My brother was up at the new shopping centre a few days ago, and EB Games was having a sale. I generally don’t shop there any more; since I found Dungeon Crawl, EB has proven to be fairly unnecessary. Still, I couldn’t ignore the fact that they were offering up Guild Wars: Eye of the North (GW:EN) for half price.

That meant I could have the final Guild Wars expansion for the low, low price of $25.00 - and despite my misgivings, I couldn’t pass that up. Although, the expansion really is a lead into Guild Wars 2 - and I’m not planning on buying or playing that - so I could have probably skipped it and not missed much. Probably.

In the end though, I’m glad that I bought it. Or, got Dwain to buy it for me, rather. Either way, I’m having a lot of fun; the monsters are all above Level 20, the quests are involved and complicated, and I really like the fact that I can hunt with danger, but I don’t have to take other players with me. Awesome.

Unlike the other two expansions, GW:EN can’t be installed and played as a stand-alone game; you must have Guild Wars: Prophecies to play. Most of the new content is armour, heroes, skills and DUNGEONS. I haven’t actually made it to any of the dungeons yet, but apparently they are extremely challenging.

Completely unrelated: Katie bought home a box of fundraising chocolates last night. Her school is raising money for something, I’m not really sure what, but did I mention CHOCOLATE? There goes my paycheck! Each box is $4.00, but when I spoke to Mum this morning, she said that Katie told her they were $5.00 each.

I’m assuming she was trying to make a profit, heh.