Things are a bit different in end-game raiding. Hours and hours of practicing and getting the hang of boss fights. Sometimes, it feels like a second job, which leaves almost zero room for error (**reminiscing Archimonde’s fight**).

Now, if we’re talking about casual gaming, forget everything I said. Pick-up any game/ online partner and screw up anyhow you want (read: have fun).

Btw, I agree with Weirdunclebob: For The Horde.

Aggression leads to in-fighting, short tempers, ragequits, the devolution of a smoothly coordinated raid into a pitfight. Before I went on BC, I was one of the small percentage of women afflicted by serious PMS. At certain times of the month, my hormone-induced aggression went through the roof. I wanted to pick fights, I wanted to smash, I wanted to kill as many mooks as the video game could throw at me. This aggression did not make me a better raider. It didn’t even make me a better PVPer, because even PVP requires skillful coordination with fellow arena members. Should we assume that aggression is magically good in boys but bad in girls?

I’ll concede the point then! Thanks for correcting my mixup.

I often hear complaints about men’s clubs but rarely about women’s clubs. At the end of the day, most males aren’t bothered if women want a male-free club whereas the if men want a men-only club, it’s deemed to be sexist. I just find that completely ridiculous. What about our rights?!!

P.S. Quote: “Not only do players have to deal with the forces of the Horde and the minions of the Lich King…”

Now, who’s being biased?! Do you play Alliance, by any chance?!

P.S.S. For The Horde!

I can assure you we never had a no-female policy (though we probably should have :p). After talking to members of NA who were there prior to my joining [in early-BC], they said that there was never a no-female policy. They actually had many female gamers during Vanilla WoW (Cheyenne, Jitzgirl and Nearly to name a few off the top of my head) and as I said above, we had multiple females during BC until our disbanding.

Regardless, great article. Also, http://www.wow.com/2007/07/10/instant-karmas-gonna-get-you/ — NA’s greatest achievement.

While there may be some exceptions to this in my time in WoW, players over 50 years old are very slow at reacting to fight mechanics and changing targets.

Female players ARE mostly healers, but there are still an appreciable number of DPS and Tank.

If female players appear to generally be worst than male raiders my guess is because people notice the female raiders more. I know a lot of other guilds that almost instantly invite females, no matter how bad they are, and end up kicking them once they can’t take the fail anymore while they would just not invite a male equivalent.

Also, the vast majority of female raiders my guild has had over it’s 4 years have been stay at home moms.