70-74 bracket BG ques already suffering

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since the basic game has been expanded que times are showing 12-18 minutes on the horde side and 22+minutes on ally side. bracket may be soon going the way 60-64 did. players who had the basic game at first 1-60 caused the 60-64 bracket to have BGs pop, etc. sort of the way players on F2P cause the 20-24 bracket to be active. many players left 60 and went to 70 because that was the new basic game. with WOTLK added to the basic game players can move up 10 levels and it shows already..

insane PVP imbalances due to certain classes being either OP or nearly unkillable, PVP power not in place on PVP gear, having to use PVP power gems which effectively gimps melee/hunter classes but not casters...is starting to aggravate players and many are dropping out.

i take it blizz hopes they will move up and buy expansions, that may not be the case

this may make 80-84 become more active, but 80's don't stand a chance against twinked 84's, because blizz made sure 80 gear was worthless when CATA rolled with higher level greens and blues starting at 77-79 along with quest items/drops. and if in MOP there are level-84 greens/blues to play a 84 you will need CATA and MOP
 
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Ppl preparing and playing thier 85s for Mop, getting quests done, stacking jp and honor, and waiting for arena.

This has nothing to do with it.

So tierd of ppl saying "70s diying buhu" before the game has even started.

80% Of all 70 twinks has 85 mains. Simple as that.
 
mrdoobry said:
Is that a carefully analysed percentage or some random number pulled from anywhere? :rolleyes:
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We need to bring in Glancealot on this one
 
Well, now at least 60-64 get queues again :) it takes only 5-10min more than 70-74. And at 60 you CAN kill healers solo with good skills. Making it more interesting.

Reason imo for low pops:
- Hybrids / Healers stacking to 85% resil. Godmode is probably fun, but hitting bubbles gets old quickly for dps players. "Hi, I bubble for 10k+, back to full in 1 heal and your damage is nerfed by 40% :) try to get me down with your fat 1k crits!"
- As said before, with MoP everyone is back on their main to prepare it
 
- bracket started suffering when MOP prepatch rolled
- blizz asking for inputs on low level PVP in the BETA forums where most WOW players can't post, isn't helping much since most who played BETA had no concern about low level PVP,
- people play what they have, when 60 was max game, people who didn't pay for expansions were stuck at 60. many of those we no original intention of twinking
- when BC was added to basic game, 70-74 bracket exploded, it also suffered breifly due to ill geared players some still in 60 gear hitting the bracket
- within 2 days of WOTLK becoming part of the basic game que times went to 12-22 minutes...pretty much triple
- players have been ready for MOP many times over, even their alts are ready

- just like 20-24, there would be no bracket without F2P-20s, blizz ever expands that....that bracket will suffer and diminish

not trying to be a doomsayer, since 2007 i had twinks that covered 6 brackets. i have seen and rolled with the changes along with what killed brackets, now i only play 2. i hate seeing what is happening to the 70-74 bracket because it is near similiar to what hurt the 60-64 bracket
 
this is easy to test now that achievement is account wide.

all you need is a script that can parse armory profiles.

1, scan armory for characters with at least one stat that qualify for "twink". for example, resil>60%, AP>2500 etc.

2, calculate the percentage of twinks who have "level 85 achievement".
 
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