I have many alts which I like to use to run old legacy dungeons/raids for a chance at transmogs/pets and mounts each week.
Its pretty annoying that you can fly through them pretty quickly and after around ten characters/instances I get soft locked out of going into anymore instances for “awhile” on any of my characters. What is even more annoying is that the system doesn’t even give the player any form of idea when you will able to run the instances again.
Is there no possibility to make this a soft lock per character instead of account wide as it really punishes players that like to farm old content with many characters.
Iirc its a charge system, 10 instances an hour, generating a charge every 10 minutes
Yes its a pain but its account wide to combat bots messing up a servers economy
Been in the same position a few times farming, best advice dont spam all 10, even if you take a 1/2 min break in-between each run you can generate 2 or 3 charges while you farm instead, it just it smooths out the process
Also check out the addon saved instances, will track your instance cap & give you a timer for charges, among other usefull info like all your lockouts for the week & all currencies across all your alts
I think the hourly instance lockout limit and nerfing the gold drops from old raids only effected the normal players who would farm these old raids for some gold. It did not and it will not really effect bots, as long as they are not all permanently banned to extinction. If Blizzard really wants to stand against the bots, then they should act more strictly against botting, and ANY form of that, because it gives those players an unfair advantage who play multiple characters/accounts compared to those who don’t.
And also they should restrict ANY form of multiboxing (even if its done without using a 3rd party software), and boosting for in-game gold should also be restricted in that case, if they really care about server economy.
Because there are people who farm reagents with multiple characters through multiboxing (even without using a 3rd party software), and then those people effect a server’s economy in a bad way (or the economy, now is that Auction Houses are Cross-Realm in a Region.)
These people effect the economy in a bad way when they list hundreds to thousand of reagents in AH since those people sell reagents in bulk, they don’t care to undercut the prices, and they may lower the current price by a large margin to sell their stock quickly, which results in deflation.
The thing is nerfing the gold drop from old raids or instance lockout is not really solution sadly, in my opinion. Also mount drops from dungeons/raid are rare drops with low %. I would say they should at least revert gold drop nerf from old Raids as that did not really solve the bots messing up the economy anyway, as I said above.