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Looking for a huge change.

Sofija — Fri, 05/01/2009 - 17:28

Character Info
Name: 
Sofija
Server: 
Gorgonnash
Race: 
Human
Class: 
Warrior
Role: 
Tanking
General Questions
Which days are you available for organized guild events? (Raids, RBGs, etc): 
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
UI
Upload UI: 
Which addons do you consider essential and why?: 
<p>Very important. Mods are great due to the fact that they increase your ability to get the job and your survivability! There is nothing worse than a person who gets tunnel vision while dps and is oblivious to everything around them and BM next thing you know there are dead because of a shadow fissure or a void zone.&nbsp; That and its nice to know when a boss is about to cast a raid wiping AOE that you have to run out of. I am certainly in agreement with the use of Addons.</p>
PvE
Raid Experience: 
<p>I have done every instance in the game. I ran the vanilla wow raids and instances on my priest&nbsp; back in the day. I would still be playing her but i gave her to a friend who eventually quit. Military came first at the time. I played as a tank through out the majority of Burning Crusade on Sofija of course. The only instance Odyssey did not clear was Sunwell. We got Felmist down and then we began to have issues internally from there on out.&nbsp; As for my roles in both parts, i was a healer in vanilla wow, and in burning crusade i played the roles of main tank and off tank many of times.</p>
Personal
What timezone are you in?: 
South Carolina.
Tell us a little about yourself.: 
<p>My real name is Timmy, im 25 years old, i dont have a bed time lol. And yes Timmy is my real name, which ive come to realize was probably a mistake, my mother named me after that stupid kid on lassie.... ugh. Im extremely laid back and very cheerful for the most part. Um, i like traveling. I'm prior military as well, my branch of service was the air force.&nbsp; You know i could go into a long speel about going to college and going to war, but its stupid reading it when you guys could just take the time to get to know me in game.</p>
Open/Closed: 
Closed

I figured

Sofija — Mon, 06/01/2009 - 16:29

But since i never really bothered to look at wowwebstats back when odyssey was doing BT and shit like that, i never knew if there was some way of evaluating a tanks performance just from WWS alone. I mean you can see what the persons rotation was, but sometimes thats not all of the info. Well according to torvo i did well so i guess that answers that question. Not only that but if YOU are looking at it and dont have any real negative feedback then thats even better, cause ive read some other posts and other peoples apps and i know you can be a wow encyclopedia sometimes hahaha.

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As for my thoughts

Torvo — Sun, 05/31/2009 - 09:49

You were a pleasure to have in raid. Too bad you can't make Saturdays regularly... Keep signing up for the events you're able to attend, and keep active on your application.

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Attention Tanks

Torvo — Sun, 05/31/2009 - 09:48

Sofi ran with Ulduar25!!1 yesterday, and while I was happy with his performance, it could just be that he had a certain sexy shaman healer keeping him up ;)

Here are the parses -- please provide feedback.

lol

Sofija — Sun, 05/31/2009 - 10:29

I had a blast running with you guys actually. I wish I could make it on saturdays but that's just the way work goes for the time being. However if I find myself with a saturday off, I will definitely sign up and run with you guys. I believe that you guys are extremely close to having a ulduar clearing raid group, so it is appealing to me to get in there with yall when I can. So yeah I look forward to doing it again sometime.

overall good experience

h4mm32 — Mon, 05/25/2009 - 23:02

i've had an overall good experience with this guy, he seems like he has a threat issue at times or doesn't really know the intricacies of every fight but as always that can be fixed via videos and experience, but all in all he seems to be able to adapt or progress towards a positive ending to situations.

 

you've also striked together quite an interesting build i'd like to talk to you sometime about it, is there any reason you avoided the "traditional" deep wounds prot spec and went for  0/5 mitigation or even 1/3 deepwounds?

 

also why did you choose to go with 546 defense, if i recall correctly i believe it is much more wise to start progressing and gemming/chanting towards other stats such as dodge or parry . the same goes for your hit rating most tanks do fine with a maximum of 5% you could prolly itemize your gear a little differently for more mitigation where necessary.

also

Sofija — Tue, 05/26/2009 - 16:50

when you mentioned 0/5 mitigation, what talents where you speaking of? Im looking at the spec and i cant see what your talking about.

ok im not good at explaining this stuff.

Sofija — Tue, 05/26/2009 - 15:56

but ill try. Threat issues you speak of are not really threat issues. You know as well as I do that warrior tanks can't just continously pump out threat when getting knocked around and stunned by mobs. Especially like in violet hold. That's usually what happens to me to begin with I can ramp up threat gen when I need to. In a 5 man instance I am not concerned with balls to the wall threat. There's really no need. I tend to tab target a lot to get in quick sunders as I do not use the sunder and devestate glyphs anymore. If your not a tard you don't need them. They only help to aoe tank. But not really needed. Most of the time I just chain pull heroics. And with the new vigilance glyph threat gen issues is a thing of the past. If you can hit buttons on your keyboard you can generate threat with a warrior tank. As long as mobs aren't running free and killing other players my job is done as far as a 5 man is concerned. Now in a raid its a different story. You gotta be balls to the wall and its not hard to do it. However here lately I haven't been in ulduar much at all due to the break up of odyssey so I'm getting a little bit rusty. Also while your looking at my gear remember I tend to switch out gear depending on fights and what role I'm playing. I'm used to playing an off tank role. I did that for the majority of my tanking career and I learned a good lesson from my original main tank illedean. He said to always have different gear sets to be prepared for different situations. So what your looking as straight tier 7.5 gear on armory. It was never best in slot gear but as far as naxx and os and voa was concerned it did the job very well.however I can mix up mitigation, block and threat generating gear with what I have currently. But its not gonna be better than what people who have cleared ulduar can do. However with some upgrades in gear I can be the go to guy for tanking.

Now as far as my spec is concerned I will have to go back and look over it again to see why I did the spec that way. I'm pretty sure there's a reason. I might have been experimenting with a build. Although it has worked for me very well so no complaints. However as I said in my application I am open to all suggestions and willing to take any advice if someone has a better set up. Your criticism is much appreciated.

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Sofija, do me a favor. You've

garreth — Mon, 05/25/2009 - 04:03

Sofija, do me a favor. You've obviously discovered the "SexyMap" addon.  Now discover that addons that actually allow you to maximize, like Grid and Quartz and Pitbull and Ora2 and Omen.  I want to see those on your UI.  So far, I really like your activity and enthusiasm.

Ok

Sofija — Tue, 05/26/2009 - 22:04

After a lot of suggestions and questions. heres the UI, tell me what you think!Sofija's New UISofija's New UI

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Look into Fubar.   See all

saedo — Tue, 05/26/2009 - 22:43

Look into Fubar.   See all those buttons on your minimap.   Wouldn't it be nice if they weren't there?

And personal preference of mine's.  SexyMap.    Just to change how the minimap looks.   And it's dead sexy.

that was the minimap

Sofija — Wed, 05/27/2009 - 00:21

with simpleminimap, i will be changing back to sexy map since i already had it to begin with was just looking at a suggestion.

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 With that macro from

cromi — Tue, 05/26/2009 - 23:32

 With that macro from earlier. You can move its size from up and down by changing the value(more info on the forum). Like my UI to fit it all in is different from the 100 and 100 base. So you can fully engulf all of your bars. Then you can take sexy map and it seems like a weird spot to put your omen but if you can see it without having to constantly glance over at it then it works, but as a suggestion you can put your map in place of omen on the right side. And then grab Satrina buff frames(if you need help configuring most people in df use it so almost everyone can help) That will allow you to put both your two most important addons,omen, around eachother(Most important for raid monitering is grid). Then you can move your sbf to a place that is good for you. It may seem like alot but these addons are about as helpful as bartender4 for customising your UI. Just offering suggestions about placement so you don't have to go looking around your screen(learned this the hard way a few times) In situations, like as a tank needing to know what your tps is at any given moment, but wondering if someoen has picked up random mob agro. Right next to eachother means that you can moniter both without needing to look across your screen.

Soooo

Sofija — Mon, 05/25/2009 - 21:39

I picked up those addons you had listed up. I would say that pitbull seems to be a lot like xperl. I didnt have a whole lot of time to run through the motions of setting it up, but in my personal opinion it seemed like a complete cluster fuck of an Addon. I had little frames popping up everywhere! The other stuff, quartz and grid where fine. It would probably be easier for me to use Xperl instead of pitbull since i am so much more familiar with it. Now someone mentioned that there are addons that suppress the entire Blizzard UI. What are those? Im talking like completely taking the *stock* action bar completely off the screen leaving only your downloaded addons to be seen.

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Bartender 4 is your

Derchlon — Mon, 05/25/2009 - 22:19

Bartender 4 is your solution.  You can even set it up so that your main buttons are hidden while tanking/dps/healing.  As for the Blizzard frames, look into something like Ag Unit frames, or the like.

You probably won't like Bartender 4 at first, but play around with the settings a bit, and I'm sure you'll eventually find it to be fantastic.

ah ok

Sofija — Mon, 05/25/2009 - 22:24

Ill check it out then. Im just wondering how bad that flashy UI shit is going to bog my FPS down.

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 You will end up loving

cromi — Mon, 05/25/2009 - 23:06

 You will end up loving bartender. From personal experience it is a bit off at first but it is great to set up your ui with. If you don't like using it because you think that it will bog down your ui. It is worth whatever it takes away, or if you think it will take away your screen.

Try it with this macro that prime8 put up it will shrink down your screen. If you don't like it as both top and bottom. Then you can put the bottom screen at whatever size you want it and the top screen at nothing. this will allow you to put your omen in there. and it increases fps because there is less 3d rendering needed. You get all your screen. Keep your fps ok. And have a spot to put your bars, chat, omen, and map for me.

/node/6226

hmmm

Sofija — Mon, 05/25/2009 - 18:01

Well i normally use Ora 2, and Omen as well as Big Wigs. However i have never been able to figure out how to set up a UI like what you guys use. Where the regular wow UI is completely gone and replaced with addons.... Like i said in the app, i would not be opposed to using them i just dont know how to set them up! Come to think of it, i dont think ive ever really encountered a problem from the lack of a decked out UI. Just bare bones. But i will check it out and i will attempt to set it up and if im just too retarded to do so i will seek assistance.

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I'd like to catch a 5 man

Grasen — Sat, 05/23/2009 - 21:49

I'd like to catch a 5 man with you this weekend and view your threat gen for myself.

k

Sofija — Sun, 05/24/2009 - 17:10

Gimme a holla whenever your on and we will get down to the brass tax.

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A tank's worst nightmage, 2

Leighann — Fri, 05/22/2009 - 17:09

A tank's worst nightmage, 2 hurricane's with occasional typhoons with a critting agro ho mage.  Awesome run though held agro with style with a smooth run til the mage forgot his iceblock and got smacked twice.  Healed by Rhyan I think Zoo, Ora and I gave them both a run for their money.

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 Ran some heroics tonight.

Scaron — Tue, 05/19/2009 - 22:19

 Ran some heroics tonight. Good attitude, fun person, mature, all that and a bag of chips.

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Did the Herioc mount run in

jaibyrd — Wed, 05/20/2009 - 22:02

Did the Herioc mount run in the Caverns of Time with him tanking tonight.  The dps was in alot of blues and we all still pulled off getting the timed event.  I enjoy grouping with you, its nice when I'm that far up on the threat meter and I don't get threat: you did a good job keeping it but I'd sure like to see what you can do with some more geared dps too :-)  I enjoyed your company in the group and hope to do it again.

hahah

Sofija — Thu, 05/21/2009 - 17:04

That was a helluva run. Considering some of those people had never ever ran COS at all. And they run it in heroic and get a mount drop thats pretty good on our part atleast. We did em a favor =D And yes as usual it was a pleasure to run with you again. I know you did really well when you came to odyssey's naxx runs a few months back. But lets do it again whenever you wanna do a 5 man id be happy to have you healing my ass haha.

aww thanks dude =D

Sofija — Tue, 05/19/2009 - 22:23

Hey i appreciate that! Although i should refrain from typing and tanking at the same time hahah.

Wellll....

Sofija — Mon, 05/11/2009 - 18:38

Im officially guildless now. I made the decision a little while ago after i found out the best healer in our guild left for Lush just like everyone else. So i guess all i can ask is are you guys gonna put me to work sometime or what? I'd hate to be a parasite on the guild website lol. I don't believe i can make it to Torvo's raids. He starts a little too early for me, that and apparently all of the raid groups have their set tanks. So not sure if there is much room for me here. Let me know something, cause really the only other alternative is a realm transfer.

garreth's picture

Stick around, dfrecruit

garreth — Mon, 05/11/2009 - 22:02

Stick around, dfrecruit channel is your friend.  We have a lot of stuff going on.  Wish you were a healer though :(

 

Well...

Sofija — Tue, 05/12/2009 - 17:43

I have a few options i suppose. I could just go DPS for the meantime, OR i can level a healer, again. But its gonna be a solo grind all the way to 80. Im trying to be as flexible as possible lol.

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There are a few of us

bluetouguyss — Wed, 05/20/2009 - 22:11

There are a few of us leveling other toons atm as well.  Biana, healanoid and I usually get on and grind out some levels if you ever see me on just yell at me.  I am on most afternoons from 4-6:30 server and then again after 8 and I get the kids tucked away in bed.  I would always be happy to add another person to our leveling group.  The BOA gear is your friend!  That is what I am working on right now.  I have a SP mace and cloth shoulders and I think I am going to go for a sp dagger next so my mage can use it. 

Its too bad you cant make it to torvos sat run cause I think that we are going to be in need of tanks :(

welp

Sofija — Thu, 05/21/2009 - 17:02

I could level my hunter and my warlock with you guys. My warlock has all of the bind on account gear. shes 61 and my hunter is 70. Hes got the BOA bow and some tier 6 stuff. I could run with torvo's raid next saturday cause i have that day off.  But normally that run is way too early for me. The other main raids you guys got are perfect time for me. Kinda sucks, but ill stick around and see what comes up. Im not really raiding at the moment so yeah.

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Are you talking about

bluetouguyss — Fri, 05/22/2009 - 15:09

Are you talking about tomorrows run or next week?  Sign up if you can go this week if not next week will be ulduar and we will be more choosy of who we are taking for sure.

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