WoW Gender Bending

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?tag=CRCFAQ

What next? Faction, class?
Discuss.

Please don't make me link the image of Vexacus and gender bendering in the same breath again, Mr S

"Sweet I have breasts now"

Liontooth wrote:

"Sweet I have breasts now"

Tauren Female have no breasts, it's udders.

/barfs

/tries to get rid of image of Lion's moobs being milked by ... NO STOP! STOP IT NOW!

Morgalyen wrote:

Liontooth wrote:

"Sweet I have breasts now"

Tauren Female have no breasts, it's udders.

*continues playing with his UDDERS*

Liontooth wrote:

"Sweet I have breasts now"

No change, IMO.

I await the first RP'd sex change with great interest!

***Edit***

That said, it would be quite cool if you could change your race. Then we could have Belf Warriors, Dwarf Shaman, Human Hunters etc, a whole host of racial classes that SHOULD have existed could now be available.

Gurfang wrote:

I await the first RP'd sex change with great interest!

***Edit***

That said, it would be quite cool if you could change your race. Then we could have Belf Warriors, Dwarf Shaman, Human Hunters etc, a whole host of racial classes that SHOULD have existed could now be available.

And the not-so-cool ones like Human Druids and Night Elf Warlocks.. which make absolutely no sense lorewise..

oh wait.. did blizzard ever care about that o.O

Hmm, this could be my final chance to NOT LOOK LIKE A FAT BALDY FATTIE FROM A DODGY 70S PR0N FILM AS I SIT ATOP MY DREADSTEED (fat man on a moped).

Should I transform into 'Opatha' so I don't look like a silly twat atop my demon steed?

*thinks of his RP story 'How Thrall Gelded Me And I Liked It'

This might actually make me quit wow......if this is the way wow is going then the game can only keep going down.

Seriously i can't even joke about something as crap as this.

Pyschotaz wrote:

This might actually make me quit wow......if this is the way wow is going then the game can only keep going down.

Seriously i can't even joke about something as crap as this.

I agree.

Where would it end ? It's too much effort to level from 1-80 why cant we make an instant level 80 character or
I dont want to be a orc fighting for the horde I want to be an alliance orc, where would it end.

I think I just

Benton wrote:

Pyschotaz wrote:

This might actually make me quit wow......if this is the way wow is going then the game can only keep going down.

Seriously i can't even joke about something as crap as this.

I agree.

Where would it end ? It's too much effort to level from 1-80 why cant we make an instant level 80 character or
I dont want to be a orc fighting for the horde I want to be an alliance orc, where would it end.

Of course, if Blizz had gone for a properly decent free-form MMO then we could have had orcs and humans fighting side by side against another bunch of orcs and humans. Admittedly, given the fact that this is just another way for Blizz to glean money from the gaming populace (and you just know that some people will be taking them up on it!) this sort of thing is likely to increase. However I hope that Blizz look at it and decide to move more towards the free-form idea and give people the chance to grind rep with opposing races and factions, like you would have to if this were real life, so that at least you know that anyone who has made a change like this has actually earned it, rather than just forking out some cash and getting the change.

To play devil's advocate for a moment; I can think of a few reasons even an RPer would use the opption of changing the characters gender:

1) They simply got bored of seeing their character, and they storyline was going nowhere. Instead of having to level a new character to level 80 or whatever, it's more convenient to simply do a level 80 reroll.

2) Your character died IC, but they were your main and so in order to do anything RP related with the character, you're forced to either roll an alt, or pay for a name-change. The thing is; how many ways can an individual play a male troll shaman, without the newly named one not feeling like a carbon copy after a while?

3) You only just got into RP, and are having trouble RPing a given gender. Rather than be scared of of playing as a male/female, it seems an easy option to change all your characters to the one you feel more comfortable with.

Of course I don't think Blizz should charge such a silly amount of money, nor do I think that anyone could easily RP a sex change, so it seems more likely people will use it for characters that are dead, IC, and/or going nowehere in RP. Any random that changed the gender of their character... Well, they really don't affect the RP community at all.

As I said to a few people; I have three male characters, but £45 is a lot to pay for 'cosmetic changes', though they would at least make me start playing those characters again. But it's going to cost enough in real life.

I fail to see why anyone has an issue with this option... so what, you can change your appearance if you aren't happy with how it originally was, you can change your name if you didn't like it, and you can switch your character's gender for... well, whatever reason. Strikes me as being really good for RP'ers who, like Lyranne said, have had characters die ICly and want to keep playing them (because if you stop playing a character JUST because they died ICly and for no other reason, then you are a moron, to be blunt), and maybe a few other uses as well.

Amazes how people find a way to whine about good things, no matter what...

To avoid repeating things that has already been said, I'm just going to say that I agree with Lyranne and The Lith King.

Leaf wrote:

To avoid repeating things that has already been said, I'm just going to say that I agree with Lyranne and The Lith King.

And the Gnogue.
It's not as if you change your original character's gender, but as if you create a new character with no need to level him/her up again.
Let's not forget that in game mechanics gender has effect only on the appearance of the character, and nothing else.

Leaf wrote:

...The Lith King.

0_o

Maybe Leaf was assuming that Lithaella would be the first character to go through with it?

Um... *peers around* I kind of went by the real life gender, hence king and not queen. But I guess that would require me to use the real life name as well, defeating the purpose of it. Damn!

Woohoo, transgender mayhem!

On a side note; even if I had a reason to fiddle with my characters' appearances/genders/whatever, I'm just a tad broke, so you won't be seeing a big burly Manithidrimme or Lith King or anything like that

Talking about gender bending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKIw8AQBp7k

That's it. Quint's becoming a girl. So he can have unlimited access to tits.