Epigraph - H/D Priest

[epi]

Character Name:
Epigraph

Class:
Priest

Primary Spec:
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bVcbuhhVR ... Ezc:Abm0zV. 57/14. The discipline spec has very little room for leniency and floater points but I chose to use my points in Spell Warding and Desperate Prayer.

My holy spec would be 14/57, http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bVcbuZfE0 ... uAo:0dN0zV . This build is based off of the renew build (I would pick up Body and Soul if needed) the spec is made for pure output and I do have the trinkets and a separate set of gear gemmed for haste.

Link to your Armory Profile:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... h&gn=Havoc

UI Screenshot:
http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt133/jlp020/WoWScrnShot_050410_205440.jpg

WWS Parses or equivalent:
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/pno85j6sv5oxk1v7/

Do you have an authenticator?
Yes.

Tell us about your last guild(s) and the history with why are you choosing us over them:
My previous guild experience would be I raided lightly in TBC up to Leo in SSC when my guild disbanded, I stopped raiding week before Wrath I leveled this priest and I raided with Dementia on Cairne, Which Earned Glory of the Raider (25/10) and disbanded the week after attaining the 25 Achievement. After that I joined Havoc (current guild) Earned 25/10 Glory of the Ulduar Raider, then Server first Algalon (9/22/09) and Yogg 0 (10/19/09). From there we cleared 10/25 ToGC (12/9/09), Insanity – Realm First Grand Crusader. I am currently 11/12 25 HM, 12/12 10 HM (as of 6/13/10), with Glory of the Icecrown Raider 10/25. The guild is currently experiencing the woe's of summer, high recruit turn over, poor attendance from older more senior members, and we're losing players to Starcraft 2.

Tell us how you play your class, and how it makes you stand apart from others:
Although discipline priests are notorious for spamming one button, I am not one of those priests who falls into a niche like that. The strength of my class that I try to exhibit would be its utility, I bring this utility through dispels, through the ability to mitigate large amounts of damage off of places where I know the damage will be. How I play my class is that I adapt to the situation and the situation that my fellow healers are in, i.e. Holy Pallies are ranged/taken out of the fight by some mechanic (MC) I know my role should be to put more heals towards tanks and such. I do these roles quite well and that’s what I can offer a very quick adaptation, as well as offering a consistency.

What do you have bound to your 1-5 keys?
1. Dispel Macro - /stopcasting /cast Dispel Magic
2. Power Infusion Macro. /cast [target=focus,help,nodead] Power Infusion /run local n=UnitName("focus"); z="Power Infusion"; x=IsSpellInRange; if x(z, n)==1 then SendChatMessage("You're my ".. z .." Target!","WHISPER",nil,n)end
3. Mass Dispel
4. Fade
5. Pain Suppression Macro. #Showtooltip Pain Suppression /stopcasting /cast Pain Suppression /ra {Triangle} Pain Suppression used on %t, 8 seconds. {Triangle} /in 8 /ra {Triangle} Pain Suppression down!!! {Triangle}

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.
Something about me is that I enjoy pushing every last piece of content, although it’s Summer I still enjoy raiding and I am hoping to find a guild that I can raid with till Cataclysm. I think the fact that I’ve stayed steadfast in the guild that I have for a year despite its up’s and down’s proves the determination I have towards raiding and demonstrates my loyalty. I am a 22 year old who enjoys playing this game, I enjoy being competitive with people and pushing my character towards the goal which is to be the best.

[epi]

Can I get an update to the status of my application?

[Aezrial]

Hello!

I just wanted to apologize for the delay in my response.

Your specs, gear, gems and raid experience looks pretty solid, so I don't have many questions in that regard, but here are a few:

If you needed Body and Soul in your holy spec, how would you shift your points around?
Why Glyph of Fading rather than Fortitude (You may have to rebuff mid-combat!)
Do your major glyphs ever change for PvE? When and to what purpose?
How do you rank haste and crit as discipline? For holy?
How does ToF stack up against BR?
Lightwell: How bad does it really suck?

Additionally, please expand on your "How you play your class" section. Use specific examples from current tier bosses to illustrate how you react to different situations. (I.E. If you get behind on bubbles in H-LK25, how do you recover without leaning extremely heavily on the other healers to pick up the slack when infest hits?)

One last thing. If you need to call something out on vent, do you whisper or are you clearly heard?

[epi]

a. http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bVcbuZsEz ... uAo:0dN0Vz

b. Although I do fort an awful lot during raids I tend to use Fade a lot more, however if I was to switch out a glyph it would be to swap Glyph of Levitate for Fortitude and carry around a stack of Light Feathers.

c. I’ve changed my glyphs a considerable amount during this expansion for a fight like Mimiron I used the Holy Nova glyph, because the AoE instant cast healing was ridiculous for the entire fight due to the stacking for P2 and movement. For H LK I used glyph of Mind Sear for Frostmournes room on our 10 man Kill because of our raid composition, more melee friendly than anything else. So yes, I do change my major glyphs when the encounter requires it but mostly these glyphs stay pretty consistent.

d. Discipline : Elitist Jerks lists our hard haste cap with all buffs at 4.676% (154) however that’s if you’re pure shield spamming in my current guild however I find myself more as a utility off tank healer in addition to raid mitigation, in which case I like to have a bit more haste for FH/Penance swaps.

Concerning Crit though shields cannot crit but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have a decent amount of crit due to PoM/FH/Glyph of PWS all capable of critting, beyond that one should like crit because of Inspiration and such. So crit too is a good thing.

The stats I tend to try to be around would be around 30% crit from gear (35% with Holy Crit) and a bit more than 15% haste, after that its pure sp.

Holy : Haste is a good thing, it affects our renews which in the style of the current raid damage is the favorable style to base our filler heals as. PoM CoH Renew FH with a SoL proc.

Crit once again is a nice thing to have because of inspiration as well as all our major spells can crit PoH, CoH, FH, Renew, PoM the list goes on.

I rank haste above crit but should never be looked away/down upon. Especially with gear that has both crit and haste.

e. ToF vs BR. In my holy build I opted for both and cut out Empowered healing. However concerning the question ToF pays more dividends when the raid is lower an example of this would’ve been seen more in Ulduar, but with this gear level and the quality of healers I presume your guild has BR becomes far more beneficial because 3% static improvement to heal > 12% when the raid is at 50%. The better the healers the less chance that you’ll find people below 50%, or for very long for that matter. I personally prefer BR over ToF, however the math claims that ToF is significantly better than BR, it really depends on the fight mechanics and the raid(ers) involved.

f. I tend to stack bubbles according to where damage will be in the case of infest on H LK, if I get behind I’ll call it out on vent (in hopes of people using healthstones if I fail marginally), use Divine Hymn if it’s a solo example of me falling behind, it’ll depend on how many people that are missed by shields and such, if its just one or two people I’ll penance that one target and PoM the other target. Also a late shield by 1-2 seconds can prevent the infest damage from scaling too out of control too quickly.

g. I am clearly heard and I vocalize cooldowns and such.

[epi]

I'm sorry I seemed to have missed the question on lightwell, concerning lightwell it does a tremendous amount of healing if placed well and in a way that raiders (people who dont face roll all mechanics of a fight) are willing to switch off of the target and click on it. For example for Firefighter originally a well placed lightwell in p2 would provide a lot of great healing for that party if divided into 3 ranged groups stacked together. So answer is it doesn't suck but extremely situational (providing adequately smart raiders).

[Feist]

I'm sorry I seemed to have missed the question on lightwell, concerning lightwell it does a tremendous amount of healing if placed well and in a way that raiders (people who dont face roll all mechanics of a fight) are willing to switch off of the target and click on it. For example for Firefighter originally a well placed lightwell in p2 would provide a lot of great healing for that party if divided into 3 ranged groups stacked together. So answer is it doesn't suck but extremely situational (providing adequately smart raiders).

I believe a simple answer of 'Balls' would have been adequate to satisfy Aezrial in this case.

[epi]

So, am I to assume your lack of response means that there's no spot or no interest?

[Gondlem]

There's definitely a spot.

We'll get back to you regarding the interest level in the next day or two.

[Cactipete]

Yea relax, we will get back to you.

[Cactipete]

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