Let’s be honest here and not try and make a poor appeal to emotion.
I’ve never heard of the first person.
That Twink wasn’t the sole reason the Alliance won, the Horde had twinks too most likely.
I’ve never been helped in gearing by a twink (although I’m hyper casual now and dont have gear)
99.999999% of Twinks are in it for themselves. For either some kind of power fantasy or to stick with the expansion content they enjoy.
It’s weird to try and frame this as if twinks are some magnanimous public servants whose loss will be felt deeply by everyone.
I’ll trade a few toxic twink bullies for a slew of new players that can actually enjoy PvP while leveling.
If you twink, you are admitting that you can’t hold your own in a kids’ game like WoW, which features elves and fairies and talking turtles, and you need a special advantage to succeed. It’s pretty sad all around.
So what your saying is, blizzard is too lazy to crack down on people who are selling leveling services in the game, and they would rather cut more “content” which is “twinking” which has been a thing since classic? I guess as long as you solve one problem, it doesn’t matter if it makes an entirely new one for people to complain about right? – What do you think people would complain about more, the removal of twinks? Or leveling services from players which u can already buy from blizzard for $60?
are u trying to be an MVP poster or something and getting on blizzards “good side”? to me, thats the only way you make this analogy.
It’s simply blizzard looking out for their business. This kind of activity cuts into them being able to sell level boosts. They wouldn’t care otherwise.
We are approaching the patch in which, if the previous two expansion are a good indicator, the 120 boost will be coming. As in within 1-2 content patches.
You can’t exactly dispute that.
But yeah, assuming this change was because 110 boosts were being effected isn’t accurate. 120 boosts possibly coming soon being effected would be accurate.
I’m totally okay with Twinking being a wholly unsupported form of playing the game, tbh.
If people want to pursue it anyway, so be it, so long as they understand it might come with some limitations to preserve standard gameplay outside of their tiny little sphere of influence.
This isn’t what they are doing at all. XP off will still be a thing, but anyone who voluntarily (ie not random dungeon queue) groups up with someone who has XP off then their XP will be reduced by 95% via the Experience Eliminated debuff. They are fixing an obvious exploit, not removing the ability to twink.
No… I was able to turn my XP off on the PTR just awhile ago. Theres the new party buff that doesnt let party members (not random group members) gain XP though.
Personally, I much rather they be deactivated as soon you step into BFA content and only have them activated in timewalking content (with the exception of BFA timewalking and above that were inevitably going to get). So i can deal with the power loss much faster and adapt to it properly then mid level.
