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Undead and Draenei females, best looking rear ends in the game. And no matter what, you will be spending months looking at your toons rear end, so why not making it as pleasing as possible?

Heh, aye.. all my chars are female, well par the Dwarf on a RP realm, although I really doubt anyone is surprised.

Oh and cheers for the heads up Pinkpaw, been busy the past month and not really noticed any leaks on new Cata stuff. Those new Druid forms are very nice.

I've never understood men's obsession with playing female characters. It's very strange to me.

Back when I used to play, my Gnome Warrior and Undead Rogue were my favorites. I can't stand the look of the Undead character models anymore, but it's still a lot of fun to see people's reaction towards a Gnome decked out in full plate armor.

Since we are talking about WoW...

can someone explain why do rogue player like to spazz their chars so much?
Everytime they duel they keep moving front and back or left to right.

They're trying to get behind you. All of the rogue's most powerful abilities are executed from behind a target, and since PvP doesn't have people automatically turning to face the rogue in question (like PvE does), they're hoping to get behind you and score a cheap shot without having to root you.

Chrysaor686 wrote:I've never understood men's obsession with playing female characters. It's very strange to me.

For me, there was just the aestethics. Most male models looked weird. Is that an obsession? Never thought of it more than that really.
What I've never understood is that if you play a female toon, in a game that's about killing things and sometimes levelling up cooking, people think you have some sort of gender issue.
But then again, there's rule 34 of course. I guess that's why some choose female toons.

I've never understood men's obsession with playing female characters. It's very strange to me.

A lot of guys I have played with that had female toons switched them to male when the paid option became available - I thought that was rather telling. My bf always played male characters but it doesn't bother him if I play a male one.

can someone explain why do rogue player like to spazz their chars so much?
Everytime they duel they keep moving front and back or left to right.

Like the previous poster said, they are trying to get behind you and (if they move around enough) make it difficult for a melee person to hit them. My favorite PvP times are when players RUN from my cat (druid form)... I get to shred them to pieces in about 3 seconds. When they turn to face me? I can scratch them but it takes a long time to get a kill.

Oh and if you never saw them Dark Legacy Comics (especially the older ones) are hysterical.

Chrysaor686 wrote:I've never understood men's obsession with playing female characters. It's very strange to me.

For me the reason is three fold, when I first started playing games my fave genre was beat em ups, and I always liked really quick characters, which in the early years was nearly always the token female char for the game. These days thank goodness fighting games have evolved a fair bit, so male and female chars can have movesets based on speed, although it is still often females even now.
Second as a ST and playing with at least one woman in every group I've played in the past thirteen years, I've run a lot of female friends of the characters they play, so much to the point I am very relaxed playing female characters when I take the role of a player myself. I have no issues on playing women, and pride myself for having every woman (seven in total) I have played with comment on how feminine my npcs can be.
Third, rule 34, aye I'll admit it. Much nicer to look at a woman when playing characters for over 145 days which my main alone has allocated. Think Altaholic said I've knocked up 324 days ish total playing time over the past four years. Theres only so much beard a man can take.

It turned out to be Human after all.

I kind of liked Night Elves in the WC3 implementation, but they looked somewhat wrong in WoW.

Why don't the blood elves look like the WC3 ones?

Daba wrote:It turned out to be Human after all.

I kind of liked Night Elves in the WC3 implementation, but they looked somewhat wrong in WoW.

Why don't the blood elves look like the WC3 ones?

They arent the same ones. the ones that went with the prince are the ones in wc3.

Goblins! I love the engineering aspect and all their sneaky businessperson type of attitude.

I was disappointed for the second time when I discovered that goblins couldn't be druids either

I quit playing WoW a while back, I like the game I just didn't have time for the 3 hour raid BS. I was Dwarf Hunter (72)

I stopped raiding a couple months ago but I still play. Now I just level slowly and enjoy PvP and running dungeons.

Raiding is a big time drain and lately did not provide the challenge I was looking for (heck I could have done most fights blindfolded). I miss the good parts of raiding sometimes, but then I remember the bad parts...

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:

Chrysaor686 wrote:I've never understood men's obsession with playing female characters. It's very strange to me.

For me the reason is three fold, when I first started playing games my fave genre was beat em ups, and I always liked really quick characters, which in the early years was nearly always the token female char for the game. These days thank goodness fighting games have evolved a fair bit, so male and female chars can have movesets based on speed, although it is still often females even now.
Second as a ST and playing with at least one woman in every group I've played in the past thirteen years, I've run a lot of female friends of the characters they play, so much to the point I am very relaxed playing female characters when I take the role of a player myself. I have no issues on playing women, and pride myself for having every woman (seven in total) I have played with comment on how feminine my npcs can be.
Third, rule 34, aye I'll admit it. Much nicer to look at a woman when playing characters for over 145 days which my main alone has allocated. Think Altaholic said I've knocked up 324 days ish total playing time over the past four years. Theres only so much beard a man can take.

Holy gak, mate.

324 days total playing time?

You've almost spent a literal year in actual time logged into WoW.

Um..yeah.

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Once cataclysm comes out, I'll be changing my troll hunter to undead, my warrior to a tauren (Doombull!), and my mage to a goblin.

I've always thought guys who played female characters to be a bit childish. Generally I find it's because they're teenagers and hormones and all. I always played for the epic feeling of my character, and I don't really get that when blizzard makes female armor sets literal bikini's made out of plate.

Ah, made a mistake there, when you said that I thought, wait there that seems way too much for four years of gaming.

That was my and my wifes combined total, remembered the wrong number at work. Just checked now I'm home, and mine is 194.

Still crazy when you think about it, but I do enjoy the game. Mainly lvlling alts, PvP myself as well atm.

Don't see much point in raiding while Cata is this close.

hmm interesting, voted for undead, goblin and blood elves.

only race i will play, maybe a troll at some point

surprised to see BE with so many votes, guess people dont hate em as much as its portrayed

It would be Orcs, but just something about the Warcraft Orcs just doesn't click with me very well. I do quite like the Goblins though, come Cata I'm gonna be rolling a Gobbo right from the get-go.

So i started to try it out the other day, and im playing an undead. I like the cannibalize ability. Is awesome sauce.


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@ Karon - I agree about the whole guys rolling girls, but i think it's ok for a change. I mean, im terrible at the game as I have about 4 characters all on the roll at the same time, 3 male undead and one female. It just freshens things up IMO. And you cant say im a horney teenager on account of the undead factor. If you did, it'd be jumping to the assumption that im also into necrophilia. Which is royally weird.