Barmanz - Unholy DK Transfer

[BarMan]

Character Name: Barmanz

Class: Deathknight

Primary Spec: 0/17/54

Link to your Armory Profile:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=mal'ganis&cn=barmanz

UI Screenshot:


WWS Parses or equivalent:
http://www.worldoflogs.com/guilds/180/

Do you have an authenticator?
Yes, I use the mobile authenticator for my iPhone 3G

Tell us about your last guild(s) and the history with why are you choosing us over them:
I was in Juggernaut on Mal'Ganis for a DPS trial to their guild from May 20 - July 9. Here is the PM I was given afterwards for the full reasoning to explain it easier.

There was no single glaring issue. We thought you were doing an acceptable level of dps and you seem like a nice enough guy. Outside of your dps, we felt like you were making more mistakes than we were comfortable with. I have deaths listed for you to a Shadow Trap and several to Cutter on Halion. You were doing a lot better at socializing and giving us an opportunity to evaluate you at the end of your trial period, yet missing raids during your trial period is bad, even if posted on the calendar.

Now for my explaination, the deaths occurred during my learning period. My first time in any heroic LK fight was with them in 25 man and I had only seen the fight in video before that, I died to one Shadow Trap during my trial. The Halion cutter deaths were in 10H was also my first step into that encounter. I had only seen the wipe and kill streams/videos of the 25H encounter while they raided. The only aspect that was not answered to me when asked was the usage of Freedom on players with the debuffs. My deaths occured phase 3 when the paladin was sent top side an I was slowed by the portals. I later figured out that by using AMS BEFORE I am dispelled I will not be slowed and that fixed my errors for that night. As for missing raids during my trial, I had to work a week of overnight shifts one week for remodeling of the store. I placed that I would be at work Monday night to Wednesday night but was added a day Thursday night and that was not on the calendar which is what was held against me. This is after a months worth of raiding with 100% attendance.

Before Juggernaut I was in Conviction on Korgath. My name on Korgath was Leeroye an I was in Conviction from Oct 15, 2009 to May 20, 2010. I loved my time here from beginning till the end, it felt like my second home. We raided, we did well at times and not so well at others but it didn't deter us from trying until ICC was released. It seems like when ICC came out the raid leader and guild leader became burned out over time. It began to effect the guild in a whole and left some raiders out in the dust. Some old time raiders quit the game, others left for different reasons, but instead of listening to your raiders on what we could have done for people they decided to just let all of our casuals begin to raid. The casuals began to make things worse as most of them were not aware, skilled, nor social enough to improve. Later it became apparent that we were mainly there to gear up real life friends of the raid leaders and carry the rest. After raiders expressed a concern about this we were told that it was all under control and to just raid. Well nothing improved and the guild leader gave thoughts of disbanding, so I decided to leave before a disaster happened like in a previous guild.

Before Conviction I was actually on Ysera in Rochambeau World Champs, the first REAL home I was ever in. I thought I would be in this guild for the rest of my WoW career. I was in this guild on my shaman, Tamaye, at the time as elemental. All of my personal friends were here with me, we raided, we had fun, we did random things, everything was going great until the best night we had in Ulduar after it's release led to the next day guild break up. Apparently the raid leader decided that RWC wasn't doing good enough and basically behind the GM's back, which is his real life friend, took guild members to make another guild, the name was Mermeros. Well me getting home from work to happen upon all this one day led to my friends and I leaving for Korgath. I joined my big brothers casual guild for awhile with my DK before seriously raiding again with Conviction on my DK.

Tell us how you play your class, and how it makes you stand apart from others:

Well I feel I do very well when plating my class in all aspects. I dps as much as my gear, skill, and survivability will let me. I've dps'd all fights now and only tanked certain ones I've been able/allowed to do so. I keep up to date on changes to my class an all improvements that need to be made. I keep my flask, food, and pot consumables with me for everything and I try to have drums on hand for 10 mans. I keep all my gear on me at all times so that I can be ready for any needed spec changes. This includes Unholy DPS, Frost DPS, Tank, and even PVP gear (which is slacking). I like to pvp but I haven't had an arena partner since most of my friends don't play anymore. I would love to get back into it at some point and begin to do arenas again.

What do you have bound to your 1-5 keys?

Alright to be fair I'm not a typical 1-5 player. I use Q, E, and F for my main keys with 1-4 being the additions. That being said I'll list all of those for more clarity.

Q - Plague Strike
E - Icy Touch
F - Blood Strike
1- Gargoyle
2- Scourge Strike
3- Death Coil
4- Pestilence
5- Leap (Pet)

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.

My name is Vernon and I'm 30 living in Macon, Georgia. I am currently employed with Academy Sports & Outdoors as a Receiving Supervisor. I work a very early morning shift which is from 4am - 1pm on Sunday - Thursday. This is my reasoning for leaving right when raids are called as I try to take a nap or so before getting ready for work. After work I'm usually on for 1-3 hours before I lay down before raid times. I would hope this doesn't go against me like it did with Juggernaut because I'm not a "raid logger" I just have a tight schedule until the weekend. Also I'm usually on my alts which are still on Korgath until I do find that new home I'm looking for. I am an avid football and tennis fan but I do love all sports. I'm not that big on basketball though in the sports world but I will forever cheer for the home team. I'm an avid movie goer so my Friday afternoons are usually spent at a theater. I love anime and try to watch as much as possible, my favorite at the moment is One Piece. Also I'm the typical electronics/pc geek so I do play other games ranging from FPS to RPG's and those range on all platforms at times with the PC being the primary. I own a Wii, Xbox360, and a PS3 which my 2 little brothers have began to play more than I do when they come over on the weekends.

Lastly thanks for the opportunity and I hope to hear something soon.

[Iblise]

Can you relog in your pve gear

Edit: One thing that caught my was your low % of blood taps. Why don't you use that ability more often?

[Oshiri]

I love anime and try to watch as much as possible, my favorite at the moment is One Piece.[/color]

I say we trial him so he can clutter vent w/me+Shiri talking about anime. v(^0^)v

srsly tho, pvp gear ftl T_T ^ what Iblise said.

EDIT: Went very briefly through a log I found you in w/Juggernaut, and on the few fights I looked at it shows you potting, but never pre-potting. Any particular reason?

[shadowjin]

I love anime and try to watch as much as possible, my favorite at the moment is One Piece.[/color]

I say we trial him so he can clutter vent w/me+Shiri talking about anime. v(^0^)v

srsly tho, pvp gear ftl T_T ^ what Iblise said.

EDIT: Went very briefly through a log I found you in w/Juggernaut, and on the few fights I looked at it shows you potting, but never pre-potting. Any particular reason?

[BarMan]

Ok logged out in pve gear, this is my current setup for basic run and gun bosses. For tank and spank (Saurfang, Rotface, Festergut, etc.) ones I switch my legs to [Scourge Reaver's Legplates].

I'm a survival type player so I use blood tap for emergency abilities needed for surviving first then for maintaining my rotation second. It's mainly used for re applying bone shield during a fight, emergency rune power for ams/ibf, spreading diseases, etc.

As for pre-potting I'm not sure why it wasn't catching it because I pre-pot as much as possible. I'm used to a mini countdown before a pull and that wasn't apparent with Juggernaut. Juggernaut used a seperate addon they created to catch pre-pots and I was never called out for not pre-potting although sometimes I missed it by a half second. I had to time the readycheck the bulk of the time with my pre-potting.

Sorry for the PvP gear I want to actually get back into it again.

[Noravis]

To be honest with you, I'm a bit concerned with our raid times conflicting with your job hours. I know that's more of a personal choice from you but we're looking for members to be here for the long haul considering how long it will be until cata comes out and then the tiers of raiding after that. I mean you'd be up for a very long time living at odd hours if you chosen to join our guild. If you think you could seriously dedicate 6 months to a year of your time, minimum, to this guild before being burned out then just ignore this question but, we really don't want to have someone here who we invest time in only for them to quit before cata or after the fist tier in cata.

However, one thing did bother me when reading your app.

My first time in any heroic LK fight was with them in 25 man and I had only seen the fight in video before that, I died to one Shadow Trap

This is a red flag for me, its minor but it is one. If you had seen the videos like you said you did then shadow trap is the easiest mechanic in the fight hands down. I mean depending on how they handled it you probably didn't even have to think for yourself and you simply just had to move with the boss. This would be different if you were talking about defile but dying to shadow trap is like dying to standing in fire. It seems like it was a big enough deal for them to mention it when they declined you in Juggernaut. Then you talked about dying to cutters when learning Halion. Even with the cutters being mildly more difficult than the shadow trap I somehow feel like there may be a trend here. I'm not sure but to me it seems like you may have a slower learning curve for certain mechanics. Looking at the parse for Halion 10H on 7/7 you died 3 times to taking cutter damage, I also see 2 times where you took combustion damage as well. What happened with the combustion? Was it poor placement from upstairs, did they call wipe, or was it you being too slow on reacting to getting out?

Looking at the response from Juggernaut on declining your membership, if I had to take a guess it had nothing to do with you have to miss some time from raiding during your trial but rather, when you were there, you didn't wow them positively or negatively. Just like Juggernaut, here at Midwinter we want people who wow us with there performance and stand out from others, its really easy for your performance to go unnoticed if you do nothing bad, but if you do nothing superbly well then well that too will go unnoticed. I apologize if I have come off unjustifiably harsh in this response but, I do indeed want you to think again about what exactly you will need to do to make it here. Juggernaut expects the same level of play that we do and if they declined you then you really need to make sure we know that it was for the wrong reasons.

[BarMan]

To be honest with you, I'm a bit concerned with our raid times conflicting with your job hours. I know that's more of a personal choice from you but we're looking for members to be here for the long haul considering how long it will be until cata comes out and then the tiers of raiding after that. I mean you'd be up for a very long time living at odd hours if you chosen to join our guild. If you think you could seriously dedicate 6 months to a year of your time, minimum, to this guild before being burned out then just ignore this question but, we really don't want to have someone here who we invest time in only for them to quit before cata or after the fist tier in cata.

However, one thing did bother me when reading your app.

My first time in any heroic LK fight was with them in 25 man and I had only seen the fight in video before that, I died to one Shadow Trap

This is a red flag for me, its minor but it is one. If you had seen the videos like you said you did then shadow trap is the easiest mechanic in the fight hands down. I mean depending on how they handled it you probably didn't even have to think for yourself and you simply just had to move with the boss. This would be different if you were talking about defile but dying to shadow trap is like dying to standing in fire. It seems like it was a big enough deal for them to mention it when they declined you in Juggernaut. Then you talked about dying to cutters when learning Halion. Even with the cutters being mildly more difficult than the shadow trap I somehow feel like there may be a trend here. I'm not sure but to me it seems like you may have a slower learning curve for certain mechanics. Looking at the parse for Halion 10H on 7/7 you died 3 times to taking cutter damage, I also see 2 times where you took combustion damage as well. What happened with the combustion? Was it poor placement from upstairs, did they call wipe, or was it you being too slow on reacting to getting out?

Looking at the response from Juggernaut on declining your membership, if I had to take a guess it had nothing to do with you have to miss some time from raiding during your trial but rather, when you were there, you didn't wow them positively or negatively. Just like Juggernaut, here at Midwinter we want people who wow us with there performance and stand out from others, its really easy for your performance to go unnoticed if you do nothing bad, but if you do nothing superbly well then well that too will go unnoticed. I apologize if I have come off unjustifiably harsh in this response but, I do indeed want you to think again about what exactly you will need to do to make it here. Juggernaut expects the same level of play that we do and if they declined you then you really need to make sure we know that it was for the wrong reasons.

Let me clarify a bit here, the one Shadow Trap I died to wasn't my fault it was Kartane (the Frost DK) that dropped it to close up and it shot him, me and a warlock into space. It wasn't actually my fault on the placement but my fault for getting hit by it either way.

Um, as for the Halion deaths, that was my first time in also but I didn't understand the slowing effect from the debuff after it was dropped until phase 3, were I died. I admit, it shouldn't have taken me 3 deaths to learn the problem but I noticed what was wrong and fixed it myself. As for the combustion damage, that was the main issue for wipes that night. The top half was placing combustion on incorrect area's and double damaging the bottom in phase 3, but I believe all my damage was from wipes actually even when they called for me to go topside after both ranged died. This killed our druid I think 3 times that night also from standing in double circles.

As for the raid times, it's no issue because in Conviction we raided longer than Midwinter, from 8pm EST - 1:30am EST, and it worked out just fine. Like I said, I always nap/sleep before raids so with you guys not starting still 10pm EST that gives me even more time to get my sleep in, but I can see your concern. Btw I've been doing this shift for going on 5 years now.

[Cactipete]

We are going to pass on this. Thank you for applying and good luck in your search for a new guild.