It’s probably easier to just identify the character as Warlock, Hunter, Demon Hunter, and Priest but why are the female class equivalents not Witch, Huntress, Demon Huntress, and Priestess?
It obviously doesn’t change anything mechanically about the game but it also shouldn’t confuse any players (maybe Witch vs Warlock) as those are the female equivalents for those words anyways.
To take it further, Blizzard also has a few opportunities to make gender specific classes without stirring up to many accusations of being sexist… Valkyr immediately stands out as a potential female exclusive class.
Thoughts?
Edit: Maybe the gender specific class was a bit much but a lot of people seem to have over read into what I was saying. Not every word can just be made feminine by adding -ess… like Warrioress… but Huntress and Priestess are words and I was more asking why they didn’t use them when they could. Npcs have those words to define their class. What really would be the difference?
Warlocks are not the male equivalent of a witch. Warlocks are witches that were “warlocked” from a coven of witches for practicing bad/black magic.
Perhaps it indicates Blizzard’s ability to look beyond coloquialism and actually be, well, correct.
A female actor, after all, is an actor, not an actress. A female comedian is a comedian, not a comedienne. A female hunter is a hunter. Arbitrarily feminizing a noun in English does not make it correct, irrespective of half a century or so of tradition.
I have no insight on warlock vs witch beyond what we find in fictional literature. Sorry.
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Probably just easier to use generic terms, especially since modern day terminology doesn’t make priest or hunter to be inherently male things.
Though on RP servers I have seen some players use priestess, huntress, etc.
There’s nothing gendered about those job titles. If you want gendered classes black desert online is thataway–>
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Why do we call them actresses then? And waitresses instead of waiters? I know they say server more these days but people use those terms every day.
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I’m pretty sure this is one of those weird troll posts, but I just wanted to say that gender-locked classes are terrible, in any game.
Azeroth isn’t gender-biased, so don’t bring Earth human idiocy into it. (Or perhaps Blizzard should decide it’s the males who need the non-neutral class names in Azeroth. They could use rogueman, warlockman, hunterman, and so on.)
EDIT: Also, on top of this just being basic troll-bait, why is it in CLASSIC DISCUSSION instead of General Discussion?
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It’s a holdover from back in the day when people felt the need to differentiate based on gender. As it stands it’s rare to hear the phrase "waiter/waitress " and I’m pretty sure if movie awards stopped with the gendered award catagories within 50 years actor/actress would be dead as well.
Thanks for clarifying for the masses and preventing my need to respond directly. I get carried away when dealing with people stuck in 1950s Americana. It really is too bad that it persists so strongly in certain circles. What a dangerous time that was.
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dunno why the ladies dont want to be known by female titles . it’s not something to be ashamed of is it? why would you want to be known by a male title if you were a female and actually dont mind being a female? its confusing.
dwarf called me a lass the other day, and it didnt bother me at all. hehe
Because they arent male titles. They’re just job titles. Or do you think the women who work at my job should be called machinistesses? Doctoresses? Chefesses? Janitoresses? Should male nurses be called nursors?
English words typically gender neutral
Pepega thread of the year so far. There’s been some ones that make Helen Keller turn in her grave for sure, but this one went deep flat Earth.
May God have mercy on your soul.
i’m not worried about it all, though it was a point of interest that you arent known as huntress or priestess. i embrace my feminine side, i had to, its what i’ve been my whole life and don’t understand the need to ignore it. english is the least gender based language out of the european languages. for example, the spanish and french have masculine and feminine words, such as 2 different forms of the word “the”… . la (feminine), le (masculine)