savetwinksThis is a petition to Blizzard asking them to keep twinking fair and balanced and not to break twinking any more than it already is. Make sure to scroll down, take the poll, sign the petition, and if you want to comment, leave a comment.

With each patch, we have seen things introduced to the game that have changed the game within the game that we call twinking. I am sure Blizzard understands how many people actually twink at varied degrees. Myself, Twinking is all there is in World of Warcraft that I enjoy. If twinking is broken by imbalance, why continue. It would be time to move on. We have endured many changes in twinking based on new items added, item levels lowered, exploits that were not removed, and even things that Blizzard has over looked.

With the impending changes to gathering professions and the roller coaster we’ve endured on the subject, Blizzard could really kill the 19 and possibly 29 twink brackets. It’s not know what will happen, but if you read ishh’s post on the front page from yesterday, it’s clear that Blizzard is doing something to block twinks (or any other low levels) from getting max benefit from gathering profession buffs.

It’s been over 2 months and Blizzard has yet to fix the Tier 3 mining bug. That is unsatisfactory in itself. This is finally fixed on the current PTR and we should see this fix with the next patch. It’s about time. The looming issue now is whether or not they grandfather twinks that currently have gathering professions above the “proposed” cap.

We have been on a roller coaster with gathering professions since 3.02 patch. Prior to the patch, PTR and Beta users reported that the gathering professions would be capped in line with current tradeskills. For example, 19 twinks would be limited to 150 in the gathering professions. It was a surprise to many that there wasn’t already a cap. Well, twinks scrambled to get their professions to 375, well hardcore twinks did at least. The patch came and the hard cap was in place. For some reason, Blizzard lifted this cap in the very next patch. It’s been a wild ride. I was prepared for 3.02 and for the last 2 months, I have had less hit points with T6 Toughness from mining than those with 225-299 mining. What’s next on this roller coaster ride? Does Blizzard break the twink brackets?

How can Blizzard break the twink bracket?

Simple. If they implement this cap again and grandfather twinks like myself, any new twinks or twinks that didn’t have time or XP to get to 450 in any of the gathering professions will be at a serious disadvantage. Twinks like myself will be so overpowered in comparison to those without buffs.

If they nerf those that spent hours and days leveling their profession will be upset. I will be upset as well, but I would prefer this solution.

For me, a big part of the “Twink Game” is parity. With the same drive and desire, all twinks have the same opportunity to be equally geared. If we are grand fathered, that will no longer be the case. The argument that might arise out of this is the fact that some twinks were able to obtain Naxx enchants and now new twinks cannot. True, they can’t get “new” Naxx enchants, but they can get hand me downs or now they can get some mighty spiffy Bind on Account shoulders with ZG Enchants.

Plain and simple, this impending change could really break the 19 bracket for sure.

Does Blizzard Care?

I am going to repost with some edits a very informative post that one of Twinkinfo’s readers, Kelly posted in reply to “Typical Blizzard BS on Twinking…“.

Blizzard has made posts on twinking issues, class, and equipment imbalances below the 70 level before and they have also posted that there concern now is that the game is balanced at 80. Overall this is true and untrue at the same time. One could make pages worth of items they nerfed, gear they added, etc that evened out twinking.

  • they care….made sure (so far) the wotlk enchants would not end up on players below 60.
  • they don’t care….59 twink DK’s can get wotlk enchants on their gear.
  • they care….stopped scryor and aldor enchants on lo-lvl players head and shoulders items. stopped the mail exploit, anyone caught doing it…perma ban. anyone reported for still having them will have them removed.
  • they don’t care…till wotlk the head and shoulder enchants from NAXX and Zandalar which are almost as good if not better than BC ones were still being put on lo-lvl twinks. many still have these and are not removed when reported.
  • they care…..they nerfed the 2 epic trinkets from the shatari sky guard quartermaster to as require level 70 to equip. yes twinks as low as 10 had those. they got them same way you get the Furblog medicine bag….as a ghost.
  • they don’t care…Arena Grand Master trinket….made from a quest that requires 12 Arena Master trinkets that require a player to be a 35 to equip. you turn the 12 in and you have a trinket that is better than a lvl-58 trinket that a lvl-1 can equip.
  • they care…years ago there was a loophole where lvl-40 thru 59 players could get a EPIC PVP 100% mount through the BG system and get the riding skill. they where folded with 60 whiners on GM tickets and on the forum. they put lvl-req on purchasing riding skill, use of epic mounts. yes it happened.
  • they don’t care….in the 51-59 WSG and AB brackets DKs are riding on 100% mounts with another 15% aura speed boost for 115% mounted speed. closest player to them in speed is a ret-palidan with a 70% mount and their 15% bonus for 85%. overall on average most players, even with mythril spurs +4%, carrot on a stick +3% are moving at 77% unless they are within a DKs aura and get +15%. no matter tha combination small talk….DKs are overall al least 30% faster than any other class.
  • they care…..Knothide type armor kits that add 8 or 10 stamina to head, shoulder, chest, gloves, bracers, legs, boots are restricted to players above 55 or items above 60 (10 stam kits) these cannot be applied to a lvl-1 players armor or sub-49 twinks.
  • they don’t care….libram of voracity or constitution can be used to place 8 stam or 100hp (10 stam) to any players unsoulbound head and leg armor items. can also be done thru the trade window like a enchant. leg armor kits like the nethercleft 40 stam 12 agi one can pe put one any lvl items that aren’t soulbound yet. with one libram and one legarmor kit you gain more stamina that if they allowed the kits. can’t put a 10 stamina armor kit on your bracers if your a 29,39, 49 twink, but can get a 12 stam enchant. same with boots, can’t use a 8 or 10 stam armor kit, but can get a 7 or 12 stam enchant makes no sense?
  • they care…..made sure with wotlk that leg armor kits would not get exploited by making the item soulbound to the applier of the kit.
  • they don’t care….BC enchants that were supposed to be used by level 35+ players is till exploited due to the +35 items quest loopholes items. they could solve the faction whining by making the enchant only useable, by the required level.
  • they care….nerfed the horde’s “windstorm hammer” when they made it blue so it would not take +35 level enchants. affetcing horde 29-lvl twink shammies, palidans, rogues, warriors etc.
  • they don’t care….did not nerf “crescent of the forlon spirits” axe when they made it a blue. giving alliance 29 twinks shammies, warriors, palidans a huge advantage. they also left a horde mace and axe as a green but left the +35 item status. making only horde res-shammies.druids and priests OP in 29 bracket

In addition to Kelly’s list of Blizzard’s double standards, Blizzard has yet to address the “Bugged grey sword for the 19 bracket“. This one is way over powered and in my opinion, worse than the “Darkmoon Decks” that many twinks wasted so much XP getting just to have the reward (not the XP, just the item) removed within 12 hours. The Enti’s Quenched Sword is very overpowering for the 19 Twink Bracket right now.

Blizzard, please keep twinking fair and balanced…

There are so many issues that affect twinks that I personally believe that Blizzard should address and recognize. Yes, I understand the vast majority of players play the game as intended with their end game raiding and pvp, but Blizzard has to know how many people twink and are affected by the changes. Blue post after blue post in the forums dismiss twinks requests and complaints with the cookie cutter answer that twinks are not a “supported play style”. That doesn’t fly. It should be supported as well. We pay the same to twink as raiders pay to raid. We pay the same to twink as PVP’er pay to PVP.

With this petition, we are asking Blizzard to recognize twinks and preserve this “game within the game”.

If you have any input, feel free to make a comment below.


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