gold buying is dumb and bots suck, but objectively gdkp raiding is the best PUG experience. you have every member of the raid trying to do well so they get their full cut, tank and healer incentives, nobody leaving until the end, and if nothing drops for you, you will at least get some gold.
bots are out of control and blizz uses their own bots to act as GMs, modern botters have dozens of botting programs so when blizz identifies one and bans all the people using it, botting/gold farming companies deploy one of the other programs to bot for them. gold buyers getting a 2 week ban is insane it should be much much longer if not perma. but i fear blizz sees buyers and bots as dollar signs and will never make the ethical choice.
GDKP = I actively play and maintain multiple geared alts alongside raiding with my guild.
no GDKP = I play a single character with my guild and level one alt tops that I barely get to raid on.
Gearing multiple alts through MS/OS and SR pugs is torture. The quality of play is genuinely horrific with no respect for people's time. I could get 4 alts through organized MC GDKPs in the time it takes for me to pug an alt once through LFG.
This is the big thing for me. I enjoy guild raiding, but I always liked raiding with alts through GDKP and it also made it easier to afford mounts and stuff doing content I enjoy. I love raiding, so making gold while raiding was a lot of fun.
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u/Solocup421 Jan 03 '25
gold buying is dumb and bots suck, but objectively gdkp raiding is the best PUG experience. you have every member of the raid trying to do well so they get their full cut, tank and healer incentives, nobody leaving until the end, and if nothing drops for you, you will at least get some gold.
bots are out of control and blizz uses their own bots to act as GMs, modern botters have dozens of botting programs so when blizz identifies one and bans all the people using it, botting/gold farming companies deploy one of the other programs to bot for them. gold buyers getting a 2 week ban is insane it should be much much longer if not perma. but i fear blizz sees buyers and bots as dollar signs and will never make the ethical choice.