seriously, most of the 24s are really bad players who need to team up in order to kill anything, even losing when they have 4 levels of stats/gear/talents plus the twink chants. the flame crap they post in the f2p section seems to indicate that they are either confused by the onset of puberty, or raging after 40 years in their mom's basement.
ridingon24 said:
A twink is someone who gets the bis gear bis enchantments and bis level . Playing the 20-24 bracket reminds me of the time where twinks and levelers would be in the same bracket and i could farm gy for hours . HEck even the mods will probably agree with me on this definition of twinks even though i got banned by them before Fact: twinks were made to pwn and farm levelers dont deny it most of you rolled a twinks to "pwn" noobs b4
while i agree that f2ps are not twinks, i still think most of this is wrong.
the term "twink" originally came from the gay community where a wealthy older man would find a pretty young boy, and buy him lots of fancy clothes and haircuts and manicures.
in wow, the twink term showed up in vanilla when lvl 60's started actively collecting boe blues and passing them down to their lower level toons. blizz added battlegrounds after about 9 months, and players started trying to hold their xp at certain levels while they used a "wealthy older" toon to help them get powerful gear. the brackets were every 10 levels and there was no xp-off. most 19s eventually rolled over to 20 and would re-gear for 29s then 39s.
despite ridingon24s' claim that twinks were originally created "to pwn and farm levelers", anybody who actually played 19s or 29s back in vanilla knows that nobody understood stats and game code like they do now. there were a million different ideas on what was the best gear. some of the most successful players used gear that we would cringe at now. twinking was originally about competition, not about pwning n00bs. most twinks back then really only played each other, spending hours dueling other twinks at the gates of ironforge and orgrimmar.
the free 20 bracket is way more concerned with bis gear than the p2p 24s. have you looked at the crap gear the 24s are wearing? 4 levels and a couple boa pieces don't make you bis, they just make you lazy.
most f2p players are really not twinks. they can't take any hand-me-downs. they can't rely on another toon to ezmode everything for them. they need to earn their gear the hard way. good f2p toons are 'geared' rather than 'twinked'.
i gotta agree with bone and medanx. don't be rude to the 24s, just add them to your ignore list if they are on your side and gank them when they are on the other side.
