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INTERVIEW WITH BRUTALL STATIC
CONT’D!
By Brian Magee

B

rian: What is your

then. Thinking back to Tier 4, there

tank you look at your shield as your

most prized Warcraft

was the Aldori Legacy Defender

defining attribute. Your shield is it,

related item, it can be

from Gruul, didn’t drop until after we

because that’s what you use as a

an in game item, or even a piece

killed Kael’thas at the end of Tier 5,

Prot Pally and a Prot Warrior. And

of WoW memorabilia you own.

to put that in perspective, I didn’t get

so fast forward a couple of years,

a Tier 4 shield until we were in Tier

I think it was right before Mists of

6. Couple that with the fact that I was

Pandaria went live I decided to go

answer and so I apologize to anyone

using the Nightbane Shield for all

back to Black Temple with a couple

who hears or reads this later on.

that duration, it was excruciatingly

of buddies and the shield dropped,

But back when we were doing TBC

painful. So we break into Tier 6 and

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve

content, I had the worst time in the

we finally kill Kaz’rogal, he drops

killed that NPC, but that shield is

world getting a shield for my Prot

a shield (thank god), but I never

the one in World of Warcraft that

Warrior as that’s the class I mained

got Illidan’s Shield, The Bulwark of

I hold most dear, not because it’s

for most of my WoW career back

Azzinoth. It ate me alive man. As a

useful nowadays, because it’s clearly

Brutall: This is a very cliché

not. But because it has a deep
sentimental value to me because I
spent so much time and so much
effort with so many people across
the years trying to get it that when I
finally obtained it, it just felt like I’d
finally accomplished something.
Brian: Have you ever taken a
break from WoW due to maybe work
or education, and if so, for how long?
Brutall: Yes, I’ve taken two
primary breaks, the first was right
after we killed Yogg-Saron in Ulduar,
the reason that I took that break was
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