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They can't grind for weapons - since they aren't free to do as they want in these arenas. The original story was that they had to win the season to be free from their "crimes" - which we however drift away from when introducing this strip today...
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icbleu
I’ve been following the series for a few months, and one of the thigns I love the most about it is that it is this crazy haphazard mixed factions / race / intellectual capacity team that through no fault of their own is winning encounters. It’s pretty much the core strength that the humor behind the characters is built on, aside from the sight gags and nods to player legends (a befuddled Grand Marshal paladin still fighting a match after all these years? Too funny!).
If anything, and if it were up to me, I’d maintain the heart of the overall plot which is based around arena matches, and build on it. Maybe have the gang grind in BG’s for weapons, or hit a few quests/badge runs to gain better armor, or even have a few snafu’s with random other groups doing PVE encounters, or even get roped into a duel or two. If you keep coming back to the arena, but have the sideline stuff directly related to bettering themselves for the aforesaid arena games, that’s a win in my book.
But, then again, it IS your comic. Everything so far has been great. Keep doing what you do best - entertain us and make us smile =)