What is a twink to you?

Greenmtnboy

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All this number crunching has made me sick even though I’m sure it’s all accurate. That doesn’t account for play style or looks. I’ve seen many different types of twinks 19 and 20. Some of them with crazy gear, some with mid gear and of course the people that like the level and concentrate on pure cosmetics.

what is your idea of a twink?
 
hey, the great gringo here and i'd like to talk about what twinking means to me and how important my journey in the world of twinking has been to me

a little backstory on myself, i'm a 23 year old male, 6'3, white, with quads made out of steel and biceps that can barely fit in my sleeves. people often tell me i'm the most beautiful and charmistmatic person they've ever come across and that I should consider modeling and getting into politics but I don't know, I'm still very undecided. I'm single, an atheist, a vegetarian and definitely only into heterosexual relationships. when i'm not playing basketball, water polo, working three full time jobs, volunteering at an animal shelter, studying for my PhD and maintaining a healthy social life then I like to spend my time twinking on world of warcraft classic in the 19s bracket.

my love for classic twinking started when I was introduced to a very popular streamer in the 19s bracket called dVerum. I quickly became obsessed with watching his streams and thought that it would be a great idea to start playing myself and finally meet him in game. after countless hours of looting chests, begging for dungeon boosts in stormwind, wasting my money on chinese gold farmers and realm transfers, on april 4th, a beautiful sunny Saturday morning, right after I had returned from a meeting with my multi billion dollar company's executives, I decided to enter the queue for Warsong Guch. that's when I met him, that's when I laid my eyes upon my idol and the only reason I had decided to get into twinking, Verum himself. while waiting for the game to start, I quickly ran to the bathroom to wash my face because of how hard I was blushing and then quickly returned to my 400 euro worth PC chair waiting for the game to finally start. the battleground was finally under way and verum quickly rushes to the enemy base and then picks up the enemy flag like he usually does but something seems off. while i'm giving it my all and struggling chasing the enemy flag carrier around trying to return the flag, verum is NOT making any moves at all on the map and instead he's just sitting AFK on the top of our base with the enemy flag. I instantly tune into his stream to see what's going on and I see him not even looking at the monitor while chugging a 3% alcohol beer. I was left shocked and without knowing how to react. how could this be happening to me? the player i've admired for so long is actually fucking terrible at the game, ruining the battleground for everyone and on top of that is an alcoholic?

I didn't want to believe it, I was so fucking mad and disappointed in him and in myself for having admired him for so long that tears were forming up in my eyes. I instantly got up from my chair and punched a hole in my wall. I was in fucking tears and was having a mental breakdown, I was ready to fucking explode and I know you guys think I might be joking but that was genuinely the angriest I had ever been in my entire life. I was praying to God that the last 4 months I had spent tuning into every single one of Verum's streams weren't a waste and that this game was a fucking joke played on me by Verum himself. I didn't want to accept the reality that Verum was actually an entirely useless and horrible player but after gathering my emotions and taking a deep breath, I finally typed /afk in game, logged out of the game, instantly cancelled my classic wow subscription, unfollowed and blocked Verum on all social media platforms and finally uninstalled both classic wow and battle net.

Anyways, this was just a glimpse of how important twinking in general is to me and how meaningful my journey getting into classic wow 19s twinking has been to me. I'd love it if more of you guys shared your experience playing this game as twinks, make sure to tag me so that I don't miss any of your stories!
 
Guess there is

f2p , f2p min maxers

vet , vet min maxers

So to be boring and serious - In my mind the Vet min maxers are the real 'twinks'.

But people who don't know about any of that would call all but f2p levelers 'twinks'.

Kind of like 2020 politics , to the uniformed everyone is a Nazi or Communist.
 
Guess there is

f2p , f2p min maxers

vet , vet min maxers

So to be boring and serious - In my mind the Vet min maxers are the real 'twinks'.

But people who don't know about any of that would call all but f2p levelers 'twinks'.

Kind of like 2020 politics , to the uniformed everyone is a Nazi or Communist.
I'm sorry did I just read this correctly? are my eyes deceiving me or are you playing some sick twisted discriminatory bigoted racist joke on me?

are you implying that politically aligning with the ideology of communism is something negative? something to be ashamed of? something to be frowned upon? something derogatory? because to be frank with you that's what it seems that you're doing and even though political discrmination isn't as common as racial, religious and sexual orientation discrimination, i'm here to shed light on your bigoted behavior and absolutely uncalled for hateful rhetoric that you're promoting in your post

I know this takes a lot of courage for me to do and I feel like a martyr right now but I'm going to be brave and mentally strong for every xpoff user that might feel the way I feel but they do not have a strong enough voice to stand up to bullies like you. Yes, I AM A COMMUNIST. I am a proud supporter of the ideology of communism and I will never be scared to admit it. I will TYPE IT, I will SCREAM IT, I will YELL IT, I will DECLARE IT everywhere that communism runs deeply in my veins and makes my heart beat every single second of the day. There's nothing that a bully like you can do to me to silence me, censor me, discourage me and beat me down to my knees. I AM PROUD FOR WHO I AM AND I WILL NOT LET YOU BRING ME DOWN.

¡Viva la Revolución!
 
For me a lot of it is chasing perfection. Toon perfection specifically (inb4 the "but ur bad ohti" comments stfu.)

Aside from PvP, I like to collect things like tmog, toys, achievement points, reputations, etc. Basically shit a f2p does but as a vet (controversial I know.) You can find me regularly posting stuff like this in the F2P picture thread.

Pushing gear is nice too and theorycrafting new sets is always fun but you get to a point in an expac where you stagnate and that's where I sort of am atm and I don't want to play a different class, I'm more interested in squeezing every little drop out of priest that I can. I find myself trying to put together a lot of new different sets to use shoutout Juan for being my set theory crafting buddy.

Although after a long grind of time, money (real world and gold,) and effort, I was able to push my sp set by a total of +1 intellect last night! Theoretically I can push out another 0.8 intellect if I get my adaptable offhand then I'm completely BiS excluding quest epics because miss me with that reroll shit, which is quite exciting.
 
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This is a solid question though so...

For me personally, I'm really drawn to the idea of pushing against the restrictions on a pure F2P. Just what all can I with an account that never has game time and that I never spend a dollar on? PVP is a necessary aspect of that and its undeniably fun beating vets on a F2P but that account and the twinks on it exist well outside of BGs and its not BGs that draw me to that play style. I'm way more proud of dumb shit like getting a S.E.L.F.I.E camera or duo clearing SM on my f2p than I am any of the pvp shit I do on my vets.

So I guess really, to me my twinks are a casual hobby that I enjoy because they offer a long term, low stakes grind (f2p) and casual, easy pvp (vets)

As @Neon said, its a different end game for filthy casuals like me.
 
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If a f2p That had dungeon blues beat the crap out of you would you say you out twink him?
Sure, I suppose. Though I think that's an odd thing to worry about and not something I'd ever considered. My F2P druid is among the best "twinked" in the world but Im not a particularly skilled pvp'er. I dont think my lack of skill detracts from the toons build. ymmv, obviously.
 
World of Warcraft is as it's best if you're OP, idk if anyone of you have experienced an ability being OP in retail, or just straight up bug abusing. It pretty much happens in every expansion early on and everyone just starts rerolling to that class.

Things sooner or later gets balanced however... BUT since Blizzard straight up doesn't give a fuck about low level PvP, then twinking is a great way to be "eternally" overpowered. You can get retarded stats and then also one shot people around your level. It's pretty nice.

I personally made Anexa to counter twinks, especially rogues. Trying to make them feel worthless after they've spent so much gold (and most likely real life money) into their rogue twinks in Classic. Their gear aren't cheap.

I haven't really understood yet how people are having a blast over being flag carriers though. I guess people are different, but to me it's just waste of time waiting in the base for a flag return for an hour per BG. Same with twinks popping consumables. I'm sure it's real life money invested into that shit as well and I don't understand why people like to use them.

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To answer what you said in the main post.
When I think of a twink then I think of a TBC twink only. Don't like twinking from late patches of WotLK and forward.

Don't like heirlooms, don't like mounts at lvl 20, don't like whenever Blizzard decides to fuck up their scalings. Can be X item change, PvP scaling on stats - or just weird ass scaling on abilities. At one point serpent sting tick did more damage than the hunter's aimed shot auto attacks and my mage's fireball etc at lvl 60 in MoP or WoD I believe?
 

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