Asck, shadow priest transfer

[asck]

Character Name: Asck

Class: Priest

Primary Spec: Shadow/Disc

Link to your Armory Profile: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... on&cn=Asck

UI Screenshot: http://i634.photobucket.com/albums/uu62 ... 211427.jpg

WWS Parses or equivalent: Overwhelming’s logs are private. You can use my son’s user name/password and access our logs. Username: Jteezy, Password: 6johnny


Do you have an authenticator? Not currently but I can if necessary

Tell us about your last guild(s) and the history with why are you choosing us over them: I joined OverWhelming just before our heroic Anub kill followed the following week by tribute to insanity and have raided with them through our current 9/12 25 man ICC content. I originally joined OW because my son and his best friend were there and we have raided together for the last three months there. It is an active guild with excellent leadership but is a bit overcrowded on raid nights as they are between being able to run one and two full icc/25 weekly runs. Consequently none or 1 or 2 of the three of us will not raid with the primary raid each week. My son, a hunter, and his friend, a disc priest, are looking at transferring to a guild that does not have a need for shadow priest at the moment so I am looking for a guild of similar level and end game content as OverWhelming that is in need if a full time shadow priest.

Tell us how you play your class, and how it makes you stand apart from others: Basic raid benefits from shadow are hit and replenishment. Hit is passively gained but it is important to keep up replenishment with mind blast at least every 15 seconds. I use a basic start rotation of vt, dp, mf3 which gives the necessary 5 stacks of shadow weaving and then cast sw pain. Thereafter I follow a spell priority of vt>dp>mb>mf2>mf3. Simcraft data(as well as my own testing) do not favor shadow word: death as a primary rotation spell. Sw:death is extremely useful in movement fights (Putricide) where it can be combined with dp which is basically a spammable nuke when talented. These two combined with keeping dots up on any current mobs make shadow priests much more mobile than we have been in the past. Shadowfiend is now a good source of dps. I have mine macro’d with /cast shadow crawl and cast her at the start of every fight as it is unusual to run short of mana prior to the 2 min cool down. Beyond these basics I have extensive modifications for each boss I have encountered that I can provide whoever I am raiding with including how to manage adds on heroic anub, Lady death whisperer, etc as well as optimum timing for down periods such as raid wide stun on putricide. What I love about shadow is that it seems like each boss provides one or two areas where I can optimize and improve my dps as long as I follow the above basics.

What do you have bound to your 1-5 keys? 1-Shadow Word: Pain, 2-Vampiric Touch, 3-Mind Blast, 4-Mind Flay, 5-Devouring Plague.

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 started playing wow in mid BC when, after heavily chastising my two sons, they convinced me to make a character and goof around with them. I am a physician so it seemed to make sense to make a healing priest which was fine until I reached level 40 and discovered shadow. Although I still envision disc priests as battlefield medics and greatly enjoy that aspect my true love is shadow and has been since that time. Come to think of it my two son’s were actually very smart in introducing me to the game. I mainly pvp’d in BC and did not raid end game content at that time but when wrath released and we were all on a level playing field I began raiding with them. We started a small guild that cleared Naxx but in early 2009 school pressures saw my two boys taking some time off. I then went to Divine Vigilance and Brain Damage on Sargeras raiding on and off again with Jteezy when we switched to OverWhelming. I now want to find a high end raiding guild as we move into icc hard modes. I think the most enjoyable part of progression is picking apart each boss and finding the little ways we each can help the raid and when everyone helps a little it seems to make a big difference. I have found a quote from Thomas Edison that is used quite often in medicine but I find very appropriate for end game content. “The line between success and failure is a very fine one. So fine, in fact that we often don’t realize when we are standing right on it.”

As far as raiding availability I am married with a very understanding wife, also a physician who understands my weaknesses about a very complex class spec in a very complex game. I am always on time and will support the guild however is necessary although I have to be honese and say I am not interested in a back up raid position. I am confident that if you see what I can do in raids you will find me a useful additon.

[Oshiri]

Seems to have a fair amount of current stuff (25m Insanity, 25m ICC cleared besides Putr), and a good amount of gear. Only thing I see as a potential issue would be if your son or w/e found a guild that needed a s.priest, do you see yourself leaving to "help his guild", or something along those lines?
As for s.priest specific questions I'm sure Shiri/Kras will chime in if they think of anything for ya.

Good luck with the app ^^

[asck]

Thank you and no, I don't believe that will be an issue. The guild they are apping to has two active shadowpriests at the moment and although several guilds raid with two shadows I would imagine very few use 3. Over the last 14 months of wrath we have more often been in separate guilds than the same but still enjoy seeing each other do well. When our mains are on different servers I usually put one of our alts on his server so we can do silly stuff together. The lack of a Putricide kill is one example of the "rotation" problem. That is the first progression fight I have missed since being in this guild but I will have my chance Monday night as we are going back to the plagueworks after we concentrated on the Crimson Hall last week.

[Kras]

I was just curious what made you pick up t10 gloves so early, our best in slot list should have the gloves as a offpiece until we see what arthas drops but mainly why did you not pick up the t10 shoulders instead of gloves. You would gain a chunk of haste, and if you wore t9 245 gloves you would only lose 4 hit which would put you at 264 which is dead minimum and imo is perfect. As for logs go, I didn't see you in a lot of the fights and it seemed like your dps was a bit low for your gear.

[asck]

I am not sure which list you are referring to but shadowpriest.com which uses simcraft data has the crimson acolyte gloves as bis (for hit) given the massive two piece bonus. I agree that the shoulders which I will pick up this week are the better choice given their haste for two piece. I was carrying the heroic gloves of lifeless touch before the t10 gloves and since my ultimate plan is to be 4 piece with legs I chose to substitute the gloves since I needed the hit. I had planned to switch to the shoulder& helm t10 and carry chest & gloves t 9 untill I have all the pieces for the 4 pc t10 bonus. As far as my dps, i noticed on both our queen kills I was 770 dps above you even though your gear score in shadow is slightly higher than mine. And yes I was in the last group to be bitten as you can see from my dps curve. Regardless, I usually pull 10+K on heroic anub which is about average for shadow and am in the top 5 to 10 on most boss fights and am quite confident that I can keep up. I would agree, however, with most shadow I have spoken to who find that our dps improves on most boss fights the more we see the bosses since our rotation is more involved and gets sacrificed a little in early runs as we learn the boss. Along those lines that is why I am seeking a guild where I have a chance to earn a full raid spot if my performance is found to be superlative which I have no doubt it will be if I am given the chance.

[Andre]

Kras didn't get bit at all so we should talk about another fight.

[Kras]

Well your argument for the gloves is valid if you needed the hit, I guess it is just 60 badges. And If you want to compare your dps to mine, Blood Queen probably isn't a great one since I never got bit on the kill. I'm pretty sure if I had 100% increased damage for 41.8 seconds like you did I would have done much more.

[asck]

That's fair. All I was trying to reply to was the statement that my dps seems a little low for my gear. Personally this is a line I would never follow except as a rough guide to someone's ability but since you insist let's just take a nice unbuffed flatfooted dps fight like our two guild's most recent festergut kills. There were four almost equally geared shadow's in the two fights and the fights were within seconds of each other in length and we were all within 440 dps(me at 8.4k down to you at 8k) of each other with the exception of Maticulus who was 2k lower. As I said I personally don't put much stock into this but am merely trying to respond to your original thread in an unbiased manner.
By the way since you have Maticulus as a shadow app I was wondering if, out of fairness to him, you would not want another shadow app at this time. This is, of course, strictly out of respect for both Maticulus and your guild's evaluation process.

[Kras]

Maticulus is not guranteed the shadowpriest position, no one is after acceptance of trial, because we accept a trial does not mean we stop looking. Otherwise I wouldn't waste my time talking to you or other apps. Anyway I just felt like your dps was low because my alt (2nd) spriest krasjr seems to pull around what you do. As for festergut, not sure what you want me to say first week I did 9700 dps and now we do achievements and mixed main/alt raids sometimes missing raid buffs. I was spored once that fight and got Vile gas 4 times, as well as our warlock forgot to switch to DP. I'll admit the dps is low for that fight but for the most part when we focus on achievements all I care about is control. Just like this week I out dps'd my main on putricide since we did the achievement on mains and not the alts. Maticulus just got shit on I think if he didn't get vile and first spore during heroism he would have been fine. Either way I wasn't trying to be a ass, I just skimmed through your parses and it just looked average to me at first. And on top of that you weren't giving me a lot to look at since you weren't slotted in half of the raids. So feel free to post more numbers from your raids, It will definitely help, as we have big shoes to fill.

[Gondlem]

Keep an eye on your PMs. We'll get back to you soon, probably tomorrow night.

[asck]

Okay, thanks, I'll check my PM's.