Forged Alliance

Application for Raiders

Name (first name only if you prefer): Matt
Age: 23
Character Name: Edwing
Class: Priest
Level: 85
Main Spec: disc
Off Spec: holy
Trade skills: tailoring/herbalism 525

Have you read and understand the following posts?
- Read This Before Applying
- Ranks
- About Us

Yes

Which of the following best describes your raiding goals? The rest of your application will be judged based on the answer to this question.


3. Dedicated to progressing through heroics at whatever rate the group is capable of
4. Hardcore heroic progression



What is your raid experience? Please list as much as you think is relevant.
DS 1/8 willing to do more if the group is capable.
FL 8/8 normal willing to do more if group is capable.

Why did you leave your previous (current) guild?
Not enough heroic progression as well as guild maturity.

Does anyone in our guild know you?
not sure

How did you find out about our guild?
Known guild in Destromath

How many alts do you have and is this your main?
Yes this is my main and I have 2 alts a Human DK and a Human Warrior.

What are your play times?
After work anyday of week usually 5pm server

Which of our raid times would you be able to make?
Anytime, Preferably Sunday nights

Would you be willing to sit out if it is necessary without a fuss?
Yes

Have you spent proper time and money into your gear / enchants / gems?
Yes

Raiders are expected to use consumables during raids. In the following categories what consumable would you use and why?
- Flask/Elixirs: Flask of Dramonic Mind, Intellect intellect is top priority
- Well Fed: Severed Sagefish Head, Intellect is top priority
- Potion:


If you are DPS, what is the (spell) hit your character needs to be viable in a raid?


What is the basic gemming strategy for your character?
INT, Spirit, then haste and mastery if in DISC.

What is the basic reforging strategy for your character?
INT>SPIRIT>HASTE>MASTERY>CRIT

What is your favorite boss fight and why? What boss haven't you fought that you're looking forward to the most?
Ragnaros FL because of the difficulty, I'm looking forward to doing all heroic DS and MOP Progression.

What boss mod(s) do you use?
DBM

What website(s) do you use to read up on encounters proactively?
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/zone

Please link your armory profile:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/d ... th/Edwing/

Anything else we missed or you want to tell us?
Have a Warrior and DK which i will be using for progression in MOP as well.
Thank you

I haven't updated myself on Priest stat priorities but I'd think they wouldn't have changed all too much.

Although one of the good things about the disc spec is the large variety of builds that are viable (i.e. you can stack any of the secondary stats as per your play style), I'm not sure I agree with your spirit / haste build. A popular build is spirit / mastery, which is situated for periods of PW: Shield spamming - the regen here is necessary as PW: S is costly in mana. I can't see much use for a spirit / haste build though. With only ~13% haste, you're not going to be burning through that much mana per fight (and if you are, you are clearly not using your regen cooldowns or being efficient enough).

You've glyphed Flash Heal and Renew, which is questionable. There are much better glyphs than those for discipline. You shouldn't be relying on renew on normal occasions enough to have it use up a prime glyph slot. The Flash Heal glyph makes me wonder if you're relying on flash heal too much - and it's largely unnecessary. I also can't see Inner Fire glyph being of much help, especially since most disc priests run with Inner Will. Either way, I suggest you do some reading up on your class if you really want to maximize your performance. Disciple has a lot of flexibility but sometimes, there can be combinations of stats/glyphs/talents that really can be improved.

Even though content has been nerfed considerably and you can probably get by with a less than optimal build, it doesn't equate to good habits especially if you want to get into hardcore progression. I know we are a casual guild and don't place much requirement to spend endless nights crunching numbers and whatnot, but some effort is always good so you don't end up wasting people's time. I'm not saying that this is what you're doing but, just a friendly reminder.

But anyways, I apologize for being critical; I have my biases as a fellow Priest. But thanks for the app, and an officer will get reply to it sometime soon ...

I think he's got his glyphs backwards. His PvP secondary spec has all the PvE glyphs (like PW:Barrier) and his PvE primary spec has all the PvP glyphs. Gotta be careful when respec'ing.

-HP

greetings, thanks for the app.

Waterdrop wrote: But anyways, I apologize for being critical; I have my biases as a fellow Priest. But thanks for the app, and an officer will get reply to it sometime soon ...

this is waterdrop, he likes to make people cry

aside from all of waterdrop's points the only other thing i noticed was that you should have the int enchant for your bracers instead of haste, but otherwise everything looks good to me. there is usually a spot in the sunday group, and there usually aren't any priests. anyway, apparently you passed inori's review, so track someone down online and we can get you an invite.

Yea I had just switched to DISC for raid healing from Holy that's why my glyphs and such are messed up sorry. I was healing holy for all of DS and ive seen disc to be more productive so I thought id try it out. If you guys have a preference on which spec you like better let me know and ill change it. And my other spec is disc pvp. Ill check out my character and move some stuff around.
Thanks

Holy is fine if that is what you're most comfortable with (it's better to have a good holy priest than a mediocre disc priest). I suppose it's too late in the expansion to worry about getting your Therazane reputation up for PvE shoulder enchants; as long as you use the good PvP enchants, that should suffice (stuff is nerfed 30% anyway).

As Phil said, haste is generally devalued for discipline, so if you truly are going to stick with disc, you'll want to change the haste over to something else like mastery.

-HP

Inori wrote:I suppose it's too late in the expansion to worry about getting your Therazane reputation up for PvE shoulder enchants; as long as you use the good PvP enchants, that should suffice (stuff is nerfed 30% anyway).

good catch, i didn't read past "greater inscription"

Inori wrote: As Phil said, haste is generally devalued for discipline, so if you truly are going to stick with disc, you'll want to change the haste over to something else like mastery.

-HP

I wouldn't say haste is devalued for discipline ... there are viable haste/crit builds or balanced builds that keep a balanced amount of all the secondary stats. Haste/crit builds are good for PoH spamming and atonement, as mastery does little to affect divine aegis (or rather, it does less than what the other stats do - although I haven't checked the math/numbers for this).