Q. Will we be able to switch between the races on our own faction? A. No. Players will only be able to switch to a race of the opposite faction.
Q. Will I be able to choose the race on the opposite faction that I want to change to? A. Yes, but you will only be able to switch to a race that has your class type available to it. So if you play a human paladin, you’d only be able to change to a blood elf paladin.
Q. How much will it cost? A. We do not have further information on this at this point in time.
Q. Will I be able to switch back to my original faction but a different race? A. No. You will only be able to switch back to your originally chosen race.
Q. How will the switch between reputation, gear, mounts, etc be handled? A. We’ll have more details for you at a later point in time, though we plan to keep these as close to a reflection of the other faction as much as possible.
Q. How often can you change your faction? A. We do not have any information to share on this at this point in time, however we will have restrictions on the frequency by which players can change their faction.
Q. How will this affect the balance of Horde and Alliance on the realms? A. We are taking great care in how we implement this new service in order to maintain balance between the factions on the realms but do not have any further details to share.
Many of you know who Fony is, he is a legend of twinking. We did a “Meet the Twinks” with him not too long ago. Well, he’s in the news and posted a user blog post today… This is hawt, so I thought it would be best to bring his glory front page…
We submitted our album to some local papers and got a call back from Nate (EastBayExpress.com) He said that he loved the album, but he also loved the promotion ‘tactics’ that we used.. my PvP flick “Greatest Twink Video Ever IV”. In a nutshell, we are featured in a San Francisco bay area weekly and I’m fucking still in shock right now.
He linked this article that featured him. Instead of saying something like, “some wow player…blah blah…”, they detailed his twinking prowess as well.
There are those who will stop at nothing to build the best twink. To them, a pendulum of doom, a lumbering ogre axe, and Naxx shoulders are objects of utmost importance. Rogues, priests, warlocks, and warriors alike, they roam the continents of Azeroth completing endless quests and participating in multiplayer tournaments. It takes a rare man to achieve infamy in a fantasy world like this, but that’s just what San Leandro resident Michael Bailey, known to his fellow gamers as Fony, accomplished in the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft. Yet even he couldn’t have predicted that one day his cyber-world celebrity would bring his real-world electronic music group hundreds of digital download sales and a burgeoning international fanbase.
“The character I created became e-famous,” said Bailey. “It’s totally nerdy, but it really was an e-fame thing. Even after a year, people would still talk about Fony.” Fony was known as a rogue twink — rogue being its character class and twink being a term derived from the word tweak that refers to maxing out the attributes of a low-level character, like souping up an RC car — that Bailey created a couple of years ago. By playing World of Warcraft smartly (and casually, he insists: only a few hours a week) and developing his Fony character, Bailey birthed a legend in the twink community whose reputation endures today.
Make sure to read the entire article and convey your congrats to Fony here!
Today Blizzard released a new PTR Build, with a few new changes! Most importantly, Blizzard has now fixed the ability to disable/enable XP gains by visiting Besthen or Slahtz for the price of 10g, and now we are able to confirm that ALL XP from ALL SOURCES (Killing/Discoveries/Quests) can now be disabled.
As a celebration, myself and Grizzlybear easily 2manned RFC.
Blizzard has also added a new BoA One-Handed Mace (and maybe a new 2-Handed Mace?). Unfortunately the stats for Repurposed Lava Dredger are broken, but I’ll update it once Blizzard fixes the bug.
Update: Great News for Hunters! Even with XP disabled, a Hunter’s pet will still continue to gain XP until it reaches the same level as it’s owner. So now you have no excuse not to have 4 different pets.
If this is going to go into effect, my to do list is as follows:
Change my Orc Twinks to Blood Elves.
Change on of my Tauren Druids to Alliance so my alliance lock can get some of them purdy BoA thingies…
WTF are you talking about Drayner?
This…
We wanted to give everyone a very early heads-up that, in response to player requests, we’re developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their faction from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. There’s still much work to do and many details to iron out, but the basic idea is that players will be able to use the service to transform an existing character into a roughly equivalent character of the opposing faction on the same realm. Players who ended up creating and leveling up characters on the opposite factions from their friends have been asking for this type of functionality for some time, and we’re pleased to be getting closer to being able to deliver it.
As with all of the features and services we offer, we intend to incorporate the faction-change service in a way that won’t disrupt the gameplay experience on the realms, and there will be some rules involved with when and how the service can be used. The number of variables involved increases the complexity of implementing this service, but we plan to take the time needed to ensure that it lives up to expectations before officially rolling it out. We’ll go into much more detail on all of this here at http://www.WorldofWarcraft.com as development progresses. In the meantime, we wanted to let you know that because this type of functionality requires extensive internal testing well in advance of release, you may be seeing bits and pieces of the service in the test builds we use for the public test realms moving forward.
This is a response to Drayner’s “Blizzard… please fix (or upgrade) your hardware…” post.
If you play on a highly populated realm you’ve probably encountered the dreaded “Additional instances cannot be launched…” message as well.
Every realm has an instance limit. Nobody knows the exact number, but let’s say it’s 500. If you’re boosting someone in Wailing Caverns around primetime, it’s likely the instance server is full (500/500). Once you reset WC, it goes to 499/500. If someone else on your realm enters a fresh instance during that time, the slot gets taken and you’ll get that darn message. You might spend the next half an hour hopping back and forth, hoping a slot opens just as you enter the instance portal. If you reset the instance the normal way, this will happen a lot.
You need to reset the instance, and immediately enter it. One second can make a difference, so you’ll need this simple macro to do it faster:
/script ResetInstances()
Start running towards the instance portal and use that macro right before you enter (I bound it to my “E” key). Don’t wait for the yellow text. If you use this method, you’ll reset and enter the instance in less than one tenth of a second. You’ll probably use the macro a bit too early the first few tries, but after some practice you’ll perfect your timing.
Most of you know that the level requirement for epic mounts is getting lowered to 40 in patch 3.2:
“Journeyman Riding (Skill 150): Can now be learned at level 40 for 50 gold. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 40 directing them back to the riding trainer.”
This change led to a lot of speculation in the 49 forum: what about mounts like Rivendare’s Deathcharger, the Cobalt Riding Talbuk or even the Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth? The notes clearly state you only need level 40 to learn the Journeyman Riding skill, but it didn’t say anything about the actual level requirements on the mounts. To find out, I transferred my 39 twink to the PTR and leveled him to 40. They have indeed changed to level 40. All of them. Here’s a rare mount as an example:
Good news! I immediately went to Dalaran to try it out on the 20k mammoth. It worked, eat that Xzibit!
This opens up a whole lot of opportunities for those of you who are a insane in the membrane. Stratholme only requires level 45 to enter for example, so don’t be surprised if you notice a 49 twink with Rivendare’s Deathcharger in patch 3.2. Here’s a list of all the “special” mounts 49s can use in 3.2:
So far, we’ve done our best to provide you all with all the latest information on the next upcoming major content patch, Call of the Crusade, through direct testing on the PTR and just analyzing and theorycrafting from the information we’ve been provided with the Patch Notes. However there are some things that we can’t test out by ourselves, so TwinkInfo.com is asking for your help. Yes I’m talking to you.
So now as you’re reading this, I want you to go to download the PTR and copy your Twinks, and then just play! But please, post any of your findings here.
Here are some of the things that we’d like input on in the PTR.
I want to take a second to thank all of you that have come onboard. We’re clicking right along. We are just over a month old now and have 101 level 19 twinks in the guild already. (102 when I ginvite another of mine tonight) We have 11 level 80s too. Not too shabby. The thing that impresses me the most is how the community gathered to make this happen and helped each other with runs, gear, etc… Remember members, request gear in the Request Forum. I just brought over a load of new gear the other day. Sorry. No Shadowfangs or Treebarks. Oh, 70 freaking DKs… WOW!
Thanks again guys. I am really happy to see what we have going here. I know I seem impatient and on edge a little too much lately, but I just want the best for our guild. We are improving on teamwork and chemistry every day. We are getting real close to scheduling our 1st organized premade. We still have a good deal of work 1st, but it’s coming along quicker than I anticipated.
Me, I like to look good, but I won’t pick gear based on it’s looks. In fact, I look at it similar to an old EQ friend… In a reply to someone saying a piece of gear looked bad. He replied with “I don’t care if it looks like a fucking floppy pink dildo, if it hits hard, I’m using it”. I will always remember that line.
Well, in case you do care, here are the graphics for the new BoA chests…
So now that I’ve had time to test a few more changes on the PTR, I figured I’d share some more news with all of you. Hopefully, most of you remember the Herbalism change that was announced in the Patch Notes.
“Herbalism
Lifeblood now scales slightly with maximum health.
Lifeblood is no longer affected by a Global Cooldown.”
However these changes were very vague and were left to interpretation whether or not this “scaling with maximum health” would be a Buff or Nerf to Lifeblood. So now we finally have an answer. It’s a Buff, a very small buff, but still a buff. As of now Rank 3 Lifeblood heals a standard 720 (144 per sec), however on the PTR, Lifeblood Rank 3 Heals my 19 Priest ~740 (145-150 per sec). However on a 2000+ HP FC Druid, I’d suspect it would be a more sizeable buff.
If you’d like to discuss the changes, you can go reply to one of our member’s thread here.
On another note, Blizzard has yet to fix any of the Grandfathered Items such as 10 SR to Legs/Helm, 2 Scope to BoA Bow, and 40 Armor to Legs which now appears to be Grandfathered.
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