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Kiragi Yagami

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2007

Elician Mercinaries [eLm] Leader.

E/Me

04 Feb 2008 at 00:00 - 201

Quote:

Originally Posted by xMorgannax

I'm female with all female chars.

Even my storage chars are female. I can't stand being male chars in any game.

The male warrior dance still disturbs me. Like when you're standing in town, selling and minding your own business and a male Warrior stands behind you and spams /dance so it looks like he's humping you...

Freaky people

I saw your username and was like "Wait, wha...?" i didnt know ANYONE in our alliance used guru, let alone the leader. and as for your male warrior comment, why d'ya think i made a female warrior, huh?

On topic, Male, with:

Kiragi, Male Ranger (Main)
Akkhina, Female Warrior
Yukina, Female Assassin
Mirahne, Female Dervish
Kigai, Male Elementalist
Kiraito, Male Necromancer (wait, i deleted him and made a female necro. nevermind.)
Mitsagi, Female Ranger (Perma-Pre Character)
Mitsuka, Male Monk (PvP Only)

So i guess im 3:5, i guess i just like the female armor art, dances, and such.

I cant stand the people who make stupid comments about Males who play Females. its a GAME people, must we all be EXACTLY the same as we are IRL? yes, female elementalists have large... shall we say....... "assets", but grow up. if that amuses you, please, go back to elementary school. if youre not there already.

Sypherious

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2007

It's Over Nine Thousaaaaand

Mo/E

21 May 2008 at 03:18 - 202

bump
12CHARS

Mortal Amongst Mere Gods

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2007

Riding the spiral

W/

21 May 2008 at 03:20 - 203

I'm male with a mix of both genders.

Warrior: Male
Ranger: Male
Mesmer: Male
Monk: Male
Necro: Female
Ele: Female
Sin: Male
Rit: Female
Derv: Female
Para: Male

That puts me at what, 6:4. The majority of my characters are male.

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Banned

Join Date: May 2008

21 May 2008 at 03:27 - 204

My manly characters (Warrior, Monk, Paragon) are males. My pussies are women (Mesmer, Ele, and a female Warrior that I stupidly allowed a significant other make, followed by a breakup. Now I won't delete that Warrior because it has a bunch of customized r7s.)

afya

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/Me

21 May 2008 at 03:43 - 205

Male with all female but one male sin.
Female looks better and I'm a normal man who likes women.

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

21 May 2008 at 03:48 - 206

My warrior was made a while ago but never posted... I don't feel I can take female Guild Wars warriors seriously. Has to be male or I can't. It's not about stereotypes, it's because the Guild Wars female warrior's character model is simply to skinny, weak-looking, and generally unsuited to close physical combat and such. (And let's not talk about "speed and agility is better for combat," there are Assassins for that; that's not what the Warrior is about. Warriors are about hitting enemies extremely hard, taking a lot of hits, and shouting "SAVE YOURSELVES!" at the top of their lungs.)

ShadowbaneX

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Heroes of the Horn

A/Me

21 May 2008 at 04:04 - 207

Well, I'm male and I've got 12 characters. In order of creation date:

Assassin, female
Warrior, male
Ele, female
Mesmer, female
Monk, female
Necro, female
Ranger, female
Paragon, female
Dervish, female
Ritualist, female
Warrior2, female
Mesmer2, male.

I believe my friend put it best when he said: "If I'm going to be staring at something for hundreds of hours, it might as well be something that's easy on the eyes." And speaking for myself, I find the female form alot easier on the eyes then the male. I nearly made my first warrior female as well, but I tossed a coin. The rest, well, yeah, much nicer looking then the male avatars.

Oh, and for the record I find most of the dances disturbing and rarely use them, especially my eles. Seems a little too vulgar for me.

Vengeful Spirit

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2007

Rt/

21 May 2008 at 05:02 - 208

I'm a male with all male characters mainly because i really don't mind the armors for the classes i play and for some of them i think it looks great, also i have played females in other MMO's and the whole random guy coming up and asking if you will be his girlfriend is just a bit much for me to handle

rockin'

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2008

Czech republic

Caelum Infinitum [ode]

21 May 2008 at 05:10 - 209

I'm male and my chars are: Warrior - Male, Ele - Male, Dervish - Male (but im going 2 make female), Necro - Female, Mesmer - Female, Ranger - Female, Ritualist - Female..

pumpkin pie

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

behind you

bumble bee

E/

21 May 2008 at 05:18 - 210

I am a Rampaging Heket

slowerpoke

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2007

Cuba

21 May 2008 at 05:22 - 211

50% split on gender of my chars

thou with some of my earliest chars i wish id picked differently

StarrTheInsane

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2007

Stephenville, TX

D/W

21 May 2008 at 05:28 - 212

Female, but my main is male on both accounts.

Acct 1:
- Dervish, male (main)
- Dervish, female (made because the EotN armor looked better for females and I was used to the build already)
- Elementalist, male
- Ranger, male
- Monk, male
- Ritualist, male
- Paragon, male
- Warrior, female (original main until NF)

Acct 2:
- Necromancer, male (main)
- Ranger, male
- Warrior, male
- Assassin, male
- Elementalist, female
- Dervish, male
- Paragon, female
- 1 undecided ;P

I also think it's interesting to compare the appearance of my toons.

All have dark hair except my rangers who both have grey hair and my male ele who has orange hair. The majority have the palest skin available, the dervishes have a moderate tan and my necro is the darkest available in factions. IRL I've got dark hair and very pale skin.

cataphract

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ashford Abbey

Hey Mallyx [icU]

Mo/Me

21 May 2008 at 06:32 - 213

Male with all female characters.

I tried playing with male characters but couldn't bring myself to stare at a male behind.

Tatile

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

Stygian Disciples of Tenebrasus

N/Me

21 May 2008 at 06:46 - 214

Female player with female characters.

I just like the character designs and armours, there's no other reason as gender has no affect on gameplay whatsoever

L33TNeMiSiS

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2007

Graveyard of Undying Heroes

E/

21 May 2008 at 07:58 - 215

Ppl use to say: "UGH! That's so gay. Why you a guy and then run with a Female char"

They continued doing so until I started replying:
"I find it much better looking at the backside of a female char than staring for long periods of time at the backside of a male char, now who's gay?"

;-)

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

21 May 2008 at 08:25 - 216

Male, 2 accounts, all male on one, all female on the other. Don't play the males much

Aldric

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

[IG]

R/

21 May 2008 at 08:33 - 217

I'm male and play both Male/Female . It just depends on which character I think looks better in the armour I like.

Ele - Male
Ritualist - Male
Assassin - Male
Ranger - Male
Paragon - Male

Warrior - Female
Mesmer - Female
Monk - Female
Necro - Female
Dervish - Female

Motoko Chika

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

Sunshine state.

Nagas With Attitude [nWa]

Mo/E

21 May 2008 at 08:50 - 218

female with all female chars. I was close to making a male sin but changed my mind. Same with necro and ranger..those are the male chars I think look best.

tmakinen

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

www.mybearfriend.net

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

E/

21 May 2008 at 09:47 - 219

Quote:

Originally Posted by scraggles

I noticed when I was looking through a thread of monk armor, 95% of all the characters were female. I am positive that 95% of the people playing GW aren't female.

Unwarranted implication, it could still be that 95% of the people who actually care about the looks of their monkey armor are female.

Another thing, since there are four main facets to the issue, namely physiological gender (what you find in the trousers), gender identity (which gender you find yourself internally), sociological gender (which gender style of behaviour is more natural to you) and sexual orientation (which gender(s) you feel attracted to) and all possible combinations of those four can be found, then why are you asking about 'plumbing' since it has the least relevance to the choice of a virtual representation of oneself? Depending on which facet an individual stresses when choosing the gender of the avatar, the outcome will be different:

Players who stress physiological gender are likely to make characters of the same physiological gender as themselves. Most young people belong to this group because their other facets haven't matured yet.

Players who stress gender identity are likely to make characters of the same physiological gender as their gender identity. The player still has characters of just one gender but there's no relation between the physiological gender of the characters and the player.

Players who stress sociological gender will have both male and female characters according to how masculine/feminine a role they find the character having.

Players who stress sexual orientation tend to make characters of opposite gender (the old 'shapely bottom' argument).

Sniper22

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

21 May 2008 at 10:04 - 220

Quote:

Originally Posted by cataphract

Male with all female characters.

I tried playing with male characters but couldn't bring myself to stare at a male behind.

Ya... um I still don't get this. The characters are just animated models, its not like you zoom in on their rear end. When you are walking behind some guy in public, do you turn around because his behind might be in your peripheral vision? Chances are no. I kinda doubt staring a an animated girls behind is that great anyway, considering its not even real...

Sypherious

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2007

It's Over Nine Thousaaaaand

Mo/E

21 May 2008 at 10:36 - 221

Quote:

Originally Posted by L33TNeMiSiS

Ppl use to say: "UGH! That's so gay. Why you a guy and then run with a Female char"

They continued doing so until I started replying:
"I find it much better looking at the backside of a female char than staring for long periods of time at the backside of a male char, now who's gay?"

;-)

So basically what you're saying is, whenever you play a female character, you stare at their behinds for long periods of time? Usually when I play GW, I concentrate on the enemies/missions, not my characters ass. Strange.

cataphract

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ashford Abbey

Hey Mallyx [icU]

Mo/Me

21 May 2008 at 12:14 - 222

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sniper22

Ya... um I still don't get this. The characters are just animated models, its not like you zoom in on their rear end. When you are walking behind some guy in public, do you turn around because his behind might be in your peripheral vision? Chances are no. I kinda doubt staring a an animated girls behind is that great anyway, considering its not even real...

Therein lies your answer. GW character is never, ever in your peripheral vision but in the dead center of the screen. Ofcourse they are just animated models and it's that animation itself that's one of the deciding factors. It's just way more pleasing to my eye to watch a female silhouette and female movements.

Also, there is the physchological aspect of making a woman (even a pixel-based one) listen to and obey your every command and generally do your bidding.

BenjZee

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2006

The Overacheivers [Club]

Mo/

21 May 2008 at 12:18 - 223

Im male
Female para and ritualist, mostly because the males look like woman in skirts anyway

and it looked unblanced
i have recently made a femlae dervish aswell as ive decided to make one of every profesion.
so 30% female slots

legion_rat

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

668 the neighbor of the beast

TFK

A/

21 May 2008 at 12:25 - 224

male

play females. I like the armor options one most better. Plus most of the male faces looks dorky.

~the rat~

I pwnd U

God of Spammers

Join Date: Oct 2005

in the middle of a burning cornfield...

Scars Meadows [SMS] (Officer)

21 May 2008 at 12:40 - 225

I have mainly male characters and am a male. I have a female ele because they look so much better then the stupid male eles. Plus I shift between a male and female PvP character depending on the profession.

Holly Herro

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Kangaroo-land.

Blades of the Dingo [AUST]

21 May 2008 at 12:42 - 226

<-- Male character with:

Male Warrior
Male Necromancer
Male Assassin
Male Ranger
Male Elemenalist
Female Monk
Female Ritualist

Reinfire

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

Amsterdam, NL

The Guild of Cunning Artificiers [ANKH]

W/

21 May 2008 at 13:20 - 227

Im male in r/l

Male Warrior
Female Elementalist
Male Monk
Male Ranger
Male Necromancer
Female Mesmer
Male Dervish
PvP Char both female and male

Usually when I make my chars females its just because I dont like the way the male versions look

Kemal X

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2007

Me/

21 May 2008 at 13:22 - 228

I'm a male, with both genders. At first I had plentifuly male characters, but then started to think females look much better ;D

Sjeng

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

in my GH

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

W/

21 May 2008 at 13:25 - 229

Male, with 6 female and 4 male characters:

stale

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2008

canada

Bong Wielding Maniacs

R/Mo

21 May 2008 at 14:30 - 230

i'm male, with all 10 characters male as well. i've made a concious effort to make my characters look as much like me as possible. (aside from the necromancer. all choices were ugly, so i just made him look like a walking corpse)

to me, part of playing an RPG is the ability to immerse myself into it. if i'm spending my time looking at T&A, well, i'm cheerful enough about it, but it's harder to maintain the illusion that it's a facet of myself....

Artisan Archer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

Free Wind

R/

21 May 2008 at 15:03 - 231

Male

My main character is a female ranger,
also have:
female PvP Ranger,
male Monk
male PvP Monk
male Perma-Pre Ranger
male PvP Assasin
Other 2 slots are open

So why do I play a female ranger most of the time; cause female characters hold their bow horizontaly, which is way cooler than vertically.

BLOODGOAT

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2007

long a

Mo/

21 May 2008 at 16:12 - 232

I'm sure it's been mentioned numerous times but I refuse to spec 11 pages of mind-numbing response just to QFT one for my own mind-numbing response.

In any event, I'm a male with female characters simply because I believe the female character models appeal to me more. And its not a sexual appeal PIXELZ LOL, the male character models and armor are just... horrible, save for one or two.

Additionally, I also make all my characters the lowest possible height requirement. I just enjoy the thought of a fragile little lady ramboing mobs and dropping them to their knees, averse to the very typical and if you asked me, cliche, STRONGMAN alternative. End of story.

Chokey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

[ToA]

21 May 2008 at 17:27 - 233

I'm male,with both.

Male Derv/Ranger/Assa

Female Rit/Monk/Ele

For the simple reason of :Armor.I like female monk armors so much my monk has 5 sets of it.4 being elite.So think what you like

sph0nz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

none.

W/

21 May 2008 at 17:34 - 234

I'm a male; I have both female and male characters, although the majority are males (Female warrior, female pvp ranger, and I had a female monk). The rest of my characters are male since I don't really have any problem with their armor.

Molock

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Qu??bec

Legacy of Angels [Halo]

E/

21 May 2008 at 17:37 - 235

I recently created my first female character after almost 3 years of play, my new warrior Alexis

Other than her, all my characters are male.

Unreal Havoc

Guest

Join Date: Dec 2007

21 May 2008 at 17:40 - 236

Quote:

Originally Posted by BLOODGOAT

In any event, I'm a male with female characters simply because I believe the female character models appeal to me more. And its not a sexual appeal PIXELZ LOL, the male character models and armor are just... horrible, save for one or two.

/Agree

I only have two characters, a female Assassin and a female Ranger, neither of which does the male skin appeal to me at all.

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

21 May 2008 at 17:47 - 237

Quote:

Originally Posted by BLOODGOAT

Additionally, I also make all my characters the lowest possible height requirement. I just enjoy the thought of a fragile little lady ramboing mobs and dropping them to their knees, averse to the very typical and if you asked me, cliche, STRONGMAN alternative. End of story.

I agree...there's some appeal to a tiny lady wielding massive power.

I personally have 2 males (W, R) and 3 females (N, Rt, D).

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

21 May 2008 at 18:15 - 238

All my characters are female. I started making males, but I typed /dance with my elementalist and deleted him almost instantly.

I made female only since then.

Hannes

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

http://www.blowupdoll.co.za/

Band of Buds [BUD] (Officer)

N/

21 May 2008 at 18:26 - 239

Male

I made 2 male toons sofar, the necro & a warrior. Deleted the warrior after 2 days lol. All my other toons are female.

Ashleigh McMahon

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

North East England

WoTU[Warlords of the Underworld]

Mo/Me

21 May 2008 at 18:33 - 240

I create all of my PvE characters male, to reflect myself. Although when it comes to PvP, I create my characters as female. I just love how elegancy can hold such power =P