Cerebral of Kazzak

mint · Joined: 28 Jan 2014 Posts: 3

:: Application ::
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Character Details
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Character Name: Mint

Class: Priest

Level: 90

Armory link: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/mint/advanced

Professions and Skill Level: Alchemy and Tailoring both 600

What Elixirs/Flasks/Buff food do you use in raids to boost your performance?
Flask of the Warm Sun, Mogu Fish Stew and Potion of the Jade Serpent.

Describe what you think you would bring to our guild if accepted. (raiding and social aspects)
I'm a very dedicated player, that enjoys raiding. And saying that, not just casualy I like to do my best to push the limits of my character. So that involves doing a lot of research and reading up on my class and spec to keep up-to-date. But hey, half the fun of raiding is reading up and doing research to improve your performance in raids, not just by doing more damage as a DPS, but also to know if I can bring some special ulitity that might help in other ways (e.g. Divine Star on some fights, back when it was broken and Shadow Priests did 100k HPS).

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Character History
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Previous Guilds: Pwnazna (only serious one, rest of them were pretty low progression)

Reason for Leaving: After 3 weeks from start of SoO and progressing with them. I've just gotten tired of the game and very burnt out. So I decided to take a break from the game, and essentially doing that I had to leave the guild. Because I knew when I come back, that I would never go back to the old hardcore raiding schedule.

When did you start this character and how long have you /played?
/played is 30 days and 14 hours. Started playing mid way ToT on this character, before that I was maining a death knight for about 3-4 years.

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.
Starting with the first tier, I started off just doing casual 10 mans while I was still on my dk and got a couple of heroics down only. But later on I joined a 25 man guild and cleared 5/6 MSV Heroic 6/6 HoF Heroic 2/4 ToES Heroic. Once I got to that point was when I took a small break and stoped playing my dk. When I came back in ToT I rerolled my priest, and again started doing some random pugs and only 10 man raided cleared the raid fully on 10 man heroic. Then swaped over to Pwnanza which is 25 man cleared it with them a couple more time on heroic 25 man before SoO started. When SoO hit I was already a member and passed my trial in Pwnanza. So Cleared 25 man normal SoO the first week, and the week after got brought in on 5 heroic 25 man kills. Then I took another break from the game, so I stoped raiding untill now.

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.
I've started playing mid WotLK, and straight away my attention was grabbed by PvE. At the beggining pugging like crazy and just being an all around mediocre player. By the end of the expansion I've settled in a small casual 10 man guild which cleared 11/12 Heroic 10 man. When Cata hit all of my guildies and "friends" quit, so I decided to take a brake myself. Coming back mid firelands detirmened to start raiding more seriously. Managed to pull through and get 6/7Heroic Firelands by the end. Going into Dragon Soul I had a guild from the start, but only got 1 heroic boss down. Then after a server change to a more high pop server, and getting accepted to a more serious guild, I've cleared Dragon Soul on Heroic and began the long wait for MoP.

What do you think YOUR responsibilities are in a raid? :
Raiding is a team effor, so putting your own thought and ideas where you see fit is neccessary. We can't relly on one person coming up with all the ideas and strategies, everyone has to chip in and give their own point of view on it, that is if it makes sense and is relevant enough to even mention in the first palce. That mostly applies to progression, once everything is cleared and strategies are already ironed out, then it's all about keeping the atmosphere friendly and fun because no one wants to spend their months and months of farming the same content over and over while being in a hostile environment.

What is your Spell Rotation/Priority ?
There is no "rotation" but a priority list that can get affected by trinket procs not just execute phase. So the up most important this is Devouring Plague, pumping out as many of them the better while still sitting on 3x Shadow Orbs when possible to wait for stars to align with trinks, while obviously not wasting extra Shadow Orbs e.g. at 3 shadow orbs and Mind Blast off CD. Then keeping up my DoTs is next on the list, but not just refreshing them as they're about to run out. With a little help from Weak Auras and Affdots Priest, if I get insane trinket procs I may consider reapplying DoTs even though they're not even close to falling off. Also getting an extra tick of Mind Flay(Insanity) at the expense of having your dots fall of for 1-2 sec might be worth it sometimes, if the MF:I has big trinket procs to back it up. Then using my T6 priest abilities as often as possible. But then again, if adds are going to spawn in 5 sec and my Halo just came off CD, I'm going to hold it and wait for those adds to spawn, line up my Halo and then fire it off. Then comes the good old Mind Flay filler that's there to fill in the blanks. When it comes to CDs Shadowfiend is there to be used again as much as possible, but still holding it off for a couple of sec to get that proc or wait for Lust is worth it so that it gets the benifit from them. And on the rare times that PI is used, it's saved for when the stars align to bolster it up even more to make for those deadly bursts(which are rare, DARN YOU RNJESUS).

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.
Well firstly most of priest theorycrafting comes from Howtopriest so I'll give you a link to that - http://howtopriest.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4793 . The AMR optimization also goes off their haste breakpoints post, which shows how much haste you want exacly without the amp trinket equiped. So that when you equip it you have exactly 18215 haste which is the cap you want to reach. So pretty much the stat priority would go like hit (15%)>haste(untill 18215 cap)>crit=mastery(if you have SoO Tier 2 set). Enchanting is pretty straight forward really, nothing much to it except the odd difference is that I prefer 175 haste boots enchant over the slight movement speed increase enchant.

Also Post a UI Screen Shot (this is so we know how you see what's around you)
http://puu.sh/6zWvj.png

Provide a relevant World of Logs report from your past guild/raid. Not being able to provide this can be detrimental to your application. If you do not have any relevant logs, please run an LFR and log that, we are not looking at your damage, more so your buff up-times etc.
All of Pwnanzas logs in the first couple of weeks of SoO progression in which I was in, seem to be private. So I'm going to be forced to link some older logs from ToT. :/
Sept 5th ToT logs: -http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-lon49havh4ati8a0/
Sept 1st ToT logs: -http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-6bpow59jc1k7mjv8/
-http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-441d8jzip30r9vw8/
Most of the other logs have expired since they were from so far back. So I'll toss in here Raidbots too: - http://raidbots.com/epeenbot/eu/kazzak/mint/

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Technical Information
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Do you have oRA3 Deadly Boss Mods and OMEN ?
(Please don't apply until you have)
I do, except I don't exacly have Omen but a built-in threat meter with Elvui.

Please list any other add ons you use to help you raid.
Elvui, Weak Auras, Affdots Priest

Do you have a microphone & Ventrilo installed?
Yes.

Describe your skills in spoken English:
Very good, I speak it almost daily even though it's not my first language.

What's your connection & computer hardware?
ÇPU: i5 3470 3.5GHz
GPU: GTX 650
RAM: 8 GB
Resoultion: 1920x1080 (23'' Monitor)
Connection: http://www.speedtest.net/result/2801490708.png
Very stable connection, haven't had issues with it yet.

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General Information
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Age: 18

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Why did you choose to apply to this guild in particular?
SoO is coming to a close, and it's time to start getting ready for WoD. And filling this app out I'm taking a shot in joining a very solid guild to hangout and kill Dargons with. And still be somewhat competitive.

Players you know / How did you come across us?
Don't know any players, saw you on wowprogress and decided to toss in an application.

Alts and Level (if any):
lvl 90 Hunter (540) and Death Knight (530) haven't played them in a while, but willing to bring them to future progression raids or alt raids to have a competitive alt for class stacking. Also a warlock in the works (currently leveling)

Are you or any of your alts currently guilded?:
No.

Did you read our Rules & Policies?
Yes.

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)?:
(Members are required to be available for raiding at least 3/4 nights week with higher attendance preferred.) Raid days are Wed Thurs Sun Mon. 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. )
There will be no confilct with the raiding schedule, I'll be able to make it 100%.

Previous online gaming experience (if any):
CS 1.6, played a bunch of other smaller games and other MMOs for a very brief amount of time.

Anything else you'd like to include about yourself:
Experienced player, who performs well under presure, doesn't yell OH FUCK I DIED, or even worse say ress "me" that's the worst thing I could hear in a 25 man guild unless you've been around for ages and everyone is used to your voice.

Qub · Joined: 01 May 2013 Posts: 124

Nicely done application, was a good read.

Good luck.

mint · Joined: 28 Jan 2014 Posts: 3

I've ran some LFR lately for some logs so here they are. Won't really show much, but at least my dot uptimes and other helpful info.

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-0j8lji7epw12s770/dashboard/ - SoO LFR was suposed to be first 4 bosses, but logs decided to flop :/. So there is the 2nd boss only.
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-lhu47gtsgu50beny/?s=481&e=885 - SoO LFR General.
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-kxf7rgtl9dyvqzvp/ - SoO LFR Dark Shamans and Iron Juggernaut.

sharpz · Guest

The issue isnt your ability to play a SP I know your a good SP seen your parse etc even watched u stream start of SoO for pwnanza but what my issue is and others is the fact you've been in 7 guilds in 7 months and would use us as a gear up guild then join someone like Fang or Last resort.

mint · Joined: 28 Jan 2014 Posts: 3

sharpz · Guest

Like I said lastnight if theres 1 thing I respect it's ppl being honest rather than lieing out there back teeth and it isnt my call it's down to the officers all I can say is gl.

Crabby · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:53 am Post subject:

unfortunatly we gonna have to decline due to experience and gear for where we are atm
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