Why/How did 8.2 kill 19s?

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How and or why did 8.2 kill the 19s? I've spent some serious time with mine and was wondering why they are so called 'dead' now?
 
new major patch. even 20-29 suffered earlier today in having 9-17 min BG pops, picked up later in the evening 4-9 min BG pops
 
Legit 19s were struggling even before the patch. Some at 19 (and all twink brackets) were using an exploit to queue into xpON bgs - this was fixed. Add in that many people are going to be doing new content on their mains (or hating this patch and moving to vet status) - and the population isn't there to sustain it.

Wargames probably can and will still happen tho.
 
When 8.1.5 dropped, a lot of people strictly out of fear that 19s wouldn’t pop, moved to 20. Now that the xp bug got fixed, I bet a lot of people are wishing they had stayed 19 and tried to keep the xpoff queues active

As quick as people made 20s right before patch and migrated, why can’t we do the same thing coming back?
 
19's are scattered on goals, focus, etc. in to many directions.
some only:
- wargame
- arena skirm
- duel, or just hangout goldshire / Org gate
- constant build / farm BIS mode
- reroll another class mode
- only BG if in a expected win pre/mini made with certain players

imo, the epic procs, have been good for the 19 bracket since it brings renewed interest, but at the expense of players farming, questing and rerolling more than queing for BGs.
 
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I thought that at the beginning of BfA all 19s were pooled into the same BGs? Why have they reverted that change back to twink-only?

blizzard in BFA ungated the engineering profession, this allowed access to many overpowered items which some are not level restricted which were not previously available to low level players. they also handed down to 300+ alchemy a MOP level flask, +11 stats in a 20-29 BG, +15 stats in a 30-39 is rather huge, OP, and imo imbal. (i have 5 twinks with alch) yes they removed caps other professions but items, gear is gated to requiring xx-level

- healer/caster twinks using fang/slither set with un-nerfed legacy set bonus +18 int and +3 haste
- glove LW stam enchant +11 stam in 20-29...not sure other brackets
- crusader enchant still procs +100 strength and +100 heals (increased by versatility/crits), has not been nerfed or squished in 6 years covering 3 expac squishes, or hotfixes/patches that further nerfing other enchants. i have 19, 20, and 39 warriors, imo crusader enchant got buffed, it chains procs like crazy, insane uptime time. not sure WTF blizz is doing...not doing there. i played when crusader was 1ppm, with uber rare extra procs.

stuff like this greatly impacts 10-49s. somewhat to level 60, after that there are other issues of imbal of twinks vs levelers. there was months and months of QQ by levelers and twinks on warcraft forums, some got nerfed like frag belt, elemental force, again others slipped thru the cracks again. rather than deal with it blizzard resorted to what they did in WOTLK and separate twinks/levelers, but since all DEVs are new, and ION has a short memory...BG exploiting....history repeated. twinks helped and asked for the separation both times.

blizzard patch 8.1.5 gift to twinks (intentional or not) was the epic proc of some BOEs and quest rewards, putting twinks are the same treadmill grind as 120's.
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Perhaps XPOFF could promote 19 and 20 on alternate months. So that both brackets stay busy.

twink veteran-20's are unsub'd, if they have 19 twinks, cannot play them while unsub'd.
 
Bruv thats the less then sign, not the equals sign.

> =/= =
Ya want me to say that, periodic $15 a month for several players in different brackets is “greater than” the $60 boost that a select few are willing to pay?

Btw, > greater & < lesser
Alligator eats bigger meal
 
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Ya want me to say that, periodic $15 a month for several players in different brackets is “greater than” the $60 boost that a select few are willing to pay?

Btw, > greater & < lesser
Alligator eats bigger meal
ok great but what u wrote basically translates to endgame is greater than money
 
The true thing that killed 19s is the twink cup, people only actively play 3-4 months before twink cup is around and then once it's done no one cares about the bracket anymore until next years twink cup is around the corner
 
8.2 didn't do shit

Cata was dope for pugs especially but a lot of people who enjoyed casting 2 healing touches and ooming quit around then and decided that it was terrible - down fall started there because apes are apes
was calm up until legion
blizz reintroduced xp on and xp off sh-t together basically making it so that
competitive twinks didn't want to play anymore so most quit 19s / wow all together
casual twinks came in and took over the pug scene
changed it back in bfa and casual twinks cried they were getting stomped coz 11 iq 2 keybinds and 0 idea what they're doing
remaining competitive twinks realised it was a fkn joke of an expac and a joke of a game at this point and stopped playing

didnt read any other posts coz 99% of u probably dont know what ur speaking about
 
The true thing that killed 19s is the twink cup, people only actively play 3-4 months before twink cup is around and then once it's done no one cares about the bracket anymore until next years twink cup is around the corner


???? are you competing for the biggest retard of 2019 or what

theres countless threads saying its in august, send me a link of the calendar you want and i'll buy you it coz its fkn june

unless you have secret insider information of super hidden games happening im missing the connection between your post and the current date

it's no wonder queues died and every win feels so empty knowing the average mental capability of this community is being lowered by people like you
 
you should change the name of your title to Big Peen Small Ween @lild, also ever since the twink cup has become a thing no one has given a shit about 19s, i never said a specific date of the twink cup, i never even said that it's already passed by, you clearly don't know how to read and just like to hear yourself talk.

"no wonder queues died" i haven't played 19s in like 4 years, so idk what to tell you, just from speculation and friends that still do play 19s, none of them actively play them anymore, haven't in months, when was the last time there was a 10v10 guild vs guild premade outside of the twink cup, from my knowledge MoP
 

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