Kaliso Application - Havoc Demon Hunter

[Kaliso]

General:
Your Name, Age, Gender and Location: Danny / 19 / Male / Manchester,England

Tell us a little bit about yourself (non-WoW related Interests, Hobbies etc) Character Information: I play a game called SMITE professionally (won't affect WoW raiding due to how late the raid time is in comparison to other guilds). I enjoy drawing/painting and a fan of Football,specifically Manchester United.

Armory Link: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/chara ... hor/kaliso Obviously these are not the most optimal legendaries but I am working on them and either way feel that I can pull my own weight.

Battletag: Faeles#2536

Describe your choice of talents and why you've chosen them:

T1 - Felblade - This is the best single target damaging ability in the tier and imo the other two are useless. Blind fury can be used on heavy AoE fights,however I think Felblade is too good to give up.
T2 - Demon Blades - This talent maintains synergy with Felblade and is useful for Fury gain and additional damage. Demonic Appetite is too RNG dependant and during raids Prepared isn't useful because Vengeful Retreat isn't an optimal ability to use on CD meaning a DPS loss.
T3 - First Blood - Huge single target damage increase and the Fury cost reduction makes it easier to fit into rotation and always use on CD.
T4 - Netherwalk (However I occasionally switch it out for Soul Rending) - Useful panic mode button and good for soaking/helping the healers during large raid AoE damage.
T5 - Nemesis - 50% uptime of 25% extra damage,other two talents are more PvP related,Fel Eruption can be good for ADD fights.
T6 - Unleashed Power - Free stun every 40 seconds for add fights/trash,much more useful than the other two talents.
T7 - Chaos Blades - Huge DPS increase when paired with Nemesis/Metamorphosis and Fury of the Illidari. Can swap out for Fel Barrage on add intensive fights.

How do you prioritize your stats and why? The main stat for DH is Crit because it synergises with Chaos Strike,which grants me 50% of the Fury cost back if it crits. Haste is the second priority because it allows me to mash more buttons and deal more damage! Some Versatility is useful for flat damage increase/reduction. Mastery is ok but the others are just vastly better.

What state is your Artifact in? 949 / AK 73

Where do you acquire knowledge about your Class? Mainly from speaking with other demon hunters,watching raid boss fights from DH PoV,using Icy Veins and generally just from actually playing the game.

Paste a your UI via [img]LINK[/img] IN COMBAT
(Ensure that all Key Bindings are visible) https://gyazo.com/04436cf2fd58a1ac2b4a4b8e206cc597

Link to your raid logs using using [url]LINK[/url].: I don't have any recent raid logs.

Raiding History:
Describe your previous/current raiding experience: Raided Since MoP at Heroic/Mythic level. Howeever I didn't raid during WoD becaus I found both the raids and the game stale. During Legion I raided with Babalas and got 3/7 Mythic before I stopped raiding due to personal reasons and I didn't raid during nighthold.

Tell us about your previous guilds and your reasons for leaving them: I have been on a lot of different realms and guilds since I've played. The most notable ones are when I was on Quel'thalas in Fallout/Reflection Of Perfection after they merged. I left this guild because I moved server to Silvermoon so that I could play for my friends (was an 18+ guild but was recruited when I was younger due to maturity). I raided SoO for a while mythic on Draenor but the guild ended up disbanding. The last notable guild was Valhall (with Babalas) which got 3/7 Mythic before I quit raiding due to the raid times no longer working for me.

More Information:
Can you meet our raid schedule of Wed/Thur/Mon 21:00 to 00:00 server time with at least 90% attendance? Yes.

We are raiding Sundays at start of each Tier for 3-4 weeks. Are you aware of it? Yes and this also works for me.

Are you able to Listen and Speak on Teamspeak? Yes.

What qualities do you bring to a Raid? I like to think that I am a good communicator and add fun to the raid alongside bringing a mature and serious approach to raiding. I also am good at not standing in green stuff and fire when i'm not meant to be! I believe that I am an astute raider when focused and progressing.

How comfortable are you playing your offspecs? I currently am not experienced enough with Vengeance to play it but I don't think this is an issue since other tank classes are more viable and useful in my opinion.

How do you feel about progression raiding? I love progression raiding because not only does it make raiding enjoyable,but it makes it challenging. It's always nice to down a boss that you've been stuck on for a while.

Where did you hear about Curse of Years and do you know anyone in the guild?
From Babalas,an old guildie.

What encouraged you to apply to Curse of Years?
I miss the aspect of being a raider and progression raiding. I've been a social for a few weeks now and have enjoyed playing with some of the other raiders and getting to know people.

Do you play outside of raid?
Yes,alot,maybe even too much.

Is there anything else you'd like to add to your application? I understand that my item level is lower than most of the raiders,but with Antorus coming out and mythic being locked for a week,I should have enough time to somewhat catch up more than I currently have in the past few weeks.

Tell us a joke: I can't believe that I forgot to go to the gym today....that's 7 years in a row now.

[Alorian]

Hi Kaliso,

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/ ... hor/kaliso

I'd like to provide some feedback.

Unleashed power is useless in raids and is considered a dps loss over Master of the glaive. This is because throw glaive is on your priority rotation and should be used whenever you have an empty global.

Looking at your logs, you could be doing a few things better. Firstly you are not consistently pooling fury to 30 under the cap and instead seem to be spamming chaos strike. You should be aiming for 6 death sweeps during meta. Your blade dance usage is low at times, try to use it on CD. You seem to often forget / miss chaos blades & nemesis coming off CD. Finally eye beam should only be used 3+ targets and not during single target encounters.

Tier 21 changes DH play style and will switch to memebeam build. Are you aware of this? Do you have any experience with this play style?

If you have any questions or just want to chat, then feel free to contact me in game.

[Siccy]

You should look at getting more recent logs, as alo posted, there are three logged kills outside of our Sunday carry.

I’m curious about your keybinds, do you have most of them mapped to a keypad or your mouse? From your picture I suspect you struggle using around half of the abilities without having to click your bars.
Abilities such as interrupt, stun, blur, hearthstone.

[Kaliso]

Unleashed power is useless in raids and is considered a dps loss over Master of the glaive. This is because throw glaive is on your priority rotation and should be used whenever you have an empty global.

I understand that Unleashed Power may seem and that MotG is better overall DPS however I feel like a good raider and player isn't always about being able to maximise damage output but also to bring utility to a raid group (i.e. through stuns).

Looking at your logs, you could be doing a few things better. Firstly you are not consistently pooling fury to 30 under the cap and instead seem to be spamming chaos strike. You should be aiming for 6 death sweeps during meta. Your blade dance usage is low at times, try to use it on CD. You seem to often forget / miss chaos blades & nemesis coming off CD. Finally eye beam should only be used 3+ targets and not during single target encounters.

First off thank you for the constructive criticism. It may not show from the logs you have seen but I aim to use Blade Dance / Death Sweep whenever it's on CD as it is one of my most damaging abilities. Due to not having the legendary Shoulders which reduce meta CD time by 1 second every time I spend 30 fury but having only a 3.33 minute CD on the ability(due to one of my relics) I try to line up all my CDs together. After testing Eye Beam ST damage as opposed to using Chaos Strike instead I have now removed EB from my ST rotation.

Tier 21 changes DH play style and will switch to memebeam build. Are you aware of this? Do you have any experience with this play style?

I have read and looked over the DH changes for the upcoming tier and I am aware that it will change to an Eye Beam related build. However I do not have much experience with this style of play due to lacking the legendary helmet which serves a big role in this type of build.

[Kaliso]

You should look at getting more recent logs, as alo posted, there are three logged kills outside of our Sunday carry.

I’m curious about your keybinds, do you have most of them mapped to a keypad or your mouse? From your picture I suspect you struggle using around half of the abilities without having to click your bars.
Abilities such as interrupt, stun, blur, hearthstone.

Regarding my keybindings,I have certain assigned to my mouse and the rest to my keyboard. I have tested around with different keybindings(qerty etc and erfgcv) but always end up resorting back to standard 1 through = because I find it easier. I have quite long fingers so it's easy for me to be able to reach 8 through = without losing the ability to quickly move or play the game how I normally would.

[Alorian]

I completely agree that dps alone does not make a good raider. The point is though, DH provide stun utility without taking a talent that is considered a dps loss.

Example- Mythic misstress is an encounter where stuns on Abyss stalkers are useful. Taking unleashed power does not increase the amount of stuns you provide during the fight, because their spawn is on a timer and your stun comes of CD for them without unleashed power talent. So instead of gaining anything, you lose the potential dps from being able to cast throw glaive twice, which hits 3 targets. Many encounters that have adds, this tends to be the case and when it's not, you will not be the only player in the raid with a stun.

Anyways, I hope my feedback helped and good luck with the app.

[Kaliso]

I agree with what you said and will mess around with it a bit,thank you for your input.