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[MBM 133]

It’s been over a year since the last comic, hasn’t it.

Welp. Still not motivated enough to start doing this weekly again.

Anyways. There are a lot of characters relevant to the endgame with names starting with “H”, aren’t there?

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[neophix]

MBM 4Komas Cut

To everyone who’s shown interest in the series at one point or another, thanks. As of now, though, I can’t find any reason to justify continuing the weekly release of this comic. This blog will likely be used as a platform for my other projects from here on out, and I’ll still pop into the Elsword tag every now and then. With “Add” on TumblrSavior.

Getting to the point, please consider the MBM 4Komas to be over from here on out. Thanks for keeping up all this time.

[neophix]

[MBM] #132

I know I'm late to comment on the specific goings-on of Eltrion Mk2 Phase 1, but even so. We've whacked Eltrion's gigantic noggin so much by now that whenever my attacks clip through missing collision space there, I just think, "Oh. I must've gone through the hole we've drilled through." It's nice to know that that problem isn't nearly as bothersome now that we've entered Phase 2.

[neophix]

[MBM] 131

So a good friend of mine on this side of the screen, let's call him Fury, offered to take me with him on a summer trip to Florida and the answer was "Yes" Well, it turns out that a good friend on the OTHER side of the screen, Snarby, also happens to live at the destination city. What a coincidence!

[neophix]

[MBM] #130

I cannot get over the fact that Code_A:Surveillan looks like King Nasod MK2. Not one bit.

[neophix]

[MBM] #129

Also doubling as an entry to Elsword's Facebook 4-Panel comic contest. I didn't realize they missed my comics so much that they’d hold a contest to fill the void. Anyway - I'm using the archetypal characters in this one, but I'm pretty sure we all know who they're subbing for. Your regularly scheduled [MBM] 4Koma comics are back (now in higher resolutions!)

[neophix]

[MBM] 128

Let's just say that writing a comic based on a game you play is a lot harder when the game makes it feel like it wants you to leave. This deserves an explanation. The player vs player environment in Elsword has become very unpalatable as of late, and even though I've steered the comic's direction into a commentary about the in-game events quite often, the next set of events isn't looking particularly promising, either. None of my matches have lasted long enough for me to find any meaningful new data or quirks that could make it into comic form that haven't been commented on already - matches more often than not end within half a minute, and if your opponent happens to have Sand Blast, or a Ring of Fury, or -damn Nexon for having conceived of either of them- both, one catch means death. There's nothing meaningful to be derived from that - no chance for intelligent or thought-provoking play - hell, I can't even make a joke out of it. The same stupid stuff over and over and over again. This time around everyone and their pet goldfish can break the logic of the game, and characters that already did so can now do so doubly. (To the guy who argues that gear is the great equalizer? You're a moron.) What I'm getting at is that, with just how distasteful the current experience is, I think it's more worth my time to break off from the game than to force myself into it for the sake of PvP or even for writing a fresh comic every week. I'll still play for the daily raids and maybe an event here or there, but I don't see myself running into any of the major upsets or stupid coincidences that often do make it into comic form any time soon. Please consider the [MBM] Elsword 4Komas to be on hiatus until the next major rebalance patch hits the game.

[neophix]

[MBM] 127

Back before the Season... three? Quest revamps, Ann's gift was acquirable via pickup quest instead of the automatic story quest that it is today. When the quest revamps happened, the quest that gives you the title got changed to a storyline quest, part of a storyline that I'd cleared within minutes of starting all the way back in Season One. Needless to say, I can't go back to get it any more. Which is amazing, because with the latest updates it shouldn't even be possible to skip Ann's Gift.