Player information:
- Age & Location: 24, New Jersey
- Usual Play Times (Server Time): 6:30 EST - 2am
- Number of Testicles: 2
- Can you attend raids on these days:
-- Monday: Yes
-- Tuesday: Yes
-- Wednesday: Yes
-- Thursday: Yes
-- Friday (optional): Most
-- Saturday (optional): Most
-- Sunday: Yes
- Do any others have access to your account? No
- Do you use a blizzard authenticator? If no, why? Yes I use an authenticator
- How long have you played WoW: Going on 3 years now
- Endgame experience (What bosses have you killed): HM Nef (Hpally), HM Cho'gall (Frost DK), HM Al'Akir (Hpally)
Character Information:
- Name, & Class: Tyde, Balance Druid
- Race & why did you choose it: I chose Troll for the Berserking racial. It provides a dps increase versus being a Tauren and the Moonkin form is much more aesthetically pleasing in my opinion.
- Link to Battle.net Armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/l ... yde/simple
- Can you describe the ruckus? Sadly I cannot, but maybe someone can help a country boy understand what's up.
- Professions and why did you choose them: Alchemy and Leatherworking. I chose Alchemy (Potion Spec'd) because I like to think that I min/max with everything that I do in WoW. I use potions in and outside of raid to max my dps regardless of what I'm doing, whether that be sitting on the dummies and pre potting/combat potting, in dungeons, old raid content etc. Secondly, I chose Leatherworking for the +130 int to bracers enchant and the versatile market it has for Trade chat and the AH for selling gear since there are 4 classes that wear Leather/Mail and only 3 classes that wear cloth/plate, so I figured to get the most bang for my buck.
- Spec, Dual spec. How often do you play other specs? Balance MS, Resto OS. I have never been a large fan of feral, either spec, but I have healed for a while on my hpally and druid prior to this patch, but healing has become boring after doing it non-stop for 2 years.
- Explain your choice of gear for main & offspecs: After stating the obvious, Int > Hit, then haste becomes king for Balance Druids, plain and simple. The more haste you have the faster you can flip eclipses, granting you a higher dps output. You want to get as many casts off as you can while in eclipse and once out of eclipse you want to push into your next one as quickly as possible to get your buff from your mastery. After Haste you have a pretty even match-up between Mastery/Crit. They both serve their purposes and are decent stats, but I prefer Crit over Mastery, because where I see the greatest DPS gains are from the Crits while in Eclipse, versus a 1% gain in Mastery to boost non-crit spells.
- What glyphs do you use for each spec and why:
Balance:
IS, MF, Wrath (All DPS gains)
SF, Focus (Dps gains) Rebirth (No-brainer for a raider)
Unburdened Rebirth (No-brainer), MotW (Save mana for buffing in combat), Dash (I like to be the 1st one back after a wipe, so no one is waiting on me before the next pull)
- If you are applying as a DPS, what is your normal rotation?
I start all fights in Solar eclipse as much as possible. I place 3 shrooms under the boss pre pull. On the RL countdown I pop Treants at 3 sec, pre-pot at 2 sec, Starfall at 1 sec, blow shrooms at 0 sec (applies 8% Spell damage debuff for initial attacks), use Berserking, apply IS, then Sunfire, Starsurge, Wrath Spam until SS procs, use SS procs on CD with T13 4pc. Different fights call for different rotations, choosing to be in different eclipses 1st or pushing to 1 eclipse or another 1st. Most people think that balance is just a ping pong game back and fourth on the eclipse bar, but in order to be good you need to plan your eclipses in order to min/max your DPS. Being in or out of a certain eclipse for certain fights/phases can really make or break your DPS. I would love to be able to run 2 Balance spec's for different fights.
- If you are applying as a healer, what spells do you use & when/why? N/A
- Highest PvP Rank on this character (vanilla & arena titles): N/A
- Prior guild(s) & your reasons for leaving:
The First Responder's (LB): Casual raiding guild and attendance issues. My first guild ever, met some nice people, but not as driven as me. 10/12 10m HM ICC
Quantum(LB): 25m guild that went through 2 different GM’s, good talent, but not enough dedication from the enitre guild. Went through phases of 10m, to 25m, back to 10, then back to 25. Not enough stability and the 25’s broke up. 8/13 HM BWD, BoT, and Throne. 2/7 HM FL
Pandorum(Kil’jaden): 25m guild that progressed rapidly to 5/7 HM pre nerf then 6/7 the day of the nerf on HM Baleroc. Spent over 500 attempts on HM Rag, slowly people started to quit, couldn't get any worthy recruits, attendance dropped, leadership and officers started leaving. In short things snowballed very quickly there after faced with some adversity. 6/7 HM with P4 Rag at 20%.
Datus Mortalis(LB): A guild that has been around Lb for several years as a 10 or 25m, Tried having a power 10m but after more attendance issues (killer in a 10m), the holidays messing with people's schedule's and Star Wars taking 2 of our healers from us. The group that set out to progress only ended up 2/8 HM in the first 3 weeks, and since then we have come to a halt.
Other Information:
- A Screenshot of your character's UI:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/80 ... 30808.jpg/
That's my druid, I just name changed within the past few weeks.
- WWS/Wowmeter/Worldoflogs reports (not optional):
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/tn4g6j9h ... 843&e=2050
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/tn4g6j9h ... 387&e=5121
- Alts & their name/level:
Zakie (Spriest, 85)
Rhyze (Unholy/Frost DK, 85)
Thebestpally (Hpally, 85)
Gilf (Hunter, 81)
- Out of game contact information (AIM/MSN/etc):
Email/RealID: [email protected]
- How did you find us? Is there anyone you know in Simple Math?: Kinetics did some guild searching while I was away on a hunting trip for a week. I have raided with him on several occasions and what I have heard from things sound great.
- Why Simple Math? Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?
Simple Math is a place that has a tradition of success and has the mindset to always be the best you can. That is something that pulls me to this guild. As I said earlier, I always min/max in order to to the best that I can, regardless of what I may be doing. This is something that is important to me and I am looking for a place where it is important to everyone around me so I do not feel as if I am wasting my time.
- What kind of computer do you use? CPU/Memory/Video Card? Typical FPS during a 25-man raid?
AMD Pheonon II x6, Radeon HD 5770 vid card, 8GB memory, Gigabyte Motherboard, typical FPS in a 25m is 40-50 FPS
- What kind of internet connection do you have? Run an internet speed test against New York at speedtest.net Link the results below.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1705259915.png
- Finally, we ask that you draw us a picture using MS Paint. (This is not optional).
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/194/cakefarts.png/
Self explanatory I think.