Paw
02-19-2018, 01:27 PM
Recently i have seen a lot of threads regarding twinking and PvP in general. As someone who has been doing low level twinking for most of my AL career and recently gone to endgame for reasons which i will post later in this thread i find it curious why people still twink at lower levels
Everything i will be posting is just my opinion and in no way is ment to offend anyone who has twinked or currently still is twinking at lower levels
My twinking experience goes all the way back to when levels 7-10 were probably the most active PvP brackets. Those days for me were the best in terms of twinking. Everything was balanced and clashes lasted a reasonable amount of time without being too long. All classes were useful and balanced at those levels and teamwork was the difference between a win or a loss.
Gear was reletively cheap until the introduction of Para gems and did create a bit of a gap between the rich and the poor but there were still many players who did reletively well even without them. Things like the icescale set and para gems did give an advantage at lower levels but didnt make it impossible to play without. Was just a nice advantage to have them items. Wasnt the be all and end all.
What made me quit those levels was the introduction of the armor pets, pet animancy and awakenings. It was a great introduction for endgame PvP and PvE but IMO that was when twinking became impossible. The damage output compared to the armor and health stats lost their balance. Tanks with 1.5k armor at level 10 just became impossible to kill. The last straw for me was when we did a 10 v 10 guildbattle. 10 minuites and my team won 1-0. Yes only 1 person died in a full 10v10
As ive stated in a previous thread, i feel the armor bonus from pets and awakenings should only have applied to higher levels or just been % based as lower levels have lower armor for the % to work off.
Going back to the *initial question. Why twink? I have a few personal suggestions from my own experience. Some of which are good and some which may raise a few eyebrows. For me the main reasons are as follows
Twinking is cheaper and the gap between the best and the rest isnt too big. For me this is one of the main reasons i think a lot of people prefer to stay low level
Ping also isnt such a big game changer as it is in endgame as its not a 1 hit. At endgame the split seconds make too much of a difference in PvP
It was easier to get friends involved back then. I had many IRL friends who i got into the game as it was a days work to get them to level 10 and moderately gear them up. Once they experience the fun of PvP they are hooked .These days its almost impossible to get friends n family involved mainly because theres a 10 day wait before they can buy anything or even be gifted items and enjoy the experience and they give up.
Also lets not ignore the elephants in the room. As im saying i am not here to offend anyone and im sorry if i do. But there was a lot of dummy farming and free flagging going on at these low levels. Simply put its easier to level an alt to level 10 to help get kills and open rooms for flagging than it is to level an alt to 66 for the same reasons. Nothing more to add on that matter.
*These are the main reasons i think people used to twink and also the main reasons why people dont anymore. Id like to hear other peoples views on why they still twink or why they feel they cant anymore. Sorry for the long post and thank you
Everything i will be posting is just my opinion and in no way is ment to offend anyone who has twinked or currently still is twinking at lower levels
My twinking experience goes all the way back to when levels 7-10 were probably the most active PvP brackets. Those days for me were the best in terms of twinking. Everything was balanced and clashes lasted a reasonable amount of time without being too long. All classes were useful and balanced at those levels and teamwork was the difference between a win or a loss.
Gear was reletively cheap until the introduction of Para gems and did create a bit of a gap between the rich and the poor but there were still many players who did reletively well even without them. Things like the icescale set and para gems did give an advantage at lower levels but didnt make it impossible to play without. Was just a nice advantage to have them items. Wasnt the be all and end all.
What made me quit those levels was the introduction of the armor pets, pet animancy and awakenings. It was a great introduction for endgame PvP and PvE but IMO that was when twinking became impossible. The damage output compared to the armor and health stats lost their balance. Tanks with 1.5k armor at level 10 just became impossible to kill. The last straw for me was when we did a 10 v 10 guildbattle. 10 minuites and my team won 1-0. Yes only 1 person died in a full 10v10
As ive stated in a previous thread, i feel the armor bonus from pets and awakenings should only have applied to higher levels or just been % based as lower levels have lower armor for the % to work off.
Going back to the *initial question. Why twink? I have a few personal suggestions from my own experience. Some of which are good and some which may raise a few eyebrows. For me the main reasons are as follows
Twinking is cheaper and the gap between the best and the rest isnt too big. For me this is one of the main reasons i think a lot of people prefer to stay low level
Ping also isnt such a big game changer as it is in endgame as its not a 1 hit. At endgame the split seconds make too much of a difference in PvP
It was easier to get friends involved back then. I had many IRL friends who i got into the game as it was a days work to get them to level 10 and moderately gear them up. Once they experience the fun of PvP they are hooked .These days its almost impossible to get friends n family involved mainly because theres a 10 day wait before they can buy anything or even be gifted items and enjoy the experience and they give up.
Also lets not ignore the elephants in the room. As im saying i am not here to offend anyone and im sorry if i do. But there was a lot of dummy farming and free flagging going on at these low levels. Simply put its easier to level an alt to level 10 to help get kills and open rooms for flagging than it is to level an alt to 66 for the same reasons. Nothing more to add on that matter.
*These are the main reasons i think people used to twink and also the main reasons why people dont anymore. Id like to hear other peoples views on why they still twink or why they feel they cant anymore. Sorry for the long post and thank you