The Queue: Sobbing about raccoons

I’m still mad at James Gunn for the whole Henry Cavill fiasco but my word he knows how to break your heart with a talking raccoon.

It seems harmless enough although I wouldn’t do well playing it.

No class is ever as bad as people think it is. I’ve been saying this since 2007, and I’ve believed it since before that. Back in BC, everyone thought Warriors were busted and bad tanks because their AoE wasn’t as good as Druids and Paladins and they couldn’t tank most of the really trash heavy pulls in dungeons and some raids while I was taking all that stuff as a Warrior. Was it easy? No. Both Druids and Paladins had better AoE tools than I did. But it wasn’t impossible, and likewise, when people decided that Druids and Paladins couldn’t tank raid bosses like Illidan because they didn’t have Shield Block to push Shear off of the table?

My guild had a Paladin tank Illidan and a Druid do it the week after. Did I tank it first? Yes. Was it easier to keep me healed? Also yes. But it was doable. The problem is that the community is often influenced by what’s optimal — the mathematically best class for a given role based on the best possible gearing and assuming equivalent skill at utilizing the class toolset — and confuses that for what is actual.

There will always be classes at the top of the pecking order based on things that exist, but aren’t necessarily as important as everyone seems to think they are. The tank that Liquid picks to complete raid content at a World First level is one chosen to be as optimized as possible because they’re doing these fights essentially undergeared, without weeks of farming content — and so they tend to inflate the difference between, say, a Blood DK and a Protection Warrior, or as Guardian Druid, or a Vengeance Demon Hunter.

I would say that Guardian is as much a victim of public perception as they are mechanically disadvantaged. I’m not saying they don’t need help, but I am saying that they can absolutely do the job.

I mean, I don’t have all of that stuff on my main and never really noticed the lack, so I think you sound like you’re doing fine. Can Evokers get the Firelands legendary staff? If so get that.

So many people pronounce my last name as “Rosy” and I’m frankly baffled whenever I hear it.

Yeah, that one in particular got to me at the time. I’m pretty sure there are recordings of me on the podcast flipping out over that — something along the lines of If you see Gul’dan helpless before you stab him immediately and don’t stop until he’s a smear on the ground.

I mean, I’m responsible for the deaths of Varian and Vol’jin. So pretty much the whole Legion invasion of Azeroth, the destruction of the World Tree and the deaths of thousands, the Jailer’s near-destruction of the world, all because I didn’t stab a guy that literally everyone knows should be stabbed, including me. It is irritation itself.

Okay, that’s the Queue for this week. Cory is gonna be here on Thursday unless I forget and write the Queue because I’m just used to doing it. Oh, and I keep listening to various Diablo soundtracks, so just consider that the song, okay?