Welcome to RetPal.com! For those of you that do not know me, my name is Khor, and I am a Retribution Paladin. For those of you that do know me, I will explain my hiatus and what happened with my previous site. RetPal.com is going to be my new site, simply because I feel I left a few players here and there needing updated, current, and accurate Retribution Paladin information.
What has happened with my previous site has saddened me, and it is my hope that the current owner will continue updating it with recent information. Whether or not that will happen, I do not know.
My plans for RetPal.com are very simple: provide all of you guys (and girls) out there with a clean, simple website, that delivers updated general information related to Retribution Paladins and World of Warcraft. This website will not be as elaborate in terms of quantity of content as my old site was, but I do plan to maintain the staples of Retribution Paladin gameplay.
Khor’s Current Playtime
As far as World of Warcraft goes, I play on a limited basis. I am still current with most everything Ret Paladin, but I am not raiding. World of Warcraft and end-game content takes up so much time, that I simply had to give it up. However, I still enjoy my casual play, and building up my Ret Paladin as best I can.
Will I play more in the future? Who knows. Right now, I have two very young children who take up mosto f my time, plus I now design websites as well. All this in addition to a full-time job as a surgical tech in an intensive care unit, with nursing school on the horizon. Oh yes, did I mention I am married? That’s the cherry on top! Wife usually equals very little playtime. But you know what, I am okay with that!
RetributionPaladins.com
What exactly happened to RetributionPaladins.com, and why did I leave? Well, there were so many reasons. Let’s start with burnout. I was burned out on WoW, and the constant updating and adding content to the website just made me pretty much hate everything WoW related. It was almost a full-time job.
Second, because my website traffic was swelling to almost 600,000 pageviews per month, I had to rent a dedicated server that was costing me a good chunk of money. Add on a few extra services, and I was spending more money than I was bringing in with advertisements. Some very awesome and generous readers donated money to help me with the costs, and it kept me going for a few more months. You guys don’t know how much that helped, and I appreciate it tremendously. Thank you. But in the end, I was still losing money, and it was time for me to turn it over to someone who could take the website to the next level.
When I found a new owner for the website, I truly thought RetributionPaladins.com was going to be taken care of, and I thought content would easily get updated. It appears I was wrong, and I am sorry so many of you just had to see me vanish without a trace. Part of my agreement regarding the transfer of ownership was that I not post anything about it before I left. Clearly, I should have negotiated different terms, and I apologize to any of you who may have been disappointed in the move.
RetributionPaladins.com is still being updated, if but only a few times a month. I still will support the new owner and authors, and continue to hope they post new content. So long as the site maintains some integrity, I will keep it listed as a Retribution Paladin resource in my sidebar.
To be honest with you guys, I’m not out to steal visitors or website traffic…I hope we can all provide you with great Retribution information. I encourage you to visit both RetributionPaladins.com and RetPaladin.com to see if they can offer information I don’t have available here. But I can promise you I plan to keep this site very updated, so don’t forget to make your way back here, too!
RetPal.com
This site isn’t going to be anywhere near the size of the old site. I did a pretty good job of making sure my posts were easily found in search engine results…which takes time. This site won’t start out that way, and I may not be able to climb the search engine rankings as I did before. Because of that, make sure you bookmark or favorite this site! Don’t forget RetPal.com!
Great to have you back. Any chance an updated gear list is incoming?
Yes, I am working on gear lists, although they aren’t quite as black and white as they used to be
Good that you are back, I stopped playing WoW for a while. Mainly beacuse I have 2 kids of my own
And now I’m back and your old site was not uptodate. Thank god i found your new site. Keep up the good work!
@ Deusx – Thanks! Yeah, little disappointed in how things aren’t being kept up to speed. Should have this site more or less complete in the next few weeks. How did you find this site, just out of curiosity.
Awesome to see you back Khor! I’ve been playing Ret for a little over two years and it was a sorry day that I turned to the old site to see you no longer there. The Ret world has missed a staple resource
Thanks man! Glad to be back.
Khor, I’m glad to see you’re back. You are a valuable resource and I am glad you now have this new website. You were missed.
Thanks! Still working on a few more resources, hopefully will have them up soon!
Congrats on the new site! We missed you.
That being said, real life comes first. I hope you can keep it balanced.
I am also a father and play only casually anymore. Frankly, I think I enjoy it more than when I was a serious player. Dipping in, not feeling the pressure to maintain a raid, taking advantage of all the ways they are catering to casual payers now.
So welcome back, and don’t let the new site eat you!
And by the way, found the site by just typing in retpal to see if anyone had the site. Dumb luck!
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! How did I miss this?? Welcome back Khor ;-D /runs off to update blogroll
Woooooot, lucky I stumbled across this Thor. I’m pretty decent at ret now after having played it as my main since ICC. If you need any help with gear testing, or anything else ret related. Shoot me a pm on my email (if you can see it) would be more than happy to help
OMG!! just found this site. Glad you are back. I am sorry to say that the other is nothing since you left Khor. It is very pathetic to be honest. I understand the taking time off. I had to also. But back in the swing of things and glad to have stumbled on this site to see you abit active again. Welcome back Khor.
I have been using askmrrobot.com to get BIS and best gem info. You think their site is accurate?
Glad to have found you on here! Loved your old site and was sorry to see you hd to go. Glad your back into this though!