Beware of supertwink
by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Jun 9th 2007 at 8:00PM
We've had people try to get exalted with every faction. We've had people try to get every pet in the game. We've even had people who want to five-box every class to 70. But today, I think we may have met the person who has put the most time and effort into non-endgame WOW -- Dirtybishop.
Dirtybishop is a level 19 human twink on the Blackrock realm. At first glance, his profile looks pretty normal. Engineering goggles, WSG rep rewards, Meadow Rings of Eluding, ridiculously high-end leg armor and enchants. It's well-known that low-level rogues can get amazingly high dodge chance by stacking agility, so he's got a lot of agi enchants. But ... wait, what's that in the trinket slot? Brooch of the Immortal King? Skyguard Silver Cross?
Yes, this 19 twink is exalted with Sha'tari Skyguard. I don't know how he did it, although the prevailing guess is that he was summoned to Skettis and stood out of range of the experience and in range of the reputation gains. One of his guildmates said it took their mains four and a half weeks to farm Bishop the trinkte. I have no comprehension of the amount of effort this person has put in just to do WSG over and over and over again -- nevertheless, you sort of have to admire that single-mindedness. Plus, if he ever decides to level, he'll have a nice flying mount waiting for him.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Kyle Jun 9th 2007 8:06PM
"..and stood out of range of the experience and in range of the reputation gains..."
I don't understand what this means. Could you clarify a bit?
Evil Sheep Jun 9th 2007 8:21PM
There is a certain range you have to be inside of in order to gain experience from a kill. There is also a certain range you have to be in range of in order to get faction points from a kill if the mob you are killing is one that gives those points. (Example: in Felwood, you can get reputation with Timbermaw Hold by killing Deadwood mobs.) However, these ranges don't match up. The reputation range is just a bit larger than the experience range, which means that you can stand just outside the range of xp and still get rep points.
Chris M Jun 9th 2007 8:20PM
If you're far enough away from an enemy when it dies, you won't get experience for the kill- no matter if you're in the party or not.
Same goes for reputation. In order for him not to level above 19- he theoretically would have had to have been out of the experience range, but in range enough for the experience. :)
Chris
Delilah Jun 9th 2007 8:20PM
The problem would be avoiding getting XP for the kills, while still getting the reputation reward for them. If he gets XP (and my goodness, that would be a lot of XP for a lvl 19), then he would level, and no longer be twinked for the 10-19 bracket. So there would have to be some kind of sweet spot where he could stand, far enough away not to get XP, but close enough for the rep.
I can't even be bothered to do the daily quests on my main - feels too much like a chore. ("To do today: take out the trash, go grocery shopping, play Simon Says....") I can't imagine going through all of this for a twink. o.0
Chris M Jun 9th 2007 8:22PM
Ugh, I meant reputation on the last one- not experience.
Words = confusion sometimes.
Chris
Mastari Jun 9th 2007 8:24PM
If I'm not mistaken, you can get reputation even while dead.
Rich Jun 9th 2007 8:30PM
You can also form up a raid group to farm the rep, there is no exp but you do get rewards.
Naaruminded Jun 9th 2007 8:56PM
If you're grouped with 70s, the experience is much reduced. I summoned a friend's level 1 rogue to Shattrath, and killed a spider outside. He received 1 XP.
Kryptonls Jun 9th 2007 9:04PM
^ Yes, I do not see why people think that dragging a low level alt to a place in Outland will net them tons of XP. Powerlevel in Azeroth, not in Outland!
klink-o Jun 9th 2007 10:14PM
Now that is a man who has eaten a LOT of beef.
Coherent Jun 9th 2007 11:46PM
Blizzard needs to keep a better watch on PVP abuses. Stuff like this damages the fair play confidence of people who _are_ fairly competing in the battlegrounds, and weakens the incentive to play.
This one guy is having fun, sure, but if he pisses off 10 people with ridiculous advantages in PVP, that's 1 happy paying customer and 10 pissed off paying customers.
Whose side should Blizzard be on?
robodex Jun 10th 2007 12:29AM
See, just have one thing to say to non-twinks who care about twink pvp...
Level.
Janessriel Jun 10th 2007 12:54AM
Level to which bracket? There's twinks in 19. 29, 39 (even more so in this bracket post-BC), 49 and even 59. Then 70 becomes endgame gear vs. quest greens.
The only one of those that might have the least amount of twinks is 49, since no one makes a character solely to have it be a 49 twink. Regardless, no matter which bracket you're in, there's rogues with glow sticks and priests with goggles on.
There is no non-twink pvp, it's just "there's less twinks on now than last night" pvp.
Kichigai Mentat Jun 11th 2007 1:06PM
@ No. 12: Speaking as a relative n00b, that's a HORRIBLE excuse. I'm sorry, but I'm paying just as much money as a twink to play (probably less, if he's doing RMTs), and Blizzard is giving me the opportunity to play PvP once I hit level 10. I'd love to take advantage of that, but no. The 10-19 bracket is flooded with Twinks, ruining the experience that I'M PAYING FOR. It's like saying that if you have a problem with the shouting juveniles in the movie theater, you should get up and leave and go see a later showing. That's inexcusable. You paid to see the first showing, no reason you should have to wait and pay to see another showing.
Number 13 is right: I'm currently in the 20-29 bracket, and I see people twinked out all over the place. Hell, I even got a request from someone to HELP them twink out a character. It's outrageous.
My advice is to borrow some rules for Phantasy Star Online. While PSO didn't have a PvP system in place, it did have some anti-twinking rules. For example, certain weapons had no level limit, but had other requirements, IE: [Insert stat here] had to be a certain level in order to use the [Insert equipment here]. That way it's harder to twink with certain items. The only other way is for either Blizzard to restructure the EULA with an Anti-Twinking "PvP Abuse" clause, or to break up battlegrounds into smaller brackets (perhaps five levels?).
Another possibility, but I know that it's not a good idea, is a level cap. Everyone who enters a battleground is limited to a level no higher than the lowest level present, or something like that. Of course, it would be unpopular, and would break many legitimate player's action bars, armor, and strategy. But, to be honest, I don't hear anyone else at Blizzard suggesting anything brighter.
Dirtybishop Jun 12th 2007 3:20PM
No I'm not asian. =)
Awann Jun 10th 2007 3:50AM
Just go into the battleground, do your best, get better, remember that WOW is a nearly utopian society in which anyone can farm and gather and buy some enchants to catch up.
Also, don't ever forget, you will still get points if you get pwned.
If you are undergeared, defend a point and call out incomings. Put some +stam on your crappy greens and try to survive until help arrives.
If you can't even do that much without getting pissed at the twinks who seem to work their asses off to get more numbers on their gear than you have, stay out of the battlegrounds and do quests or something.
If everything was "fair" it would be f-ing boring. There would be no reason to get better at anything, and no reason to play.
Awann Jun 10th 2007 3:54AM
@11--Who do you think PUT level 19 BOE blues in the game if not Blizzard? Satan? All the little workarounds out there seem to be made so there can be a fun challenging game to be made out of getting maximum performance out of a low level character.
syco Jun 10th 2007 3:56AM
This guy needs to be banned from the game. That's clearly cheating. Though I consider all twinking cheating, this is on a whole new level of evil.
Camaris Jun 12th 2007 6:04AM
Awesome! Taking the game rules to the limits and really thinking outside the box is always interesting to see.
They could 'easily' (nothing is ever easy) destroy twinking by rewarding small amounts of experience on battleground wins. Hmm.. actually that would possibly also encourage more low-level players to try out battlegrounds.
Barnabas Jun 10th 2007 5:49AM
DirtyBishop Rules! come join my clan on Hyjal or tell me what group to join for a pre made. You rock and I'll most certainly do the 5-1 horde ratio to keep them off you when you pick up the flag. =)