its really awesome to see people think one thing is all bad, just because they "think" its going to ruin everything when it really isn't !
maybe a new way of seeing things would make you think otherwise, but i doubt it, as you seem to be main focused on the fact that they kill the twinks. thus you are rejecting every other opinions saying yours is the only real one. and in doing so, you started flaming people for not having the same thought as you !
enough psychology for now...
the vision is...
ENGINEERING = TEMPORARY
BOA = TEMPORARY
why are they like that, because they do not compare to the the powerfull gears and aren'T made to compare either. reguardless of what shoulders BOA you think deserve to be main slot all the times. blizzard said it themselves and i figured it out by myself that it was true to begin with. "BOAs are equivalent to a good blue of that level" the keyword is "GOOD BLUE" by no means is it saying "GREATEST GEAR" which is what a real twink goes for.
for now after seeing every gears and all, many thinks BOA are better, but that is just an opinion and are based off no proof. the shoulders are the only thing that make us want them, and even there compared to other shoulders, we decided to leave 1 stat behind to get more of other stats. as an exemple i'll take the
Talbar Mantle and compare them to
Champion Herod Shoulder which is what i use on my hunter. what have i lost... i've lost 1 intellect and gained 2 stam... right there its not something worth doing for a hunter. but i gained a bit of crit too, which to me is something i need and wanted.
now what's the difference here that makes the BOA shoulders best in slot for me ?
the simple fact that the boa shoulder are equivalent to a "good blue" and that at 19 the best shoulder slot is a green one ! "good blue" will alway be better then a "good green" that's how gears works in an MMORPG.
for the rest, when it comes to higher levels... 29,39 and 49... a "good blue" will always fall behind a "Great Blue" i am not seeing any BOA gear rivaling
Tusken Helm or even
Corpsemaker those are "great blues" and as far as i know BAR hasn't came close to corpsemaker in that department.
another one thing people seem to forget is the fact that all BOA are level 1 and can only accept vanilla enchants to begin with. true not all slots can be enchanted, but the argument is till valid for those slots who can. let's say they create glove BOAs, what will differentiate the "good blue" to the "great green" ? simply said the fact that "great green" can be BC enchanted.
conclusion of this post is quite simple in fact...
"RARITY" makes the gears. if you are thinking twinks are all the same and should never change then you are not in the right place to twink. if you dont even know what RARITY is, i suggest you stop posting here and learn about it first.
BOA have never replaced the great gears we were all seeking to begin with. for now, only the shoulders have been mentionned. the other who tell you otherwise are all lying or trying to think out of the mold. in all cases it is but an opinion to begin with. logically, those BOA (good blue) will never be as good as those "greatest blue" we're all seeking !
last exemple, if not the biggest one...
tell me, by following your logic, you are telling me that...
either BOA trinkets are better then AGM ?
only thing i can say to you is...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA