Twink Twink ( WoW ) - A low - level character made more powerful by higher - level characters , usually through gifts of armor and weapons that the character would not normally have at such low level . Also used as a verb to describe the act of giving low - level characters powerful items uncommon at their level . Twinks are below level cap player character s who have gained powerful and uncommon gear for their level in their equipment slots . These powerful items can be made stronger with the best possible enhancements such as expensive weapon enchants , leg patches and BoE / BoP greens , blues or epics . Within the twink community , the best possible gear and enchants are called " best in slot " or BiS gear / enchants . Twinking is common in MMORPG s , including World of Warcraft , though many mechanisms are in place that limit a player ' s ability to equip a character with gear beyond its level . Blizzard made it clear with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion that they support players who twink by providing for their shutting off experience gain . However , some twink - players felt otherwise . Twinking is most often done in order for a level character to compete in the battleground bracket . Two popular classes for twinks in World of Warcraft are rogues and hunters . Hunters do well in battlegrounds , especially at low levels since many melee classes have no way to stop a hunter who can kite . Their damage is largely affected by the gear they have , so they can go above and beyond what other classes could twink to . Obtaining Twink Gear . Potential twinks research the best possible gear that is able to be equipped at that level in each slot using prior knowledge , item databases such as wowhead , or twinking guides found in various places on the internet . Amongst the twink community , a twink is not a true twink until it has the best possible gear in all slots and the most powerful enhancements allowable placed . Twink gear varies according to the battlegrounds bracket desired . Below are the most common ways to get the gear . Restrictions on Twinking Gear . World of Warcraft has several mechanisms in place that limit twinking , including : Noticeably absent from this list is a minimum level requirement for pre - Burning Crusade enchantments and Arcana , with the exception of librams formerly used to give a head ( or leg ) enchant which now have a level 50 minimum limit placed upon them in order to function . When Heirloom gear was introduced with Wrath of the Lich King expansion they included the mechanic of Bind to Account ( BoA ) which allows for gear to be sent to other characters at lower levels . This gear can be enchanted as well but the level requirements of the enchant still apply . Should an enchant on a BoA item be higher level than the character the enchant show up red on the item and is not used . Enchants are no longer showing up as red and not used . Enchants above the appropriate character level are now scaled down considerably under what an appropriate level enchant would provide , but they progress as the character levels until it reaches an appropriate level for the enchant at which point it actually is as cast . Trial accounts at 20 face even more severe restrictions . Since a trial account can not open trade or use the auction house or in game mail , all enhancements must be done by the character itself . Many of the better enhancements are not available because all trial professions are capped at 100 skill level . History of Twinking in World of Warcraft . In classic World of Warcraft , twinks used to intentionally stop gaining XP right at the top level for what ever bracket they planned on being a twink in . This twink character would then never leave a major city and be used solely for battlegrounds . Players who were just leveling through and did not twink felt that being destroyed due to gear imbalance was unfair . Many threads on the World of Warcraft forums during this time complaining about twinking were made asking Blizzard for action . The first attempt to address this was in patch 2 . 2 . Blizzard made gear a factor in matching BG groups / players , so twinked players are more likely to face twinks and characters passing through a given level are more likely to face others like themselves . Also , max level raid geared players will tend to get opponents in epics and casual players in green / blue gear will face gear similar to their own . However , even with this in place , twinks still dominated some brackets and complaints continued . In patch 3 . 2 . 0 , a feature was introduced that allowed players to disable experience gains in exchange for 10g . Battlegrounds were then altered to allow level - locked characters to face only other level - locked characters . Battleground XP was enabled for all other characters . Leveling players generally gave positive feedback for this change since it provided another method of leveling up . However , this mechanic led to a slow down of queue times for twinks . Some members the twinking community felt this was Blizzard assuming a negative stance to twinks . The pool of players was reduced sometimes even resulting no battleground " pops " for long periods . Players attempted to adjust by concentrating on a specific battlegroup for a PvP bracket . Widespread twinking started to decline without fast queues . Blizzard eventually eliminated battlegroups . Queue times then decreased as a result for both leveling battle grounds and XP off battlegrounds . With lower times spent for waiting for battles to pop , twinking made a marginal comeback . The implementation of heirloom weapons changed getting gear for twinks . " Best in slot " gear with a high level character were now available to give to a low level character on the same account hassle free for the shoulder , weapon , and chest slots . So , even many of the levelers are somewhat of twinks , if they had a higher level character providing heirlooms . Also , Blizzard shrunk the brackets to every 5 levels so ( 10 - 14 , 15 - 19 and so on ) . This allows players to gather tons of " best in slot " gear with a high level character and give it to a low level character . Keeping experience on is easily done in the level 10 to 14 bracket because once the character levels to 15 they can pass their gear back to the high level character and delete the twink . It does not take much time or gold to level back up to level 10 and start owning the 10 - 14 bracket once again . Starter / Trial accounts now never expire , giving birth to a new era of continuous quick popping queues in the 10 - 19 and 20 - 29 brackets . To respond , some folks turned off xp at level 29 to create 29 twinks to try to take on the " Free to Play " twinks or groups of other 29s or mixes with lightning fast queue times unheard of even in the glory days of pre patch 3 . 2 10 - 19s battlegrounds . Blizzard has noted they are watching trial accounts . But , Blizzard has mentioned have no intention of stopping this development , since starter / trial accounts have severe limits as to how much they gear relative to paid 20s to 29s due to account restrictions in place . The 20s , while over matched are happy because they play unlimited for free and with some skill and luck can beat mixed groups with 29s and sometimes get nothing but fellow starter / trial account twinkers . The paid 29s are happy because they get to overpower with very little wait in queues . 20 - 29 bracket which is pretty hot right now . Types of Twinks . There are many types of twinks .