CN server no 29 BG long time 
no PVP no hurt
no PVP no hurt
29 twinks killed their own bracket now their complainning to blizzard to merge xp on and off.
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twoshotmiyagi
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idk bout NA but on EU 20s killed their own bracket actually.
Rahn
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Might just be the nostalgia speaking, but when the 20s were paired with the levelers; that was the best time for low level PvP.
Why?
Simply because level 20 twinks did have comparable power to the leveling 27-29s. The extra 9 levels, higher ilvl, and extra talents/abilities evened things out quite a fair bit.
Course even back then you had preform groups of level 29 twinks running around and facerolling everyone, and ruining the experience of everyone else in the bracket.
Why?
Simply because level 20 twinks did have comparable power to the leveling 27-29s. The extra 9 levels, higher ilvl, and extra talents/abilities evened things out quite a fair bit.
Course even back then you had preform groups of level 29 twinks running around and facerolling everyone, and ruining the experience of everyone else in the bracket.
I mean yeah in terms of balance it was argueably one of the better times still what made Shadowlands so appealing to me was the fast queues and vibrant community and less the combat, don't get me wrong it was definetly a step-up from previous expansions in terms of available buttons but it wasn't quiet as fun as I had playing a 29 ret in Dragonflight where imo the combat felt the best out of any other expansion, definetly a big S1 DF enjoyer. Level 20 Ret in Shadowlands which was my main back then felt very frustrating to play without Blessing of Freedom or Rebuke getting kited for 10 min straight in duels without cheesy gadgets def wasn't that fun x9
Who knows what Midnight might bring but I sure hope it's going to be close or perhaps even better than what we had then!
Do i have to link yall another one of diss tracks aimed at 29s or does it suppose to come automatically when someone mention 29s?!
Thing is it kind of never left. It is still there in background just more silent.
When you see buffs/nerfs roll out there is always mention of pvp compensation in %. So there is still a different sets of stats for pve and pvp.
It still results like it does simply because they lack vision of what pvp in this game suppose to be about and ever shifting max level/stat distribution not going to make it easier. Balancing entire pvp around endgame 3s arenas and cc chain execution is stupid considering how few new players this days even get in to that scene.
My 2 cents is that we are way past the point where Legion-style templates would save pvp due to different clusterfuck reasons.
Far reaching structural changes are needed and that will hardly happen with this leadership of the ship.
Best case every bracket gets AI bots to play with in battlegrounds.
To be honest it can be meme if done right. Imagine every bot using insta kick and gobling gliders for gap closure while dressed up in all 19s bis gears...
Had a convo at mmo champion about it all a while ago. If someone got too much time on their hands - there ye go.
Needless to say it has gotten "raving" reviews over there.
Thing is it kind of never left. It is still there in background just more silent.
When you see buffs/nerfs roll out there is always mention of pvp compensation in %. So there is still a different sets of stats for pve and pvp.
It still results like it does simply because they lack vision of what pvp in this game suppose to be about and ever shifting max level/stat distribution not going to make it easier. Balancing entire pvp around endgame 3s arenas and cc chain execution is stupid considering how few new players this days even get in to that scene.
My 2 cents is that we are way past the point where Legion-style templates would save pvp due to different clusterfuck reasons.
Far reaching structural changes are needed and that will hardly happen with this leadership of the ship.
Best case every bracket gets AI bots to play with in battlegrounds.
To be honest it can be meme if done right. Imagine every bot using insta kick and gobling gliders for gap closure while dressed up in all 19s bis gears...
Had a convo at mmo champion about it all a while ago. If someone got too much time on their hands - there ye go.
Needless to say it has gotten "raving" reviews over there.
PVE Bellow Level Cap.
1. levels 10-50 are for leveling.
Any zone ingame would be possible to level up in. Would take completing any 3 zone to level from 1 to 50.
Any 100% new player would start at level 1 for the first time and have a basic tutorial to learn basic rotation, UI and movement from level 1 to level 10.
It would take no longer than 30 minutes to complete level 1 - 10 tutorial.
For any returning player new characters would have an option to start at level 10.
levels 1-50 will never get level or stat squished again.
2. Unified currency for upgrading gear. Justice Points.
You Still get new item drops like you always did, yet you have option to upgrade any item or to destroy item to gain currency it in order to upgrade any item in your possession. It would only be a matter of simply setting reasonable ilevel caps on upgrades for each character level.
3. Any dungeon / raid (or any other legacy instanced content) that is not current content is to be scaled from 10 to 50 and serve as leveling option via lfd tool or by simply by walking in. Once new expansion releases the replaced one will automatically switch in to legacy content and follow the pattern of any other older expansion in 10-50 leveling bracket.
4. Add Timewalking hub area with easy access to any level. Theme-based subareas with vendors to represent each expansion that would always be active. On top of usual vendors there would be material and rare cosmetic and pattern boe drops from related expansions that would be sold for Timewalking badges.
Could also house area for different questing npc in relations to new activities in zones from older expansions.
5. Add a scroll item purchasable for Justice Points that would apply a socket up to 3 times per item to any legacy item.
Add an item purchasable for Justice Points that would Upgrade any legacy content item ingame to be level scalable heirloom item from level 1 to level 50.
PVE At and around Max Level Cap.
1. Level 50-60 is for new zones.
Any level 51-60 would get level/item stat squished back to level 50 with the release of next expansion.
That way if you didn't play for few expansions you still will be level 50 ready to go in to latest content with your old gear and effort still having some impact.
2. Level 60 would always be maximum character level that a character would have to "prove its worth" in new continent.
You can still add all the new shiny things to new expansions and experiment with things.
This clear structure will ensure clear understanding of how things are going to be going forward and lapsed player won't feel like there is canyon size gap between them and new expansion.
3. Unified currency for upgrading gear up to heroic raid tier with same Justice Points.
You would still use single currency to upgrade gear. Doing harder content would reward you with more of it.
You still would get new items to drop and ability to upgrade/scrap things without ruining previous effort.
What is left is simply pre set proper costs for 5 raid tiers worth of item upgrades for entire expansion and never having to touch this system again.
Max ilevel gear for any current tier would always come from Mythic raid or similar level of content.
4. Add world quests and daily quests to older zones that would reward timewalking badges.
Rotating number of daily quests 5-10 quests each day that would take player to different older zones.
Potentially this can be a part of Timewalking hub.
5. Add a scroll item purchasable for Justice Points that would apply a socket up to 3 times per item to any current expansion endgame item.
While you at it maybe even add new gems with unique spells that are not just passive stat boost.
PvP. Progression, Leveling & Endgame.
1. Set GCD in pvp to 3 seconds.
2. Limit (with the player aura) the amount of maximum damage & healing a spell can do in pvp. Not greater than 10% of targets hp.
3. Cap moving speed in pvp. Not Greater Than: Player unmounted = 125%. Player mounted = 160%.
4. Set up two pvp brakets. Leveling scaling level 10-59. Endgame level 60.
Any level 10 would have stamina and primary stats of a level 59 in battleground. Extra levels and gear would increase health, damage and secondary stats.
To a reasonable point.
5. Create PvP specific UI journal tab with daily, weekly, season rewards. Similar to Traveler's Log.
Clear information on all pvp progression, activity and possible rewards. Does not have to be updated every month. But cmon, atleast once per season...
While the 3 second global cooldown (gcd) is not essential - it is a good start. The goal is to slow down action count of gameplay, have less informational/meaningless action bloat, make player actions more thoughtful and to have a mistake cost.
While secondary stats can be a good way for overall character progression and haste could lower gcd, the goal is to have 2 player actions within 5 seconds.
Granted all 5 of this steps would be implemented item levels in pvp would not need to be any different to pve progression.
The only thing left would be to ensure reasonable difference in stat distribution between item levels for level 10 - 59.
Core spells for each class are already available at level 10.
For Max level instanced pvp gear would be scaled to normal raid item level as starting point.
Justice Points can replace honor points or you can have both. Granted there is a similar speed of acquisition vs time spent doing activities.
The gear upgrades in pvp would cap out at heroic raid item level for each season/tier.
Overall Class balance.
It is my humble opinion that they fear actual class Balance.
For some bizarre reason they associate it with stagnation.
There is no logical reason why you would ever need to buff something by 25% or nerf something by 50%.
Unless you are Regarded in the first place.
While it is my humble opinion that the type of gear progression suggested (granted stat distribution is accurate) will bring alot of class balance in pve and pvp, the actual way to solve this would be rethinking the equations that are used by spells in background.
5-7 modifiers for each spell is mental.
Clearly it does not bring class balance.
Not even after all this years.
Atleast in current hands it does not.
Simple/fast solution would be blanket class or spec hidden aura buff in instance pve content that would increase output damage/heal to desired level.
The main thing is that one needs to commit to it. Not to abandon it or do their best to undermine it the very next patch to prove a point.
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Scenario 1 you leave current formulas for all the different spells like they are now. Random mess.
Instead of running around every single patch from one spell to another across increasing number of specs/spells and all the modifiers within trying to buff or nerf it - apply single global aura to each spec to boost output based of how far behind the spec is from others and desired number.
As i have stated it is a fast solution and not ideal one.
We are still left with all the mess in the back and you will have to commit to update auras it as time goes on.
Scenario 2 you categorize each spell from all the classes based of what they do and how they intended to work.
Instant single target damage spell, Castable single target damage spell.
Instant aoe damage spell, Castable aoe damage spell.
Instant dot damage spell, Castable dot damage spell.
Once you categorized all that you apply general formula that will control output damage for specific group.
Far easier to manage it this way and on the outside it will look mostly the same.
Can go even further and ensure things like spell cost, cooldown, cast time, duration is somewhat similar (since we established we don't want 100% accuracy).
On top of that you ensure that stat distribution from gear progression is reasonable and that would be far easier to do if you only ever going to have endgame progression from level 50 to level 60. You not going to have 1k+ main stats on single peace of gear which is absurd anyway.
1. levels 10-50 are for leveling.
Any zone ingame would be possible to level up in. Would take completing any 3 zone to level from 1 to 50.
Any 100% new player would start at level 1 for the first time and have a basic tutorial to learn basic rotation, UI and movement from level 1 to level 10.
It would take no longer than 30 minutes to complete level 1 - 10 tutorial.
For any returning player new characters would have an option to start at level 10.
levels 1-50 will never get level or stat squished again.
2. Unified currency for upgrading gear. Justice Points.
You Still get new item drops like you always did, yet you have option to upgrade any item or to destroy item to gain currency it in order to upgrade any item in your possession. It would only be a matter of simply setting reasonable ilevel caps on upgrades for each character level.
3. Any dungeon / raid (or any other legacy instanced content) that is not current content is to be scaled from 10 to 50 and serve as leveling option via lfd tool or by simply by walking in. Once new expansion releases the replaced one will automatically switch in to legacy content and follow the pattern of any other older expansion in 10-50 leveling bracket.
4. Add Timewalking hub area with easy access to any level. Theme-based subareas with vendors to represent each expansion that would always be active. On top of usual vendors there would be material and rare cosmetic and pattern boe drops from related expansions that would be sold for Timewalking badges.
Could also house area for different questing npc in relations to new activities in zones from older expansions.
5. Add a scroll item purchasable for Justice Points that would apply a socket up to 3 times per item to any legacy item.
Add an item purchasable for Justice Points that would Upgrade any legacy content item ingame to be level scalable heirloom item from level 1 to level 50.
PVE At and around Max Level Cap.
1. Level 50-60 is for new zones.
Any level 51-60 would get level/item stat squished back to level 50 with the release of next expansion.
That way if you didn't play for few expansions you still will be level 50 ready to go in to latest content with your old gear and effort still having some impact.
2. Level 60 would always be maximum character level that a character would have to "prove its worth" in new continent.
You can still add all the new shiny things to new expansions and experiment with things.
This clear structure will ensure clear understanding of how things are going to be going forward and lapsed player won't feel like there is canyon size gap between them and new expansion.
3. Unified currency for upgrading gear up to heroic raid tier with same Justice Points.
You would still use single currency to upgrade gear. Doing harder content would reward you with more of it.
You still would get new items to drop and ability to upgrade/scrap things without ruining previous effort.
What is left is simply pre set proper costs for 5 raid tiers worth of item upgrades for entire expansion and never having to touch this system again.
Max ilevel gear for any current tier would always come from Mythic raid or similar level of content.
4. Add world quests and daily quests to older zones that would reward timewalking badges.
Rotating number of daily quests 5-10 quests each day that would take player to different older zones.
Potentially this can be a part of Timewalking hub.
5. Add a scroll item purchasable for Justice Points that would apply a socket up to 3 times per item to any current expansion endgame item.
While you at it maybe even add new gems with unique spells that are not just passive stat boost.
PvP. Progression, Leveling & Endgame.
1. Set GCD in pvp to 3 seconds.
2. Limit (with the player aura) the amount of maximum damage & healing a spell can do in pvp. Not greater than 10% of targets hp.
3. Cap moving speed in pvp. Not Greater Than: Player unmounted = 125%. Player mounted = 160%.
4. Set up two pvp brakets. Leveling scaling level 10-59. Endgame level 60.
Any level 10 would have stamina and primary stats of a level 59 in battleground. Extra levels and gear would increase health, damage and secondary stats.
To a reasonable point.
5. Create PvP specific UI journal tab with daily, weekly, season rewards. Similar to Traveler's Log.
Clear information on all pvp progression, activity and possible rewards. Does not have to be updated every month. But cmon, atleast once per season...
While the 3 second global cooldown (gcd) is not essential - it is a good start. The goal is to slow down action count of gameplay, have less informational/meaningless action bloat, make player actions more thoughtful and to have a mistake cost.
While secondary stats can be a good way for overall character progression and haste could lower gcd, the goal is to have 2 player actions within 5 seconds.
Granted all 5 of this steps would be implemented item levels in pvp would not need to be any different to pve progression.
The only thing left would be to ensure reasonable difference in stat distribution between item levels for level 10 - 59.
Core spells for each class are already available at level 10.
For Max level instanced pvp gear would be scaled to normal raid item level as starting point.
Justice Points can replace honor points or you can have both. Granted there is a similar speed of acquisition vs time spent doing activities.
The gear upgrades in pvp would cap out at heroic raid item level for each season/tier.
Overall Class balance.
It is my humble opinion that they fear actual class Balance.
For some bizarre reason they associate it with stagnation.
There is no logical reason why you would ever need to buff something by 25% or nerf something by 50%.
Unless you are Regarded in the first place.
While it is my humble opinion that the type of gear progression suggested (granted stat distribution is accurate) will bring alot of class balance in pve and pvp, the actual way to solve this would be rethinking the equations that are used by spells in background.
5-7 modifiers for each spell is mental.
Clearly it does not bring class balance.
Not even after all this years.
Atleast in current hands it does not.
Simple/fast solution would be blanket class or spec hidden aura buff in instance pve content that would increase output damage/heal to desired level.
The main thing is that one needs to commit to it. Not to abandon it or do their best to undermine it the very next patch to prove a point.
---------------------
Scenario 1 you leave current formulas for all the different spells like they are now. Random mess.
Instead of running around every single patch from one spell to another across increasing number of specs/spells and all the modifiers within trying to buff or nerf it - apply single global aura to each spec to boost output based of how far behind the spec is from others and desired number.
As i have stated it is a fast solution and not ideal one.
We are still left with all the mess in the back and you will have to commit to update auras it as time goes on.
Scenario 2 you categorize each spell from all the classes based of what they do and how they intended to work.
Instant single target damage spell, Castable single target damage spell.
Instant aoe damage spell, Castable aoe damage spell.
Instant dot damage spell, Castable dot damage spell.
Once you categorized all that you apply general formula that will control output damage for specific group.
Far easier to manage it this way and on the outside it will look mostly the same.
Can go even further and ensure things like spell cost, cooldown, cast time, duration is somewhat similar (since we established we don't want 100% accuracy).
On top of that you ensure that stat distribution from gear progression is reasonable and that would be far easier to do if you only ever going to have endgame progression from level 50 to level 60. You not going to have 1k+ main stats on single peace of gear which is absurd anyway.
No thanks lol. I liked most of everything else listed here but if a 3 sec gcd ever happened I would legit kill myself irl.
This thread is very interesting to read. In wod when vet accounts came in it helped a little to balance. That being said indent know if I expect 29s to have a heart when 24s gave zeros f**ks back in old times. 29s historically have been a non organized power stomping themed community. 39s were organized F2ps, vets but most 29s only existed to faceroll. Never forget 29 brew masters 1 shotted and we're unkillable. 29 ferals 100 to 0 in opener. It's not new. In 4.3 a 24 horde hunter meant you might as well afk. 24 shadow priest in mist were lol.
erd
New Member
There are always multiple sides to a story.
As far as I recall, 70 was one of the biggest and most active twink brackets back then. We had active arenas, battlegrounds, and organized raids.
That’s why it’s always a bit sad for me when I read statements like “29s historically have been a non-organized, power-stomping community.”
Back when I played level 70 battlegrounds, we also faced a few level 79, so I can definitely relate. I sadly don’t remember the name anymore, but I still recall a particularly strong enhancer shaman. It was still fun though.
Now though, many players didn’t choose this lvl voluntarily, they were pushed into it by Blizzard’s level squish a few years ago. (Old 70 -> 27, Old 60 -> 25).
You could argue that people should have stayed at 25 or 27, but at the time it was a difficult decision. And let’s be honest, people would have complained either way.
Personally, I would love to see a template system return (even though it was a bit boring), the raid level requirement reduced from 30 to 20 so we have more content to play, and ultimately a full consolidation of twink brackets into a single bracket. I’m still in guilds that have 1000 former level 70 characters (now level 27). Imagine if only 10% of them came back. With the current situation I don't see this possible and even if they came back, the level of hate would make it hard for them to stay.
As far as I recall, 70 was one of the biggest and most active twink brackets back then. We had active arenas, battlegrounds, and organized raids.
That’s why it’s always a bit sad for me when I read statements like “29s historically have been a non-organized, power-stomping community.”
Back when I played level 70 battlegrounds, we also faced a few level 79, so I can definitely relate. I sadly don’t remember the name anymore, but I still recall a particularly strong enhancer shaman. It was still fun though.
Now though, many players didn’t choose this lvl voluntarily, they were pushed into it by Blizzard’s level squish a few years ago. (Old 70 -> 27, Old 60 -> 25).
You could argue that people should have stayed at 25 or 27, but at the time it was a difficult decision. And let’s be honest, people would have complained either way.
Personally, I would love to see a template system return (even though it was a bit boring), the raid level requirement reduced from 30 to 20 so we have more content to play, and ultimately a full consolidation of twink brackets into a single bracket. I’m still in guilds that have 1000 former level 70 characters (now level 27). Imagine if only 10% of them came back. With the current situation I don't see this possible and even if they came back, the level of hate would make it hard for them to stay.
Kip
New Member
I enjoy coming on here from time to time. I get to see 29s still making the games worse so I don’t need to waste my time coming back to WoW.
Just stop pretending the 29 bracket is full of OG 70s, 98% of current level 29 characters were made after the bracket change.
And for the "I just wanna play my old twink again" crowd, it's not the same character anymore.
You have totally different gear, you are a totally different level, playing most likely totally revamped spec from you last played your old 70 twink.
If you just wanted to play your old 70 you would have played it directly after the squish, but you waited until you were able to dominate level 20s.
yep. 70s failed to rally their community and revitalize 29s (or make 27s a thing) after the squish and left the bracket to opportunistic trolls.
I mean, I get it. It is genuinely hard work to build and maintain a scene, especially given the state of WoW in general and twinking in specific. But to put that blame on a whole other scene for not either sacrificing their time on the altar of random BG ques to be one shot targets for your enjoyment or abandoning their existing and (at the time) thriving scene to prop up yours... thats just being salty.
They did that on EU and won majority of games but then still decided to exploit mass report them..i miss the mop/wod 20s community, when ppl organised premades, focused on outplaying the OP enchanted 24s/29s, rather than qq'ing in communities and mass reporting ingame. gap between f2ps and twinks was even bigger back then tbh..complaining is easier ig.
Yeah I too miss the times people sought out to overcome difficulties rather than doing the rat strat.
If someone is personally attacking you, insulting you based on IRL stuff FINE
If someone is cheating or exploiting on purpose FINE
But NOT FINE when they are literally just playing in their own XP off bracket that Blizzard has made for them.
Most 29s i've hungout with were chill to the bone and just wanted to be able to play a twink at the max lvl of the bracket to unlock all the spells many of which are household names in this community players like Metallie and Shandia, Zhaolin or the 3 man premades of Nairh, Chainz and Replay by the end of Shadowlands.
As far as I know 29s have always played within Blizzards ToS unlike the 20s (russians) coming up with Windmills, Lunar rocket, Bugged Trinkets and when that still wasn't deemed enough they had to resort to mass reports, "saved" the bracket from 29s and gave it to you know who.
And guess what the queues are still dead and the BGs are still trash so good job on making the bracket a whole lot more toxic.
Instead of coming together as people of all differences and making memories we can now say "ur playing something i disagree with? KICK"
Nah but for real adversaries should always be settled in a fight not with reports whoever does thst needs an immediate break from the game
cool. start a dueling scene. or arena night. or wargames nights. If the goal is to genuinely just be chill and play 29s with all the accompanying spells, but random BGs suck and the ques are too long, then do it yourself. nobody is stopping you.
F2P/Vet(wod) had got so advanced with war games many stopped taking regular qs serious because the level of competition regressed. This is also due to the lack of reward behind them. In cata we HAD to gear each character separately with looms.
We were not trying to lose call to arms. In mist we were trying to complete full sets for loom tab. After that it was just gameplay then after legion , we'll you know the rest.
Cross realm really altered community building and the need of them. Initially great tool but it did come at a cost for newer players.
We were not trying to lose call to arms. In mist we were trying to complete full sets for loom tab. After that it was just gameplay then after legion , we'll you know the rest.
Cross realm really altered community building and the need of them. Initially great tool but it did come at a cost for newer players.
I am infact planning on making a 2s Tourney for 29s in Midnight as so far the scaling seems to be very promising.
However wth how combat is built on live it's rather hard to find people for weekly wargames and duels wouldn't make a lot of sense either as they are not much better so im using my time on other things coming on occasionally with a friend and streamin a couple PUGS.
We actually did some 29 wargames before, here's compliaton:
hell yea dude. excellent!
The scaling of 29s against 20s lmao /s