On Sunday afternoon, I had my 3.5 year old daughter sitting on my lap as I was showing her WOW - yes, its true. I had made up a female character for her called the BluePrincess. We were running around throwing fireballs at wolves when someone whispered to our Blueprincess "Will you take off your clothes for me?" I was shocked that such a request came. I ignored him. He was persistent. "I will play you for it," he whispers again. (Whisper is a private mode of communication between players.) I was totally shocked - a sexual predator on WOW. Maybe, I should not be.
There have been discussions as to whether female players are really female players. I for one subscribed to "You have to be a bit strange to want to play a female character when you are a male in real life." But here I am, playing a beautiful female character and being proposed by some guy." I have to admit it was fun until I was propositioned. You know what - I get a lot of help from the strong masculine characters more often than my other male characters that I have played. More than a few times when my female character was way over her head and going down when another player (male) would run up and finish the job off for me - very nice. I bow and smile for such gallant acts.
On levelling up, my Undead Mage is now Level 23 - (there you go Vince - progress). At this pace, which is about 2 to 4 hours per level, I have at least 80 to 100 hours to Level 60. I need to do this in 1.5 months (my account runs out). Levelling up is getting more efficient as I now locate where the quest are via the Internet and waste no time looking around. The key is to keep maintenance and travel time to a minimum.
BTW, my daughter response when she first saw her character was "I don't like her dress." "Why?" I asked. "I don't like the colour." It was a good thing she could not read as we played together and goofhead was whispering for a stripper.