Sounds like a good idea, but one that would only ever be added as something like a temporary potion/drink/trinket buff.

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Yeah it's not as simple as getting a haircut really is it, they should make a potion for it.

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Does gender actually have any effect on your character? I've played MUDs where if you're female then you're slightly less stronger than the male counterparts for example.

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No, gender has literally no impact other than aesthetic in WoW.

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Wait, there are different genders of blood elves? I thought they were all female?!

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I don't think so, if a guy has a lvl 70 girl toon, purely for the advantage of having other dudes hit on him, he's a sicko and should have to suffer the consequences.

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I would really like to see this as well.
I mean- what the hell did I roll a gnome female for?
She was pretty cute in the beginning with her pink ponytails, but she's pretty ugly too, and I'm getting tired of being the opposite sex AND ugly.

It would feel much better to get a male warlock instead, then it wouldn't give me such an awkward 'ugly'-feeling about my toon.

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On the whole, Blizzard doesn't seem that keen on letting people change their characters after creation. They relented on the hair thing finally, both because its logical (hair cuts make a lot more sense in a world like WoW then plastic surgery does), and because it lets them bring out new hairstyles.

Something like gender changes are a lot less likely to happen.

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want to change gender, face, class, faction or more?

re-roll!

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I know a guy who rerolled froma level 70 UD female priest to a UD male priest just because she cast ugly.
Would you say that that make sense?

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I dont believe anyone should be able to change your gender. But, if it is done, it should come with a hefty price tag. At least 1000g. People should have to work for the right to change your gender, and it shouldn't be easy enough to do often.

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Let's face it no matter where you go in the Real world there are always those people who want to be the opposite sex, transgenders are a part of life and so it would only be natural that these people would want that in Azeroth as well. Transgenderation is mostly people who feel mentally that they are the opposite sex anyway, not necessarily homosexuals although most are. It is a part of life and some psychologist believe it is a chemical imbalance in the brain. While others say it is genetic coding.

Whatever the reason is, I agree with #1 that it shouldn't be permanent...you picked the toon from the beging, you had the time and option to pick something else, if you didn't like the animations you should have re-rolled earlier, other than that, permanently changing your gender goes against creation!!

Merely my opinion of course.

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I wouldn't mind being able to change the gender of a character, but I think it would be a bit disconcerting. You start to recognize people from their toons after all.

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_NO_

or only after a long session talk with a priest of Stormwind because the character is very unhappy and to help him :)

seriously, I'm against it because it's a game, and a game need HARSH choice and only , WE (the others players) need STABILITY to recognize your character.

it's only a few polygons, so if you could change everything everyday , it would be a pain to play with you.

and I really think it would be bad for the game on the long time. you need choice to force players to replay the game differently.

all choice as the same time is in fact no choice at all and a dull game.

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I rolled a female blood elf paladin just like everybody else, and with the huge dearth of male toons I'd rather have one of those now. Or maybe I just want something to tide me over until Dragonball Z Online.

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Michel... your point is semi-valid but not. Picking a sex isn't a harsh choice that effects gameplay. Stuff like talents, etc. are the important harsh choices, but even then they allow you to respec. The alliance/horde thing is a HUGE thing that will never be put in unless they create some neutral faction thing some day.

I used to play an MMO where you could get a sex change, but it was a one time deal (just like in the real world I'd assume.) and it cost a good deal of money. If for whatever reason someone wanted to change their characters sex/looks I'm sure this could be a viable approach if it was a SINGLE time thing so people wouldn't swap all their stuff around constantly.

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And I bet the reagents required would be [Bucket of Cold Water] and [Teapot of Hot Water]. Zechs 1/2.

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We have transgenders in the real world, why not Azeroth as well? Just give it a nasty price tag, again just like real life. As said it has zero effect on mechanics, unlike race, class and so on, I really don't see how playing the other gender back up to what you have would add anything to the game.

And hey, it'd make for a hell of an RP session.

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Well, i know that gender changes probably are not gonna be an option ever.

Hair cut's i can accept but not gender changes. And this coming from a dranei male shaman who re-rolled from a female one at lvl58 (3 days played, 1 day after release of tbc) because the girl thing didn't just work for enh shammies.

I had a priest as my old main and casting for females works, i like playing a female char if theyr casters (healer/dps) but, not melee dps, no no no, something utterly wrong in that.

And yes, the way she hit mobs with the maces was ugly as hell.

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Changing a toons name is tough too. It takes three months and fifty dollars (moving your toon to a server that already has that name, waiting the 90 days, moving it back.) (Um the server does not have that name of toon, create one.)

Wish there was a faster less expensive way to change your name.

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