After glorying in the QQ of the twink community, I got to thinking ... like, I'd always wanted to investigate gearing up a twink, for broadly the same reasons that I get a thrill out of sending frostweave bags and cash to my level 1 alt. It's like a weird nurturing thing, an extended, labor-intensive character customization. I never did start a twink because of the other factor: twinks tend to be bullies.

NOW a twink doesn't have to be a bully, because players who otherwise wouldn't get a fair fight with him, don't have to play in his game. That's awesome. It's pretty encouraging. Balanced, of course, by the problems the twinks are currently complaining about, but I wonder if this change will compel twink-curious folks into making their own, and eventually help re-populate those BGs into more-or-less balanced, hardcore environments.