Okay, so obviously, my brain wasn’t working when I wrote my Being a Woman who Raids post, because I forgot about some truly excellent bloggers who are women who are fairly progressed. So, ladies, let’s all work together and try to come up with a fairly definitive list of progressed female raiders who blog, shall we? Please leave a comment with your blog URL if you’d like to be listed (or someone else’s blog URL if you know they’re a progressed female raider) assuming you meet the requirements below. If the blog does not have the woman’s most-progressed raiding character’s armory profile listed on it, please include the armory link as well. (You can email me the armory link if you prefer: kurn [at] apotheosis-now [dot] com.)
I’ve populated the list with a few names and blogs already, but haven’t been able to verify progression in some other cases.
Requirements (may be subject to change, but we’ll start out with this):
1) The blogger must be at least 9/12 ICC HM (that’s 10 or 25, although if you’re doing 10, you shouldn’t be decked out in all 277 gear). This can mean that the blogger has reached that stage with her current guild or a previous guild. Please let me know what the progression is in the comment itself. (Note that I’ll take your 25m progression over 10m if you’re wearing lots of 277 gear.)
2) The blogger must be a woman. This means that the blogger should say somewhere (either a blog post or in the About section) that they are a woman. Gender of the character does not matter. ;) (I will also include self-identified MTF transgender individuals as female bloggers, should any exist, mostly because I’m inclusive in general, but also because my previous post was spawned in part by my annoyance with the male-dominated heteronormative narrative that exists in WoW.)
3) The blog should primarily be about WoW stuff. If your blog is mostly you talking about what movie you saw before you went off and spent a couple of hours in ICC, you won’t get listed. I’d really like for this to be a solid list of women who are progressed in this game and who really talk about the game on their blogs.
A proper submission:
Kurn of Kurn’s Corner (http://kurn.apotheosis-now.com), is 11/12 ICC 25 HM and here is her armory: (link)
Please note that this is not any kind of effort to be elitist or to snub women who may be less-progressed! This is really a sort of experiment to see how many women out there are progression raiders who blog about WoW to help me see if my initial theory was right or wrong. (I believed that the reason there weren’t, from what I could tell, a lot of progression-minded female raiders who blogged was because there weren’t that many progression-minded female raiders at all.)
Also, the 9/12 HM requirement is arbitrary, I know. I put it there because I feel that most raiding guilds can eventually get Lady Deathwhisper down on heroic (typically the 9th boss on heroic you’ll do) but that, for whatever reason, a raiding guild may struggle once they start banging their heads against the walls that Putricide and Sindragosa represent, even to the point of giving up and no longer raiding.
I have a feeling that this post may be updated fairly regularly. ;)
25-man Progressed Female Raiders who Blog
(Please note that progression listed below is for Icecrown Citadel 25-man hard modes.)
12/12:
Avalonna at Tales of a Priest (co-blogger)
Dawn at Disco Priest
Hanny from Hanny’s blog
Vixsyn of Life in Group 5
11/12:
Aislinana of Empowered Fire
Anafielle over at Righteous Defense (co-blogger)
Angela at Restoration Druid
Bellwether from 4 Haelz
Beruthiel at Falling Leaves and Wings
Cassandri (and Lathere) at HoTs & DoTs
ecclesiasticaldiscipline at ecclesiastical discipline
Foofy of Foofy’s CupCake Factory
Keeva from Tree Bark Jacket
Kurn at Kurn’s Corner (tip: you are here!)
Oestrus from The Stories of O (and Divine Aegis)
Ophelie of Bossy Pally and the Giant Spoon
Zahraah from Pugnacious Priest
10/12:
Codi at Moar HPS!
Elsen at The View Through the Branches
9/12:
Janyaa from Muradin Musings
Jasyla from Cannot be Tamed
Napps of Mama GM
Osephala from Crispy Hands
10-man Progressed Female Raiders who Blog
(Please note that progression listed below is for Icecrown Citadel 10-man hard modes.)
12/12:
Kae at Dreambound
Nefernet from Krasus Kronicles
11/12:
Ailinea of Playing with Fire
Jen of Stories of WoW
Laranya from Root & Branch
Larísa at The Pink Pigtail Inn
Lidanya of Licking Floor
Leafie at Leaf-head
Vidyala from Pugging Pally
10/12:
9/12:
Arioch of Clearcasting
