Monday, March 30, 2009

Oi... Dis Keybord iz Stickee.... o_O

So dis silly humie name Rivs ova at Way of the Chosen gives me dis Shiney wot he call da "Sticky Keyboard Award". Sez sumfin' about ya gotta tell da gitz readin' yer scribblz who it wuz ya got dis Shiney frum, and den put up a link back ta dere scribblz... Den ya got ta do a cupple tingz:

(oiz gunna cut 'n' paste deez scribblz cuz dey too much fer me ta put heer wivvout messin' 'em all up)

  1. When accepting this auspicious (aww-spishus?...wassat??) award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim (a-claim? izzn't dat wut dem stuntiez call where dey dig fer shineys?), and link back to the said person so everyone knows she/he is real.
  2. Choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends. Show the seven random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon. (Shineys!!)
  3. List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. Then pass it on! (Aww... dey gots ta be 'onest?? :( )
Ok heer goez. (I'mma let da humie do dis scribbl cuz she ken do it betta den oi ken.)

1. Mmmmm Gud is a blog by Lokax on Karak Norn (EU) server. Now, I'd think it's obvious by now that I have a bit of a penchant for greenskins (ya think??) so of course Lokax was going to find himself on this list, but really and truly, the blog is so well written and informative I'd have been remiss not mentioning it here.

2. Breakfast at WAR is one of my favorites, done up by the Pancakez and Omelettez duo. Great posts, and a few chuckles thrown in. (I generally need to keep Urp from climbing into my lap begging me to read it to him...>.<)

3. Blame the Healer is another of my favorites, mainly because he discusses the game from a point of view I can relate to: that of a healer. Good stuff!

4. War Lady's View is another girl gamer blog, also featured in Urp's WCPI spotlight for this week. If you're into EU blogs, you gotta check this out.

5. Nosmo King over at Tooth Skinner posts some funny stuff about "back seat drivers" in WAR scenarios and in general puts out an entertaining and well-written piece of blogwork.

6. Although I'm Destro at heart (and always have been, even when I played Order), Maladorn over at WAR 'n Pieces offers a pretty objectve view of the game, even if he is a dirty Sigmar worshipping Warrior Priest... >.>

7. Spank the Tank is a great read, offering interesting insights from someone who's played both sides of the Order/Destro fence!

And now... 10 things you never wanted to know about me:

1. I'm a Navy veteran with 7 years active duty under my belt.

2. I have 46 hours worth of tattoo work. If I put on heels, I am 6'1" tall... and only weigh 129 pounds.

3. I am building a small Tyranid 40K army, but I've been slacking horribly on painting them because I spend too much time playing WAR.

4. I have a younger brother who used to model for Paul Mitchell.

5. I used to play concert piano and 2nd chair F Horn for the Southeastern Philharmonic Orchestra in Massachusetts.

6. I was in the Gifted program in school, went to high school every Wednesday in the 4th grade, skipped the 7th grade, and went to special "smart kid classes" at Milton Academy on Saturdays.

7. I recently got a wild urge to shave off all my hair to 1.5" at about 4am one morning after playing WAR for about 18 hours straight... and it actually looks damn good.

8. I make most of my own jewelry out of sterling wire, glass beads, and pieces of semiprecious stone.

9. I have an English Bulldog and a pink Siamese Fighting fish... both of whom love it when I read to them.

10. Recently I have become fascinated with traditional Middle Eastern music, and enjoy listening to it while I write.

Well, that's it. :D Hope you enjoyed the read.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

WCPI Spotlight

http://jejebell.blogspot.com/

War Lady's View is an EU blog I checked out by following a link from Rivs' blog... and was I ever pleased I clicked the link. Really nice header, informative content... not to mention great to see another female WAR blogger around. Her latest post regarding the subject of males IRL playing female toons in-game gave me a good chuckle. :D Check her out!!

Friday, March 27, 2009

So oi heer dis blogfing...


...iz got deez scribblz bein look'd at by all sortsa gits... even sum poncey poin'y eerz and humies and such...

so if youse all dun mind, couldja put a scribbl on dis post heer so oi'z can start lookin' at yer scribblz too? oi'z wantin' ta add sum more scribblz to dat list ova on da lef...errr...righ... errr that side ova dere ---> wot shows da udder scribblz oi loikz ta lookit an' dat oi fink uvver gits shud lookit too.

tankz.

-Urp

oyeh. dat up dere is a scribbl uv Nimboo lookin' at sum stunty wipes wot 'e found sumwhere. i wuz finkin' youse mite loik it.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I should probably get some rest...

...but I felt like posting, so here I am.

I guess this is going to be kind of a State of the Game type post instead of the screenies I promised. I am still working on collecting more cool ones anyhow, so you'll just have to wait. ;)

Some things that are still broken with 1.2, and some things that 1.2 broke. Man... there are alot of 'em. I know I'm not the only one who is utterly frustrated with how things are now, especially from a destruction point of view. It's to the point now that I am truly dreading the day Urp reaches R32, and at that time will have to decide if I'm going to start work on another alt or continue up into the Tier I have been avoiding due to all the problems. So here they are, in no particular order:

**AOE - It's completely out of control for both sides, but moreso Order than Destruction due to the combination of the Wildfire and Fan the Flames tactics for Bright Wizards. I decided to lay Nimboo for a short bit today, and was running to defend the south keep in Black Crag when I was set upon by a small band of order, with one Bright Wizard. Now, not only did they have more than enough manpower (I think there were 5 of them, could have been more) to take me down, as I was by myself... but get this: The BW did not hit me with one single target spell. He ran up to me after tossing on his debuff and proceeded to AOE.

Yep. AOE'd me down... when I was by myself. WTF???

This sort of overpowered ability presents a number of problems. First, due to the tactic that BW's have that increases the radiius of the spell, if they are on a keep wall when they cast it, it can hit targets up to 110 feet away from the wall. Now, last I checked, the max range of RDPS abilities is... 100ft. So how is it you're supposed to hit hit the door, or try and kill the people AOEing you??

Oh wait... that's that other glaring issue with AOE as it is in the game right now... LOS.

You couldn't even hit the AOE'er if you WERE in range, because he is hiding safely and conveniently behind a battlement out of LOS of your abilities, yet he can easily cast RoF to his heart's content and never take damage but from his own Blacklash, thus making it impossible to stop the endless Rain of Fire dropping down on your head.

Then there is the stupidity of the overpoweredness of this ability from the other end. I know the good BW's (and Sorc's, tho theirs isn't nearly so ridiculous as the BW's) are frustrated with one button easy mode. They have made plenty of posts on the forums asking Mythic to please revamp their AOE, even including videos such as the one that shows a team of three Bright Wizards and a Warrior Priest AOEing down anentire Destro warband inside a BO from behind a pillar where they can't be seen. This sort of thing is not good for the game as a whole. It's boring for both the AOEspammers and the ones being subject to the spam, and it needs to be fixed, pronto.

Another problem is that AOE ticks are not supposed to crit... however, they ARE critting. And often. ONE TICK of that Bright Wizard's RoF today crit Nimboo for 2180. Is this balance??

**Cleansing Power - Warrior Priests are a little more difficult to convince that this ability needs a look, but I HAVE seen some of the more reasonable ones admitting it really needs to go. It works like this: whenever the Warrior Priest heals an ally with Divine Aid, Touch Of The Divine, Pious Restoration, or Martyr's Blessing, they will also be cured of 1 Curse.

One Curse? What's the big deal?

Well, you see, 1.2 changed alot of Sorceress' abilities to Curses. DoK's and Chosen attacks are, for the most part, Curses... and ALL the Choppas attacks are... you guessed it... CURSES. So with one Warrior Priest in the vicinity casting group heals, your team is basically completely immune to any abilities any of the abovementioned classes could use to damage you.

Even better?? IT IS A 3 POINT MASTERY SKILL TALENT. THREE POINTS. How on earth did this talent ever make it to the live version of the game??? Is this balance??

**CC Immunities - ...are just plain broken. Where are the Knockback Immunities, and why aren't they working? What happened to Disorients affecting instant cast abilitites???? Is this balance???

**Healing - Healing in WAR has also turned into mindless one-button spam... which is why I have shelved my Zealot for the most part (combined with the fact that the class is broken beyond belief, but that's not what this post is about, so I'll save you my rant on that one). The main problem? My AOE healing can not keep up with the incoming AOE damage.

I'll give you an example. My Zealot is in 3/6 Darkpromise 3/6 Sentinel. She has about all the crit she can get from gear (outside of the DP feet which won't drop), and some really nice jewelry pieces. Her Dust of Pandemonium (2.5s cast AOE Heal) hits for around 1200. Now remember up above there I mentioned I was crit on Nim today for 2180 by a tick of RoF... then imagine I'm trying to heal my team through multiple casts of RoF.

Given that healers are rather scarce in any MMO (and, it seems, especially in WAR) are you going to be able to stack your group with enough healers to heal through 1k+ damage per second from each BW (and lately, with everyone and their brother dusting off their R40 BW alts, that can add up to quite a number) in order to heal through that kind of damage with a 2.5 second cast that heals for 1200?

And why on earth are DoK and WP group heals healing for more than mine are, when they are supposed to be melee hybrids??

Is this balance???

**Resists - Nerfed to 40%... why even have them in the game at all? They're pretty well useless at this point. You can't stack enough to negate nearly enough of the damage being dished out from AOE these days to be able to survive without hitting the extremely low softcap. May as well stack Wounds and whatever else you need to be able to heal or do damage and be done with it, since Resists are pointless now.


Anyhow, these are my gripes, or at least the gripes I can think of right now. I'm about sick to death of the AOE-fest WAR has become and I'm really loathe to continue to pay for a game I'm really just not having fun playing. I'm not going to cancel just yet, because I still do love the game, but things really need to be set right, and fast. Most people aren't nearly as patient as I am, and since 1.2 basically broke the damn game, alot of people are logging on these days only to do PvE instances and then logging off. This really, really makes me sad, because I really wanted to see this game succeed... I just don't know what they can do at this point besides reverting stuff back to 1.1 and hoping people forget 1.2 ever happened.


Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Beet'n Feetz Troo Da Teerz...an' Sum Gobbo Fashun Senz.

So little Urp is now Rank 22. He is a little healing machine, too. Got his group heal, his little white Ridin' Wolf, and his last name.

Yay for Urp Stinkbref! (I've gotten more than a couple whispers from people chuckling at the name)...

So what makes Gobbos look so cool in purple, anyhow? I actually discussed this strange fashion anomaly with Narlgutz, a R40 shaman from Limitless who I'd conned into doing Bile and Enclave with us this evening (Thanks Narl <33). (Oh yeah, side note, and before I forget... Grats to Orcen on finally reaching R40 on your reroll... hopefully we will have better luck in Bile/Enc in a few days.) Narlgutz was absolutely in agreement with me that purple is far and away the best color for shaman. Neither of us could put a finger on why that might be... Personally I'm all about the purple on Nimboo too, ever since they came out with the Lich Purple craftable dye (yum).

So for a bit today, I'd like to put my complaints about WAR aside and focus on something GOOD about it instead. The actual LOOK of the game.

I was discussing this at length with my husband the other day and we both agree... the look of Warhammer Online is absolutely stunning. The characters look unbelieveable, very true to the tabletop models and extremely detailed. The castles and keeps and scenery are gorgeous. And the spell effects are awesome. (The green glowy of my Gather 'Round is almost peaceful, in a WAAAAAGH-y sort of way. ;) )

I was scuttling around T2 Dark Elf pairing today with some random PUG warband taking keeps and BO's and skirmishing with Order and we went to go take Cascade of Thunder. I really should have gotten a picture of it today, since now if I go near there I will turn to poultry, because I think it's one of my favorite keeps in any pairing. It's so pure and so damaged and broken all at the same time... the fountain and manicured paths outside so neat and tidy, while the polished white stone of the keep walls are broken and cracked. It has a lost innocence to it, which I think is what makes me like it so much.

Anyhow, I am still up from yesterday (couldn't sleep, so I got up and made pancakes and eggs and leveled Urp out of T2) but I'm getting a bit snoozy, so I will keep you all updated. I think the next post will be some screenshots of the game from various places... so I will play photographer a bit when I wake up. ;D

Friday, March 13, 2009

Git to Da Choppa! (yeah, yeah I know.. cliche...)


Meet Urp. :D

I finally get to play him now that the Choppas are running around AOEspamming willy nilly and cutting Order to ribbons.

I love Greenskins. Their personalities, their /specials, their appearance... everything about them. I could seriously run around on Nimboo for hours and hours and hours jumping in circles and never get tired of watching him scuttle about.

He hit Rank 12 tonight, leveled out of T1 (no more Nordenwatch :( ) and with spore laden, wide eyed anticipation, he will head out to the wilds of Ostland tomorrow accompanied by his brave and stalwart companions Ironyob, Bludgreeen, and Hasaan (the Choppas), Lode (the Black Orc) and Tired (the Squig Herder).

Aww, who am I kidding. They're going to mob out into the woods and participate in the rampant and wanton slaughter of various endangered species while swilling alcohol and screaming cusswords at the top of their lungs. Urp and Tired will more than likely spend the evening praying their large, angry companions don't get bored with tearing wood sprites apart and eat them just for something to do. *sigh*

I don't know why, but I really haven't had this much fun playing WAR in quite some time. In case you didn't notice (HURRHURRRHURRRR), the blog layout has changed. I'm in a green sort of mood, so there you have it... and with my Main more than likely changing to Nimboo within a VERY short period of time, I needed something more appropriate.

Now if I could only find someone to make me up a kickass greenskin header for mah blog to top it all off... any artists out there??

Monday, March 9, 2009

WCPI

Just giving a shout out to a few of my fellow bloggers tonight! (Pardon the links, for some reason I can't get them to show up right. >.<) Way of the Chosen is a blog by a fellow Destro player. His opinions, experiences, and thoughts can be found at: http://wayofthechosen.wordpress.com . Some wonderfully written articles to be found there.

Girl IRL is another great one, a blog I check daily for updates. She's also a winner of the WAR Blogging contest. Though she and I don't see eye to eye on 100% of topics discussed, I consider her to be a pretty cool gal and an eloquent writer, and I highly respect her opinions even if I don't share them. :D Find her blog at: http://girlirl.blogwarhammer.net

Blame the Healer ( http://blamethehealer.blogwarhammer.net/ )is another one of my favorites (mainly because I play... well... a healer. ;D). I absolutely love the video one post down from the current that shows what WAR would look like with antialiasing and bloom... though all I can think of at this point watching it is OMGSERVERCRASH! :(

Bedtime!

Miz V out. ;)

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

1.2 Musings, Zealot Related.

So after doing a bit of this and that trying to get a feel for how things work post-patch I have come up with this list of things that are still busted.

*My Dust of Pandemonium says it's a 2.5 second cast, but it's still a 3 second cast. Same with Elixir of Dark Blessings, which was SUPPOSED to have been fixed in 1.1. Seriously... what the hell?
*Veil of Chaos is still worthless and needs to be buffed more. 1/4 of a BW DoT tick is not worth the waste of a GCD. Either fix it for real or take it out of the damn game.
*Innate 10% base heal crit is still not registering on our character screen till renown points are put into +heal crit, at which time you will see it jump up 12%.
*It would really be amazing if my harbinger, you know, DID something outside of wasting a perfectly good GCD.
*Dark Medicine is still a retarded AP hog. Please set it back to it's original value and decrease the AP cost, or even leave it as it is and decrease the AP cost. As it is now, it is still the last possible HoT I use because it slurps up too much of my little yellow bar.
*I thought our big heal pushback was supposed to be lessened in 1.1? As it stands right now, if an Order player sneezes on the other side of the zone the spell gets set back. Fix pls.
*I still have the purple glitter graphics glitch on my offhand.
*Winds of Insanity now is utterly useless because you're now forced to just stand there as a bunch of angry red ping pong balls smack you upside the head and you can't move to get away from them.
*Drink Deeply was fine, now it's worthless.

So far after testing this is what I have found. I'll keep updates posted on what happens fix-wise, but from what I read on WHA we aren't even getting a glance for quite some time. This either means Mythic could give a shit, or that they acknowledge that we are so horribly borked that we need a total revamp and need a ton of time to do it.

/sigh

--Miz V OUT.

The New and Improved/The Flipside of the "WAR Gender Disparity"


So with 1.2 finally being released, I thought now was a good time to get off my butt and make a post. To start with, here is a recent picture of Vinda. You will notice something different about her... and not just the new headpiece. Vinda no longer worships Tzeench.

I can hear your jaw hitting the floor from my desk here in my living room.

"But... not worship Tzeench?! She HAS to worship Tzeech?! Why would she turn away from the god she has worshipped for so long??"

The answer is simple. Vinda has prayed to Tzeench every night... worshipped him devoutly and been a faithful follower... however, no matter how hard she prays, how many elves she eats for dinner or how many kittens she decapitates in Tzeench's name, zealots still remain broken. Thus, she has turned away from Tzeench and fallen into the loving (albeit rotten and pus smelling) arms of Grandfather Nurgle. It is her hope that perhaps Nurgle will appreciate her service more and sometime soon her tactics will work properly, and she will have more survivability than a piece of used toilet paper. Cutting the cast time on our group heals is all well and good (though it perpetuates Dust spammers, who I detest).... but what about balancing our survivability with our mirror class? What about making our Harbinger an integral part of our class like it says in the class description?? What about our role as the best single target healer in the game? As it is right now, a Shaman or DoK is far more desirable in a stacked premade. They can both put out more healing because they can live longer than we can... not to mention the DoK can potentially put out insane DPS as well...

Please fix us, Mythic. I love playing Vinda, but rerolling Shaman is looking better and better to me the longer you wait to fix things that were broken in BETA. :\

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The Flipside of the WAR Gender Disparity
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I've read a number of posts in a few different blogs regarding WARs supposed anti-female gender bias, and so I decided to write my own piece on it. Alot of you will not like what you read here, but I make no apologies. It's taken me some time to come up with what to write on this subject, and I finally came up with something cohesive enough for a post. If you don't want to hear what I have to say, read no further. You have been warned.

So, first a little background.

I am a 30 year old Navy vet. I'm educated and well read, and speak three languages. I'm an incredible cook. I'm heavily tattooed. I consider myself independant and "one of the guys"... as in, I can generally our drink, out cuss, and beat the snot out of most guys I meet these days. This is due to a few factors, the largest one being the absolute pussification of the modern male.

That's right, I said it. Men these days are absolute weaklings for the most part. They have stupid hair, wear girl pants, have no asses, and weigh less than I do... and I weigh in at a whopping 135. Not to mention they like stupid music, know more about clothes and shoes than I do, and are overly apologetic for everything they do that might somehow be considered offensive to anyone in the immediate (or not so immediate) vicinity. They have no balls, and no backbone. They play acoustic guitars (badly), and like terrible music. They wear scarves year round and basically look like homeless crack addicts. And for some reason, women these days actually are attracted to this wishywashy mealymouthed idiocy, thereby perpetuating it.

Now, I don't know WHY modern females like these sorts of guys, but I'm guessing it's that they're nonthreatening (I mean, who the hell could a beanpole in girl pants with stupid hair intimidate anyhow??). Personally, I find them to be disgusting. There is nothing on earth I hate more (besides maybe brussels sprouts, and even those are decent with enough butter on them) than someone who kisses my ass, and these types are just that. They have their lips firmly affixed to the ass of every woman they meet as soon as they open their mouths (while looking straight down at their shoes, of course).

Now, I don't blame the men for this. It's really not their fault. They have been conditioned and spoon-fed lies about what a real man is expected to be by the most despicable of all things... the epitome of evil... the bane of all that is good in this world:

The feminist.

That's right. The feminist. You all disgust me. You are the reason that men are wusses and I can beat the crap out of most of them. You are the reason that a girl can't carry on a conversation with a man without him yes'ing her to death while he stares intently at his shoes. And YOU (and the mealy mouthed cuckholds that follow you around with their noses in your fat behinds agreeing with every ludicrous thing that comes out of your slobbering pie holes) are going to ruin MMOs.

Let's face it. The majority of girls (not all, but the vast majority) of girls are not good at MMOs. They just plain aren't. Alot of them play to appease the men they're with, and that's really fine. There is nothing bad about wanting to do things as a couple and get into things your partner is into. It can be very healthy for a relationship for people to do things like play online games together. However, this does not mean that half the girls with virtual avatars in online games have any semblance of a clue as to what they're doing when they log on, and WAR is no different. Now, don't take this to mean that the glas I play with are slouches, by any stretch. These gals didn't get into some of the top guilds on Iron Rock because they're terrible... However, I think they would agree with me when I say that they are NOT the norm, as unfortunate as that may be.

The game has a rich lore which has been set in place for the last 20+ years. When this game came out, having done some research and read some books and familiarized myself with the lore, I was a little taken aback that Games Workshop bent their lore as much as they did to accomodate the minority female playerbase. In reality (and in keeping with the lore, if you wanted to be totally strict and not bend or break any rules at all) there should be no female Ironbreakers, Engineers, or Rune Priests. There should be no female Witch Hunters, Bright Wizards or Knights of the Overpowered Knockback... I mean... Blazing Sun. There should be no female Maguses (Magi?) and no female Warrior Priests. There should be no females anywhere in WAR at all with the exception of Witch Elves and Sorceresses... but they changed over 20 years of lore to accomodate people and make it possible for people to have more options for their online avatars.

And please don't even get me started on female Greenskins. There is no such thing as a female Greenskin. What would set them apart from the males? Boobs? Why would a greenskin who is SPAWNED FROM SPORES need boobs? Boobs are to nurse young. Greenskins don't nurse young, they're frickin killing machines. They have need of strong, thick bone structure and big muscles to swing axes that look like they tore the front fender off a dump truck and tied a handle to it. Their purpose in life is to tear things apart and avoid being eaten by any greenskins bigger than they are. That's it.

And Slayers... this argument is also ridiculous. There never has been (and thank the GODS there never will be) a female Slayer. First off, if a female dwarf were to break an oath a male dwarf would become a Slayer in her place to save her the shame because female dwarves are so revered in dwarven culture that they are not permitted to fight. And its not because they're weaklings, either. Dwarves are a dying race, for goodness sake. Letting the few females they have become Ironbreakers, Engineers and Rune Preists are putting enough of them in harm's way, thank you very much.

Now, I understand the concept of the desire to relate in some way to your virtual self. If you're going to play an MMO and have others see you online, you want what they see to represent you to a degree. It's why I feel more of a relation to my Zealot than I ever felt with my Rune Priest. However, riddle me this:

If you consider yourself to be a strong, "liberated" (lol) woman, why wouldn't you want your avatar to be physically strong and intimidating in appearance? What is wrong with playing a male toon as a female? Quite frankly, I feel as though the people who complain about there not being enough female avatars in WAR are sexist themselves. Games Workshop not only bent alot of their own lore to accomodate players, they damn well broke alot of it into little pieces. It is YOU, not Mythic and not GW, that is limiting your character options. YOU choose to cut your choices down to a fraction of what is available to you, and cry and whine and moan that more exceptions and allowances aren't made, and honestly, I think it's utterly ridiculous.

First off, this game does not take place in the real world. Your social standards and expectations do not apply here. You are trying to apply modern human social mores to a game that takes place in a medieval timeframe on an imaginary alternate plane of existance. This other universe contains completely different societies than the real world, and completely different races with completely different values. It would be like discovering life on a distant planet and trying to force how we think and act on the native inhabitants. It just DOESN'T WORK that way.

Second, the female character options you DO have available to you are some of the most chaste and respectably dressed women in any MMO I have ever come across (with the obvious exceptions being Sorceresses and Witch Elves, however, if you were to visit your local S&M club how they dress really isn't all that far off from the stuff they're into). The vast majority of your options are not scantily clad harlots, they are, in fact, fine representatives of strong, valiant females.

For example, this was my character from Beta. Her name was Ygrid:
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She looks tough, and no-nonsense... and she looks like she could beat the everloving crap out of anyone who pissed her off.

However, I play Destruction now, of course. I decided recently that I would like to try out some melee DPS.

So, this is Bjarn...
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...and this is what Bjarn can do in a scenario:
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TL;DR version:

There is nothing wrong with a female playing a male character. (In fact, two very well played Chosen on my server are played by females... Hi Burghur and Ducatii!! <3) Not enough females open themselves up to the option due to some feeling of entitlement that they should just be able to play any class they want as either gender (even if the race doesn't HAVE genders!!) and rather than try out a class they're interested in the mechanics of, they cry about how they can only ever possibly play a class with a female option. To them, I say knock off the sexism, honey. You're being just as biased against males as you're saying the folks at Mythic/GW are against females. You are the one limiting your play options, not the company that wrecked alot of their own storyline to accomodate you as much as was within reason.

--Miz V OUT.