Let's Talk about the Level Squish

Neebler

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Alright so as many of you know there is a level squish coming in the Shadowlands pre-patch.

There have been a couple stances on what this will mean for 19 twinks. One is that they won't be affected at all, as there will be a 'threshold level' for the squish (i.e. low level toons won't be squished until after level 20.) Another is that EVERYONE's toon gets squished, although it's unclear what the target squish level would be for 19's. A number that people have thrown around is 9, which is obviously pretty bad news. Even though we could just level our characters to 19, our gear will not level with us, meaning our twinks will be effectively worthless.

...Unless we just duel in Durotar as the level 9 bracket. Goldshire Gulch maybe?

Now obviously there's a lot that still needs to be confirmed. Most of this is just rumors and speculation. But how exactly might we get around this problem? There are three options I see moving forward.

1. Accept defeat and make a new twink, lose all of your grandfathered gear, and gear it with whatever BiS gear you can still get
2. Try to guess which level will be squished to 19 and gear that character to be BiS (this is super uncertain and probably impossible to guess, and even if you guessed correctly there's no guarantee that the squished gear will be BiS anyway)

And, the third option, an idea I had recently:

3. Delete your twink right before the pre-patch, install the pre-patch, and then restore your deleted character.

Once again there is no promise that this will work, and it may have been thought of already by Blizzard. But because there is no penalty to deleting a character within the restore timeframe window, it may be worth trying this to preserve your twinks. I know a lot of us have spent insane amounts of time and gold/real money on our toons and it would be a shame to lose them.

We'll see what happens, but this may be worth considering. Just wanted to share.

- Neebler
 
None of the above will matter - imo Blizzard will remove the ability to turn XP off with Shadowlands pre-patch, if you want to twink it will be Classic or a private server.
Or whatever the f2p level cap goes to. ;)
 
The delete twink idea sounds good it’s just annoying if you have like 100 twinks
Yeah, impractical for having alts considering the 15 day cooldown between toon recoveries. Might be a year before some people are able to recover all their toons.. xd
 
Yeah, impractical for having alts considering the 15 day cooldown between toon recoveries. Might be a year before some people are able to recover all their toons.. xd

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Hey guys, .. i'm a bit sad if my lvl 19 wont be able to queue for BG anymore.. or even world pvp... so that would mean that i can only still duel on my twink... but after 15 years i can never level up anymore... he will always be stuck at that level sadly.... however, wow keeps changing forever... and even though i expect this system to stay for a long time... lvl19s or now the lvl 9's could one day get saved again.. i dont care if i have to wait 20 years for it.
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So anyway, it looks like lvl 10 really is the new Twink game, and it looks pretty damn awesome for this bracket, and i mean.. wild... possibly lvl 10 DKs and DHs could become a thing, if there is a way to stop exp before reaching lvl 11.

Also we can choose between one of these expansions : TBC, WotLK, Cata, MoP, WoD, Legion, BfA, and my question is, if you stop Exp at lvl 10... will you still be able to quest and farm through the entire expansion of your choice?..

Another question is, can we do multiple expansions all at once at lvl 10?... and if not.. which expansion is the best one to pick for twinking in general, or for specific classes... and up to what point do we get access to the expansions? Can we enter all the expansions dungeons? Even raids? Do we get legendaries from Legion expansion on our lvl 10s?..... and artifact even perhaps? Otherwise the whole story line doesnt fit for Legion..

So many things happen in my mind now... so many possibilities...., it would seem Legion would be a good expansion to pick because of many things, Artifact,legendaries,BoE epics that can titanforge, socket, and secondary stats...

Maybe BfA could also be a sick choice because of corruption gear and the artifact....

But there are so many things im probably overlooking from the entirety of WoW....

What do you guys think about it? please reply^^
Im very curious.
 

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