Friendly druid looking to apply ^_^.

Dryden — Mon, 11/25/2013 - 23:04

Character Info

Name:

Dryden

Server:

Gorgonnash

Race:

Night Elf

Class:

Druid

Role:

DPS

General Questions

Which days are you available for organized guild events? (Raids, RBGs, etc):

Monday

Upload UI:

PvE

Raid Experience:

As Gorgonnash popularity took a big hit during MoP I have only really done LFR runs but have an understanding of raid fights and have cleared all LFR runs.

Personal

Tell us a little about yourself.:

I was in the US Army national guard for 8 years and graduated the Art Institute of Orange County with a Bachelors Degree in Game Art & Design

Open/Closed:

Closed

ginvited closing app

Elapsed — Tue, 12/03/2013 - 20:51

ginvited closing app

Thanks ^_^

Dryden — Tue, 12/03/2013 - 20:55

Will do my best to gear up to your expectations! And thanks so much for the invite look forward to playing with all of you ^_^.

will be on mumble in an hour or two

Dryden — Tue, 12/03/2013 - 19:32

Wife wants me to put up christmas lights so will be on as doin as im done

sounds good, I just got my

Elapsed — Tue, 12/03/2013 - 20:06

sounds good, I just got my new headset, so we'll test it out

Let me know what time you guys are around. I just installed Mumble and am not to sure how it works since I use to use Ventrilo it looks a bit similar. Maybe you guys can give me a hand am online right now on Dryden.

Jobs was cool

Dryden — Tue, 12/03/2013 - 00:01

Thanks for helping me out setting up Mumble will talk to you guys tomorrow ^_^.

loving the work going on in

Elapsed — Sun, 12/01/2013 - 18:36

loving the work going on in here, let's get you in mumble tomorrow and chat a bit (if you're available) and get you in guild

Sweet!

Dryden — Sun, 12/01/2013 - 21:06

Thanks looking forward to chating with you guys ^_^. Thanks for all the help Nuitarin!

Feral

Nuitarin — Mon, 12/02/2013 - 22:03

Happy to talk :)

Thanks ^_^

Dryden — Sun, 12/01/2013 - 18:01

Nice the FFF and Mangle Macro is nice helped me open up a slot. As for my gems Im saving most of my good ones for my T16 gear. I just got two pieces last night from LFR so already gemed those right. Still need some enchants so I'm trying to level up my alt to enchant my gear too.

Macros

Nuitarin — Sun, 12/01/2013 - 16:23

Dryden,

Yes the tiger's fury/feral spirit macro I use is similar:

#showtooltip Tiger's Fury
/cast Feral Spirit
/cast Tiger's Fury

If you spec into Dream of Cenarius you might find this macro helpful. It allows you to spam healing touch and wont ever remove you from cat form.

#showtooltip Healing Touch
/console autounshift 0
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/cast [@focus, exists, help, nodead] [] Healing Touch
/console autounshift 1

Also to save button space I combine FFF and Mangle into a single button using a castsequence macro. Also will re-equip my feral weapon if I had my caster weapon equipped after a Heart of the Wild

/startattack
/castsequence reset=5 Faerie Fire, Mangle, Mangle, Mangle, Mangle
/equip Halberd of Inner Shadows

I noticed you had a couple weird gems in your gear. As a general rule these are the gems you should use for cat if you want to match a socket color:

Red: Delicate Primordial Ruby (160 agility)
Blue: Glinting Imperial Amethyst (80 agility and 160 hit)
Yellow: Adept Vermilion Onyx (80 agility and 160 mastery)

Update

Dryden — Sun, 12/01/2013 - 15:39

Thanks for all the help so far Nutarin. I have been playing with some more mods and I am really liking where its going. I added an Energy tacker and Combo Point tracker. I am also really loving class timer and agree its a must.

I added a cleaner snapshot not in a raid with the new additions.

So far

Dryden — Sat, 11/30/2013 - 21:07

So far I really like Classtimer and I need to get use to Ovale. Oh for Feral Spirit your macro would look like this right?

#showtooltip Tiger's Fury

/cast Tiger's Fury

/cast Feral Spirit

Oh sweet

Dryden — Sat, 11/30/2013 - 16:17

Nice going to install those three Ovale, Nerien's Ovale Scripts and Classtimer. I think the mod I use to use was called DoT Timers on my Warlock back in BC.

Thanks for the reply

Nuitarin — Fri, 11/29/2013 - 12:01

Hi Dryden,

Thanks for reading my post.

For a symbiosis target I always get a shaman for Feral Spirit. According to my damage meters this usually gives me approximatly another 0.3% damage done. I set up a macro to auto pop the wolves whenever I hit Tiger's Fury. I will paste it up here when I can.

When I mentioned agility potions I was talking about Virmen's Bite, it's a damage increase cooldown.

There are many ways of tracking dots/buffs/timers. I use two primary mods to keep track of that stuff. The most important is a mod called Ovale combined with Nerien's Ovale Scripts. It's basicly a mod that has a small frame that lets you know what ability you should use next using a code that is based on simulationcraft. I find it helps me use dps cooldowns as soon as they come off cooldown and lets me know when my dots/buffs are about to drop.

The second mod I use to track dots/buffs is called Classtimer. Classtimer is a generic mod I use on all my characters that provides bars that track dots on target/focus and buffs on myself. In an ideal world I could get all the information used to dps by using Classtimer, but I find using Ovale as welll helps me not tunnel vision during raid encounters. You don't do any damage if you die.

The mods are available using the curse client off curse gaming.

Is my face red

Dryden — Fri, 11/29/2013 - 02:35

lol I just noticed they had a Thrash under Feral. Thanks for the heads up there this should greatly incrase my damage output. I miss read the Symbiosis part but yeah I will definetly usually look for a paly for their bubble will try Shaman did not know about the dps increase.

Oh also I have a Steelseries Merc Stealth so it really helps with reaching all my action bars. I just bought a Razer Mamba and I have been loving it as I can macro 5 buttons into it.

For Macros I have an O'Shit button that cast Survival Insticts, Barkskin, Healthstone, Lifeblood, Potion, and Might of Ursoc.

I use Omni CC and SCT. I know there use to be a good one for tracking DoTs but I cant quite remember what it was but I use to use it on my Warlock if you could let me know what you would recommend that would be great.

Screenshot

Dryden — Fri, 11/29/2013 - 02:06

Thanks for replying Nuitarin,

I supose this screenshot was not the best as I was checking out someones gear. But I do understand the importance of Savage Roar and always have it up. I even have the Glyph for it so I will go ahead and get a better snapshot in a raid environment.

I have Symbiosis next to Revive and I belive you were right on Stampeading Roar and will place it in my bars ASAP.

On Thrash I play Feral Druid dps and actually would really help if you could let me know on this move. Before I remeber it was only Swipe that I had to worry about in cat form. But do you now have to change to Bear to use Thrash then go back to Cat to use your basic abilities?

For Agiliti pots I usually use Alchemist Flask unless its a Siege of Orgrimmar raid in LFR.

Thanks for your time and hope to hear back from you

Dryden screenshot

Nuitarin — Thu, 11/28/2013 - 09:18

Hi Dryden,

Thanks for your application. I had a look at your screenshot, which I assume is you in an average raiding environment. I had a couple questions/comments.

I don't see Savage Roar up on your buff list. It is very important to keep up at all times.

I don't see Thrash on your bars anywhere, It is an important AOE ability since it buffs swipe and its good on single targets when Omen of Clarity procs.

I see your didn't Symbiosis anyone. You should get a shaman for a slight dps increase or at least a pally/priest for a personal survival cooldown.

What mod(s) are you using to track dots/buffs/timers?

I don't see Stampeding Roar on your bars anywhere. Its very helpful for your fellow raiders.

I don't see any Agi pots on your bars. As an alchemist I would expect some pots.

I look forward to chatting about this stuff.

Dryden

Nuitarin — Thu, 11/28/2013 - 08:50

Hello Dryden,

My druid is Nuitarin, I play as feral and am one of several ferals that raid in Downfall. I have played since WoW 1.3 and have been feral dps/tank since BC. I will be looking at your app and hopefully making some constructive comments about feral.

Still alive guys

Dryden — Thu, 11/28/2013 - 04:05

Let me know if you guys need any further information.

Greetings Traveler

Dryden — Tue, 11/26/2013 - 01:21

Hi folks, hope to be part of your guild soon ^_^. I'm able to make MoP flask so hit me up if you need some in particular.

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