- Age & Location: 21 - Long Beach, California
- Number of Testicles: Seven and a Half
- Do you use a blizzard authenticator? If not, why? Yes
- How long have you played WoW: Since Dragon Soul
- Endgame experience (What bosses have you killed): 14/14M (Not H) SoO, 2/7M, 6/10M, currently 8/13M but have experience tanking 11/13M to low % wipes.
- A Little Extra Info About Me: Member of MENSA and Stand Up Comedian. Frequently likes to act as the comic relief, but knows when to be serious.
Character Information:
- Name, & Class: Holloween - Death Knight
- Link to Battle.net Armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/s ... een/simple
- Race & why you chose it: Night Elf. I chose it because I wanted to choose night elf. This was the 2nd toon I made and wasn't really considering pros and cons of races because I wasn't a hardcore raider. I kept the race when I became a raider because of shadowmeld. Would be changing to Tauren for the racial stun.
- Professions and why you choose them: Engineering: It was basically required back in old content, and had no reason to switch it for WoD; Enchanting: Was for my own enchants and to make a bit of extra money on gear I didn't need.
- Spec, Dual spec. How often do you play other specs? My offspec is Unholy. I somewhat frequently play it because I frequently help 2 old guilds in running heroic with them. I played it a bit in BRF then stopped, and only recently came back to it, so am a little rusty, but am not too bad.
- Explain your choice of gear for main & offspecs (include stat priorities and breakpoints): My choice of gear has always been Mastery > Haste (Haste/Multistrike for WoD), with this xpac deciding not to go with everyone else and join the BoS craze (Plus with the BoS nerf, it will likely be impossible to play BoS for the first Legion raid, maybe the second because MS % will not be high enough). I, as a tank, have always had the mind set that the most important thing for a tank to do is to maximize their survivability, and not dps. If I can provide 90% of the healing done to myself with 30k dps, instead of 50% of healing done to myself with 45k dps, I would much rather take the 90% and allow the healers time to regenerate mana and heal up dps (who are doing far more than I can hope to do). I have always gone with the mentality of "I will not be receiving heals" and have tanked with that mind set to maximize my survivability, and I function best when I don't have healers worrying about me. One of the things I hate most is using death strike when I have full health. While yes, it still does give me a blood shield, it wastes about 300k overhealing.
- Explain your normal rotation and spell/ability priorities: Not a whole lot to it as a death knight. I use rune tap when I have 2 charges and keep one for emergencies, unless I am planning on saving them for a boss ability, use defile on cooldown, and use blood boil when I have a blood rune up. The most complicated, and important, thing for me is when to use death strike. I use it when:
1) I am at 50-70% health (Depends on the fight and how hard the boss hits) to avoid useless overhealing.
2) I get a mastery proc. Will try to maintain a minimum of a 250k shield for duration of the proc, then dump all runes on the last 3 seconds so I have a maximum blood shield when the proc ends.
3) I am about to have full runes.
If asked about my biggest weakness in my rotation, I would have to say remembering to use soul reaper while in blood. I'm good at it while in unholy, but struggle to remember while in blood. I did just get a weak aura for it though, so that's slowly changing.
- Prior guild(s) & your reasons for leaving: Started in Thats How We Roll on Hydraxis. Was really tight there but after 2 months of wiping on Mythic Beastlord I decided I needed to move on. Moved to Dauntless-Kel'thuzad which merged to Futility-Kel'Thuzad which disbanded and Formed Celestials-Kel'thuzad (all within a month) was with them for most of HFC, but had to leave because of college class time and raid time conflicts. I then moved to a trial guild Re Lapse on Korgath but was trialing to be a back up and decided I wanted to be a main tank instead, even if the guild wasn't far progressed. Then moved to Cake Plantion on Sargaras, passed my trial, but a really old raider came back who they were all friends with and he wanted to tank, and he took priority over a freshly passed trial, so I was sat as a back up yet again. Now I'm guildless.
Other Information:
- A Screenshot of your character's UI (THIS NEEDS TO BE A SS IN A RAID):
- Logs from warcraftlogs or worldoflogs: I have 2 realms I have mythic logs from
Sargaras: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/rankings/c ... rps&boss=0
Kel'Thuzad: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/rankings/c ... tric=ehrps
- Why Simple Math? How did you find us? Is there anyone you know in Simple Math? You guys seem like a good progression guild for me to be in, one that will push me as a tank. Not really gonna BS and say "You guys are my perfect guild" because well, I don't know any of you. I heard about you via forums recruitment post. I talked to oneshot and he said while you don't have very high demand for a tank now, but he said you have a tank leaving during legion, and if I can get in a really good guild for legion, I'd be happy. (Although it would be nice if I could tank some non-progression fights, I just love playing even if its the boring part of raiding.)
- What kind of computer do you use? CPU/Memory/Video Card? Typical FPS during a 25-man raid? Windows 7, Custom Build. Intel Core i3-4130; 8 gigs RAM; Radeon 7700. 60 FPS.
- Run an internet speed test against New York at speedtest.net and pingtest.net. Link the results below. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4752083485
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