I played a hunter originally, but my main char in EQ was a cleric (TOTALLY surprising, right? :p). I boxed an enc and cleric alot on raids, and also had a druid and a rogue who were primarily mob checkers.

I am an RL female, but probably one of the only ones you'd ever find who plays guy (Both of my original chars were male in EQ) and in most guilds I've been affiliated with I was an officer, or co-leader. (Except in WoW, I left my days of leadership behind me in EQ.)

Hunter just seemed right because in most MMOs (EQ aside) I'd always played a "hunter" or "ranger" type and tried to continue the trend. DnD was always deep wood snipers, NWN/Baldur's gate were rangers, Asheron's Call was some weird type of ranged class etc. Amazingly enough, when i picked a cleric and enchanter I picked them because their spells sounded "cool". I guess that says something about me as a female. -.-

I eventually rolled priest because I am, a type 2 healer, I admit it. I'm also a complete theorycrafter and in every guild (which has been two) 98% of the information posted about classes has been from me.

I play with my BF and while he tends to be outspoken and authorative IRL, in game he speaks only when necessary, while I on the other hand tend to be opinionated in both areas, but I'm less concerned about being nice in game when people are being idiots. (This generally only means pugs, because after all, I don't need to group with them again!)

I dunno what this says about me as a gamer, but I seem to fit into several stereotypes which just kinda freaks me out. :(

With that said though, I always strive to do my best in every way, and get a pretty grim satisfaction for whooping the pants off of the males in the guild on my hunter, and it's nice to be a prima donna as a priest and get to tell people: Stop doing this, or I'll stop healing you!

In my guild there are only a few females; they are all priests/hunters/mages/paladins/druids/warlocks.

I've met only one or two female rogues in my entire existance, and while they were very good players, they were very effing annoying in personality and usually ended up being spiteful if you disagreed with them.

Female characteristics + a solo and self-centered class do not mix :P

Funnily enough Mearis, I often think that the people who only play in between other things tend to be the biggest drama whores.

Always seems to be alot of those people who get the angriest about things: (I can't believe I logged on just to raid NOT to get that stupid Onyxia bloodfang helm!) or those who try to one-up you with their awesome life: (I don't need you guys, I have a great job, a model GF IRL and a Benz in the driveway!).

The ones who play WoW as a hobby tend to be more easygoing I think. (There's always exceptions) but because of their time invested they seem to be more "with the flow" I guess.

I've seen drama whores of all kinds and even created a bit myself but there's probably no one who is immune!

As an off-note, my BF stated that hunters were solo just as rogues, but I disagreed, because I think they are a different type of solo.

Hunters tend to exude a strong personality of doing things for yourself, while rogues while solo tend to have a bit about them that implies it should ALWAYS be about them. Always make sure you are healing them, buffing them, giving them loot etc.

I also think a good deal of rogues tend to be cocky young guys whose previous game was CS and now they are just here to grief. Not always, but I run into far too many. They all eventually end up rolling dps warriors though /grins

Oh mind you, I don't think that all hardcore gamers are tickling time bombs, or if that was the impression I gave I apologize. You can have a lot of very hardcore people who still keep a great balance, but we all have had the impression of the person who did nothing but play WoW 14+ hours a day for months and months at a time, and you were just waiting for him to blow up or for his lifestyle to catch up.

People who play really casually and have retarded expectations are just as bad of course, and drama queens come in all sorts of flavours. People who constantly bring up everything they do, etc, but in my experience people who are secure and have other avenues of accomplishment other than MMORPG's just end up being more stable. Someone can be the greatest asset to raids with perfect raid attendence, but if he is a huge drama whore the deleterious effect they can have on the guild atmosphere isn't worth any amount of compromise.

I like generalizations, esp about myself because I'm none of the above. I agree with your comment about warriors however and every feral druid I met is slightly bonkers, the resto druids all have chips on their shoulders and paladins are still quietly angry about their raid buff responsibilities.

2 60 warriors, no WoW girlfriend :(

I've managed to roll healing-capable class after healing-capable class almost unerringly. I started as a Rogue, but when I switched servers with a couple RL friends, we decided to organize a levelling trio. One friend was going to go Mage/Lock (I convinced him Mage, I think he still hates me for that). One friend wanted a tank, rolled Paladin (I think he sometimes kicks himself, though in TBC it can work out). I figured we needed a pure healer so I went (dwarf - did my research WAY back in the beginning of last year!) priest. Levelled as Shadow of course but went holy/disc at 47 and never looked back. I loved healing on my priest. I eventually rolled a feral druid alt, then when I played Horde I got the enhancement Shaman here.

If I played in BC, my gf (priest main, mage alt, warrior baby alt with my hunter baby alt) wanted to play a Rogue and I figured I'd roll a (Ret) Paladin despite my hatred of them, not for the trend but for needing a healer for our duo. Every time I mentioned possibly rolling Paladin she'd roll her eyes at me and say "what IS it with you and playing healers? you KNOW you're just going to get pissed off that you're forced to heal."

/shrug. As my priest, I got a lot of satisfaction from holding the group in the palm of my hands, or saving people from the brink of death. It was those "how the hell did we survive that" moments that made me feel good about being a healer. My mage friend had later gone on to yell at me that I ruined things for him since he could not bring himself to trust PUG healers when he was so used to having me in his party. =P Though I guess it balances out because I couldn't trust PUG mages or PUG paladins having grouped with my exceptional friends (the PUG paladin in UD Strat that needed my mage friend to explain how Judgement of Wisdom works was fun).

I guess I'm one of those Type 2 priests, though it wasn't precisely an alt despite not being my first main. I sometimes got uncomfortable running instances on my alts because I couldn't trust the group's healer(s) to do the job right.

My BF is a 60 warrior. =(

Of the females in our guild we have 2 paladins.

The couples are as such:

Guy/Gal

Warrior/Mage
Warrior/Paladin
Warrior(Originally a lock)/Priest
Warrior/Hunter
Mage/Warlock
Hunter(GM)/Druid

I guess it is a warrior/warlock thing!

I'd argue that warlocks make good WoW mates simply because they're used to managing a lot of simultaneous bullshit already, what's another source on top of that? (my fiancee doesnt read EJ's boards or she would probably murder me for that)

I'd like to point out that the warriors listed in those instances are all prot, from my BF, the the last warrior.

I think it's basically about being a "protector" and taking responsibility and control of things. This generally encompasses MTs and prot warriors who usually have a hand in things.

Edit: For the defense of womankind, I am going to find your guild board and paste this on there! /grin

I'll rez you when she's done, I promise.

On a more serious note, if I had to choose a guy by class in WoW I'd probably pick a warrior. The whole "protective" thing.

My wife and I were both in the beta and we decied to go with a mage/paladin combo. I was the paladin, she was the mage. We did the pvp grind up to rank 11 together when the honor system first came out and I switched to a warrior to be MT when our guild started raiding. She tried to make a priest alt but could never get into the healing part.

I started out playing a Priest in my brother's guild because he said the guild needed a Priest (This is back before MC was even out, amusingly enough). So, the fool that I am, I rolled a Priest to be wanted at first, in theory. Finally got to 60, disliked the healing stuff, but was still a Type 2 Personality, converted from Type 3 (I only trusted a very few others to heal). Then I went down the Shadow Priest Raid DPS path, and eventually quit the game due to a number of issues. In the meantime I had rolled a Rogue alt.

After about four or five months out of the game, I started playing again as a Rogue, not even touching my Priest (He still has a free respec sitting there). I find I'm just as twitchy as the rest, as I jump around aimlessly and all over the place, although I attribute some of it to my Priest as well, since I jumped around constantly as a Priest. I think I was just meant to play a Rogue, however, as no other class remains interesting at this point in time. Shadow Priest was fun, but....Due to various issues, it lost its appeal. I could level a Hunter, but Hunters are honestly gimped in PvE, and in PvP they're quite talentless (Argue this if you will, but I've never seen any Hunter do anything very fantastically skilled. Trapping someone and running back a few yards to Aimed Shot is just lame.), so I haven't bothered. Mages are boring (Played one at 60..."Tap your Frostbolt/Fireball key over and over again."), I won't play a Warlock at all just on principle of them being lame and overpowered, a Warrior I could play but I have no desire to tank ever. Paladins and Shaman suck for their own reasons.

Digressing now.....Druids and the people they draw to them suck. I've never met a single Druid that wasn't an incessant whiner. It's completely amazing.



I'm twitchy, yet I also love number-crunching. Rogue is perfect for me.