Why do YOU twink?!

Do you still love twinking?!


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I started twinking in tbc because some guildies got me into it, they were rather lackluster twinks though ( I was like 15 at the time) During wotlk in between raiding I made a lvl 60 dk for fun and spent all my time getting farmed in the av horde gy by the 1 million alliance 60 paladins running around.

When mop came around I started making twinks purely for the purpose of being trophy toons, toons that I like to look at and are unique in some way. That's pretty much what I do now, I take them out for a spin sometimes though. There is something about getting a tooon to a certain lvl then getting a certain gear setup. Just the feling of completion is nice I guess.
 
I don’t know why I twink. I don’t even know why after 13 years, I’m still playing World of Warcraft.

I’m currently defecating and leaving comments on an online forum dedicated to this specific topic.

Please help.
 
i. Why do YOU twink?!

It all started in late 2011 when i was in Goldshire and there was this guy looking all cool with the full set of Polished Valor Hierloom and Arcanite reaper, i thought to myself , " man i wanna be like that guy " so i aproched him and asked him where he got all that, the friendliness i experience from that guy was the first time i learned what MMO are , he was like a Twink Tour Guide, he showed me everything from Honor in Bg convert to Justice points to telling me all the BiS i can get.

ii. When did YOU start twinking?!

Begining of 2012, as a 20 Ret , learning everything there is to be done as a Twink, such as AGM, Fishing Tourney, all kind of gear sets, Twinkinfo and meeting many other twinks along the way, seeing similar faces in bg's prompt that desire to win that bg.


iii. What is/was YOUR favorite xpac?!

i would say Cata/MoP because these were the peak i was at playing the games, 2011-2014 was the year i spent most of my time on WoW that any other games, i didnt play WoD that much, but came back for Legion, twinking for full Xpac as the same old Ret then stopped at BfA and only logging back once in a while since.
 
classic 39s (vanilla-wotlk) is the best battleground experience ever. less is more.
fite me :sela:
 
i. I literally twink to flex on people nowadays. I don't do bgs hardcore mode anymore days like I use to. I think having precious ribbon is also a huge motivator for wanting get bis every patch/expansion.

ii. Started creating a fuck ton of free trial accounts in Wrath, and finally made my og hunter in cata 2010

iii. I think MoP was my favorite expansion when it comes to f2p but that's only cuz I started out as a newbie in cata so my experience might have been hindered. It's really hard to choose between those two.
 
i: All began when my older brother used to twink back in TBC on a human rogue. I got so turned on by the swagger of his sexy flaming swords and how easily he could cut down people lesser than him with one stroke. Soon after that, craving more than slicing pixels, he got charged with an attempt of murder. I followed his footsteps into the virtual world, world of warcraft, where I began my journey of killings. As the stars on that very night my brother craved more than thicc ambushes aligned, I too felt the urges to explore "other" ways of killing. Now I switch around wow and new world, but still enjoy logging on my rogue and have some fun in bgs with the boys.

ii: I started twinking with some homeboys at the beginning of wotlk.

iii: Mop was definitely my all-time favorite expansion due to many reasons. Ambushes used to oneshot + lifebloom was cool.
 
I. Its too late to stop now.
II. Right away when I started the game in the first week of tbc.
III. MoP had alot of good times. F2P hayday, 24 premades losing to F2Ps was alot of fun. But it would have been cool to see what the bracket could have been without the 24 freeloaders.
 
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I. It’s changed over the years, but at the moment I like seeing who can carry levelers the best. I also love how experience w fundamentals of PvP is highlighted in low level PvP

II. Early BC I made friends with a level 39 twink who ran a guild called Dark Lion on Nazgrel, I was like 10 but he had patience and helped me make a level 1 and a level 19 rogue.

III. Wrath. 70s was huge and there were constant bgs/arenas, it was imbalanced at times but overall the most fun expansion I played as 70, miss it. Shout out Apocalyptic
 
I) I always enjoyed seeing how far I could push a class, especially when it was generally considered bad/low tier. I also always enjoyed the community that twinking created. I've met so many cool and wonderful people I otherwise would not have had I not decided to make such poor life decisions.

II) Way back in late vanilla I had leveled to 19 on my first ever character, a human warrior, and learned about this thing called "warsong gulch". I got into a match and ended up getting completely destroyed by this orc rogue named "Gutpopper". The poppers ended up being quite famous in our battle group Vengeance with their guild called "Epic" (Papapopper and Kidneypopper). I made a human rogue named tence so I could beat that big nerd Gutpopper.

I made my paladin when I came back to wow in mid Cata because I wanted to try something new. Ended up loving healing and stuck with it ever since.

III) Cata was a really cool xpac for me because I got to meet so many legends from the vanilla/BC days. Getting to play with and chill with Beastly & his brother (the person that inspired me to gear whore) was pretty cool too.

WOD was also cool. Being a nobody at the time playing a class that everyone had generally written off as bad was exactly my kinda thing. Outhealing Disc priests this xpac, especially in AV with my spirit set was one of the most fun times ever. Blizzard did us dirty removing that God tier stat.

This concludes my TED talk.
 
1. I remember seeing my good friend (and neighbour) playing an ele shammy twink @19 during the Cata days. I didn't play wow back then (would start later w/ MoP), but would often come to visit him and watch him play. So one time i was at his place he was playing a game of Arathi Basin i believe and he went like "here buddy, you play now"; i obviously had no idea what to do, but i still went with it and ended up having a blast.
From that point forward, i always enjoyed twinking: even if i played wow on and off since i focused on many other games at different times, i would often return and pick up some lv19 char to do bgs (which quickly became my favourite wow feature) with.
2. I started twinking during WoD: even tho i started actively playing the game during MoP, i ended up not twinking during the xpac cause my friend pushed me to play 90 w/ him and his buddies. I dabbled in twinking during WoD/Legion but really got to twinking full time during BfA when i discovered F2P was a thing (and sth i immediately fell in love with).
3. Oh man this is hard. I believe the first time is always special, so in that regard MoP will always be my favourite xpac: Pandas were super cool (i recalled them being the subject of frequent easter eggs in WC3 RoC) and the various zones in Pandaria were all well made and fun.
That said, from a twinking perspective, Shadowlands is probably my favourite due to the sheer amount of content i get to experience again.
 
i. Twinking to me was a different way of playing the game. The dynamics were completely different. The way gear was utilized in different ways, the idea that your gear might not be obsolete by the beginning of a new patch, the community etc. etc. It was simply a game within a game.

ii. I started twinking mid tbc-ish due to some irl friends that were pretty into it. It didn't last long though (because endgame was just better for me at the time). Picked it back up in WoD when endgame had declined massively for me.

iii. For twinks specifically, my favorite expansion has got to be WoD. So many factors go into this. The competition was top notch, my gear was nuts, both bg's and arenas were popping (19's and 29's), met a lot of like-minded individuals and made friends etc. It was just a great time for twinking overall.
 
Started twinking in 2005 after dueling a 19 rogue on a lvl 40 warrior alt.

still really enjoy twinking to this day as it gives a break from max level rated, much more chilled and easy mindset when playing twinks.

favourite era for twinking would of been cata/mop 70s, wod/BFA 29s were fun playing with my guild.
 
1)One gnome Rogue twink 29 at Misery battlegroup one shot my Warlock during tbc, then a friend of mine told me this is twinking and...

2)I rolled 29 lvl Lock during Wotlk..

3)Mop probably cause i have the most beautiful twink memories.
 
i. Why do YOU twink?!
I've gotten too lazy to keep up with end game. I also enjoy the simplicity of lower lvl pvp without everyone having 300 cooldowns. I also met a lot of cool people through the twinking community and it was always cool developing little rivalries with other twinks from the other faction in BGs like the old days in pvp.

ii. When did YOU start twinking?!
Started in the beginning of Wrath and had no idea there was a name for what I was doing. Honestly I was just so bad at the game and couldn't get used to keyboard and mouse to save my life. I started putting together the best possible gear I could find for my level 39 rogue so that my ambush would one shot someone and then I'd vanish because I was useless after that. Then someone in the BG asked if I was a twink and that's when I found out what they were. After that I got really into the level 60 twinks where you could get the 7 day free trial to BC for gem slot gear. Been twinking ever since.

iii. What is/was YOUR favorite xpac?!
Either Wrath or Legion. Wrath for twinking. Legion for end game. Legion Spriest was the bomb and was the first time I was actually getting top 10 parses consistently.
 

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