Dark Heart PTR Development Notes
Dark Heart PTR Development Notes
The War Within Alpha - Flight Switching, Portals, Warbands, UI Changes
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Hey guys. Just want to thanks blizzard for returning of PVP twinks. One of the changes in the patch is the option to queue battleground with stopped EXP. Playing lot of games yesterday for my 70lvl rogue and got a lot of fun.
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Thread: PVP twinks are alive!!
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2016-07-21, 04:30 PM #1Keyboard Turner
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PVP twinks are alive!!
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2016-07-21, 04:41 PM #2Deleted
Obviously you would because PvP twinks are now even stronger than before with the new scaling system. I wouldn't bank on this lasting if I were you though.
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2016-07-21, 06:14 PM #3High Overlord
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why use "twink" and not "alt"? twink means something completely different...
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2016-07-21, 06:37 PM #4Bloodsail Admiral
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Twink means a toon specifically made for that bracket that has the best of the best gear/enchants/whatever.
Originally Posted by Eliessa
An alt is something that's not a main.
A twink is always an alt. An alt is not always a twink.
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2016-07-22, 03:47 AM #5The Lightbringer
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I knew people who's mains were level 19. They spent more time on their twinks than their mains. Originally Posted by ElDoorO
Avatar given by Sausage Zeldas.
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2016-07-22, 03:49 AM #6Immortal
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"Yay I get to pick on people less geared than me since I can't cut it against people on a level playing ground" -Anyone who liked twinks being with the normal population. Originally Posted by FaerinSF
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2016-07-22, 04:32 AM #7Legendary!
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Which is now meaningless. Template PvP is here; enchants and trinkets are disabled, and everyones stats are set to e top of the bracket at the iLevel of Heirlooms. Originally Posted by ElDoorO
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2016-07-22, 04:35 AM #8Bloodsail Admiral
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How are you stronger? I thought everything that could possibly make you a twink got disabled?
Originally Posted by Kagthul
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2016-07-22, 05:52 AM #9Bloodsail Admiral
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I'm merely defining what Twink means versus Alt. Originally Posted by Squigglyo
See above. Originally Posted by Kagthul
That is news to me. I'll take you for your word on that one. Interesting. Originally Posted by Yoshimiko
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2016-07-22, 06:10 AM #10DeletedStats are pretty much based on item level. Heirlooms don't really have an item level even though they nowadays pretend to. Meaning anyone with heirlooms is a whole lot weaker than they ought to be. With item level being so big, most low level pvp alts will be stronger because the items they go for tend to are some of the best ilevel wise in PvP. Originally Posted by Squigglyo
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2016-07-22, 06:12 AM #11Field Marshal
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A word means whatever the community uses that word for. In our community, its a character gearboosted by a main. Language is fluid. Originally Posted by Eliessa
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2016-07-22, 06:14 AM #12Deleted
Encore, exactly. If some other community uses the word in their fetish that's not our problem. I remember some yaoi fangirl whom I'm friends with joining the community and being outright offended at this. These people have issues.
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2016-07-22, 06:18 AM #13DeletedGo to google. Chose picture, allow mature content, search for twink. It is not a low level toon I see :P Originally Posted by Eliessa
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2016-07-22, 01:30 PM #14The Insane
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And level means nothing, I have a lowbie pvp server and I used my 90 boost for a hunter there so she could farm gold to filter enchants down to them. That toon is now 100, but did nothing but garrison farm. My next highest is... 64 cuz i randomly decided to level a ret. My main on that server is a level 24 hunter. Originally Posted by Yoshimiko
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If you say pls because it is shorter than please,
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2016-07-22, 04:16 PM #15Stood in the Fire
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I expect nerfs but twinking is actually stronger than ever at 19 and 29. (edit: Maybe not stronger than ever, if you compare to Vanilla/TBC era, but certainly in post heirloom WoW).
First off, they turned off level scaling, so level 10's now have to PvP as a level 10, meaning you can't even hit a 19 because of their dodge % vs your attacks. (As well as the extra talents you get at the highest level of the bracket).
The iLvl scaling system was built for max level where the range is like 820->880, meaning a pretty small % difference. At 19 the baseline is ilvl 24 but there are items you can get to boost some slots to as much as 90. The result is toons with full ilvl gear are about 50% stronger than everyone else. So, this is ilvl boosts of like 400%, whereas the system was built assuming there would be differences more like 10%.
Good news however is that most of the ilvl boosted gear is extremely easy to obtain. The only hard to get item is the arena trinket, but kudos to anyone with the dedication to get 11 wins in Gurubashi. I have done it once and have the trinket on 1 level 29 twink, and I'll never do it again.Last edited by Krimson; 2016-07-22 at 04:21 PM.
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