Hi there!
About me:
My name is Brandon, I am 20 years old about to be 21 by next week. I've been playing game since like 6 years old starting out with the super nintendo system. I've been raiding back in Burning Crusade as a Protection Pally. The raid schedule fits perfectly for me as it was my current guild time.
When I am not playing wow, I am usually playing other games as of current I am playing Skyward Sword, Borderland 2,
Why I am applying:
My current guild which is a 10 man, decided to call it as a raId group due to people felt the lack of progression with the group as a whole. The guild I was in was 10/13 Heroic which started falling apart on Dark Animus as people was against the leader call to not stay on it and push for Twins.
I am currently looking for a guild, it can be a 25 or 10 man guild. I would prefer to have 25 since back in wotlk/cata I raided as 25 man and it was a lot of fun compare to the 10 man that was available to us. I don't know how this guild environment is but I know I can adapt to it quickly. I would also prefer a guild that was the same progression as my old one since I prefer not to redo the other progressions. I don't really want a 12/13 or 13/13 guild since it defeats the purpose of progressing to the end game as it will feel like I just got carried and couldn't experience the epicness of a fight.
Raiding Experience/Previous Guild (Why I left them):
BC: 12/12 Kara
2/2 Gruul Lair
1/1 Mag
3/4 TK
2/6 SSC
(Blood Crusade) - Everyone basically quit the guild since the guild leader decided to quit without telling anyone.
Wotlk 15/15 Naxx
1/1 3D OS
1/1 EoE
(Checkmate) - Leader also quit for a job and the rest of the member decided to reform as Aftermath.
12/14 HM Uld
4/5 HM ToGC
(Aftermath) - Burnt out from raiding 5 days a week with 4 hours a day.
11/12 HM ICC
(Checkmate) - End of the expansion.
Cata: 2/6 HM BWD
1/4 HM BoT
2/2 TotFW
(Checkmate) - People left for SWTOR.
8/8 HM DS
(Kraklenheit Industries) - Pugging just getting back to the game.
MoP: 6/6 HM MSV
5/6 HM HoF
1/4 HM ToES
10/13HM ToT
(DSLB) - People didn't feel like raiding anymore as there was a lot of people quitting the game.
Computer Spec/Internet Speed:
Processor: Intel I5 2500k @ 4.2 Ghz
Ram: G.Skill 1600mhz 8gb
Graphic Card: GTX 680 2gb
SSD: Samsung 830 128gb
Monitor: Shimian 27 inch 1440p
My internet speed is usually 30 Mb/s download and 4Mb/s upload. I have uploaded a test to Chicago server.
Why pick me?
I am a competitive player that thrives to be good at his class. I push myself to get better. I might not be the perfect player but I tend to not fail at most of the mechanics on fights that are progression. When I do horrible one night, I usually tend to find what I can do better and prepare myself to do better next raid. I don't really like to use excuses on why I failed on single nights.
How Do I theorycraft
The way I theorycraft is look up other dk's to see how they are running their enchant/gem. I would sometimes copy them and run stuff for fun to test it out and if I like it then I'll stick to it for a raid night, and if it goes well then I'll keep it for a while, otherwise I would just test out a new gems/enchant. I usually get my source from MMO-Champion.com and elitistjerks.com
Log/Armory/Reason for gearing
http://worldoflogs.c...qa99j3m50a53un/ (My last log as I've been tanking on my pally on farm contents for the last 2-3 weeks).
http://us.battle.net.../Kâdâj/advanced
As of currently I am using dps gear in my tanking set since it's better itemize than most of the tank gears out there plus they are heroic piece which gives me more stamina than a normal 522. Currently I am in a stamina build for Dark Animus as we were two tanking and two healing the fight. While that said I am mostly going to go back into the full mastery build since it's more survivablitiy as when I was full mastery with trinket, I was at 240% unbuff which to me in 10 man felt over kill as there wasn't much damage going out.
Glyph/Spec
My default glyph is normally Anti-magic Shell, Pestilence, and Vamparic Blood.
Depending on the fight I would either switch them out.
Anti-magic Shell is a nice glyph as for fights with a lot of magic in an instant instead of over time which can prevent a lot incoming damage to a tank and also prevent certain debuff as in Megaera, Twins, and Dark Animus (Doesn't increment the debuff on explosive slam).
Pestilence is a nice glyph I like to use because when there are adds that are decently far from the boss, I can still cleave them with the blood boil as the disease spread out there.
Vamparic Blood is my last choice as I find it a lot better to have a 15% healing increase then having more health. The health increase can also determine if you get gib or not to me but I usually start spamming the crap out of Death Strike at that point.
Icebound fortitude, wouldn't be the most use glyph as it's not as good as the others. It has certain uses imo as a fight like Dark Animus to me having a 1.5 minute CD on shield wall would let me have more chances to drop the explosive slam debuff. I've also used it on my first megaera kill as I would use it mostly on the green head's breath with another cool down ready for after the breath.
Rolling Blood is my first choice as it's a free pestilence with blood boil for cleaving which is really a no brainer.
Purgatory as it is basically a last stand which can save me before I die to a boss.
Death Advance as a Tier 3 since it is a good idea to have a passive speed increase and a speed boost.
Death Pact as Tier 4 as the other two aren't as good since Death Pact can basically become a Lay on Hands every two minute with Vamparic Blood.
Runic Corruption as my Tier 5 as I feel like Blood tap would be better but I would rather have all my runes regenerate quicker instead of just getting one rune regenerate instantly.
Last tier depends on the fight, as if a fight needs everything closer together then Gorefiend's Grasp, but if a fight needs an add cc while I am tanking it, I use remorseless winter.
UI
Horde Symbol = Bone Shield
Meteor = AMS
Double Sword = Dancing Rune Weapon
Red = Vamparic Blood
Blue = Icebound Fortitude
If you have any question you want to ask me. Go ahead and ask me as I'll try to get back soon to you guys. Thanks for reading.