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Ardenwolfe
Title: All Knowing Grammar Police
Posts: 499
Registered: 2002-12-11 14:47:24
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Female tanks?
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What Auenwing said. But, I will admit most of the women I've played with played caster-types.
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Date Posted:
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PallyDog posted:
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.
This is true, but I've also experienced terrible tanks (or healers or whatever) who precisely because they are a girl don't get the same type of criticism they'd get if they were a guy. It works both ways... though I do agree that girls tend to be more sensitive about criticism and will give up more easily if they feel they're doing a bad job. I suppose it's different depending on what type of guild you're in, too - in a serious raiding guild nobody's going to get much slack.
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Malachi256
Posts: 158
Registered: 2002-11-12 17:33:28
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Female tanks?
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The real question is... out of the thousands of Gladiators over the years, how many of them have been women.
Men are biologically designed to be competitive and are more inclined to want to solve problems with their fists. This translates somewhat into tanking (the best tanks are fairly aggressive IMO), but tanking can also be seen as more of a support role... but stuff like arena combat is pretty straight-forward competition + aggression. I'm sure there are examples of women gladiators, but I bet the numbers are well under 5% representation.
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The_Korrigan
Title: Scrub Buster
Posts: 955
Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Female tanks?
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PallyDog posted:
So you think men and woman aer exactly the same? The same insticts, tendencies, aversions?
Nope. I think there is the same proportion of idiots, noobs, good players, ace players, morons, etc... in both sexes. And my in game experience confirms this.
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