Cerebral of Kazzak

Mitigation · Joined: 18 Aug 2011 Posts: 1

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Character Details
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Character Name: Mitigation

Class: Warrior

Level: 85

(Provide us with a link to your profile in the Armory) http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Mitigation/simple

Professions and Skill Level, please also explain why you raid with these main professions.

I have BS and Mining, I use mining for 2 main reasons, stamina buff and to farm mats for BS, and I chosed BS because it helps alot to a plate wearer, and mostly warriors, most of the warriors take BS, and it gives an extra gem in wrists and gloves, and not only that, helps making extra-sockets to belts and another BoE tanking items. I have'nt any secondary profession.

What Elixirs/Flasks/Buff food do you use in raids to boost your performance?
I use Flask of Steelskin to improve my stamina, I use Lavascale Minestrone as well fed, which is the best food for a protection warrior, boosts my stamina and my mastery, and I use earthen potion in order to increace my mitigation(armor) in some encounters when healers are having a hard time or boss is using a specific hard to tank ability, which means it is going to hit high.

Desribe what you think you would bring to our guild if accepted.

I would bring dedicated tanking, which means I would bring a player that knows his class in-depth (will explain this later!) and a player that will come to 95% if not 100% of the raids, a player that only players world of warcraft to reach high ranks and has enough dedication in order to take down every single chalenge blizzards brings to him, a player that is always updated with patch notes, gems, enchants, and even talents, I will go more in depth in another question about this.

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Character History
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Previous Guilds: <The>, <Rhinestones>, <Consequence>.

Reason for Leaving:
<The> -> Applied, they wanted me as a tank for raid team but they were full on tanks, they were getting me a spot as soon as there was a free one, I didn't feel like waiting for that, could be weeks or months, we never know, so I left it.

<Rhinestones> -> Applied, got accepted, as a tank again, I got in the guild but failed on raider trial because of lack of threat in AoE, which is a problem I've solved, and now with the new hotfix blizz made I won't have any problems with threat anymore.

<Consequence> -> Last one, got disapointed with the reason I failed trial on, I failed trial because of the social part... One of the officers told me I should have talked more with the guildies, but as I trial I cant talk much... And that I had a lack of comunication during the raid encounters, that has already been fixed also, I learn with my mistakes, during all the guilds I've been at in this realm and other realms I never heard anyone complaining about my comunication as a tank during encounters and raids, this is the 1st time I heard it, all I was saying was the tank stuff (e.g.: Taunting in... , Taunt, Pulling in..., Going to take the adds..., Mitigation is tanking something, other tank is tanking something... and some more exemples.), besides that, was an unfair kick but I saw they got another tank before I left so the main reason was they had new tank and wanted to replace me because my gear wasnt the best at the time, the other reason was most likely an excuse.

When did you start this character and how long have you /played it? At the begining of cataclysm, my main during wotlk was a mage, but I've changed main since begining of cataclysm and havent been playing anymore on the alts, only for professions, the mage I am talking about is a goblin mage from "Burning Steppes-EU" called "Filigs", if you want to check it out, check also "Mortiforo" from "Chamber of Aspects-EU" ally side.

What encounters and raids have you experienced in Cataclysm?

--------> Most of those were with "Mortiforo"(Night elf ally in "Chamber of Aspects") and "Filigs"(goblin horde in "Burning Steppes")
Naxx 25: 0/15
OS10: 1/1
OS25: 1/1
OS+3d 10: DONE
OS+3d 25: DONE

Ulduar 10: 11/12
Ulduar 25: 0/12
Ulduar HM: None

Toc 10: 6/6
Toc 25: 6/6
Toc 10 hc: 2/6
Toc 25 hc: 0/6

ICC 10: 12/12
ICC 25 6/12
ICC 10 hc: 6/12
ICC 25 hc: 1/12

RS10: 0/1
RS25: 0/1

RS10 hc: 0/1
RS25 hc: 0/1

----->All the cataclysm ones were with "Mitigation"(current and main character)
BwD: 6/6
BwD hc: 0/6
BoT: 4/4
BoT hc: 0/4
ToTfw: 2/2
ToTfw hc: 0/2
Firelands: 6/7(got ragnaros to 30%, the transition before last phase)
Firelands hc: None

What previous raid experience do you have on this char?

I only did the t11 raids when t12 was already out, since I started really playing only after zandalaris came out, before that I only played now and then, but the hardcore raiding spirit came back again after zandalaris came out, I had that one back on lk and got me far, but due to bad luck in chosing guilds I didn't get much progress at all now, so I only have 6/7 on firelands, max I got ragnaros at was 30% and we died from the sons of flame during the transition to last phase, I was assigned to tank the lava scions... so couldn't go much to help. Now talking about my past, I cleared full ToC during the patch ToC came out, killed LK with buff already, and did icchc untill rotface back then, got stuck on putricide, always raiding 10 men as a guild since I was in a dead realm, only pugged 25 men.

What do you think YOUR responsibilities are in a raid?:
As a tank it makes me the one of the most important roles in a raid group, a tank is not only assigned to only get hits by the mobs/bosses, a tank has many responsibilities, such as, interrupts, warnings, helping healers in soaking as much damage as possible and not using all cooldowns at the same time to get like immune to hits, thats just pathetic(will get more in depth about this one later), being able to not move much, only move the needed in order to don't give a hard time to healers and melee dps, such as range dps when they run of out sight due to "hyperactive" tanks, mark the targets in order to get the most single target damage done by all the dps, to help them chose the correct mob to target, shout in the voice program or in a well seen way in world of warcraft when pull is going to happen, and taunts, not just say "im going to taunt" and immediatly taunt, I have to do a countdown to let the other tank know and healers, warn healers when there is going to be a specific ability from the boss encounter and who is going to tank it (e.g. Mitigation is tanking infernal blade / X tank is tanking decimation blade), use potions in the most apropriate time (e.g. Use earthen potion during last phase of shannox for exemple), and obviosly, never lose threat, but one of the dps rules is "Don't overagro"... Know the encounter's tactics and strategies... And of course... Don't stand in the fire!

How would you feel if you were asked to respec by the guild or by your class leader to either help guild or improve your dps/healing/tanking?
We dont mean we will ask a healer to go DPS, we mean if if we think your points could be spent better.

From what I've readen and know, as I have mentioned before I have studied in depth my class, specially protection, but fury too aswell, which are both my specs, I know every single detail of it, but there can be always something I dont know, we never know, so yes I am willing to do changes, either reforge, change gems or either change 1 talent point if needed in order to improve my performace.

What is your Ability* Rotation ?

Starts with a rotation and ends with priorities, so it is:

Open with "Throw weapon" followed by a heroic throw and charge, only this gets me a good agro, but with ToT/MD gets me most likely top threat without anyone getting overagro, then I start using my debuffs/dots, which are: rend -> thunder clap -> 3x devastate -> demoralizing shout, followed by Shield block -> Shield slam -> revenge(if procced) -> shockwave [All those are followed by a heroic strike OR cleave), I always use shield slam and revenge when available, those are my top agro, and then I keep refreshing dots by using thunder clap for both rend and thunder clap, 1 devastate and demoralizing shout when they are under 25% of the time.

Also Post a UI Screen Shot (this is so we know how you see whats around you) http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/4371/wowscrnshot081711193829.jpg

And Post atleast a 3 min WWS or WMO Report on Test Dummie(Dps only)
www.wowmeteronline.com
www.worldoflogs.com
*seeing this will greatly help your app, if you have issues getting these reports please speak to a guild officer in game

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-6je9sehutnkzb9wp/ -> I got it but I don't understand how to analize it, but I can say that if you see top dps = melee hits/normal attack, its normal, I dont do any abilities when its not me tanking in order to not overagro, because I do to much agro single-target and its pretty often the times I overagro other class tanks.

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Technical Information
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Do you have oRA3 Deadly Boss Mods and OMEN ?
have them all, but I am new to oRA3, just installed, the rest of them im really used to them, use them for years.

PLease list any other add ons you use to help you raid. I use Recount to see hows the healing and dps in the raid and who interrupts and who doesnt and the dispells mainly, I use Big Brother to see whos missing flasks and well feds, and I use ElvUI which provides me with alot of raiding things like "Grid", repair percentage, avoidance calculator, armor, a good action bar to help me sorting out spells, less buffs display and main buffs ordered on map, and multi focus, good for encounters like shannox.

Do you have a microphone & Ventrilo installed? yes and yes

Describe your skills in spoken english: 3/5

What's your connection & computer hardware? Its DSL, I usually have 60-200MS, rarely, like once in 3 months, my internet gets lazy and I get up to 500MS, but that is bloody rare to happen.

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General Information
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Age: 18

Country: Portugal

Why did you choose to apply to this guild in particular? Because you have the same progress as me and you seem hardcore due to the quantity of raids per week, and I like that.

Players you know / How did you come across us? wowprogress.com

Alts and Level (if any): That matters, got a rogue, combø lvl 85, goblin.

Are you or any of your alts currently guilded?: I am in a social guild using perks.

Did you read our Rules & Policies? Yes, and I disagree with the first aid part.

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'm always available to raid, unless I have dinner or something, which I try to not make it in raid times, but I can attend to 95% of the raids I can assure you that... but the problem , is a 5 mins break to have dinner if I have people at home, if I am alone I have dinner either before or after the raid.

Previous online gaming experience (if any): Yes but nothing special.

Anything else you'd like to include about yourself: Yes, this is the "question" of the form I talked about in the earler "questions", when I said I will go in-depth later, it was here... So, to prove you I know my class in-depth I will explain you every single detail that a warrior tank that didn't study his class doesn't know, first of all, this one I was asked many times when I joined guilds, which proves I know my class really well, why am I reforging parry instead of dodge? Why is my parry higher than dodge? Simple answer, there is a talent in the Protection tree, thats called "Hold the line", and what it does is, when you successfully parry an attack you get 10% critical chance + 10% critical block chance, which is what my mastery does, my mastery increases my block and my critical block chance, so, in other words, that talent everytime I parry an attack increases my mastery for a good amount of numbers, while dodge is still good so my parry has to be almost the same as dodge, with 5% of each other or less, which is something I almost have, I have a slight amount over 5%, not more than 0.1%. Another interesting thing about my class is the fact that, before the hotfix in 16th august, being it today, was the hardest class to make threat/agro with, which required a quite bit of knowledge in order to keep the threat up without threat increase buffs(as known as Tricks of the Trade and Misdirection), another thing about this specialization, there are 2 talent trees in the Protection tree, which are the Single-target specialization, and the Multi-Target(AoE) specialization, I have the Single Target Specialization, with 2 points from the Multi Target, because I disagree with those 2 points that are in "safeguard" in the protection tree, and I rather them in the "Blood and thunder", safeguard just helps the other tank basically, while "Blood and thunder" helps alot when it comes to AoE, and me being a single-target specced tank, I won't be always, meaning 100% of the times, tanking single target, I will aswell tank multi-target to, so I chosed that talent, anyways I am willing to respec even if its for 1 talent if you give me a reason to. My offspec is not as good gear as my main spec, but I have the same knowledge I have for tank, I have for my OS which is fury TG, at the moment it is around 364 iLvl while my MS is 371. Back to my main spec, protection, I manage the cooldowns as they are supposed to, I don't use cooldowns at the same time when its not needed, as I use the cooldowns in thrash or not boss mobs in order to help the healers, thats what a tank has to do, tank everything, soak as much damage as they can, keep the agro and interrupt, thats basically their job, so, for exemple I never use shield wall at the same time as shield block, I always use shield block before my first shield slam, I have chosed a talent that increases the damage of my shield slam if I have the effect of Shield Block, I also use Last stand when I see that I am not getting healed enough and that I am about to die, and if I keep dieing I pop my enraged regeneration, and then if it is getting pretty bad I pop one of the defensive cooldowns which are shield block ,shield wall OR trinket, most of the times its the shield wall, in order to not die, but never use them at the same time each other, and then I only have one cooldown left which is only half defensive, which is retaliation, and I only use it to get more agro and damage. As you've noticed I didn't even talk about the spell reflection, its a basic from a warrior tank to use it whenever spells are used in the encounter, im always stunning and interrupting when needed, and thats some information about me playing this class. Now, in another subject, but inside this main subject yet, since the moment I enter the raid im 100% in the raid, I only think and talk about the raid, nothing else, something that winds me up is people forgetting the main raid supplies, which are, well feds, potions, flasks and money to repairs, and slacking and not releasing, I don't mind being all night wiping, don't mind being extending raids and being wiping or trying to kill boss more than the time established, as long as theres spirit and mainly focus, it always takes time to get progress, but when we do its always that party and feeling when we finally kill it, I raid for progress and not for loot, but for progress I need loot, specially for heroic modes, and I really expect people in this guild to think the same way as me, I am always ready to raid, I only play wow to raid basically, in the free time im getting gear for OS if needed, farming specific bosses for certain items I need to maximize my gear without interfering in guild raids, just the old raids if guild doesnt raid them, I farm rare mounts and do achievments basically thats what I do in the free time, I know my progress isnt the best, I've almost killed ragnaros, but yeah I know all the tactics, and what I like most is people that is willing to take down every challange that blizzard puts in front of us. Sorry for all the time you will take reading this, if you read, but yeah you forgot to ask many questions which I had to answer or you wouldn't know this much about me, thanks for your time and wish me luck!

Crabby · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:10 pm Post subject:

very well wrritten unfortunatly we dont need tanks atm