Realms Blackrock level 19s gear price reduction

[sennki]

Hi,

This suggestion is about reducing the price of gear for level 19s on Blackrock, as the entry barrier for new players is too high right now. I know Malaco has been open to some changes in the past, hope there can be a discussion again.

The level 19 twink population has noticeably dwindled in the last few months, which results in fewer bgs each day, and consequently slowing down the rate in which players can get honor points and Warsong Gulch tokens. For new players this means that they need to play for weeks to get BIS (mind that, playing multiple hours every day for weeks is not fun if you constantly get killed/farmed by people with better gear)
Most of the time the chest on the twink island is also out of reach for beginners, as they are at a disadvantage when there is a fight for it.
Also, I feel like the need to play level 80 PvP for heirlooms is also not in the spirit of any instant PVP server (for the 19 bracket).


A few concrete suggestions:
-Decrease the price of gear and the quest requirements (which is currently 5 WSG mark for each quest item) or increase the number of marks gained from playing battlegrounds (right now you get 1 mark for a win and no marks for a loss, imo it should be at least 3+ for a win and 1+ for a loss)
-Make heirlooms, AGM (Arena Grand Master) and LFH (Lucky Fishing Hat) free at the vendor to serve as the starting gear for twinks. This way it would be easier to acquire the rest of the gear/enchants.
-Make all gear free. I know this one unlikely, but it would attract the most people out of these options. This would be very healthy for 19s, which should be the ultimate goal for any bracket i guess.

I have been playing this bracket for over 4 years on this server now and it would be nice to see some new faces :D
Thanks, hope someone reads this :C

[Rosental]

Totally agree with the OP.
The actually barrier for new players on 19 br is to big and the starter gear is to weak that players get farmed for weeks till they can buy anything, the amount of bgs needed for bis gear feels like grinding rank14 back in vanilla and thats why new players give up after few days.
Usually when u twink in normal realms (not instant) u join bgs with bis gear or close to bis.
19s shoudnt be focused into a gearing sistem, or at least make gearing less rough.
Would like to see some changes <3