Make heirlooms ineffective in pvp

Making a twink was tough back in the day or at least you had to put a fair amount of thought into it. Which restricted access

However you didnt need to have a max level to twink. Your friends could help you.

With the heirloom powercreep in BGs people can casually level up and pwn in everybracket without much effort.

Your telling a new player that they have to give up the hope that they could be their best in pvp until they have a 80 who can get them looms.

At which point they wouldnt be a new player

This suppresses new player ambitions through gatekeeping and discourages them from playing against people that have an advantage they could never have.

Therefore it suppresses new players desire to play in bgs and in a game that wants to grow and most people who play it want to play with more people, thus new players are needed, but they are discouraged from playing without having equal oppertunity, not equal result OPPERTUNITY.

“He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying” - Bob Dylan

One of many reasons the game is anemic and all the que times are unavailable for the lower brackets.

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