A javelin is a weapon, it doesn’t have a gender. The Roman legions used javelins.
Would you not find it odd if someone used a male/female German word to refer to a female/male person? There aren’t many in English but they stand out when the “wrong” one is used.
Both Necromancer and Lich are gender-neutral terms. There are instances where Warlock is also gender-neutral, so its not really out of line.
How frequently is it used in a gender-neutral manner compared to referring to a male practitioner of witchcraft?
can you give examples? Did you read the mulitple definitions of warlock i presented?
Google “female warlock” yourself.
The point is that since Warlock can be gender-neutral and Lich and Necromancer are already gender-neutral, Warlock is a better choice for a gender-neutral title than Witch which is female. Although, there are some uses of Witch which are also gender-neutral as well. So, it really doesn’t matter. A class title is just that - a class title. Marksman is being used as gender-neutral here (and in other references) & (to some extent) Shaman can be gender-neutral.
but Its not. Warlock means male witch. You call females witches, you call males warlocks.
It can also be used for females as well.
I could name the class fuzzy bumper hetero hippo too.
how? give me an example.
By who? There’s a word for female Warlocks. Just like there’s a gender-specific word for female actors.
Just google. Witch is often used for both men & women, and Warlock is the same.
My point was not about the grammar. On top, you picked the wrong word to get nerdy about. We are talking about characters. And I mentioned the Sentinel - obviously male (more obviously since the rework). He (the male character named Sentinel) turns into a male version of a Valkyrie by using the gender neutral skill (we can agree here, although in German javelin has a gender - also male) named Javelin.
I mean, chances you would pick the right argument were 50/50… Better luck next time 
I did:
For my post I provided definitions of Warlock. LINKS… ok? Show me a definition where it says a warlock is a girl?
Or maybe my knowledge of arcane German isn’t as good as you think it is. I thought we were talking about English names? English has no name for a male Valkyrie (since they were only female warriors).
“Better luck next time”…
Though IMO, I wouldn’t be surprised if a dev popped in here at some point soon.
The first link I found was to WoW which has both male and female Warlocks.
The second link I found contained this passage:
" the e-Study Guide for Rock and Roll: A Social History by Paul Friedlander traces the word back to an Old English origin where the word meant “oathbreaker” or “deceiver”, but Early Modern Scots popularized a new meaning of the word which was the male equivalent of witch.
The book also states that ‘Witch’ can be used for either male or females but it is more often used for females, but this means that technically you could use Warlock for females."
Lastly, of course, D&D has a Warlock class which can be male or female.
the problem with using wow as an example is they dont’ gender lock thier classes. So when they created the class by default one or the other wouldn’t fit perfectly.
so if they had made it “witch” the male version would have been inaccurate. They made it “Warlock” so when you chose female then it was inaccurate. Their only option would have been to call the class “Witch/warlock”
Witch is also gender-neutral, but they chose Warlock. So did D&D. Just saying.
here is the problem I have w/ your method of discourse. You’re presenting opinion as fact. Warlock is MALE. OK? SHOW ME a definition that proves otherwise… you can’t just “say it” and expect me to take it at face value.
I’ve shown 4 definitions. Where are yours?
But that’s exactly my point. Valkyrie is female. Yet the LE equivalent is male…
Are you seriously arguing about this with me. Bored maybe?
Attention all devs! Emergency weekend recall! Somebody on the internet is not serious about a topic on our forums
This is ridiculous.