There's no reason to twink anymore, and it's been driving players away for almost a year

no, that was never my point. You are misunderstanding what i’m saying, if you are going to go into an instanced area that requires skill and just happens to be a pvp instance, then you shouldn’t complain about losing. It’s about getting better as a player at pvp, not about complaining on the forums everytime someone who does this a bunch kills you, you, the person that is leveling through that bracket which you aren’t going to even be in for that long. My main point was to not argue about these things, but I should have known better than to post on the forums. No matter what is said there always has to be a debate, this was merely my opinion and i stated so in the post. I even said that I didn’t want to start arguments because this was such an old topic.

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That’s funny though, isn’t it? Getting lolstomped by a team of twinks. It’s happened to me before and I just laughed. It was truly a sight to behold.

You actually understand.

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“Have fun against other twinks.”

That’s why they always vanish as soon as they’re pitted in queues against one another. Look at the 20-29 bracket; choc full of exploiters using the F2P loophole (which is so ridiculous that it still exists even now) and their numbers could undoubtedly fill brackets on both sides. But were they separated out from levelers, would it?

Nope.

Twinks that support being in queues against levelers without some sort of stat equalization are just looking for a cheap power fix. A means of getting that “I’m so good” feeling with maximum gear disparity and minimum button usage.

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If you want to twink and eat your cake to there it is… Its been a thing for a while now you twink out a lvl 20 as best as possible and dont pay your sub and you can be in the EXP on bracket just like you want… Enjoy. Heck you even get to play for free while doing it! :+1:

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Which is still scummy, but at least it’s a fast bracket to level through. Horrible first impression for a new player or someone leveling an allied race through PvP for the first time, though.

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Yeah easy bracket to level past if you still are wanting to level through pvp. It is still scummy for sure at least Actiblizzard doesn’t let them get all their abilities in that bracket (not that it matters).

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I totally agree that for first impressions to a new player, it would be frustrating to get stomped by somebody who does this every day, but since they’re new, I don’t think they will go and complain about it. The game has been giving new players so many get out of jail free cards and crap like that to where new players aren’t going to care and they are going to be on their merry way.

Nobody is crying for the half dozen of twinks that got their jimmies rustled by this, the changes are/were well received and a positive for the game and pvp leveling.

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Don’t think you actually know what happened but i’m not going to argue with you about it lol.

I’ve found that most twinks leave once they die.

That’s amusing.

I still can’t get over how all the words in the world they had to pick “twinks” for this type of player

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I think Bobby Dylan had a song about this issue:

Don’t Twink Twice, it’s All Right

I love BGs. It’s how I level most of my alts, and it’s usually the majority of what I do at max level.

Queing into twinks was a waste of time, and pretty much just meant I’d leave instantly and go do something else. You guys do not get to dominate against levelers.

Your fun does not mean destroying the experience for potentially new players.
And as somebody who has dabbled in twinking, the vast majority of the community does it to roflstomp people and farm HKs. Ya’ll can do that to each other.

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No it hasn’t. The twinks are upset they can’t smash everyone like they used to and now have to have fair fights. The rest are happy they can have wholesome bg’s again and not get gy camped on repeat by overgeared toons that can’t win a fight in a normal BG.

The only people that aren’t happy about this change are the twinks because there is zero fun in a fair fight, say it for what it is, you are seriously trying to sugar coat the Twink Bracket BS.

Don’t even try and pretend like the Twinking Bracket is a bunch of amazing folks who are super nice people. This is one of the most TOXIC brackets I have ever seen. I feel like for the most part that is what ruined it for you guys, the ugly.

Que into a BG, get inspected, “Oh my god you have no twink gear on, get out of my bg”. “You suck go kill yourself” Etc and so on, I have seen it with my eyes many of time and the people twinking with half a brain tried to apologize for those that were being that way.

I mean look at what you did to one of the more popular streamers who even mentioned joining in on twinking. The twink forums speak volumes. You talk about whining, the twink community was the biggest offender. Toxic, rude, bunch of baby brats, even to each other.

The larger population won this battle. I’m glad bgs can finally get back to how they once were a little bit and people can just play them for what they are and not have to worry about that anymore. It’s definitely not a good introduction to new people coming in especially when the twink community is toxicity. (and this is coming from someone that used to do it and has many friends that do). You got your own bracket, have fun with that.

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I thought that was basically the purpose of pvp at levels below cap lol, to have fun, level maybe learn your class and spec more but yeah ultimately have fun in a fashion you choose …

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I’m still laughing to this day about this change. Blizzard called their bluff, and clearly exposed the (already self-evident) lie in the twink’s claim that they wanted a challenge.

The rivers of tears from the twinks, once they realized they could no longer roflstomp rando noobs, was something to behold.

And look, it’s still happening! Glorious.

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If twinking is as wildly popular as twinking fans claim, why are the twink queues so long? :thinking:

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Such a giant chunk of players couldn’t even get 20 online at the same time to queue games lmao.

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I do believe the shadowlands leveling revamp provides the groundwork for the evolution of twinking. It is all a matter of whether blizzard seizes the opportunity.

See: So chromie time in shadowlands

The evolution of twinking. The midgame.