I had a couple shadowlands lvl 50 boosts saved up and decided to use them. Characters ended up with extremely low gear level, thats not even usable in questing areas, mobs kill you with ease and i cant queue for any dungeon in all timelines. What am i supposed to do with those boosted characters now, they are pretty much unplayable. 0o
there are some realy cheap items on the AH that can stand in as temporary gear. might give that a try
I guess, but thats just toxic design on blizzards part
The free solution would be to run some dungeons and have people carry you until you get enough gear. If you donât feel comfortable doing that you can solo some WoD/Legion raids and hope you get drops you can use.
If youâre willing to wait 60 days without using the characters you can also use the gear update option. Although that one has the side effect of resetting your action bars
I wouldnât call it toxic design, more like broken design since scaling is in shambles ever since the ilvl rescaling in the prepatch.
they probably forgot to scale those gears 
I havenât found itâs been an issue in the past but Iâve not used a boost since the start of this expansion. Even if you die a bit as soon as you start getting the quest rewards itâs fine.
I canât say itâs âtoxicâ, my alts generally feel weak compared to may main when levelling, particularly the ones that just ding and are abandoned. If you really want to be better geared to level there are options available. Like using the AH, make or get crafted gear made, use currency on alts to buy catch up gear from last expansion (providing you played) etc.
At level 50 you can solo Mythic WoD raids and get ~140 item level gear. This isnât massive either but will be good enough to start questing and get better gear. Also youâll pick up some mogs along the way.
Yeah its completely borked. Iâm pretty sure Blizzard forgot to scale it (like many things every time they do their scaling).
My wife had 2 Shadowland boosts. Used them and both characters got gear with ILVL 68⌠thatâs just not right.
To give you an example of why that ainât right:
The gear update for returning/inactive characters gives you ILVL 148 on a lvl 50.
People can wave it away with: âOh, just buy some cheap gearâ, ârun some dungeonsâ. The demand should be that Blizzard fixes this and the easy way: just give the same gear as the gear update.
Do report this in-game though. Since I feel many on the forums bring up problems but donât report them.
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Cheap BoE on AH are so cheap that crying on forums about that is weird.
I donât see how itâs toxic - it gives incentive to players to buy some BoEs from other players that normally go unsold forever.
This is literally a first world problem in WoW XD
Heirlooms are really good, get some of those to the right level.
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They arenât worth the gold expense, especially if youâre already level 50.
If you already have Heirlooms then theyâre pretty good up until around level 40 or so. Then they start to feel meh.
To buy and upgrade Heirlooms to work past 50 would a Tokenâs worth of gold at least.
Heirlooms need a rework. Get rid of the Upgrades, have them just work in Chromie Time.
The bonuses arenât great either. Give them +Speed. Make the Rested XP bonus last much longer.
I use heirlooms all the time, mine go to to level 70. They are really useful, I always dungeon my way up to max level and I never need to replace any of the heirlooms until Iâm around level 68-69. Even then thats if Iâm lucky enough to get a decent ilvl item to replace them which alot of the time I donât.
All ther gear that drops in the dungeons before then just arenât as good as the heirlooms.
You can use the timewalking gear too but itâs only a few peices of gear, and most of the time they donât even replace heirloom slots.
what about the free gear update for old chars blizz implemented with df? you literally skipped free gear uprade and open forum about it being toxic lol
Heirlooms
duhhâŚ
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