[WoW] Rellyna 85 Mage (Red Team)

[Crazymike]

ABOUT YOU:

Applications type (Social/PvP/Raider): Raider.
Name: Mike
Age: 23
Country: Macedonia
What other games apart from WoW do you play?:

HoN, DotA, CS and might start SWTOR a bit.

A bit about yourself:

I'm a Communication Science's major and about to graduate in a couple of months after which I might do some more studying for a BA in Marketing still haven't decided. Other than that I love partying and spending time with my friends.

ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:

Armory Link: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/grim-batol/Rellyna/advanced

Character name: Rellyna
Class: Mage
Level: 85
Current server: Grim Batol
Spec(s): Fire PvE and PvP respecing into any other tree wont be a problem.
Professions: Enchanting and Tailoring, however seeing as this was my alt for a long time, stuck on Alliance side even I haven\t had the time to get the desirable levels of the both proffesions. (Currently missing a couple more skill points in Tailoring for the back enchant which is easy fixable with some time)

How often do you play WoW (typical weekly playtime and which hours)?:

What high level alts do you have?: I play alot, even too much some would say but the truth is there arent many stuff to play that I like so I stick to WoW. I have 9 other 85's 1 of every class thats ingame at the moment.

ABOUT YOU AS PLAYER:

Do you have Teamspeak? (Voice communication is essential to our raiding and it's highly recommended you get a mic if you don't have one already):

I have Teamspeak thought I havent used it in ages and I also have a working microphone.

List the relevant raiding add-ons you use:

I use the TukUI addon package with the addition of DBM, Recount and ForteXcorsist

We expect all members to attend any raids with food and flasks to last the whole raid night and being repaired and ready to pull at 20.00

I understand that and have (so far) always came prepared for a raid.


Our Raid times are from 20:00 to 0:00 server time with invites starting at 19:30. On which days will you be available for the whole duration? (A raidgroup usually only raids up to 3 nights a week)
Wednesday: Check
Thursday: Check
Friday: I never raid on Friday nor Saturday cause thats the days I get to relax and get totally hammered with my friends.
Saturday: See above
Sunday: Check
Monday: Check
Tuesday: Check

Note that I am available all other days but Friday/Saturday but may also sometimes be unavailable due to birthdays special events etc.

Have you been in another guild? (Yes/No): Yes

Which one(s)? And why did you leave?:

 For the past year I've been a member of Cohesion and I really like the core of the people there but we are very very veeeeeeeery far from HC progression due to lack of commitment and motivation so I'm looking for a new home.

Please list your relevant raid experience, stating which encounters you have personal experience of at the current level cap:

I've completed everything that there is available in current content on normal mode on my main Crazymike.

12/12 BWD/TofW/BoT (5/6 HC)
7/7 Firelands (3/7 HC)
8/8 Dragon Soul (1/7 HC with attempts on Hagara + Yor'sahj)

IMPORTANT:

Now when you are done with the "basics", we want you to explain a little about different aspects of your character.

Character:

Why did you chose the class you are now playing and the professions you selected?:
Currently my main is my hunter but my mage is my "main alt" and I really enjoy playing it even more than before because I faction changed it to Horde. Should you accept my mage it will become my main and I'd even more effort than before to maximize the gear and current knowledge of the class. I chose those professions simply cause they were the only ones missing in my plethora of alt professions.

Talent specialisation: Typical cookie cutter build for Fire mages nowadays.
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/grim-batol/Rellyna/talent/secondary

Would you be willing to change your build for the guild?: Yes I am willing to change it to whatever the guild needs.
Do you have two viable PvE speccs?: No one of them is a PvP one but if needed I will change it to a PvE one depending on the fights.

Gear:
 
Do you feel your character is sufficiently geared to compete in the Dragon Soul encounters?:

 Dragon Soul (N)? Yes, Dragon Soul (HC)? No and this is so cause of the immense bad luck I've been having in recent weeks where items simply don't drop for me.

Where do you think your current equipment is lacking now?:

 I'd say a weapon and the 4 set of T13 is something I reeeaaaaaaaaally need. Got really decent trinkets even though they are from the LFR version of DS.

Guild:
 
Do you know anyone in MoX who can vouch for you?: Chawy
Why do you want to join MoX?: I want to join MoX so I can finally join a community that's motivated enough and dedicated enough to progress into Heroics. I am applying with my mage cause I talked with Chawy and he told me that you could use a mage and told me I should give it a shot and apply.

What type of guild are you looking for?: Motivated and dedicated to progress and accomplish the end PvE goal (for now) which is Madness (HC).


What are your goals in wow, what do you want to achieve and how long do you plan to keep playing? As I previosly mentioned I want to complete all of the PvE content on its hardest modes. I am not certain till when I'll play WoW might be a month, maybe 2, maybe 24 I guess when the game gets too dull. So far this game is by far the best that I've ever played and I've been playing since September 2005.

Additional Information:

Confirmation that you have read, understood and agree to abide by the MoX Charter (Yes/No): I would but the page didn't work and unless it says I am to be raped in the butthole if I am to be accepted I agree with them.

Is there anything else you feel is relevant to your application or that you would like us to know?

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/grim-batol/Crazymike/advanced

This is the armory page of my current main so you can check out my PvE achievements if you'd like. Well thats about it for now, if you need any more info I'd be happy to provide it.

[Chawy]

Very, very good player - a good addition to our raiding comp. - just what we need.
I've been raiding with him since god knows when Please...

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GET HIM IN!

[szemere]

Hello, let me get some good music up, and I'll overanalyze your application.

Also, Chawy, WTF. And you know what I'm talking about, you're changing it just now :S Ah well, guess you fit in well with the other crazy guys...

[Kletsnat]

Hey Mike,

Thanks for your application!
Application looks good and seeing as Szemere as ranged class leader is already taking a look at your character, I'll leave the rest of the application process to him!

Good luck and looking forward to welcoming you!

/Sagiv

[szemere]

Well, that's awesome, Armory maintenance. Guess it'll have to wait till tomorrow...

Things to note: gettin' arcane OS might be handy for when you reach spine, before that not really required or stuff, so just having Fire PvE spec atm should be okay. However, would be good if you had some experience with an off-spec when you use it, so just getting an Arcane spec and never having played it before would obv not be as helpful as can be, but seeing how Fire wasn't too awesome previous patches, I can only assume you also have Arcane exp...
If you miss points in Tailoring, I'd recommend to get that shit fixed out asap, having that cloak enchant Lightweave is easily better than having an average of 80 int passively, so focusing on that is more important than anything else. Understandable of course, if you recently switched, but nonetheless crucial to have.

If you are still missing 4set, I'd recommend running LFR and getting the pieces you miss from there, together with some people that can roll on it for ye that don't need it themselves... Mage 4set is easily worth downgrading a 391 item to a 384 one, I did the same, and even tho I'm warlock, I could notice an immense DPS increase, and the mage 4set looks ridiculously powerful, so yeah, do try and grind that out. Even tho the bad luck thing is something I can see where you come from tho.

I'll take a look at the rest when I can actually access the armory... Obviously can't say too much without first looking at your character.

Also, the Charter button on the top of the page seems to be working for me, have a manual link. http://www.moxguild.com/index.php?page=page1464 Should work either way.

[Crazymike]

Ok first of all, I changed the skin on the forum to some Iphone something so can't quote or anything. On a more related note yeah I previosly played Arcane on my mage and when I saw the patch notes that Fire is gonna be slightly better I literally got an erection. About the LFR part I have been lucky to some extent geting trinkets but since Mages share the tier with 3 other classes its a nightmare to get them, I'll be doing a normal DS run this week and hope for the best though. Fixing the tailoring asap so its np.

[Hypo]

Hello first of all, altough i cant see your armory atm because of battle.net problem i want to ask you a few things as a mage, do you use combustionhelper addon? if you dont you really should use it since its a MUST for every fire mages. Everything else szemere told you everything important, but overall, nice apply, and good luck ^^

[Crazymike]

Yeah I've been using CombustionHelper I just forgot to mention it since its class specific, my bad

[Puffles]

Thumbs up!!!

Get him in. He is rly a nice player and a funny guy to have in a grp
Looking forward of raiding with ya mate !!

[Hypo]

ok now finally i can see the armory so just going to let something clear here:
- First of all fire talents are okay.
- Now prime glyphs, fireball and molten armor ARE A MUST and i see u have them but... i would likely prefer to have + 5% crit on my pyroblast than +3% dmg on my living bomb, and as you could see by some heroic raiding mages, everything is going for pyro prime, so i would like you to explain why u use it.
- Major glyphs, Evo is okay but whats wrong whit icy veins? thats a glyph slot wasted since u dont have that skill as fire mage... i advice you to change it for glyph of blink for increased mobility.
- And imo glyph of pollymorph is more pvp oriented so i dont really think it would help more than the dragon's breath one during a raid, or even glyph of blast wave.

Enchanting and gemming are a little weird, since you have chosen fire, our better secondary stat by far is crit after the 2005 haste (1505 whit t13 2nd bonus), but an early fase of gearing were u might not reach that haste value i understand why using the +20int +20 haste gems, the hands enchant but not the feet, 30mastery + minor run speed is a must for many encounters in DS (such as hagara, morchock, lootship..).
Just to finalize you dont need spell penetration in pve so i advice you to change cloack enchant, so i leave here my tips and advices as a fellow mage

[Crazymike]

ok now finally i can see the armory so just going to let something clear here:
- First of all fire talents are okay.
- Now prime glyphs, fireball and molten armor ARE A MUST and i see u have them but... i would likely prefer to have + 5% crit on my pyroblast than +3% dmg on my living bomb, and as you could see by some heroic raiding mages, everything is going for pyro prime, so i would like you to explain why u use it.
- Major glyphs, Evo is okay but whats wrong whit icy veins? thats a glyph slot wasted since u dont have that skill as fire mage... i advice you to change it for glyph of blink for increased mobility.
- And imo glyph of pollymorph is more pvp oriented so i dont really think it would help more than the dragon's breath one during a raid, or even glyph of blast wave.

Enchanting and gemming are a little weird, since you have chosen fire, our better secondary stat by far is crit after the 2005 haste (1505 whit t13 2nd bonus), but an early fase of gearing were u might not reach that haste value i understand why using the +20int +20 haste gems, the hands enchant but not the feet, 30mastery + minor run speed is a must for many encounters in DS (such as hagara, morchock, lootship..).
Just to finalize you dont need spell penetration in pve so i advice you to change cloack enchant, so i leave here my tips and advices as a fellow mage

I've been geming and enchanting for haste since thats what EJ and Noxxic said when I last read them, it said at my gear level I should prefer haste over Crit which did seem quite weird to me but I did it anyway, the Spell Pen enchant is a mistake I got a PvP cloak yesterday and Instead of Enchanting it I enchanted the PvE one by mistake and it was 5 AM in the morning so haven't changed it back to 50 Int, I'm missing like 10 skill points for the tailoring enchant so gonna level it and get that one instead. The glyph choices didn't really seem that important to me since there are rare occasions where you actually use Blastwave and DB on normal (even with the glyphs mobs are usually dead before the CD is reseated) But you are completely right and I will change it asap. Finally the I preferred the LB glyph cause I'm insanely lucky with Pyro crits ;p, but again I do see the advantage on having more crit on it anyway.


EDIT: Fixed everything above mentioned including gems, cloak enchant, glyphs and probably going a DS pug right now so I can get my gear up to your standards

[Kletsnat]

Hi there,

I'm probably going to sound like an asshole and I'm not sure someone else already mentioned this; but I feel if you're serious about raiding on your mage, you should really get the crafted bracers. As far as I know they're pretty much BiS for everyone untill you get the HC bracers. Other then that I don't involve myself too much with casters, but with Red team at 4/8HC now, you definitely are going to have to work hard to earn yourself a Raider spot.

I'll leave the rest up to Szemere!

/Sagiv

[szemere]

okay, some things.

As you said, mages first go for haste. But, that only goes up until a certain cap. Also, Noxxic is quite okay to see what the general idea is for gearing and stuff for alts, but for main heroic-raiding characters, it doesn't really suffice for all the knowledge of the class. Icy Veins is a lot better for mages for example.

The haste cap, as you can find in the spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CKPti9oE&key=0AsDL8HE-bGDVdEU1S1NqMW5IbWU1dURKcmdibFFTeVE&hl=en&authkey=CKPti9oE#gid=19 is the cap where your combustion does an extra tick. What you have to keep in mind, is that your 2set gives you extra haste as well, 500 rating, and you know for a fact that will be up every time you have Combustion off cooldown.
The most realistic haste cap is 2005, for a total of 3 extra ticks on Combustion. With your 2set up, that comes down to a 1505 haste rating. Anywhere above that, haste is pretty useless, apart from casttime increases, unless you reach the really high cap of 3487. But what most mages seem to do is just stack crit beyond 1742 hit and 1505 haste.

Then, as I see you are like 20 rating above the hitcap, I'd recommend to use WoWreforge for your reforging. Define the hit cap, haste cap, and give all secondary stats some fictional statweights (those on there are outdated) that represent the actual stat-priority. For example: 2.0 for hit under cap, 1.5 for haste under cap, 1.4 for crit, 1.3 for haste above cap, 1.2 for mastery, something like that. It should give you a very accurate reforge advise for your current gear, up to the point where it manages to get MY gear to my breakpoint of exactly 1742 hit and 2527 haste repeatedly, which are my personal caps.

Hypo basically really stated any improvements you could make already... I would recommend one more change tho: For me personally, 10 int is usually worth more than 20 secondary stats. So when a socket bonus is only 10 int per not-red gem in the item, I just ignore the socket bonus, and go for a full int gem instead. However, please correct me if that's not the case for fire mages (just sim your char, and see whether the stat weight for haste or crit is less or more than 50% of intellect.)

Furthermore, we did decide we'd like to give you a shot at a raider trial in team Red Feel free to give either Bandoh, Naril, or any of the officers, a poke when you would like to start your trial An explanation of your trial, and an invite, should be given then

Hope the advise was somewhat helpful, and hope to see you around soon

szemere

[Crazymike]

Hey Szmere first of all thanks for the opportunity your giving me, secondly I did what you asked and got my hit rating exactly to 17.00% nothing more I can do about the haste except maybe switch to 65 mastery on gloves since I am pretty high on haste even though I got the 2 Set. Every piece of Haste is either reforged to Hit or Crit so guess the haste will go down with a couple more DS items.

Another thing is I was looking for a crafter for the bracers you suggested  but so far have been unlucky. Thanks for the tip about Icy Veins I'll look it up asap and hopefully get some more info on stat weigh, rotations and what not.

[Hypo]

i can craft them

[szemere]

Hey Szmere first of all thanks for the opportunity your giving me, secondly I did what you asked and got my hit rating exactly to 17.00% nothing more I can do about the haste except maybe switch to 65 mastery on gloves since I am pretty high on haste even though I got the 2 Set. Every piece of Haste is either reforged to Hit or Crit so guess the haste will go down with a couple more DS items.

Another thing is I was looking for a crafter for the bracers you suggested  but so far have been unlucky. Thanks for the tip about Icy Veins I'll look it up asap and hopefully get some more info on stat weigh, rotations and what not.

Having too much haste due to your gear can't be helped, just keep that spare haste, it ain't 100% useless

[Crazymike]

i can craft them

Would you be able to craft them for me today? I can supply the mats for it.

@Szmere Yeah I'm aware of that, also took a look on Icy Veins seems like I was doing everything right with proper rotations and everything

[Hypo]

sure going to log in