Hi. Many play this game for a lot of reasons.leveling experience. pvp, pve, hoarding items etc. i like pve and boosting my own characters in dungeons with my mage. yes, i find it relaxing autowalking in mara for 15 mins while watching youtube on second monitor. and sometimes i do take customers and get some gold, sometimes i take for free, sometimes i dont take any. Thing is, there are certain people and everyone knows who am i talking about that do it for a living, literally i try explaining them that i wanna boost just my own character, and they keep killing youin front of maraudon. they tell you that you should buy from them if you want to level up “you dont know how things work here” i was told. Basically colluding with more alliance and horde players to have control over customers, and after that to sell gold for irl money, very very clear for everyone. very known. I know this is a long rant, but please, stop making this game a living, get a job, or accept competiton. you also provide such a worse product than anyone else that people started putting “european booster” in spam description is so ridiculous.
i know “pvp on a pvp server” yea sure “go pve server” like it didnt die second day of relaese.
Solutions are very very simple, you can track the gold easily and ban them.
Or you can make like 30 yards from portal entrance like neutral, like pve servers. tbh who likes going to a dungeon or trying to scout for jed or for aq id’s or for anything and getting killed and enjoys pvp near a dungeon/raid entrance. aboslutely only griefers. and thats it.
Very long rant which most likely going to solve… nothing.
Right click on character → report → griefing → done.
That said, on a PvP realm… yeah, sorry, but this is more or less explicitly what you signed up for, and Blizzard will do absolutely nothing to curb it and have stated as much numerous times.
If you take screenshots of the conversations, you might have mild sucess with a support ticket…but again, PvP realm, killing any enemy player for any reason is legitimate.
Secondarily: never, ever, play with people that purchase gold, period, even if it´s your freaking wife. Because if these lazy ego driven players didn´t exist, then the boosting and botting mafia wouldn´t, either.
sure, pvp realm, but i heard colluding with opposite faction is not really fair on a pvp server. they gather from “mafia” discords 20 guys from horde, 20 from alliance, they make a blacklist and a whitelist and they help each other. not really fair, isn’t it?
I´m fairly certian that it´s actually explicitly forrbidden. Hence the suggestion with the screenshots and ticket 
The problem is that most people going to PvP server not because they “like” world PvP, but because they think it is more populated. And it’s a trap, in reality for most people PvE server is more comfortable and fun (not many people enjoy low level or world buff ganking), but they going to PvP only because they think it will be “more populated”.
And no, PvE didn’t die on second day of release like you said. Its population is lower then PvP, but it is still playable and more populated then most of classic realms in 2020.
TLDR. OP got killed in front of mara , while trying to boost “his” character on A PvP realm .
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Or you know take the salt and ress a few times , until you reach the mara portal . Calling it Mafia , like they are sting in your home strong-arming you into buying their boosts . lol
They organized a ganking squad ? Sucks , but it is not against toss on a PvP realm . And neither is communicating with the other faction on discord , because discord has no “Factions”.
16k chars raiding is dead? Sure its 12k less than on the pvp realm but its by no ways dead at all. If the PvE server is dead then every server on the progression servers is dead and every server in era and every server in SoD as well. You clearly have no clue how dead or alive servers are.
Morally, you are no different than the “mafia”, they are just better at it than you are. You are a mobile home pervitin cook complaining your local mob boss caught you undercutting and broke your kneecaps .
Also PvP happened on a PvP realm.
If you dislike being ganked and camped outside of an instance, come join us on a server for normal people.
So why play on a PvP server in the first place?
ofc, after they finish they ask you “more want”. can’t compete with that. anyways. kinda the responses i expected, go pve server where no one good is playing, and ppl like u who have no clue what they are talking about. just let them sell gold and provide for their families, thats what the game is about.
Yet you are closely inspecting the floor next to the Mara portal and they are selling their boosts to feed their kids. So they are doing something right (organizing) and you are doing something wrong (trying to muscle onto a market solo on a PvP realm lol)
You will garner no sympathy here. Not with your case, and doubly so not with your attitude. Bye and hope they mass report you for a week long chat timeout.
To be honest, I´m still curious as to which troll started the whole “PvP will be more populated” schtick that led to all of the people flocking to PvP servers even though they didn´t want anything to do with PvP, which then became a self fulfilling prophecy.
I wouldn´t be the least bit surprised if it was one or multiple of the people that are standing in front of maraudon and other instances killing everyone that isn´t running with them…
And I dare postulate that many of the the people still playing on PvP realms despite being in a similar situation to the OP are doing so because they´re still blindly swallowing the same lies hook, line, and sinker that got them into their miserable situation to begin with, instead of just actually trying the alternative for themself and forming their own opinion instead of just continuing to parrot the same reddit gibberish that got them into the mess.
well, the action and the problem im describing happens in era, where u can only play pvp realms. i encountered it in annivesary, but at least there are layers and u can make it.
Boosting just needs to be banned full stop
no, that’s a lazy fix and not everyone enjoys leveling. banning gold selling and making it so that this game isnt a job for some would be a fix.
Really? You sure about that?
Because when I log in to Pyrewood Village despite it´s “low” population, I still have no problems whatsoever finding raids or dungeon groups…
Gold selling has always been banned in every version of WoW.
The problem is that a surprisingly large number of players, esp on anything that opens up “new”, are just lazy F´s that don´t care how much they damage the game as long as their life is easier.
Anniversary arguably alleviated many of the botting and gold selling issues on Era realms, because all the people that want to pay to not play appear to have all went over to anni, which is why their utopian concept of a “fresh start with an unbroken economy” was basically a pipe dream before the servers went live, because as soon as they were announced every RMT /Boosting discord was flooded with inquiries as to whether people can buy gold there…
Seriously, if Blizzard would just actively monitor Boosting discords and ban the people that publicly purchase services and have their B-net linked, that would likely already remove a huge chunk of the perpetrators…
I mean yeah the biggest problem id not that you get killed by mafias.
The biggest problem is when you get mass reported and banned
Not only. Pyrewood is also an option and it is playable. Its population is comparable with firemaw and on levelling is even more (/who 50-59 firemaw - 23 players, pyrewood - 30 players)
Are you joking ?
I don’t enjoy Nutella, so I don’t eat it. If you don’t enjoy levelling, why play a game where the majority of content takes place whilst levelling ?
Gold selling has always been banned, but it’s driven by demand and demand is driven by players. The biggest driver of demand for gold on these anniversary servers is for boosting, that’s patently obvious when you look at both trade chat and by the simple existence of these mafias.
Leaving aside the whole gold argument, it’s also just bad for the game. It should be fixed.
This particular issue could easily be stopped by removing boosting mechanics from the game. Which was implemented in some other versions of Classic, I think. I’m tired of sitting alone in wailing caverns queue. Go play with me.