Thursday | July 23rd, 2009
Top o’ the world, Ma!
McSplat then spent the next two weeks as a newt. Fortunately, he got better.
McSplat then spent the next two weeks as a newt. Fortunately, he got better.
This filler comic was made using Skitch. Skitch might not be the most full featured image editor out there (anything more than one panel would have been impossible), but it’s easy on system resources and great for cropping, adding text, then getting online quick.
And since this was ony supposed to be a one panel gag, Skitch was the perfect choice.
Oh yeah, and the Blood Elf running for his life from his own pet? He’s in Gnomeregan Defense League – the sister guild of Fortune Favors. Some of us decided having some horde alts would be fun too.
Sad, but true. I think my duid’s new hat is much, much better than my paladin’s new helm.
This opinion is not based on stats, of course. Stat-wise the new pally helm rocks. No, in this case I’m being totally superficial here and basing my opinion on looks alone. It’s a shame, really, as I simply love the look of most of the gear I’ve encountered so far in Northrend.
Splat used to have some pretty awesome goggles – good enough that I never saw a drop in Kara that was better healadin gear. Even lasted a good way through Wrath’s content, in fact, until her new helm of ugliness +5 dropped. Unfortunately I’ll have to wait for patch 3.0.8 for the new holy paladin goggles to become available, since Blizz apparently, uh, forgot to put them in when Wrath came out. Or something like that.
And my wife tells me the hat makes Elumi look like a character out of a certain video. Eh, I don’t see the resemblance. 
Yeah, yeah, I got off my butt and made another comic. Granted, I made sure to finish a decent amount of paperwork required by my employer before I did so. This one’s based not particularly on the frustration of getting Murloc eyes for that Westfall Stew quest, but more so on the sheer abundance of eyes I usually get when later adventuring in Redridge. Great, now that I don’t need them, I’m swimming in eyes?
Um … that was a disturbing image.
The character you see before you us Dugal, my new shadow priest. Yes, I rolled another alt. and leveled him to 21. He’s also probably going to stay 21 for some time, as leveling in Northrend is sooooo much better than Outland. I’ll probably start playing him again when my main eventually hits 80.
No, I’m not 80 yet. Some of us have lives, wives and/or careers.
And some of us make simple little screenshot comics and put them on the internet.
There are many reasons I haven’t been updating regularly, which for convenience I’ve divided into two categories: honest and whiny.
Whiny:
Honest:
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I’ve not been totally idle, though. I’ve started blogging again on the Fortune Favors Guild Site.
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As most WoW players probably already know, the next patch will be lowering the level at which you can buy mounts from 40 to 30, as well as reducing the cost to 35 gold. This is just the most recent in a long string of changes meant to help players level faster, in anticipation of the ten additional levels they’ll be adding with the next expansion pack.
Many of us that have been playing for more than a year (and therefore feel like we can call ourselves “old timers”) meet these changes with mixed feelings. Sure, they help us level our low level alts faster, but there is a narrow range between “too hard to be fun” and “too easy to be fun.” Easy mode is not always a good thing.
That, and the new players might not appreciate their mounts, epics, and more if they don’t have to work as hard to get them.
If i didn’t feel old before, I sure do, now.
