Archive for January, 2007

24
Jan

The Art of Twinking in World of Warcraft

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in General, Warcraft Tips and Tricks

If you’ve been on World of Warcraft for very long, and especially if you’ve been in a guild or been into the battlegrounds, you’ve probably heard the word “twink”.

A “twink” is a player whose equipment far exceeds what that player would be able to get on its own with no outside help, at the level it’s at. Meaning, they’ve got higher level toons to supply them with equipment, cash and professions materials to allow the “lowbie” character to advance more quickly than a lone player working on its own with its first toon.

Twinking is a natural outcropping of the fact that it’s perfectly legal for players to have multiple toons on a realm and for those toons to be able to, still legally, share money and equipment and other goodies. In fact, even in games where it isn’t legal to share things between your own toons, some kind of “twinking” is pretty normal and natural. After all, when a player suffers through with their first toon and learns the tips and tricks to gaining wealth and levels quickly, why would that player want to suffer through the same trials and tribulations with each and every toon?

Twinking is most noticed in the battlegrounds, and especially in the brackets below level 30. When you head into a 10-19 battlefield and see a whole bunch of toons running around with glowing weapons who kill you in one or two shots, you know you’re facing twinks.

Twinking in PVE is quite prevelant as well, but NPCs don’t squawk about it so folks don’t think about it the same way.

Personally, while my non-60s toons have nice equipment, they’re far from being truly “twinked out”. True twinks exchange favors with other high levels who have twinks, and get run through low-level dungeons searching for specific pieces of rare (and generally Bind on Pickup) gear to enhance their twinkdom. All I do is regularly visit the Auction House and within reason, spend cash to upgrade my equipment so it’s the best I can get at any one time, without having to run the same dungeon over and over.

Now that I’m experienced with the game, I am able to start semi-twinking my first toon on a new realm, instead of running my first toon to be the Main Money Supplier of the second, twinked, toon. How? By buying cheap level 1 cooking recipes from lowbie vendors and then reselling them in the Auction House, I can generally get 2-4g in my first 24 hours on a new realm. That’s huge cash for a toon under level 10, considering most green equipment in the AH costs under 25s each until level 14 or so!

That’s my writings on Twinkdom for now. If someone’s got questions I can write more on the topic again later :)

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24
Jan

Tuning the Toons to One Toon’s Benefit

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in Blacksmithing, Earning Cash, My Hunter, My Warrior, Warcraft Tips and Tricks, World of Warcraft

There are two main reasons I have 4-5 active, levelling toons:

- I crave variety
- I want to cover all the professions that intermingle

It’s very cool to have one toon that can create potions for all the other toons to use for various things, including the creation of weapons and armor.

It’s cool to have a leatherworker that can feed raw armors to Blacksmiths who can turn them into mail.

And of course, it’s cool to have a 60 that can farm mats for a lower level toon.

41 Undead Warrior

She’s a Blacksmith who is just shy of level 240, and who is halfway through her Armorcrafting quests. I’ve been using my bank toon to buy up (reasonably priced) stacks of Mithril Ores and Bars over the past few days, and using my 60 Hunter to farm Mageweave in Jintha’alor, and the BS has been sitting in Gadgetzan working on the Armorsmithing quests. Soon it will be complete, and that toon will go back to the grind of levelling, and probably start taking in a few instances more regularly.

61 Troll Hunter

I’ve done a lot of disenchanting, and a little bit of work with Knothide leather with my 300 LW/300 Ench. I’ve got the mats together for making an Arcanite Rod (BS 270 I think), but now have to find a Blacksmith who can put them together for me. I’ve got the mats for Runing the rod afterwards and can do that myself.

In the mean time, this toon has been exerting her power over lesser NPCs for the purpose of farming materials for my Warrior Blacksmith, and right now is heading to Felwood to prey on Entropic Beasts which are said to have a 12.7% drop rate of Heart of Fire… an ingredient needed to create an Ornate Mithril Breastplate, which is needed for one of the Armorsmithing quests.

10 Blood Elf Paladin

I’ve got some cool equipment coming up in this toon’s life. First, I’m going to funnel the equipment past my 300 Enchanter and get everything enchanted that can be enchanted, then I’ll send it on to my Pally.

All the Seals and stuff confuse me (I think I have three already) but one can always zerg their way through, with good enough equipment and enchants ;) When I care enough (and before I start getting into instances), I’ll do some research on Pally strategies and become less confused.

The rest of the toons got the night off with Real Life activities taking priority this evening. Ahh, but they rest in peaceful bliss, gathering rest bonus, which I will gleefully exploit another time.

Night all!

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23
Jan

High-level Priest Talent Build discussion

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in My Priest, World of Warcraft

I read and post in alt.games.warcraft regularly, and have found some really interesting information about classes that I haven’t got much experience in personally.

Today there’s a good thread going on about effective Priest builds for high level players (50+) who spend more time solo than instanced, I thought I’d share.

Personally, my priest is level 16 so I’m far far far from the expertise offered in this thread :)

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