Cerebral of Kazzak

Giga · Guest

:: Application ::
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Character Details
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Character Name: Gigashot

Class: Hunter

Level: 90

(Provide us with a link to your profile in the Armory):
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/frostwhisper/Gigashot/advanced

Professions and Skill Level:
Alchemy/Engineering - 600/600

What Elixirs/Flasks/Buff food do you use in raids to boost your performance?
Virmin's Bite/Flask of Spring Blossoms/Sea Mist Rice Noodles (Pre Pot and Pot in fights)

Describe what you think you would bring to our guild if accepted. (raiding and social aspects):
A reliable raider (heard that before i bet), who has experience of raiding in good guilds and who plays and researches his class. Learns from mistakes and doesn't stand in fire (that often Razz

). A dry and sarcastic sense of Humor (British) that's social on forums and in game as well as always wanting a challenge from gaming. Friendly individual that doesn't tolerate fools or idiots.

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Character History
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Previous Guilds:
Diesel Gaming, Tanked and Spanked.. Conviction, Rising, Diesel, Unleashed Chaos

Reason for Leaving:
Unleashed Chaos was my first guild in WoW for end game, we did mc, bwl, aq and all that jazz. Left pre TBC to form my own guild.

Diesel was my own project, was very successful in Karazhan, but fell apart at Magtheridon Trash (oh I remember that Trash), also server sucked as it was new and empty.

Rising was where a bunch of us from Diesel went to in order to help them get raid numbers. Raided all the way through TBC and fell apart after Naxx WotLK

Conviction was again another attempt of a guild with online friends, a 25man attempt this time and it survived most of WotLK, becoming increasingly tough to make work towards the end of WoTLK. I raided in a couple of temporary guilds for ICC, mainly playing Druid most of the expansion, for the life of me I cannot remember the temp guilds, however one was definitely on Kazzak, I believe it might have been BloodReign, but I'm not sure. ICC was stop and start for me as I quit for a few months after the birth of my child.

My last 2 guilds... With Tanked and Spanked I raided with them at the start of Cataclysm, I left them after Heroic progress as I quit the game for 18months, this was my first 'never ever coming back' quit since I started playing in Vanilla and I was burnt out and wanted to experience other games. T+S was fun though and HC content was good. Diesel Gaming was an attempt at 10man progression raiding in MoP with 8 players i've raided with on WoW and SWTOR, it ultimately failed due to lack of player dedication from some recruits and the lack of a good server offering good replacements. I owned the domain name and forums hence why it is the same name as the previous Diesel guild.

When did you start this character and how long have you /played?
From recollection it was started in WotLK. If you mean /played for the char then it's about 47days, if you mean me, then since Vanilla Beta, taking of 2 months in WotLK and 12-18months from Cata->Pre Mop release.

What encounters and raids have you experienced in Mists of Pandaria? Please state if it was on 10man or 25man and was it normal or heroic:
Currently have 6/6 MV 4/6 HoF and 0/4 TOES normal 10 man. No HC modes Sad

Very embarrassed!

What previous raid experience (Vanilla, TBC, WoLK, Cata) do you have on this char? Please only mention stuff you did at the time when it was a current raid, we dont need to know you can clear black temple when you are level 90:
On this char from memory I ran this class as an Alt throughout most of WoTLK, taking it serious towards the end of WotLK ready for Cata. In Cata I raided HC in BoT and BD, but left part way through that progression as I quit the game. I came back at the end of DS and ran LFR until MoP.

On other chars I raided:
Vanilla - Up to 4 horseman, TBC - Up to Brutallus, WoTLK up to Queen Lanathel HC

What do you think YOUR responsibilities are in a raid? :
Give an original answer here, saying to buff and dps/heal/tank isn't really worth mentioning
Turning up prepared and willing to do anything to get a boss down. Making sure I know tactics and watch videos to limit mistakes, IF mistakes are made then learn from them. Listen to instructions and make sure you are doing things the RL asks, however using your own brain and adapting to situations. Having Fun, I play to progress and have fun doing it, if you can;t have fun with 24 other people while gaming then it's seems fruitless. Avoid fire and death!

What is your Spell Rotation ?
All classes are basically Priority systems nowadays and it's normally about keeping most abilities on CD while monitoring your Primary resource. You're looking at 2 different priorities for Hunters currently due to BM and Surv being used across multiple fights, even though BM out classes Surv on 80%. Again priority is also based off the utilisation of our new talent system. An example of this could be survival using Thrill of the Hunt on AoE based fights to give better Multi-Shot capability, however if you instead go for Dire-Beast you will have a different priority based system, due to less focus on multi targets if the fight so depends on the use of less AoE.

Anyhow, what you might be after is:

Beast Mastery is all about Kill Command and making sure enough focus is available per CD. As hunters we generally start off by 'blowing all our CD's' at the start of the fight to maximise DPS and CD uptimes. Normally lined up for pre potting and Bloodlust, as well as trinkets. So:
Pre Pot
SS (dynamic damage based on current buffs)
kill command
Rapid Fire
glaive toss
stampede
dire beast
arcane shot (hoping to proc trinkets in the KC CD time)
kill command
bestial wrath
Lynx Rush/MoC
Arcanes till Next Kill Command and then Readiness to reset Kill Command and others under 5min cd

Basically trying to get everything under the the trinket buffs and bestial wrath. Note that this is my optimal opener for BM, don't always get it perfect. Many people seem to have different opinions on the opener still.

Priority after opener is (Going off my current Talents):
SS
Kill Command
Lynx Rush/MoC
Dire Beast
Glaive Toss
Kill Command
Arcane
Cobra Shot

With SV being less used i'll spend less time on it, but the opener is a little similar with a priority along the lines of:
Black Arrow
Lynx Rush
Dire Beast
Kill Shot
Glaive Toss
Explosive Shot
Arcane Shot
Cobra Shot

Why have you chosen to reforge, gem and enchant the way you have? Give a brief description on why particular stats are good for your class/spec.
Agi > Hit/Exp to Cap > Crit > Mastery > Haste... Basically Crit effects everything and mastery increases pet damage so you traditionally go Crit, however Mastery could be proving better through tests and t15 set bonuses. I'm keeping an eye on it and different forums. Haste only effect very little so it's not really a massive requirement and fine to get through standard gearing.

Also Post a UI Screen Shot (this is so we know how you see what's around you):
http://i.imgur.com/MtJ4QCP.jpg

Post a World of Logs report from your past guild or a 3 minute DPS report on the training dummies:
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-0f0ff987zkzg05ro/sum/damageDone/?s=792&e=1066
http://www.worldoflogs.com/guilds/225468/calendar/12-12/ browse at your leisure

*seeing this will greatly help your app, if you have issues getting these reports please speak to a guild officer in game

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Technical Information
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Do you have oRA3 Deadly Boss Mods and OMEN ? Yes to all
(Please don't apply until you have)

Please list any other add ons you use to help you raid:
Recount (Shows a nice quick view of the fight and who did what, normally for dispelling/interrupts, dps comparison against the same class/spec).
TellMeWhen (I use it as a Nice easy to set-up prompt display for boss abilities, like dispelling quickening buff on wind lord mobs easily (10 man)).
ReforgeLite (Great for sorting my reforging easily in game. Reliable when set up right|)
WeakAuras (Bye Bye PowaAuras this new badboy is on the block, mainly used to keep track of abilities)
ElvUI (Great all in one UI)
JSHUnter Bar (track Focus easier.)

Not really addons but still great additions for my raiding
FemaleDwarf (it's what every Hunter needs for improving DPS)
WoL (checking against other Hunters to see where i;m going wrong or checking what happened in raids more extensively than recount
EJ (great forum with helpful spreadsheets.. no other forums compare

Do you have a microphone & Ventrilo installed? Yes

Describe your skills in spoken English: I'm from the UK, so it's bad!

What's your connection & computer hardware?
10mb Down / 1MB UPp
2600k i7
570 GTX
8GB Ram
SSD

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General Information
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Age: 32

Country: UK

Why did you choose to apply to this guild in particular? Raiding HC level, good times, good days, has history, good server.

Players you know / How did you come across us? Crabby contacted me in game as he saw my post on Battle.net asking for a guild.

Alts and Level (if any):
Prot War - 90
SPriest - 90 (476)
Druid - 87
Shaman - 85

Various others from over the years.

Are you or any of your alts currently guilded?: Yes, but it's a dead guild

Did you read our Rules & Policies? Yes, it refers to Cataclysm in places. Possibly a test? or just out of date Razz

What days can you play and what hours during those days (Please let us know now so no confusion is caused if you were to be accepted)?: I can raid 3 days a week. Normally every Thursday and Sunday without fail and then Wed or Mon, normally Monday though for progression unless there is an issue that day. I'm normally online early on a Thurs and about 18/19:00 on a Sunday. Monday can vary as I look after my little one until the missus gets back from work, that's normally 19:30 server time, but could be 20:00 on rare occasions if there is an issue at her work. Wednesday is never an issue so I'll come then if I can't make the Monday (it's very rare), so you'll get 3 raids out of me a week regardless unless bad things happen or the missus demands a Holiday! I can raid till 00:00 fine.

(Members are required to be available for raiding at least 3/5 nights week with higher attendance preferred.) Raid days are Sun-Thur, 2000-0000 server time we do occasionally stay later if we are close to a kill. Fri & Sat are off nights but if people are online we try to do alt runs or RBG's.

Previous online gaming experience (if any): In terms of Raiding, just WoW and SWTOR. I've played tons of MMO's and none really compare to WoW raiding.

Anything else you'd like to include about yourself: Just keen to get back to 25man raiding, always done it (well aside from 40man) and always enjoyed it. Applying with Tekkommo and Psycho; Tekko who I have known for a long time in WoW and Psycho since I raided in SWTOR and came back to WoW with.

I appreciate the effort in reading the app as I know how boring they can be to go through sometimes as I did it for many years, so thanks for your time.

Tugnor · Joined: 31 Jul 2011 Posts: 404 Location: Finland

HAI

Good to see a proper app for a change.
Only thing I got to say that you should be prioritizing your core abilities (KC / ES) over glaive.

All yours now crabs

GL
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Giga · Guest

môngo · Joined: 13 Jan 2013 Posts: 191

Tanked and spanked as in the guild on aszune ?

Giga · Guest

Crabby · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:56 pm Post subject:

speak to me ingame dude
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