Shekjey

You must have changed something after I said something because the first 2 times I looked at your app you did not have over 5k haste unless armory was messed up.

One thing I see with your gemming is the haste hit gem in your helm. It is not allowing you to reach a haste breakpoint so a crit hit gem would result in more dps. Looking at the logs you linked it looks like your uptimes are good and seems like you are using your alter time and pom correctly. On your jinrokh kill you linked it seems as if you may have either missed the cd on pom or misused it during alter time but not that big of a deal. I see you are playing frost in one of the logs but with your item lvl fire would be the better option. Frost performs much lower than fire and even arcane at higher item levels. Its hard to tell how you really play because these logs are of easy farm fights where it is easy to look good. Id rather look at logs from a night of 30 progression wipes, this way I can see if defensive cooldowns are being used correctly.

I had a quick look at a few of the logs from early May and I did not see any major issues. On may 7th the horridon fight it seems like you may not be using combustion at the right time which results in your low dps. With the ability to spread such a strong cool down to additional targets it is very important to make sure it is being used at the appropriate times to maximize damage. Another concern is your glyph of deep freeze, I don't see any use for this ever in a 25 man pve guild raiding ToT. You should replace it with glyph of inferno blast which will increase your dps on fights such as H horridon and H durumu where spreading your dots is very important. Invokers energy uptime looks good as well as NT uptime, I didn't have a lot of time to go much more in depth with the logs but it seems like for the most part you know what you are doing as a fire mage. It looks like you are over hit cap by a considerable amount, are you using an addon such as ReforgeLite to do your reforging?

Not sure if this was mentioned before but whats up with the stam gems (blue sockets)? Im guessing you cant get rid of anymore hit through reforging.

Im comparing some of our logs from the first week of may. Skipping jinrohk due to your death. Horridon, we have the same number of combustions but i have significantly more ticks, (similar haste and i dont have meta at this point) it seems like you arent using it at optimal times for this fight. Also uptime of invokers energy is at 60%. This means for about half the fight you are doing 15% less damage. On council i have the same concerns. You have less than half the number of my combustion ticks and you are at 65% invokers energy. I dont know what your role was for tortos but if your priority was on the turtles you should have stayed fire (unless you had no other class to slow). Also again your invokers energy was only at 56% and you only used 1 PoM during the whole fight. It seems you are having alot of trouble knowing when and how to use your cooldowns to maximize dps and also having difficulty on just tracking time left on your buffs and possibly dots (no single target bosses to look at NT). Your average uptime on invokers energy was 60% when it should be over 90% at the least.

The chances of not having a good ignite off the start with alter time and pom is very unlikely. Also having a "bad" combustion on 4 targets is better than a good combustion on one target. The single target combustion would have to be 4 times larger than the one spread to the three additional targets to make it worth not spreading it to the turtles.

I also use my cds when the first pool spawns so i still dont see why there is a gap in cd useage when you had a longer fight. Having low uptime on NT is a problem, i also get out of range at some times with our strat. 73% is just low and is poor playing, you are not just losing the damage from the dot but you are also losing damage on your FB, pyro and inferno blast due to pyromaniac not being applied. A lot of raid encounters have bursts of high raid damage and the raid damage leading up to it is either random or from standing in shit. Ice barrier is 25s cd and lasts for 1 min, this means you can use an ice barrier 30s before the aoe and then as the aoe is in progress the cd will be up again and ready for use resulting in 300-400k absorbs (scales with sp) vs a cd that for the most part only over heals you (jinrokh yours was 63% overhealing). An example of this is rampage on magera. Also if your on whirl turtle duty on H tortos, why arent you spreading combustion to the turtles like the other fire mage in your raid?

Looking at the heroic Jinrohk kill NT uptime is at 73%, this is very low mine for this week is 88% and i feel like i did a poor job. You only had 261 ticks in 4:39 and i had 290 in 4:19 but i am also at the 3rd xtra tick from haste whereas you are at the 2nd. Still with the UI that you posted i dont see how you could lose track of your 1 dot that you have control of. You are missing out on a lot of dps due to this. Also i have 3 combustions in 4:19 and you had 2 in 4:39. Did you have to delay your combustions due to poor crits or did u lose track of your cooldowns? Also the same thing with alter time and PoM. I had 2 alter times which led to my 5 PoMs whereas you had just 1 alter time and only 3 PoM. Also you did not use mirror images at all, our biggest DPET cd. Unless this log is a night where you had an off night it looks like you are not very good at managing your cooldowns to maximize your dps in a heroic raid fight.

Although i hate looking at LFR logs since they are not a real raiding situation or even comparable to H raiding ill take a look. On Jin'rokh uptime of NT is only 77% on LFR difficulty. I do not expect 100% because as a fire mage a instant Pyro>reapplying NT but 77% is way to low for LFR when you are able to just tunnel the whole fight. NT uptime on other bosses as well also look low. Imo temporal ripples sucks and so does Flameglow. I havent read anything that indicates these being better than ice barrier, with ice barrier i can absorb 300-400k damage during a time of heavy raid damage, temporal ripples is off the gcd but the healing you get from it isnt that good because it may just be overhealing. Ice barrier absorb is never wasted. I dont have time to look at much more but those are a few concerns.

I dont blame him for leaving baddies. The atmosphere there is never positive and has a lot of rude members always causing drama.

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Just wondering why you play frost on your mage when fire performs so much better on all heroic fights. Also why did you choose the boot enchant on your mage, in most raid fights pandarens step>haste.

In the logs for 28-3, you used alter time once out of 20+ boss attempts/kills and uptime on invokers energy was only 55.7%. Those were the 2 things about cds that i looked at, I did not have time to look at combustions.

Looking at your gear from WoW Heroes im a little confused about your gemming/reforging. You seem to be reforging and gemming for haste on some pieces and then crit on another. Also looking at the logs posted I dont think that gear is the issue with your dps. You are not even using some major dps cooldowns for mages, also uptime on dots (NT) and buffs (IE) seem low on some fights and extreamly low on others. A helpful tool to use to look at how you are doing compared to other mages and to improve your gameplay is using the Compare Bot tool on the website Raid Bots.

I would say i am pretty friendly. I like joking around during downtime in raid and after raid. Also during farm content i like drinking and raiding.

When i raid i either want to have fun or have good progression both preferred. Currently in baddies neither of those things are happening. Huge part is just poor attitudes in general. Also not being an officer would be fine with me, finally i will be able to just focus on my playing and focus on my logs instead of trying to see what others are doing wrong, I feel i would have no problems adjusting. The 6 week class was a one time thing, i have nothing like that coming up in the future. I enjoy fishing and being outside so a job where i can do both of these things would be great.

I pvp on my monk because I enjoy playing windwalker and i dont have time to raid with my monk. It is also a refreshing change to play another class in my downtime. RoP as in Ring of Peace and not Rune of Power, I do feel that it is pretty op the only thing keeping it from being way too overpowered is that it has little effect on healers since it only silences on offensive casts. I obviously dont play all those mmos at once, that would be way to much gaming, I was just listing mmos that i have played in the past. I enjoy playing other mmos when they come out because its new and new things are fun. I understand that people have off nights where they may make mistakes, I know i have made mistakes before but when people dont learn from their mistakes is where problems occur.

Helllo, my gaming name is Shekjey or Shek. I have been playing World of Warcraft for about 5 years but have only been "competitivly" raiding for about 4 years. I started playing the game with a small group of friends and later started casually raiding with them. We started on the realm Azshara on Alliance which is currently 2nd to last in progression as a server. I started raiding with a guild group in ToC and got 4/5 togc. I then went to the best guild on the server at the time called Riven and we progressed into 25 icc to 10/12 H with the low population of the server this is actually kind of impressive. When Cata came out our guild went into a 10 man and since our gm was a mage there wasnt much room for a second, so me and a group of friends migrated to Stormreaver Alliance side. We had a small guild called Murlocs go MRGRGLRGLRGL and we casully raided the first cata tier because of attendance and tanks limiting us. When firelands came out some of my friends got into a guild called Swagger while i was on a 6 week class and could only play on weekends. After the class was over I also joined Swagger and Mortalityx. Despite being behind in gear and lacking the experience of the new raid i did very well and enjoyed the raid very much. I raided with Swagger throughout DS even tho the raid was somewhat of a bore. Although i have been very competitive in games and IRL, I had the most fun ranking in FL and DS. I was finally in a guild with enough progression to compete with top guilds and i was able to play my mage to near its fullest potential (never got ring from Hagara to complete BIS). During this time I became an officer of Swagger had numerous high rankings including a number 1 parse on H Warmaster Blackhorn. When MoP came out Swagger struggled putting together an excellent 10 man, we then tried to merge with Baddies but was unsuccessful. Ever since the merge i have been unenthusied in raid and do not enjoy the game at all. Some of their players make it very unenjoyable to raid and also lack the skill to excel at the game. As of now it is time for me to either find a new guild where people do not need their hands held and people are semi enjoyable to be around or I go casual/quit the game. I think SoH may be the cure to my current WoW depression. After a big wall of my raiding history, I am 22 years old and currently attending UWSP and going for a Fisheries and Water Resources degree. I will be getting my degree at the end of May but most likely will not be able to find a job in my field until Spring of 2014 so gaming time is secured till then. Along with gaming I also like to play sports. In High School I went to State in Wrestling at 152lbs. I also did spring and fall sports just to stay in shape. Currently (during my last part of school) i am delivering a local newspaper for some extra income and it is at hours that will never conflict with raid times. I also enjoy pvp and am currently pvping on a WW monk. Along with wow I enjoy playing other pc games such as LoL. I also enjoy playing other mmos but mostly just casually. This includes SWTOR, D3, RIFT, GW2 and a few others. Some reasons I think i should be considered. I feel that I am very skilled with a mage since i have been playing it for over 4 years, I enjoy looking at logs and raidbots/compare bot to see where i can improve my dps/survivability or overall play, I also like using simcraft to see what is better as in trinkets or secondary stats and gemming etc. I am very focused on the raid as a whole doing everything they can to squeeze out extra dps, to help minimize incoming damage, and to help with healers using the defensive abilities that classes are given. It really bothers me when i look at logs and see that a class isnt using a defensive ability when there is no loss in doing so. Some reasons i picked SoH. I like the raid times, 3 days a week 3 hours a day. It seems like you guys have the mentality of showing up and getting shit done and thats what I like. WoW armory http://us.battle.net...er/Shekj/simple Screenshot of UI http://imageshack.us...0113214026.jpg/ also im sure some of you may not like the blizzard UI but i have played with it for years, I am very comfortable with it and I have never had a problem with it. If there was an addon that would improve my performace I would gladly look into it. WoL parse http://www.worldoflo...731qxzbx6j8zob/ http://www.worldoflo...0H/Arcane_Mage/ gotta flex a little WoW Heroes link http://www.wow-heroes.com/