Depending on how big the poolsize is on your server and how much are actively pvping at the top, it might take substantially longer and even unattainable for the casual pvper…
Ye what Lugerr says. Most likely the latter…
Poor rankers that ruined bgs with their premades can’t exploit anymore. I feel so bad for them 
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You are right, I do have a few retail characters. Most of them were created back in vanilla and TBC. You should be able to validate that I did play back then by checking the transmog of this character.
You do realise that you can change to another server in the upper right corner of the character selection screen? Finding the top rankers of other servers should be fairly easy, and there is no need to “search the internet” (unless you consider ingame chat “Searching the internet”).
People were organising cross server pool parties several months ago in classic. It’s possible, and it’s effective. It does however require some effort to organise. Since the current rankers want to minimise the effort, you resorted to rampant exploiting instead. Once again, rankers were unable to restrict themselves and took it too far. Premades took it too far in AV, and got it changed. You took it too far with pool boosting, and it’s getting fixed. Never go too far when you are either runining other peoples experience, or exploiting. Or, as a wise man once said: Never go full retard.
Thanks, but I stopped at rank 10 back in February because I knew the effort required for higher ranks wasn’t worth it. Maybe you should have done the same?
Your proposing that players make lvl 1 characters, go on another server and ask for them to fix the problem of your server. Do you even read what you are saying? Do you honestly think that this is more reasonable than players of the same server cooperating to get their own server in better conditions for ranking? Although pool boosting is not the ideal solution a system that does not allow anyone to rank up if the pool is not large enough is even worse. it is flawed in it’s essence forcing you to compete against your own faction instead of the opposite faction. Have you ever heard “let’s lose fast so we can queue again”? Probably not because you are only rank 10 but this kind of thing happens because loosing a battle ground is less important then making more honor than your friends. Poolbooting may not have solved all the problems but it helped more than the other option. Stop trying to sabotage others simply because you didn’t have the guts to push your rank up.
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No. I have already stated that server population issues should be addressed in other ways by blizzard.
I have already stated that rampant exploiting, as this change is fixing, is not an acceptable solution. Especially not if it’s just for “better ranking”. What’s next? Allow botting? It certainly makes it better to rank.
How is that flawed? We frequently see people on these forums claim that they enjoy competing for better parses than their own guild mates. Friendly competition is an essential part of wow, and classic. Why do you think people in top guilds on their servers were “afking” for hours every day in ironforge and orgrimmar back in vanilla and tbc?
Yes, it’s one of the biggest reasons alliance always lose AV these days. Throwing games is also a bannable offense, in theory.
And you can still do it. You just have to put in some effort, like the people who gained their rank 14 several months ago did.
Should I stop reporting bots aswell? They are making other people’s life easier after all. Clearly, you don’t have the guts either. If you did, you would have been rank 14 long ago without this exploit, and have no problems with this exploit being fixed.
Just a piece of advice because I’m probably older than you and I’m 100% sure I played this game way more than you did.
1 - If something is bad it should be replaced anyone can agree with that but removing something bad to rollback to something even worse is pure stupidity. Find a better solution before ripping the band aid off.
2 - You still think it is easy to rank with pool boosting, it is not. If it was so easy you would be rank 14 now. Ranking is extremely exhaustive with or without pooling, you would know it if you had to manage the pool size of your server, brackets and chase people all the time to make sure they don’t break it.
3 - I did in Vanilla in the Alliance and I was about to do it again. The biggest difference is that back in the days I made enemies everywhere whilst ranking, this time I made friends. It has been a much more pleasant but far from easy.
4 - Poolboosting is not fun and it’s not botting this is a ridiculous comparison.
5 - Honor competition is not friendly, it is unhealthy and inhuman. Forcing someone to play 20 hours a day, sleeping with headphones on waiting for the bg to pop and eating all meals in front of the computer like I did in Vanilla is irresponsible to say the least. Health sacrifice should not be a requirement to rank.
Everyone that truly understand how this honor system works is against this hotfix even people who have rank 14 already (read the comments) but apparently you think you know better than everyone else.
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Ok, want a reward for that?
Just because it doesn’t benefit you doesn’t mean it’s worse.
So don’t. You are not playing the game the way it is intended. That’s the problem, you, not the game.
In some cases it is the same thing. They are both against the rules no matter how you try to wriggle around it though.
Noone is forcing you. You can choose to not do it. Optional activities in video games are not inhuman. You should be old enough to understand that based on your previous claim.
How does cancelling this fix change that? I thought you said you still have to work as hard?
You mean the people who already benefitted from poolboosting? I’m sure they are perfectly objective on the matter, just like you, me or anyone else who got killed by someone in rank 14 gear when their opponent was at below 10% health. That’s right, poolboosting gives you an unfair advantage, and is a bannable offense according to the rules. If you are as old and experienced as you claim to be, you should be able to understand that. Then you should also be able to accept this change and be happy you don’t get a long suspension for your exploits.
@Richdude
I have to ask, what do you personally benefit from this change? Why is it good.
Less people of the opposing faction running around with rank 14 gear. Should be pretty obvious.
Because it brings classic slightly closer to the vanilla experience.
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LOL at all who quit the game because of this hotfix - getting rank14 was never meant for people like you!
He doesn’t want people to have better gear than him.
Hey at least those “exploiters” made it so that everyone had a shot at getting a decent rank within their bounds of playing time without having to grind for an ungodly amount of time.
Most players (even still to this day) are piggybacking on the hard work of the bracket leader/top premade without even knowing it.
But ah well keep on complaining, you’ll reap what you sow. Enjoy those infinite queue times and struggling to reach certain brackets. With a change like this everyone loses, only the true people exploiting (Botters, accsharers, boosting service) will benefit from it. There’s no denying it, it’s a FACT.
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They just shall patch the 20% RP lost every weak out of the game or reduce it to 5%. If someone dont do pvp for one week then the 20% can do its work.
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in P5? Yeah best change ever.
That’s one way to handle it.
m8 u are clueless about ranking, plz stop posting nonsense if u dotn have a clue. the only reason u are happy about this change is because u dont have the skill, brain, and/or time to get rank 14, and u are happy that less people will try for it because blizz singlehandedly made it into a cancerous experiance
@richdude
f rankers lmaooo
Lmao
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As a vanilla r14 I find it interesting how people go bananas for blizz fixing poolsize boost. It wasn’t a thing in vanilla, it was found at private servers, it shouldn’t exist now.
That goes to all of you who want to “live the pure vanilla experience”, it’s without poolsize boosting. Sry, truth hurts
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