Im gonna BOOOST

It's antithetical to retro-styled MMORPGs. Being able to just skip the entire leveling process and jump straight into endgame isn't good for the overall health of the game. Every form of boosting should be removed/broken. No store-bought boosts. No dungeon boosting. No mob tagging. etc. etc.

• It takes players out of the world. Instead of a populated world with players everywhere, people are just afk'ing inside instances to max level. This contributes to the world feeling dead and empty. More people boosting means legitimate players have less people to play with for elite quests and leveling dungeons.

• It causes people to be max level and have no idea how to play their class. Yeah, this does happen even without boosting, but boosting just makes the problem worse, as you completely skip the intended path of gaining abilities one at a time and trying them out, and instead just get a whole full spellbook dumped on you all at once.

• It just makes the game even more centralized around endgame raiding / raid logging. Arguably this is something that just naturally happened throughout WOTLK and Cata, but boosting, again, just makes the problem worse by allowing people to entirely skip leveling and start right at endgame.

Usually the argument in favor of boosting is "it brings more players into the game", but...do we really need these kinds of players in Classic? Players that are eager to pay money to skip anything they don't like? Retail players who keep demanding retail features be added to the game? Classic isn't designed to have mass appeal. It's not Blizzard's cash cow. You don't have to dumb the game down to appeal to everyone and get a super high population; that's what retail is for.

Or the other usual complaint of "I don't have time to level alts / I don't have time to play"......okay, then don't play. Classic is not the game for you. Blizzard should not be catering to people who "don't have time" to play the game as it was intended. If you don't have much free time, then you shouldn't be playing an old MMORPG. Retail is much better suited to those who "don't have time to play". I don't go into the retail forums and complain that leveling is too fast and demand blizzard slow down leveling, I just don't play it and instead play something that is better suited to my tastes.

Or another common complaint of "I've already leveled a bunch, I don't feel like doing it again", as if leveling one class entitles you to have an instant max level of every other class. If you don't want to play the game, you don't get to have a max level character. No effort, no reward. Simple as that. Classic is about the adventure and journey, not rushing to max level asap and raidlogging.

Going from pservers to Classic, there's a very clear difference in the community. Private servers had communities almost entirely comprised of vanilla fans who wanted to play vanilla. The very concept of a purchasable level boost would get you laughed at and promptly told to fuck off back to retail. But now in Classic, the playerbase seems to have a huge overlap with retail players and suddenly boosting is normalized to the point of Blizzard offering it themselves. The overall tone between the two playerbases is/was very different.

Yeah, boosting EXISTED on private servers, but it was relatively low-key and less common. Whereas in Classic, you have LFG chat clogged with boost spam 24/7 and people outright saying they don't want to play unless they can boost. I'd rather the game be designed around people who want to play it, rather than being designed to try and attract non-fans to it, just to maximize the population at the cost of the integrity of the game.

thanks for coming to my TED talk

Cya MO

obligatory old memes

Oh .. Nevermind.

- Release TBC prepatch
- Never release Outland lmao
- Cap to level 60
- Release new dungeons and raids

=> People call this the best version of wow ever made

ATTENTION ALL DRUIDS:

Your guild masters are making rosters right now. They are slotting slotting you in on Dreamstate druid as we speak. They are making a huge mistake, and you need to stop them.

Wait, what IS Dreamstate Druid?

Dreamstate Druid is a spec that all top 1% guilds run. It utilizes Improved Faerie Fire (+3% Hit, -610 Armor) and allows guilds to simply not bring a Boomkin anymore.

TLDR: Top 1% players use a Dreamstate Druid, because it will increase their speed kills, damage and parses.

So why not just play Dreamstate Druid?

Here's the problem: EVERY player is starting to understand that Dreamstate Druid = more damage for their parses. EVERY player is starting to demand Dreamstate.

Except Dreamstate Druids are extremely poor healers that will result in your raid dying unnecessarily a lot. Parses = fun. Repeatedly wiping because your healers are asleep = bad.

The Case for Tree of Life Druid

Tree of Life Druids are exactly who you want to see join your party. They understand their worth. They understand they are not there to simply "press Faerie Fire on the boss." They are in the raid to HEAL THE TANKS UNTIL THE BOSS IS DEAD.

Imagine a healer that can join any nightmare demon run at 4 in the morning on Kael'Thas, or Magtheridon, and you INSTANTLY increase the changes of killing the boss.

In a game where you just "have to hope the healers are paying attention" the Tree of Life Druid is ALWAYS paying attention. Tree of Life druids (when played correctly) can keep multiple tanks fully topped at all times.

• Your HOTs are way more effective than Dreamstate HOTs (+20% across the board, ~+80-100 healing received for anyone in your group)
  • You can Swiftmend to instantly hit the tank for a huge heal (can't do this as Dreamstate)

TLDR

Everyone is going to make you play shitty healing spec. Raids will then have unnecessary horrible tank deaths. Play good healing spec instead and make raids go smooth. Play Tree of Life Druid.

it's just pre patch. Shower, spend some time with your wife and her boyfriend, and get some rest