My wife enjoys playing a healer to heal me while I'm warrioring- but I'd be just as happy playing a shaman to heal/buff her as a warrior. I think a lot of guys just like melee classes and to "hit stuff" and the natural thing to need is someone to heal them, and they already have a warrior so the wife / significant other rolls a support class so they make a nice duo.
So to the guy who posted yesterday that he wanted to meet at least one good female lock -- hi. I'm sure there are others that have posted to this thread already, but we exist. We're few and far between, but yes, Virginia, there are good female gamers.
;)
As a side note regarding the whole 'couples' thing... my husband originally rolled a paladin. Ended up hating the class at 60 and when we rerolled horde he picked an undead priest. He was (and could easily be again) the best healer in our guild but he plays an orc rogue now (who is also our top damage dealer).
All true, she's competetive as hell, always our top lock, nearly always in the top 4-5 dmg. Kiz is one of those players that male players ask for tips. Strong like bull.
...and yes, I originally rolled a paladin at release, got him to 60 and instead of shooting myself in the head rolled an undead priest. Realized that it wasn't healthy for me to be a raid healer (I would literally lose sleep when our MT would die), and instead focused on damage and being a rogue. After being an obsessively competitive healer, playing a rogue is a relaxing walk in the park... so little to manage.. kill, and watch your aggro ;)
One thing about personalities that was mentioned, and I think may have some validity that people will roll as second mains / serious alts the antithesis of their characters in PvP.
For instance people have mentioned leveling a rogue because of being ganked a lot while leveling their warlock. Class balance aside, I think the point holds some merit.
I got ganked alot leveling on my priest by level 60 rogues.
Now I just kite them and kill them as a holy/disc priest.
It's soooo rewarding. I mean like, stupidly rewarding. Like, my BF makes fun of me when I cackle at the screen.]
I hate undead rogues ; ;
When my BF and I made our characters we did choose a warrior and a priest for a good duo. It worked out great; I had a good background in healing and he liked MTing, so it worked out well.
Really it seems to me I roll classes that have some form of "control". A ranger or a hunter, can do dps while remaining out of range of the mob, priests have the control over the health of their raid, etc.
Rogues in a raid situation just have very little control. I enjoy playing mine in raids but it lacks the comfort factor I get with other classes.
No matter which class I play I always min/max though :p
For instance people have mentioned leveling a rogue because of being ganked a lot while leveling their warlock.
You can gank a Warlock? /blink
Last I knew, Rogues were the easiest class to gank if caught out in the open.
Before the Death Coil buff, you darn well could. Rogues could eat you for breakfast with syrup. If you had any pet but a succubus out, it was even less of a fight. You simply had no tools to get a melee class out of your face once they got there.
I know it's hard to remember now, but there was a time where warlocks were like HK happy meals with legs.
I levelled a priest and a pre-DC warlock to 60 on PVP servers, and to this day (despite having transferred to PVE) I get depressed at the sound of cheap shot landing.
For instance people have mentioned leveling a rogue because of being ganked a lot while leveling their warlock.
You can gank a Warlock? /blink
Last I knew, Rogues were the easiest class to gank if caught out in the open.
Before the Death Coil buff, you darn well could. Rogues could eat you for breakfast with syrup. If you had any pet but a succubus out, it was even less of a fight. You simply had no tools to get a melee class out of your face once they got there.
I know it's hard to remember now, but there was a time where warlocks were like HK happy meals with legs.
I levelled a priest and a pre-DC warlock to 60 on PVP servers, and to this day (despite having transferred to PVE) I get depressed at the sound of cheap shot landing.
Right, I know.....Pre-DC buff.....
But now?
Yeah right.
/cast Deathcoil
/cast Fear
/DoT Rogue
/laugh at Rogue demise while DoTs tick him for 4.5k damage until death
That's what happens to me almost every time if my PvP trinket isn't up.
Rather than try to talk about what makes me tick, and end up having it colored by personal perspective, I'll go ahead and put up the link to the results of my last Personality test (I know, not everybody agrees with Jung, but dammit this test is pretty accurate): http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html
BTW, andbody interested in taking the test, it's only $5, and is pretty damn solid.
INTJ. I was torn between lock and priest. I wound up priesting when there was more need, and I couldn't get past wanting the healing to be solid at least. Fast forward, I wind up GM / raid leader, we lead the horde side in PvE and PvP. Then I realize how much time this was taking and how unrewarding, the people were fun most of the time, but the game didn't show much hope of pulling together in Dec '05. So I quit.
With the exp it's pretty tempting to play again, smaller content, smaller guild, a decent PvP system, and a 12 month expansion cycle... and if I can get past leaving the healing too others it would be as a lock ;)
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should chellenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.--Mark Twain
oh yes.. the days where only 1.. maybe 2 classes feared warlocks.. good times.
the myers brig stuff is kinda notorious for being innacurate, so while interesting, note that it isn't well... exact. If you take the test a resonable time apart, your likely to get different results. what would be interesting is if someone actually went through and attributed each combo with a class. but that's a lot of effort ;)
No honestly I am dumb. Most of the I'm playing smart.
I used to have different outfits, but I really ran out of bag space, so I had to ditch them (though I do have my end-game weapon. Walking Stick with +3 weapon damage!). I do eat Deviates for every boss fight and use different mounts for different things; Kodo's for flat overland travel and for sitting around AFK and Wolf for more hilly terrain... I never use my horse anymore unless I get bored. I also have them all bound in different ways to my middle mouse key :\
Let me be one of the exceptions to some rules... :)
I'm a RL female who has more male toons than female toons. The reasoning actually was based on experiences in a couple games like, The Realm and Everquest in which people tend to talk to you more on a female toon. I just wanted to play and not have to deal with some of the crap that I had experienced on other games.
I have 3 level 60 toons. My baby is my paladin. I've always loved the paladin class and for me it's more of a lore/mental classification with the side of good, helping, defensive type thing. You'll frequently find me either healing and picking up mobs that come for the squishies or talking people into letting me tank. I really enjoy the challenge of tanking with a paladin. I also have a mage, because let's be serious, I play a holy/prot paladin... big numbers are fun! I suck at him but man is the AoE a ball. And, he is a gnome because I thought the laugh was cute. And finally is my level 60 priest who I abhor. I'd rather play my paladin and I can't give you a good reason that she's 60 other than.. well once I hit 35 for tailoring I might as well finish it right? My current toon is a level 40 warrior...
My guild leader and our raid leader (we are an alliance) is a paladin as well. I've lead the raid and have somehow wound up being in charge of setting up healing. At one point I ran a guild myself...
And to the person who also noticed that the IF tiles are perfectly spaced for jumping but it's rather difficult to do... I concur!
Best tiles to jump on are in nefarian's balcony; twin emperors' room and noth's room next. But if you go too dedicated on jumping you may aggro vek'nilash.(Guess how I found that out!)
I might be forgetting someone. But thats a rough list. Of note, I have always avoided recruiting female players as much as possible, so the above are the ones that snuck through, either by virtue of being really good people, or exceptionally skilled at the game, or some form of love affair with a member(kidding!)
10/15 are healers, and most of the long term members who were any good were healers. Which isnt a correlation, the MT was good too.
Well, I am a female, and a protection warrior. My husband is a rogue. I have a sister who is a shaman with a warlock for a boyfriend. My guild has 6 sets of couples. Which seems kind of high to me.
I never really understood warriors as a "male" roll. Sure, warriors may be tough, but prot tank damage is certainly not spectacular. I mean, what is tanking about? Taking damage so you guild mates don't have to. Its kinda motherly. Doesn't it give you the warm fuzzies? Plus, I think warriors like to be in control, and that they like the attention they receive from being in such an important roll. Sounds like female traits to me so far. Now rogues. There is a "male" roll if I ever saw one. DPS DPS DPS….I don't care who my mob is slicing into as long as I get can get a crit backstab in. ;)
For girls we have: 2 Priest, a Shaman(Healing), a Mage, a Warlock, a druid(Feral I believe), and me. I bet I'm leaving someone out, oh well.
hehe, I found this thread interesting enough that I registered on the forums.
Don't really see any general stereotypes aside from our hunters not talking on vent.
The guild in the past has had several female players:
2 warlocks (I have priest, rogue, hunter alts)
2 mages (one with a druid alt)
2 priests (one with a warrior, paladin, hunter alts)
1 druid (with mage, hunter, warlock alts)
1 hunter
Our gms have been
2 warriors (both male)
2 priests (one male, one female)
1 warlock (me currently, female)
I find a lot of female players either exploit that they are female thus getting all sorts of items from guys cause they have boobs or they're just normal players who are want to be accepted based on their skill alone.
We have had some wow couples too (m/f):
Warrior/Warlock (2)
Hunter/Warlock
Warrior/Priest
Rogue/Druid
Priest/Hunter
and currently
Paladin/Mage
Oh, and I like to jump around a lot during downtime on raids cause I think the gnome jump is adorable.
From my experience every single priest I know or have ever played with fits into 3 personality categories;
1. Quiet, super-healbot (robo-gamer). A few priests in my guild who are insanely good but basically are very quiet and generally great raiders, fit this category. Two of them even make quite a bit of money playing other games.
2. Type-A Leadership Know-It-All guys. They think they're the best, (sometimes know they're the best) but generally are very opinionated, talk a lot, and pretty much rolled a priest because they think they're the best and don't trust others to do the healing.
3. Rolled a priest to be wanted. Obviously since healers are pretty desirable in this game, people do this. They like being healers, but they essentially play the class to be wanted in groups / liked by the guild / needed by the guild.
Every priest I've ever met falls into one of those 3 categories, and every person who has heard my theory hasn't disagreed.
I play a priest and that sums priests up perfectly i personal am no2 most priest in my guild are no3 with 1-2 no 1, I never wanted to be a priest tho i just rolled it cause when we started on launch day in europe the guild have 1 priest so i said i would re-roll. Number 2 sounds like a arse tho and sometimes well priest like me are but then again i think thats what makes us good healers, cause you know everyone is waitng for you to fuck up :P
11/09/06, 11:51 AM
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