Prohibition - Shadow Priest

[Prohibition]

Character Name: Prohibition

Class: Priest

Primary Spec: Shadow

Link to your Armory Profile: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... rohibition

UI Screenshot: http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/tt14 ... g&newest=1

WWS Parses or equivalent: http://worldoflogs.com/reports/aqc4s643u5wixu0j/

Do you have an authenticator? Yes, mobile.

Tell us about your last guild(s) and the history with why are you choosing us over them: I am currently raiding with SiNS. SiNS is an old guild who's rankings have jumped up and down over the years. SiNS peaked in Sunwell when a Muru kill took SiNS to top 200. While SiNS is still a competitive raiding guild, the attitude of the officers and more long-term members is having a dramatic effect on the willingness of the guild to work towards the most difficult objectives. IE yogg0, h anub25. The attitude is that many of the important members are ready to be done with WoW, and are waiting for SWToR to release. While I have enjoyed my time with SiNS, I am not at that same place. I am looking to down all content available and continue to see what blizzard can throw at me in the future.

Prior to raiding with SiNS I was co-GM of a horde side guild on Frostwolf, Methodical.

Tell us how you play your class, and how it makes you stand apart from others: I am a min-maxer. I keep up to date on theorycraft and will make expensive adjustments for a minor gain. I suppose you probably see mostly players like this, though. I think Spriest is one of the potentially more challenging classes to excel at, and that is why I chose it. Sure, you can throw up Mindsear for aoe packs and contribute fairly well, but knowing when to VE - SW:P roll instead is what makes a Spriest stand out - or sure, you can simply rotate VE, DP, SW:P, MF, and MB and do fairly well, but knowing when to clip off the 3rd MF tick, or how to time the re-cast of DoTs to avoid spell collision, is how a Spriest can stand out. Prior to 3.3 these differences caused a lot of consternation in the priest community. Nowadays Spriests can do pretty well regardless, but these seemingly minor adjustments make a big difference for the class, and I do my best to perfect the playstyle.

What do you have bound to your 1-5 keys?
1 VE, 2 MB, 3 DP, 4 SW:P, 5 MF

Tell us about yourself. Show us the man/woman behind the character. And impress us, make us laugh. Convince us we want you in our guild. If you don't take the time to sell yourself, there's no reason for us to want to take you. We've worked hard to make this a great place to raid and demand incoming candidates prove they're committed to continuing that.
I'm 25, married, with an almost 3 year old daughter. My wife is in law school, I was in finance but am shifting paths at the moment, probably heading to grad school in Math. I met my wife at school, where I graduated from Villanova University, Poli Sci and Russian Studies. I'm a rower, biker, and runner when my knee isn't crippling me (old injury from rowing at VU). When I cut loose I'm a microbrew and bourbon kinda guy, although I get to do that less and less these days (daughter is an unplanned love-child from a trip to Moscow/St. Petersburg). The wife doesn't love the Warcraft addiction, but she tolerates it since it pre-dates her. That's pretty much the run-down.

[Oshiri]

Horrid UI (default basically). Seems like pretty good gear (quite a bit of 264), gear is easy enough to come by, though. As for raid experience...looking @ your achievs you've got: Mad skill 10m ToGC, 4/5 25m ToGC. some brief Uld experience. everything down but Putricide in 10+25 ICC. If Kras or Shiri have some specific S.Priest questions I'm sure they'll ask.

btw, I think you mean 'VT' not 'VE' throughout your app.

Either way good luck with the app.

[Prohibition]

Yep, sorry for the typo on VE/VT.

As far as my UI, I used to run something more extensive but ultimately found it didn't have much purpose outside of aesthetics.

This is my old UI:
http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/tt14 ... 194649.jpg

I maintain all mods that have an impact on gameplay, but found no reason to continue to use those that simply shifted things around or made them prettier.

As far as my raid experience, I rerolled priest when Ulduar came out. Prior to that I had been playing a DK. In BC I played resto druid, and in classic I raided a lock.

[Oshiri]

Yeah when I mention UI, that's just my own observation. If you're able to perform well with w/e you're using, and you've got typical raid mods (i.e.-DBM/DXE/BigWigs, Omen, etc.) then w/e.

[Kras]

Nice app but why are you wearing that chest and helm instead of 2 piece t9? Do you think 74 haste is better than 66 spirit and 6 seconds added to your vampiric touch? You also have 75 wasted hit so I'm not sure why you are wearing that helm. And what made you pick up T10 gloves so early? I believe best in slot set up so far has gloves as the off tier piece. How do you have 9 pieces of 264 gear already (besides the 2 crafted ones). Just had a lot of DKP from ToC? I wouldn't worry about the UI.

[Prohibition]

Looking at the fights available right now in ICC I decided (arguably incorrectly, I agree) that picking up 2p t10 as early as possible with hands/shoulders was worth dropping 2p t9 just given the lack of sustained 2+ target fights (like kobolds or acid/dread or anub adds). Coming into ICC I was not wearing 4p t9, I was just wearing Hands/Shoulders. I can't remember the math but at the time I was unimpressed with 4pt9 compared to other stats.
I was also under the impression that the crafted pants were the best place to drop a t10 piece until 277 loot is available.

About hit: I have temporarily jumped up that high in anticipation of purchasing t10 helm (probably tuesday). During ToC content that helm was actually necessary for hit.

I have 9 pieces of 264 loot because a couple weeks into H Anub25 attempts people stopped coming to our raids. This is part of the issue I brought up in my discussion of SiNS. It's a good guild when people are interested, but most of the leadership seems ready to be done with Warcraft. That attitude trickled down and we went through an endless roll of trials. With very few of us consistently raiding, I just ended up with an unusually high amount of DKP compared to the others we walked into ICC25 with, even after a new-tier tax.
Also, Ring of Rapid Ascent just dropped every single week so pretty much every caster in the guild has it.

[Kras]

Yeah I think 2 piece t9 is good to have until you get 4 piece, a extra 6 seconds on VT is more dps you can be doing with mind flay and especially during heroism what's your VT at like 9 seconds with heroism and raid buffs? I've been kinda worried about how low my VT will eventually get because end game setup you'll have ~1200 haste then u get raid buffs and heroism. But with 4 piece T10 .5 seconds off mind flay will allow you to get more mind flays in before reapplying VT. Either way I would save 2 piece definitely worth wearing it for fights that dots have a advantage, deathwhisper, putricide hard mode etc.

[Prohibition]

Yeah, it's probably worth my time to go grab a trophy for 245 t9 chest. In my current setup the best way to throw on a 2p t9 I think would be gloves/chest. The stat improvement for shoulders to t10 is pretty solid I'd hate to throw on the spirit/crit shoulders from t9 instead.

I see what you mean once we get towards optimal haste rating (1150 I think?), currently I'm obviously nowhere near that, and so VT is still sticking around for a bit. It will be interesting to watch it play out with t10 4p and cranked up haste ratings. Certainly I wouldn't DE my t9.

[Gondlem]

We just took on a shadow priest trial, but we could reasonably consider another one, and this is a pretty solid app.

I'll let the thread run its course a bit longer, but keep an eye on your PMs as we may want to schedule a vent interview during the next raid reset.

[Prohibition]

Will do. And I'll keep my eye on this thread for any more questions.

[shadowjin]

Can you show me a UI pic in a normal raid setting? Just hop into an AV BG and nab a screenshot please.

Do you use any spellcasting/targeting macros?
Potion of speed or wild magic?
What about during heroism?
Why do you have so much hit rating?

[Prohibition]

Discussions of UIs through my apps in my guild search caused me to miss a more organized layout. I went back to basically what I had been raiding with before. Here is a SS taken 2 minutes ago.

http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/tt14 ... g&newest=1

I use a macro to ensure Shadowcrawl, otherwise no casting macros other than focus/dispell/abolish macros.
I pop wild magic just prior to the start of the fight on the assumption (unverified, but seems logical) that the crit buff remains with SW:P on any encounter that doesn't keep me from consistently refreshing.
I use speed during encounter but not during Heroism. I find most fights have more than one occasion to benefit from dps increases and use speed pot for one of the others.

Hit rating I explained earlier, but basically prior to Ashen V ring and crafted boots, I needed the hit. It is up that high because tomorrow I am buying T10 helm, thereby dropping all but 1 extra point of hit, about as close as I can be.

[shadowjin]

Good answers.

Am I blind or do I not see any buffs/debuffs on your UI screenshot?

[Prohibition]

Buffs/debuffs are just below the player frame on the bottom left part of the screen. They are small in the condensed SS, so you're probably not blind.

[Tedium]

I'd actually lean more toward him being blind.

[Prohibition]

Picked up T10 helm, so hit is all set. I also have the ToGC 10 offhand in my bags for when I don't have access to a Drainei.

I'll post WoL log from tonight as soon as it's posted in case you all are just dying to sift through some more data about my performance.

[Prohibition]

http://worldoflogs.com/reports/blgjvqiy ... amageDone/

[Kras]

One thing I noticed too about your gear I forgot to mention, why not merlin's robe instead of flowing vestment of ascent?

[Prohibition]

Well that's a good question.

For most of T9 content I was wearing a hit robe, towards the end I ultimately ended up not needing the hit and just threw on my offspec piece (vestments of ascent). Now that you mention it, I absolutely should have crafted Merlin's. And still should now. I will do that today/tomorrow to wear until I get t10. Unfortunately I may not have a better answer than that it slipped my mind when I swapped out of the hit piece.

[Kras]

That's np and to be honest If you are getting the T10 chest soon, don't even waste your money on merlin's robe. No hard modes out yet not too big of a deal