Hi everyone,
I’ve been playing World of Warcraft and I recently started leveling a twink character. I want to make sure I’m not breaking any rules by playing this twink normally, doing quests and dungeons like usual.
My question is:
Is using twinks against the game rules and can it lead to a ban?
Also, if other players report my twink even though I’m just playing normally, could I still get banned?
I would appreciate any clear info or official source about this.
Thanks in advance!
No it is not. However twinks are much more limited on enchants, gems, and other things that they can even use compared to how they used to be.
Twinks aren’t against the rule.
Assuming they are reporting you for being a twink (and nothing else like Profanity or anything else against ToS) nothing will come of it.
No, locking characters to lower levels, also commonly known as twinking, is not against any policies, and if players tried to report you for that, Blizzard would not take any action towards you or your account for that.
The fact that Blizzard provides an in-game method of locking your experience and level is a pretty good indication that twinking (i.e., using their provided service) is not against their rules.
This! Blizzard has made it clear they are allowed. If not they would make them impossible to stay at what ever level you want your twink to be.
Please note, that while experience locked “twink” characters are allowed, if you otherwise break the game rules your license can be penalized. That means things like exploiting bugs in content, botting, cheating, automating actions, social infractions, etc.
No.
Player reports for cheating don’t DIRECTLY result in any penalties. Anti-cheat is handled by the Hacks team who uses their methods to detect parameters they are looking for. Reports are part of their research that points them in the direction of things to research. Just like new malware and viruses, new cheats or strategies need to be researched and analyzed. Once they can properly detect it, they add that to their detection criteria that they run.
Anti- cheat is not about a person - it is completely about the software finding conditions that match things the Hacks team wants to flag.
Social violations are the only thing that can result in a temporary SQUELCH until a GM gets to it. That takes a lot of reports from unique accounts in a short period of time and was put in well over a decade ago to combat gold spammers and their ilk. Actual penalties on the account are based on GM review of the chat logs attached to the reports (Silence or Suspension).