Happy Hallow’s End everyone!
I remember when Drew and I first decided to start up this comic, we had about 4 or 5 ideas right off the bat of some things we wanted to make fun of. One of them being the sad state of the Protection Warrior. Our good friend Ararat, a great prot warrior of Blood Legion was definitely feeling a bit left out when it came to tanking as a warrior in Wrath. He feels they don’t have the raw health that Druids do or the saves that Paladins do. Any time a boss is high in raw physical damage, a Druid has to tank it. He even asked Ghostcrawler about it at Blizzcon, and pretty much got the standard “Prot Warriors are fine” speech. It’s too bad, because I love warrior tanks! Anyway, Hallow’s End seemed a perfect time to finally make fun of the poor state of the tanking warrior…
This week was a bit of an up and down one for me as far as WoW goes. I have been on the Illidan server *almost* since the game was released. I found a lot of good friends there, and had the pleasure of meeting a lot of them face to face. I consider all of them good friends, even if their opinion of me has changed over the years. Ever since I went to China, I’ve been kind of floating in guilds. I couldn’t possibly raid or really play for that matter while I was over there, and when I got back, no one really knew or cared I was there. I got left behind. It became painfully obvious that I wasn’t wanted in my guild, and there was no way I would ever raid with them. I was faced with the decision of staying in a guild where I’d never get to see any content, but still enjoy the company of one or two friends, or find a new home on another server in the hopes that I can raid and make some new friends along the way. So, on Monday, I quietly said goodbye to the few people who made staying on Illidan worth it, and then transferred my priest off.
I went to The Venture Co. I have an old guildie, Thrush who moved over there about a year ago to play with some friends. Some of you might know him as the hunter I made Emergency Kindergarten for! I’m now part of the Catalina Wine Mixer. I had the pleasure of raiding with them on Tuesday, and aside from two driver crashes and a blue screen on the part of my “new” computer (which is going to be returned later today) the raid went really well! Sure, its no Blood Legion, but I think it fits my lifestyle right now. They are a fun bunch of people, a really laid back raiding schedule, which won’t interfere with finishing the comic, and also lets me play volleyball twice a week without missing a raid!
I’m sad that it came to having to move off server. I’ll miss a lot of great people there, but I hope things will be better for me and my current lifestyle over at Venture Co. So to my friends on Illidan (Imaril, Rylo, Jehdin, Arianah, Ararat, Absalom, Chevyon, and Mandosz) I’ll miss you all, and good luck in 3.3!
<3
<3 you too! Though you won't miss me 'cause you quit recently! (again!)
The shield of impenetrable daisies really sets off his eyes I think…not to mention the butterflies of calming rage enchant on the sword LOL. Love it!
Okay, those are great names. We need a calming rage enchant in the game now. I’d love having little butterflies flying around my Horde staff!
Aww!!! Ill miss you too!!! Be sure to gimme a shout once in a while, we can go out for drinks or whatnot!
Yes! I still have your blizzcon programs and Justin still owes me those Mountain Dews!
Haha, poor warriors. That shield is just mesmerizing…
Hey! I’d wear it if I could! :P
Looks great, love the art style! Actually I wouldn’t be surprised if we see that kind of shield if we ever get an Emerald Dream expansion, heh heh…
You can try maybe getting your comic into this list on the community-based WoW-Europe forums thing!
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=11155683163&sid=1
I don’t think you have to be a European to get your comic in there. :)
Ohh! Thanks! I’ll look into that!
When I hit 70(shortly before Wrath came out) I had to make a similar tough decision. I could stay with the nearly dead casual guild that my brother and all the friends I made in WoW were in(though I was one of the few that still logged on) out of loyalty, or I could go shopping for a raiding guild. I was pretty sure I wanted to raid(hard to be sure when you have never seen it), but knew that my current guild could not deliver that, and I also knew that with the pre-Wrath lull I would have an easier time getting into a guild, since many would be undermanned, and soon facing a gear reset. I am glad that I struck while the iron was hot. While I didn’t slide right into a raiding position, it gave me a chance to prove my worth, and by the time Ulduar was out I had a regular raiding spot that I still hold. Even though I have found a new home, deep under these epics is a Mulgore Molerat who’s friends got rolling through the World of Warcraft.
I too am transferring my priest off Illidan for just about the same reason (hiatus from WoW then come back to be a ‘casual’ in the guild and having to sit just about every raid). :P
I think that a friendly environment where you are involved all the time will be better for the comic anyway. :3
The only thing the warrior is missing is a Little Bo Peep style “helm”. Great comic and keep it hp!
Gahh!! That’s great! I should have thought of that! :P
After talkin with GC that day, I officially resigned as MT of the guild. Druids/Paladin were already doing everything better and GC gave me no hope that things would change anytime soon. Oh well. DPS is fun
See, this is why I love love love being a Combat Rogue; my job is to kill – Period! No disillusions about what my roll is in the party/raid; just DPS the crap out of stuff and know when/where to move when the boss throws a trick or special attack.
I played a Fury Warrior once back before there was dual spec. I loved it, but I never got to do instances/raids because I wasn’t a tank and that’s all anyone seems to think a Warrior is good for :(
sorry to hear you transferred away from illidan :( but the comic is amazing keep up all the great work.