When I first started playing WoW, I used to raid with a fairly large group of people (MC-Onx, AQ, etc) of about 40 people. Of those 40, maybe 30 had mics, and usually only the raid lead and class leads would talk, so you never really got to hear anyone else. I knew this guy from vanilla all the way thru Mop (about 6-7 years). I considered him one of the best healers I knew, and he was always the first person I would /w to run things with me. Often I brought him into raids, Dungeons and PvP Come to find out, towards the end of MoP that he just turned 16, which blew my mind, that means at 9- 10 years old he was a better healer then most I knew at the time. One day i finally I herd his voice....and it broke me. l couldn't take it, it caused a mental breakdown. I immediately (laughingly seriously) told him that he can never use his mic again. He agreed and said that's why he usually never talked. He never talked over a mic again, and he did his job and always kept us alive. TL:DR. Age=/=skill, however, sometimes it's better if you are younger with a "little" voice to just stay quite. If you are skilled, and learn quickly, you shouldn't have to talk.