Cerebral of Kazzak

Shenron · Joined: 11 Mar 2013 Posts: 2

:: Application ::

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Character Details
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Character Name: Etrigan

Class: Warlock

Level: 90

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

Be aware, this is a new account - please check this character on the original one (which is still active & ready with MoP) http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Bookyz/advanced

Professions and Skill Level:

- Tailoring (600)

- Enchanting (600) - Replacing with Engineering (600) if most fights favor Affliction.

- Cooking (0) - I have the funds necessary to buy infinite 300 stat food, but I will be leveling cooking eventually.

- First Aid (0) - I was not aware that this was a requirement, I expect I will be capped by the end of the day.

What Elixirs/Flasks/Buff food do you use in raids to boost your performance?

I will be using the following:

- Potion of the Jade Serpent (2 per pull)

- Flask of the Warm Sun

- Mogu Fish Stew

- A massive can of Monster IRL.

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

Gear Wise: I am fully aware that my gear is not nearly on par with your standards, however I'm of the belief that long term, it's better to acquire a genuinely skilled, dedicated and motivated player, over somebody simply in pretty epics. Besides, I will gear up extremely fast in the coming weeks. I am constantly looking for BoE's to pick up, and relevant BMAH items as well. OpenRaid became an option recently as well. When I do catch up with the gear, expect to see me near top of meters on most encounters.

Class Knowledge: Although I haven't been a Warlock for very long, I've done an extreme amount of research on the class. Even before I was playing one (I was a Warrior through Cataclysm, and a Paladin through Wrath and TBC - although that's irrelevant... I was an awful Paladin, and that was pretty difficult to manage during WotLK), It was always one of my favorite classes.

I do not do my own simcraft, except when there's no other choice (such as: finding out if it will be beneficial to ditch a tier bonus for a higher quality/better itemized item and so on). I have only a basic understanding of the program, and generally try to avoid it.

The Specs I'm extremely comfortable with are - Affliction & Destruction. People haven't really tasted ToT HC yet, so this might change, but it looks like I will have to get real comfortable with Demonology soon. I know the idea behind it, and I can play it effectively don't get me wrong, but I simply haven't played it enough for it to be on autopilot.

Currently my most trusted sources for Warlock information are: Evrelia @Apex (W#7), the Warlock thread on EJ (but I tend to take in everything there with a grain of salt, especially if posted by unknown people), and of course if accepted WoL, as I will have some relevant logs to look through, and see what the other top Warlocks are doing in comparison.

Standing in fire: The last time I can remember I genuinely had a problem with a mechanic was back in the ICC HC days. I believe the problem was Sindragosa hardmode, where my guild would use a strategy of lining up the raiders tagged with Ice Tomb in a perfect line (for what reason we would need to do that, and why did we need to be in order I have no clue, i don't even remember the fight that well anymore), so that they could be cleaved down effectively.

Anyway, during progression, I sometimes goofed up the order in which we needed to stand. I will be first to admit that I was a bad player back then, but as it is right now, I haven't had a major issue with a mechanic in years.

Generally, if we give the fight one or two tries, I will be comfortable enough with it that I won't be making mistakes, and I am capable of learning from others failures.

Socially: I don't have problems with people, and I very much enjoy spending time outside of raids with guildies.

In fact, I've recently became interested in Challenge Modes for some reason (It's totally the Warlock set), so if some of the guildies are interested give me a shout! My gear won't be a problem there after all, and I miss that feeling Razz

Aside from that, I'm up for some casual PVP, Transmog runs, and other shenanigans.

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Character History
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Previous Guilds:

I will only be listing relevant and HM guilds here. I'm sure you don't care what guild I joined for perks that one time, or was a social in.

I started playing in TBC, just before Black Temple was released. This was my first MMO, so I didn't really know what I was doing. The first time I capped was in Wrath of the Lich King. I don't know if that qualifies me as a Wrath baby, but if it does... just... OK????

Wrath of the Lich King

Naxx (80)

<Might> @Bronzebeard, my first ever raiding guild, respects must be paid. Nothing special here, they were terrible, I was even worse - moving on.

Naxx (80)
Ulduar

<Affinity> @Bronzebeard, this was my first venture into a semi organized guild. The raids almost never got called, just slow, but steady progress. I liked it. The leadership of the guild changed hands, so I left. I don't believe I had a specific disagreement with the new GM or anything, just wasn't the same anymore, in a bad way.

<Scholars> @Bronzebeard (http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/eu/bronzebeard/The+Scholars+of+Light/rating.tier10_25), and we come to the good part. My first progression guild. I was still a terrible player, and had absolutely no business being there, but I was. I should probably rephrase that actually, I wasn't terrible, still definitely above average, I just wasn't very experienced with the idea of progression raiding. Being in that guild sharpened my skills tremendously, and I've learned more there than I would for the rest of my career in WoW.

Note: I just want to point out that I haven't looked at that guild's progress page in years, and oh my god they finished ICC W# 666. How awesome is that? And I'm a Warlock now! This is creepy.

Cataclysm

For the first patches of Cataclysm, completely burned out on raiding I made a Warrior in hopes of joining a decent RBG team as an FC. However, my team only managed to make it to 2000 rating before everyone got bored with the idea, so I abandoned the plan.

<Patience> (Now Cupcake Club) @Outland, this was the guild I stayed with until the last days of Cataclysm and the first few weeks of MoP. We cleared the content rather slowly considering the goals that were set for DS, but the guild was struggling at the time with the GM due to leave any minute for a year long trip, and to be fair, it was a newly formed guild (in Cataclysm) anyway.

In MoP I only stayed with the guild for the first one, or two weeks of MSV. I left, or rather "quit" the game in general, because my first ever year of university was due to start in the next week or so. Now, they don't tell you this in high school - but apparently you have a ridiculous amount of free time as a college student. I almost play more WoW now than I used to when I didn't have anything going on (I took a year off after High School).

Right now, my schedule is set in stone, at least until the end of the year. So, I've been back to the game since, I want to say mid February.

Note: I know this probably seems strange, but I'm sure my most recent Raid Leader "Straws" Rogue, @Outland Alliance wouldn't mind giving you some praise/dirt on me if you asked. Hey!? I'm trying to get every advantage I can here! So If that's something you might be interested in doing, there you go.

I sort of went over my previous raid experience details in the guilds section, but here's a summary.
(Everything below is during relevancy, please refer to my warrior for dates of achievements etc.)

Classic: --

TBC: --

Wrath: Naxx ( LOLOL ), Ulduar ( 13/14, X Algalon ), ToC ( 5/5 ), ToGC ( 4/5), ICC HC ( 11/12 )

Cataclysm: Firelands HC ( 7/7 ), Dragon Soul HC ( 8/8 )

MoP: MSV Normal...

What do you think YOUR responsibilities are in a raid? :

During progression on bosses, I mainly prioritize executing the strategy correctly, however after a couple of tries it usually becomes automatic and I can turn it up in terms of numbers.

I always take a few steps before a night of hard progress;

- I watch/read and more or less suck in information about the general mechanics of the encounter and the common strategy.

- I watch one or two [InsertClassHere] PoV videos to make sure I know exactly what to expect as a Warlock, or generally as a Ranged DD. Plus it doesn't hurt to get some class specific tricks out of the video either.

- Make sure I'm properly prepared consumables wise, it's never fun to have to leave the raid because you're short on something. Though I generally buy in bulk anyway, for 10-20 raids at a time.

- I try to always have some enchants ready in my bags so I can start using an item directly for the next encounter. Especially if there's no reforging needed. I suppose because I'm an Enchanter now, I will just have to keep some mats in my bags as well, but I'm planning to drop it for Engineering very soon, especially if I end up staying Affliction for most of the fights this tier.

What is your Spell Rotation?

I will go through Affliction for you.

The Huge Opener (+Curse of Elements)

Step 0: Pre-pot

Step 1: Precast Haunt (Don't worry I've learned my lesson with KJC)

Step 2: Blow cooldowns.

Step 3: Soul Burn & SoulSwap the dots onto the target.

Step 4: Malefic grasp until I have my horrible trinkets, Lightweave, Jade Spirit etc. procced. Ideally, here is where I also gain Lust.

Step 5: Soul Burn & SoulSwap.

Step 6: Keep Haunt up on the target for as long as possible.

Step 7: Just before my super buffs are about to expire, Soul Burn & SoulSwap.

Maintaining

The spec is very micromanagy... I'm sure you know this, but keep in mind that Dot's do not update dynamically with your stats. Here's an idea;

DoTs: Keep dots up 100% of the time, this obviously means doing all in my power so that Agony stays on the target as well, as allowing it to re-ramp would be a huge dps loss.

Taking advantage of buffs: Refresh dot's when I gain certain proccs (Lightweave/Trinket etc.), assuming they are within their refresh window, which is half the duration of the dot, thanks to Pandemic (this is ignored if I have a lot of buffs at once, and one or two are about to fall off)

Haunts: Haunts are used when you have 4 shards to prevent them being wasted, unless Darksoul is active/or in bursty situations. (I guess you'd save Darksoul anyway if you knew something needed to be bursted AKA Spine of Deathwing/Elgelon Sparks)

Filler: Malefic Grasp/Drain Soul

Other: I suppose FelFlame is worth mentioning, I generally use it only when I know I have some proccs up, but for instance Dark Soul is about to come off Cooldown, so I'll generally refresh the dots with Fel Flame as it won't be worth recasting them for such a short period of time, if I'm about to Burn & Swap.

Why have you chosen to reforge, gem and enchant the way you have?

Affliction

- Intellect: Derp

- Hit/Expertise Cap: It's not a huge issue being slightly under the Hit Cap for an Affliction Warlock, but I always like to keep it as close to 15% as possible, but always at or above. I prefer consistency.

- Haste/Mastery: I keep these bad-boys relatively even. I can reach the first Haste breakpoint (4717) while keeping my Haste/Mastery ratio pretty even in my gear, so I am going for that.

Crit is just garbage.

Also Post a UI Screen Shot

Affliction UI

http://i.imgur.com/1zvNbBo.jpg

Destro UI

http://i.imgur.com/0YU797s.jpg

Demo UI

The exact same thing, replace Backdraft with Molten Core

Keybinds + Hidden Bars Visible

http://i.imgur.com/Ww4u7fC.jpg

Post a World of Logs report from your past guild or a 3 minute DPS report on the training dummies:

There you are.

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/dk36b0up21d60ns1/

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Technical Information
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Do you have oRA3 Deadly Boss Mods and OMEN ?

I don't use OMEN anymore, but I have no issues with getting it. I know how to use it as I's been a part of my UI for the entire Wrath period & a little bit of Cataclysm.

Please list any other add ons you use to help you raid.

Aside from casual OOC stuff (such as OPie I use for buffs, soulwells, mounts, pet heals etc.) and personal class/obvious addons you can see in my UI, I use:

- AffDots

- ReforgeLite

- Skada over Recount.

Do you have a microphone & Ventrilo installed?

I do have a quality microphone, which I have no issues using & I do have Ventrilo installed.

Describe your skills in spoken English:

Fluent.

What's your connection & computer hardware?

The PC itself is pretty high end, it was the best possible setup around 6 months ago, and I haven't upgraded it since. Needless to say it can still handle WoW just fine.

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General Information
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Age: 20

Country: Switzerland

Why did you choose to apply to this guild in particular?

One of my buddies told me he was applying. I checked out the guild page, just for the sake of it, and saw that you needed a Warlock. I've been actively looking for a guild to join for a while now. You guys seem about perfect progress wise, schedule wise and motivation wise as well. I can adapt to any direction the guild wishes to take in the future (more hardcore/more casual).

Players you know / How did you come across us?

I do not know any players currently in your guild.

Alts and Level (if any):

I have 2 Warriors. One of them is at 90 and on the old account, the other one of them is also 90 and on the new account. Really I'm just keeping the old Warrior around in case I ever feel like transfering over all of my Mounts & Achievements.

As far as alt raids go, I'm sure you understand I'd rather join them on my main... For now anyway.

Are you or any of your alts currently guilded?:

Yes I am. It's a cesspool guild. Entirely for the sake of convenience.

Did you read our Rules & Policies?

Yes.

What days can you play and what hours during those days? :

I play every day, usually around 6 hours at least, more during weekends. I'm always home before 19:00, so expect perfect attendance, probably including your alt raids. #Nolife

Previous online gaming experience (if any):

Nothing worth mentioning.

Anything else you'd like to include about yourself:

I would really ask you to try and look past my gear disadvantage, and understand that I will do anything in my power to close the gap, especially outside of the guild.

Be it PUGGing, BoE's or world bosses, I'm doing it. And once I do catch up, you won't be regretting your decision, and most likely be pleasantly surprised.

If you have any questions or concerns AT ALL, please contact me in-game Shenron#2161 and we can either have a chat there, or Skype/Vent.

Just in case, original account Battle Tag: Shenron#2418

Thanks for your time.

Naturally I'll be refreshing this page non-stop.

Take Care!

Shenron · Joined: 11 Mar 2013 Posts: 2

Added WoL.

Edited the line about reforging/gemming etc.

Crabby · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:10 pm Post subject:

unfortunatly your not what we are looking for atm.

GL finding a home.
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