Hemanjar

No problem good luck

Was used when it was needed and not only on me. It is not my practice to tell people how to play their class. If we had a situation where we planned to use certain healer or other cool downs then we would call for them but normal moment to moment I depend on a player to know what is coming. Exceptions to this were once we had our palladin tank die due to a stupid mistake on Ji'Kun but instead of wiping it I told the healers to save CDs for when I called for them. At the 5th TR I called for IronBark on 7 I asked for Guardian Spirit and 9 I got HoS/IBF/MoU plus a full blood shield (625k at the time) and was taken to 90k hp; then I USED VB plus my #14 trinket and told the priest pally to flash heal. They did and we killed the boss; so yes I will call out for CDs when I need them but if it's a normal mechanic that happens each and every week no I won't call for it.

We didn't have any of those, I get Might of Ursoc from our druid so that I count as MY cooldown not his lol. Our Holy pally sac'd on heavy damage sections but tbh I'm not sure how often b/c we had really bad people at the maze they would sac them often.

I have not but I will give it a try thank you for the suggestion. As far as using other's cooldowns as the GM and raid lead of a group with sub-par dps it was often up to myself and the other officer to come up with creative solutions to the boss fights. While 25m is a different type of raid 10s present a problem in initial progression due to the lack of DPS. You have 2 tanks and 3 healers a lot of times which leaves only 5 to dps. One thing I did on Durumu to get our first kill was have both palladins take Clemency to give them each a double BoP and we had our prot pally go ret and I solo tanked durumu. I'm not sure if this is exactly what you mean.

I had swapped my Jade Warlord out for the Ji'Kun trinket for much of the past few weeks but didn't notice an increase in survival at the cost of the stamina. I have the JW use bound to my DRW so when you see DRW used the trinket is used. I do that for the Mastery proc to combine with double DS. Army of the Dead a lot of times I cast prepull and so it doesn't always show up in the logs. I have tried using them mid fight but my avoidance is not that high so when I'm channeling I have a 2:1 chance of getting hit. Over healing with DS is probably due to my preference of keeping a blood shield up and active (usually around 80%) our Palladin OT tends to be a touch squishy so I never knew if I'd get to wait to see my stacks fall off before tanking again. Rune Tap I'm incorporating but to be honest it's been so underwhelming in the past that I never really got used to using it; I am working it into my rotation (last night I kept it on CD). I'll give you a quote from a healer last night; "Are you a resto DK?" I was #2 in almost every fight last night in HPS and total healing. I didn't realize my vb was that low, I'll be sure and incorporate it. I usually reserve it for high periods of damage such as rockfall on tortos or >6 triple puncture on horridon and of course I probably use it most on megaera. I have no doubt that at this very moment my logs look shit for being ready to tank 25 man; unfortunately blizzard has made 25s almost unreachable due to the shared lockouts (if you're not a 25m tank already). I can't emulate the need to blow cds in 10 man when I take virtually no damage now. I track my runes the way I have from day one before there were a billion addons. I only recently starting using anything other than DBM and Bartender. I don't like a lot of add ons and the blood shield tracker add on lags behind the actual blood shield you build it's why several dk tanks I know and talked with use Weak Auras it's much more real time.

1. I track my blood shield with Weak Auras, it provides a fluid bar with a current stack. 2. Scowling face is my vengeance counter it displays my current vengeance. My vengeance will determine whether I reaply my disease or just refresh them. 3. Bone Shield will be on a icon much like the vengeance I didn't have it enabled apparently on that pull. 4. I haven't liked any of the bars I've tried so far to track runes if you have one you suggest and can help me configure it so it's not just a large meaningless blob I'd love you for life. 5. Keeping mobs in front of me is usually my #1 priority when they get behind me I solve that either by moving or using RW to freeze them so I can put them on my front again. 6-7. yeah that's my bad. I'll post a new picture from a real raid situation. I just popped into LFR to get my screen shot. Didn't do anything else just print screen and left. I have recently reworked my entire UI so I had no screenshots of it. 8. I just needed to reforge after adding a piece of gear last raid. 9. Jade Warlord Figurine is the bane of my existence, I didn't upgrade it b/c I wasn't using it last week and I don't really like the trinket, but when i use with VB and 2 DS I am at full hp bs fast. 10. http://imgur.com/f6r5jE3

Heroic raiding is a whole new beast from normals I will most certainly agree. I have logged heroic kills when I've been with a group capable of progression. I have a short learning curve and spend around 15+ hours researching and talking strats over with people who live for this. I'm ready to tank for you guys because I've had a 25m mentality to tanking all along. I view my personal survival as paramount to my success. Do I make my mistakes like everyone else but I learn from them and do my best to prevent future episodes.

Not at all, in cata I raided monday-friday. My main raid was Tues-Thurs and my alt was Mon/Fri and Sun sometimes. My wife plays so she understands though she refuses to be in progression guilds.

God bless you if this is true (logs will reveal or not) - we have been trying to find a tank that thinks survivability and reducing healer burden are important things, but most 10m tanks do not see to think that way this expansion. All except 2 weeks on torotos where we wanted to see if I could rank and put me in dps gear all haste gems. (10m bored fun time). We were constantly pugging in sub par dps and carrying them (even h jin) and so progression was not an option. What drew you to blood DK and what keeps you there? What draws a moth to a flame? It just felt so natural from the first time I picked it up. On spirit kings the running bet was with our healers of who could I out-heal. I beat every healer we ran except for our resto shaman and got to withing 400k of him once. How do you compare its strengths/weaknesses vs. your bear and prot pally? All 3 are very much part of the active mitigation of tanking now. However, I think the DKs strength lies in it's magic reduction benefits; i.e. Jin'Rohk I'm able to prevent an application of Static Shock by using my AMS. IBF especially glyphed allows you to mitigate some of the high spike damage such as talon rake; but the lack of a physical shield to block leads to some periods of OMG I'm gonna get my teeth kicked in compared to my palladin. The druid well god when you dodge over 1/2 the attacks it's a great feeling but when you don't you take it on the nose. What interests you about our guild in particular? I've missed 25m raiding and after trolling your forums (the ones I could see) I really like the effort you put forth to make everyone feel at home and safe (sexual harassment policy). (Do you have a battle tiger?) I bought the green and orange shadow pan tiger just to remind me of Cringer/Battle-cat. The name has a story behind it which i'll have to tell you sometime. Just to be crystal clear, can you clarify that our Tues schedule of 9pm to 12am EST will not conflict with your son's bowling. It shouldn't be an issue, I am usually am home between 850 and 910 (traffic is uncontrollable).

I will be off-line tonight until around 2030 server time. Tuesdays I bowl in an Adult/Youth league with my son and no game is more important than that but my twitter handle is @Hemanjar1 if you want to talk to me before I can log on.

Character Name:Hemanjar Class:Death Knight Raid Spec:Blood (MS) / UH/Frost (OS) Age:36 Gender:Male Timezone:(GMT -6:00) Central Time (US & Canada), Mexico City Real ID/Battle Tag:Hemanjar#1828 Authenticator:Yes Handle Criticism:Yes, I want to be the best tank the guild needs. Professions:Blacksmith extra sockets to bracer and glove. Jewel Crafting because no other primary profession gives +Mastery; when paired with the extra sockets of a BS you get a big bonus to mastery. World of Logs: http://www.worldoflo... ... dar/05-13/ Armory:http://us.battle.net... ... jar/simple Raid Experience:I have experience tanking current raid content back to Naxx 80. That was the last time I tanked a 25m raid. The group I ran with fell apart at Freya and we all just went out separate ways. I played a shadow priest off and on in wrath and tanked ICC10 (h) on my prot palladin due to the nerf to dodge for ICC coupled with our OT at the time was a druid so that made a little too much healing on just the tanks. Computer Specs:I run an ASUSCG5210 with an i7 processor. nVIDIA G-force 560ti gpu 12 gB RaM 1 TB hard Drive I have my FPS throttled to 50 fps I am currently on my laptop or I'd have linked the information straight from the PC.. Able to raid later during progression:I have flexible working hours as long as it's not till 2 or 3 am every night I'll be fine. Sit out for progression:Not at all. I will work with the tank that doesn't sit to ensure I know what I would have to do if they're absent. Past Guilds:No Clue US Burning Legion Server has fallen to nearly no population so losing 3 people shut the 10 man group I ran down. We managed to get to 1/13 even though we had to replace 60% of our raid team from the start of t14 to when we called it quits on t15. Halfway to Heroic I lead a raid group and after suffering abuse from other members of the guild the members of my raid team asked me to form our own guild. Personal Information: I started playing World of Warcraft at the end of BC after a friend finally convinced me to try it. I fell in love with the social atmosphere. I have more than 50 real id friends that now are spread out over several servers due to migration of a dead realm. I have always tanked, though in Cataclysm I was able to lead an alt raid on my rogue for the daggers but tanking is still my love. I have a 500 ilevel guardian on SR and a new 90 protadin on BL plus a pwarrior and bmaster on BL that I'm leveling in my free time. Bad news time: I've tanked mainly 10 mans since our server population was dwindling and maintaining a huge roster to support 25s became impossible. However, I don't think the adjustment for me will be near as large because as you can see in my logs I've focused less on DPS and more on my self heals and survival. In t14 we were able to 2 heal most fights because I healed enough to be a "3rd" healer and that free'd up a healer to dps so we could make up for really lackluster dps overall. Even if I don't fit in with your guild I would be thrilled if I could get a real id request from your prot warrior because I love bouncing ideas off accomplished tanks. Shit forgot my UI sorry http://imgur.com/65RjgWX Jeremy