This game has become a multiboxer, botting and boosting game. Most ppl i know just leave trade chat as soon as they get on.
Itâs morally grey, but technically still legitimate. A lot of them sell their services for the same price as a token, so youâre basically paying real money for achievements and mounts that should be obtained through hard work and persistence - not lying dead in front of NâZoth while the boost group does all the work.
Some of the other services like the Jaina mount I can kinda see why youâd want to pay for that. Nobody likes RNG, and if you join a boost group where they already have it, youâre guaranteed to drop it (as far as Iâm aware).
This is not possible. You donât have access to listing in group finder for a raid youâre not appropriately levelled for.
You need an account with a fully paid subscription and to be at least level 15-20+ to even access the feature, and 120 to advertise max level raids.
Weâre talking about trade chat, Not group finder.
First thing I do when I make a new character is /leave trade for my mental health.
Itâs a disaster on high populated servers and if you chat with a friend you can get messages that you never get to read because of the huge amount of spam. Itâs like 10 boosting ads per second.
Personal opinion =/= facts. Boosting is a legitimate service, regardless of how you, I or anybody else feels about it.
As long as thereâs ingame chat logs that provide proof of you actually buying a boost, youâre somewhat secure. Sure, you wonât necessarly get your money back, but if you get scammed and thereâs ingame chatlogs showing that you did, the scammers will get banned.
Most people who complain about getting scammed in WoW were the ones who added people on Skype, Discord and any other 3rd party program to discuss the terms, thus theyâve given up their protection that Blizzard can provide.
That being said, Trade Chat is indeed a mess. However, itâs always been a fair bit of a mess, with most posts in the tradechat being irrelevant to most players.
The times of buying enchants through trade chat, the times of looking for rogues to lockpick things, theyâre all over.
Iâm playing on a medium pop server, which means itâs effectively dead. If I idle 12 hours in any city and search through tradechat, I can safely say thereâs going to be less âtradingâ than thereâs going to be random conversations.
The argument of trade chat being misused is genuinely not fitting, since boosting is a trade no matter how anybody feels about it and most things trade chat was used before boosting was so incredibly prominent were guild advertisements anyway, which are in fact not trades.
It doesnât though. Because
(A) itâs a trade chat that nobody uses to trade anymore due to boosting spam
(B) boosting is terrorizing the raid finder. Like half the adverts in the raid finder are boost sellersâŚ
A new channel should be introduced where boosts can be sold for in-game currency. People that want boosts can join this channel, no need to bother 99% of the server with this spam. In addition to that, boost selling should be forbidden everywhere else, especially in things like the raid finder!
I know this particular discussion is about the trade channel but I do wish theyâd do harsher punishments for those listing sell groups in the group finder. Every day I report a load.
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So much this.
You can sell almost anything on the AH so trade is redundant except for TCG mounts and other niche things. If you donât want to see boosts, leave trade.
If you want to spam your butt jokes make a community of like minded people.
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Yup. Exactly. I canât believe that some people are defending the ârightâ to tell your lousy thunderfury joke which has been told like 83498078304780893 times on a trade channel. 
It makes it unusable.
I was trying to find a delicate way of phrasing that particular activity 
Itâs a good job I came along when I did then, what with my reputation for tactfulness and diplomacy.
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Services are trades.
Boosting = trading
You mean LFG?
I personally donât see that many in the dungeon LFG, no idea about the raid one though.
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I do like the optimism that even if Blizzard made a boost channel that they wouldnât still advertise in trade as well.
Not that I think Blizz are going to make rules that some trades are better than other trades and only some trades will be permitted in the trade channel.
The difference is that once someone sells or buys there item, they stop spamming. The boosters donât ever stop because they are selling an âinfiniteâ service. Thus the result is that if you try to sell or buy something, youâre constantly drowned out.
I donât know what itâs called⌠Premade raids for current raid tiers and then scroll through the list of people recruiting for raids. When you look for Nyâalotha heroic (for example), youâll see like half of them being boosting services, which makes finding a legit run much, much harder.
I really donât want to be that guy. I honestly donât like to make assumptions⌠However Iâm honestly suspecious of Bots being used to spam the chat with the boosting services. No matter what time of day it is, the same names pop up.
If you go out of your way to check itâs the same guys going from 7am to 3am, I didnât sit there the whole time frame everyday that Iâve checked, So you could argue that, However I think Blizzard should look into it.
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The trade isnât the problem, itâs the obnoxious amount of it. 4 different lvl 1 characters spamming the same copy pasted message with slightly different wording to bypass spam filters. Advertise your +15 in time keys all you want but even the people advertising the same damn âcompanyâ are competing against eachother.
Thereâs room for 1 sylvanas and 1 gallywix message in the chatwindow, thereâs no need for 4 sylvanas boosting bot messages to overlap every 10 seconds.
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You have to keep adding words to filters.
All those people are sellers for those sites, they make gold by getting people spots in boost runs.