tanelorn
New Member
Just delurking to note that there's a non-malicious reason crafted gear twinking is spiking (and will continue to do so): Stackable consumables & materials went region-wide this week.
I've only twinked a bit over the years, always to facilitate solo farming of mats & recipes. That's been my #1 attachment to the game since I first opened dialogue with a profession trainer in late 2004. Until this week, I'd have NEVER looked at my stash of Outlands mats kept in case I randomly wanted to make something for tmog/commission and thought, "Hey, one of my barely-played DKs is 28. I could send a bunch of late-TBC socket gear & see how it feels." Those components were just too farming-intensive, sometimes not available at all on the retail AH, and if available on low-med pop would have added up to rival Legion 101 BoE prices for a single crafted piece in many cases... Before the partial AH merge.
I'm seeing pieces made (gear is still AH server-specific) & enchants listed (enchants are region-wide) that haven't been scanned on my server in YEARS. Everyone who likes making gear in retail just became vastly more free to do so.
Just try to keep the completely unprecedented conditions surrounding alt gearing in mind if it's coming across as a bored, lazy tourism rush to farm established twinks. A lot of ppl stoked to use TBC & WotLK patterns in retail will be on to some other weird, nonstandard-play project within a month.
I've only twinked a bit over the years, always to facilitate solo farming of mats & recipes. That's been my #1 attachment to the game since I first opened dialogue with a profession trainer in late 2004. Until this week, I'd have NEVER looked at my stash of Outlands mats kept in case I randomly wanted to make something for tmog/commission and thought, "Hey, one of my barely-played DKs is 28. I could send a bunch of late-TBC socket gear & see how it feels." Those components were just too farming-intensive, sometimes not available at all on the retail AH, and if available on low-med pop would have added up to rival Legion 101 BoE prices for a single crafted piece in many cases... Before the partial AH merge.
I'm seeing pieces made (gear is still AH server-specific) & enchants listed (enchants are region-wide) that haven't been scanned on my server in YEARS. Everyone who likes making gear in retail just became vastly more free to do so.
Just try to keep the completely unprecedented conditions surrounding alt gearing in mind if it's coming across as a bored, lazy tourism rush to farm established twinks. A lot of ppl stoked to use TBC & WotLK patterns in retail will be on to some other weird, nonstandard-play project within a month.