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3 Girls in my guild, 2 druids and one priest all fairly hardcore healers, I noticed this trend too :o

Also notice how many male players play female chars but it is very rare I find to see female players playing males. Females also seem alot more concerned about how their chars look, all the girls in my guild collect special sets of nice looking gear they use when they not raiding.

I was both #1 and #3 originally, but as I got more and more into the game (w/respect to enthusiasm and experience), flashes of #2 would appear now and then. I avoided talking on vent/TS - both because I was shy and because I didn't want to risk venting on some nub too hard. I don't *think* I was ADD jumpy before I levelled and started playing my Rogue, but I sure was afterwards. On my Warrior, I mostly let the Type-A side come forth - it seemed to suit the class role more. I was ALWAYS the Priest whispering the tanks to go get more stuff to kill and jumping around impotently while they waited for mana and the go-ahead.

I think the mathematically inclined are drawn towards DPS and tanking classes. Maximization problems are much more rich than healer theorycrafting, which depends so much on the outcome of mitigation rolls and personal timing/style. Gear raises the caps on your longevity and power, but once you meet the demands of an encounter there's little point in further optimization. It's not that I'm addicted to big numbers, I just like some measurable feedback from my theorycrafting.

I dunno. I see a lot of Warriors who still think armor has diminishing returns...Mathematicians they are not.

I'd agree with that - all the people in my guild who're seriously into min/maxing and theorycraft are rogues, warriors, and the occasional mage (i think all of them at least lurk here, too - coincidence or correlation?). I'd kill for some more theorycraft-inclined people playing other classes, though (i think we have a grand total of one marks hunter in the guild :( i've tried explaining to the others, but they all suffer from a bad case of LR-induced big-number addiction, with one or two even having a thing for Wyvern Sting...).

As for female players, we've got something like eight of so iirc, including semi-inactive ones (our ex-GM did NOT have a policy of attempting to recruit any girls he discovered on the server. Honest), and only 3 of them are healers i think (two priests and a shaman), with the rest being a mix of mages, warlocks, and rogues, so no real trend there.

See women playing hunters a lot too.

Well, I can't imagine EJ would use a MT that didn't know how to play. It's the rogues that have top 3 gear, and sit at 20th on meters that irk me. Again, not my situation, but not something I'd be happy about if I were a raid leader.

1 druid, out of 9.
3 hunters, out of 8.
No mages, no paladins (although 3 or 4 of the paladins are Canadian, which is sort of like being a woman. - 7 mages, 8 pallies)
3 priests, out of 8.
1 rogue, out of 9.
2 locks, out of 6.
2 warriors, out of 7 (one tank, one DPS)

Total female content: 12/62.

Our hardcore minmaxers are me, one of our DPS warriors, one of our tanks, one of our mages, and one of our hunters. The tank is female, the rest are guys.

Amen. When I'm making the groups I usually have 2-3 of our healers take turns whispering me that I have to give up either TSA, battleshout or LotP if I want heals. Makes me sad, although admittedly, I tend to die less when I follow advice. I'm thinking I should try to convince my guild to give Atiesh to a priest just so I have an excuse to stick 5 healers in their own group together and instruct them to keep my wtfpwn dps groups alive :P

Anyways, on topic, the lines blur once you get serious with alts. I'm almost at the point where my movement patterns and habits during idle time are the same on my rogue and mage.. I'm a bit more patient on rogue, less jumping around.. Probably because I have to compress it to a shorter timespan on mage due to being forced to sit still while drinking.

Our guild has 3 girls out of around 75 active members. Destro warlock (guildmaster), ms warrior, hotw/ns druid.

I think i am the guy with most jumps done in our raids, and i am a priest. I did play a rogue for the first 5 months after the game came out tho.

As for women we have 1 druid, 1 paladin (raid leader), 3 priests, 1 lock and 2 warriors.

Back in the days when there was just three big guilds on my server, all were lead by hunters.

One of the nicest, most polite females I've ever met in game is one of our guild's MTs.

If there's one pattern I've noticed about females in mmorpgs, its that they don't play a character of the opposite gender nearly as often as males.