Eveill
OG
I hate to say this, I am.
It seems to me that 70 XP off BG's are following the same patterns as the "old" x9's from vanilla/BC. You would find 2-4 "real" twinks or people slightly undergeared but could carry a BG and everyone else was just a scrub. There's a huge difference now though. Everyone in 70's BG's now has decided to turn off XP, they're not just passing through.... right? They're supposed to know what classes are good in bracket, you'd think they'd know map objectives, you'd think they could actually play a class well if they loved it so much they decided they wanted to stick around.
So why is it in any group you random with you might see 20-30% of the players even remotely geared as twinks? I mean I'm not talking BIS standards that are the norm we would expect from one another on this forum with multiple Sunwell/BT clears and gears. I'm talking about people STILL showing up in quest greens and blues, BOA gear and even a piece or two of vanilla leftovers. People that show up with full Brutal gear (Did you ever think we'd be looking down on "just" full S4 sets?) with no gems, no enchants and can't figure out why they're getting 2 shot and sporting stats like 1 kb and 10 deaths and 70k damage at the end of the game?
I'm just so deflated that with as much love as I have put into 3 70 twinks I just can't take going into BG's anymore for hours at a time like I used to. I wish I could say it was one faction or another, it's not. I have 2 US Horde and 1 Alliance 70 that are active. It's the same scenario every game. Quick gear inspection results in me shaking my head, burying my forehead in my palms and saying "Geeze, not this crap again.". I can tell by looking at the artwork of the cloaks on my team if we have a shot or not. If it's a sea of vendor browns I know we've already lost. If I see no Sunwell staffs, glaives etc. I know we've already lost.
The funny part? If I see a caster link a Apolyon the Soul Renderer with like spirit gems and +3 int on it to taunt the melee people in the game? I LOL for real and think..... we got a real shot at this. However that's happened to me exactly one time in 8 months of hardcore 70 twinking. More often than not, I increasingly feel like I'm living in a sea of bads and burned out on what I once loved.
It seems to me that 70 XP off BG's are following the same patterns as the "old" x9's from vanilla/BC. You would find 2-4 "real" twinks or people slightly undergeared but could carry a BG and everyone else was just a scrub. There's a huge difference now though. Everyone in 70's BG's now has decided to turn off XP, they're not just passing through.... right? They're supposed to know what classes are good in bracket, you'd think they'd know map objectives, you'd think they could actually play a class well if they loved it so much they decided they wanted to stick around.
So why is it in any group you random with you might see 20-30% of the players even remotely geared as twinks? I mean I'm not talking BIS standards that are the norm we would expect from one another on this forum with multiple Sunwell/BT clears and gears. I'm talking about people STILL showing up in quest greens and blues, BOA gear and even a piece or two of vanilla leftovers. People that show up with full Brutal gear (Did you ever think we'd be looking down on "just" full S4 sets?) with no gems, no enchants and can't figure out why they're getting 2 shot and sporting stats like 1 kb and 10 deaths and 70k damage at the end of the game?
I'm just so deflated that with as much love as I have put into 3 70 twinks I just can't take going into BG's anymore for hours at a time like I used to. I wish I could say it was one faction or another, it's not. I have 2 US Horde and 1 Alliance 70 that are active. It's the same scenario every game. Quick gear inspection results in me shaking my head, burying my forehead in my palms and saying "Geeze, not this crap again.". I can tell by looking at the artwork of the cloaks on my team if we have a shot or not. If it's a sea of vendor browns I know we've already lost. If I see no Sunwell staffs, glaives etc. I know we've already lost.
The funny part? If I see a caster link a Apolyon the Soul Renderer with like spirit gems and +3 int on it to taunt the melee people in the game? I LOL for real and think..... we got a real shot at this. However that's happened to me exactly one time in 8 months of hardcore 70 twinking. More often than not, I increasingly feel like I'm living in a sea of bads and burned out on what I once loved.
