I had a lot of problems getting a good twink together. You can find everywhere what you need to get, but not when and where, so, here you go guys...
Its especially for hunters and rogues
Since i have only twinked a hunter till now, i just put a guide here for twinking a leatherwearer. Rogues druids and shammys can use the same equipment and peeps planning on twinking other classes can get an idea here of the work required to make a twink.
Weapons will be described at the end, since the ones I am experienced with are hunter weapons.
Creating a twink
When you create a twink, just look at the racials first.
In my case, a hunter, can be played as Elf, Dwarf and Dranaei.
A dwarf with his stoneform doesn’t contribute a lot as a hunter so, drop that.
Now do you want shadowmeld or gift of the naaru?
I like the shadowmeld but since that ability doesn’t contribute a lot when you are in combar, I went for the healing of the race remaining, and I must say it’s a life saver. Just look into those before making a choce.
Then go lvl your twinkie till lvl 10 and then you are ready to begin the serious **** :D
Twink @ lvl 10
Ok, since you are lvl 10 you know some basic stuff (hunters just learned how to tame a pet etc) and your lvl allows you to enter instances.
Get a portal to darnassus, take the boat to auberdine-Menethil (put your heartstone here!)-Theramore and let someone guide you along the coast to Ratchet (don’t forget the FP there!) and head towards WC.
Wailing Caverns is a paradise – a few good drops there are really nice to have as a leatherwearer.Throughout the instance there is a set that drops wich is really good for druids (it has +nature dmg) and consist of greens with one blue item.
The instance consists out of 5 serpentbosses, one finalboss, and an escortquest.
First time you clear the instance just get all the bosses and try to memorize who is where.
That instance is a real labyrinth. Throughout the whole instances there are deviate scales and perfect devitate scales that drop. Pick em ALL up and KEEP EM with you! Youll need em at 19.
When you come into the instance you can go left or right, those both end up at the same point.
It is there that you will find the first boss, who drops nothing decent. Clear her anyway cause its needed for the escort to start.
Then you can go into the shallow water that flows in there.
Go left first, since there is only one boss there. He drops a blue pants, that is really good for a lvl 19 twink. (this is the set item we already talked about). The dropchance is rather low.
Head back where u came from and go the other way now.
At this side you will meet 4 other bosses:
*A big kodo: drops a nice green dagger with agi on it (keep it till you have better) and most important: a nice blue cloak! This cloak is the best drop ingame for any class, has a nice dropchance and so you can get it fairly easy.
*A serpent lord surrounded by other druids: this one drops a nice blue mace. Really good for shammys, so there is where u need to go!
*The last serpentlord at the upper side of the cave drops a really good blue bow. This bow is the best for a hunter imo, but there are discussions about this, see Little timmy’s peashooter at the bottom for more.
*Next to this last serpentlord there is another boss, who drops a really good blue staff for the casters among us. Go chck it out.
When you completed all this, go back to the entrance of the cave. The druid standing there needs an escort (only works if you killed all other bosses, you only need to do this once)
He leads you to a big chamber where he performs a ritual. Kill 3 waves, a big murlocboss, and the quest is complete.
You really need to do this since the murloc drops an item you need later on, a questitem for lvl 14. He also drops a nice ring and some other stuff.
Get boosted in this cave till you are lvl 14, then click the questitem and accept the quest, Go outside and return to ratchet. The goblin at the flightpqd there cqn be tqlked to, he doesn’t have q “?†above the head but he can give you more info. He will tell you to go to the tauren standing on top of the rock of the wailing caverns. There you go, your shoulders!
These are cloth, but the only ones with stats on them that are <lvl20
Now get back to ratchet, take the boat to stv (necessary if you ever wanna get the fishing hat), explore the town (get the FP!) and heartstone to Menethil.
Head to IF, take tram to stormwind, walk to Westfall.
Ok, once you are here you should be halfway to lvl 15.
Go to the tower in the middle of the town, and accept the quest to go and kill some defies surrounding the hills. If you aren’t 15 yet when those are completed the questline ends. Then just head to the farm doing some quests there.
Twink @ lvl 15
This is it, get your boosters together and let them boost you through deadmines.
Imo it is better to have 2 60 + escorting you so you get less exp (this is really important, we will get back to that later)
You have a quest to kill Van Cleef, and the reward is a nice leather tunic of westfall, a must for every twink.
Inside deadmines get enough cloth together to lvl your first aid to the max (linen and wool).
The first boss that drops something interesting is the big goblin shredder (a blue 2h axe that has nice stats and dmg for a hunter) and then the smelter at the forge (the big round trap with all the goblins on em)
He can drop a really nice ring that will help you through your first wsg moments, so its reall a plus if you can get that one to drop.
Since you need to lvl up it is possible to get the instance done multiple times to get it to drop, but this only if escorted by more then one high lvl so you get less exp!
The other bosses can drops ome nice stuff, but I wasn’t focussed on that, it aint what I was after!
Now Van Cleef, he drops a nice leather chest, but I still prefer the tunic of westfall. Grab it anyway and get the questitem to (an envelop).
Once you have the gear you needed (try not to go higher then halfway lvl 17 to 18), go complete your quest at the tower. You have now an extra chest (best in game imo for leather) and then head to Stormwind with the envelop.
This gives you a really annoying questline, just do it and you get another nice blue ring! It will last forever so really worth going for.
Ok, now a hunter exclusive part, if you ding 18, its time to head to darkshire.
In the town you can get a quest named the nightwatchers.
It is a questline that requires
- killing skeleton mages and warriors (southeast of darkshire)
- Killing skeletal horrors and fiends (raven hill)
- Killing plaguespreaders at a mausoleum at raven hill.
Once all this is done you get a nice quiver or qmmo pouch zith +11 attack speed.
Try to do this immediately when you ding 18 so you don’t get too much exp (it are a lot of mobs and 3 quests – many exp)
A boost is ofcourse necessary.
Just before you ding 19 (or just in the beginning) go to auberdine and walk to ashenvale.
Take the FP there and head to the southeast of the map, the WSG camp. There you can find the rewardvendor!
Another thing for hunters: go grind a bit when you ding 19 so your pet has the time to lvl up to 19.
Now head back to if, put your HS there and never leave the place again.
The reason we went to explore to WSG and STV is so you can go back there alter without getting exp. The moment you get a bit too much exp, you ding and all your work and money is worth nothing anymore.
Hunters and rogues @ 19 in wsg
I can only speak for those 2 classes… Go to wsg, get 200 honor and 40 marks. The day after you can get a nice ring and a really good neck (prio on this one) to complete the jewellery section of your char. Replace the blue ring from the smelter by the new one.
Completing your set @ 19 for leatherworkers
Things that are the best to get for us at our lvl can be found on the AH, do this before you go enchant.
Feet of the lynx: Best boots ingame for us, nuff said
Sentry cloak: a bit better then the lizardscale you got in wailing caverns
Forest leather bracers: best bracers around – craftable
Deviate scale belt: Remember the scales you held in your bag since you were lvl 10-ish? Search a crafter to craft you this blue baby and you have the best there is!
Gloves: Just buy whatever you think is appropriate for your class/character. There are a lot of nice ones with +4agi&+4sta (…of the monkey) or others with nice stats.
Pants: Use the blue ones you have if you don’t have much money, if you do have some to spent (approx 120G) buy these (cheap ones) and we will use the money to get nice stats on em.
Head: Get the green tinted goggles only available to skill lvl 150 engineers.
Weapons: As you think is fit for your char. The best weapon ingame for a hunter is without doubt the Twisting Chanter Staff. It has the highest damageoutput available and, when enchanted is a dream for every hunter.
Tuning @ lvl 19 (hunter)
When you have all this gear and still some money to spent, do the following:
* Lvl engineering (a must for the head and nice to have bombs in combat)
* Lvl first aid to silk bandages
* If you have the money to spent, herbalism is a nice 2nd prof since it gets use cheap potions.
Get a Libram on your head. The best ones are the constitution (+100hp) or the voracity (+8sta OR +8 int OR +8spi OR +8 agi OR +8 str)
To be able to get the arcanums (the result of a libram) you need to get a few quested ingredients from around the world.
Voracity requires 4 rootwhipper tubes (or what are they called) from the quest in felwood, 2 force chrystals of the eastern pylon in ungoro, a black diamond, 30G and the book ofcourse.
The constitution requires 4 night dragons breath from the quest in felwood, a lung cocktail from the quest in the north of blasted lands, a black diamond, 30g and the book.
The Arcanum you get as reward for this (from the guy at the northern cave in burning steppes) is BoP but the item you put it on isn’t. Give him a green tinted goggles and get the Arcanum on it, then get the item back on your twink and equip it.
Remember to keep the 120G (approx) for the pants? Go to AH, buy a Clefthoof Leg Armor, and give (or mail to your main) that and the dark leather pants to a high lvl. He can attach it to the pants and give it back. Voila, +30 sta and 10 agi on the pants!
For the other enchants I would go for (depends on your spare cash)
+4 all stats on chest
+9 sta on bracers
+15 sta on gloves
+7 sta on boots OR minor speed increase
The xeapons should get a +15agi (1h) a +25agi (2h, for hunters) or for rogues go for a lifestealing and/or crusader.
Every enchant that is pre-TBC and requires skill lvl 300 or lower is applyable.
I twinked my hunter this way, I have 165 agi, with 30.06 chance to dodge, 21.97 crit, a hp of 1232 and a 985 manapool.
Have fun twinking,
Ravenfeather a.k.a. Stormcrowsix
EU Shattered Hand