Archive for September, 2008
« Previous EntriesQuesting: A Boring Journey
Monday, September 29th, 2008During a brief, 45-minute Warhammer session this evening, I had a moment of internal debate over whether I should even keep playing. I was bored of PQ’s and the same old kill and gather quests were really bumming me out. Eventually, my game froze and I turned my computer off. Instead of rebooting like I [...]
The Age of Reckoning is Upon Me
Monday, September 29th, 2008I promise I’ll do a real post soon (work has been crazy), but I wanted to mention that I’ve finally purchased Warhammer Online and I’m playing a Swordmaster on the Averheim server. My character name is Aelryn, so feel free to throw me a tell if you see me online. I’ll be playing as much [...]
So It Begins Again
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Even though I’m not playing Warhammer Online right now, I’m definitely intending to go pick it up eventually. I’m focused on getting my WoW mage to 70 for Wrath, but once I do that I’ll go buy it and give the full retail version a go so I’m not just basing my knowledge on beta, [...]
Why Do You Read Random Battle?
Saturday, September 20th, 2008I just read Jaye’s latest post over at Journeys with Jaye, and it got me thinking about the writing I’ve been doing here at Random Battle. The focus of this blog has never been very much about my personal gaming sessions, but I also don’t consider this a hard news blog. I’m certainly not posting [...]
World of Warcraft: The Bejeweled Crusade
Saturday, September 20th, 2008I have an on-again off-again love affair with casual games. They can be a lot of fun, as anyone with access to the Microsoft Live Arcade knows. If you’re interested, I know a whole slew of obscure indie RPG and fantasy strategy games that I could recommend. But I also like the simpler games like [...]
Race and Faction: The Final Frontiers
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008I was reading Silentstephi’s World of Warcraft rant about being stuck with her dwarf priest this morning, and I totally sympathize. She had picked a dwarf not because of their pleasing aesthetics, but because at the time it was the only realistic option for raiding due to the Fear Ward ability (once only available to [...]
Lich King Release Date and Low-Level Content
Monday, September 15th, 2008Today’s official announcement revealed that the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion will be hitting stores on November 13th, 2008. Soon, many people will be coming back to the game for the first time in months (or even years, if they didn’t like the Burning Crusade expansion), and a lot has changed [...]
World of Warcraft Resources: WoW Insider
Sunday, September 14th, 2008I wanted to take a moment and give a shout-out to WoW Insider today. WoW Insider is one of the sister sites of Massively, and if you’re a fan of World of Warcraft, you want to read them. I’m pretty consistently amazed by both the knowledge of the game and passion for playing that their [...]
Experimenting With Ads
Saturday, September 13th, 2008You may have noticed over the last two weeks that ads have started appearing on my site. It was a small experiment on my part to see how lucrative it was. When I started Random Battle, I had made the decision to not have ads on it because I find them distracting and annoying. However, [...]
PvE to PvP Character Transfers Enabled for WoW
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Brilliant. I’m going to take this opportunity to get the hell out of dodge and get off my PvP server until 80 on both my mage and my shaman, and then move back to group with my friends.
This has been a long time coming and sorely needed. The artificial PvP/PvE barrier has basically forced me to level [...]