Drayner
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Here's a little bit on an experiment I did to test some things out. If you are interested, feel free to read on.
I leveled a rogue from 10-24 in just battlegrounds to test out the effects of the scaling.
At level 10, I had BoA gear and some greens with cheap enchants. 10-12 I felt really powerful against anyone, regardless of level. Levels 13 and 14, I felt more weak. I didn't change gear out at all from 10-14.
At level 16, I turned off XP and pimped him out in what I believe was BiS for a 16 (of course no AGM or Fishing hat). I did about 10 XP OFF WSGs and held my own. I felt as powerful as a 19 rogue with the goods. The gear scaled well and I didn't feel like a liability in games, in fact I did well returning flags.
I turned XP back on and started leveling again.
Just like 10-14, level 16 and 17 in the XP ON bracket, I was a BEAST. I felt more powerful that 19s. I was 1 shot ambushing many players, of course these weren't the well geared players. Levels 18-19 seemed I was less powerful, but again, I didn't change gear from 16-20.
When I hit level 20, I turned XP off again to regear. I spent about 3 hours getting a few new items, but most of the gear I continued to use from 15-19.
You guessed it. 20-22 felt stronger than 23-24. At 20, with zerker, I was ambushing for up to 1400, which is enough to one shot many levelers.
Overall the gear scaled really nice in the lower couple levels and equaled out later.
Here are the final stats.
I ended up with ~ 2500 HKs -- ZERO GY FARMING INVOLVED --- 735 Killing Blows
WSG record: 31-13 (54 games) ---- 116 Flag Returns and 2 Flag Caps
AB record: 10-4 (14 Games)
It was a fun experiment, I had a blast.
Out of all the classes I faced, hunters were the strongest. Even S Keying hunters won! It seems the huntard is back in form again.
EDIT: Why Stop at 24 you might ask. I might twink at 24 with this toon but the real reason was that I have no rogues and I needed a rogue to open over 50 lock boxes from Gnomer runs that have accumulated on my account.
I leveled a rogue from 10-24 in just battlegrounds to test out the effects of the scaling.
At level 10, I had BoA gear and some greens with cheap enchants. 10-12 I felt really powerful against anyone, regardless of level. Levels 13 and 14, I felt more weak. I didn't change gear out at all from 10-14.
At level 16, I turned off XP and pimped him out in what I believe was BiS for a 16 (of course no AGM or Fishing hat). I did about 10 XP OFF WSGs and held my own. I felt as powerful as a 19 rogue with the goods. The gear scaled well and I didn't feel like a liability in games, in fact I did well returning flags.
I turned XP back on and started leveling again.
Just like 10-14, level 16 and 17 in the XP ON bracket, I was a BEAST. I felt more powerful that 19s. I was 1 shot ambushing many players, of course these weren't the well geared players. Levels 18-19 seemed I was less powerful, but again, I didn't change gear from 16-20.
When I hit level 20, I turned XP off again to regear. I spent about 3 hours getting a few new items, but most of the gear I continued to use from 15-19.
You guessed it. 20-22 felt stronger than 23-24. At 20, with zerker, I was ambushing for up to 1400, which is enough to one shot many levelers.
Overall the gear scaled really nice in the lower couple levels and equaled out later.
Here are the final stats.
I ended up with ~ 2500 HKs -- ZERO GY FARMING INVOLVED --- 735 Killing Blows
WSG record: 31-13 (54 games) ---- 116 Flag Returns and 2 Flag Caps
AB record: 10-4 (14 Games)
It was a fun experiment, I had a blast.
Out of all the classes I faced, hunters were the strongest. Even S Keying hunters won! It seems the huntard is back in form again.
EDIT: Why Stop at 24 you might ask. I might twink at 24 with this toon but the real reason was that I have no rogues and I needed a rogue to open over 50 lock boxes from Gnomer runs that have accumulated on my account.
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