Dear Mantid

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$#%@*&% prawns.

I hate you. I hate everything about you. I’ve hated you since Pandaria, which was otherwise my favourite expansion.

I hate your old empress. I hate your new empress.

I hate your swarms. I hate your extra legs.

I hate that daily quest where I have to be held by one of you as you fly around so I can drop bombs. Get your paws off me, you damn dirty stinking prawn!

I hate your ridiculous Heart of Fear raid which I still need transmog from.

I hate your sap. You do nothing but make sap. And where does it come out? Yeah, you know where all that sap comes out. It ain’t out of a tree.

I hate the goo that’s inside you. In other words, invertebrate version of: I hate your guts.

I hate how when I hit exalted with you, you told me that if the old gods came back, you would side with them, and I hate how I didn’t do anything about it. (If I had actual agency of my character, I would have exterminated you all.)

Look, I’m an old Star Trek fan. IDIC. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. But I draw the line at cockroaches. Pointy ears? Fine. Energy being? Fine. Evil vampire energy being? Fine. I’m sure there’s some way we can come to terms. But invertebrates? NO!

You have to draw the line somewhere. You just do. The people who came up with IDIC? Well they’re vegetarian, but they still eat plants, so clearly they draw the line at tree.

I’ve got no problem with trees. I love trees. Trees should be protected.

Cockroaches should be exterminated.

Sentient or not, cockroaches should be exterminated.

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I really like the Mantid. Too bad they’re evil and we have to kill them all.

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The Mantid were like… The most chill, relateable, bro-enemies we’ve ever had, and I regret murdering them in cold blood as I carved a bloody path to Garrosh.

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They were always evil. They tell you if you hit exalted with them.

I felt this way about a lot of enemies over the years, especially the Arrakoa and the Mogu, but now we have friendly factions of both.

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I find Mantid to be a bit ‘clicky’ :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I find them to be super cool~

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This thread is a bug hunt, man! A bug hunt!

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I’ll protect my insectoid friends!

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Every one fights. No one quits.

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I would’ve preferred Mantid as a playable race over Vulpera. They’re industrious and different and fun.

Enough mammals, give us some cool creepy crawlies, birds, fish…

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I’d play tf out of a Mantid if I could. Especially if I get to turn in to that OP asf scorpion.

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I loved the Mantid and was devastated by the Exalted reveal. (And I hate roaches irl)

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Creepy crawlies? Well… I agree with everything else about this.

I love scorpions. They’re delicious when roasted. Mmm. Crunchy.

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I like the Mantid.

But the Qiraji are way better.

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Don’t be racist

Mantid would totally be the most played race if available

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The Mantid are one of the few void-aligned creatures I share mutual respect for. At least the Klaxxi. They cooperated with me and even offered me gear at the start of MoP. Klaxxi dailies were the ones I tended to do first when they were relevant content.

And they did give me a fair warning. They said “hey buddy I know we’re on good terms but when the masters we’ve sworn loyalty to come around we gotta do what we gotta do, k?”. They could’ve kept that lowkey and let me feel like I got betrayed, but they shared enough decency to let me know beforehand. For that, I think they’re at least more respectable opponents than most.

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Hey now. Of the dailies that had to be done the mantid ones were probably the easiest. Those buffs were good times. Popping ursols vortex and one shotting people was hilarious.

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While this is absolutely true, the right thing to do was still to drop a plague vat engineered by Goblins on them and ignite it.

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I am still salty that I had to kill all the buggy bois that I was friends with before SoO. Kil’ruk was my dude. We had good times together.

And I liked the idea of the Klaxxi as a check and balance to corruption from the Empress.

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I love me some klaxxi.

I AM THE WAKENER

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