Recently a good part of my community was introduced to Timewalking Twinking. What this allows is when a level 11. Let’s say warrior. Can experience lock their character, grab two weapons. Enchant them with Lifestealing. Simply go solo any Timewalking available for almost any expansion.
This was fun little side game for many of us. We created characters. It took a hour to setup. 3-4 hours to min-max the character. (roughly).
This was allowing us as a collections community to earn Timewalking ID transmogs with much more ease.
One of the collectors was recently banned. Couple hours ago. There was no warning, immediate account closure was the message.
After conversation with quite a few people and groups. It turns out that players unhappy with Twinking characters, report en masse.
My question, is the automated report feature enough to cause a Non human interaction ban?
This player swears all they had open was Mozilla. Curseforge. WoW. I believe they havent fudged the system in other ways. I don’t actually know.
I just want to know, is Twinking a bannable offense?
It’s been apart of the game for 20 years almost.
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If it is at this point then they need to make a blue post about it. Which would be silly given that they have the ability to shut off the xp right there in sw. I know one of my friends was also banned for a twink warrior. It is all rather silly. Blizz needs less AI and more people again.
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After considerable conversations and deep-sleuthing. We have come to a bit of an understanding.
“If Player A has xp off, and is grouped with Player B, and Player B for whatever reason doesn’t have the xp reduction debuff, then Player A gets banned”
-Concerned Advocate
There seems to be a few alternatives to a player getting inadvertently banned.
“queue solo as a twink into a specific dungeon, then sync queue with another group of 1-4 players, so you can get into the same dungeon. If queue a 2nd dungeon after completing the first, you won’t get the xp debuff on any toons”
-Concerned Advocate
^This particular method is employed by players that boost through Timewalking. (when they are clearly not supposed to).
This is apparently a means of bypassing the system in place to prevent abusive tendencies
There are a variety of player websites that are mentioning a hard ban wave today around 3pm.
There seems to be a great many players that are varied on the side of innocence when it comes to this.
If the ban was meant to target players that are blatantly abusing, it’s hit civilians.
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Probably should not be bannable unless they are bypassing the experience debuff.
I think the critical issue is how Blizzard has done scaling in earlier levels. I get that lower level players have few abilities/talents but with how a level 11 can solo a timewalking dungeon I think adjustments to the scaling should happen. Or alternatively do what happened with twinks in BGs years ago where players with xp disabled can only be grouped with other twinks in dungeon finder.
That said there should be other ways to make timewalking more faster paced for everyone evenly. For example adding a 20% movement speed buff inside Northrend dungeons for the week of Wrath timewalking.
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