My how time flies! Pwn Depot (formerly Battleground Forums) is celebrating *three years* of providing the best twink information to the World of Warcraft twink community.

It is hard to believe, but this month marks the three year anniversary of what started out as a small, private community for Spinebreaker’s twink community back in January, 2006. It didn’t take long for word of the site to spread to twinks on other servers. Then, when cross-realm battlegrounds were introduced, the site blew up (almost literally….as we had over 2,000 visitors within a 15-minute period and quickly learned that it was time to get a dedicated server).

Krooki and I just wanted to take a moment to thank the thousands of registered members, the countless lurkers, the moderation staff, the skilled and talented twink guide authors, and the original BG Forums folks who have helped make PwnDepot.com what it is today – the first and best World of Warcraft twink community. The site has gone through a lot of changes and of course, as with any good original concept, many sites have popped up over the years to try and imitate what we’ve done. However, there can be only one original and we are extremely proud that Pwn Depot remains the premier site for twink guides, information and discussion after all these years.

Thank you all very much for continuing to make the first twink site the best twink site. Happy birthday to us and happy New Year to all of you!

Kirise's 29/39 Resto Shaman Twink Guide has been updated for the latest WotLK patch! The full guide can be found in our twink guides section:

http://pwndepot.com/Twink_Guides/p2006_articleid/17

Blizzard may be planning to allow players to gain experience in battlegrounds. There…I said it. We’ve all seen at least 100 threads on the subject. We’ve all heard the rumors. Apparently, during Blizzcon 2008, Blizzard hinted that they plan to make add experience gain to PvP battlegrounds.

The sky is not falling. Let’s all step back and think about this before we make another “QQ I quit” post on the forums. Blizzard has not ever said, or even implied, that they will add *mandatory* experience gain to battlegrounds.

We are not talking about Mom & Pop’s Hot Dog Stand here. We are talking about Blizzard Entertainment, producers of the most successful MMORPG of all time (by a large margin at that). Blizzard did not leap to the top of the MMO food chain by alienating pockets of their player/customer base.

They are fully aware of the number of paying customers who focus primarily, if not exclusively, on their twinks. They are also fully aware of the fact that they stand to lose roughly $16 per month for each of those players if they were to implement something like mandatory experience in battlegrounds.

Let’s set panic aside for a moment and look at what the real repercussion of what is likely to be optional experience gain in battlegrounds: an influx of lower level, poorly geared players in each bracket. We’ve all experienced it. We have all groaned after taking a queue and finding ourselves surrounded by a team full of players representing the lower end of our bracket. If Blizzard adds experience gain, you can count on seeing a lot more of them.

We are pleased to announce that Battleground Forums is now The PWN Depot! Created in January, 2006, Battleground Forums was the first website dedicated specifically to World of Warcraft’s Twink niche. We built the site so a handful of like-minded players from the Spinebreaker server would have a place to talk about twinking and exchange strategies. My how quickly things changed!

Over the years, Battleground Forums has grown into the premiere online World of Warcraft Twink community, with thousands of registered members and countless more who choose to lurk and quietly absorb the latest Twink info.

The Twink scene is no longer just about Battlegrounds. It’s about Arenas, world PvP, Battlegrounds and striving to make the best Twinks possible. Therefore, we felt it was time to broaden our horizons and become The PWN Depot – with a focus on Building Better Twinks!

How many times have we all wished that we could move a character we rolled on a "carebear" PvE server over to a PvP server? Well, wish no more! Blizzard recently announced that they have opened up PvE to PvP server transfers.

In the past, it was easy to understand Blizzard's argument against allowing this type of transfer. It was much easier to level up a character on a PvE server. Therefore, allowing someone to level up their character and then simply transfer it over to a PvP server would not really be fair to those who paid their dues on PvP servers. Let's face it, anyone who leveled a character on a PvP server has more than likely taken their lumps by way of getting ganked and/or corpse camped. However, world PvP is not what it used to be in World of Warcraft. The Tauren Mill battle royales of days gone by are just that...gone. These days, if someone wants to PvP, they usually queue up for Battlegrounds or Arenas.