I know this is not the first time this is being posted on these forums. But honestly, this would make life easier for me and most likely many others aswell.
The barrier to entry is already high for me. Since I have been playing horde casually all of Classic Anniversary, I need to pay for a 2nd sub to join my MoP guild in their coming alliance TBC raid group (can’t have horde and ally on the same pvp realm). So I need to start from scratch on a fresh account. Since I have been given a spot as shaman, I have to roll draenei. Draeneis can’t be boosted, from what we currently know. Which means I have to level. I also can’t start preparing my shaman now, since they’re not available before the pre-patch. A lot of my guildies are already getting their characters boosted/leveled, have started farming gold and other things you will want going into TBC.
Just make us eligible to boost draenei and blood elf already. There is zero reason not to. Honestly, it’s such an uphill battle currently I’m not sure if I even should bother.
I tried to think of other ways to catch up if someone wanna start fresh but honestly I can’t.
I also think that people who are against it have zero reasoning behind it. They accept 58 boosts to every other race / class but they are against it just because it didn’t happen in 2021. Also I believe that the exact same people gonna look for shamans and palas coz playing melee with wf or caster with totem of wrath and bl makes whole experience much more fun and at the same time going to be pissed off with how easy it’s gonna be for shamans and paladins to have a legit free spot in every raid.
Makes no sense to not being able to boost draenei and belfs during tbc prepatch
Yeah, there really isn’t any. And the boost would solve a lot of the issues. It’s also unfair that like 90% of our raid team can start now, but 10% can’t (and are the only ones who can’t make use of the boost). We have to play around the clock for several weeks straight in the pre-patch to level, set everything up with professions etc to get to the point where everyone else is at. Nobody else but people playing draenei/blood elf have to do this.
Anniversary is already a sideproject of mine and not my main game (ToT release is literally this week). There’s no way I can put aside that much time in such a short timespan.
It would be plain stupid to allow boosts of new races right from the start - it would ruin the race for first to 60 and 70.
Just level up like everyone else from level 1 - the good news is you will make it 30% faster due to XP boosts. Or you could wait a year for boosts to (maybe) become active.
Does anyone genuinely care about that kinda stuff on a seasonal server with accelerated cadence, though? The “community” for that must be extremely niche and tiny. I mean, “world first” on a re-re-release of a 20 year old game… If anything is stupid, it’d be caring about it at the expense of having players play your game.
Boosts are already confirmed for the vast majority of players. Just not draenei or blood elf.
I don’t think many will agree with you on that. But personally, I don’t think it’s that terrible of an idea. Generally, I like leveling. I just don’t like getting excluded from the train and forced to solo my way up later on when everyone else is doing endgame activities. Because that is the reality, people preparing for TBC are either done leveling already or are doing it now (or waiting for the boost). But people intending to play draenei shamans or blood elf paladins are stuck, forced to do the entire thing solo later on, which is quite a terrible way of designing a game.
But that is kinda the point of the thread, everyone else does not have to do this.
By doing it like this, Blizzard is just making the entire situation sour for rerolling shamans and paladins. We fall behind from the start and can’t even level together with our guild.
Imagine a sprint competition. Everyone is allowed to participate, but 1 in 9 participants have to wait at the starting line while the rest of the sprinters start. They can’t start until they see sprinters already crossing the finish line, some even had the time to leave the area and go home for the day. Some also got the option to skip the sprint completely, while still getting the medal.
The start for the unfortunate eventually starts, but now they have to do the same thing in basically no time because the last train home is leaving soon. That’s kinda what this is.