfull the problem is and vice versa. Ofc we will not achieve 100% botfree classic (prove me wrong blizzard! ), but it will be better than playing on servers where people can boost there bots as much as they like.
You may can say that the race on a progressionserver is kinda lost, but on every fresh server there is a change it will take longer to lose that race, or maybe… just maybe it will not be that impactfull than it is right now.
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With this I agree. It may be that buying boosts for bot is profitable. For me personally is more important to continue story of my character. I don’t play alts or rerol in classic. I have this paladin and one bank character and that is it. If I would need to reroll I would probably lost connection with game same as happened to me in retail. So I will have to accept inflated economy and try to use it in my adventage my selling more than buying on AH.
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Thanks for sharing Its kinda how it thought it is, people just wanna get along and play they fav. charakter. Imagine Blizzard would ban those bots, would be a perfect world ^^
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Now they say only one per account, but we can be sure in few months they will lift that restriction.
Yep this is exactly what i’m afraid of.
People who never played back then or gave up on classic will never fully understand the impact these features will have on the game.
Oh and about fresh servers.
I’ll still play if they aren’t released
But love the fresh server experience and it’s something we won’t be able to take part in again any time soon.
And sure the economy would most likely get screwed by bots eventually. Unless Blizzard actualy comes up with a good solution which is unlikely but we never know.
How long will it take the bots to screw up the economy? A few weeks of healthy economy is better than none at all, especially in early TBC.
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That is 100% what i think too, it is in fact better than the alternative. The fact that we want to lvl a new character and abandon our ingame wealth should underline with BIG red makers that we really care about that.
personally level boost is the only way ill play tbc, dont wanna waste my time spending weeks leveling in vanilla zones
Even thou iam 100% against boosting, but i can see that as a question of taste. Like choosing a PvE or a PvP server. Some people would never choose a PvE server and for others it is the way to go.
As i stated in another post of mine, bringing some fresh server would end the debate, at least for TBC.