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I didn't think you could roll Dwarf females xP

Always Roll A Dwarf!!!

You're assuming alot from these graphs that simply isn't true. Priests can be shadow, Druids are more likely to be a dps or tanking spec just by numbers alone and a quarter of the women on the classes graph play hunters. A dps class. Yes, very nurturing.

I don't think you know a great deal of women who play MMOs regularly tbh.

That is great. My wife rolled a dwarf hunter for her first character. She enjoyed the pet aspect of the hunter a TON and the more shoot from afar aspect of ranged damage. After she got the hunter to 60 (the level cap at the time) she decided to go for another class more needed in rading and rolled a mage to lvl 60.

One recomendation for helping your lady friend get into the game, my wife anyways, really enjoyed the profession aspects of the game. It was watching me level up skinning and leatherworking that got her interested enough to pick up the game. Get her started in professions she would enjoy and it really helps break up the game and at least from my experience makes it more appealing to lady gamers.

Life and 2 kids later we have been away from the game since before Burning Crusade but we had a blast playing and raiding together and when we quit playing she actually had more 60s and lootz than I did but that may be because she stole the new gaming box I built ^_^

ummm jenjen hunters nurture their pets, kinda obvious what he ment

I think that it's a shame you gave her a bias against the Horde. I mean, really, how many times have the humans tried to enslave the Horde?

lol

I think it's a great idea that you're getting your g/f into the game though. It's always nice to be able to share your hobbies with the one you care about!

Wish I could meet a girl who would let me embrace my "nerdness" and maybe have some of her own. It's always the "stop playing that stupid game" from my experiences.

Well, maybe one day.

lol @ Manovan

BTW a female dwarf is simply a beardless male dwarf! That is all.

I recently got my girlfriend in to WoW.
I kinda forced her to roll horde, but I rolled a gnome mage to play with her NE druid.

She first rolled a Troll Shaman, then a Blood Elf mage, before settling on a Blood Elf Hunter (she got battlechest).

I have a troll hunter, orc shaman, BE priest and Tauren druid (priest and druid were made to help her level via Refer-a-Friend triple XP bonus via questing together).

She is now (in all honesty!) my ex-girlfriend and I think my refusal to play WoW with her all the time (she kinda got a little hooked), helped ruin my relationship.

But at the end of the day, I still got my Zhevra mount. (Y)

I'm a girl and I freaking love being a warrior. Killing stuff is where it's at. Though, I am a human, cause, like all girls, I like horses. :) And I just got to 60 today, and got my swift mount!

I'm a girl and my main is a free-wheeling, combat-spec'd Rogue! I'm level 79, and I can't seem to muster the energy to quest to 80, so I'm farming my way there.
I have tried other toons, but I'm so spoiled with stealth that I cannot live without it! There are lots of girls in the game, and the strategy of...agility over stamina vs. attack power, etc.... is fun! Real life is complicated....it's fun to be ingame and whale on something!

Being a girl myself and knowing girls on both sides of the spectrum (ranging from WoW is a waste of time to WoW is beyond awesome) I certainly enjoy my time spent in game. Although I find pidgeonholing female gamers into healing roles a bit naive. I play a feral Druid as well as a mage, hunter, and priest on the server I'm on. Playing a Druid allows for plenty of versitility which is what drew me to that class in the first place not the fact that they offer a chance to act as a healer. As for race I go with whatever I want to at the time as it can always be changed later. :)

Since Ms Itzkoopa is a dwarf hunter now, she might want an engineering friend or be 1 herself, after all, since when does end-game bosses drop epic guns? and yes, mechanical squirrel FTW! XD

I remember when I got my daughter her own account. The very next day they came up with the zebra mounts. I was po'd beyond belief. But I've moved on since then and trying to get my friend signed up right now. And his wife. that's a mount for me and my hubby.. Yippee

Being a female gamer, I agree with Cyan that assuming a gal will choose a healing role to be rather stereotypical. I know plenty of guildies that are female who love to dps the living daylights out of their foe. Myself, I prefer melee dps because I like to do it up close and personal. Unfortunately, I'm stuck being a resto shaman until my guild has more healers. :(

I'm a girl and i play a lock. I love being evil and menacing. It's a great way to unwind after work to summon up some minions and go kill some things. The idea that cos i'm a girl i should be either a good person or a healer is rubbish

me and my girlfriend - who is actualy standing near me as i write this just joined on the recomendation of a friend, i started an account and then on the advice of my friend invited her to also join so ew could get more xp. she picked a orc shaman and i went with a belf hunter. she went elemental and is now at lvl 35 and counting. she went this because some1 she met in game said she could easily heal and do dps well. this was to her liking as she said she wanted to stop me killing myself as i already had 10 mins rez sickness at lvl 7. she likes healing and dpsing so its unfair to say that girls prefere to heal she loves kill stealing from me

Im a warrior (kick ass) and my girlfriend rolls a preist (of course) and shes holy, were both undead, and my bro rolls a rouge he as well is a undead. We almost all started the game at the same time so its relly not hard for us all to find a group lol. However i do agree with you on how girls choos races/class's first off no girls make orcs undead or tauren... tahts obvious and mean there ugly. However the do sometimes have undead (not very often) but mostly have Belfs on the horde getting kinda annoying. The sad thing almost all girls make and ally and thats a no duh why, because ally has the "good looking" girls such as human dranei and Nelf. Now as for class's it'd have to be preist, druid, (Nelf druid), hunter, and sometimes pallies. Hunters because they can have cute pets, druid because they can turn into a cute cat and what not (and cause Nelf's are hot) preist because every male tank wants a chick healer, and pally because humans dranei and Belfs can be them. Thats what i think that girls choose and mabye its different for some of you but in my realm thats what they do.

awww manovan, don't worry, not all girls are like that. It took my fiance 2 years to get me into it but now I play and just got my main up to 80 :D

I am a female, my first class? Well, the first I actually took the time to lvl was an undead Mage. I now have three Death Knights a Tankadin and my fave... My shadow Priest. *sparkly eyes* Well, Shadow for leveling purposes, go back to healing when I get her up to 80.

But what I really want to say is, I work at a Subway. Every time I close there's always someone walking in talking about DnD, WoW, Warhammer, or some other MMO. (One guy had a picture of a Lion on stilts stalking a Giraffe with "WTF HAX!" at the bottom and I cracked up laughing.) Every time I join their conversation, they look at me like it's a shock. I had several actually drop jaws at me.

So my lesson is: Don't peg all women as the, "OMG! I need to go shoppin' for some shoes and this cut little skirt that I saw in Vogue yesterday! squeal!" I will sit down with my lvl 5 DnD Druid and strike your but down with my d8 weapon and my kick ass Viper. All the while (yes I do this at the same time) I'll be farming some rep with Sons of Hodir. (Though the fact it's all quests bums me out. T_T) and fishing in some random city.

@Hatell

I know what you mean about people being amazed that I'm not obsessed with shoes.

You know you can hand in the relics of Uldar (sp?) for rep now to sons of Hodir? You get about 350 for 10 and it's repeatable. At last I don't have to do that stupid quest with the dragon anymore, I hate falling to my death so I do.

@Jenjen OH THANK GOD!!! I knew there was a reason for saving those other than to turn in for booze. XD

i must say that by (most likely) mere coincidence most of the girls I know that play wow are hunters. (but heck most of the guys are hunters too >.< ::sigh:: i don't get it) Anyways, really I have to say that I've seen girls playing just about any class and race. Stereotype imo doesn't really fall into place. It's simply what ppl like to do more. (which means i believe the ratio stays the same More dps than healers and tanks).

i started playing because i love wow... my fiance got me playing and whatnot. now im addicted
XD

started with a druid night elf because i wanted a caster and an elf and preists are lame imo :P

really with i had started with a pally .... so sick of hearing how druid healers are not good healers because they dont have "big heals"
::grumbles ::