In the spirit of my new 1999 addiction

[iruinedyourday]

Erati is right, twinks were looked down upon back in the day when I played. I stopped shortly after Vellious and could imagine future expansions twinks being less and less un-cool.

It was looked down upon cus most people were playing their characters for the first time, a twink seemed like a spoiled jerk, throwing it in their cloth wearing groupmates faces that they were from the rich part of town [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was mostly jealousy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[myriverse]

Never experienced any kind of bashing on Nameless, either. Everybody I ran into were either twinks or twinking, even by late 1999.

[lecompte]

Originally Posted by myriverse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Never experienced any kind of bashing on Nameless, either. Everybody I ran into were either twinks or twinking, even by late 1999.

I didn't remember twinks negatively -- maybe enviously.

[deadlycupcakez]

Originally Posted by lecompte [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I didn't remember twinks negatively -- maybe enviously.

same, or like "wow give me the digs on how you got that, even if on your main" and then ride the easy xp train in our group and be sad when they leave and we all die bc we thought we were cool, whoops oh well.

On the other hand, in 99-00 i wouldnt go as far to say everyone i ran into were twinking, i found the stark opposite.

[Scikala]

Originally Posted by myriverse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Never experienced any kind of bashing on Nameless, either. Everybody I ran into were either twinks or twinking, even by late 1999.

I honestly can't remember any twink bashing on Nameless either. Pretty sure our server was pretty mild in that regards.

EC had Beardo, and LoS/Remedy were pretty pleasant top end guilds in terms of friendly?(that I remember)

I think the only rivalry that I can remember were guilds like Sanctuary until they crumbled early velious, and with the Taiwanese population.

[lecompte]

You arent' addicted enough if you have time to do something else besides grind that EXP. Are you at work? Better call in sick tomorrow like a responsible EQer

Originally Posted by deadlycupcakez [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On the other hand, in 99-00 i wouldnt go as far to say everyone i ran into were twinking, i found the stark opposite.

Freaking bronze armor an thulian claws was twinked.

[Erati]

Originally Posted by lecompte [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Freaking bronze armor an thulian claws was twinked.

this ^^^^

showing up in Crushbone in full bronze when most players only 'heard rumors where bronze even dropped' made the rest of the zone despise you greatly.

I vividly remember people in /groupchat getting upset for referring to them as 'twinked'

[Invoke]

First time I twinked was a full set of banded, kite shield and a mino axe for my SK. I felt so cool hanging out at the newbie log in Nektulos.

[iruinedyourday]

Honestly, don't hate me I'm a good person. But the first time I twinked myself was after a super bad hate raid, pre Vellious.. maybe pre kunark even. Anywho, yea we had this terrible raid night and I was in a shit mood.

I played on Rallos and hated PKs with every fiber of my being, but that night I snapped.

I created a wizard, named him Illumdian cus it was the ugliest name I could think of, picked the nastiest high elf face I could find, the one that's all scrunched up and crappy. Dropped a Mithral Quill (the fastest weapon at the time) in a convienent spot to pick up with my alt and ran out into gFey and kicked the shit out if everyone until the zone emptied. I became the hugest level 4 pker in gFey and was pretty notorious, I had the best hp gear at the time after a while becoming addicted to it. It wasn't much, but enough to pull from my inventory when I was at 1% hp and I would die, preventing anyone from getting loot rights.

My roomate came home and was like 8O 'what are you doing!' And I just stared at him like a Jedi would his master when he turns to the dark side.

[Bamz4l]

Originally Posted by iruinedyourday [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It wasn't much, but enough to pull from my inventory when I was at 1% hp and I would die, preventing anyone from getting loot rights.

I played on Rallos when Tallon was down. I loved ganging up on the twinks. I even got a skull-shaped barbute off a level 5 twink and then I used to do the pull from slot trick too. Also on Tallon My buddy and I had lvl 24 rogue/pally twinks that murdered groups in Highpass routinely. Slime coated harpoon / Arbitor's Combine Greatsword early kunark when those were top-end. It was redic.