Elycee

Good luck, Namour.

Thanks everyone for their time and effort. Best of luck to you all with your progression!

Right. I've been casting AMoC in the last few seconds of my second BW for half focus, but I try not to clip it more than a second or two, if that is what you're saying before than I agree and it is when I've been doing. On the contrary I think I would just cast it after BW if I didn't have the 4 piece, I feel losing 10 or more seconds on the initial AMoC really won't equal more dps unless the fight is really lengthy...for example if I can only get off two more AMoCs until the fight is over. I know a lot more people are using Lynx Rush now than they were before so maybe I'll drop AMoC for that when I drop 4 piece instead. I'll have to run some sims. As for my info I get it from all over the place, I try to be careful and make sure the person is actually credible. I just happened to find an example of what I meant of people in top guilds using all different openers, I mean I've seen hunters in different top 100 guilds have differing strategies, sims aren't 100%, so it's more or less just organizing priorities and applying trial and error, I guess.

Yeah. I totally forgot to mention the initial SrS and casting hunter's mark pretty much as soon as I see the boss in my los. I always cast SrS before RF/stampede. As for dire beast, you're probably right. In fact that is exactly how I did it for most of the expansion until recently because it made more sense than what I've been doing lately. As for AMoC, I'm really not sure I understand what you're saying, and if I do I don't think I agree. I've never heard that you should re-cast it when the initial one still has 20 seconds left (or ~15 if using 4 t14 piece as I am) as that is a pretty sizeable loss of damage. As far as I know you would end up with more dps using Lnyx Rush than wasting that much of an AMoC CD. I know people do exactly what you are saying with Lynx as it's a shorter CD but I've never seen AMoC casted like that unless it's scumbag dps or as I said above a mutlitarget fight like Council. However, there are so many different methods for opening, for example on this thread there are some people that are saying different things...this was before 5.2 but with virtually no BM changes I think it's still relevant. http://us.battle.net...opic/7709122114 As for damage output, I agree it could be higher on some fights. That being said, we don't always have all the buffs in 10 man that a 25 man raid has (for example the 4% physical damage debuff) but it always depends on the raid comp. And not to use it an excuse but in general someone from a 10 carries more responsibility outside of delivering dps towards their raid than someone from a 25. Dispelling, interurrupting, having fewer people that can soak sparks, cc, etc. It adds up. Also keep in mind my ilvl was about 10 levels lower than it is now then when those logs were recorded. Anyways, I'll be keeping an eye on this forum and regardless of your decision, I thank you all for your time and effort. I'm not going to ask you to recruit me, I'll ask you to recruit whoever you feel is better for your team. Good luck with progress this week and if I'm not there with you next week, I still wish you the best of luck.

@ Ashin. Yes, I'll be around pretty much all night after 8. @ Stridur 1. Macros Without actually typing them out: -I use several stop casting macros for things like kill shot and silencing shot that are important to stop casting CoS for -I use an RF/Stampede macro that is particularly useful in openers -I use a BW/Rabid/KC macro -Use the focus MD macro as well That is pretty much the extent of it. Again I don't pvp and there really aren't any other macros people use I feel are beneficial to me 2. Logs Vizier (Normal) http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-tbhwh1jdju3t5uoj/dashboard/?s=4129&e=4449 Blade Lord (Heroic) http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-tbhwh1jdju3t5uoj/dashboard/?s=10053&e=10511 Elegon (Heroic) http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-19gtbzdb9pkefa6i/dashboard/?s=6873&e=7329 Gara'jal (Heroic, but not a kill. For some reason we don't have any logs from this boss still active. As I didn't take the logs myself they aren't that complete anyways with the phasing and all but this one is about 5 mins) http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-ctpefds7nlzn2ary/dashboard/?s=9492&e=9793 3. You mean the carpal tunnel opener? My full BM opener on a standard fight (E.G. something where you don't alter the opener like Jin'Rokh where you should save for pools....though I go SV for that fight) -Prepot with MD to tank -RF + Stampede Macro (stampede pets do not gain bonus from BW) -Dire Beast (doesn't benefit from effects of BW and it's focus free so it's not sufficient to cast during BW) -BW + KC -AMoC (the cost is reduced by half during BW and it's damage is increased by BW) -Glaive Toss (higher damage output than AS so it's more important, not to mention the focus cost is a little lower and you can get cleave damage from it) -After that it's pretty much spamming AS and KC prioritizing KC first of course, fitting in glaive toss over AS when it's up -I'll refresh SrS with CoS instead of just casting a new SrS...under the affects of RF and often times lust the GCD will be the same so it's better to take the small amount of damage from CoS than none at all from re-casting SrS over the existing one -When BW is up I'll use readyness -Dire Beast -Beastial Wrath+ KC -AMoC depends on if the fight is single target or if there are benefits to cast it on another target depending on the fight. Obviously I won't recast it if the current one is still on going. -After that it's pretty much the same thing as before KC > GT > AS -The second RF CD is saved until lust is over. I'll generally try to use it with any procs if I can to make the most of it without delaying it too long -Yes, there is another way to open that starts differently that requires being in camo next to the boss and opening with KC but IMO it's kind of risky and a lot of bosses don't really allow you to do that anyways. It's a damage boost but when you factor in everything from latency and people trying to pre-pot properly and stuff I don't feel it's worth it. 4. I've toyed around with a few addons but I've been using weakauras for this as I use the add-on for other things as well. I believe tellmewhen is a good addon for this also but haven't done much with it yet. Anyways, the purpose of this is to potentially delay a CD like BW for a trinket proc provided the trinket is fairly reliable to make the most out of both the trinket proc and say BW for example. Assuming you time things right to begin with, hence the importance of doign the opener properly, it should work out and it's worth delaying a second or two. Unfortunately I still possess the Relic which I used all last tier which is not very reliable as it only procs from crits instead of hits so...there really wan't much to track. There will be a lot more to play around with when I get my hands on some of the new trinkets that look fairly decent with recent changes to RPPM. 5. Just Updated just about everything but my GPU late last summer. I've been able to run LFR on max with this, as it's been a long time since I"ve done an actual 25 man: CPU: i5-3570k GPU: EvGA 465 1 GB Ram :8 GB 125G SSD OS: Win 7

Hey there. 1. Survivability...I'm not sure this is even a word. Anyways, I looked over that report you mentioned. For starters, we two healed most of those council attmempts before turning to three, and we killed it the first attempt or two we did so if I recall correctly. There are four times in the red in that example. The first time I died was to biting cold, I was standing away from the raid as I should and simply didn't get any/enough heals. Second time I was low and died to a sandbolt when I was low hp from factors I couldn't control. On Tortos, the first early death was from a breath that didn't get interrupted, I would normally have used deterrence but I believe I used it during quakestomp to take reduced damage. Either way, it's intended to be a raid wipe mechanic. And, for the fourth death there in the red, looks like I was just being dumb and got hit by a turtle and then falling rocks, I won't offer an excuse, because there isn't one. http://www.worldoflo.../survivability/ I think is a better example that includes some heroic stuff...my one early death was due to me being targeted by unseen strike and improper stacking in the group, people were too spread out. I moved away from the few people that were there so as to not wipe the group and took a brez instead. As for lack of HM experience, I suppose you are correct. Most of mine really dates back to Wrath. Whether or not that makes me compatible or not is up to you, I feel I would be or I would not have applied. 2. My Utility Comment. For starters using feign death, misdirection, disengage and deterrence on a regular basis are just things that come second-nature to me. I don't mean to imply that our utility requires rocket science to use properly, it doesn't, you simply learn with experience how it's best used. However, it's there, and I stand by what I said before. I'm always thinking about what I could do to help. And yes I actually do these things. H MSV examples. Stone Guards -Postehaste is a good talent here for painting, which is what I used Feng -Ice trap beneath the adds where they spawn Spirit Kings -Deterrence through flanking order if more viable than running around them. Also very handy if about to be targeted with pinning arrow, avoided many of those using deterrence there as well. -Disengage away from skull adds to get distance, same with if about to get targeted with volley. -Tranq shot Delirious spell from the last boss Will -Deterrence for sparks of course -Concussive shot for slowing sparks when/if necessary, the other adds as well -Glyph of black ice for speed increase over ice where the sparks usually were to make them easier to soak. Used ice trap on add spawns as well to help keep them controlled -Scatter shot on any out of control adds -Wyvern sting for CC. Frost trap for cc when applicable ToT Jin'Rokh -Deterrence during lightening storm to help the healers if the need arrives. You don't do any damage if you're dead. -Disengage to book it out of the puddles if targeted by a spark Horridon -MD adds -Ice trap adds -Disengage when targeted by charge to get away from raid and put boss towards the center -Binding shot apparently works well, I didn't get a chance to use it as I was helping with interrupts would it's a more viable talent for hunters on this fight than a lousy 24 second interrupt Council -Ice trap placement in front of Marl'ii for instant stun and slow for when the add spawns -Master's call or disengage with posthaste for getting out of sandtraps if such a situation occurs -Concussive shot on add is necessary -Same thing with binding shot on this fight, didn't get to use it as we never got a Sul empower but it does work for those adds and had it at the ready in case Tortos -MD bat adds to tank, disengage to get closer to them works well, too. They were on one of our healers and I actually did this to get them to the tank faster and though we wiped later it prevented a death. -Ice trap in front of turtles spawn for slows -Deterrence during quake stomp for reduced damage taken from various things. It also blocks 100% damage from the breath if it happens to go off Megeara -Deterrence during rages if necessary -Disengage away from various threats, particularly the beams. Postehaste works well with kiting. 3. My guild is actually more or less dispersing, a few are going to remain but it's going to be even more casual if they do. The raid leader is the one taking a break from the game, we lost a healer to real life, and we've had some tensions anyways because of our mixed player base. Our sever is dead, there are no potential raiders to recruit from without amazing progress. Either way, they know I'm not planning on sticking around. As far as transfering, I can do it at any time. Anyways, hope to hear from you later, I will be around this afternoon for a bit so I'll be on sometime mid-late afternoon. Hello to everyone I didn't say hi to yet and thanks again for your time.

1. CT is pretty split, at least where I live. Baseball wise it's 50/50 Yanks/Sox and for football its the same with Giants/Pats. Sox have been a joke of late though, so we'll see what this season brings. As for casinos, I'm not a huge gambler but it's hard not to go with two of the biggest casinos in the world nearby. I'd go with Mohegan Sun though I think, the crowd seems to be a bit younger and I see a lot more crazy old people gambling all their money away at Foxwoods. Kind of depressing, really. 2. I'm quite good at following directions, most of anything I've contributed of late has just been stuff on my guild forums, particularly when we are beating our heads against the wall. I won't say I don't enjoy it but it's never been my favorite thing to do either, you have to have a thick skin. If I never had to RL again, I'd be quite happy. 3. Oh...I would say I got about halfway through the book and then spark noted the rest because I couldn't take it anymore. Fortunately I was spared the movie, I could never do that to myself! Suppose the pain may have been shorter, though. 4. Nope. There are 4 other nights of the week. My raid time is my raid time....well..okay...if she is a filthy rich super model chances are it may interfere with raid times. However chances of that happening are about as likely as Justin Bieber making a good song.

Yeah. I like the Red Sox and The Patriots.

Hey. Thanks ahead of time for taking the time to read this. About Me Well, my name is Paul, and I live up in New England, Connecticut to be specific, the least interesting state in the region and probably the entire United States, but hey, I like it well enough. I'm 24 and have a degree in history, though am currently working in the restaurant business where I've been for many years now. I'm not going to lie and say I enjoy it because it's about as fun as listening to the complete Michael Bolton collection in succession but hey, it pays the bills. I currently live alone and am GF-less so my schedule in general is pretty open. In general, I'm a pretty quiet and laid back person. I enjoy the outdoors as much as I do being indoors sitting on my ass. I am actually an Eagle Scout and I've enjoyed the pleasure of the great outdoors all my life, I've done all sorts of things. Skiing, kayaking, camping, shooting everything from rifles to handguns, rock climbing.and really enjoy trying new things. I'm god awful at sports, though, I used to play Tennis and I was in a bowling league for a few years but that is about the extent of my ability of playing sports. Doesn't stop me from playing football and basketball with friends from time to time, but yeah, I never had a chance of being on a baseball card. Aside from that, I have all sorts of little hobbies, I guess. Gaming is an obvious one, I've been playing games since I was three and my dad bought his first PC. Computers and gaming have just been something I've grown up with and has always had a part in my life. I enjoy reading, watching movies/TV and listening to music, particularly classic rock. Really enjoy listening to the Beatles, my favorite band. My WoW Profile So I started playing about a month into TBC, after quitting my CS clan I just wanted to take up something different and WoW had been something I had wanted to try, and well, I'm still playing it 6 years later. I was pretty new to the game and though I raided all of t4, ZA, and parts of t5 and t6, I was more or less just learning the game at that point and can't say I have anything really noteworthy to say from TBC. I mean most of that time was a time when I was a clicker that had no idea what Elitist Jerks was, I didn't really know anyone that played so I pretty much figured everything out myself over time. Notable Experience From TBC -All of t4 completed -ZA completed In Wrath I really wanted to get into the hardcore raiding scene, so I server transferred to where I am now, on Draka. I joined a guild called Unbridled and in less than 3 months I went from a clicking baddie to raid leading a somewhat competitive 25 man guild when our rather flaky RL wasn't around (which was 75% of the time, and later two 10 mans simultaneously). I do so all the way up to ICC, where I primarily quit 25 man raiding and stuck to 10s to kind of finish up school, plus all that raid leading was kind of a lot. Notable Experience From Wrath -All normal content from all 4 tiers in both 10 and 25 cleared except Arthas 25 -Both Ulduar Metas, though the 25 man one was finished up during t9. Same goes for Algalon. -10 Man Tribute to Insanity -4/5 ToGC 25 man -ICC 10 Man Meta, finished it up by 15%. Plus my initial core group scored a world ninth Full House 10 man achievemnt By the end of Wrath stuff kind of fell apart with Unbridled, but a solid group of core players remained on the server and there I remained throughout Cata. Nothing really amazing but we did clear all normals, 3 heroics from t11, all but Rag from t12, and the guild struggled and kind of broke apart for various reasons in the first couple weeks of DS, and I didn't feel like rebuilding the guild for DS of all tiers and pretty much gave it a break from finding a new place until MoP. However we raided only six hours a week on a fairly dead server Notable Experience from Cata -All normal 10 man content -6/7 H FL + Meta -Various other HC So, In MoP, I joined only the second real progression guild I've ever been in, which was also on Draka. That guild is The Vindicated, where I am now, which is basically remnants of a few of the more progression-oriented players on our server from various guilds plus a few others to, well, have a complete roster. Long story short, there is a mix of players here...players like myself that read strats, participate on the forums, and bring the performance to the raid, and then there were players that just kind of showed up unprepared that didn't really put much effort into researching or playing their class, which is fine I suppose if they want to play that way but not really the atmopshere I wanted to stay in. But long story short we lost a few of our talented players, including our raid leader, to burnouts and real life and so here I am looking elsewhere for a guild more suited to what I'm looking for. My current server is dead, there is no chance whatsoever of this guild recovering and I can't say I'm that upset about leaving the server. Notable Experience from Mop -6/6 HC MSV -2/6 H HoF (Blade Lord and Wind Lord) -4/4 N ToES -4/12 N ToT with a couple hours and a near kill of Megeara. I've researched every fight I haven't done so I know what to expect. What The Guild Should Expect from Me and What I Expect of the Guild I'll start with myself. The hunter has been my main since forever, it was one of my original toons and though I now have an alt of every class at high level, the hunter has been my main all the way through my raiding experience. Why You Would Take Interest/My Strengths -Attendance. I'm there, always. I miss maybe 1 in 100 raids due to power failures, internet being down, a family emergency, something like that. I treat raid times like I would a job I plan to keep, I'm not going to make last minute dinner plans or go out drinking with my friends during raid time. -Preparation. I'm ready to go. I come prepared, I watch strat videos, often several of the same fight, look up mechanics, bring more than enough consumables for the whole week, keep up with hotfixes that may change the way the fight works, etc etc. I don't like it when people aren't prepared, it shows, and is rarely excusable. Someone that isn't prepared is just wasting time. Multiply how much time an unprepared person can waste if a group is wiping because of them for example by the number of raiders and you have a lot of time. -Participation: I've been a raid leader so long, I have hard time not participating in guild forums that discuss strategy and the like or at least reading up what people have to say. I don't want to be a burden. -Utility. The hunter brings a lot of it, and most hunters, even some that bring the numbers, have no idea what to do with it. I would like to say I do, and even keep track of a hunters tip and tricks forum on MMO Champion that caters to little things. Raiding is about a group, not about an individual feeling special. I do everything I can to provide max dps while trying to help the healers in some cases, tanks in the other, hell the hunter can save a group for wipes in some circumstances, say, with usage of misdirection or distracting shot. I have a lot of binds, Also, I'm a leatherworker and use the long forgotten by most players drums of speed when it could be helpful. Only helps the party, but still, it can be handy. -DPS. Am I the best DPS ever that never makes mistakes and ranks on everything without even trying? No. But I've always been competitive, am extremely disappointed when I am not and do everything I can to find out what is wrong if it's not satisfactory. That being said, I have ranked before for a week or so on quite a few fights, including some in MoP. I use tools, primarily FD, to help me min/max but as I said before, also actively take place in dicussions on MMO champion, keep an eye on what top players are doing and why, and do my own testing on target dummies/looking over logs. -Drama. i hate it. I'm not going to bitch and moan about petty things. I want to have fun and kill bosses while doing my part. Things I could Improve On -Mistakes. Everyone makes them, and I will always openly admit them, especially if it's something really stupid, or try to correct them instead of panicking and getting myself/my character killed. For example on our first potential Wind Lord kill at like 5% I clipped a wind bomb dodging whirling blade, someone else did the same, and it was game over in just two seconds. It was the first one I ever stepped on by accident and I ensured it didn't happen again, because no one wants to be 'that guy'. Same thing with sand traps on council in ToT, we were learning it, I admittedly could have paid more attention but I did use Masters call or disengage when I may have found myself stuck in them, minimizing damage taken or just flat-out dying like some people do that could easily break themselves out. -DPS. Yes, I said it was one of my strengths but it's also something I can always improve on, and I'm always doing my best to keep on top of the theory-crafters on various sites. What I Expect from The Guild Two main things I already mentioned. I want to have fun and I want to progress. From the way the guild is descrbed, how long you've been around, and how well you guys do in a rather casual schedule is impressive. I contine to play this game to raid endgame heroic content. That is why I'm subbed. I don't play for pvp or questing or leveling alts, which all can bet fun in their own right, don't get me wrong, I play to raid. And I strongly prefer doing so with a good group of people that aren't total dicks about every little thing yet don't waste raid time either. I also have been inclined to return to 25 mans as I did enjoy the larger environment and I have an updated computer that is capable of running the game at max in 25 man environments. And of Course, the Stuff You Came Here to Look at Armory http://us.battle.net...Elycee/advanced I plan on going troll upon xfer if approved for a trial. There may be a name change with that as I prefer the male troll model but I'll let you know ahead of time. Logs http://www.worldoflo...calendar/03-13/ Some things are missing like Jin'Rokh and Tortos kills, I'm not sure why. However there are kills and wipes of various t15 bosses as well as some t14 stuff still up. I go SV for all four of the first fights, in case that is asked. The fluidity buff is not very.reliable for the first boss as the pools can be funky so it's a safer bet to be SV. I haven't toyed with MM yet, so I go BM for single target fights, SV for those that are not. I play whatever is deemed best for each encounter, not whatever I feel like. I enjoy all three hunter specs, though, so overall, it doesn't really matter to me what I play. WoWProgress Link http://www.wowprogre...om/pve/us/draka Just a link to my guild if you want to look at it/my server. You can also track my character and see that I don't do a lot of guild hoping. Screenshot This one is SV of course. I don't have one during a raid but this is just one I took during combat doing dailies. BM is very much the same with mostly the same binds, if you really want one I can make another SS but everything is very much the same, especially since at their core the two specs play similarly enough. I have weakauras that aren't all displayed that show me relevant things such as trinket procs and how much time they have left as well as things like lust/RF/BW auras, also with timers. As for my binds, some of them may seem funky but I use the Razer Naga and some buttons are more comfortable than others. I know where they all are due to muscle memory, and I only use the shift modifier as it just keeps things simpler for me, I find ctrl kind of odd to reach with my setup and it's really not necessary. This works very well for me. Also, I switch my talents around a lot,depending on what is best for the fight, quite a few of them can get changed quite a bit, particularly barrage and glaive toss. I didn't feel the need to discuss my rotation (or priority, as that is really what it is) all that in-depth because I feel it's fairly common knowledge, plus I have logs and such. Anyways, thanks again for reading through. Hopefully my application here isn't as horrible as reading The Scarlet Letter but if it is, I apologize., I'll keep an eye on this forum to answer any questions you may have. I received quite a few replies from my post and after looking through you guys were the first one I wanted to apply to based to what I was looking for so I would like to think I could be a good fit.