There used to be a special NPC that could shut off your experience gain - does that mechanic still exist in today’s iteration of wow?
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it does, but they made it kinda pointless. unless your keeping a character a certain lvl for pve reasons. when it comes to pvp you get placed in a seperate que for only people who have exp turned off so they que times are horrible and your only playing against other twinks if and when your que pops
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Well, crap. That was indeed my goal - fun sans grind.
Of course they ruined it. Of course. 
ya, they did that within an expansion or 2 of introducing it
people twinking made it ‘less fun’ for those who wanted to use it for leveling purposes
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Yeah getting rolled on your fresh level 10 bro by a 14 twink with thousands of gold dumped into them isn’t fun lol
the thing is though, people still twink. they get to the level they want, lock thier level, farm the gear, turn exp back on and have a full level worth of murder instead of a small portion that they used to have back int he day (after exp was added to bgs)
You can still achieve this somewhat.
You make another WoW account and either keep it as a starter edition or just pay one month and then stop.
(Folks pay one month so they can set it up and have the restrictions lifted.)
This allows you to get to level 20 and it stops your XP gain.
I’m pretty sure you can handle a very temporary sting of defeat, especially with the speed of leveling today.
Is it really worth whining about, and ruining the fun of, an entire minority population that you’ll be in contact with for a day or two? Seriously?
You can only shut off your xp at 49 or lower. You can’t do it at 50. So if you have a level 50 account without Shadowlands on it, your level 50 will stay at 50, and you can queue in that bracket.
That was what Blizzard said as to the why they put people who stopped their exp in a special bracket.
It’s rather obvious that they did it to make the queue intolerable and force people back onto their materialist ideal track.
I don’t recall hearing them say that at all. Players in the forum said it, though.
The original reasons they gave us why they wanted to eliminate the ability to shut off xp at 110+ in BfA was that people were stopping their xp and not leveling up. They also said that twinks were selling dungeon carries. I guess that was something only mythic raiders were supposed to do. They told us they were going to remove the ability to stop xp in 110+, and players who had stopped their xp would level up if they played.
You can generally tell what a person intended, not by listening to their fine words, but by watching what results they achieve.
Most people will blow out of a bracket so fast they’d best not blink, and I really don’t think that many are so childish as to whine about a speed bump in their path.
Yes because that is also the part of the new player experience, you can’t have a newbie who are interested in pvp, get wrecked in such a stompfest in the early parts of the game. They would just leave as they will view the game as heavily unbalanced and would not stick till endgame. The pvp population numbers isn’t that great in the fist place.
Its the same reason why twinks had their own bg queue and they got upset that their stomp fest was ruined. 
In the end during endgame there is an excuse of getting better gear, addons , macros , comps e.t.c but during the leveling process this shouldn’t be the case.
You really don’t know the average forum poster then…
I would have to find it on the old forums but the gist of it was literally that people were using pvp to level at one point because it was roughly as efficient as questing/dungeon grinding (faster if you won every match). Fun was detected for twinks and the hammer came around real quick shrug Just how Blizzard operates sometimes
Well, my goal was to do it at this level, since 50’s have nearly every ability they’re gonna get, and my motive was not easy wins, but the peace of having an end to the grind, the game of more, more, more, and now - now we can actually play the game, with no extra anxieties or goals…
Actually, if you look at xp in bgs right now, you will see there is very little for a win, and even less for a loss. They don’t want people leveling in bgs.
However, my guess is that I can accomplish the exact same thing at 60, simply by not purchasing the new expansion - in which case bliz will be the ones denying the exp gain, and I can just q up and get matched with those leveling past me and into the expansion they did purchase?