Comic #719: Prosperity (Patreon)

For those unfamiliar with the mechanic, the sphere shown in the first panel can transmute into 4 different consumable items. The transmute is on an hour cooldown. Three of the four are barely used, if at all, while the fourth (potion of prosperity) grants you bonus proccs on your potion/flask combines. So when players with alchemy need to make new flasks/pots they click it whenever they can, waiting for the prosperity potion. Based on luck this can take a very long time. The joke here is Keydar spent all day trying to get the potion, and finally does, only to have terrible proccs.

In hindsight I feel like all the chat windows are super distracting from the comic itself, and I should probably have removed the chat window from every frame but the last one. However I really wanted those tiny jokes in each chat window so I kept them in. Also I found it hard to make it clear the sphere was transforming into the "wrong" item without some chat or tooltip.

I was originally going to add timestamps to the window, but felt that it was distracting enough, so I ended up just changing the background to reflect the passage of time.

I am very proud that I finally managed to bring to life the "rubix cube" crafting animation. Kind of looks like he's playing with play-doh.