[Hecatus]

Discuss your talents and tell us how long you have been this particular spec:
Primary spec - Shadow PvE (Cookie cutter 8/0/31 w/ 2 points to float around for versatility) - I've been shadow since the beginning of ICC. As far as the spec goes, the two floater points are currently in Inner Sanctum since there haven't really been any fights in Firelands requiring Phantasm (slowing mechanics from T11 such as ToTFW's Conclave and Alakir). Mana hasn't been an issue as well, nor has healing received so Improved PW:S and 3/3 Mental Agility weren't opted for.

Secondary spec - Holy Pve - I'll be honest. I have no fucking clue how to heal anymore and this spec is mainly for speed queueing 5 man heroic dungeons. I am willing to change it (to disc) and raid with my dual spec if needed however I haven't healed in ages. If required to heal, I'd like it to be primarily as off spec and would go to the lengths of relearning how to heal. For now I'm not comfortable changing my main spec to heals however that may change in the future if a dire need arises.

My current DPS priorities are as follows:
1. Vampiric Touch
2. Devouring Plague
3. Shadow Word: Pain
4. Dark Archangel
5. Shadowfiend
6. Shadow Word: Death (under 25%)
7. Mind Blast
8. Mind Flay

The list is fairly simple - keep up all of your DoTs (giving preference to the harder hitting ones if forced to choose), line on use CD's as appropriate with other DPS procs, execute when possible and mind blast on CD unless empowered shadow (ES) is about to fall off. Mind flay as a filler.

As far as the opening rotation goes, I prefer starting with a VT pre-cast followed by SW:P (in hopes blizzard RNG will show me some shadow orb love) followed by application of DP and mind flay spam. If an orb manages to proc, cast mind blast, finish stacking dark evanglism and reapply DoTs prior to DPS CDs vanishing. AA and SF after.

Please note that I find s priesting to be very... situation based. These are only general guidelines of what I do on an opener. In the even that RNG completely disowns me some things do change. Other people have argued for different openers, however they all come relatively close if reasonably suggested and serve as a very minor portion of damage over the span of a lengthy fight such as Rag HM.

I keep to date with the latest shadow priest theory craft and am open to criticism provided there's some backing to it. I will admit that I've grown a little lazy as far as directly simming goes, however I am capable of checking the math behind sims and pseudo powers used for shadow priest stat comparisons.


Ventrilo and do you have a mic:
Yes I have a mic and vent, and for the record, my mic no longer sounds like I'm in a wind tunnel/airport/under a bridge.

Do you have an authenticator?
I'm going to reply "yes" to this in the event some vicious worm is looking for some scrubs to hijack.

Typical Weekly Playtime:
I can make all raids listed (7:45 - 11 pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday) with the exception of heavy exam weeks and family visits. Prior notice will be given well in advance when these things interfere with raiding.

Time Zone:
Eastern Time Zone (EST -5:00)

Previous Guilds:
ReD StuFF (Drenden): Position - member (raid healer) (no affiliation with the officers). That last part as added due to repetitive ninja'ing incidents that ruined the guild name. The officers mass vanished after numerous ninja'ing incidents and the guild died shortly thereafter.

FAIL (Drenden): Position - member (raid healer). I quit WoW during my first semester in college and wanted to focus on my studies till I became adjusted (and raiding wouldn't potentially become an issue). Although going inactive on good terms, my spot was understandably not available once I returned for WOTLK. I left in search of a raid spot.

Defenders of Tarren Mill (Drenden): Position - member (dps). This guild was mostly for casual play. I remained here and geared up my character for a good several months until finding a more serious guild that accepted me. It was also frustrating to see that 55% of the damage done on Saurfang was from my lone self...

Heresiarch (Draenor): Position - member (dps). I remained in this guild for a good year and a half, progressing up to 11/12 HM on 25's and 10's. The guild master and several officers decided to take an extended hiatus until Cataclysm and many raiders followed suit (as did I). Upon returning, the guild had switched to 10's and real life pals convinced me to server transfer for a private 10's group with them instead.

<Click> (Draenor): Position - veteran (dps). I've been in this guild for about three quarters of a year now (all through T11 and T12). As of late Rag HM has seriously disheartened many of our raiders. The raid as a whole has actually regressed from consistent pushes into P4 to a P1-3 wipefest. The officers gathered us all on vent this Sunday (10/30/11) and informed us that they were all quitting/server transferring and that the guild was going to downgrade to 10's.

NB: These are all relevant raiding guild's that I've been in. They were all left on good standing with the members/officers (or so I'd like to think... wai u no love me Sobe? D: ).

Previous Raiding Experience:
10/25's Naxx (Full clears)
10/25's Maly
10/25's Uld (Excluding Yogg*)
10/25's ToC (Excluding Anub on 25*)
10's ICC (11/12 HM Excluding Lich King*)
25's ICC (11/12 HM)
Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10) - 7/13/10

Cataclysm:
25's T11 (11/13 HM Excluding AC and Al'Akir*)
10's Heroic Ascendant Council and Al'Akir
25's T12 (6/7 HM Excluding Rag*)

NB: Fights noted with an asterisk have been attempted and understood fully. (No kill was attained while the content was relatively current.)


Why are you applying to us:
I realized sometime after leaving Drenden that I raid mostly because I enjoy doing so with friends (and not primarily for progression, though I do love progressing). As mushy and pathetic as this may seem on my end, with the dissipation of my current guild and scattering of former guildies there, it would be easiest to raid here where a majority of ya'll are still collected.

Link us your Armory:
Advanced link just for Sobe!

Screenshot of your UI, preferably in a raid environment: Click here!
Addons Used:
Deadly Boss Mods - Not displayed in the screenshot. Major events about to occur are centered near the middle top of the screen. Pending events are listed along the far right.
Omen Threat Meter
Skada Damage Meter
Power Auras - I keep track of numerous buffs/debuffs. As chaotic as it may seem in the screenshot, not everything is always procced at the same time so its fairly manageable and doesn't affect my raid awareness.
Forte Exorcist - Used solely for DoT tracking.
GRID - Anchored top left, vertical groups

World of Logs Report:
Shannox HM - In this log I'd like to mention my ability to maintain relatively high DoT up-times on high mobility targets such as Riplimb and Rageface . I understand the damage done on the dogs was rather useless aside from breaking face rages however this content is well farmed and "padding" did not affect the final outcome.

Alysrazor HM - I would like to note that this was my second time ever flying for Aly HM. After obtaining the necessary experience on my end within 2 kills (and one wipe) my damage output increased a fair amount. This log ought to display my ability to learn quickly and to adjust as needed.

Alysrazor HM Take 3 - I'm going to plead guilty on this log and fess up before questions arise. It was a terrible raid night (as indicated by the multiple wipes on almost every farmed boss) and the raid as a whole had a defeated demeanor. That said, I did in fact miss the last ring on Aly HM while flying and remained in the air to continue dpsing prior to firestorm. After surviving the firestorm via dispersion, I realized that I had missed the last ring and the flying buff didn't last long enough to refresh. I fell to my death like a newb and could not activate levitate in time. In hindsight levitate is now macroed to myself for that particular fight and I now have enough experience to realize whether or not the buff will last long enough despite missing a ring. [/list]


Do you know anyone in guild? If so please list your pals:
Uhh... Deceax, Wrathblood, Guinthel, Sobe, Catling, Kbore, Diablo, Morb, Stabs and anyone else still around from the old gang...

Tell us a bit about yourself:
20/Male/Georgia. I'm currently a 1st year pharmacy student. Oh, and I have a huge hard on for DI/FM/PI/ToT and dps trinkets - but you all knew that.

Additional Information:
Average FPS: ~60 FPS on high settings
Average latency: In Stormwind: ~60 ms home/225 world | In Raid: ~ 60 ms home/125 world
NB: Please keep in mind these numbers were from a Pacific server.

Questions/Concerns: (Yes, I added this section and the additional information one in >>)
I'm still not completely sure what I want to do since my guild just recently fell apart. This section is to simply let you guys know that I'm interested but not committed yet if accepted. I'll update this thread with more information as I become more decisive.

PS: How do you like my app now Sobe ?

[Sobeyet]

Denied.

[Hecatus]

LOL gg.

[Guinthel]

[Hecatus]

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<-- Just saying.

[Deceax]

lol xD qq omgwtfbbqsauce

[Wrathblood]

You got Sinestra but not Council?

[Hecatus]

Council's a hell hole on 25's since multiple mechanics can wipe the raid if 1 person isn't paying attention. With Sinestra it was mostly just cutters that made you rage at others.

Edited since I caught a mistake. Did Alakir 10 HM, not 25.

[Deceax]

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Heresiarch (Draenor): Position - member (dps). I remained in this guild for a good year and a half, progressing up to 11/12 HM on 25's and 10's. The guild master and several officers decided to take an extended hiatus until Cataclysm and many raiders followed suit (as did I). Upon returning, the guild had switched to 10's and real life pals convinced me to server transfer for a private 10's group with them instead.

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Heresiarch (Drenden): Position - asian (dps). I remained in this guild for a good year and a half, loot whoring and qq'ing about trinkets on 25's and 10's. The guild master and several officers decided that I was so bad it was unbearable to raid with me they took an extended hiatus on WoW because of it (as did I). Upon returning, bear nuked the guild and some cool guys in a rainbow bar downtown invited me to their guild where loot was distributed via bj contest.

[Hecatus]

Pleading the fifth >>

[Kbore]

Who is this guy?
Never heard of him.
Probably stinks of mouthwash and bbq sauce.
Recommendation: more post padding in this app.

[Wrathblood]

Alright, here's the deal. We're recruiting right now for a dps/healer. From prior history we know you can play and you'd be valuable to have, and I don't know of anyone who has a problem with you (enthusiastic hazing aside, anyway, which seems to be drawing to a close now. That having been said, if anyone does have a problem please don't be quiet about it. We really would like to know). However, we already have an sp and we're happy with how he's doing. While there's no reason we can't have two sps (both of you are strong players, I think it would work out fine), and we can work in another dps, there remains the "/healer" part of what we're looking for.

In theory we're deep in healers, and our healing as a guild is a lot better than it used to be, but we've got a lot of ups and downs in healer attendance (Guinthel's got mid-terms, Hive has randomly scheduled study group meetings, Diablo's out on Wednesdays and Bieber's romantic life is going well) so on any given day we might have 5 healers or we might have 2. I know you'd be starting from square 1, but we would like you to start working on a healing off-spec. If you've got some comfort with Holy already then that's fine, but if you're really at about the same starting place then Disc would be better. The intent would NOT be to have you swap main specs. We're perfectly happy with you as shadow. The intent is that flexibility is at a premium in 10-mans and with so much attendance volatility among our healers, we need all the flexibility we can get. Realistically, we'd look for you to dps probably 80-90+% of the time, stepping in to heal on the weird night when we've got like 3+ healers all out simultaneously. So, we recognize that you wouldn't be in a position to do that right now, or even for a while, but we'd need you to be willing to consciously work towards it.

[diablorojo]

Deceax, on 01 November 2011 - 08:56 PM, said:

Heresiarch (Drenden): Position - asian (dps). I remained in this guild for a good year and a half, loot whoring and qq'ing about trinkets on 25's and 10's. The guild master and several officers decided that I was so bad it was unbearable to raid with me they took an extended hiatus on WoW because of it (as did I). Upon returning, bear nuked the guild and some cool guys in a rainbow bar downtown invited me to their guild where loot was distributed via bj contest.

This having been said, is all irrelevant since he has an epic staff.

Having an epic staff in the raid will help people avoid tornadoes.................

[Guinthel]

Wrathblood, on 02 November 2011 - 08:29 AM, said:

Alright, here's the deal. We're recruiting right now for a dps/healer. From prior history we know you can play and you'd be valuable to have, and I don't know of anyone who has a problem with you (enthusiastic hazing aside, anyway, which seems to be drawing to a close now. That having been said, if anyone does have a problem please don't be quiet about it. We really would like to know). However, we already have an sp and we're happy with how he's doing. While there's no reason we can't have two sps (both of you are strong players, I think it would work out fine), and we can work in another dps, there remains the "/healer" part of what we're looking for.

In theory we're deep in healers, and our healing as a guild is a lot better than it used to be, but we've got a lot of ups and downs in healer attendance (Guinthel's got mid-terms, Hive has randomly scheduled study group meetings, Diablo's out on Wednesdays and Bieber's romantic life is going well) so on any given day we might have 5 healers or we might have 2. I know you'd be starting from square 1, but we would like you to start working on a healing off-spec. If you've got some comfort with Holy already then that's fine, but if you're really at about the same starting place then Disc would be better. The intent would NOT be to have you swap main specs. We're perfectly happy with you as shadow. The intent is that flexibility is at a premium in 10-mans and with so much attendance volatility among our healers, we need all the flexibility we can get. Realistically, we'd look for you to dps probably 80-90+% of the time, stepping in to heal on the weird night when we've got like 3+ healers all out simultaneously. So, we recognize that you wouldn't be in a position to do that right now, or even for a while, but we'd need you to be willing to consciously work towards it.

get pigeon holed.

[Sobeyet]

From my perspective I'd prefer a healer first, DPS second, even if that's not how the exact percentage shakes out to be. Right now we're at 7 DPS not counting Gunther. Decocks and Hesher have to be in for legendary pieces, so that means 3 DPS slots get split amongst 5 DPS (Miller and I sat most of last night for example). I think that's reasonable, but would adding one more be critical mass? Shrug, I'm not entirely sure.

It would mean 3 DPS would be sitting if everyone shows up, so the people most affected would be Morb, Miller, Flask, Kbore, and myself. I don't mind sitting 2 nights a week if it comes to it, but I'm not sure if that would be in our best interests as a guild. That and the DPS as a whole have much better attendance than the healers (Morb's the only shaky one).

Now if you were primarily a healer, and beiber/hivetyrant continue to have attendance issues, I'd think about demoting one or both of them and we'd probably have room. At the moment I'm not sure we do. Would be an awful waste of the legendary to have you heal (you should be our top DPS with it) but the capacity has to be there.

[Wrathblood]

Additionally, I'm willing to sit a bit more, opening up room for perhaps Miller to do more tanking.

Particularly with the holidays fast approaching, I wouldn't be surprised if attendance in general starts getting more erratic in the next week or two.

[Guinthel]

Archangel/atonment healing with legendary = win

pretty unfortunate time to apply given our current roster, but thats your own damn fault.

[Sobeyet]

Wrathblood, on 02 November 2011 - 09:07 AM, said:

Particularly with the holidays fast approaching, I wouldn't be surprised if attendance in general starts getting more erratic in the next week or two.

That's probably true, but I don't think it's best to base our roster around holiday attendance. Most of the time that's not going to be the case.

Thought about it some more, and adding another DPS does make a difference:

Current pool of DPS that can sit - Flask, Kbore, Miller, Morb, Sobe
3 nights, 2 DPS sitting each night = 4 people sit once a week, 1 person sits twice a week. That last person can be subbed in for Wrath or give us wiggle room if one person isn't available, late, has to leave early, etc.

Projected pool of DPS that can sit - Flask, Kbore, Miller, Morb, Sobe, Hec
3 nights, 3 DPS sitting each night - 3 people sit once a week, 3 people sit twice a week. I don't think a roster where 3 people have to sit twice a week is tenable.

The rotation will get a little easier after Decocks gets his legendary, but we're still looking at ~6 weeks for that. And next tier Stab might have to be in the raid 100% depending on how the legendary quest for rogues shakes out.

[Wrathblood]

Well, attendance has been better the last week or two, but we had a couple months of really rocky attendance immediately before that. I'm a little less sanguine about assuming we'll be rocking close to 100% attendance going into the holidays.

[Sobeyet]

Wrathblood, on 02 November 2011 - 10:05 AM, said:

Well, attendance has been better the last week or two, but we had a couple months of really rocky attendance immediately before that. I'm a little less sanguine about assuming we'll be rocking close to 100% attendance going into the holidays.

Agreed again on the holidays, but what happens in January? If 3 people are raiding once a week, would they be happy with that? And the rocky attendance was before we added Morb, Hesher, and Miller. Assuming that Hec maintains similar attendance to what he had his last go around, the DPS aside from Morb can probably be counted on +80% attendance.