wow nerdity (with translations for normal people)

[thesilia]

so, one of the things that they recently added to World of Warcraft is the ability to make your character a jack-of-all-trades.  or, really, a jack-of-two-trades.  but whatever, it's more than you could do before.  before, you were either a tank (big brick who kept the bad guy's attention), or a DPS (skinny little guy who killed the bad guy while his attention was on the brick), or a healer (hander-outer of bandaids to the bricks and any slow-moving little guys who drew too much attention to themselves).  you could, in some limited situations, force yourself into a role that was not your primary.  but not well, not for long, and certainly not in any kind of really challenging situation.

and now, you can.  so i have traditionally been a ranged DPS (skinny guy killing bad guys from a distance).  this is lots of fun and i'm pretty good at it.  recently, i added hander-outer of bandaids to my list of tricks.  and i healed naxx. (translation: handed out bandaids under difficult conditions)  9-man. (i mean REALLY difficult)  it was extremely awesome and it made me frolic mirthsomely.  (i was so happy i chair-danced.)