Magiray - Level 80 Human Mage.

[Magiray]

1. 21 years old from Kentucky, male. Time /played on current main is 256 days.
2. Main talent build is a slight modification of the current cookie-cutter Arcane focused specialization. Sacrificed 3 yards of range in favor of maximizing another DPS focused talent. I can live with 33 yards. If it becomes a problem in newer ICC content it's 30 seconds of a respec to be rectified.

I've always misses frost raiding, to be honest. Ever since pre-BC when fire starting outperforming, I always through BC now and then would switch over to Frost for a fight or two. The playstyle has totally changed since the days of Mage tanking Zerevor or AOE'ing Kael's weapons. But I'm up to date on it. I can play frost quite well (and it's actually midly competitive these days), if the time ever came to where we needed a 5% crit buff or a replenishment. I'm never opposed to switching over to a different build if it benefits the raid. A serious problem with today's game is lack of respect for one's fellow raiders. That's why I miss vanilla. It was all teamwork. Helping each other farm resistance gear, staying up for one more UBRS run, and handing out pots to those who needed. Nowadays most DPS classes (particularly butthurt pures since hybrids got sorta good), are all about *MY DPS* instead of *THE BOSS DYING*. Sure, I love seeing myself high on Recount. It instills confidence and is a fun time. But it's a lot more fun knowing I'm the fulcrum of success that made the big thing fall down and drop purples.

3.http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... &n=Magiray I had +10 stats on my T9 robe, but replaced it last night and just threw a +8 for the sake of having it for this application. I'll have +10 within the next day or so.

4. I once had plenty. Plenty of great parses from Ulduar hard modes, however I haven't been in touch with the game in a few months. I take breaks every fall for my soccer team. This season past was my last however, so won't happen in the future.

5. The most difficult encounter I've ever been a part of was vanilla Gothik. Some of my old guildmates say vanilla 4H was harder. Pre-nerf Firefighter in Ulduar was also pretty brutal back in the middle of 2009. Just for me personally, I had a hard time with Gothik.

6. Desolation Knights was my first raiding guild. Rocket Surgeons of Executus was my 2nd.. Played there for a couple of years, before finally transferring to Scilla. I raided for about 6 months with Boss (who I got my Rusted Ulduar Drake with). Had a 3 week trial period, passed easily. If anyone knows Tay the paladin, he and I were a part of Boss's 10 man core group and I was always a regular in 10 or 25 man raids.

7. I do have a job, but it's a rarity that I'm forced to stay late. My work schedule is also flexible.

8. The one thing that separates me from the majority of mages is the pure obsession I have with understanding every little mechanic about my class. Crit modifiers for different builds, soft haste caps, DamagePerMana tradeoffs, and most of all - benefits of stats. Item level means nothing to me. For example, As arcane, an item level 200 trinket that gives me 84 haste is always better that a 232 trinket that gives me critical strike. Understanding what stats optimize your performance as a certain build is always better than whoring any high item level that drops at your feet and is VITAL if you want to hold your own in a raid. While the game isn't nearly as critical on performance as it used to be (easy content), I still and always will take my class as seriously as I always have. Whether I'm farming NR for Huhu or respecing in between Hard mode Mimiron attempts to get that perfect build for a bad situation, I only play the mage class and I take it extremely seriously.

I read the works of EJ.com's Manly and Sancus (two of the best mages I've ever spoken with) like it's a bible. I learn a new intricacy every day. It's wise reading up at a place like EJ where a lot of great WoW mage minds come together. I know my role. I make green bars smaller. I'm not a fool with iceblocks and blinks, and usually only need to mess up once to never make the same mistake again.

9. Quartz - helps me modify the casting bars of my Focus targets so I don't miss a quick Focused Counterspell or Poly if the situation calls for it.

DBM- Have it or don't raid IMO.

Recount- Stays closed during encounters so I don't get in a pissing contest with anyone and lose sight of what I'm doing. Quick way to fuck around and die.

Cooldown Count- BEST ADDON EVER. Numbers count down the cooldown of particular spells.

10. I raid to be the best. I raid to be proud of the tag that's below "Magiray, Hand of A'dal". I raid for people to look at me and wish they had my guild. It's all about the prestige. Piss on the gear. If I could raid current content with my old T2 Netherwind, I'd definetely do that. Bosses dying is all I care about. I'll do whatever I can for my raid to achieve that.

In conclusion, I'm a 21-year old guy with a good sense of humor. A guild full of friends that become raiders at 8PM sounds wonderful to me and that's what I'm thinking you guys are. If a raid spot isn't open, that's fine. Being in a fantastic guild filled with like-minded individuals who are actually talented at this game is the environment I want to play in. I thank you for considering me.

[Lorake]

Gonna assume you're wearing your no hit buff gear, since you're at 11% hit. Obviously this should be toned down to 7% in our raids, because we do have both a hit buff and a dranei for you to be grouped with. We still do 25m TOTGC so drop the point in attunement and put it in IA for twins damage.

You also lack Ice Shards in your Arcane spec, which is somewhat a downer when we need you to AoE and you're only critting for 50% addition instead of 100%.

Finally, you have yet to clear TotC 25m, which is an easily Puggable instance on our realm. You also have yet to do ICC 10/25 which already puts you behind.

Please pug with us for a performance check.

[Magiray]

Gonna assume you're wearing your no hit buff gear, since you're at 11% hit. Obviously this should be toned down to 7% in our raids, because we do have both a hit buff and a dranei for you to be grouped with. We still do 25m TOTGC so drop the point in attunement and put it in IA for twins damage.

You also lack Ice Shards in your Arcane spec, which is somewhat a downer when we need you to AoE and you're only critting for 50% addition instead of 100%.

Finally, you have yet to clear TotC 25m, which is an easily Puggable instance on our realm. You also have yet to do ICC 10/25 which already puts you behind.

Please pug with us for a performance check.

Correct. This is my self-buffed hit gear, and yes quite obviously +hit needs to be sacrificed if I'm in a stacked raid. ATM this gear is all I have being away from the game for so long. I've done a few bosses in TOTC25 but haven't focused on pugging much. As for the AOE statement, Flamestrike is a part of the optimal rotation as well. If asked, I can spec into Ice Shards, but if it's going to be an AOE fight I usually just dual-spec to my frost build. However as stated I'll do what is asked of me.

I fully expect for your raids to be buffed with +hit.

I'll spec into IA for any gimmick fights, I always have.

[ArchmageFurly in three days]

From reading your app at first it seemed to me you were at least halfway competent, a Furly imitation almost, but after looking at your amrory it's clear that you don't really understand your class.

1.) Talisman of Ressurgance > Never-melting Ice crystal by alot, and it's very easy to get. Those badges you wasted on the t9 chest which is a terrible piece should ahve been spent on the trinket.

2.) Your gems are wrong. Move the JC gems in your legs to somwhere else, and get the socket bonus by using 2 reckless ametrines instead. Yo only need 2 blue gems, and a 5 sp bonus doesn't make purified gems ebtter than runed cardinal rubies, switch out one in your wrist or boots. Your neck should have a rckless gem in it because 5 sp bonus does make a reckless ametrine better than a runed cardinal ruby.

3.) Your Arcane spec is wrong. Sotm is a terrible talent to start with, even worse when you lose the t9 bonus. In a raid filled with Orange Maces and disc priests, and so many fights where you're warding in icc, 2 points in incanter's absorption and maxing out your range will yield you a higher damage output and utility. The spec you're using will give you higher damage on a patchwork fight, but that's not what we care about. You claim to read EJ, but the fact I just told you has been repeated countless times in the Arcane Thread. If you're gonna research, that means more than just looking at the first post on the thread.

4.) Frost is fun, but useless, every other crit and replenishment class does much more dps, as well as other bonus' a Frost mage doesn't give.

5.) Achievement wise, you're missing the hardest of Ulduar HM's, 10 man heroic totc, and you haven't even completed 25 man totc regular. This is an issue with a guild that is likely going to pull server firsts on hardmodes in ICC. We don't even do 25 man regular anymore.

I may have soudned a bit harsh, but the reality is that your character doesn't reflect the knowledge and experiance you claim to have. Take what I've told you and look to improve yourself. Run one of the pugs, the zoia one for example, where you can be observed. We're looking to reduce our ammount of mages anyways, and we have...idk how many actually but more than we have raid spots for atm.

I wish you the best.

Edit: I was posting this as you responded to lorake. On fights where AOE is really really essential and important you'll be respeccing away from arcane, hence the reason, lorake, ice shards isn't as big as the chance to restore mana.

And Flamestrike has too small of a radius, too low of a dpm trade-off to be worth it for arcane.

And the aoe rotation for an FFB spec depends on the number of targers since you'll be lbing them all, but for let's say 5 as it is on anub, LB the adds as they run in, FS9, FS8, Blizzard, FS9, FS8, Blizzard.

[Magiray]

From reading your app at first it seemed to me you were at least halfway competent, a Furly imitation almost, but after looking at your amrory it's clear that you don't really understand your class.

1.) Talisman of Ressurgance > Never-melting Ice crystal by alot, and it's very easy to get. Those badges you wasted on the t9 chest which is a terrible piece should ahve been spent on the trinket.

2.) Your gems are wrong. Move the JC gems in your legs to somwhere else, and get the socket bonus by using 2 reckless ametrines instead. Yo only need 2 blue gems, and a 5 sp bonus doesn't make purified gems ebtter than runed cardinal rubies, switch out one in your wrist or boots. Your neck should have a rckless gem in it because 5 sp bonus does make a reckless ametrine better than a runed cardinal ruby.

3.) Your Arcane spec is wrong. Sotm is a terrible talent to start with, even worse when you lose the t9 bonus. In a raid filled with Orange Maces and disc priests, and so many fights where you're warding in icc, 2 points in incanter's absorption and maxing out your range will yield you a higher damage output and utility. The spec you're using will give you higher damage on a patchwork fight, but that's not what we care about. You claim to read EJ, but the fact I just told you has been repeated countless times in the Arcane Thread. If you're gonna research, that means more than just looking at the first post on the thread.

4.) Frost is fun, but useless, every other crit and replenishment class does much more dps, as well as other bonus' a Frost mage doesn't give.

5.) Achievement wise, you're missing the hardest of Ulduar HM's, 10 man heroic totc, and you haven't even completed 25 man totc regular. This is an issue with a guild that is likely going to pull server firsts on hardmodes in ICC. We don't even do 25 man regular anymore.

I may have soudned a bit harsh, but the reality is that your character doesn't reflect the knowledge and experiance you claim to have. Take what I've told you and look to improve yourself. Run one of the pugs, the zoia one for example, where you can be observed. We're looking to reduce our ammount of mages anyways, and we have...idk how many actually but more than we have raid spots for atm.

I wish you the best.

Edit: I was posting this as you responded to lorake. On fights where AOE is really really essential and important you'll be respeccing away from arcane, hence the reason, lorake, ice shards isn't as big as the chance to restore mana.

And Flamestrike has too small of a radius, too low of a dpm trade-off to be worth it for arcane.

And the aoe rotation for an FFB spec depends on the number of targers since you'll be lbing them all, but for let's say 5 as it is on anub, LB the adds as they run in, FS9, FS8, Blizzard, FS9, FS8, Blizzard.

As I said, I've only been back to the game for a few days now. I've had barely enough time to scrap any real build or gearset together. Being exposed to players such as yourself is just what I need to get back to my full potential. Thanks for the criticism, but it was nothing I didn't already plan on fixing. I optimize when I can. I was just hoping my knowledge would get me in before I really started working on performance. I just need time to gear myself.

[Taytayz]

GOOD MAGE

he just came back to the game so hes obviously missing achievements

he comes to raids prepared and specs for any gimmick fight he even went a specific spec for hm mimiron before they nerfed it so he could tank the head easier

HE WAS ONE OF OUR GOOD MAGES IN BOSS


BRING HIM TO A PUG TRY HIM OUT YOU SHOULD LIKE WHAT YOU SEE


SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS ARE HARD FOR ME <@:^(

[Ghost]

WAY TO FORGET ABOUT ME

[Lorake]

I didn't say no and I told him to go to a PuG, what more do you want bossholes.

[Taytayz]

IM JUST SAYIN

[Magiray]

thanks tay.

HI GHOST OMG