marine72781 Posted May 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Barely the same people in CSB... I know Insomniacs aren't. They're all playing TERA or RO2. Any significance to your forum name being Marine? I was in the Marine Corps from 2002 - 2007. Made it up to Sergeant, had a blast but due to some family shit I had to get out. I would have stayed in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashin Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Why <South of Heaven>? Number 1 - Ashin wrote "And we are desperately seeking our moonkin. Make my dreams come true?". How can you say no to that. I'm not here to make someone upset and ruin their dreams lol. I will have a more constructive post soon; getting ready for tonight's raid! But glad to see your app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine72781 Posted May 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Thanks for the time to read through the logs I'll try to break it down the best that I can. Howdy Mike: I'm Fulg! You stole my application format! You seem like a good guy, so I'll let that slide. First off, thank you for putting some time into your application. It's good to see personality and effort. As Mork mentioned, we'll definitely want to see a screenshot of your UI in raid combat. It shows a lot about a person to see what add-ons they're using (or not using), key bindings, etc. I went ahead and found your epeenbot: http://raidbots.com/...nd/evilsquirél/ Based on your most recent post, this appears to be from your old guild. I definitely understand about a raid leading past. I RL'ed for over two years and we have several raiders with similar (if not more) experience there. As I'm sure you have seen from other posts, I'm not concerned about perfect play. I want to see the basics of boomchickens down pat, I want to see solid survivability across the board, correct usage of offensive and defensive CDs and even some utility spell usage. With that background set, let's evaluate some of your logs! I'm going to go ahead and start by using your most recent logs and then some of your older 25m ones. 5/7 H Jin: 91.7% / 88.1% uptimes, not the best for this type of fight. You're using NV, which I usually will bombard people about (it's really simply not very good any more), but given that the fight only lasted four minutes for your guild, it's a little excusable. I do not think the difference between HotW and NV is going to be all that much for you. I see no potion usage at all. What gives? I prepot and for I can honestly say that I rarely remember that second time around. I wish you could see the prepots b/c you would see I do that for every attempt. I understand this is a farm fight, but always use your DPS CDs! I'm a little concerned about the fact that you're staying in Eclipses for a very long time. I'm guessing this is during the Ball Lightning phases, were you out of range of the boss? The strat is built around an every man for themselves but stay on one side of the room for the healers. I tell everyone i'm more concerned about you living then I am your dps at this time. Only one use of Barkskin, you did use Tranquility, and no use of Stampeding Roar. Do you usually wait for your RL'er (if it's not you) to call out these abilities or do you use them proactively? My tranq is scheduled for the second lightning storm phase and the way we have it set up to get out of the puddle there is no need for a roar. 5/7 H Horridon wipes: Looking at overall survivability, and yours is near the bottom of your raid team. It looks like you died several times from face-tanking mobs (I've been known to do this on occasion) and died to Dire Call several other times. Evaluating one of those attempts, I see that you did not pop any defensive CDs at all during the fight. In fact, looking at your entire night of Horridon wipes...you used Barkskin exactly zero times. You're using Tranquility a lot, you're using Solar Beam correctly, but not popping this essential defensive ability even once. Very perplexing. As you might imagine, I also confused about using NV here. Can you tell me why you decided to go with it over HotW? Your DoT uptimes are all over the map as well. Horridon was a shit show as we were trying to get use to the 10 man version of this. I believe I use my renewal quite often but yes I have never been a fan of barkskin but I will focus more on using it. The reason for the NV over the HOTW was for the little bit of extra healing (the healers were struggling) and a little bit of extra bust especially for the priests. I have no issue swapping to HotW or w/e you see fit for each fight. 5/8 N Megaera: Just looking at another "easy" fight for DoT uptimes and defensive CD use. Your DoT uptimes are, quite frankly, very bad. 78.5% / 76.6%. As an example, on our Heroic Megaera kill this week, I was more than 10% higher on both DoTs and obviously had to compete with a lot more of the mechanics going on. I'm sure this would be higher if I were to dot both the heads that are up but I don't simply b/c I believe it is a dps loss and waste of gcds. What are you using to track your DoTs? don't laugh but I use mage nuggets which lets me know if my current target does not have any dots and also shows the time remaining for dots on that target and I use Tidy Plates to see the time left on my targets that is over their head. This is why a UI screenshot is so important. 2 uses of Barkskin only (for I believe 4 or 5 rampages). I'll say to your credit that your survivability on your Heroic Tortos attempts on 5/8 was the second-best in your raid group. Older 25m logs incoming: 4/16 H Jin: 88.6% / 87.6%. Mehhhhhh, still not close to our magic 95% threshold. Busy looking at my spreadsheet to call the groups where they need to go. Good CD usage, other than again no potion. Pre-pot and didn't get a second round of cds i believe. Only one use of Barkskin again. i thought i used more than that on quills but logs don't lie. I will make it a habit to use it more often. Unfortunately, this is all I have time to glance at, as dinner must be prepared before raid time tonight for us. Overall, I have some concerns that I seemingly have with a lot of boomkin apps: you're largely getting the "grand scheme" of things, but not executing them to a degree that is necessary for heroic and progression raiding. I'd really like to know why you're using NV so much, for instance. Creature of habit I suppose. From looking at other postings on the wow forums the different fights can go either way on using NV or HOTW. I have everything macro'd to work together to get the maximum dps out of it. But beside all of those concerns...what makes you stand-out as a boomkin? All I can say is I'm fairly knowledgable of the game and multiple classes. I'm a quick thinker Give me a parse or an example that really shows what you're all about. It doesn't even need to be DPS-related. What is going to separate you from any other applicant or boomkin? i'm not stubborn and would listen to everything you had to say to be the best I could. I also play league And if you really think that the RL'ing has had a negative impact (there's no denying that it can)...run a LFR and post the logs from it. Ultimately, our judgment of your logs will only get us so far, as you probably know. But I think I'm personally looking to see a boomkin that exhibits at least a few logs that shows he or she "gets it" with being a boomkin and puts the whole package (DPS, defensive, utility) together. I will have this for you by tonight. Thanks for applying and good luck with the rest of your application! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine72781 Posted May 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-i2hqtfo5fiaypowj/details/2/?s=1740&e=2047 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine72781 Posted May 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 http://picturepush.com/public/12895592 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashin Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 http://worldoflogs.c.../?s=1740&e=2047 I am getting permission denied - is that a private log? I honestly do not understand "not a fan of barkskin". It's powerful damage reduction on a very short cooldown and it doesn't take a GCD. What about that package makes you say "meh, don't like it"?? In some ways this is a more important point to me than the low dot uptimes that were pointed out. We are fairly deep into heroic progression. You don't get these kills with DPS who don't do what it takes to survive. You yourself said that you told your raid team survival is more important than DPS. But you're showing low survivability on fights and just refusing to use barkskin. LIke I said, I'm just not understanding that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine72781 Posted May 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 I am getting permission denied - is that a private log? I honestly do not understand "not a fan of barkskin". It's powerful damage reduction on a very short cooldown and it doesn't take a GCD. What about that package makes you say "meh, don't like it"?? In some ways this is a more important point to me than the low dot uptimes that were pointed out. We are fairly deep into heroic progression. You don't get these kills with DPS who don't do what it takes to survive. You yourself said that you told your raid team survival is more important than DPS. But you're showing low survivability on fights and just refusing to use barkskin. LIke I said, I'm just not understanding that. Not sure how they went private, I just changed them to public. As far as barkskin is concerned, perhaps I used poor taste in words. I kinda got thrown into the whole raid leader role so what I meant to say is I just did not think of barkskin that often. HOWEVER, I will make sure that I focus on it doing it from here forward. Should I make it into this guld it will be a ton easier to focus on the things that matter when I'm able to just sit back and actually enjoy raiding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashin Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 100% uptimes - cute way to make your point, complete with barkskins and all! No standing in electrified water on heroic though, k? Now what's your availability like for a mumble chat tomorrow (Saturday)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine72781 Posted May 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Give a time and I'll be there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashin Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Alright I think what I'll do is run some errands tonight before drinks so that I can just stay in tomorrow afternoon. Would like to line up a few interviews. I will be online from around 10am to about 3pm. You have my btag so whenever I see you we will connect. Meanwhile, I've set you up with Guest access so that you can cruise the site and get to know us, including our famous chat room. The mumble server info can be found by going to wow->chapter policy; you'll see a thread with voice server there. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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