I’m a returning player to wow classic on official servers. I did not have time to join into the madness about a year ago, but I do now! I have leveled in classic now for some days and got up to decent lvl! But something huge is missing from my experience and that is to do dungs! First couple of days I spent up to 4-5 hours clicking the same macro in “LookingForGroup” channel, no one answer me, accept people willing to boost me in those instances for gold, but all my gold goes to repair and abilitys at this point! Now I don’t bother to look for groups any more because no one is doing them. ( and no my server is full on realm list so I’m not on a dead server ).
I’m starting to lose hope to ever do a dung under level 50 because of this boosting meta!
Maybe increase xp for doing dungs with a normal group and nerf xp gain in a boosted group!
Which realm are you on?
I’m playing on Earthshaker and never had a problem with low/mid lvl dungeon runs. In LFG ppl still looking for others for different dungeons of all levels.
Play Horde on Noggen and Alliance on Gehennas both places I have really hard time finding groups to low/mid tier instances!
This is not a really good look for Blizzard! Their game feels empty for “new players”
Try zandalari tribe/Earthshaker
Your solution is to either reroll servers or paying for transfer?? Lol???
Or you can just quest to 60.
Or play a warrior tank, you should find groups easily.
Boosting is for alts of players who already have 60s with some gold.
It never even occurred to me that boosting had a detrimental effect, but it kind of makes sense with this community right? Yeah the solution is simple and what you said, just limit the 60 character and stop the xp being gained that way.
Who does it effect really in the end anwyay mages? screw mages this whole frankenstein patch 1.12 grossly favors mages.
Here’s a solution for you: don’t join them.
Here’s 2 more:
Too much spam? Ignore them.
Can’t find groups? Make one yourself
Sometimes I wonder if i’m really smart or if everybody else is just a moron.
The people who are paying for boosts would NOT be doing dungeons while leveling.
Why? Because these people only care about leveling fast. Doing dungeons (the normal way) is not considered a time-efficient way of leveling.
Your problem is not dungeon boosting meta. It’s that you are late to the party and that sucks
the core problem(if it even is a problem) is how boring it is to level and the lack of quests in vanilla reduces the “replayability” of it.
letting people buy boosts from blizzard to 60 would be good too so the game gets new poeple. the boring 1-60 is very off putting for a lot of people
The reason people go for boosts is that it’s fast and efficient, doing lower level dungeons in the way they are intended to be done is actually slower XP than just questing and grinding in the open world.
If boosting was gone, it wouldn’t mean more people doing lowbie dungeons, it would mean less people leveling in general, and most of the booster buyers questing in the open world.
The slower lvling progression isn’t “problem” at all. The problem are ppl who see it as the problem. Because everybody knows that progression in vanilla has much slower rate than in retail. This is one of the main aspect ppl loved vanilla. Nothing was for free. Aggro more than 3 mobs is commonly followed by your death. Any loot is appreciable. Gold has some value. And mainly, lvling is kind of challenge. I just don’t get it, why some ppl are complaining about slow lvling progress, when they play vanilla.
Btw, exp boosts are one of the main reasons, why popularity of retail wow and mmorpg is declining. Instead of getting any reward for hardwork you get reward for no work, without any challenge or effort. Instant succes and aiming for endgame, where lvling is understood as the necessary evil, is good maybe for young, impatient and/or lazy players, who actually don’t care about rpg aspect of the game. But no (mmo)rpg should offer players too easy lvling without any challenge and with selling boosts everywhere you look.
so in short u are saying vanila exists to reward time spent instead of skill/knowledge.
Aggro more than 3 mobs and be completely ignorant of your class’ toolkit and die, same principle applies on retail. Gold has value in retail aswell. Leveling is not a challenge but a time sink.
exp boosts are not why retail is declining. vanilla wow nor retail rewards hard work but has more participation rewards. Leveling is the necessary evil if you play games to escape your real life instead of seeking competition (where you must be level 60 for any “serious” competition) it is pretty evident this is something people like u that play rp or normal realms (whatever a realm named after a racing track in a deserted zone is) do not care about competition, thus u seek to alienate the part of community that wants to minimize the boring and forgettable part of the game which is leveling.
Wow leveling has no serious difficulty, you can get to 60 by auto attacking a mob at a time. Why is selling boosts a problem? Because new people can’t afford them therefore have to level through questing/aoe grinding? Because people with level 60s can get more characters to 60 in a faster, less time consuming way?
Well gold hardly does have any value when a mount is at multiple million or a diadem for transmog from past x-pack is sold 900 k, it is far from a heathy or welcoming system both for new payers(good luck to them) and others.
This massive amount of players boosting themselves is killing Classic.
I wonder when people will start asking for 60 Tokens.
#stopboosting
Yeah, not with you on that one buddy, lot of the quest rewards and items from dungeons are superior to what you get from grinding and questing in the open world, they’re worth doing at least once. At the start of Classic people were farming SM/ZF in groups constantly instead of the open world.
Get rid of boosting and people will revert back to this type of leveling. You’re acting like this isn’t having a negative effect on the game? An example is people who just start Classic or were late to the party and wanted to try it out, how are they going to afford boosting? boosters have negatively impacted their initial playing experience.
I can’t finish elite quest because no one is doing them
I can’t do escort quest because no one is doing them
I can’t do dungs with out paying for it because no one is doing them
I often find my self grinding X amount of mobs before I can leave to new zone because I’m to low level for that zone!
The worst classic experience so far and I have played on some pretty shady private servers before!
Your server sucks tbh
Levelling is only as much of a challenge as you make it. Go for orangd mobs - sure, it’s hard. Go for green - piss easy. Besides, you don’t even NEED to do the elite quests if you can’t/don’t want to.
I levelled to 60 and have only done like… 10-12 dungeon runs. You can easily get to 60 without them. Or you can start your own group. Or join a guild and ask guildies. In other words, make your own solutions.
Again: playing vanilla-classic, when u hate leveling doesn’t make any sense. It’s like you would like 3D action shooter games, but u hate shooting. Or u would like strategy games but without planning the strategy. If u don’t like the core mechanic of (mmo)rpg games, why then play them? MOBA games would be better, don’t u think?
Escaping from real life - good, lvling doesn’t restrict you in your effort, it’s also kinda relaxing. I see “the progression” as the main aim of playing wow. The endgame content is a sweet cherry on a big cake. Well even after hitting 60 lvl you are still in some progression, because you are farming pre-BIS (or just reasonable in raids) gear, trying to get some gear from raids, farming repurations, mats for professions etc. You are still in some kind of progress. However, even this part of game could someone see as “boring”. Like “why should I farm gear in MC, when gear from BWL is better? Or why to put my effort in farming gear in BWL, when AQ/Naxx sets makes it obsolete? Just release directly phase 6,give me final set from Naxx and leave me alone!”
Nah, getting everything immediately and without effort is totally against the spirit of any (mmo)rpg game.