Daed - 522 Assassination Rogue

[daed]

Hi there! My name is Peter and I am a 26 year old living just outside of Toronto.

I play an assassination rogue named Daed on Malfurion(http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/malfurion/Daed/advanced), where I have raided in a guild named Ascensio since early 5.1. I came to Malfurion to raid with a long time WoW friend that have known back to the BC days. My guild had been having attendance issues as of late, and the officers decided to change to 10man, and while they invited me to be a part of the 10man team, I much prefer the 25man raiding environment.

I have played a rogue for 5+ years and raided competitively in some form since the early days of BC. I am a reliable raider and feel will be able to provide competitive DPS while maintaining high raid awareness. I am also willing to do any role within a raid that will help the guild progress. Here is an overview of my progression while the content was relevant:

Mists:

1/13H ToT

9/16H MSV/HoF/ToES

Cataclysm:

8/8H DS

6/7H FL

8/13H BwD,BoT/TotFW

WotLK:

11/12H ICC

5/6H ToC

14/14 Ulduar (FL, XT, Iron Council, Hodir, Thorm Mimi, Vezax hardmodes)

17/17 Naxx / OS / EoE (Sarth 3D killed)

BC:

3/6 SWP Pre-nerf

9/9 BT - Realm First (US-Misha) Illidan kill, 6/6 MH

4/4 TK, 6/6 SSC

I am a reliable raider who will be able to make 100% of raids, barring any unforeseen things that may come up, at which point I would provide the guild with plenty of notice ahead of time. I am capable of providing my own food, flasks and pots for raiding.

Here are a few links of recent WOL reports:

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-yfamrnf1woy48nls/

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-2vekad3rllhtqx3r/sum/damageDone/?enc=bosses&boss=69712

Here is a screenshot of my UI:

http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr2/kondop/WoWScrnShot_051213_222219_zpseac49ea7.jpg

I use Elitist Jerks as a source to stay current on rogue theorycrafting and use Shadowcraft to continuously sim my rogue's current stat priorities. I research fights ahead of time to ensure I understand the mechanics.

I run with an ASUS GT70 Laptop. It has an Intel Core I7-3610QM @ 2.30GHz, 12GB DDR RAM, and an NVIDIA GTX670M. I have a working microphone and have used both Ventrilo and Mumble in the past, depending on what your guild uses. Here is a link to internet connection to Chicago (Stormreaver datacentre):

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2704426603.png

I am available as soon as required.

[Ashin]

Well it would be kind of ironic to have Daed be Raer's rogue buddy.

First thing I noticed was dying to thundering throw on Jin'rohk - what happened there? o.O

DPS seems at times good but overall inconsistent. I'm going to wait for our rogue, Raer, to give some feedback on your logs.

You obviously love rogue, which is good. But why? Have you tried other roles or classes, and if so, what kept you coming back to rogue? Can you provide examples of ways in which you used the unique utility of the rogue class to help your team's progression (specific examples of things you actually did, please)?

Thanks for the app - look forward to your reply.

[daed]

Hi Ashin,

I believe that attempt Jin Rokh was pulled over to the pool area too early prior to the other tank landing following the last 'dance' transition and I just barely got clipped within its 8 yard radius.

I do love my rogue. This rogue was actually my first character I made way back in the days of BC, so I do have quite a bit of attachment to it. I have raided on my rogue nearly every tier of every expansion. Only tier where I played another class as my main was first tier of WoTLK due to the poor place rogues were in at the time(shiv spec ._.) and I played my elemental shaman during that tier (lava burst was SO OP that tier )

I think I come back to my rogue primarily due the way the class is build around stealth. I tend to BG and arena regularly and rogues make those fun and enjoyable. Rogues tend to put out a lot of DPS and provide a ton of utility (although a lot of it is simply self-utility) which makes me really enjoy the class. I've also had my rogue since the beginning, so at times its feels like I have put so much into the character that I couldn't think of putting my rogue to a backburner. That said, I have played many different alts in many different roles. In WoTLK I tanked with a DK, in BC I healed with my shaman for parts of BT and SWP (lolchain heals) and later again in ICC, but when it comes down to it my rogue has always been my true main.

I think rogues bring a lot of utility to the raid, including the new buff to smokebomb, a spammable AOE slow, reliable short cooldown interrupt (although these days nearly every class has one), tricks of the trade provides a nice dps boost to a friendly target, Cloak of shadows provides an immunity every minute that can often be utilized to absorb certain mechanics, same goes for feint (which has no CD). Not related to current content but in Cata, subtlety rogues specialized in killing adds on V and T in BoT, which I did. Stuns, Blind, dismantle, Evasion are all tools a rogue can use in certain situations in raids that may help out the raid.

[Raer]

Hi Daed, I'm Raer, and I play a Rogue in South of Heaven 25 man raids.

I took some time to look over your character and logs, specifically the ones you linked.

Looking at your character I see that you take Leeching Poison. Can you explain your logic in choosing this over Elusiveness? I'm also noticing that you're grossly over hit cap (a common problem around your gear level) and that you don't expertise cap. I'll just quote myself to another applicant on not exp capping in favor of theoretical dps gains:

So say you're down to the wire; the tank is dead, the raid is dying, the boss is at >1%. You're the last one left alive, all survival CDs just dropped, you have time for 1 ability to hit (non white hits) that would kill the boss and save the day. But wait, you're not hit capped and the immensely low chance to miss happens. You die, the boss resets. If you were hit capped you would have killed it, possibly getting Realm First *insert fancy title/bossname*

I realize this is talking about hit, but the same applies for expertise, to an extent.

I see that you're using Rune of Re-Origination. Do you know the theorycrafting behind that particular item? It's not a very good trinket for Rogues at all. Personally I would use a 2/2 Relic of Xuen or even the god-awful Agi/Crit trinket from ToES over it.

Ashin already noted the unfortunate series of event on Jin'Rohk, so moving along..

On more than one occasion I've noticed that you use Ambush as your opener as opposed to Mutilate. Since the buff to Dispatch the chance for Mutilate to generate more damage via Blindside is more valuable than Ambushs slightly higher base damage. Looking at the first 10 seconds of every encounter: it took you 7-10 seconds to apply Slice and Dice, could you go over your opener sequence?

I can't really base much off of Ji-Kun logs, as logs are unreliable unless you never leave the platform or are the person recording the logs.

I look forward to your reply!

Cheers, Raer

[Stridur]

Gnomes get 1% exp due to Shortblade Specialization

Edited May 14, 2013 by Stridur

[Ashin]

In addition to Raer's questions, could you also shed a little more light on who you are outside of game? What do you do for a living? What am I most likely to find you doing on a Friday night?

[daed]

Hi there Raer,

Re: leeching poison

I tend to switch between the two depending on the fight. In fights where there's slow constant damage then I would pick leeching poison, whereas in fight with large predictable damage I would take elusiveness. I also use leeching it for farming/dailies etc and farming my glaives

Re: expertise

Expertise while similar to hit is slightly less important to cap. With the changes that refund energy should you be dodged and with envenom buff still being applied when dodged its not AS critical to be capped as hit but i agree still important. Up until very recently I have been both well over expertise cap and still am over hit cap as you mentioned. That said I think a simple change of reforge to my ring would put me back up to cap, which i would have no problem with doing.

Re: rune

In terms of rune, I agree that it certainly is not the best rogue trinket currently available. Unfortunately my guild had terrible luck with agi trinkets only getting two talismans and Zero juju's to drop over the course of 5.2. Up until recently I was way over expertise cap also making renatakis not the best choice at the time either.

In terms of its theory, the trinket is kind of a double edged sword for us. Since it converts our two lower of mastery/haste/crit to the strongest of the three and multiplying the two stats by 200%, to optimize the trinket you inherently would want relatively balanced stats. But doing so will reduce your overall dps throughout a fight when the proc is down because you won't be reforging heavily into your strongest stat like typically done.

Re:opening sequence

I have changed my opener after discussion with another rogue in my guild. As soon as he mentioned opening with mut I actually realized the benefit and couldn't believe I had overlooked that.

In terms of my opening sequence i do the following:

Mut from stealth > rupture > mut > snd > begin my 5pt envenom cycle, refreshing rupture when needed

Apologies if this is a formatting nightmare, posting from my phone.

[daed]

Ashin,

I would be pleased to tell you more about myself. I'm half Japanese guy living just west of Toronto. I got my BSc in environmental science and minor in biology but ended up with a career with a bank. I work in financial institutions, which is basically responsible for managing my banks relationships with other banks internationally, and negotiating the types of business that we do with each bank ei trade finance, wire payments, foreign exchange.

Outside of wow I am a huge hockey fan, having the misfortune of being a maple leafs fan (especially after last night D: ). I enjoy running, movies and sports.

On the weekend you'd find me down south of the border in buffalo with my girlfriend of three years. We originally met through wow ironically and she moved out to buffalo from NYC two years ago to make seeing each other easier. Fridays you would find me relaxing taking back some beers while doing anything from wow, league of legends, nhl2013 or anything else my girlfriend wants to drag me to lol

[Raer]

The formatting is fine, our website works well with phones (most of the time).

Overall solid answers.

Good luck in your wooing of Ashin (:

[Ashin]

Hi Daed,

Now that you've satisfied Raer, I must be woo'd as indicated.

First, can you please review how long you have been with your present guild and the one prior to that? What is your reason for leaving your current guild?

Raer's point about expertise is not so much based on theoretical DPS but rather a belief that he cannot afford to miss a shot if he is being given special responsibility (shiv, kick, etc.) during a progression fight. Do you agree with that logic?

Have you had a chance to look at our own logs and do you feel you'll be able to play at a level that will at least prevent Raer from being complacent?

Interview - the best time for me to have a mumble date is definitely weekend. Is that possible for you, given your south-of-border tendencies? I don't want to make your girlfriend jealous, especially after she gave up NYC to move to Buffalo!

If selected for a trial, when is the soonest you can begin raiding with us? You would be joining us very late in a big / complicated raid tier. Are you confident in your ability to quickly get up to speed and begin contributing? If yes, why? You would likely be joining us right before we begin a painful progression on H Dark Animus. How will you approach that fight and, in particular, what do you do to keep your calm and focus after the 50th wipe?

Lastly, in my previous post I asked you about class utility, and to give me specific examples of things you actually did to help your current team on a progression fight. Your response was mostly general / theoretical. Please answer the question as I asked it - tell me something you specifically did during progression this tier to help your team secure a kill, besides just DPS.

Thank you.