I see a level 60 player of the Warcraft Smolderthorn realm who should have checked on his forum post and done a quick edit job, if not a complete deletion: “@ Malican of Transcendence (hacker)”. (Archive: Forum thread and screenshot)
I don’t know how things are on other servers, but on my server, level 60 PVP battlegrounds are all but dead on most days of the week.
Cue the level 19 twinks.
Many of the level 60 former PVPers have created a level 19 character to twink with ridiculously overpowered enchants and outrageously priced blue (rare) gear. Our mains are rich, can farm the lower instances in mere minutes for gear and supplies and, most importantly, we know the top-flight enchanters. I would be ashamed to detail the equipment of the characters in our twink guild — it’s that obscene. Which reminds me, I need to take my rogue out to farm the materials for the +spell power enchant.
An unexpected result of all this twinkery has been the revitalization of Stormwind. What once was a deserted city, is now a bustling metropolis … for twinks, trade channel auctioneers and high-end enchanters plying their services.
Ironforge is still the hangout of choice for the Alliance 60s, but if you want to see CROWDED, fly down to Stormwind and check out the Auction House. For kicks, you could announce in the public channel that you just threw some new low-level potions and blue gear on the AH and watch the rush of twinks to the auctioneers.
I got some really angry tells that day.
I hate the queues for the World of Warcraft PVP battlegrounds. I’m tired of Warsong Gulch over and over and over when I really want to play in Alterac Valley.
I can tell exactly when my realm’s Horde take a lunch or dinner break just based on the queue length. (OMG. Eat faster.)
Problem, meet solution.
Our latest Guild Project: a ragtag band of Horde characters to fight (read: repeatedly die) against our Alliance selves in the battlegrounds. For now, we’re not going to worry about outfitting our Horde with Molten Core gear, although depending on the delays with Warcraft’s expansion and rumored cross-server PVP queues, we may very well have time.
The idea is … when our server queues are light on Horde, the majority of us can swap over there and infuse the queue with Hordiness, leaving a few of us on Alliance to enjoy the Hordey goodness.
It’s not win or lose, or even how we play the game, it’s actually having A Game to play that’s important.
