Didn’t think of that. I wonder if the team forgot too, when they decided to green light this boost? 
Sadly many people still defend the boost. Why? Because they benefit from it (going to use themselves), or have friends that benefit from it (more people to play with). Little do they know this is a slippery slope. It starts with a paid boost and clone service, but oh boy it does not end there. Just wait for the token, barber shop and faction change. Watch them defend that, too.
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If someone is lazy enough/not caring about the game, its very possible that he won’t be watching comprehensive class guides but will only look at wowhead/icy veins so he will not be using his entire class kit but only the basic rotation.
As you gave the example of shaman: Someone who bought a level boost and just learned that he will keep spamming chain heal and won’t ever properly use his totems, won’t even know about giving his melees windfury totem/casters totem of wrath/how to use his mana tide etc.
Last time I did a LFR on retail(2020) there was a resto druid in the group. I asked him “can you give me motw”, his reply was “whats motw?”, I said “mark of the wild” he didn’t know what it is, then I told him where to find it and still didn’t get the buff until the raid was over.
You lot really want to ignore the fact that even if the game is easy to play, there is still a learning curve how to play efficiently. But yeah you just spam 1 button its an ez game, thats why almost all top dps rankings are people from top guilds and the forum bunch have all green parses. They have better keyboards and a better gaming chair I assume.
Rite.
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Paid character boost is a lot worse than all of these changes tbh.
As much as I’d love to play another game of “Scarekraaw avoids arguments and plays psychiatrist”, everything gets stale with time.
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I know some people cant believe that there is still people playing “weird”. As example, 2 months ago on retail. I was in a rated bg group and that resto druid used stagform thinking it would be 100% eventho you could of seen it wasnt that at all. He was also just defending a base as healer. It’s 2021 but that does not mean that people go look up guides after using a boost… or even spend time with the game to begin with.
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Yeah, I’ve yet to see somebody here admitting they have been barking up the wrong tree - so lets leave it at that!
Rarely a troll admits to being one.
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Was this originally posted on the retail forums and moved over or something?
Can believe the number of smug, condescending idiots in the replies.
yes hunter one button dps cycle is way too hard
Okay, if we look at this situation that has happend for sure you didn’t just make it up let’s see what’s happening.
LFR a space to those who have no intrest in a serious raid. It rewards failure with more damage. Has a reputation that’s it’s piss easy and tends to attract the players who have no intrest in learning how to play the game besides the bare minimum not even that at times.
You found someone in this lovely environment that might not have boosted or played the game for long as if you play with others at cap you will know about the buffs. This is supposed to show us that boost is bad.
You know that leveling 1-60 isn’t something that teaches you how to play the game right? Or I guess you and your ilk were proficient raiders when you capped your first character.
If these people that you think are mentally defficient or “plebs” as you’ve so lovely put it in another thread were really so bad as you say an inspect would clue you in. You wouldn’t bring them along into serious groups. So how would this affect you again?
Those who are terrible still can, will and do play the game.
I like healing dungeons. I usually joined groups for no reason just for the fun of it when they were common during the early phases. I’ve seen capped and even raid geared players who were terrible whitout the boost. This magic experince that you speak of that would teach someone how to play form 1-58 simply isn’t there.
Besides if this learning curve was there in 1-58. It would be also present 58-70.
If somebody wants to improve being a boosted or leveled character will not change that fact the slightest. It’s on the player that if he wants to get into better groups he should get to know how to play the game.
And just as a final note. I haven’t used a mage boost service that you and your kind was selling. Nor will I use the 58 boost as I don’t want to spend the money on something that I don’t need.
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Hey, don’t be that brutal. It’s common knowledge that it was harder to kill LFR N’zoth than Heroic (while some argued about Mythic as well).
And Classic isn’t IMHO appealing to collectors, socials and wannabies that at best do LFR and are offended when a quest requires M0.
On Rag I spammed frostbolt and one pro-timed blink to blink back while bounced. Top DPS. In BfA even pleasing wowanalyser is not enough to think about blue or purple parse.
if someone is super lazy then there is no cure for that. I did RSham on K3 so I can agree (it’s more of “how to be a good healer”). Early levels on a shaman with a shield are fun, even when running an instance as a healer you can co-tank and stuff.
IMHO there should be new level 1 FRESH with transfer lock an no boost while existing realms could have that boost if Blizz really wants to (existing realms are already tainted anyway) but it should have big red message:
joining an existing realm without friends to support you will put you on a severe disadvantage versus existing players. It’s advised for new players to join new realms.
Do you have people like that in your guild? We sure don’t. If you slack you get called out and if you don’t pick up you get kicked out. Except Annie shes the 6 year old daughter of another member, she can put whatever totem she wants…
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If someone seems clueless i am not afraid of removing them from the group
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He probably didn’t know what it was because MOTW hasn’t been a baseline ability in retail since WoD and is now a PvP talent that can’t be used inside instances.
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Well I guess we know who the bad player was in this instance lol
Average retail player way above skillwise than any classic one.so no.
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The more bad players that are in the game the more we will have the original TBC experience. People were absolute morons (in relation to gaming) back in 2007.
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People actually being toxic saying that people won’t be able to play their classes? xD.
Apparently leveling 1-58 teaches you the game, even though people have played the game for years and years.
I’ll be buying a boost 
- I’d be learning how to play my boosted character between 58-70 with friends that has also boosted their characters.
Do you think that people don’t know how to find their spellbook now?
It’s 2021, not 2005. - Only new people to MMORPGS would struggle at all
I mean, I don’t care much for the barber shop… since it’s only cosmetic and only costs in-game gold.
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I would like to see some evidence on that claim.
i smell bs.
My issue is that it undermines a core progression system of the game.