A Rogue's Eye View

Is This Thing On?

Hello!

I know, it's been ages since I've last posted, but I assure you I'm still alive.

What have I been up to? I'm so very glad that you asked. My life is clearly labeled with busy sections for as far out as I can see, and unfortunately that will continue to take me away from this blog. While I do still plan on posting, it won't be quite as often as it was when I'd first started it.

My blogging with MaximumPC.com has been going well. I'm very glad that I've been given the opportunity to do what I love, write, for money. And so far it's been getting me through school, so big ups to that!

As for World of Warcraft, I'm still very much a player. After four long seasons of hard-fought battles, I've finally gained my Gladiator title! It's been a great feeling flying around on my [Brutal Nether Drake].

My Guild, Sacred, took down Kil'Jaeden! Admittedly, it was post-nerf, but we did it the night of, so we feel that with what little prep we actually gave it, we didn't do too bad of a job.

And I'm personally very geared up and excited for Wrath of the Lich King (but who among us isn't?)! Sadly, Amazon.com hasn't done good on their very evident policy to ship out the game so that it will arrive on release day, so I from what I can read on my account page my release date will be November 17th... most likely ages after the rest of my guild has reached 80.

Oh yeah, and I went to BlizzCon. ^_^

While I recognize that this post is pretty sparse on information, I assure you that it's the best that I could do on such short notice. My life has been an incredible journey as of late, and it's only getting better (and in turn, busier). I'll do my best to keep writing Rogue-centric posts just as soon as I get some time, but until then, know that I'm doing well.

(Want to keep track of me? Be sure to direct your browser over to my Twitter feed! There are plenty of other great WoW bloggers out there as well that you should keep track of. They're fine folks. :D)

Hiatus, what a dirty word.

It's no secret that I've been scarce in these parts lately. The fact of the matter is, life has caught up with me.

Between my job and classes starting back up, I've just got no time to blog for fun, I've only got time to blog for business.

So what am I saying? Truthfully, I'm going to be taking a bit of a break from this here Rogue's Eye View. I've got more important things in life right now, namely school and work (read: putting myself through school). It's said for me to say this, because admittedly I've only had this blog up for a short amount of time -- but I've loved every second of it.

I'll be leaving the blog alone for the time being, I won't be taking down any of the guides that I hope you all find so useful, and I won't be touching any of the other articles.

Should you find yourself being as attached to me as I was to you, feel free to follow me at my Twitter feed. Or, if you're still looking for your daily dose of Andy bloggage, be sure to check me out over at MaximumPC.com.

I hope to be back, writing Rogue-centric blog posts soon, but as for right now I've got to put it down in favor of making sure that all of my RL business is in order.

Rogue Movie Weekend: Phishy 2

I'll admit, I haven't heard of Phishy. But, I'm willing to give this gentleman a chance simply due to the fact that he's rocking plenty of world PvP in this video. As someone that's been playing WoW since its release, and remembers the days of running to the Arathi Basin Battlemaster in the Arathi Mountians, I miss it.

This really is a good sight to see, and I'd suggest that you all watch it over the weekend. Oh, and he's very good too.

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I'd also like to take a quick chance to explain the low post count as of late. Recently my classes have started back up, and I'm taking a full load of online courses this quarter. This means that I've got lots, and lots of reading to take care of in what few hours there are in the day.

I've also recently gotten a job blogging for Maximum PC, and that's taking up quite a bit of my writing time.

So here's the tl:dr version; I'm getting busier, and I've got less time. I'm not going to stop posting, but know that I'll be posting a bit less. Life catches up on all of us from time to time, and as for right now I've got to worry about school and work.

Today, I was Reminded Why I Play WoW

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If that doesn't get you pumped, I don't know what will.

Showdown LAN Was Great!

Being that I was once a faithful intern within the offices of PC Gamer Magazine, I recently made long journey. I drove roughly 1600 miles from Seattle to San Francisco round trip for PC Gamer and Maximum PC's Showdown LAN 2008.

Overall, I've got to say that this was one heck of an experience. I was able to go to last year's while I was still (what I consider) a member of the staff, but this year I was able to go as a gamer. Having never actually sat down and played at a large scale LAN party before, this was really something I'm happy that I was a part of.

For those of you that weren't able to go, I took lots of pictures! Sadly, of the many that I took, very few of them were even worth looking at. I've got a flickr album with all 10 of them for you to check out, so feel free to! (I know, a lot of the images aren't that bright, but I felt like using the flash too much would have distracted a lot of people. That's just not my style.)

Your regularly programmed blogging will continue tomorrow!
(Also, side note, classes have just started up again, so if post frequency is down a bit, I apologize! I'll still be doing everything I can to make sure that I keep all you hungry Rogues out there filled with information.)

Rogue Movie: WotLK Rogue PVP Preview

Vengeful Gladiator Zyz has decided to put together his experiences of the Wrath of the Lich King beta's PvP into an extremely entertaining video.

Know that this video is based entirely on the PvP of the game, so if you're looking to see any spreadsheet induced madness you'll have to look elsewhere (for now).

In the video's description, Zyz says:

This is a video of my experience in the Wrath of the Lich King Beta.
It features many of the new abilities such as Shadow Dance, Hunger for Blood, and various other changes.
Blizzard has since changed/patched abilities throughout the beta, but I still chose to include some old stuff because it was really fun.

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