Stridur

Nice app and ui .

Gnomes get 1% exp due to Shortblade Specialization

Duru

I remember this vividly. One of the reason why my dps was pretty low compared to yours was my second pot timing, as I failed to stack them with both of my trinket procs. I knew I should've waited a little longer for the ICDs. Also, our drops has had a streak of bad luck in nabbing those elusive RPPM trinkets, as I notice you have them both. I can imagine they'd be a significant boost.

Ok glad you caught what you could've done better. Trinkets are def a boost but they still want give u 20k either.

Iron Qon:

The night began fairly poorly, as one of our main healers were late and we had to pull in a casual hunter dps whose ilvl wasn't nearly completely optimal for the fight. So the Raid Leader said that the pulls for the night was to simply "gauge" the fight and get a feel for it. As far as the raid is concerned, the officers didn't deem the night as a full progression raid—it was more of a test run.

I do carry plenty of stacks of 300 food, ready to be consumed on progression fights, as obviously, they are a must for min/maxing throughput on progression fights.

My SS time was really low, and I believe it was due to me failing to refresh them during BW uptimes. That and many other flaws for the fight will be definitely worked on.

I saw that healing look little off. I dont know maybe its me , always want bring best to a progression fight. Im not saying you had to use it for all attempts but this whole week you only used 300 food once. As long you have 2-3 stacks per week you be fine as you will be ask to switch to it at times, Personally what I do is, use cobra to refresh if cast time is at or lower then about 1.3sec or I need focus. Otherwise manually refresh if you have very high focus during BW so you don't focus cap..

Hunter questions:

List all the macros you use for dps and explain their use.

In general, I utilize very few as I'm pretty comfortable with the way my keybinds are set up. The few that I use include:

#show Rapid Fire

/cast Rapid Fire

/cast Berserzking

BM:

This spec is all about maximizing uptime during BW. Timing my trinket process, saving Frenzy stacks, potting to maximize agility stacks is crucial. After that following the ability prioritiy: Opening: Serpent Sting > Stampede > Rapid Fire and Berserking (since Readiness will refresh RF) > BW to Kill Command> Glaive Toss > AMoC (to take advantage of reduced focus cost > AS until Kill Command (with 4pc T14, up to 3 KCs are possible with increased duration) > Glaive Toss > Cobra shot if focus starved Readiness will be used once BW is over and after a kill command/Glaive is cast (since KC/GT will be instantly refresh once Readiness is cast again and potion uptime should be in its last seconds by that time). After readiness, the priority list mentioned will be utilized again.

SV:

With the heightened potential of focus capping due to LnL procs, I try as much as I can to maintain my focus around 60. My priority is as follows: Opening after MD (After pre pot): Rapid fire/Berserking > Exp Shot > Black Arrow > Serpent Sting > Fervor > Barrage or Glaive Toss (depending on fight but typically, I use barrage with SV for maximum AOE) > AS > Cobra shot to replenish focus During LnL process: Exp Shot x 3 (used to be Exp Shot x 2 > AS > Exp Shot due to clipping but this was changed when MoP started) Readiness then the above priority begins again.

Generally SV shot priority should be Keeping SrS up > BA > Exp Shot > GT/Barrage > AS

Im with raer on this. With some much hit/exp this patch you shouldnt under hit cap. Every little bit counts. Someone with same gear and doing same rotation as you but is hit cap will always do more dps than you.As for Mr Robot's advice, his take on hit cap simply is not supported by the math. If it were a net gain to be slightly below the cap, every dps who does the math (which is most of the raiders in end game hardcore progression guilds) would all be following this approach. None do...

Hola Senor,

Thank you for posting a nice app and interest in SOH.It always great to see an old hunter , as I as well completed the hunter quest when demons were rare spawn and some derp came to thinking he was doing you favor by hitting the demon and you had camp him again. Good ol days. Now to your app.

Armory:

Everything looks good no complaints

UI:

Over all looks more default , not really a fan of blizzard default UI but if it works for you all good.

Logs: (Looking at the logs from this week)

Jin' Rokh

This was covered already

Horridon:

Executed this fight with very good damage and stil hitting adds and flawless survivability

Council:

Good job and dpsing the Blessed LOA

Tortos:

Dps seemed kinda low, especially since you were killing bats, any reason you died 3 times to them? Having stuff like deterrence, FD, and MD, cant see how this can happen, especially that you mention things from the old days where we had to do tricks, fd, and kite.

Durmu:

Looks good but I feel like you could be pushing a little more. Hunter's really shine on fights where you have to move alot cause of our dps mobility. Your item level is higher than mine , and we both have the same weapon yet I got 20k more on this fight. What Could you have done better?

Iron qon:

You died twice to wind tornado and once to cinders nothing crazy for progression night. Things I saw wrong from this log was your Serpent Sting up time was really low, not higher than 77%. I dont expect it to be at 100% but at least 90% . With addon tracking your dots it shouldnt be so low. Out of 15 attempts never used 300 food. On progression fight is where you want bring the most you can.

Hunter questions:

Which ICD's should you be tracking?

List all the macros you use for dps and explain their use.

What is your opener for BM and Your prioties for Surv ?

What sets you apart as a Hunter, specifically. Or, what are some ways that you can increase your DPS?

Hi Swazyee,

Funny app btw

Any reason to be below the hit cap by .9%?

I know you said your guild was called requiem and went to cho'gall which is fine but between that you went alliance for week, also before your current guild you went in out of couple of guilds changing your name , some lasted 2weeks , other 2-3 months any reason behind so much switching?

http://www.wowtrack....haracter/404004

Except zebras, soccer balls, and penguins

you forgot pandas

Have you ever thought of putting rank in the guild for veteran/senior raiders>?

You make compelling points. And I do understand your concerns. I would like to point out that, traditionally, (untill rppm effects where introduced, calculations had not been added to simcraft/FD) hunters stat priority's where crit>mastery>haste (haste had higher value on sims due to shot shifting) so mastery was the go to enchant on the gloves up till a few weeks ago, then it was a few weeks will top hunters started figuring out the value of haste, since sim's were behind. It was an over sight on my part not looking over enchant with a stat weight change. I just didn't want you thinking I had the wrong enchant the whole time.

Besides that. I look forward to speaking with you Saturday And thanks to everyone for the critic on this app, makes me more aware that I always have room to grow

Hi Porch,

You are correct with those stat priorities , thats the way it was before. But at the same time your playing an MMO game where class mechanics change frequently and could change every patch. Playing MMO for many years now, you have to stay on top of your class with doing research if not you get left behind. The way you played a hunter in 4.3 lets say, most likely wont be same in 5.2. You are correct, that haste start getting love this patch with the new Rppm but also note 5.2 has been out for almost 2 months . The haste enchant has been around for way longer than that. Can tell you everyone in soh is up to date with what they can bring best of their class and what best talents/spec to bring to each boss fight. As we have to be on point with a 3 hour a night raiding schedule. You seem like fun guy and veteran hunter but you have to kinda stop pointing finger at something else (ex. it was camera, or it was the simcracft) everytime you forgot about something else or just mess up. Manning up and honestly will get you far in here if accepted, good luck your interview bud.

-To be honest, I did'nt even realize there was a haste enchant available. I fixed this issue

Cool

- When you pop stamped in a spec that cannot control exotic pets, and you have exotic pets in your stable, copys of your current pet will be used in the place of the exotic pets, so you will always have 4+1 pets summoned.

Nice. Before if you didnt have the glyph of stampede to copy it wouldnt clone anything, must got fix , thanks for the update. But you still might want to have different pets in case, your on target that not everyone is on and could missing one of the debuffs you pets can apply to the current target, but its nothing major.

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we had 2 hunters running on many of the tortos attempts, head shot was doing all md's while I was doing kicks (md'ing ofc when I could) the only time I died to bats is when I ran barrage, and pulled aggro as they passed by me and I got one shot, or I feigned death and came back up to quickly before aggro was droped. I pvp quite a bit, so its in my instinct to do everything to survive, as I'm sure I did there.

Yea since barrage will hit anything and everything in that case I would've MD the tank on bats before using it, as more threat on him with bats wouldnt be a bad thing

-You make a valid point, I suppose I was looking at what was wiping use rather that what could wipe us.

Glad you see it like that any attempt could be the one.

Overall good responses and feedback , I would work on your ui. Good luck with your app

Armory questions:

- Good question. I was talking to kennyloggins about this last week lol. While haste appears to sim over crit for BM, I do not have my meta gem to adequately take advantage of the extra haste. While I have tested it with 2 rppm trinkets and 2 pc. I was not impressed with the reforge. Now running 4 pc and meta soon, This might change.

Yes I agree that you should go haste over crit having all 4( meta, 2 rppm trinkets and 2 pc bonus) Its pretty much like armor pen back in days where it was only worth going this route if you had high end gear. Going back to my question it wasnt that I wanted or asking you why didnt you reforge all haste but why you using mastery over haste on your enchant to gloves, when haste is better than mastery even if you dont have all 4?

-So I currently have 17 secrets, and 3 bosses I ahve not killed this week. So I can safely say that I will have my gem next week as for the rep, I had planed on doing what I did with the other rep, and grind the mobs, I took me about 45 mins last time. I will have that done before reset.

Pretty much like raer said dont count on it

- Well, as far as I know non of our glyphs have any impact on our dps, while no escape increases crit on a frozen target, its pve implications are extremely limited. Other than that, I can safely say no. (unless you are talking about better movement = higher overall damage etc...)

I was hoping you catch this ,had my fingers crossed. Your using glyph of the stampede on bm but not surv. The problem why your hurting survival is because your using 2 exotic pets that can only be used for bm. Meaning when your in survival spec and pop stampede it will only summon pets that are non exotic so technically your missing out on 2 pets and that is gimping the mechanic of the spell big time. Either use the copy glyph for survival or switch out your exotic pets.

Hunter questions:

-I use 2 MD macros, One for focus target, the other for a predetermined tank.

my arcane shot

#show Arcane Shot

/cancelaura Blessing of Protection

/cancelaura Deterrence

/cancelaura Hand of Protection

/cast Arcane Shot

Simply to cancel those effects without having to click off the buff.

Cd macro

#show Rapid Fire

/cast Rapid Fire

/cast Bestial Wrath

/cast Blood Fury

/use 10

self explanatory

How come you dont use any stop cast macros?

- I will list both basic shot priority's without major cd's and generally I use the first set on pull, and the second set for mechanic abuse of execution range

Surv -Kill>ss>BA>Ex>Gt/Barrage>Arcane>Cobra

Bm - Kill>ss>Bw>Kc>Gt/Barrage>Arcane>Cobra (I use ff at the end of BW after draining all focus)

Theres few things you didnt mention AMOC, Dire beast, and fervor. As the 1st two ( Amoc and DB) are more dps than GT/barrage

Log questions:

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I completely rebuild my Ui a week or so ago to ensure I had no issues with timers etc. To be honest I remember this attempt, and It was simply and oversight on my part. while frag bombs might be a dps increase (I didnt know they where off of icd?) I still prefer the utility of rocket boots, as I can think of dozens of circumstances where they saved me/the whole raid, and limited times its killed me.

It might save you lets say 80% of the time and 20% it may not but why take the chance, when you just jump and turn and disenage and add more dps to yourself and raid? Can also talent into pothaste for speed burst as well

- The only times I died to horridon to traps was when someone failed a charge, and the tanks had the boss/adds in such an odd location that my camera was stuck in such a location that I could not see my feet lol. I'm sure this has happened to everyone at some point

Yea but one attempt you died early on the fight , on fight where stuffs on ground why wouldnt you move asap as it plays huge role on fights where you have to watch for stuff on the ground? To tell raid I died because of my camera your going to be ask why did u stay there then and Boss mods should give you warning if your standing in stuff I know BIgs wigs for sure does

- The only time I recall dieing to rockfall on tortos was generally a sacrifice thing, rocks where landing on the shell I needed to kick and the timer was coming up (this was also before the movement behavior fix) Most of the time people where good about avoiding shells on the ground so rockfall did'nt kill me but those attempts it appears someone had ran over them right before the timer for breath.

Fair enough. But how were you dieing to bats, when there so many ways to avoid it?

- I normally would use any/all edges to my advantage on a progression kill. Tortos however was never (for us at least) A dps problem, it was a tanks dieing problem, and it happened so frequently that I would literally have gone broke just with food. However if dps had been the issue, I would have used the food every pull.

Its not about just bringing dps but the best you can out of your class. The little more you bring it def shines , especially in progression and why settle for lets say 120kdps , when you can be doing 122k dps lets say. Another example what if the boss is at 3-5% health and you lose 75% - 80% of your raid, every little more you have will help at time like this. I know for us we been there couple of times, matter fact our first heroic Tortos kill we had only like handful of people up at 2-3% , every little bit helps and counts.

Hi Porch,

As ashin stated we like to see your UI during Raid Combat in both specs please, until then I wont ask questions about your Ui. Thank you for being honest in your response to my 1st question earlier. For now I just ask

• What PC hardware do you currently use for raiding (CPU, GPU, RAM, etc.)?
  

Armory questions:

• Not that its a huge dps increase but giving the fact Rppm goes with haste,and haste > mastery at this point (having 2pc bonus and 2 rppm trinkets) why are you using mastery over haste on your gloves?
  
• You been raiding since 5.2 was release , how far are you in secrets for your Meta, pretty much should have em all or close? Why are you not exalted with black prince yet, as it only took week or so to hit exalted with him?
  
• Looking at your survival glyphs , can you tell me which one your missing that is hurting your dps ?
  

Hunter questions:

• How do you track your ICD's? Which ICD's should you be tracking?
  
• List all the macros you use for dps and explain their use.
  
• Explain your shots priority for both your specs
  

Log questions (wanted see how you do in a heroic environment so I skim through the last two weeks you did heroic bosses)

• Week of 4/9 on Jih rokh you got hit by lighting storm then used rocket boots to get out and died. Are you not watching timer as dbm/big wigs gives you big heads up? Why would use boots over frag bombs, as boots dont always work and frags are dps increase?
  
• On heroic Horridon looks like you died twice to sand traps could you explain what happened here?
  
• 4/11 on heroic Tortos you died couple of times to rockfall and bats. Any reason rockfall was problem? Are you mding bats to the tank , if so what do you use to md? On Bats you could pop so many things to avoid death, such fd, deterrence or use glyph of of misdirect to make your target bigger that gives md no cd.
  
• Any reason on a new heroic progression boss as tortos , why didnt you use 300 food once?
  

Yea I aways heard varnius was real EJ. I dont know if you got to raid with trevor and Vye (old gm hunter) But I knew them. Varnius made alot of people angry. Im going to look through ur logs but for now please submit 2 raid screenshots of your UI in combat for both specs and please log out with BM in proper pve spec as I assume you have it for pvp,

Hello Porch,

Speak for yourself ashin I dont like sushi

Before I even start getting deep into hunter class and your toon with logs, your going to have to break down to me your guild history. As from 2011 to present you done some guild hopping, The 2 long term stays I saw were not more than 6 months

On Mannoroth from summer 2011 to feb 2013 you went in and out of 6 guilds, then join modern in mid Feb for 2 months( they only raid 4 days wk ) and went to Invicto as of yesterday. Why so much hopping, and not lasting in most guilds for 3 months? What happen in Modern?

Grats , welcome to team

http://i.imgur.com/t9711W2.jpg BM

http://i.imgur.com/8VwcEBG.jpg SV

I do not have any raid combat screenshots as I did a clean re-install of WoW last week and lost all of my old ones.

Could've just gone into LFR , UI seems little cluster especially for just being on target dummy.

I personally don't play BM too often as I find myself to be very inconsistent with the spec and have had issues on some encounters, where I am using Murder, that my pet despawns in the middle of my Bestial Wrath, this being the most recent example. And since I am not as comfortable with the spec as I am with SV, I find myself playing musical buttons and not refreshing or reapplying SrS as often as I should. That being said I am comfortable playing all three specs, but in the past it was more advantageous for me to play SV due to the composition of the 10 man group, leading to my inconsistency with BM.

Bm easiest spec to play in terms of rotation than any of the other two specs. In TOT the pet issue I can say was on Durmu at beginning but that was fix I believed as it hasnt despawn in weeks. As dps you should be 100% comfortable playing all 3 specs and know you each spec inside out. Its major role of dual specs.

The opener I would use for BM is:

-2 Cast MD

-1 Prepot

0 Serpent Sting

1 Glaive Toss

2 Arcane Shot

3 Rapid Fire/Stampede/Blood Fury

4 Bestial Wrath

5 Kill Command

6 Dire Beast

7 Murder of Crows

8 Readiness

9 Kill Command

10 Glaive Toss

11 Dire Beast

12 Arcane Shot

13 Arcane Shot

14 Arcane Shot

15 Bestial Wrath

16 Kill Command

17 Serpent Sting

Your opener and priorities are not in right order, and could explain why in your logs your dps is low at times. There are plenty of hunters in top guilds that have theory craft the shot rotation and opener since 5.1 I recommend try to look for some good resources as it will help you as player at your class. You should never not do 100% of your class because of your team but do 100% for your team of what you bring to the table.

Refreshing Murder during the last second of the second BW and using Rapid Fire and BW off cool down or saving them for longer burn periods on some encounters. I can keep SrS up, I just need to pay more attention to it and I currently hold KC at a higher priority during BW, meaning i mash the keybind more often then I should. I am aware the SrS scales with extra damage afforded by BW, as I said I have massive brain farts while BW is active. Regarding how I track SrS, I use two different timers, a bar on the left and right side of my target since I also noticed my low up times and have been trying to work on them. If I am given a chance, I believe I can rise to the level of play I am expected to be at. Being a part of a guild that has steadily been dying since T12 has has not helped my performance issues that I feel you have seen in my logs.

For heroic Jin'rohk I save all my CDs for the first pool since my guild would use Bloodlust in it, allowing me to deter the first debuff, readiness, and then deter the first lightning storm. Deterrence is not up for the cast of the next Ionization, but it is up for me to disengage out of the waters and and let it fall off without me taking any damage, much like how deter is used to solo soak Lei Shen's Static Shock.

Assuming you mean the Tortos logs, to improve my DPS I would stay on the boss and bats longer and let the stronger DoT classes kill the turtles. As far as survaibility goes, I feel the only encounter I I have issues with is Jin'rohk, and for that I need to pay more attention to the orbs and watch my own positioning, which can be said for any encounter.

Edit* since you already found new home just going wish you the best of luck with your new guild happy hunting bud

We need to see a screen shot of your UI DURING RAID COMBAT, in both specs please

Explain your thoughts on refreshing SrS during BW.

Your dps seems low for your item level currently, What's your BM opener? Explain your priority for your opener.

What ashin ask was How are you tracking your debuff, as your SS uptimes are low in certain fights, we value people who can play ALL specs of their class. Your spec shouldn't matter in keeping up SS which wouldnt cost anything in bw especially.Do you feel you're capable of performing at this level? If not, why?

How come on Heroic Jin your using deterrence but still getting the debuff of Ionization?

Looking through the logs that you posted in your app, what could you have done better from both a survaibility and damage standpoint?

Welcome

- My histroy of kills won’t really reflect how easy that boss was for the last guild I was in. Since MoP started ive been in 3 different guilds for the first 2 Monolith/Fully Torqued Blade Lord was quite easy and we killed it with no problems week after week. For the last guild Wyze which is the guild the logs are from had many problems with it for some strange reason.

Well reason I stated that is because Wyze was top 15 us 10man guild , Blade lord was the easiest heroic boss out of 6 in HOF and most members had total of 16 heroic kills for blade lord. But $hit does happen.

- Priority: Black Arrow- Kill Shot – Explosive Shot – Serpent Sting – Barrage/Glaive Toss - AMOC

- I put Serpent Sting after BA-KS-ES as the amount of damage they do is much higher then SS put I put it ahead of everything else since its constantly ticking keeping it up as much as possible gives more damage over the other spells.

Its kinda hard to understand what you meant here.The amount of instant damage yes but the over amount of damage on a fight, no. Having high uptime of SS on target especially boss fights of 5min or longer would be one of your top damage of your spells. SS should be after BA and maintain during the whole fight.

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It is relevant because I had stopped doing anything for quite sometime and went into Weak Auras interface to change settings had to do it for all the spells so 10 spells I was inactive for around a minute or so.

Just little confuse with what you said prior ( Serpent Sting up time is defiantly one of my bigger ones which I think I have fixed with the change to my UI) Then with this said, something is contradicting, now either you fixed it or your didn't. which is it?

Opening CD Macro:

/cast Stampede

/cast Rapid Fire

/cast Berserking

/cast Yaungol Slayer's Gloves

Rapid Fire Macro:

/cast Rapid Fire

/cast Berserking

Silencing Shot Macro:

#showtooltip Silencing Shot

/cast [target=focus,exists] Silencing Shot

/cast [target=target,exists] Silencing Shot

Deterrence Macro:

/cast Deterrence

/cancelaura Deterrence

Tranq Macro:

/cast [target=focus,exists] Tranquilizing Shot

/cast [target=target,exists] Tranquilizing Shot

MD Macro:

/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Misdirection

Focus Macro:

/focus

Why do you have Rapid fire and Berserking casting at the same time? As a general rule for haste buff effects, its better to spread them out.

The use of your gloves could be use with better macro or in more than one place maybe. It could explain why your not using it as much in a fight as you should. For example, on your LFR log, your Jin fight was 5:56 and you only used it twice , on Horridon it was over a 10min fight and you only used 7 times. The gloves have 1min cd so you could've gotten way more up time of your profession and agility

None of your macros have stopcasting in them, thats not good. Spells like deterrence, fd Silence shot etc.. are spells that when you hit them in fight, you want them to happen instantly, If your in the middle of cobra shot cast and then hit a silence shot it will cancel the request because you a spell casting pending and good chance miss an interrupt which sometimes you only have about 3 secs to do so. In this case you would have to push silence shot again after the cast, same thing applies when you want to save yourself by popping healthstone or deterrence.

For one I have done the heroic progression before in multiple tiers, I know what is expected and needed to be able to perform at the level of everyone else.

Even though I haven’t raided this tier at all it has not stopped me from doing research on it watching streams about it and when I can hang out in skype with a group of friends while they raid listening in and hearing all the things about the bosses.

Watching boss guide videos whenever they are out about the boss, just watching Hunter PoVs a lot seeing how others are positioning and learn why they stand there why they are using their specific spec or talent choices.

Of course LFR and Heroic are very different just running LFRs over and over I learn about the general positioning of the fight. Most of the time heroic boss fights only add 1-2 sometimes 3 new abilities the rest are the same. The damage from them is of course scaled down by quite a lot but I can still learn how the work and the best ways to not get hit by them.

If you would like I can write out what I do for the first 5 bosses.

I knew that not playing for 2 months right when a tier hits would be a issue I am not the best at getting my point across but I am a very fast learner I have always gone into new encounters with the mentality of learning everything possible before doing it and going in for the first pull first kill it rarely gets killed first pull but I personally will already know what I am doing.

LFR might give you idea in positioning but it wont prepare you for heroic. Only fight so far I can say didnt change much was Horridon, expect for health and bersker time. Overall wish the best of luck on your app good hunting

I was actually raiding on my paladin at the time.

http://us.battle.net...spally/advanced

A lot more kills on the older content.

Ok that makes sense now

-I actually have a new computer coming tomorrow been raiding on the same computer since start of Cata.

http://www.originpc....sktops/genesis/ (Is the computer I bought.)

-Processor: Intel Extreme Edition Core i7 3970X 3.5GHz/4.0GHz Turbo Hex-Core (15MB L3 Cache)

-Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz (4x4GB)

-Graphics Card: Single 4GB EVGA GTX 690

Nice upgrade , thats beauty right there. When you get it up and running take another screenshot with your fps in raid combat.

3. healers had trouble on almost all of our attempts on that boss I really don't know why. It was like it was harder for us then any other boss. Every kill or wipe we would lose multiple people to constant damage in that phase. I know one was kinda my fault as I rocket boot all the down. But that was a constant issue in our raids.

Looking at your history kills I wouldnt have guess it was harder for your guys since your guild Killed blade lord the most out of all bosses in Heroic HOF.

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SV Opener: Serpent Sting - Stampede - Rapid Fire/Berserking/Gloves - Explosive Shot - Black Arrow - Barrge/Glaive Toss - Fervor - AMOC - Usually lock and load has proc'd - Readiness - Explosive Shot - Rapid Fire.

-Priority: Explosive Shot - Black Arrow - Barrage/Glaive Toss - AMOC (I always try to keep above 35 focus at all times so I will always have the focus to instantly get ES back on CD)

Your opener and priorities could use some work. On your opener for example should be pre-casting HM before the fight begins. For your priorities you didnt mention serpent sting, or kill shot. Black arrow should be infront of ES .

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I was tracking my ICD with Sexy Cooldown, now I have been making Weak Auras to track them. I track Lock and Load, and trinkets mainly. Tracking them can be pretty helpful its nice cause you know that they could proc and second so if I have my engineering gloves up and my trinket is up in like 1 second I would save it and get them together. Ideal situation I could get them all out together and get Black Arrow and AMOC out so their dots are a bit stronger.

Please be more specific with what abilities you track, what trinket procs? Is there something else that you should be watching for? Amoc is dynamic so dont worry about the dots or holding until a trinket procs.

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Serpent Sting up time is defiantly one of my bigger ones which I think I have fixed with the change to my UI. Also timing my CDs could be a bit cleaner. Comes to surviving I am pretty good at it I don't get hit by many needless mechanics, smarter use of healthstones would be one I tend to use it right when I take damage so I can try and get as many in a boss fight as possible though then at critical times I don't have it so just need to be more aware of when is a good time to use it I am sure if I had a healthstone on the blade lord boss up maybe I could have saved myself.

You also have deterrence on 1 min cd, you only used it once in both attempts. In terms of survivability, I used deterrence whenever possible to mitigate damage.

Just made the rotation aura above my focus bar a couple of the spells weren't showing probably so I stopped mid fight to correct them.

Im little lost you said fix this (I have switched to a actual warning when there is no serpent sting so if it does fall I know instantly) so the focus bar spells are irrelevant to the question ask by ashin

• Currently hunters are the most button bloated dps class in the game, what DPS and non-DPS macros do you use on a regular basis?
  
• How do you handle MDing to multiple people over the course of a fight?
  
• LFR logs and heroic progression are hard to judge if someone has what it takes in a Heroic environment, as its not same to keep up survivability and dps. Showing that you had little trouble in lfr with uptimes and having no experience in this tier, what sets you aside from the avg hunter and how would you be a good fit jumping into the middle of heroic progression guild as were 4/13 at the moment?
  

Hi Shoults welcome to the forums

First your toon setup is just right good job.I know you mentioned you was casual during vanilla & bc and stepped it up in Wotlk which I saw with the heroic kill on Lich king. Any reason why you took such long time to get back into progression as in your armory you got back into progression in FL?

UI: http://i.imgur.com/cIAOyMk.jpg.

There's 1 or 2 things I would take out of this UI but overall very clean and nice UI. The one thing that did worried me, is that is showing your at 12 FPS in 25 raid environment, which is extremely low and could drop lower with fights with more adds or spell effects. This could hurt your dps and your movement. Could you please list your PC Specs and anything you would do to improve this

Seems like a lot of the logs that I clicked were expired since they are kinda old.

http://www.worldoflo...calendar/02-13/

I took look at this log (http://www.worldoflo.../56/?enc=bosses) You did good job on Heroic vizier but few questions.

1. How come on these fights was Serpent sting uptime really low on some bosses? I know on Lei Shi he hides away but with boss timers you should be refreshing your dot to keep damaging him during hes hiding, your thoughts?
   
2. Hunters really shine on Lei Shi cause they move and dps at the same time , which some classes cant any reason why dps was little lower than average?
   
3. You died twice on Blade lord to Storm lashing could you explain what happened here?
   

Few more questions:

• What's your opener and priorities for SV?
  
• Where on your UI do you track your ICD?What ICD's are should you be tracking as BM and SV and how do you use this information to improve your DPS?
  
• Going through logs you posted what went well, what could you have done better from both a survivability and damage standpoint?
  

To answer your questions ill just make a list.

1. missing socket. Back when that legendary quest for 6k valor was current content My father was diagnosed with Lymphoma so I took almost 2 months off raiding for family reasons so i just now finished that quest.

Sorry about your father, but the thing is not that you took awhile for the quest , which honestly shouldn't, since 6k only takes 6 weeks , its the fact you completed it , week ago and still havent gotten the socket. Its only 2 bgs and kill one guy that could be done with 5 people.

2. bracer enchant. It was the last raid before I began to raid with tsm and bracers were one of those stubborn pieces that never dropped. They finally did and with ToT coming out I asked my class leader if I needed to change my

enchant and he just told me to wait because in normals it wouldn't make that much of a difference if i just waited for the 522 bracers.

Waiting for a drop, to do better enchant could take weeks and is total depend on RNG. There are so many other methods you could've done on this approach. 1) Enchant with 180 agi and buy the mats, with your professions gold shouldnt be problem, or at least enchant 50agi which is > 170 mastery and cheap. 2) you could've gotten the bracers from Shado pan assault (Powderburn Bracers) which are 522 and only require friendly with Shado pan and only 1250 vp which doesnt take much at all. Raiding for weeks with poor enchant and item hurts you and the raid in the long run.

3. professions. I've never joined a guild that required me to run specific professions, but like I said in my app if I was ever asked to level something different I would.

I understand some guilds dont but most heroic and progression guilds do, as so do we. Heroics are dps checks on some fights and especially when you have guilds killing boss with 4-5 people up at 1-2% everything counts. Also the fact you ask what does heroic guild look for and I advise and you still havent switch out a gathering profession.

5. low dps. The last raid I was with tsm was the raid that I got my Bad Juju trinket and the raid I received my 4 piece but wasn't able to use until after the raid. So the logs provided are without the 4pc and Bad Juju

You can see clearly in the log I looked at, and which is the one you provided, that you had Bad Juju (juju madness) (http://www.worldoflo.../41/?enc=bosses) on all the bosses after council. The 4pc isnt huge but 2pc bonus is where the tier shines on its bonus. The numbers are low and as ashin stated your SS uptime is low as well.

Overall you always been cool dude but since we only raid 9 hours week which is way less than TSM , we need people with correct stats, enchants, professions, rotations, up times etc , pretty much bringing the most out of their class to the raid, as we have no time to joke around with 13 bosses to kill. Also some heroic fights are dps check, we already have people on bench that bring good dps so I dont know since they could push more dps than what the logs showed . Wish the best luck on your app.

Hey Flavien long time,

First I took look at your toon setup, you have a missing socket and enchant that not best for hunters. Also I recall when you ask long time ago to join TSM that I advise you that those professions were not best for hunters or raiding especially the herbalism. The UI provided should be in raid environment. Going through the log you provided your dps seems kinda low and with your current gear (522 weapon, t15 2pc 4pc and 2 Rppm trinkets) it shouldnt be that low. Can you explain a little more why you was ask to bow out as tsm still looking for hunters? Good luck with your app