Twink-o-rama

I've been doing a bit of poking around on making an AV twink. There's not a lot out there as, unsurprisingly, most twinks stay in the 19 or 29 brackets. Personally, I don't think that sounds like fun — what's the point of having so much health that there's absolutely no risk of failure on your part? What's the point of being able to one-shot other players? No fun, I tell you. At least at level 60, the gap is closer. (Plus I HATE going up against twinks on my non-twink toons in the lowbie brackets. It takes all the fun out of the battlegrounds. Why would I do that to other people?)

Besides, with my desire to get the Conqueror title for Ideale, at least, and probably Ahami as well, I don't want to be wasting too much time running Warsong Gulch or Arathi Basin on anyone else or running AV past exalted on the two of them — I'll just be running the bgs for marks on my other characters, anyway. A 60 twink rather than a 59 makes more sense, especially since it opens up a whole new level of gear options.

So I will be making two level 60 twinks, one hunter and one shaman (which fills five of my VeCo slots with hunters and shamans...). I haven't done much work on them and probably won't until after I get Ide and Ahami to 80, but I wanted to at least do some research, and figured I'd share what I found.

Gear: The best gear outside the PVP stuff is, of course, from Hellfire Ramparts, and there are several drops for both hunters and shamans because Outland loves us. I made myself a wishlist. I plan to bribe my friends or perhaps total strangers into running me through Ramparts as soon as I can enter, which is I believe at level 55. There is also some excellent gear for other classes — if you, too, want to make an AV twink, check out the WoWWiki loot table. I looked at some of the drops from the older instances, but it seems like at this level, Ramps, crafting and PVP would supply better gear than anything that drops in old Azeroth.

There are some quest rewards from Outland that I want, but I have not done enough research there yet. I do intend to pick up Bladefist's Breadth for Kresha and Vengeance of the Illidari for Mayari. I want to avoid the quests as much as possible, though, to avoid leveling more than intended.

More important to me is the PVP-Epic gear, because that will be providing the bulk of my main gear, and filling in any holes left by unacquired loot and crafted gear. Some of the faction-based PVP rewards look like nice additions — I'm going to want to do AB and WSG on the way so I have the marks I need for that.

And of course, a twink has no need of gathering professions (though I have and will keep double-gathering on both until the 50s because hey, money and crafting mats).

Engineering seems like a must for Kresha for the bullets alone — Fel Iron Shells only require level 57, meaning that if I can get Kresha a decent gun, I can supply much better ammo than I could possibly buy (or use) at 60. And the High Warlord's Street Sweeper looks like a really good candidate. The available crafted goggles aren't quite as good as the Epic PVP helm, but the Gnomish Battle Goggles are taught by a trainer (i.e., cheap and easy to get the know-how) and would be a pretty decent substitute while filling out the rest of the PVP set.

Engineering is an option for Mayari as well, but I'm not sure. And I'm not sure about the second profession for either — leatherworking crafted items seem fairly unimpressive at first glance and with Onashne already training (and powerleveling) leatherworking, it's not like I need the kits or anything. Jewelcrafting offers some handy BOP trinkets, but the PVP trinket will fill one slot for each and Bladefist's Breadth and Vengeance of the Illidari seem like better options for the second slot. I really don't want to pay to level enchanting again, honestly. Inscription might be an option — in fact, just the ability to supply Daj with scrolls for enchantments would make it worth it — it would be a heck of a money maker.

I guess with professions, I just need to do more research.