Is it possible to get my non-gamer girlfriend into EQ?

[Ajkuhuun]

On second thought, drama always makes for a good thread so maybe we should get some cat fights going here

Now all we need is jello~

In all seriousness though, even though my first post was taken wrong by one gal, and I apologize that she took what I said wrong, girl gamers have come a long way since I started playing in 1999, but some of the old stereotypes are still there which makes it a bit hard. I think part of that assuming a girl should be a support class mentality might stem from a nurturing nature...or something :P There's nothing wrong with being a support class, in fact the game couldn't function without them, however, there IS a problem with girls as a whole feeling as if a support class is their only option.

Even though the gaming community is less one sided than it used to be, ideas like girls are too emotional for leadership roles, or cause drama in guilds, or cyber fuck every guy in their guild, etc. are still very much a part of the gaming culture. Just like in real life, it takes time but after a while I think we'll see less one sided views on what a girl gamer is good at in a game, and what they might enjoy in a game. Hey nobody likes being stuck into a stereotype...even hunters from WoW [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My Everquest story is that my older brother and I sort of had a long standing trade war going on with Magic cards (I was 19 and he was in his late 20's so I know how sad it sounds) and at one point I owed him more than he owed me. My cousin and him had started playing EQ and he said he'd wipe my debt if I went and bought it, so I did. At the time I remember my cousin, who is a guy, telling me "Don't worry about buying Velious, you'll never get there anyway." An offhanded remark at the time, but as it happens out of all our real life friends I was the first to get to Velious, the first to raid, the one who carried them from epic to epic, the one who networked with the community so they could obtain those epics without being in a raid guild. I loved EQ, and got my first real taste of MMO's. It was a feeling I ended up carrying with me through SWG, EQ2, WoW, SWTOR...a plethora of other games, and I never quite got that same feeling until I rerolled here. The community is exactly what I fell in love with in EQ back when I started, the game is the same, and I think it's a great game to start off your girl on. It's not EZmode like WoW, and it's not so difficult that the learning curve is just too daunting to even want to catch up on.

I hope you guys enjoy your time here, I'm low level myself but if you need a hand in game, hit me up (my toon name is Ajkuhuun) or the hubby up (his toon name is Naena). Have fun!