I also thought I would rope in a couple of the comments from the original WoWInsider article.

Mainly because I don’t really have the time to update the guide to this extent right now, and they provide some valuable insight into Twinking options (well maybe apart from the whole “outdated” bit…).

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Gashet said…

The alliance warlock twink guide is a bit *too* outdated and not very helpful or applicable. That buildis the all-too typical ‘stam-build’ for lvl. 19 lock twinks. The thing is, the pure damage build leaves you with 199-206 bonus shadowpower unbuffed while having 1.3k hp unbuffed (popping sacrifice tosses in another 300 hp per soul shard). From ~all~ of my experiences, my pure damage build is a lot better at pvp than the stam build.

When your Curse of Agony and Corruption together total up to 750 damage, dots just destroy the health of other toons (including the typical stam build). I think that the damage build is leagues better than the stam build… I think its great when you can run at the main group in a BG, hit all 10 players with CoA and Corruption… and less than half of them make it out alive.

twinkerbel said..
Yeah that warlock twink list is severely outdated. Many of the of healing items don’t have correct numbers for damage now that healing and damage have been merged. The heirloom boa shoulders are the best in slot by far now as is the boa heirloom spell damage trinket. You can also currently put the honor bought stam/resilience enchant on the boa item and trade it, though for those who were lucky enough to get the power of the scourge enchant out of old naxxramas, you have the best option for the boa shoulders if you saved it. You get far more out of a warlock twink with very high shadow damage than you will out of stacking pure stamina. You do need enough stam to survive really nasty rogues that seem to target you over and over and you can easily still be over 2k with 160 shadow damage when it’s called for. My 19 warlock twink is twinkerbel on proudmoore and my 39 warlock twink is calyban on proudmoore. My main raiding warlock is ravenelle on the same server.

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Hope they help you in making your twinking decisions… and thanks once again to Drayner for his constructive comments! Make sure to check out twinkinfo.com

If anyone else has something to add, or wants to write up a guest post drop me a line via ContactGnome

Good point about Dawnblade, I will leave it in there for those Hordies that are Twinking.

I haven’t yet had the chance to go back through after the pre-WoLK changes. I expect there is a bit of +healing gear that was changed to +spellpower as well as enchants that are now worthwhile.

Just need some spare time to hunt through WoWhead to find alternative… one day…

Thanks for the link too!

If anyone else has some hints, please don’t be shy… it will make it easier on the next twinking to stumble by…

Also, a viable and popular leg item for twink locks is the “of healing pants”. They give +9 spell damage.

You see them on my armory: Drayner

Thanks for the guide, I will be linking it shortly.

For a long time I wondered what value there was in “white” items… I mean they are just mis-coloured “grey” items right? Wrong.