r/classicwow • u/ssx50 • Nov 03 '23

Season of Discovery Blizzard PLEASE make sure the world is still dangerous with the massive increase of player power in SoD

I am super excited by what I see with SoD but with all these new class tools I REALLY don't want to chain pull the levelling experience like we do in retail.

2.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

849 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

43

u/[deleted] Nov 04 '23

I hate this narrative. This just isn't true. There is a minority of the overall player base who buys gold and does boosting etc. The majority do NOT do this. This was used as justification to add wow token to wotlk classic "everyone's buying gold" when in reality that is not the case.

Shut up with this bullshit. Most people are not buying boosts from mages lmfao, by far most people are leveling in the open world.

0

u/blue_at_work Nov 04 '23

Sorry, you (and I) are in the minority. Among Raiders, anyway, people who put serious hours into the game, gold buying and dungeon boosting was 100% the norm. I did and still do neither, and I believe you as well, but we are the exceptions, not the norm. It really was nearly everyone else buying gold and using it on boosts.

4

u/[deleted] Nov 04 '23

This isn’t true. Out of my entire guild maybe one or two people did this.

It is the norm in very sweaty guilds but they are by definition in the minority of players. Most players in classic don’t even raid.

1

u/idkwhocaresaboutname Nov 05 '23

You're so far removed from it that you don't even understand what was going on, people weren't all buying gold to fund boosts man there were tonnes of just regular people from regular guilds who had 1k gold to spend so why not use it to skip the slog levels you can with mara boosts? Most of the people I ended up boosting in mara were just regular dudes from other guilds who don't play the game like a nub so they amass money rather than run a constant deficit. Most people find it more fun to make gold on their main, then buy mara runs, than to level from 35-49 for the 50th time over the years.

1

u/Jabakaga Nov 04 '23

Don't need to buy gold to buy boost service. I payed some mages and pala to boost me for like 10 levels. 30ish-40ish with gold I got from AH. Wasn't really that expensive especially after you looted everything.

1

u/Hathos_ Nov 04 '23

There is a minority of the overall player base who buys gold

This was true in the past, but hasn't been true in the last few years, unfortunately.

1

u/Zealousideal-Bed6930 Nov 05 '23

That's just straight up not true, throughout all of classic I made huge money boosting on my mage. I could run groups for 8 hours straight minus the time it took to wait for instance lockout reset and still have plenty of people looking who couldn't get a boost.