Evergrey Corvidae Lokadottr ([info]evergrey) wrote in [info]wow_ladies,
@ 2007-08-01 13:27:00
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Female tanks
Hi Ladies!
Evercau of Hyjal server, horde here.
I am a feral druid and I love to tank!
I have noticed something, however-
I don't meet many other females who tank!
There are some female character played by males who tank, but rarely do I meet other actual ladies who tank. I wonder why not?

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[info]amarafox
2007-08-01 08:26 pm UTC (link)
I am female and I love to tank.

Tonight I'm respeccing prot. I've been trying to try it out for weeks, but everyone likes my MS spec. Last night I said 'Dammit, i want to tank this second half of kara! I'm respeccing!'

:D

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[info]jelihi
2007-08-01 08:28 pm UTC (link)
I'm female and I have a tank that I like to play. :D And...she's a female nightelf warrior - whacky, huh? :P

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[info]betsy_bobbin
2007-08-01 08:29 pm UTC (link)
My favorite tank ever is female, and I'm leveling a tank right now.

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[info]woolf
2007-08-01 08:30 pm UTC (link)
<-- feral tank :D

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[info]kurai
2007-08-01 08:32 pm UTC (link)
I rolled a warrior with the intention to tank, and I love it. :) I currently MT Kara and couldn't be happier with another role. :)

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[info]whitejester
2007-08-01 08:34 pm UTC (link)
also feral tank, tauren

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[info]ayashi
2007-08-01 08:36 pm UTC (link)
I've had a warrior for a while (leveled her for Daughters of the Alliance along with my twin sister who also is a warrior). I didn't much like tanking 5-mans as Fury though (I liked tanking ZG and whatnot though!). However, just the other day I respecced Protection... and it is so much fun! Once you actually have more than 3-4 abilities to use it gets so exciting :) I have a choice, instead of my usual sunder/shield block/revenge/thunder clap rotations. I had a blast in Sethekk Halls and I can't wait to get more practice in the real level 70 instances.

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[info]mesmerize
2007-08-01 08:37 pm UTC (link)
my guild use to have 2 female tanks =D
they were our mt and ot

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[info]ryumaxwell
2007-08-01 08:41 pm UTC (link)
<-- Prot Pally tank-in-the-making!

I think it's just that all of us wow ladies tend to be spread out through the servers...and we really are a minority in the game. *shrugs*

Still! We exist!

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[info]yueni
2007-08-01 08:46 pm UTC (link)
=) My guild has a female tank. She takes over when our MT is out.

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[info]exploding_candy
2007-08-01 08:48 pm UTC (link)
Currently leveling a warrior alt, for tanking purposes.

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[info]astalavista
2007-08-01 08:53 pm UTC (link)
Prot warrior here, also used to play a feral druid tank. Tanking is by far my favorite party role. :)

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[info]irda
2007-08-01 08:53 pm UTC (link)
That's so funny 'cause I was thinking how many feral druids I know who are girls and tank all the time in Kara. ^^ There are at least three in my guild, and one of our other tanks is a female orc played by a woman. I love our guild, so many women to keep the guys in line.

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[info]darqueskyes
2007-08-01 08:54 pm UTC (link)
I often get assigned to OT things in Heroics and even in the Moroes fight the one time I was able to go to Kara. I enjoy it more than when I'm not OTing, and usually get complimented on how well I do.

Only thing is, I'm a Rogue, so I can't MT. :(

I've been considering rolling a Tauren Feral Druid to tank and have fun with, but I don't know anyone on the Horde side of my server, or anyone on another server to reroll with...

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[info]extraneousrooot
2007-08-01 08:54 pm UTC (link)
Tanky tanky!

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[info]sventhelost
2007-08-01 08:57 pm UTC (link)
Feral tank in the making. :) (Gotta have an excuse to stay in forms, because I find the female nelf form just so ... valley girl.)

If you go with the stereotype that girls only play WoW when their boyfriends get them into it, the fact that most guilds are short on healers, so they encourage their girlfriends to play healers to fill the void might be a plausible explanation.

Bah, says I. I like tearing things up with my CLAWS OF DOOOOM!!!! :D

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[info]noodle_nose
2007-08-01 09:01 pm UTC (link)
i'm female.

i bear tanked with my original main, NE feral druid (i left her for a BE when BC came out). i wasn't in raids or anything, but when we (my bf, a priest, at the time) and i would look for groups, we'd set it up so i was a tank. i enjoyed it actually. i was right up front in the fray.

my main now is a 'lock and i sometimes feel so out of the loop standing far back and casting DoTs. :)

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[info]nakedblueninja
2007-08-01 09:02 pm UTC (link)
My biggest alt is a gnome warrior tank-in-training. I love gnome tanks. Sooooo stupid-lookin', so much comedy gold.

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[info]twocorpses
2007-08-01 09:07 pm UTC (link)
LOL gnomes. Gnomes are awesome.

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[info]nakedblueninja
2007-08-01 09:13 pm UTC (link)
I figure it's probably a bad thing that I want to roll a male gnome, name him Phineas and dress him all in green. And then tell people they've been Lepre-pwned.

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[info]twocorpses
2007-08-01 09:23 pm UTC (link)
Bwa ha ha! You should do that. hehhehe

I have a Gnome Mage named Madj ROFL

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[info]romenielturner
2007-08-01 09:04 pm UTC (link)
My main's a human warrior. :D

She's tankerific.

Huzzah for fellow tanks!

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[info]romenielturner
2007-08-01 09:04 pm UTC (link)
...Aaaand I also need to make a new icon. My poor 70 warrior, so underrepresented...

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[info]stickangel
2007-08-01 09:05 pm UTC (link)
<= feral tank =D

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[info]xmelodic_spellx
2007-08-01 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Feral druid, tanks on occasion. My tanking gear is better than my DPS gear. :O

I love gearing up to be indestructible. It's a nice change from my clothie alts. xD

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[info]taesmar
2007-08-01 09:34 pm UTC (link)
I usually play a healer so I can't imagine tanking because I don't trust anyone else to heal me.

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[info]heinous_bitca
2007-08-01 09:38 pm UTC (link)
My druid tanks. :)

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[info]noelove
2007-08-01 09:38 pm UTC (link)
I lvled feral as a druid, but when I hit 56 I respect Moonkin and never looked back. I felt the same way, I never saw any girl tanks.

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[info]miyva
2007-08-01 10:25 pm UTC (link)
Level 70 prot warrior here.

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[info]cb1281
2007-08-01 11:17 pm UTC (link)
Obviously there are lots of girl tanks represented here, but I hate tanking, personally! :-) But I don't like healing either. Damage dealers for me!

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[info]asciident
2007-08-02 01:50 am UTC (link)
I'm female and my main is a feral druid tank :)

I also have a warrior who I might respec prot when she hits 70 (61 now!)

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[info]zoopie
2007-08-02 01:59 am UTC (link)
fury warr who offtanks when needed in kara :)

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[info]sunkisstelf
2007-08-02 03:08 am UTC (link)
Hiya Evercau. I'm on Hyjal as well. In AF. /wave

Tamarrion in AF is a female who tanks. :)

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[info]mergemsichi
2007-08-02 03:36 am UTC (link)
I have Saluki a female human prot warrior on Suramar. I leveled a pally and hunter to 60 pre-BC but then I tried a warrior alt and she quickly became my new main. I leveled 10-70 protection specced. I love tanking. Which makes my close WoW friends happy because we can 5 man any instance now. I quest alot with my partner who has a holy pally and while it may take a while to kill things, we can kill almost anything with just the 2 of us. I just hit 70 so now I'm working on the quests to improve my gear and I need to start the key quests for Kara.

Also one of our guilds main tanks is an awesome pally tank played by a woman.

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[info]deliriae
2007-08-02 05:12 am UTC (link)
Used to be MT for my Kara guild, respecced MS/flurry for a while with this other guild, and tonight I'm transferring to a new server to start tanking again in 25-mans, though I think I'm gonna stay DPS spec til I finish farming primals for my SSC gear. :) Tanking is fun!

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[info]mesuari
2007-08-02 06:21 am UTC (link)
I'm a feral druid (currently) and I love to tank and I'm female. We had another female feral druid in my guild for a while, but she went resto to play with it. I also have a tanking paladin and a warrior I'm leveling with hopes to tank later on. :) Most of our tanks are male though, but then again so are the majority of the people I play with.

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[info]theflamecrow
2007-08-02 06:29 am UTC (link)
I'm (male) Tauren warrior :D

I loves him, and tanking is fun usually

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[info]lady_arrogance
2007-08-02 08:26 am UTC (link)
I know what you mean... I don't know much female warriors on our server and all of them are off-specced. Our Guild has 2 ladies, and both of us like tanking... one is a feral druid and quite good at it and my second lvl 70 char is a prot-warrior but I'm still practising and sadly not that good.
I leveled as a prot with a fire-mage, but it's a big difference to have only one aggrojunkie or 4 and 4 mobs you have to bind on you ;)
But how wrote a guy in his application: "My goal is it to have super equip and become a famous and wanted deftank soon"

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[info]cpolk
2007-08-02 03:27 pm UTC (link)
Beh I love tanking. I'm having trouble getting into playing my mage because I would much rather play my pally.

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[info]doxamully
2007-08-02 06:56 pm UTC (link)
My main is a warrior and I'm actually my guild's only prot warrior. Heck I'm the only war who even raids O.o. I love it more than any other raid role because it's really involved and much more fun than anything else I've done. I mean, I like other roles too, but nothing beats tanking for me.

It does seem that there's a distinct lack of female tanks though. While you've gotten lots of response here, I'd say the overall trend is that girls seem to play healers and hunters. I'm not making any definite assertions here, just noting from observation.

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[info]yogaclass4cats
2007-08-02 07:22 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I'm one of those warriors who isn't specced for tanking. I'd love to be a better tank (I'm ashamed of my non-tanking abilities), and I'm perfectly willing to try, even though I fail a lot (like when I pugged Uldaman a few days ago and the healer left after a few wipes because no one was really pulling aggro properly - I felt quite ashamed, though when the other warrior in the group is low-level and aggroing everything and the *hunter* is trying to tank (not his pet), I'm really just trying to do damage control - bad all around). I also need a good one-handed weapon so I can carry a shield in instances. That'd probably help.

So yeah, long ramble short - I'm all about tanking, if I have the proper support from my group, since it's hard out there for an arms warrior, hehe. I'm currently lvling a druid, and I hope she'll be at least a good off-tank, when the time comes.

I like both taking and dealing out damage, which is why I'm speccing arms atm - I imagine I'll change to protection once I get my warrior high enough, level wise. Then I'll be a better tank :) Or fool around with my druid more.

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[info]12_drakon
2007-08-02 07:32 pm UTC (link)
Tanks are very gear-dependent, and I just don't care all that much for that part of the game. Of course, I roll or spend dkp on upgrade, research craftables, etc, but I don't feel like focusing on gear quite as much as good tanking requires. Recently I've been thinking about leveling a tanking paladin, but the whole gear thing... meh.

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