Back in 2007 I stepped though the Dark Portal at 58 in my dungeon blues and levelling greens, and got cracking killing orcs, boars and demons before running some Ramparts and Blood Furnace.
Now in 2021, I have recreated my warrior, stepped through the dark portal and struggle to do much at all. I hit like a wet noodle, with many mobs taking a minute or more to die, so I try to run dungeons. Even though I can tank well and have managed to run both dungeons just fine with a T2/3 tiered friend, when I join pug groups I get instantly kicked due to my low HP pool from the terrible gear.
Now I know that the Hellfire quests give you a lot of gear, but the experience of grinding through mobs that you are woefully undergeared to fight is really not fun at all, so Iâm really not feeling motivated to play when other much more exciting games (such as Necromunda: Hired Gun) came out at the same time, and I have only limited time to play with a job and relationship to keep me busy.
This makes me wonder why Blizzard gave anyone boosted such terribly underpowered gear in the first place? The gear itself is item level 52, basically quest greens from level 47 quests. Do they want many people to get demotivated in the first few hours of TBC and quit?
I must say i really disagree. For the past week iâve been playing with both my mage i played in Classic which has Pre-BiS raid gear and i was able to do my job in quests, dungeons and so on just fine!
I also boosted a druid and was able to do majority of all quests (with exceptions of the elite once, i had to form a group for most of them)
The gear given on boosted characters are designed and have probably gone through numerous amounts of tests by god knows how many people. Theres a reason why its there and its by far âin my opinionâ more than enough to get you started.
You replace this gear within the first half part of Hellfire Peninsula
I believe the dilemma/problem is more within the individual player rather than the solution given by Blizzard�
Well, you paid for it, didnât you? So Blizzard made money from it, didnât they? A lot more than from your sub, too.
But to say something constructive: Try to do a couple of quests and dungeons in the âold worldâ, like LBRS. You will be able to replace some of the boost gear very soon.
For my experience it could also be that warriors are extremely gear dependent, which really makes the experience of TBC feel very poor.
When starting an expansion you should feel very motivated to play, and itâs usually only after months of no additional content that the motivation tends to fade. As of now Iâm already feeling demotivated thanks to the terrible start in Hellfire, and the experience Iâm having now is nothing like the experience I had in 2005.
Well I hate to break it to you pal but you picked the most geared dependant class to boost, had you picked Hunter for example youâd be having a much easier time that being said by the time you finish Hellfire Pen you should have gear good enough to quest I guess you just got to put up with the slow killing speed to get to that point or ask a few friends or randoms to join you questing.
Either way if people are going to get demotivated and quit in what in my eyes is one of the best parts of the game (gearing) getting to see your character become incredibly more stronger as you replace gear then they probably would quit at the first challenge in the game anyway.
Iâm not being funny but every single quest almost will give you an upgrade, once youâve finished Hellfire and got the rewards from the dungeon quests, done the elite quest for the trinket and run BF/HR enough times you should be at the gear equivalent to T1.
âThe gear given on boosted characters are designed and have probably gone through numerous amounts of tests by god knows how many people.â
And those people complained a LOT about how awfull the boosted gear is.
Imo the âbalancingâ at place here, is that blizzard intentionnaly gave boosted character worse gear that what you usually get when leveling a character, to make sure that there wouldnât be too many âp2wâ complaints.
In boosted gear, you are barely able to quest in outlands. BUT if thatâs a problem to you, do a few quests in azeroth (trinkets at least), grab a few stuff on the AH and youâll have a better experience (and remember: you get a weapon in the first 4-5 quests).
I went straight to oultand knowing that iâd be a rough start, but I accepted that itâd be faster than gearing my character first.
So! You are literally crying for boosting a character with real $ and that you do not have the ânecessaryâ items to kill faster?
The boost is for you and alike, who are lazy players and donât want to grind for levels. Thatâs right. You pay to skip leveling, not get good gear.
Just run a couple of BRDs and BRSs, maybe even lower level dungeons for some free gear and exp, and then go through da portal and get nice quest gear. It be fine, mon.
Hexx was a sh*te huntard back when OG TBC released and I had only just hit 60. Hexx be wearinâ strength and stamina gear. Greens. A total huntard. But I still ended up clearing SWP later down da road before WoTLK.
The only good thing blizzard did regarding the boost is give crap gear. It shouldnât even be in the game at all in my opinion.
I rerolled undead priest for TBC and Iâm having an absolutely blast. So what Iâm only 29? TBC will be here for roughly one - two years. Itâs ample time to level and do all the TBC stuff. Thereâs no reason anyone needed to boost a character apart from being too lazy to level.
Iâm sure people will come in and say âI donât have timeâ, âIâve done it a million timesâ etc. Wow is an rpg. Things should take time and effort regardless how many times youâve done it. Thatâs what an rpg is, especially one as old as classic and classic TBC.
Youâve swiped your credit card to get ahead in the game for real cash, paying to skip content and give yourself an advantage over others.
But thatâs not enough you say, because you still have to put in some kind of minimal effort to gear up - so with another swipe of your credit card you should be able to skip even this basic requirement to play an MMO? Woe betide you should actually have to do the odd quest or two for better gear! Perish the thought that something wonât be instantly handed to you with a quick key-in of your bank account details!
But, of course, you âdonât have timeâ to play an MMOâŠand rather than adapting to the game you wish for the game to adapt to you.
The difference between you and I is that I also âdonât have timeâ, as I work 12 hour shifts, and have a family to support. I can play maybe five hours a-week if Iâm lucky. Yet I accept that it will take me far longer to achieve things in this game then someone with infinite free time; and I just roll with it. This is why I have no interest in paying to win, as I know what I need will come to me eventually, and that the game is not a race where I need to âkeep upâ with others.
Jesus - some of the repsonses, especially ones like the one replied to, really show up how immature parts of the community are. Not a good look for a MMO.
If you were buying top-tier gear and/or better gear that can be obtained via gameplay, then that would be p2w, but the boost is just getting you into the right level range of the new expansion, and the gear is so piss poor they might as well give you nothing.
