Difference between 10 and 11?

[warcraftisgood]

Not to get too terribly meta, sentimental or sincere here but its always worth asking yourself *why* youre twinking.

Are you building a twink as a tool with which to power level alts/gain TW badges? Its 11, all the way down. For now. Turn your XP off *immediately* upon hitting 11, enjoy no adverse scaling and better stats/gear

It's possible (very possible) in the future that this changes. You'd need to be willing to abandon or level this toon and rebuild from scratch if (when) that happens. Level 11 wont be the speed clear meta forever, so you're signing up to always meta chase with new levels, new gear demands, new class preferences, etc. Some people really enjoy that.

But are you twinking as an exercise in exploring low level play? As a part of the continuous, shared history of the playstyle? Are you wanting to be a part of the grand twinking narrative? Are you looking to build a "forever" toon? Its 10s. Its a storied bracket, its got a long history, recognizable names, hilarious stories, a whole culture. Not quite as popular as its used to be but there's a history to latch onto there if you want.

Basically, taking a step back and looking at twinking from a 10,000 ft view, 11s are a fad. 10s are a true subculture.

Yes and I agree with this. As I stated, I fully support the pure 10s who chose to remain 10s.
Level 11 serves a different purpose as level 10 and isn't considered pure by the OGs but my personal mindset in twinking is just to get a toon of every class with the 'potential' to perform at the highest possible power in pve content. This means most classes go 11 with priest at 12 and dk at 13. There is much more to 11s imo than just 'boosting for tw'. Furthermore, when the inevitable meta changes and 11 no longer becomes meta, perhaps alot of people including me will even stay at 11 which builds on the same mentality of the older folks currently twinking at level 10. It's all on the mentality.

However what I was replying to is 'staying 10' given as advice to people who was obviously oblivious to the reason as to why 11 is better than 10 due to current scaling in pve. It was false information/advice and I corrected it.

 

[warcraftisgood]

It's 30%. If your 10-segment experience bar has less than 3 segments filled, then you are still considered to be 1 level lower to mobs and bosses* and their level is adjusted accordingly. This is true at any level (a reason why FTP's may still want to turn off experience on their 20's which precludes them from RBG's).

*dungeon bosses and mobs will not be adjusted lower than the minimum level requirement of the dungeon or area

nay it's 25%. i had to rebuild my og 11 since i was at 29% and after some advice from dpook, tested it personally and mobs are scaled up.