Icecrown, minor changes regarding the 70-79 bracket
Hello, I have been playing a twink on Warmane for about 5 years now, mostly in the 70-79 bracket as a level 70 twink.
We, the 70 twinks, had a lot of fun playing on Ragnaros and Deathwing, we have a lot of good and bad memories and we kept going even if the odds were not on our side most of the time.
Now, with the change of the voting system, we're no longer able to get our best in slot gear from voting;
Level 70 arena is not possible either, you can not create a team, which means we can't play to get our best in slot gear for arena points;
Level 70 raids are not possible either, bosses got buffed;
This leaves us with the questing gear and the battlegrounds gear, battlegrounds being our only way of having fun and enjoying the bracket.
This is the issue and this is where I wanted to get, the battlegrounds, the bracket is 70-79, which means that we, the 70 twinks, have to fight 78 and 79 twinks using questing gear and some of the honor gear, while they use crafted gear and have almost twice the health we have, it was possible to compete with the 79 twinks using the brutal gear, not enjoyable at all, but possible, now that only some of the 70 twinks can afford to pay for gear, the battlegrounds are not enjoyable at all.
The 70 community has always been one of the most active twinking communities out there, I remember having 400+ members back in the days when we used to do 2-3 raids weekly with 70 only twinks, days when 40 people would log in to get a spot in the 25 man black temple runs.
Here comes my suggestion, could you guys change the way the 70-79 bracket work?, for example, make 2 brackets out of this, like ''70-70'' and ''71-79'' or maybe ''70-74'', ''75-79'', to make it work like arena bracket works.
I'm sure this would make all the 70 twinks happy and make them come back, which means many of them will spend coins to buy brutal gear from the coins shop, making it a double win for both sides. I myself spent at least 300$ on my 70 twinks, buying legendary items, mounts and gear for my twinks and I know there are many other people who did this to buy their invincible mount, warglaives, thori'dal and whatnot, but this was back when the 79s did not exist, I don't think many people would pay real life money to play against the 79s, which are more than ever.
Something has to be done about it or it will slowly die out, there are many people interested in playing a 70 twink, but they get answers like ''the 70 arena is not working'' , ''raids got buffed'' or ''battlegrounds are full of 79s''
Changing the bracket to make 70 twinks face only level 70 players will have no impact on the other aspects of the game, it will just make our twinking community happier and bigger, I believe we deserve this for being such a dedicated and active community for so many years.
-Thank you for taking your time to read this, Tbc.