It is not against the rules to boost for gold. Many used to advertise on the realm forums but they no longer need to.
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It matters to players that invites them to raid etc.
Usually people don’t like to waste their time dying because there are players that don’t know what they are doing so they only invite those who have the achievement.
Are you clutching at straws or what there is no advertising here or anything illegal being done what on earth are you on about.
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Why does blizzard allow it in the first place? They dont ban it so are promoting it.
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Because it is simply selling in-game services for in-game gold. If you ban that, you gotta ban selling Rank3 TD BoEs on the AH, because those have more impact on the character, and cost even more.
I haven’t been raiding with a guild so I do consider buying a AotC just to make pugging Heroic easier/viable at all.
but personally I hate it and so I haven’t… yet.
It’s not as bad as it used to be though - before mythic+ it was a raid or die situation.
Also - the gear jump isn’t too huge to make it a necessity - and, to me at least, the hollowness of buying something instead of raiding with your guild/friends is enough of a turn off.
If I want to have nice things I want to earn them, and enjoy the journey. Obviously, this is different for everyone.
Don’t encourage them dude.
Don’t encourage them dude.
I explained how not to get ripped off.
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why should they? nobody gets harmed.
im also not into professions so i would rather buy the sky golem off the AH than farm it myself.
so if people are not into raiding but like the curve drake? who cares. rather buy it than waste hundreds of hours trying your luck with pugs
This just flat-out isn’t true. It’s near impossible to pug heroic Ny’alotha without already having curve.
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Because they are not in guilds that provide them for free. 
Don’t underestimate that factor. Apart from people buying boosts, there are many, many who get their boosts for free through belonging to a large guild with lots of raiding.
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I got my curve in a pug and done another kill since that. I don’t anticipate problems pugging it every week until I get Devastation’s Hour, at which point the raid will be effevtively over for me barring occasional Mythic runs for a shot at high Azerite items.
It’s actually much more puggable than any other end-of-raid boss in BfA. As long as the tonks know the route for walking Psychus, it’s pretty much a glorified target dummy fight with minimal ‘get out of bad’ and ‘soak the thing’ mechanics. Doesn’t hold a candle to Heroic G’huun, Jaina or Azshara. Those required extreme coordination by comparison.
I guess, if you’re a mount collector with no raiding experience beyond LFR and a couple Normal kills and no actual interest in raiding… Yeah, I imagine it’s hard and you should prolly save up to buy the kill for the mount. But if you have any heroic ecperience at all… Yeah no, that fight is a joke.
With that in mind, now is the best time ever to get that experience. Chances are it’s gonna be the longest raid tier since WoD, it’s pretty easy all things considered, Corruption is a bit of a crutch for beginners if you happen to get some good items and there is reasonable incentive for people to keep re-clearing the raid because of valuable azerite, trinkets and weapons so groups are plentiful. If anyone has been meaning to get into Normal/Heroic raiding… Now is the time.
I did have fun pugging it.
If i would buy a +15 run, it would be because I’m not getting invited to them on me own. Even tho I’ve done 40+ runs on time 10-14, have done all dungeons +14 on time and have rio almost 1800. But. There is the guy who has 1 ilvl higher than me (I have 469 so 470 looks so much better to the lizard brain), and little over 1800 rio which is so much better too it seems. And he gets the invite instead. So I would say %#&¤ them and buy that +15 for weekly chest. But I have a spine and won’t bend over to them so easily. Yet.
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No, it’s not. It’s impossible to get into a 470+ curved one-shot N’zoth only farm zerg group that already has all the tank and healer spots filled. Those groups are not interested in carrying your backside for free. Those are not group for you. You don’t deserve to get into those groups. But it is certainly possible to get into progress Heroic pugs, there is plenty of those and those are the groups for you. There ain’t no skipping to the finish line, you start at the beginning and work your way up. I’m sorry but that’s how raiding works, you start on Wrathion, put your head to it, apply to a lot of groups, wipe lots and get more boss kills week after week until you are good enough, geared enough and experienced enough to get into the weekly 470 zerg curved Nzoth kill groups.
People don’t just magically get 12/12 multikills on their Armory/RIo page. They work their backsides off to get there precisely so they can then play the game with other people that are similarly dedicated. If you don’t show them the same dedication, no duh they don’t want to play the game with you.
And notice I humored you and didn’t just tell you to start your own group and invite whoever the frig you want. That’s like, you know, a silver bullet solution to your ‘impossible curve conundrum’. You want to fix the evil elitist toxic pug curve system, go ahead. Do an experiment, make a heroic group and invite the first 10-20 people that sign up without checking their gear, achievements or Rio. Be the change you want to see. Let me know how it goes.
You can also avoid any scamming, and any chance for any bad happening, by getting free boosts.
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Not doing something, it being Fun is never the reason not to do it so if I had to guess I would say the person doesn’t find it to be.
Value is relative, some want to skip the game they consider dull. Hell, you can bet I’d spend ingame gold in AP if I could, while I would never pay for a boost for either m+ or raid just because I don’t see the point in it.
Others also want to be efficient in their gearing. Even in organized guilds is not easy to stack leather/plate/mail users with high enough ilvl. That is if you want to avoid as much as possible the absolute lotery shxtefest that is the current personal loot in every aspect of the game and more so in M+.
Dare I say, boosting is one of the few remnants of actual trade and economy present in the game. Every MMO worth it’s salt in the past and present has an ongoing system of mercenary work and what not, aka EVE. You could say, and in my opinion you wouldn’t be wrong. That said example is light years away (no pun intended) of WoW economy that in our universe servers mostly to sell tokens, but still.