Player information:
- Age & Location: 28 Lowell Massachusetts
- Usual Play Times (Server Time): Just came back to the game, I don't really have usual play times yet.
- Number of Testicles: All of them.
- Can you attend raids on these days:
-- Monday: Yes
-- Tuesday: Yes
-- Wednesday: Yes
-- Sunday: Yes
- Do any others have access to your account? - Absolutely not.
- Do you use a blizzard authenticator? If no, why? - Yes
- How long have you played WoW: Since 2006 with breaks between expansions
- Endgame experience (What bosses have you killed):
Cataclysm
BoT - 2/5H
TotFW - 2/2H
BWD - 5/6H
FL - 7/7H (Server 3rd on Mal'ganis)
Mists of Pandaria
ToT - 4/13H
SoO - 12/14H
Character Information:
- Name, & Class: Andonisus, Death Knight
- Race & why did you choose it: Orc. I honestly just got tired of not fitting through doors as a cow.
- Link to Battle.net Armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/t ... s/advanced
- Can you describe the ruckus? http://www.theruckus.com Consider it brought.
- Professions and why did you choose them:
I chose leatherworking for the 750 stam bracer enchant. The only substittion for this as a Blood DK would have been 170 mastery. Mastery (especially for a 10 man DK tank) has limited usefulness after a certain point. I felt that reaching an appropriate effective health level would benefit me more in the long run than a boost to secondary stats (i.e. BS/JC) due to mastery's limits.
I chose engineering for my secondary profession because it is bar none the most useful profession this expansion. Granted most of the utility is highly situational, but in those situations I find it invaluable. Perhaps not the greatest example of this (but the first that came to mind) would be using goblin glider to avoid fall damage or to pass between two towers on Galakras. Rockets boots are sort of a double edged sword but the usefulness of them speaks for itself. As far as the on use VS static profession bonuses I personally found the on use to benefit me greater, due to being able to control when and where I get a boost to my primary stat.
- Spec, Dual spec. How often do you play other specs?
I can play both blood and frost competitively.
- Explain your choice of gear for main & offspecs:
Decided to go with DK 4 piece for the on demand burst VS the 2 piece set up with HWF for flat mastery.
Hit/Exp to soft caps > Strength > Mastery > Crit > Haste
- What glyphs do you use for each spec and why:
Death Knight glyphs are highly situational, with a few "default" glyphs. Glyph of regenerative magic is considered a DPS increase on fights where AMS can be used to absorb magic damage, but falls off prematurely. Allowing me to use it more during an encounter and increase the runic power gains across the length of the fight. On fights where I might be soaking large amounts of magic damage I might swap that for glyph of AMS, to negate as much damage as possible, presuming it will be enough to fully deplete the absorbtion effect of AMS. Glyph of swift death can be invaluable on fights that require rapid target switching combined with heavy movement. A prime example of this would be endless proving grounds DPS. I'm certain there are other uses for this but none come to mind from my person experience. I'm also told loud horn is a DPS increase when your build reaches a certain haste point, making it harder to work in more HoW's. As far as the others go, from what I understand they are neither here nor there.
- If you are applying as a DPS, what is your normal rotation?
Frost dual wield priority is as follows:
Frost Strike if Killing Machine is procced, or if RP is 89 or higher
Howling Blast with both frost or both death off cooldown
Soul Reaper when target below 35%
Plague Strike if one Unholy Rune is off cooldown and blood plague is down/nearly down
Howling Blast if Rime procced
Frost Strike if RP is 77 or higher
Obliterate when 1 or more Unholy Runes are off cooldown and killing machine is down
Howling Blast
Frost Strike if RP is 40 or higher
Horn of Winter
Plague Leech
Empower Rune Weapon
- Highest PvP Rank on this character (vanilla & arena titles):
2100 RBG's and 1900 2s
- Prior guild(s) & your reasons for leaving:
Left Simple Math due to work schedule changes. That's been rectified and I can now make the raid times.
Other Information:
- A Screenshot of your character's UI:
- WWS/Wowmeter/Worldoflogs reports (not optional):
It's been about 2 months since I've raided. Don't have any recent logs available.
- Alts & their name/level:
Gorebeast 90 prot warrior
Vidara 90 ret paladin
Duckboots 90 disc priest
Trappin 90 hunter
Satisfaction 90 mage
Skill 90 ret paladin (alliance)
- Out of game contact information (AIM/MSN/etc):
Skype: andonisusbb
- How did you find us? Is there anyone you know in Simple Math?:
I know most of you.
- Why Simple Math? Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?
I missed you guys ;_;
- What kind of computer do you use? CPU/Memory/Video Card? Typical FPS during a 25-man raid?
AMD FX-4100 Quad-core 3.62ghz
8gb DDR3 overclocked RAM
64-bit Windows 7 OS
AMD Radeon HD 6670
For peripherals:
21" Samsung HDTV (1080p)
Logitech Illuminated Keyboard (that's actually what the product is called) I use this keyboard because of the scissor switch keys and the rubber membrane provides the perfect key throw for me personally.
Razer Naga (2012) in my UI screen shot you will see F1-F12 keys bound. I don't have 9 inch fingers so I use this as a good substitute
- What kind of internet connection do you have? Run an internet speed test against New York at speedtest.net Link the results below.
I currently have comcast as a cable service provider, and I myself was a cable/satellite feild technician for 5+ years. I performed the cabling installation for my entire home myself. As far as my wiring is concerned the installation is perfect. Comcast as most you probably already know tend to suck giant fat dicks and I'm glad I don't work there anymore. Any speed discrepencies are due to thier shitty 90 year old network of coax and trunk cable.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3077158568
- Finally, we ask that you draw us a picture using MS Paint. (This is not optional).
