tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766210594567924684.post6703465327956221821..comments2023-11-05T01:11:25.680-08:00Comments on Druid Tank: Race GirlsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766210594567924684.post-91886635659834522322010-04-06T10:47:22.125-07:002010-04-06T10:47:22.125-07:00I am male and tend to play female characters (bloo...I am male and tend to play female characters (blood elves and one human death knight)mainly for the appearance. If I'm gonna stare at the back of a toon for 80 levels and then raids and dungeons after that, I want something more pleasant to look at and there's nothing more pleasing to the eye than the female form. My druid however is a male tauren as I felt, for me anyway, that the tauren females are quite ugly to look at and I was going to be spending 99% of my time shape-shifted anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766210594567924684.post-73703508070247211602008-02-03T06:34:00.000-08:002008-02-03T06:34:00.000-08:00I play a female dwarf as my main and am female and...I play a female dwarf as my main and am female and short in real life. so that very well could be a sense of related identity that draws me to that character. However, I have I a mess of other alts, too.<BR/><BR/>Have you ever seen the <A HREF="http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/arch_cat.php" REL="nofollow">Daedelus Project</A>? It has all kinds of statistics about people who play MMORPGs. <BR/><BR/>For example: Troll and undead are played by younger players on average, and dwarves and orcs by older (<A HREF="http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/001368.php" REL="nofollow">source</A>). <BR/><BR/>Also, there are five guys who play WoW to every one girl who plays. About every 1 in 100 male characters you see will be piloted by a female in real life. Conversely, about 1 in every 2 female characters is piloted by a guy (<A HREF="http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/001369.php" REL="nofollow">source</A>).Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04595069953613575981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766210594567924684.post-12327855727134666002008-02-01T14:04:00.000-08:002008-02-01T14:04:00.000-08:00You know it's interesting for me-- I'm a female ye...You know it's interesting for me-- I'm a female yes, but I've always been one of those super-tomboy, I-only-have-guy-friends, gimme-video-games-and-super-short-hair types of chicks. So perhaps it's interesting that my characters are all almost exclusively female and that not more of them are male, because that "feminine" side of me is not one that is seen often.<BR/><BR/>I think it's because when it comes down to it, I really <I>do</I> see my characters as being avatars of myself. I'm not just <I>controlling</I> my female night elf hunter. When I play WoW, I <I>am</I> my female night elf hunter. Or my female tauren hunter. Or my female human mage. Et al. (Actually oddly enough, now that I think about it, I feel more distanced from my non-hunter characters; my hunters are mostly the ones that are "me".)<BR/><BR/>So when it came down to the gender selection I picked female because, despite my many guy-ish tendencies, in the end I'm a chick and thus my virtual avatars were going to be chicks. I really had no second thoughts about it. (The characters mostly invariably wound up being tomboys of course.)<BR/><BR/>These days I've become more open to the idea of messing around with male characters, as well as characters with a variety of different personalities-- the whole role-playing thing grows on me more and more every day.<BR/><BR/>But I agree it's a very interesting topic and I would be interested to hear more about why certain people chose certain characters. I know guys who wouldn't be caught dead playing female characters, and I also know guys who <I>only</I> play female characters. It's all very interesting.Pikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249690585703986146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766210594567924684.post-19285485581182915982008-01-29T16:47:00.000-08:002008-01-29T16:47:00.000-08:00For me it came specifically down to appearance whe...For me it came specifically down to appearance when it comes to gender. Male humans, dranei, and night elves all look a bit off to me, as do female gnomes and dwarves. When I start making a character, after class I decide on a name. The name normally reflects the class a bit if I did not steal the name from some other lore. I then choose which race depending on availability to play said class, as well as whether or not I think of a female or male name.Troggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09988464732738263725noreply@blogger.com