Why do people twink?

Here’s something to consider: I think the absolute worst twinks in the game are still going to be more skilled than the absolute worst non-twinks, for the following reasons:

  • They have actually done enough research and played enough of the game to obtain all those twink items and enchantments. Non-twinks may well be experiencing everything for the first time without having done any research at all.
  • Playing a twink means you have at least some interest in trying to perform well. Some players are terrible and don’t care. There really are people out there who just want to mash the keys and don’t give it any more thought than that.

I refuse to comment on the average, I’m just talking about the lower bound here.

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19 m 39 are mega twink brackets. When u enter it expect to die in 2 sec. If you do t like it or dontcare just move along snd let twinks battle twinks. Think of it what u will. Swinking blue d1cks around is fun.

My second part was honest though D:

I sincerely liked to test my raw skills when I rolled my twink in TBC. And he wasn’t even a proper twink because I rolled him on the opposite faction so he was more like a really min-maxed low level alt xD

Obviously you haven’t seen Cdew doing 4k damage in 1 stormstrike.

People do twink because it’s fun. I don’t know about which “noob owning” you talking. In my memories, 19-29-39 brackets was always for twinks.If you are new to the game and do bg instead of leveling, you really do something wrong.

I used to think it was only for people who were trash at top level but I really understrand liking no mounts aspect.
Still however I don’t really see it as challenge due lack of skills/talents that add at least some variety to otherwise monochrome world and most twinks get annoyed when they fight against other twink, like smurfs on other games.

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Thre is nothing as good when the bg is filled with twinks, I dont want to fight plebs without gear and without skill.

5, making new players ragequit and never login again! :smiley:

Why people say they twink:
“It’s a fun meta of working out strategies to get the absolute best gear obtainable for the lowest level, and at the same time make sure they do not accidentally level over their intended target-level”

Why people actually twink:
“To one-shot noobs”

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Your name suggests you have a simple mind too. Get over yourself

I really do not get where this notion comes from that especially people who play low level alts in pvp are supposed to be the sort of player that likes to outgear people to have an advantage over them. The whole of World of Warcraft is like that and has always been. Everyday at every level you have players who team up 5v1 to kill someone who has no chance or skull level people who gank lowbies.

That being said, what I enjoy about low level pvp may sound weird to you: It is meeting players on an equal basis, that is players who also have low level alts with BiS. And nowhere in the game it is as accessible to reach this kind of situation as in low level pvp. At 60 one has to either go through 40 man raiding which for many people is already highly inaccessible, because of the time investment, or you can go for rank 14 which is even more time consuming. If you do not do that you will be constantly smashed by those who have better gear than you.

Having BiS at a certain level bracket is no different than having BiS at any level. One-shot critting a level 41 as a 49 BiS whatever class is just as much fun as it is at 60, same situation, but the real fun comes from meeting equal people with equal BiS and, as i said, low level pvp is the most accessible way to achieve that.

I also kind of like the journey towards getting BiS, from planning your char to getting every item until getting BiS. Guess what, that is once again the same for level 60, but more accessible

Also good point by Naeya:

Personally I like the idea of PVP in a low bracket simply because it’s a different meta

Never assume… It makes an As$ out of u & me.

Guessing someone is a little salty about peoples perspectives on twinking.

Mostly because they want to be as OP as possible.

Its like back when we could actually pause exp gain. You found alot of rogue players passing of the time when they were at their most OP state compared to other classes and only play there.

Twinking is doing the same thing.

Its basically the same as ganking lowies, it gives people who suck at PvP the illusion that they are actually good at PvP.

I mean, hey, nothing more satisfying than to gank a same level enemy and be able to run circles around him because you are BiS Blue geared while hes still running around in that green quest reward from 10 levels ago…

Although I’ve never done twinking myself, there’s several reasons why some people enjoy it:

  1. They want to see how far they can push the envelope on a low level character.
  2. They simply like the simplicity of early combat with less skills and slower pace more.
  3. It has its own little community as a niche on each server.
  4. Two shotting people is undeniably fun for some folks. This can be done on high level too, but requires a ton more effort and time investment.

You can’t pause your levelling in Classic, can you?

Twinking is a way to get the satisfaction of “completing” a character, but in a reasonable time frame. For many twinks “pwning noobs in BGs” isn’t the primary aim, it’s just being the best that you can be.

It’s really no different to people obsessing over getting BiS gear at max level, just doesn’t require you to commit your entire life to it to succeed!

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Largely irrelevant because battlegrounds don’t give experience.

Edit: *won’t

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because playing the same account gets just boring as hell over time so palying mage rogue etc from time to time makes way more fun and stops u from losing teh fun of this game

How are you op in a bg full of twinks? Are they all fighting over the one noob that dare enter? :smile:

Because it feels incredibly satisfying to do insane amounts of damage in a very short space of time to a character :smiley:

Players are coming from a world of organised PvP, arena, rated BGs etc where people aren’t generally very easy to kill. Twinks have a huge advantage and do 3-5 times more damage than an average player of that level.

It obviously gets boring eventually, when they don’t have much competition, or the reverse of course and people are as geared as them - which defeats their purposes :smiley: