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Blizz takes serious steps to end Twinking

And I can’t tell just yet how it really makes me feel.  However, what is surprising is that it took this long.  Blizz tends to live by the nerf stick, and that twinking existed for all this time is odd to say the least.

I read some of the QQ’ing on the Blizz forums.  The forums make my face hurt.  Honestly I would rather have skin grafts than search those, much less read an entire thread.  Forums in general, and WoW forums in specific are the best place I can think of in the whole world to go to get dumber.  Not just a little dumber, dumber by a mile.

There may not be a place in the whole net where you can get more bad information from more idiots, with almost unreadable grammar than that black hole of endless stupidity.  Blue posts are worthless,  nobody can read properly, but they still will argue incessantly while having no clue.  Now my face is hurting again.

So amidst the usual “dumb” was an even higher level of dumb I didn’t know existed.  In that way my horizons were broadened, and my expectations of the human race dropped even lower.  Someone(s) were trying to make the point that twinking was a lot of ‘work’ and that removing the things twinks rely on to be OP was taking away from this ‘hard working’ class of player.  I simply cannot roll my eyes far enough back to make them feel better.

I’ve made a lot of gold off of twinks in the last two years.  Probably along the lines of 250 gold a week or so.  So there is a degree to which this change affects me quite directly.  So I’ll have to find a replacement source for that income.

I built a semi-twink myself, but out of self-defense.  In this way I had always known that twinks were an abberration in the WoW universe.  In order to even have a chance in a low level BG you almost have to twink.  Otherwise endure the honor farming, /spit – ing, /y BUR!!!! (that’s LOL from ally seen by horde btw) crap from a bunch of juvenile nitwits.

Honestly, a toon with twice as much life because they are wearing enchants tuned for level 70’s?  And before anyone says that’s what happens in arenas at 80 I beg to differ.  I’ve never seen a guy in any level of PvP gear have 80k+ life, so don’t give me that line of bull.

So Blizz finally made things right.  All enchants now have levels.  You can still enchant the level 18 required weapon with some BC thing, but the enchant won’t activate until you hit level 50, for instance.  BC leg armors are gone as well.  No more 30 stam, 10 agi on those forest leather pants.  No more uber head stam enhancement, no more mongoose (higher brakets), no more any of that junk.

So you will just have to adjust.  This also means Libram of Resilience has zero value.  If it’s not WotLK it’s probably not going to make you a profit any more, which isn’t bad, but you need to keep it in mind as we move forward.

If you have a twink, it means most of your enchants are going to break in a few days.  You won’t be able to stand there and one shot un-twinked toons and almost not be hit by them at the same time – and good riddance to you sir.  Attempting to twink from now on will not produce anything like the same results.

Getting rid of twinks is like finally telling some level 40’s that they can’t go into WSG any more with the 19’s.  Why it took this long is simply flabbergasting.  Twice as much life, twice as much damage, it was silly.

But what everyone really needs to keep in mind is that one more potential profit center is about to go ‘poof.’  The good news is that all those nifty blue items will probably be affordable enough to just use for a few levels for your alts.  With twinks disappearing, the prices for twink items will naturally fall back to earth.

Sure, people will still try to do it, and it will still work to some degree, and that’s just fine.  But the really bad parts are going down the drain where they should have gone ages ago.  I don’t have a problem with highly skilled, well-geared players, but 19 twinks were just as out of place as level 80’s wearing level 130 enchants on 6 bits of gear.  It’s laughable when you put it in perspective yes?

Just remember you were warned.  If you have some twink stuff in your AH inventory, blow it out in trade chat now.  Adjust your purchasing strategies accordingly, and keep an extra close eye on your item data for a while in AADV to make sure you don’t buy any more of those things for at least 60 days until prices level out.  On the bright side – prices for lower level enchanting mats should go up, making the already undisputed king of gold making even better.  Again, adjust accordingly.

Being Dominant isn’t about exploiting Blizz mistakes, it’s applying the right force (skill) with the right lever (knowledge) across the right fulcrum (auction house, one of many) to achieve better results per period of time.  Not bashing someone half your life and laughing about it.  There are a lot of killer little changes to professions we’ll cover tomorrow in one big (perhaps last) post before 3.1, and you won’t want to miss it.  Stay tuned and let’s get you educated so that you too can Dominate.