eckyman.com

I meant to do this as a regular feature but I forgot about it for a while.

Every month I’ll be looking over the visitors stats and keywords that led to this site and I’ll attempt to answer any questions/queries as well as I can

• It seems I’m getting a lot of hits from “AV Preform Enabler” since I put up the AV post a week or so back.. I assume more from people looking to download the addon than for info. Anyway, patch 2.4 made it so you don’t need that addon anymore, just start a raid group/party and queue as a group the same as the other BG’s.
• Someone was looking for “youtube 2 man Attumen” videos. I cant find anyone two manning it and to be honest, private server aside, I cant see it happening really.
• A few hits for “Tankadin Levelling” this month. I levelled my pally as a tankadin up till level 67 before changing to my current spec, Shockadin.  I used a mix of AoE grinding and questing to level and found it very easy. Questing as prot is great.. you might not do great single target DPS but you rarely die and there is very little downtime. As for AoE grinding, you want to find a spot with a lot of melee mobs around, pull as many as you feel comfortable with, throw BoSanc up, Retri Aura, Judge Light or Wisdom on your targeted mob to keep health/mana levels up, then spam Holy Shield and Consecration till everything dies from the reflective damage. For extra ease, try to find a weapon/shield that procs something on hit to get extra damage going. After you get used to the technique you can throw in a few casters if needed. The Blood Elf racial really helps for this as you can silence them making positioning/pulling much easier.
• Another Tank related one - “Never tanked an instance”
  Despite levelling as prot I never tanked anything till I reached the mid-40’s and got some decent plate gear. After that I ran ZF a ton of times to get the hang of it. It was tough the first few times but it gets easier once you get a feel for it. The biggest problem with tanking as a pally is your mana bar. If the group is overzealous you may need to blow the majority of your mana just to hold aggro at lower levels. This leads to more downtime between pulls and an impatient group which is the last thing you need. Word of advice, if your tanking the instance, you set the pace not the DPS classes. You drink till your ready or you will have problems when you go /oom. On a similar note, even if your mana bar is ready, or your rage bar is running out, if the healer behind you isn’t up to full mana then you wait for them. As a tank, your healer is the most important person in the group so try not to rush them and you’ll do fine. DPS is almost always easier to replace than a tank or healer, bear that in mind.
• “Retadin Gear List” - Well, I haven’t tried Ret yet so the only gear lists I know of come from PvP sets. Firstly, the 2.4 patch added a bunch of PvP sets for all classes that can be bought at Honoured reputation for gold. A full PvP set will cost around 100G or so. The pally sets are ret and holy and can be found at various factions quartermasters.. Thrallmar and Cenarion Expedition for example. A full list of gear sets can be found HERE. I currently have a few pieces of the Holy set and plan on picking my Ret set up by this weekend. The other option you have is to get in the BG’s and Arena and buy the Epic PvP sets via Honour + Marks or Arena points. You can get a full set of Arena Season 1 gear from BG’s alone which doesn’t take long to build up alongside the standard level 70 epic PvP Vindicator gear.
• “Reign of Rathalos” - I initially assumed this was about a Monster Hunter Rathalos quest but a quick Google of that term leads me to the website, http://reign-of-the-rathalos.com/blog/ which I assume is what the keywords refer to. I had never seen this site till today but it looks like there is plenty of MH related content including video footage of hunts, downloadable guides and what appears to be a great Java app for looking up gear sets with certain bonuses on and more. Bookmarked the site for later viewing, thanks to whoever made that keyword pop up on my results as I might not have come across that site otherwise.

Well, that’s it for another entry of ‘Visitor Stats’, I may do another this month but its likely that I will leave it till next month to build up some keywords again