Dangulz Application to Downfall

broptimus — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 02:18

Character Info

Name:

Dangulz

Server:

Gorgonnash

Race:

Gnome

Class:

Mage

Role:

DPS

General Questions

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

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Which addons do you consider essential and why?:

I think they enhance your ability to perform in a raid. They are well worth having!

PvE

Raid Experience:

The farthest instance if have been in is TK. I have mage tanked Grulls, and i know all of kara by heart. My old server was hampered by little alliance, so we did not get to progress very far. I learn very quickly , so from members and video's I can learn high-end fights easily.

Personal

What timezone are you in?:

Washington

Tell us a little about yourself.:

Well, I live in Longview, Washington. I used to play hockey for the Portland Jr. Hawks, which is a farm team for a Western Hockey League team. I like play video games, and I will be going to college next year.

Open/Closed:

Closed

Closing application, welcome

Katibug — Wed, 12/24/2008 - 12:26

Closing application, welcome to guild Dangulz!

Thanks so much!

broptimus — Thu, 12/18/2008 - 18:52

Thank you all very much for your posts! I appreciate everyone's help with my application!

LOLTONYDANZA

Spagett — Thu, 12/18/2008 - 15:45

Did dangulz mention that he's related to Tony Danza?

TELL ME THIS IS TRUE.

garreth — Thu, 12/18/2008 - 16:36

TELL ME THIS IS TRUE.

I'm starting up a 10 man Naxx

pulga — Wed, 12/17/2008 - 20:22

I'm starting up a 10 man Naxx which is running about 1/2 apps. I'm going to try to get this going at 6:30 on Sunday and finish it up at 6:30 on Monday. Find me in game if you need further info. The raid info is at: /node/5205

heya pulga, i think right now

broptimus — Thu, 12/18/2008 - 18:43

heya pulga, i think right now i'm going with "poo beast". I've gone with them for 2 weeks and a row. I like the crew :D

this guy's a winner

Deje — Mon, 12/15/2008 - 03:16

this guy's a winner

hes a gnome what more is

darkwolf — Sat, 12/13/2008 - 23:33

hes a gnome what more is there to say.....but seriously great guy good dps even thought he he trys to do the nightelf mohawk lol.

It's the other way around,

Vulk — Sun, 12/14/2008 - 15:26

It's the other way around, the night elves are trying to do the gnome Mohawk.

He is a total noob.... noob

Vulk — Sat, 12/13/2008 - 22:23

He is a total noob.... noob enough to join us.

Dangulz

Spagett — Tue, 12/09/2008 - 15:51

I'll admit, i was impressed with dangulz's performance in Naxx10 on saturday, him and I were basically tied for 2nd place on the meters, ( /shakefist Saedo). And epic mirror image / iceblock on thadius, best of luck to you.

BUMP FOR JUSTICE

RENO 911

Felsteel — Fri, 11/21/2008 - 14:47

RENO 911

I had the distinct pleasure

lesda — Fri, 11/21/2008 - 13:20

I had the distinct pleasure of grouping with Dangulz last night on a quest,... Very nice guy !!! and patiently waiting for DF to make a decision on him. Just thought I'd let the "powers-at-be" also know,.... :)

Just thought about it now,... but I shoulda had him sign up for dfrecruit,... bah! I'll tell him when I see him again tonight.

Awesome of you guys to give

Aidin — Tue, 12/09/2008 - 15:54

Awesome of you guys to give him a bump...But make sure Dangulz, that you give yourself a bump every now and then to let us know your alive, and still care. ;)

ahhhhh, terrible mail system

broptimus — Tue, 11/11/2008 - 20:43

ahhhhh, terrible mail system is terrible....

Thanks for coming to raid

Katibug — Sat, 11/08/2008 - 02:40

Thanks for coming to raid AQ40, BWL and MC with us tonight. You were one among many kittens and it makes it a little difficult to judge anything.

Keep signing up for stuff on the site and stay active!

Haha, thanks! I had alot of

broptimus — Sun, 11/09/2008 - 17:26

Haha, thanks! I had alot of fun running those raids. Downing Rag in 6 seconds was amazing! :P I signed up for Atar's fun run so hopefully i''ll get in that :P

Looking at the "Raid Talent"

Dufe — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 10:24

Looking at the "Raid Talent" link you provided, I would say that that does not qualify as a real raid build. I'm curious if you can figure out which talent choices I might be concerned about and why. Also, tell me where else you might put them. Can you explain to me what cycles you would most closely follow, both with your spec and with the "more appropriate" spec I'm hoping you find after a review?

(Note: Just because I'm pointing out/asking these things doesn't mean you "fail." I'm just hoping to get a better gauge of your current knowledge level. And seriously, if someone other than the applicant answers the questions for him, I might just reduce that person's site access so they can't see apps anymore.)

Raid spec answer

broptimus — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 12:23

Well to start off, I guess I should state that I am new to arcane. I am a fire mage at heart for raids, but as of the recent patch, I had tried arcane as it seemed to do better dps. In retro-spec of my own decision, I see the mistakes I made. The talents I believe you(dufe) are concerned about are.. slow, torment the weak, magic attunement. Maybe I did it to fast, and I am sorry. Slow i realize is absolutely no use in high end raids. Torment the weak is lost in raids as bosses are usually NOT rooted, and magic attunement, amplify/dampen magic does not get used enough in different raids to spec into it. I would redo the raid spec to this- http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/mage/talents.html?tal=235005...
The rotation I would use would be- Arcane blastx3>AM>Scorch rinse and repeat. If clearcasting procs, another AM, and if Missle barrage procs, AM.

Now, as I do not have 2 pieces of T5, and i really question myself, I don't think arcane is even worth it for me now. I believe i just got caught up in the "arcane is op!" movement right now. IF i were allowed to change what i said, i would go my old FIRE! ,the spec i would use for fire would be..
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/mage/talents.html?tal=235005...
I used this when 3.0.2 first came out. It takes advantage of all the goodies in fire but also gets clearcasting in arcane. If a clearcasting pops, AM!
Rotation- Scorchx5>fireballx6>scorch>fireballx6...
Living bomb for AoE when needed
Fire blast for added dps if i have a surplus of mana, same with pyroblast.

Now for scorchx5, if coordinated with other fire mages in the raid I may only need to do 1 or 2 scorches at the start.

I also realize that fire just may be the better choice right now because of my T4 set bonus.

Its really up to you guys which you would like me to be. Personally now that i look at it again, fire is def. a better choice, but arcane is still viable, just not as much as fire. Hope this clears some stuff up-front. School-time now XD

You were right about Slow and

Dufe — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 23:18

You were right about Slow and Torment of the Weak. Basically bosses aren't snareable, so Torment of the Weak has no effect. However, it looks like the links you added in the last post are the same as your original link in your app. I'd be curious to see your fire spec. (As of 3.0.2 Fire should be better DPS, regardless of gear levels or set bonuses.)

For Arcane: Arcane Missiles have too low of DPS and too low of DPM to be good fillers in your AB rotation. At 80, you'd want to get up to ignite in the fire tree and use Fireball as a filler, and possibly as your main nuke depending on how they end up changing AB in the interim. For now, if you wanted to stick with a similar rotation, you'd drop the AM out of the standard rotation and just Arcane Barrage after the Scorch. Then you would just go back to ABx3 since the debuff duration was cut down to only 3 sec. You still do AM on Missile Barrage procs, since it can then provide really good DPS.

For Fire: Remember that we now have Glyph of Scorch, allowing all 5 debuffs to be stacked with only two casts. Also, the DoT on Living Bomb makes it a valuable portion of your DPS on single targets, so you'll want to keep it up as much as possible while still allowing it to fall off and get off it's final tick. (It's bigger than the DoT ticks.) Deep Fire specs right now don't really put any points in Arcane. With the mana usage/regen changes, Clearcasting isn't a necessity. You'd put your 8 into Frost to get the 3% hit and the rest go into Fire. I'll leave out further discussion til I can see that Fire spec you wanted to post.

Also with Wrath coming out in a week, I'm less concerned about you knowing every little thing about 3.0.2/3.0.3 mechanics at lvl 70. I'm more interested in seeing your thought processes regarding deciding what to cast and how to spec.

Fire spec

broptimus — Fri, 11/07/2008 - 19:38

I really don't know why I posted the same thing twice. More than likely I forgot to copy the fire one before I pasted xd. So this is the fire spec I had thought of - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=of0VZ0EzbRhIhVubhct

My thought process on the clearcasting was that , from my experiences , it proc'd alot. I had thought of it as good because maybe I could get a free living bomb in there or fireblast. I guess, as you stated about the mana regen change, hadn't brought that into account. But I can see how the the 8 in frost is way better.The 3% hit on raid bosses is amazing, and lowers the amount of hit we gotta stack. I have around ~160 hit I believe, so that 3% would definitely help. So if i were to spec as you said, would it go like this? - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=oZ0EcbRhIhVubhctbhc

That's the spec. I know

Dufe — Sat, 11/08/2008 - 00:09

That's the spec. I know things are a little crazy right now with all the changes. I'm just glad to see you're flexible and willing to listen to input and think it over in your own head.

Very professional

Fjork — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 08:45

Very professional application. Definitely a plus on your side.

I would recommend that you browse our Calendar to see if there are any 5mans/Raids/etc going on that you are able to sign up for. I believe there are still dps positions open for this weekend's KZ/ZA.

I glanced at your gear and this appears to be a better choice for you than our Sunwell or BT raiders. (Not saying they won't still take you, just an observation.) The more events you attend, and the more you can show you are a competent, undramatized player, the better your chances of receiving a DF invite. Also, you might consider macro'ing your trinkets. Get better use out of them.

Now as for Garreth's normal question:

Downfall will be needing many raiders in WotLK that are willing to Raid consistantly every night, four/three nights a week. Is this you? Can you commit to every week, without burnout?

Now, as for Aidin's normal comments:

blah blah blah blah blah. (hehe, she's gonna yell at me.)

Whereas I am in no way a raid-officer or a guild leader, do take to heart the comments about both signing up for raids and not being a douche. There's no faster way to get your app closed than to have someone explain to you NOT to move during a Flamewreath then yelling at the raid-leader b/c you 'had' to move b/c you were being burned. (And yes, we recently had a pug-hunter wipe us three times in a row for that..... sad isn't it? ) Keep in mind after your sign-ups that a signup doesn't immediately indicate an invite, but if you sign-up you need to wait until all invites have gone out before you start looking at a different raid/instance. (Mage-tanking Gruuls = Win though. :D )

Have fun, and good luck!

*edit* Fixed for readability*edit*

Thanks!

broptimus — Fri, 11/07/2008 - 19:46

Thank you for the review Pedran! I will definitely take your advice about signing up for raids. (could actually use some help there, can't seem to find where to do it on the site, maybe i'm just blind tho) To answer your questions... No, I will NOT burn out. I would say I play almost TOO much. I'm usually on from 2:30 to 11:30 every weekday, and all the time on the weekends. Its just who I am i guess. My passion is with computers, and I don't find myself stopping my gaming anytime soon. i'm here 7 nights a week, not 4-5 :D

http://www.downfallguild.org/

Fjork — Mon, 11/10/2008 - 08:39

/event

Also, you should be able to see an "Upcoming events" section at the top-right of your brower. You can navigate the various events about to happen through there.

Very nice guy

Closer — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 10:01

I met Dangulz last night while I was doing dailies. We chatted for a good 2 or 3 hours and I have to say I really like him. I noticed in his app he said he is 17 but I honestly thought he was much older.

I believe he is a very nice person and would be a great addition to Downfall.

On that note, I've known

Spagett — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 17:39

On that note, I've known Dangulz for a good year now (we both played on Anub'arak together). I've raided with him countless times, and have yet to see him miss a raid. He's a excellent player, and overall a great friend.

Good luck on your app man!!

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