Slow Females?

[Tai]

Oh dear: " '... Age of Conan's weapon swing time depends on the duration of the visual swing animation, and female characters swing their weapons about 25% slower than males - so every female melee character does 25% less damage over time!'"

Don't know whether it is true or not, but there's some fun reading here:

http://www.massively.com/2008/06/11/are-female-characters-really-penalized-in-age-of-conan/

[Postal]

You know thats interesting. I thought my female guardian was a lot slower then my Dark Templar but I figured it was just the class.

[Creole Ned]

Tying damage to animations is bad. CoH's senior animator has worked diligently to fix all kinds of problems with damage/timing that were the result of screwy animations put in place by the original team. I imagine the Conan devs will fix this by upping the damage female characters do with melee weapons (or in the longer term by decoupling animations and damage altogether).

Or maybe they want all those little ladies to be healers and not fight. :o

[Circuit]

Yeah, this is the main reason I deleted my female Ranger and remade a male one. I wasn't sure if she was actually swinging slower or if it just felt that way, but it was pretty annoying. My Priest of Mitra definitely has this slow swing problem, but it's not as big a deal since she doesn't use her weapon much.

[Tai]

They better fix it, I'm not rerolling. =P

[bridude]

well thats sucks.