Borderline - 100 Tauren Druid
Posted: 20 Apr 2015, 13:12About You..
Your name, age, gender, hobbies?:
Name: Steve
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Hobbies: Obviously WoW, I run the Rock Society at Coventry University, general PC gaming MOBAs/Hearthstone/RTS and I'm partial to going out for a drink. Or 7.
Where are you from?:
I'm from Sheffield but currently living in Coventry
What's your PC spec, is it ready for 20 Mythic Raiding?:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
RAM: 16 GB
OS: 64-Bit Operating System
Internet: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4300870957
Your Character Details..
Character Related Information
More Information..
Your name, age, gender, hobbies?:
Name: Steve
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Hobbies: Obviously WoW, I run the Rock Society at Coventry University, general PC gaming MOBAs/Hearthstone/RTS and I'm partial to going out for a drink. Or 7.
Where are you from?:
I'm from Sheffield but currently living in Coventry
What's your PC spec, is it ready for 20 Mythic Raiding?:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
RAM: 16 GB
OS: 64-Bit Operating System
Internet: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4300870957
Your Character Details..
Borderline
100 Tauren DPS Balance Druid
eu/Arathor
Guild: Curse of Years@Arathor
Stats
Average Ilvl: 661
Average equipped Ilvl: 659
Health: 266940
Mastery: 16.204546, Rating 546
SpellPower: 5004
Intellect: 3615
Spirit: 1330
Agility: 1344
Stamina: 4449
Hit: , Pct:
Expertise:
Crit: 9.036364, Rating: 444
Haste: 1357
Character Related Information
- What spec you'r playing and what you can tell us about it (inc. talents, glyphs, most important usage of your abilities)?:
Tree druid! It's been the spec I've most been comfortable with whilst raiding in previous guilds/expansions. In terms of stat priority, after intellect, haste comes as the top priority in lowering the cast time of my heals, increasing the amount of hot ticks(yay no more breakpoints) and lowering my GCD. Mastery is close 2nd to haste as Harmony is an extremely strong mastery effect. Then tapering off into Multistrike, Crit and Versatility which compared to Haste/Mastery are more undesirable. Rings/Trinkets/Neckpieces/Cloaks I will always try to accommodate one slot to Spirit for the increased mana regeneration.
For Talents :
Tier 1: Displacer Beast, Blinks for druids, yes please. Helps in fights where there's a lot of mobility and the 50% movement speed it gives persists after shifting back into humanoid form which is excellent.
Tier 2: Ysera's Gift, 4% regen every 5 seconds, while at full health a 4% max health heal tick every 5 seconds passively to an injured raidmember.
Tier 3: Typhoon, good for shrugging off adds or re-positioning adds during a fight.
Tier 4: Treeform, excellent buffs to spells, increased armor and instant regrowths. Useful during heavy damage periods although spamming regrowth will oom quickly. Wild Growth gets extra targets, Rejuv heals for 50% more and costs 30% less.
Tier 5: Ursol's Vortex, like Typhoon, useful for add positioning.
Tier 6: Nature's Vigil, a mini cooldown which increases healing by 20% by copying it to nearby injured teammates and also damages nearby enemies for the same amount. However given the nature of the tier 6 talents, Heart of the Wild or Dream of Cenarius should be taken in certain situations.
Tier 7: Germination, 2 rolling Rejuvs are incredibly strong and allow Genesis to be used to its full potential, although given the mana cost of Genesis it mostly fits during periods of high mobility in a fight so I can keep healing without standing in the fire.
I have Rebirth, Regrowth and Stampeding Roar glyphed as my majors with the Sprouting Mushroom glyph as the only compulsory minor. I've chosen Rebirth and Stampeding Roar over say Healing Touch/Wild Growth as the extra utility is extremely useful, especially on Stampeding Roar, that being said, on certain fights I would take Wild Growth over Rebirth. - What stats are you prioritizing?:
Oops, covered this a bit much in the last section, but just again, summarised.
Spirit: On items where I can have it (Rings, Necks, Backs, Trinkets(If needed))
Haste: Faster heals, lower GCD, hot ticks
Mastery: Increased heals and increased hots by that amount again when directly healing a target, which should always be kept up.
As I said before though Haste and Mastery are incredibly close in stat value haste giving faster heals and Mastery more powerful. - Where do you acquire information and knowledge about your class?:
Icy Veins, Sometimes a Tree, WoWhead, basically anywhere I can get reputable information. Generally relating to any particular thing I want to know at the time. - Paste your UI via [img]LINK[/img] (REQUIRED):
Sorry it cut the left hand side off
- Link to your raid logs using [url]LINK[/url]:
Sadly I don't have any current logs as I've not raided properly in a while outside of PuGs. - Share your guild history as well as reason for leaving them and your current guild ?:
Current: Curse of Years! (Social) Mainly been about on my Warrior Stýx until I decided to get my Druid back in business.
Previous:
Myst, left after the merger.
Umbrage, I think, going back a while now and this was at the end of Wrath I believe.
Conviction, From Ulduar to ICC where I had to take a leave of absence due to illness.
Before this I was in a 10 man guild with friends and before that a few 25 man guilds in TBC which I forget the name of. - Describe your past/current raid experience:
I started Raiding in TBC with Kara, progressed up to Sunwell before the release of WotLK.
During Wrath I was lucky enough to see all the content although not besting all the content. Was just missing the HC LK kill HC Halion kill and the perfect 50 on Anub'Arak in TotCrusader.
During Kata I progressed with Myst through BoT and BWD up to Ragnaros heroic. This was when I stopped raiding to focus on my studies. I came back during MoP briefly and just PuG'd crossrealm when I had the time, eventually running my own PuGs where I got half of the instance down on Mythic.
I came back at the beginning of WoD, leveled to 100 took a break when BRF first came out and have recently come back within the last month as my university year is coming to an end. - Please list your alts via [url]LINK[/url]:
Stýx, my only other level 100 alt.
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/arathor/St%C3%BDx/advanced
More Information..
- Raid times: Can you agree with our raid times 21:00 to 00:00 Server time (UTC+1 also Sunday for extra raids)?:
wednesday, thursday, sunday, monday - Teamspeak: Can you use SPEAK and LISTEN to Teamspeak?:
Yes - You and us: Would you be willing to modify or change your spec to assist the guild?:
Yes - What our guild can benefit from your class and yourself as a player?:
Resto druid healing is still strong as always, less of a reactive healing style as you have to be prepared for when the damage hits having prehotted as many people as possible. As for me I'm a fairly laid back guy, I enjoy my music, my raiding, my food and my sleep. I'm usually available to help out be whatever it is (Within reason!) and would love to help the guild progress. - What is your attitude towards progress/what motivate you in WoW?:
I'm a lore whore if I'm honest, I like experiencing the happenings in WoW firsthand. Currently working my way through the novels/novellas. Like I said I'm laid back but I'm not afraid to put in the hard work to get the job done. - Why would you like to play with us? What we got that others don't?:
Well after I stopped raiding with Myst I hung around as a social. So I know a few from Myst and in the last few months I've gotten to know a lot of Curse of Years. I'm happy where I am and I'd like to get back into raiding with some of the people I've met over the past months. - Do you play outside raids or log only for them?:
I play lots. Too much some might say. - Anything to add?:
Not much really, just that I'm still working on my gear in any way I can to hopefully be able to join you in progression as soon as possible! - Tell us a joke:
I was at this party a few weeks ago and me being me I lost my watch (Doh!) so I spend some time looking around for it and nothin', so decide to just grab myself a drink and sit down. Then some drama starts kicking off, some douchebag guy and this girl he's been latched onto for the entire evening. Anyway he starts manhandling her and whatnot , then I see it, he's stood on the strap! So I walk over and punch him, knocking him out, cus nobody does that to a girl, not on my watch.