I mentioned yesterday that doing the Midsummer Fire Festival stuff in WoW had delayed the comic. Well... it did it again. I was told that with today's server reboot the Midsummer quests would be reset. So, if I didn't finish extinguishing/desecrating everything, I'd have to start from scratch after the reboot. That was not a proposition I was interested in. So I ran around until I finished everything but the Alliance capitals.

And because the reboot was used to put new code in place that reset the extinguished/desecrated flames so people that did them last year can do them again this year, I can run around and extinguish/desecrate everything for flowers and cash again. **grins**

Now as for the comic itself. I'm talking about the Torch tossing daily, where you run about trying to catch flaming torches as they fall. At times this can be tricky. And if you miss the torch it pretty much explodes, setting you on fire.

Once you get the hang of things the quest isn't bad. You just follow the shadow on the ground. If you stay just in front of it, you catch the torch, easy as cake. If there are a lot of people around though it confuses the issue and you get blown up far more often. Playing on the Horde side, I prefer to do Torch Tossing in Thunderbluff.

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Those of you late to the comic today missed that I had to post an incomplete comic because I was running so late. I used the opportunity to do another live stream of me working on the comic though. I did record it, so if you're interested you can see it here:
http://www.gucomics.com/live/gu_20090623.php

NOTE: Future streams will be announced via the GU Page on Facebook.

Maybe one day I'll transfer to your server....sounds like you have a blast. Have you killed the new once a year Boss Mob (Ahune, the Frost Lord) yet, if so, is the loot any good?

Meaning "...did U getz phat l00tz?"

i'd have been doing the flames/fires except for both myself and the wife, we have the "cannot do the dang quests" problem(along with alot of other people) which when we logged at 11:00 or so last night had yet to be rectified.

if it's fixed tonite i'll be doing the quests.....

Midsummer is one of my faves! Finished up the quests i missed last year and got the achievement at 5am on Sunday. The best part is all the gold you can get and the extra exp buff for leveling alts! I also love the torch catching quest, it's so much fun to do and also fun to watch all the other people fail at it! Ahune was disappointing. He's still the same and didn't drop anything good, but i might have another go at him if i have the time.

I can't do any of the quests i did last year, but i hope when it's reset that it won't wipe out the achievement. Either way i plan to go around and collect some gold again.

The torch catching is annoying. Just when I have it down, there's too many people around to do it. argh!

I don't mind the late comics/unfinished cause it shows you're human and get addicted to the same things we do!

Wow Woody, I've been watching you work on the coloring on GULive, I really appreciate you doing that - it's really amazing to see some of the process that goes into the coloring of the piece (especially as someone who is utterly ignorant of art in general heh)

Thanks, really enjoy watching it

Aye, today I got to watch the coloring happen during my lunch hour. Was cool to see the process...and the interactions with the audience lol.

So many inside jokes just from that live chat/ustream. More cowbell!

I missed it =(

I got to see the Live today and it was amazing! (for those that missed, there are recordings!)

Thanks for letting us watch and teaching us a few things! It totally made my day! <3 Can't wait to see more!

Radial, I recorded this one too. It's now linked in the writeup.