10/31/2018 07:55 AMPosted by Blastazzar
And my entire point is that the player who sees that imbalance and gives up on PvP entirely would have given up on it anyway when they come up against some other seemingly impassible obstacle down the road. You have to have the right mentality to enjoy PvP in this game, Bajheera talked about it a while back on stream, he called it the "killer instinct". When you lose to another player, which will happen regardless of your skill/gear level, there are two distinct ways to respond. Either feel bad and blame the loss on their gear was OP, their class was OP, your class is UP, they're a twink, etc... or look at them and think "i want to get that skilled/geared so I can come back and beat them" and then look at your talents/gear/gameplay and improve it. If you're a player who falls in the first camp you will never last long in PvP no matter what kind of systems Blizz puts in place, and if you are the type to be motivated by a loss then twinking wouldn't dissuade you anyway.
This works for rated play, not for low level bgs. Once you hit max level, you can actually try to attain the same gear to even out the playing field.
In low levels bgs that's not going to happen against twinks, you either are a twink, or you're fodder for them. They turn xp-off so they can get bis gear and not worry about buying enchants over and over. It's unreasonable to expect levelers to have fully enchanted gear and bis gear.
You can get close or surpass them in skill, but you're not going to meet their raw power/survivability. Which is why they twink.