6. What is a twink? If you played low level battlegrounds before they gave experience, you will know the twink. Even today, you may hear about them. Though the term is also often used to refer to a toon with BoA gear and enchants, perhaps a few AH greens, the original twinks were even more than that. A twink is a low level character at the top of their bracket (popular levels are 19, 29, 39 and 70) with the closest thing they can find to best in slot gear, enchants, maxed out professions, and comestibles, everything from free action pots to rumsey rum to elixers.
Because of experience gained in normal brackets, today true twinks must pay 10g to turn their experience off and therefore play in separate brackets against other twinks, but partially twinked characters may appear in exp-on battlegrounds, as griefers or as that one hero who carries all the flags and kills all the efcs at the same time. The twink community is a strange shadow of the endgame community with theorycrafting and Best in Slot lists, long gear farms and famous names. Twink brackets can be quite close knit, with public vents and set game times. They were playing rated battlegrounds before rated battlegrounds existed, so to speak.
As for partially twinked characters, the 'twinks' you will see in exp-on battlegrounds, if you are not twinked, be careful of them. The same way that you might avoid fighting a mob with four times as much health as the normal mobs you fight, keep an eye on the health of your enemies if you want to spot twinked characters before they kill you. If you want to make a twink, all active brackets keep threads going in the official blizzard forum battleground brackets, and you can find resources there, but they are also often full of trolls so be careful.
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If you played low level battlegrounds before they gave experience, you will know the twink. Even today, you may hear about them. Though the term is also often used to refer to a toon with BoA gear and enchants, perhaps a few AH greens, the original twinks were even more than that. A twink is a low level character at the top of their bracket (popular levels are 19, 29, 39 and 70) with the closest thing they can find to best in slot gear, enchants, maxed out professions, and comestibles, everything from free action pots to rumsey rum to elixers.
Because of experience gained in normal brackets, today true twinks must pay 10g to turn their experience off and therefore play in separate brackets against other twinks, but partially twinked characters may appear in exp-on battlegrounds, as griefers or as that one hero who carries all the flags and kills all the efcs at the same time. The twink community is a strange shadow of the endgame community with theorycrafting and Best in Slot lists, long gear farms and famous names. Twink brackets can be quite close knit, with public vents and set game times. They were playing rated battlegrounds before rated battlegrounds existed, so to speak.
As for partially twinked characters, the 'twinks' you will see in exp-on battlegrounds, if you are not twinked, be careful of them. The same way that you might avoid fighting a mob with four times as much health as the normal mobs you fight, keep an eye on the health of your enemies if you want to spot twinked characters before they kill you. If you want to make a twink, all active brackets keep threads going in the official blizzard forum battleground brackets, and you can find resources there, but they are also often full of trolls so be careful.