Additionally in modern WoW the gear gaps are massive while in Classic WoW the gear gaps sub 60 are far smaller giving non-bracket characters a very fair shot.
Additionally the insanely over tuned state of some classes carries over into the low level brackets (modern WoW) makes the experience even worse.
Classic WoW does not have this problem in the 39, 49 and 59 brackets because all the abilities are tuned for those brackets instead of being tuned specifically for max level only.
As for the 29 bracket and 19 bracket; I hear theyâre fun but these brackets are similar to modern WoW in that they are dominated but a very small hand full of classes due to a lack of ability mechanics.
Once you get past level 33 / 38 (class depending) things change greatly and become really good. IMO the game play @ 39 is the best in the game (regarding PVP).
In classic it wasnât so much the gear that widened the gap between twinks and nontwinks, it was really the enchantments. No normal leveler is going to be fully enchanting their gear at low level, while twinks are going to have the best enchantments they can have on all their gear.
@19 and 29 youâre likely correct, but at 39, 49, and 59 you can get away with very little and be very competitive.
IMO anything sub 39 really is not worth taking even slightly seriously because certain classes just have such a strong advantage.
Players who participate and have fun in the 19 / 29 bracket are totally welcome to those because after all if youâre having fun then itâs worth while.
However, in Classic WoW there is no logical path to level in BGâs; as a result the people who participate in Classic WoWâs PVP system are doing so 100% because they want to be there in the PVP system, not because itâs a path to level cap.
Oh in retail they made it so people could lock exp and removed separate bracket, if I am remembering correctly cause this toon was made during that time.
Plus exp doesnât give much anymore.
Twinking in leveller bracket is barely noticeable people were complaining when bfa came out about twinks ruining it when I played it all I seen was arcane mage kill people with 1 arcane missle cast without even having enchants or best gear.
I only made this post for you because itâs very obvious you have no experience in Vanilla low level PVP, and I doubt you have any experience in TBCâs low level PVP either, as it was also a lot of fun like Vanilla.
IMO Wrath of the Litch king ruined everything and based on your opinion presented in your post I suspect you started playing around that time.
In modern WoW thatâs true and from what I have seen and have been told this is just the way things have been since patch 3.0, as I felt that patch 3.0 destroyed the near immaculate balance of the 39, 49, and 59 brackets.
Classic WoW is very different, and if you had of participated in the 39, 49, or 59 brackets you would know just how good they actually were in Vanilla and even TBC.
Typically bracket toons donât go out into the world because theyâre avoiding any kind of XP gains. You cannot turn off XP in Classic so typically these characters are limited to the BGâs.
When Qâs are slow the playerâs organized game nights and itâs actually very fun and the games can be very competitive regardless of the gear level of the characters due to how little gear matters in Classic low level PVP.
I say low level PVP and you need to take that with a grain of salt because I exclude 19 and 29 due to the fact that these brackets have classes that simply cannot compete due to key abilities from their tool kits not yet learned.
PVP in Classic WoW starts at level 39 if youâre really looking for a good time thatâs reasonably fair, reasonably balanced and accessible to all players. You can have all the enchants you like and still get worked by better yet poorly geared players in the 39 bracket. The same can be said for 49 and 59.
Priests and Druids are also very powerful in the 29 bracket.
If youâre not playing one of the big 4 in 29 youâre kinda boned⌠19 is imbalanced for the same reason.
IMO the 19 and 29 brackets are there for people who like pub stomping otherâs who picked the wrong class for the bracket⌠I consider it a fantastic thing because the majority of those kind of people are filtered out of the PVP brackets for the rest of us by means of the 19 and 29 filtration system.
You should be thankful the 19 / 29 brackets exist to make the 39, 49, 59 and 60 brackets better more enjoyable places to play.
This doesnât really work the only really valuable BOEs for 39s are the gin-Suu sword and the P.o.D which are really low drops and not worth normal people farming at all. To really make a profit off of 39s you want to bank a bunch of Green Lens of the Tiger and Eagle and pray that bliz release TBC.
Itâs okay white knight just read the very first post. As for coming to the defence of someone please make sure they want it. I know what he was trying to say as we discussed it in a previous post and both agreed.