Player information:
- Age & Location:
28, Arlington, VA
- Usual Play Times (Server Time):
6:30pm - 12 weekdays & Sunday evening, Friday depends on whether I get distracted at happy hour, Saturday depends just how distracted I got on Friday
- Number of Testicles:
2, hanging slightly to the left.
- Can you attend raids on these days:
-- Monday: Y
-- Tuesday: Y
-- Wednesday: Y
-- Thursday: Y
-- Friday (optional): occasionally
-- Saturday (optional): usually
-- Sunday: Y
- Do any others have access to your account?
No
- Do you use a blizzard authenticator? If no, why?
Yes
- How long have you played WoW:
Since shortly after classic's release.
- Endgame experience (What bosses have you killed):
Clear through to C'thun in AQ and early bosses of Naxx wings, think Maexxna was the only end wing boss I got when the content was valid, did this content as Holy Paladin, Warlock and Rogue but primarily paladin.
BC: Clear through to Reliquary of Souls & Archimonde prior to attunements being removed, then clear through to M'uru prior to the nerf patch, M'uru and KJ dropped the following week, did all BC content as warlock primary though I dabbled in Resto druid when guild required additional heals.
WoTLK: Re-rolled DK and ran Naxx through to ToTC with Glory of the Ulduar Raider as progression content, then had to drop out of serious raiding to prepare to relocate to the USA from Australia for work, have done most the other content with SoS at various times and toons but not all hard modes.
Character Information:
- Name, & Class:
Scourage (Renaming to Deim on xfer), Death Knight
- Race & why did you choose it:
Worgen, was chosen primarily for sprint/crit racials plus they look badass, but as this application will also entail a faction transfer I'm currently weighing up the best option though I'm leaning towards Tauren even though I know I should be choosing orc for the expertise & pet dmg racials, trying to decide if my distaste for orc armor rendering is really that bad...
- Link to Battle.net Armory:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/c ... age/simple
- Can you describe the ruckus?
- Professions and why did you choose them:
Jewelcrafting and Enchanting, most efficient raid suited specs I've found, both provide good bonuses while having cash making potential to mitigate those pesky repair bills.
- Spec, Dual spec. How often do you play other specs?
Normal Primary: Unholy (http://www.wowhead.com/talent#jbuZ0hZcucdfsodfo:)
Current Secondary: Blood (http://www.wowhead.com/talent#jchG0srrusdZbhM:) - this is Heroic focused not raid just given current content scenario.
Normal Secondary: Frost (http://www.wowhead.com/talent#jbGZMI0rfuRzfz0h)
Frost/Unholy are largely interchangable for me depending on appropriate weaponry drops and how DPS scales with them throughout the expansion, but as of this moment due to available gear and need to tank a great deal due to shortage of tanks for heroics I'm more practised with Unholy, I'd be up to speed again with frost within a day or two, just have to retrain proc reactions properly.
For tanking offspec, I endeavour to maintain a gear set for it no more than 1 tier behind current progress tier if not better at all times. I'm a competent tank in general and wouldn't be afraid of filling in that role on occasion if required, but I don't consider myself of a tanking standard that I'd apply to a top end guild as a tank (I suck at working the varying size hit boxes of bosses for precise positioning, dunno why but I always seem to go that millimetre too far and having him jerk outta place).
- Explain your choice of gear for main & offspecs:
At this stage of the xpac, I'm largely just trying to balance out the critical stats
For unholy hit, expertise balanced appropriately with Str priority & Haste secondary, ditching mastery where possible to gain more of the others.
For my frost kit, more mastery rather than haste.
My tank kit's very slapped together atm gained through tanking heroics when I couldn't get dps spots with guildies, I need to begin to rework it away from the stam stacking its got atm for a more balanced avoidance kit since with the much larger base HP pools there's not as much need to cover 2-hit scenarios and avoidance is pulling ahead.
- What glyphs do you use for each spec and why:
Major/Minor's are the same in all spec's because there's very little of major benefit from the other options in PvE with the possible exception of Dancing rune weapon for blood.
Unholy:
Prime - Scourge Strike, Raise Dead, Death Coil
Major - Blood Boil, Pestilence, Anti-magic Shell
Minor - Blood Tap, Path of Frost, Horn of Winter
Frost:
Prime - Frost Strike, Howling Blast, Obliterate
Major - Pestilence, Anti-magic Shell, Blood Boil
Minor - Blood Tap, Path of Frost, Horn of Winter
For both Frost and unholy the prime's are chosen to all boost primary dps abilities, there's no real competition amongst the other options for the relevant specs with the possible exception of icy touch in the frost spec on AoE fights (30% increased frost fever dmg spread across 10 mobs adds up fast) but large numbers of adds in boss fights that stay up long enough for it to be highly beneficial are rare so its not my primary choice.
Blood:
Prime - Heart Strike, D'n'D, Glyph of Death Strike
Major - Pestilence, Anti-magic Shell, Blood Boil
Minor - Resilient Grip, Horn of Winter, Blood Tap
Designed for best aggro in multi-mob fights, I rarely tank single target fights, but in the event I needed to a great deal of that gets swapped for rune strike crit change.
- If you are applying as a DPS, what is your normal rotation?
Current unholy rotation needs some work I think, I'm not happy with it, but is: IT, PS, FS, SS, DC then enters a priority system of SS>DC>FS based on what runes are up while retaining diseases and maximizing uptime on dark transformation for my ghoul, once FS extension of disease drops them below about 5-8 seconds rinse/repeat. I'm still experimenting and following the EJ threads for level 85 rotations so its possible I'll change this completely, there's a lot of people tipping death and decay as being worthwhile in a single target rotation in place of a scourge strike but I just haven't seen the numbers back that yet though that could be because I haven't had a fully buffed 25 man raid to try it in yet.
I was beating up a target dummy the other day trying to prove it one way or the other if you're curious:
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/981ng8uyviw4m5mf/
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-utpsvyhz60wy0l8q/
Frost is similarly priority based, I haven't run it enough to have modified it beyond the default recommended:
Diseases, Obliterate, blood strike if blood runes up, frost strike when RP approaches cap, then proc management throwing in Horn of Winter and Festering strike on the odd occasion your runes layout appropriately.
- Highest PvP Rank on this character (vanilla & arena titles):
Done sod all PvP on my DK, highest I've made on any toon is Centurion on my Rogue during classic or 2000 rating as an MS War/Resto Shammy pair in season 2/3 BC.
- Prior guild(s) & your reasons for leaving:
As per above, I'm an Australian recently moved to Washington DC for work, so have been out of serious raiding since the Ulduar period of WoTLK as a result and taking the Cata release as a good opportunity to return to raiding without a massive gear & boss familiarity deficit.
Prior to that I raided in Omen on Lightbringer for late classic to mid BC, guild eventually collapsed due to lack of Oceanic recruits on a US server.
early-mid classic was an assortment of guilds, most significant of which was Destinatus on Duskwood, reroll guild on server release ran through MC to Twin Emps before paid-char transfer lead us to split and seek placement in guilds moving into Naxx.
Other Information:
- A Screenshot of your character's UI:
http://users.on.net/~sethale/ui.jpg
- WWS/Wowmeter/Worldoflogs reports (not optional):
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/qbivi8ahhctppanj/
Forgive my standing in fire the first attempts, hadn't seen the boss before and I misinterpreted the tankspot breakdown of fire mechanic being a "follow the player" rather than random spawn one and boxed myself in, felt like a right twit when I reread it between 2 & 3.
- Alts & their name/level:
Alaera - Priest - 80
Avaylia - Rogue - 85
Dasin - Shaman - 80
Deim - Warlock - 80
Elthea - Warrior - 80
Laesha - Druid - 80
Lyantri - Mage - 82 (yay for herbing XP!)
Sethale - Paladin - 81 (yay for mining XP!)
Vaelas - Hunter - 80
- Out of game contact information (AIM/MSN/etc):
[email protected], comes through to my iPhone
- How did you find us? Is there anyone you know in Simple Math?:
Hunting decent 25 man progress guilds through wowprogress.com, then checking the realm forums to see if they've got a bit of character about em.
- Why Simple Math? Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?
Pickings are slim alliance side for Death Knights, so exploring the horde side you seem the best balance of being an established guild with a good raiding history, current progression suiting my timezone and abilities I could find.
- What kind of computer do you use? CPU/Memory/Video Card? Typical FPS during a 25-man raid?
Core I7 processor, 4GB RAM, Radeon 5800 GPU. Latency's about 45ms - 60ms (I'm used to 300+, this is heaven...) and very stable. Latency rarely goes below 20 FPS even on intensive AoE fights.
- What kind of internet connection do you have? Run an internet speed test against New York at speedtest.net Link the results below.
Verizon Fios 25/5
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1096245805.png
- Finally, we ask that you draw us a picture using MS Paint. (This is not optional).
Worst squirrel attempt ever: