Exp - to twink or not to twink

[:1]Ok, There have been rumors and comments flying around my server about the death of the Twink. Supposedly with the next patch we will be gaining XP from honor kills in BGs, which means the twinks will lvl.

I have searched the net for this and read the patch notes and can not find anything to verify this.

Has anyonme else heard this and or read it? if so can you point me in the right direction for the info?|||Hmm news to me! I hope that is wrong though, it would take away a very significant element of WoW's pvp game. :P|||I've heard this before. It hasn't happened yet and I don't think it will. Considering the effort people go to to prepare a twink, I would think they wouldn't even try to do it.|||This rumor pops up before every patch and is never true.|||Didn't this used to be the case, or was it only a repeatable quest to turn in marks for XP?|||It will never happen. People have been asking/begging/praying for such a change for a long long time, but honestly, Blizzard has no intention of completely screwing over such a large portion of their player base. I know of many players who primarily play their twink, with their level 70 being more of a money-maker than a main toon.

I actually believe Blizzard encourages twinks, at least to a certain extent. Some newer items, like the Deadman's Hand ring out of SM, seems virtually designed for twinks.

Regarding exp, you can currently gain exp completing the daily battleground quests, but of course you don't have to do those as a twink. You can also gain small amounts of exp by killing or being near someone else who is killing any of the beasts located in AV, but there really aren't that many twinks that far into the game.|||Blue post:

"Battlegrounds wins/losses and honorable kills will not award experience after the next patch, nor upon the release of Wrath of the Lich King. It could always happen somewhere down the road as we work to improve PvP progression, but there are no plans for changing this in the immediate future."|||This has been rumored around for almost as long as WoW has existed. Blizzard has mentioned that they will never ever incorporate exp into PvP. Well other then killing the guards in AV, but thats it.|||Tom Chilton aka Kalgan, a lead designer and founder of Blizzard gave a talk on the future of PvP on this years Blizzcon. He said that they want to give us the ability to level in battlegrounds. When, how and even if they'll implement this is unsure, but we know it won't happen at the release of WotLK at least.|||I watched the video of that panel and found his use of phrasing interesting. He very deliberately, it seemed to me, avoided suggesting you would earn exp inside battlegrounds as a natural consequence of taking part. They are now, as a response to WAR I imagine, looking at ways and means to allow you to gain exp via participation, but I don't think it's at all certain that 'forced exp' in BG's will be the solution they choose.