World of Warcraft: New Guild System in Cataclysm

The guild leveling system was a new feature in the Cataclysm expansion. While many changes were made to the original vision of the system, there are still some pretty nice perks. Originally it was going to be more like choosing a spec. Points would be placed in a guild tree to choose specific rewards. This was later changed to just give rewards at certain guild levels instead.

Some of those rewards have also been changed since implementation, since they were abused. Imagine that. For example, Have Group will Travel (mass summon), was used to cheat in raids and bypass trash or other bosses, so now it only works near the entrance. It could have saved guilds a lot of run back time during progression, but of course, someone had to exploit it.

Mass rez is nice though. If one raid member lives, he or she can rez the others. Go, go hunters with feign death.

As with any new feature, not everyone likes the guild leveling system. Keep in mind that none of the perks are really game-breaking if you don't have them, but some are definitely helpful.

You can see a list of Guild Perks at Wowhead.

Twink Nerfage

Well, all the QQ over all the pew pew, may have made twinks as you know them a thing of the past. On the WoW PTR, some have said their HP has gone down by as much as 1k, as exploited enchants no longer work. It may not be a done deal yet, but if the nerfs do go into effect, there may not be much twinkage in the future.

What do you think? Should twinks be allowed or should they be nerfed?

Maybe, instead of level requirements, battlegrounds could be separated (roughly) by HP. This would actually make more sense in terms of “fairness” or that “level playing field” stuff anyway since newly dinged players or those still wearing lowbie gear can’t really compete with even somewhat geared players.

Trade chat seems to be filled with angry messages on this topic these days.

Is it worth investing the time, effort, and gold into a twink at this point? What about the investments people have already made? Soon to be worthless with the next patch?

Here's a thought... instead of making one group or the other sad, mad, and leaving them threatening to quit the game, Blizzard could possibly come to a compromise where twinks are concerned.

Twinks want to twink. Other people want a little BG action without being immediately slaughtered without a fighting chance at retaliation for the next 9 levels.

Well, why not have battlegrounds for levels 10-18, and leave the 19 bracket (and 29, 39, etc) for twinks instead of breaking out the nerf bat?

Any regular players who are level 19 should be able to compromise for a short time between 19-20, since if they are leveling their toons, they'll be out of that bracket quickly.

Sure, 9 levels worth is kinda a long time to be unceremoniously beat down... but one level, one that goes by quickly on the way to that first mount, should be do-able.

Is it possible to make everyone happy? Probably not, but something like this could make more people happy.

What are your thoughts?