Big yikes. Hope this doesn't make it to live. Bit late to flip the switch to stop the IE boosting anyways.
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So in Legion we had 101 BoE gear and people used it to create powerful 101 twinks, it probably was not in Blizzard's plan to have players make a twink in a current expansion level range, but they did it anyway.BFA comes and there is no 111 BoEs but instead 120 BoE gear. I feel like that was, in theory, Blizzard's first attempt at trying to stop people from making twinks in the current expansion, but people just made 110 twinks instead. Blizzard's second attempt now is to do this in 8.2, a nerf like this was going to come sooner or later.
I can't see this going live. I understand that getting from 110-120 in 2 hours might seem excessive, but jesus christ, it's just the level cap. It's a given. That's just how things must be now. The expansion is a year old, the level cap is a given.
Everyone: "Stop making leveling take so long!"Also everyone: "It's gonna be great playing Classic, where leveling took time and was meaningful!"Pick a side folks, can't ask for it both ways. Everyone praises what the game "was", when you couldn't boost through leveling (especially not in some of the more egregious ways now available), and then, when they make it so you can't do it now, people get angry.Frankly, this is a non-issue to me, but clearly, if i had to hazard a guess, this is targetting a specific third-party market, that was selling twink-based leveling services, for real money, which is against TOS. If you can't keep banning enough accounts, break the system to make it not work anymore.
well this really sucks, I loved using twinks on timewalking, islands and joining pugs in dungeons from legion and bfa on my 110 while I was bored and had very little to do.I can see this being abused like hell and its going to cause a lot of problems with random match making intentionally or unintentionally.Leveling has been such a pain in the butt it means very little anymore in the grand scheme of things and if this push is to help sales of leveling boosts then shame on you actibliz. Im seriously gutted about this and now I wish I did take advantage of selling leveling boosts myself >:(
This is the worst move they've made ever...Twink boosting just adds another fun way for people to play and earn gold.
Not sure why you're posting about Islands, it's not even the efficient way to level anymore, Freehold clears are significantly faster and provide more exp for less time(each run takes 3:30-5 minutes and you get about 70% of a level per run).
Leveling then and now are very different in design. A longer leveling process then made sense since the classic world wasn't exactly all about that end game, it was the experience of the whole world. Currently, the world been dead for years and the focus is in the max level content and leveling just gets you there. If people want to do it, they soon will be able to. In bfa? It shouldn't be all that long, maybe workable enough for very new players to get the ropes of the very basic designs of the game.
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Everything that leads to less spam in trade is good with me. People are not pissed about this change because it changes leveling but because they can't make money this way anymore coming 8.2. Good Change!
Official forum chat on this is pointing out the clear distinction of PARTY over instance group. If that wording is intentional (no one's come back as of now with PTR testing on this front), then LFD and random island trolls are dead in the water. You need to intentionally group with a twink in a premade to get boned by this change.Kills my XP locked level 15 tanks blasting friends from 15-60 in early, simple dungeons, but I won't get trolled by randos if it pans out like this.