Twinks have ruined every bracket of lowbie BGs in Wrath. They prevent people who would be having fun playing BGs from participating in the game. Far more people would queue without them. It was poor judgement to allow them in with levelers.
Leveling through random battlegrounds in Cata was one of the most fun parts of the game. Please don’t exclude the huge majority of players to cater to the tiny percentage of players who twink.
It annoys me to think of the fun that has been lost…and for what gain?
We should also not allow anyone wearing high end pve gear and smourns, too, because they are OP and give the wielder an advantage in pvp.
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If twinks are “disallowed” in cata, all I’m going to do is level an army of level 14’s, twink them out as best I can with enchants, engi and first aid - then do a level on each one, continually twinking as I go.
… You won’t stop twinking but you can lower it. If people want to twink and stomp levelers, they will.
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Changing BGs in cataclysm is too little too late.
Crying about gear in a gear based game lmfao
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Classic forums are infested with twink defenders. Best of luck dealing with their nonsense.
It seems some have forgotten that twinks were already in a separate queue by this point in the original game.
Twinks are usually happy to play with each other… oh wait this is about WoW?
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BG queues in Cata are only 5 level gapped, instead of 10. There’s also even more heirloom slots that you can wear.
I think you’ll be fine.
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What no, I am looking forward to the glaives for dk 70 twinks when cata drops. Twink bis is easier to get than spec bis and it is fun to overprepare. I mean if you don’t like twinks dont level in bg you have rdf that as an option.
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Twink rivalry is a real thing tbh, surface level they may all get along but underneath its all venom…this is about WoW yeah?
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The thing is, WOW pvp was never super skill based. People who put more time in are rewarded and can go into BG’s like a big fish in a small pond, it’s very validating for some. The bright side is that it goes both ways, maybe you’ll have more twinks in your bg sometimes.
Newer games that came along after WOW kinda solved the gear problem by making separate PVP UI and gear so that everyone was on the same footing, making skill more important. WOW is simply not like that.
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But…they separated twinks from ‘regular players’ back during original Wrath. Strange decision not to do the same in Wrath Classic and going forward.
Could be because the player base is so much smaller and splitting brackets in Cata will make each bracket have even fewer players. Low level PvP for leveling is probably not that popular and splitting the player base even more could lead to very long queues or no queues for some brackets except for maybe bonus weekends.
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They were battlegroups back then. It’s not like it was the entire playerbase you were queuing with. The entirety of Wrath Classic’s population has to be at least what a battlegroup was.
How they disallow it tho lol
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A very stern “stop doing that”.
Aka
Nothing really.
What they did in original Wrath: separate bgs for people who have frozen their exp. You can still twink, but you just fight other twinks. Which obviously they don’t want. They want to stomp scrubs.
Nah that wasent till later on
You’re incorrect. It was in Wrath.