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Auenwing posted:
It's not a male or female thing.
Tanking is a mind set.
That's true. I've met some very good female tanks... and some really bad ones, too. No different than the men really.
Being a caster or a healer is more of a "feminine" role than being on the front lines bashing and taking hits - so naturally more women gravitate towards those roles I think.
Personally I don't enjoy tanking at all. I don't like the responsibility of having to lead the group, especially if I'm with strangers or I don't know the dungeon... and tanking just isn't as much fun for me as dps or heals. It's just a matter of taste and what you enjoy doing.
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Siddalee Title: Pretty Good With A Bo Staff
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Registered: 2004-12-30 07:05:00
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Female here, and have been bear tanking and cat dps'ing since vanilla.
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are all boys and men...
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Sprawl-zero1eye-  Title: IGN Vault Staff
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I don't think men tank better than women or anything equally stupid like that, but there do seem to be less women that tank then say heal, or even dps, but everyone freaking dpses on some character so that doesn't count, lol.
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Shenron_  Posts: 543
Registered: 2002-12-8 21:34:16
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i consider every player to be a male - just to prevent confusion. i have grouped with many tanks with female avatars though.
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PallyDog Title: WoW Vault Staff
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Registered: 2003-3-4 07:09:21
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10 Male Tanks - a few will be good, a couple will be awesome, most will be mediocre.
10 Female Tanks - most will be awesome, a few will be good and a couple will suck.
Why? More guys than girls tank. So you'll get a bigger "gene pool" in male tanks. The few girls who tank, are mostly going to have the tanking mindset and gonna be good, they're gonna know their gear, rotations, how to use CC, manage threat and so on. Why? Because most girls aren't gonna stick with something if they get picked on every time they do a crummy job so the crappy ones get weeded out faster. Guys will jsut toss ont their a shield and say pffft! I R TANK! And if someone says they suck, they'll ignore it. This is generaly speaking from my epxerience.
I'm a tank. I'm a freaking awesome tank. I LOVE it. I can't imagine doing anything else. My main is a prot pally, then DK, then Warrior. (I'm a glutton for plate repair bills, Blizzard's "repair fix" SUCKS! What were they thinking? Oh wait, they weren't) I have two protect pallies infact, horde and ally. I do it to do it well. I want to grab that agro and save the group by living through just about anything. Makes me go RAWR!
The few girls I know who tank are dead solid tanks. They rock. Of the guys I know who tank most are ok, a few are awesome. Of course I know about 20 guys to the 3 girl tanks. 
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PallyDog Title: WoW Vault Staff
Teh Pyckles!
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Registered: 2003-3-4 07:09:21
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Do they want to but aren't allowed?
I'm a guild raid tank. I'm asked to tank randoms regularly, etc.
Do they just don't want that direct level of responsibility/control?
I don't mind the "responsiblity" at all. I know what I'm doing and if I have a question about the abilites of a specific class, say for a CC situation, I'm not afraid to ask.
Are they pressured into other roles? eg healer?
Hahahaha. Oddly enough we have only 1 female healer in guld. Rest are males. And you couldn't pay me enough to go back to holy on my pally. Well 50k gold? Mmmm...tempting!
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Auenwing Title: straightface
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Registered: 2002-12-27 23:23:12
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PallyDog posted:
10 Male Tanks - a few will be good, a couple will be awesome, most will be mediocre.
10 Female Tanks - most will be awesome, a few will be good and a couple will suck.
Why? More guys than girls tank. So you'll get a bigger "gene pool" in male tanks. The few girls who tank, are mostly going to have the tanking mindset and gonna be good, they're gonna know their gear, rotations, how to use CC, manage threat and so on. Why? Because most girls aren't gonna stick with something if they get picked on every time they do a crummy job so the crappy ones get weeded out faster. Guys will jsut toss ont their a shield and say pffft! I R TANK! And if someone says they suck, they'll ignore it. This is generaly speaking from my epxerience.
I'm a tank. I'm a freaking awesome tank. I LOVE it. I can't imagine doing anything else. My main is a prot pally, then DK, then Warrior. (I'm a glutton for plate repair bills, Blizzard's "repair fix" SUCKS! What were they thinking? Oh wait, they weren't) I have two protect pallies infact, horde and ally. I do it to do it well. I want to grab that agro and save the group by living through just about anything. Makes me go RAWR!
The few girls I know who tank are dead solid tanks. They rock. Of the guys I know who tank most are ok, a few are awesome. Of course I know about 20 guys to the 3 girl tanks.
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The_Korrigan Title: Scrub Buster
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Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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PallyDog posted:
10 Male Tanks - a few will be good, a couple will be awesome, most will be mediocre.
10 Female Tanks - most will be awesome, a few will be good and a couple will suck.
Why? More guys than girls tank.
Flawed logic is flawed, total amount doesn't influence proportions.
You have 100 "male tanks", lets say 30 are good, 20 are awesome, 50 are mediocre.
You have 10 "female tanks", let's say 3 are good, 2 are awesome, 5 are mediocre.
Proportions are the same.
I don't buy that kind of sexual differences. Both sexes have the same amount of idiots, retards and good players.
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PallyDog Title: WoW Vault Staff
Teh Pyckles!
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The_Korrigan posted:
PallyDog posted:
10 Male Tanks - a few will be good, a couple will be awesome, most will be mediocre.
10 Female Tanks - most will be awesome, a few will be good and a couple will suck.
Why? More guys than girls tank.
Flawed logic is flawed, total amount doesn't influence proportions.
You have 100 "male tanks", lets say 30 are good, 20 are awesome, 50 are mediocre.
You have 10 "female tanks", let's say 3 are good, 2 are awesome, 5 are mediocre.
Proportions are the same.
I don't buy that kind of sexual differences. Both sexes have the same amount of idiots, retards and good players.
So you think men and woman aer exactly the same? The same insticts, tendencies, aversions? If you read my entire post, you'd also see that I wasn't using logic. I was speaking specifically about MY experince in game.
I don't think one gender is more intelligent than the other, but I do think that men and woman react differently to certain things. There's nothing sexist about recognizing that woman are usually more nurturing or men more protective. It's pretty much that way with every species. It's not logic, wrong, wrong or deductive thinking, it's just the way it is. I dont' get why people make such a big deal out of defending one side or the other.
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