I know at least two people who quit the game before hitting level 30 because they had such painful experiences in the battlegrounds (ie being repeatedly 1- or 2-shotted before they could fight back). What incentive do new players have to play if they want to experience PvP, but can’t really begin to enjoy it until they’ve levelled all the way to 80 and then have to grind to get even the basic gear? (A process that could take months if they have a day job.)

Personally, I think heirloom items should either not be allowed in battlegrounds or the enchanting requirements should go up so that they cannot use enchants like twin crusader or +15 Agility on each weapon in the 19 bracket.

I did play a twink once. I levelled an hunter a couple of years ago (Granule on Mug’Thol) and i twinked him to death using my main. I had often twice as much HP as other players and was able to 2-3 shots them without any trouble.

Was fun for a while … well was fun for a weekend i would say.

I had more fun doing world pvp with my twink than BG.

I just had no fun defending a node alone in AB against 3 or 4 players of the opposing faction. There’s no feeling of accomplishment by killing someone who had half of your HP.

I am as twinked as I can afford to be with quest/crafted/purchased/bg gear as I can get, and I don’t have the slightest chance against these 10-19 bracket heirloom twinks. Granted I could have better enchants, but still to say that there the equivalent to a pre-heirloom twinked toon, is absurd.

Personally I feel that allowing the heirloom gear into standard pvp battlegrounds defeats the purpose of pvp all together, now instead of my gear and skill vs. yours, its who’s got the most heirlooms. Before you could send your alt money/gear but none with those kind of stats.. you had to work to get that high end blue piece, twinking is no longer fun, and although I love the battlegrounds they’re definitely not the same.

If gear dependencies in MMOs irritate you then they’re brilliant. I mean, as long as you don’t mind getting a character to max level and grinding a bit first (there’s something in that whole equation that doesn’t really work, I think).

It is going to be odd with Cataclysm (I half wonder if they’ll remove the xp bonus from heirloom gear before that). Why would you want to level past the new content so fast?

Will certainly be strange when Cataclysm comes out and suddenly millions of new players are starting alts and running around with heirloom items, super twinked. Is the new content really designed to be played that way?

So why not stop at the endpoint for a bg bracket where your class is strong, challenge yourself to get the best gear possible, and spend your time in PvP in the knowledge that you won’t have to keep chasing the gear progression any more? There’s probably some stuff to do with being uber in the bracket too but I have a lot of raiding friends who have twinked out alts to chill out for PvP with.

I haven’t actually grabbed any heirloom stuff myself because the only alts I cared about were all at level 70 when Wrath hit and it just didn’t seem worth it for 10 levels.

Normally I give myself enough money to get bags and that’s it. I sell everything I get as I level and never buy from the auction house. By the time I’m max level I usually have a bunch of gold and good enough gear to hit the big instances, but I don’t often buy stuff. I haven’t even bought any heirloom stuff.

I dunno … I just can’t grasp the concept of keeping a character at someplace below max level. I guess it goes with wanting to “PWN” people because you have “awesomesauce” gear at that level.