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by Sciar, Level 31
Last updated at June 3, 2008, 12:17 am
First things first, here's where my research started. Betterthanyou posted earlier that female characters were worst at meleeing than male characters. See his comments here: http://www.gameriot.com/blogs/WoW-XXX/Girls-are-Inferior-in-AoC/

After doing a little poking around I found this thread linked below.
No idea if it's going to be taken down soon or not:
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=55674
For those of you who might not be able to login to AoC forums allow me to quote some of the things the Assassin class has noticed with male/female ratio of attacks.

"It's undeniably bugged.
Roll 2 lvl 1s, male and female of same race.

Time 20 seconds of a single directional attack (up left for example). Count how many hits you landed during the 20 seconds.

It will look like this
Male: 27 landed.
Female: 15 landed.

It will also vary depending on the direction (wtf further), and if you're moving (where females catch up slightly, but that hardly helps anything...)."
- Stonedform Aquilonian Assassin

The most shocking info is that the itemization (Which is listed differently per character, not the item itself) is rigged towards males as well. Bearshamans for example have a 2h DPS boost. This shows everytime they click on an item link for a mace it calculates their extra 4DPS from their talent. Well male daggers are posted at 1.20 attack speed. I can vouch that over the past 55 levels I have never seen a dagger listed as anything else.

Female characters however are seeing daggers at 1.46 attack speed.

Apart from accidentally increasing the size of females chests in game, it seems Funcom has indeed actually made male characters more powerful melee damagers. Thanks better for pointing this out, my male assassin is still kicking ass!

I doubt this change is intended or else the stat changes would be referred to somewhere so when choosing your character you can know whether or not to go male/female. If it is intentional however not only will some people be angry but I find it interesting that the females are given lifelike visuals as well as lifelike muscle representation in terms of stabbing something to death. These games are getting neat
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Relm
Relm Jun 3, 2008 at 12:55 am
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Is this serious? jeez seems silly unless they somehow counter-balance it some other way for us.
Hink
Hink Jun 3, 2008 at 2:24 am
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It wouldn't be the first game to have slightly different stats/abilities between genders. Though I rather doubt the women in AoC were supposed to be outright inferior.
Globals
Globals Jun 4, 2008 at 12:55 am
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females hit harder, we are looking at the same weapons right now, i see bigger numbers, bigger dps.  but i'm comparing with a different class.
betterthanyou
betterthanyou Jun 4, 2008 at 12:57 am
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Well, either way, the point is that there IS a difference.  O.o
Globals
Globals Jun 4, 2008 at 1:10 am
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scratch all that we made 2 lvl 1 barbs and the weapons show the same dps now.  So it looks like women are inferior.  i hope this changes, i got an 80 female barb and i have no desire whatsoever to play a different class.
Globals
Globals Jun 4, 2008 at 1:20 am
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OK this is nuts, me and a friend are testing lvl 1 barbs right now, the male is attacking slower from the left and right, the middle attacks are the exact same.  I'm hitting mobs for mroe from the left and right, we hit them for the same in the middle.  

So this is opposite of other tests i guess, insane.
Sciar
Sciar Jun 4, 2008 at 1:40 am
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Plenty of testing keeps coming up with broken results, glad to see everybody checking it out this really is going to blow up and become a huge issue. People don't like unexpected differences :)
Globals
Globals Jun 4, 2008 at 2:01 am
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ok now with 1 handed edged weapons, the male was much faster from the left and a fraction faster from the right and middle.  the first tests i did were with 2h blunt.

so it varies on allot of things, we also tried cimmerians and aquilonians and the results did not vary.
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