I have all the BoA pieces available except the ring from the Kalu'ak fishing tournament and I enchanted the daggers with +15 agi. IMO a twink is someone who would also have had these things but their other pieces would also be the best in slot for their level and they would have enchanted things. I use random quest greens and enchant nothing but the daggers. I brought this up because I was a little drunk and cocky the other night and told a DK on our team to get their flag to our flag room and I'll kill any flag carrier they have. That enraged the whole team somehow... all 7 DKs started screaming about how this isn't the 30-40 bracket and how my twinking won't help here, this is why we can't win, etc, etc. So I killed their FC who was galavanting on our roof to show his leetness. I was lucky, he had a priest who let the shield drop off and didn't put it back fast enough. Doesn't help that he was sapped and had no trinket.
We won and it was close but it made me wonder what a twink is at this stage of the game. I don't think they even exist. There are BoA geared players, non BoA geared players, and then the 1-2 may-as-well be naked players that show up on each side every game. But I don't think there are twinks past the 50's anymore. Thoughts?
One of the worst aspects of Warcraft is that the playing field is never level. It used to be worse when the brackets were 10 levels wide. A level 11 was no match for a 19 or anywhere along the spectrum. Warhammer boosted everyone's level and scaled their powers accordingly to reduce this in its brackets and even WoW eventually reduced the brackets size in half.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's why I've found WoW pvp so unappealing. With the exception of my shaman, I haven't kept my gear up. So there's a two week or so hazing period where you have to just suck it up before you get going. Then, you have you gear. I just don't like the solution because even when you are on the winning side of the gear race, it creates uninteresting play.
I think twinks still exist...I remember pvping in the late 70's on my paladin and having a cata green weapon...it had twice the dps of my boa sword. Things like enchants and whatnot are incrementation increases in power. I dislike them at the lower end, because they turn new people off from pvp entirely. (Part of the reason I hate stun locking rogues...there's no interaction on the other side which leads to uninteresting game play. The poor newbie is killed in the same way...he should lose to a more skill player, but getting 2-shotted by a boa weapon...not the same as having a close battle.) I think their existence in having an advantage is undeniable--after all things like speed enchant to boots or crusader are huge advantages in the pre-mount world.
That's one of the reasons a game that resets with each match aka league of legends, seems vastly superior.