why does everyone in the forums hate boosting, personally i hate leveling and love end game and boosting is the fastest way there. I boost my self from an alt account and now have 12 70s all geared and have something to do all the time when i log in.
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Then why do you play? Then why people wanted “classic experience”, where’s that?
- Destroys the original aspect of game
- Abuse of economy though gold buying
- Increased toxicity
- You start a new game and want everything in day 1 earned though real money
- You empty the lvling world
Pretty sure more
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simply due to the fact that it launders gold. so many players just buy gold to level fast and buy the best gear available. boosting yourself with an alt account is a bit different than what most players do for it does not require you to obtain gold. boosting also creates laziness (think of all the new players who never learn their class due to boosting) and clogs up all global chats. most of all, it ruins the spirit of the game. game was meant to be a time/money sink adventure built around teamwork.
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It’s almost as if reading is a difficult thing to do for some people on this forum, when they don’t like what they’d be reading.
- If by that you mean “it’s a drastic change from the original experience of the game”, then a lot other things are, including many behaviors set in place by the players themselves
- Doesn’t have anything to do with boosting per se, buying a boost doesn’t make you a gold buyer too. It’s true that it does help bots if not coupled with proper moderation, but bots were around in Vanilla Classic too (ever checked DM/BRD/Maraudon?) anyway
- How?
- Leveling is a minuscule part of the game, for most people I see in the actual game it’s less than 20% of their played time, if not less than 10%
- Depending on where you play it’s already empty, and as a person who actually leveled his alts in Classic, when I met competition where I went leveling, I didn’t tell myself “thank god this place isn’t empty”
I personally have never bought a boost (leveled all my alts to 60 between October 2019 and March 2020), but I know people who have and, when I was running dungeons or raids with them, I never felt like “Man I wish this boosted character didn’t exist”. The only argument I can somewhat sympathize with, here, is the one about bots, but I think the problem wouldn’t go away just because there’re no boosts.
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Then why buy boost if it’s fast enough?
Nice mentality though, sit iddle and receive everything in the game for $$ and therefore proceed to defend it.
That doesn’t seem like a game at all to me. Looks like a collection wardrobe then flex with these stuff.
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Because some ppl can’t be bothered with it? I personally don’t mind leveling the usual way but I don’t mind if some ppl doesn’t, especially if it means I can quest in peace.
It’s not like you buy a full SWP geared char, you just get a lvl 58 with crappy greens. You still need to get to 70 and then actually earn your gear.
Yes, i meant gdkp, because that comes after boosting.
OP has 12 geared 70s which no way someone can keep up without purchasing these services.
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Because the boosting doesn’t stop at max level.
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Classic wasn’t intended for the type of player that has no regard for the lore and story but is willing to buy gold from 3rd parties and hence buy their way to top level.
Unfortunately those players have polluted classic with their incessant spam and invites to discord servers where you’re pressurised into buying gold so that Blizz can’t track the chat logs so you put a raw mudsnapper on the AH for 6000 gold and try to make it look like a legit trade and spam the AH with a load of rubbish.
If you want all that then retail is that way ---->
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OP was kind of vague, you can only boost once per account. If he actually made that many accounts just to boost them all… yeah I guess. But that’s hardly the norm among boosters. Most ppl I know who used the boost just used it for a single alt in their roster - maybe one they didn’t enjoy leveling, like a druid or smth. But that doesn’t mean they went on with spamming GDKP runs. Heck, on MR there even aren’t GDKP runs to begin with, outside the ones organized by Consanguineous. The large majority of ppl earn their gear through normal SR runs here. But there’s still plenty of boostees as you can tell from all the warpstalker mounts.
Some ppl have already played/leveled through this game lots of times, it’s not like leveling yet another char is making me learn something new after I’ve done dozens.
I think you’re just conflating things here. Ppl who buy the lvl 58 boost and ppl who go into GDKP runs and such aren’t necessarily the same ppl. Heck, we had GDKP runs way back in Vanilla, where were the boosts back then?
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Leveling is important part of Classic, if you didnt like then you probably play wrong game, solve it by just move to lovely retail.
Buy there 5x boosts from adorable Blizzard and enjoy in end game, where is a problem?
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I recently found an old screenshot of my original TBC days and there is someone offering boosts on it. Not only dungeons boosts but a crafting boost of mats
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The game isn’t about learning stuff, it’s an MMORPG, where you RP your character, not be your RL self.
If you’re bored with levelling in WoW then go play another game or just don’t do it and play your level 70 toon.
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The game is about what people enjoy, and what the devs offer them to enjoy it.
Personally I’d rather have those boostees be in the group/raid with me when I need them rather than not being there because of some pointless principled argument like the one you put forth.
When I organize, say, a Karazhan on Discord, and a healer shows up that I rly need for my comp, I’m not going to give a damn whether they’re boosted or not, I just care that they’re there for when I need them.
Even as a person who has never used the boosted service (and you can tell from the very obvious fact that all my lvl 60+ chars except the BE paladin have a PvP title from pre-TBC), I’ve always failed to see how the fact a guy got to max level by boosting to 58 rather than leveling normal hurts me.
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Your answer to my comment has nothing to do with it at all.
Did I mention Boosters ? No
Did I mention boosted chars ? No
Obviously pointless discussing anything with you seeing as you can’t understand English
Have a nice day.
No, but you said that
And I’ve explained to you that I’d rather have those alts in my raids than “not playing” because it hurts your oh-so-precious RP sensitivity.
It’s got nothing to do with that, again you demonstrate your lack of knowledge of the English language.
Nothing more simple that “it’s against the spirit of the game”
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Or maybe it’s you who doesn’t seem to understand how to write it, if you can’t understand what the stuff you wrote actually means. But either way, if you’re not interested in talking about boosting then maybe you shouldn’t post in a thread about boosting to begin with.
Nooooo, you have to play the tutorial over and over again for each character you make, and don’t you dare rush through it via the fastest possible method before you get to the actual gameplay! I decree it against the “spirit of the game”.
If everyone skips their 3rd or 5th or 12th tutorial, who will play the turorial with me? I wish I could force you to play with me in the repetitive, trivial, time consuming beginner content of this game I enjoy!
That was how anti-boosters sound to me.
Now I am all for banning bots and gold sellers and gold buyers, but skipping the tutorial of this game (1 to 59/69/79) on any character past the 1st char is completely alright, be it via in-game boosting dungeon runs or bought in shop (it’s kind of distastful, but not as much as forcing people to play the tutorial again)
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