World of Warcraft - My 49 Twink Warrior

World of Warcraft is the biggest MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) computer game in the market. My brother got me into it in the summer of 2006. He used to tell me over the phone how awesome it was. The more he would explain it to me the more I would want to play it. Once I was finally able to play it, I wasn't able to put it down. Like millions of others, I was addicted.

I decided to make a warrior. Because my brother's main was a warrior and I liked the idea that I could wear whatever armor that I wanted. It was really hard for me at first, I would always die. And because of this, I never got into questing, I hated it. I was level 20 when battlegrounds were first released. I joined WSG first the first time not really knowing what to expect. After the first game, I queued for another, then another and another. I couldn't stop pvping. It was all that I would do.

I finally got tired of getting owned by everyone who was much higher level then me. So I decided to start questing again, to level up and get some better gear. Once I finally reached level 30. I started playing WSG once again. And it was all that I did in WoW for the rest of the summer. My brother would always try to convince me to level and try the other stuff that the game had to offer. I didn't want to because I would always see him in raids and he wouldn't be able to leave until they finished the whole thing, which would take hours. So I stayed as a 30 warrior in WSG.

When I left back home for school. My brother called me again a few days later and told me that he accidentally leveled my warrior out of the bracket. I was pissed. Because I knew that once again I would have to quest in order to be competitive in battle-grounds. Once summer came again, I went to my brother's house and started questing once again, Blizzard announced that it was going to change the brackets from 20-30, 30-40 etc. To 10-19, 20-29 and 30-39 etc. So it didn't matter that my brother leveled me out, because I was going to get pushed out of the bracket anyways.

So I was going to become a 39  warrior. Unlike the first time I actually looked into what was the best gear for my level. That's when I was introduced to twinking. I got all the best gear and started pwning as a level 39 warrior. And once again, that's where I stayed for a long time. After months of playing almost everyday, I decided that I wanted to get plate. So for the first time, I actually decided to level out of the bracket and become a 49 warrior.

I leveled mostly through dungeons, I found it a lot easier and more fun than questing by myself. After days of grinding, I finally got all the best gear for my 49 warrior. And I loved it, it was a huge difference from 39. I had a lot more abilities at my disposal and I would do a lot better against other classes. I also found out about battleground forums in this time. And I spent as much time on there as I did playing the game. It was a great community of fellow twinks. I played for many more months as a 49 warrior. And I loved it, then once day, Blizzard released a patch that killed twinking; patch 3.2

Many people decided to level after twinking was killed. But I couldn't bring myself to do it. I had too much memories in that bracket, so I along with a few others, decided to turn off my exp gain. And leave him in a dead bracket, where he would never be able to play another game again. I stopped playing WoW altogether after that. I miss playing my warrior and the community, and I hope that one day, I will be able to play him again.