Could've done this better
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Ivo
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They can do it now as well but they don't.And then there will be leveling twinks oneshotting usual levelers
Beachcomber
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The original F2P 20 was great fun. This was right around when they first introduced phasing and the population was plummeting. You could make a character on a dead server, farm out AGM with limited competition, get BOA from Darkmoon Faire tickets, win the fishing tournament multiple times on different toons, and have fair and fun games. But it didn't put any money in Blizzard's pocket which is why I'm surprised they let that playstyle slide for as long as they did. Particularly nowadays with veteran 20 accounts fully geared.
Kirise
OG
Blizzard absolutely buffs/nerfs twinks. Slapping level requirements on bandages in cata had no effect on max level characters nor new characters who had to go through the newly-gated First Aid leveling process. The 39 and 49 XP-off brackets were on death's door before the new bandage level requirement took embersilk bandages (essentially a Lay on Hands for everyone with grandfathered First Aid, with a 1 minute cooldown) out of their hands. It affected less than 100 active players, and directly targeted those two brackets (for the better).
Level requirements on Shadowlands rep gear makes for the most recent example (a much-needed nerf) that directly targeted twinks.
Never mind the very existence of Behsten and Slahtz.
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