A Rogue's Eye View

Finals? We... Well, We Do Actually Need Them.

So begins finals week for my real life, college career! It's one of many, and it's something we all know and love, but luckily for me my raiding life has been on the back burner as of late.

No, not because I'm fed up with raiding (I assure you, I'm not. I loves it ever so much!). My guild has been on a break! We run Naxx on the weekend, and weeks are pretty free.

Well, short post this time, but it's roughly 2:30am on a Monday night. I've got some sleep to get to!

(I can't wait until I have time to make substantial posts here again!)

Another Week, Another Schedule

Well, Sunday nights seem to be a pretty good time for me to post here. I hope that you all don't mind, depsite having a lowering frequency of posts, I like to think that they've managed to have some quality to them!

So, let me begin by saying that life as a Hunter has certainly had its perks. Sure, the name of the blog is A Rogue's Eye View, but let me follow that up by reminding you all that I'm a member of a guild -- and sometimes you have to work for the greater good. However, this hasn't been any sort of drudgery, I've really been enjoying the class. Thanks to the flakes that are Enhancement Shaman (you know who you are!) I've been Marksmanship, and it's not as bad as most would think it is.

Secondly, my guild was able to finish the Heroic: Glory of the Raider Achievement, allowing me the unique opportunity to get my Black Proto-Drake in the mail! It's nice, because now I've got a 310% mount on both of my characters. I really didn't see myself getting another Gladiator mount anyway, I've all but given up on PvP since work and school are both awfully demanding of my time. That, and I'm cheap -- I hate respeccing and I hate the idea of reglyphing.

On the most recent episode of the PC Gamer Podcast I was asked by Dan Stapleton what I like to listen to whilst I WoW! I really enjoyed this question, and followed quickly with a few notable artists on my playlist (Jack's Mannequin, Pete Yorn, Billy Joel... some goodies!), but it made me wonder -- just what do you guys listen to? Sure, I'm pretty normal. I'm one of those that tends to throw together a playlist with oodles of songs that will always churn out a good variety of songs that I'll have no problem listening to. But how many of you out there actually enjoy the in game music? Sure, it's good, but does it get repetitive? Or would you prefer just to rock to Techno the whole time? I understand the appeal, but personally it's just not my deal.

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Also, you'll notice that the banner is back. Ed Olanu was nice enough to give me permission to use it again, so thanks Ed!

When The Going Gets Tough...

The tough do their best to find blogging time!

I know, I said I'd be doing my best to write here once a week, but even that seemed to be a lofty goal. As is the usual story with someone my age, my schooling and working have really gotten the best of my schedule, and what little spare time I've got on weekends is spent doing social things (and WoW, of course).

So what's up in my WoW life? Well, sadly, I've made the change to Hunter (blasphemy, I know!). But, like the move I made with my Shaman, it was for the good of my guild. Frankly, we didn't have any of them, and we were completely overloaded on melee DPS, so I swapped over to ranged. And, truth be told, Hunter was something that I've always wanted to play. BigRedKitty, I now find myself in your loyal following!

Personally, I'm still writing for Maximum PC's web site, and loving every second of it. It's great to have a job where I get to learn so much more about the tech industry, and bring that very same news to other people. Good times, here on the internet.

Also, you guys might notice that the banner has changed to plain text. The reason being that I was informed by a friend of the artist, a Mr. Ed Olanu, that it was his, and I respect that. So, I just want to take a moment here and publicly apologize! I didn't mean for anything harmful to come out of it, it was really just a great piece of work.

Until next time, let me know what you guys have been up to in the comments! I hope that you're all doing well, I hope I still have a few of you regulars out there.

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.