amalana ([info]amalana) wrote in [info]wow_ladies,
@ 2007-10-09 12:34:00
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New Voice Chat
Tried out the new voice chat in a pug and when the other players realised I was female then I was flirted and hit on till we finished the run. How many other people have run into this same occurence in game?

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[info]catonahotsnroof
2007-10-09 03:15 am UTC (link)
I haven't ran into this problem yet, although, I am afraid that I might...

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[info]spuenk
2007-10-09 03:24 am UTC (link)
I haven't- but then again, I have used my sparse raiding experience to perfect my 'I'm so bored, tell me when the noobs are done QQing' voice...

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[info]linta
2007-10-09 03:49 am UTC (link)
No, but I did encounter a fun incident where a nine year old and an eleven year old told me they wished THEIR mom played wow.

I'm only 22. ;_;

the scary thing is that the nine year old was a decent tank... I felt kinda creepy talking to some random kids though, so I shut off voice chat after I discovered their ages.

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[info]lyxzen
2007-10-09 08:59 am UTC (link)
I'm sorry my dear, but your comment really made me giggle like a child :)

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[info]tviokh
2007-10-09 03:54 am UTC (link)
"Fuck off, I'm married." usually works for me. :D

However, I have the 'advantage' of having a low voice to begin with, so most times people don't realize I'm not a guy anyway unless I mention it.

OTOH, I usually only voice chat on guild raids where people know I'm female to begin with or with RL friends who obviously know I'm female.

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[info]opalexian
2007-10-10 03:03 am UTC (link)
The low voice is both my joy and my burden. /sigh

It used to be a running joke in an old guild-'Is Cal a guy or a girl?' o_O;;

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[info]alexia
2007-10-09 04:11 am UTC (link)
Generally I've had this happen with young kids who just seem unsure of how to actually respond to a girl (being normal apparently doesn't occur to them). One of my alts is in a guild with a bunch of American guys, I'm an Aussie so I get a lot of teasing and flirting about my accent, but it's generally good natured and I've just learned to ignore it or give them shit back. Most of the time though I'll only use vent/TS when I'm familiar with the people I'm running with. I haven't actually tried out the in game system as yet. I don't actually tell people I'm a girl unless they directly ask, and I do actively avoid using chat because I'd rather it not come up as an issue, although it's not flirting I worry about (that's very easy to stop) but being taken seriously/being treated differently because I'm a girl.

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[info]amalana
2007-10-09 04:20 am UTC (link)
"I do actively avoid using chat because I'd rather it not come up as an issue"

Don't you think this shouldn't be an issue for us. Why are we immediately shy about saying we are a girl. I know we can play as well as our male counterparts so isn't this a form of discrimination. I don't see a way that this will ever change and I think your are right, it is usually the younger males that respond that way.

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[info]alexia
2007-10-09 04:52 am UTC (link)
Sure I think it shouldn't be an issue. Sadly that's not the reality and I'm not going to make things harder on myself just to prove a point :/

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[info]imaginary_guilt
2007-10-09 04:22 am UTC (link)
It’s a perfect time to start working on accents. Been doing “Cho Chang” (Harry Potter) and “big black guy.”

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[info]lougara
2007-10-09 05:38 pm UTC (link)
i seriously lol'ed

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[info]lexait
2007-10-09 04:34 am UTC (link)
The one recent PUG I had didn't mention a thing about my obviously girly voice (really, I can't hide it one bit). But then, one guy wasn't using voice, so we mostly typed chat anyway.

It is a worry how people will react, but I'm a bit proud, too. Yeah, I'm a chick, and I've probably been playing WoW longer than you! What'sittoya? :P

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[info]lady_floratia
2007-10-09 05:19 am UTC (link)
i apparently (this is what i've been told) have a "sexy voice".... and have been asked not to talk in raid unless absolutely necessary because my voice was distracting...

it's weird

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[info]denouement
2007-10-09 05:22 am UTC (link)
yay i'm not the only one! what would seem to be a blessing is really a curse when it comes to voice chatting in the world of warcraft!

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[info]lady_floratia
2007-10-09 05:25 am UTC (link)
I hate it cause they will all be chatting and I'll pipe in and they will be like "CLOUSE DISTRACTION".... I almost wish I didn't sound so girly

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[info]clafount
2007-10-09 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Don't you think that's rather sexist of them to insist YOU don't talk, rather than for them to grow up and get over it?

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[info]lady_floratia
2007-10-10 05:07 am UTC (link)
i agree with you 100% but to be honest I'd rather have that then get hit on needlessly and feel weird... it's like a lose lose.. and it was my old guild my current one is great!

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[info]lougara
2007-10-09 05:39 pm UTC (link)
lol i know! I can't ever talk in vent or make a voice post on Lj without at least two or three people making a comment on how pretty my voice is....it's a bit unnerving XD

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[info]denouement
2007-10-09 05:21 am UTC (link)
I usually drop the "boyfriend" bomb relatively quickly. It can be frustrating though, because as awful as this sounds, my voice is very often described as "sexy". As in, I can do a mean impersonation of a phone sex hotline girl. Not that I do that in pugs, because then I'd just be asking for the attention.

Anyway, this whole comment makes me sound like a huge douche... the point is - drop the boyfriend/fiance/husband line and that weeds out about 60% of 'em. :)

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[info]ecto_one
2007-10-09 05:22 am UTC (link)
Depends on the guild or group you're with. My current guild has several women, including two mothers in their late 30s/early 40s and a couple in college or their early 20s. The guild rocks -- it's filled with nice people who always help each other with quests, attunements and crafteds, and it absolutely wouldn't be tolerated if anyone treated the women in our guild differently because of their gender.

But I do have a problem with women who milk the fact that they're female for their benefit. A woman in my previous guild flirted with people regularly and got a raiding spot ahead of me despite absolutely awful gear -- I'm talking about a difference of 450 AP and 75+ hit rating between her Enhancement shaman and mine, and a pair of godawful green weapons that shouldn't be in any shaman's inventory, much less equipped for a Karazhan raid. Pretty much anyone who has played a Enh shaman to 70 knows weapon itemization and AP makes a massive difference in effectiveness, yet I had a GM who wouldn't give me a raiding spot simply because this woman flirted with him and the officers on Vent. That's the kind of bullshit I've seen way too much on WoW, and I blame the flirty women just as much as I do the pathetic guys who enable them.

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[info]lady_floratia
2007-10-09 05:28 am UTC (link)
enhancement shaman.... love it! I miss being enhance i respecced resto for raiding

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[info]ecto_one
2007-10-09 05:33 am UTC (link)
It's an awesome spec, but criminally under-appreciated. Took me more than a month to find a guild with raiding spots and officers who understand the benefit of having Enh in their melee group, but it was worth the wait. Once a guild brings an Enhancement on a raid and sees the 30+ percent scaling DPS increase on all their melee raiders, they become converts. Plus we can off-heal in a pinch!

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[info]lady_floratia
2007-10-09 12:58 pm UTC (link)
yeah I agree.. i still have an Enhance set sitting in my bank waiting, just waiting :)

do you DW or use 2H?

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[info]ecto_one
2007-10-09 04:48 pm UTC (link)
Dual-wield. Although I didn't play the game pre-TBC, my understanding is that 2H's were most effective in the days when max HP was so low that a Windfury crit in PvP could kill another player instantly. Nowadays unfortunately we can't do that.

Another shaman in my guild uses a 2H, but he nerfs his DPS significantly by using it. As long as you have enough +hit and slow enough 1H weapons (2.6 speed), dual wield is the way to go. 2H gives you huge crits, but DW gives you more consistent (and higher) DPS.

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[info]lady_floratia
2007-10-10 05:09 am UTC (link)
neither did I.. but I must say I greatly greatly enjoyed enhancement, it is so under appreciated

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[info]eternal_jazz
2007-10-09 05:31 am UTC (link)
Wasn't voicechat, but somehow one of our groupies managed to winkle out that I was a female and he couldn't stop telling me that I was his one true love. It was kinda funny in an harmless, teasing, over-the-top way so I just made it clear I was humoring him and let it continue. Me and another of the groupies who I found out was also a girl had a crack up time about it.

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[info]m0nkeygrl
2007-10-09 12:14 pm UTC (link)
I get crap for being obviously Southern, not for being female. :) But this is with guildies, and it's good-natured teasing...everyone is always giving everyone else crap about something. I've never done the in-game voice chat yet.

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[info]momo_ka
2007-10-09 01:24 pm UTC (link)
girls with southern accents get hit on. i've noticed this. my boyfriend was almost heartbroken when i didn't have the southern girl accent. "are you sure you're from texas?" he quipped.

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[info]lougara
2007-10-09 05:42 pm UTC (link)
lol- when raids get heated, my accent comes out BIG TIME- i slip back into Lower Alabama mode when things get heated, and my guildies literally stop and tease me.

either I'm being told i have a pretty voice, or I'm being teased for my southern drawl XD

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[info]tinchen
2007-10-09 12:19 pm UTC (link)
I'm almost only grouping/raiding in our close-knit group... but also there I had this "you're a girl I have to hit on you". Once I mentioned I was afk, getting a dessert and some guy whispert me with "I want to lick it out of your navel" O_o

What I really hate are those girl who can't talk but have to brea

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... err, hit wrong button...
[info]tinchen
2007-10-09 12:21 pm UTC (link)
...who breath everything they say. It's not a normal hello, it's a "I'm a girl and I'm sop sexy and with this voice you're already imagine me only dressed in frilly pink undies!" Argh! And I know some girls just have a sexy voice, that's okee, but having somebody talk normaly to you and when a guy logs on the suddenly get this voice... argh.

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[info]momo_ka
2007-10-09 01:23 pm UTC (link)
no, haven't gotten that, but i have gotten a bit of this:

you are not a girl! prove it! voice chat! prove it!

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[info]tokudama
2007-10-09 01:57 pm UTC (link)
I haven't, yet... "fortunately" bluetooth headsets don't yet work with voice chat, so if I do speak, it's with my internal mic and no doubt really crappy quality and thus with my low voice and crappy mic I am mistaken for male.

That said, if people decided to hit on me in a situation like that, I'd tell them to knock it off. If they didn't, I'd leave the group. I'm here to play, not to be practice for some guy ><

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[info]lexinatrix
2007-10-09 04:40 pm UTC (link)
I'm not shy about letting it be known I'm female. However, I don't want to put up with asshats, so I prefer to avoid voice chat because it seems to bring out the worst in male players.

And if I were in a situation where I needed to use voice chat, I'd shut down that stupid flirty behavior immediately or leave the group. By tolerating that crap, it only encourages them to do it to the next woman.

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[info]kungfugimp
2007-10-09 05:12 pm UTC (link)
Eh, sometimes, but I don't encourage it. I'm generally polite, so if someone is flirting, I just wave or do a shy smile. I find that many people have the chat turned off. While doing pugs, the VOIP has been some help, however, I also find that Blizz needs to work on the volume. People are having issues with the decible level and hearing others.

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[info]lougara
2007-10-09 05:55 pm UTC (link)
I have been told I have a very prety voice, not just on the new voice chat, but on Vent and on LJ when i make voice posts.

also when i get excited or riled up, my accent comes out- lower alabama.
not to mention I cuss enough to make a drunk sailor blush
XDDD

voice chat went silent when we were taking on durm the hungerer. XDDDD I got a lil too excited and the boys were a bit taken aback

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[info]sylvanstargazer
2007-10-09 07:35 pm UTC (link)
I firmly inform them that that is not appropriate, that I'm here to game, not meet boys and suggest they focus on holding aggro because my rogue is threat limited by their crappy tanking. If they continue, I start spouting feminist theory at them and then /kick them.

True story from BRD last week (on my priest. It's always worse when I'm healing):
"WTF!?! why did you kick me?"
"I suggest you read some of Gloria Steinem's works"
"what? whos she? u had no reason to kick me!!!"
"She says tanks should use shields."
"But my dps is gret!!!"
"She also said that a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. I believe the same holds true for priests and idiot warriors."

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[info]miggy
2007-10-09 08:10 pm UTC (link)
I firmly inform them that that is not appropriate, that I'm here to game, not meet boys and suggest they focus on holding aggro because my rogue is threat limited by their crappy tanking.

<3

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[info]maladaptive
2007-10-09 08:13 pm UTC (link)
"She also said that a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. I believe the same holds true for priests and idiot warriors."

Best application of Steinem EVER.

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[info]shotgun_blast
2007-10-09 07:51 pm UTC (link)
When we first got guild chat one of the noobs didn't know I'm female so when I said "Hi guys" one day he comes back with "Oh my god! There's a vagina in here!" I love being referred to as my genitalia... *eye roll*

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[info]for___real
2007-10-10 12:56 am UTC (link)
i had a very lovely first time in voice chat with a pug. of course i was the only girl and no one shouted out any OMG's or stupid comments... i actually had a great time just playing :)

i was scared tho!

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[info]katiescarlet
2007-10-10 03:53 am UTC (link)
I haven't had any issues with it yet, but so far I've only talked in one PUG, the rest has been all guild runs. In the PUG there was another woman (who happened to be the roommate/girlfriend of another player) so I didn't feel odd at all.
And my guild has lots of women in it, including several married/cohabitating couples, so that's not an issue, either.

My sympathies to anyone who's been harassed via the voice chat (or any other kind of chat). I'm sure I'll have to deal with it eventually myself. >_< When I do, I'll quit the group and hearth rather than put up with immature weasels drooling on their mics.

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