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Kwondre (80 Fire Mage) + Kwonton (80 Holy/Ret Pally)

Kwondre — Thu, 07/02/2009 - 00:27

Character Info
Name: 
Kwondre
Server: 
Gorgonnash
Race: 
Human
Class: 
Mage
Role: 
DPS
General Questions
Which days are you available for organized guild events? (Raids, RBGs, etc): 
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Saturday
Sunday
UI
Upload UI: 
Which addons do you consider essential and why?: 
Incredibly important
PvE
Raid Experience: 

Naxx, Sarth, EoE, Voa - Full Clear on 10 Man and 25 Man
ULD 10 - All except Yogg. Have cleared all hardmodes up to but not including Mimron
ULD 25 - All except Yogg. Have cleared FL, Hodir Hard Mode

I used to lead a guild named Reign through Molten Core. I was a hunter, and the main puller. That was a ton of fun, but I enjoy the role I play now - straight DPS.

I quit wow for all of TBC, and thus do not have any experience in those raids.

Personal
Tell us a little about yourself.: 
I'm laid back, always up for jokes and always willing to talk to people about RL issues. I consider myself smart, but not arrogant. I'm excited about the opp to join this guild because it seems like its full of older more mature players. Playing with 15 year olds is just not my thing.
Open/Closed: 
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garreth's picture

 This guy did really really

garreth — Mon, 07/06/2009 - 22:38

 This guy did really really well on our Yogg kill. His first kill. I vote yes, barring him turning into a giant emo douchebag in the meantime.

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Wait

Torvo — Mon, 07/06/2009 - 23:01

Mages emo too now? This is too much competition for us resto shammies.

Sewiously. Why you gotta make life so hard for us? We're good at one thing, and now it gets all crowded up with other people.

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nm

Torvo — Mon, 07/06/2009 - 23:02

Just realized the Pally part.

At least we're only competing with one other class ;)

What was your character names

Ardea — Mon, 07/06/2009 - 11:11

What was your character names before May 23rd?

 

 

names

Kwondre — Mon, 07/06/2009 - 17:34

Arcuiied was my mage's name, as was my pally (diff server). I shared the account in the old days with a friend - who has since quit...once i took over the subscription, I changed the names...my last name is Kwon...i don't plan on changing no matter what kinda bad rep I may get =)

That's a first... There is no

Ardea — Mon, 07/06/2009 - 19:48

That's a first... There is no record of an "Arcuiied" on any server...

You mention being on a different server and sharing accounts but in your app you state that you have been on this server from the very beginning of this account.

With over 200 days played it is hard to believe the first time you were recorded on this server was at 80 on May 23.

What server did you come from? What was your name? This doesn't actually make a difference to your app... Did you change your name because of bad rep?

Sorry spelling

Kwondre — Mon, 07/06/2009 - 22:08

Spelling was Arcueiid not arcuiied.

From what my friend told me, the mage has always been on Gorgonnash. But I brought the pally over (I don't remember from which server) about a month or so into playing.

There's a story behind my name change. I had been wanting to change the name for some time since I started playing again, but I was lazy and didn't feel like paying the 10 bucks. Then one day, I joined a pretty bad naxx 25 group that ended up getting called with Thad and Frost left.

Four days passed and I asked the leader if he was gonna pick it back up. He said no, so I said I would take it. I started forming a group for it. When I started telling people to zone in, they told me that the instance was cleared already despite already locking themselves. I was riduculously embarassed that I hadn't checked, I said sorry to the raid members logged off and changed my name to Kwondre - the embarassment being the impetus.

I only mentioned the "bad rep" thing because I assumed that's what you were asking about the name change for.

My very first character in WoW, as I mentioned in my app, was named Garnett from Arthas. I played that from Day 1 (Nov 2004) for about avg 30 hours a week all the way through a good year. I sold the account, started my career, and only recently came back.

Truth be told I don't know much about the history of my char beyond April of this year. It was primarily in my friend's hands at the time. But I'm willing to answer any more questions you guys have - I've got nothing to hide in wow - at least I don't think I do.

edit: my friend just told me he transferred the mage just before I took over the account from Laughing Skull (same name I think - but might have been named Mizuki). In my app, when I said "life of the account" I meant to say "life of my control of the account" - sorry bout that.

There are a lot of reasons to

Ardea — Tue, 07/07/2009 - 06:18

There are a lot of reasons to change your name... unfortunately bad rep seems to be a popular one. Personally, I just like to see a character's history... How long they've been around and what guilds they were in...

So far your mage's history: 

  • Friend's account (you were a hunter).
  • April '09 - friend stops playing and you take over his account.
  • April - May '09 - Mizuki (lvl 60 mage - which your friend didn't seem to like - hasn't been seen since Jan '07) transfers to Gorgonnash as Arcueiid.
  • May '09 - Arcueiid is first seen on the 15th at lvl 75, you hit 80 on the 18th (nice leveling!)
  • May '09 - The day you hit 80 you got credit for downing Saph and KT - a Monday (before reset)
  • May '09 - 20th and 21st you get credit for Military, Construct, and Spider - I am guessing this was the raid you locked people to because on the 30th you finished plague (after reset and name change)
  • May '09 - Kwondre was first spotted on the 25th right before raid reset.

Yup that sounds about

Kwondre — Tue, 07/07/2009 - 06:52

Yup that sounds about right

I've been fairly lucky with drops on my mage, and was able to gear up while trying to learn the ins and outs of being an 80 mage. Not 100% there yet, but I'm happy that I'm still progressing and not "capped out" skillwise yet.

Since I started playing again, I've been in Oni X the whole time (bunch of friends I played with in Classic), with whom I've raided 10 man hard modes and 25 man normal modes.

Its my pally that's actually been a real gear grind - because I'm not yet confident MT healing in ulduar or have the gear to melee dps in ulduar yet. And if you're not confident in single target MT healing, there's really no point to zoning in as holy. That being said, I'm applying as a mage - my pally and warrior are more downtime/change of pace characters to be played outside of 25 man hardmodes...basically they're GKP bots =)

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Not that anyone will make you

garreth — Mon, 07/06/2009 - 10:44

Not that anyone will make you do this, but super pro tip:

Grid shows debuffs that you can cleanse as icons in the middle of each Grid frame. Just create a mouseover macro:

/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover] Cleanse;

Or, if you prefer click casting, get Clique and bind your right mouse button to cleanse on Grid.

And BAM! Grid now acts as Decursive :)  Plus, with our raid addon, GridStatusRaidDebuff, you can see BOSS debuffs on your targets that you may not be able to cleanse, but can at least certainly find useful.

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*Ahem temporary posting

Lunchbox — Mon, 07/06/2009 - 07:27

*Ahem temporary posting jacking*  I should remind you that the thought of raiding came 2 days before G pounded raiding into me in an uncomfortable place.

That works for me

* We now return you to your scheduled Guild AP already in progress*

Updated UI Pic

Kwondre — Sun, 07/05/2009 - 18:11

Sorry for the delay...i update my UI pic for my mage UI...WITH Grid =)

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Did you check his reps saedo?

Lunchbox — Fri, 07/03/2009 - 10:14

Did you check his reps saedo?

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Revered with Kirin Tor,

saedo — Fri, 07/03/2009 - 10:21

Revered with Kirin Tor, Exalted with Hodir rep.   Friendly/Honored elsewhere.    So seems to did the reps that would get him his enchants, then just stopped doing any at all.     That's better then that one shaman we were carrying!  <3

fuck yea

poisondonut — Thu, 07/02/2009 - 14:49

It's been awhile since I've taken a look at a mage app and not had to facepalm.  Everything looks fantastic except for two things, as fireball spec, it would have been more beneficial to craft the sash of ancient power over the cord of the white dawn because fireball benefits more from haste than crit. Also, it has hit rating on it. 

You are not hit capped. assuming a draenei in group and misery on the target, you are 14 points from hit cap. my suggestion is to drop ring of the vacant eye, grab band of channeled magic, and sash of ancient power for cord of the white dawn and toss in two "veiled monarch topaz" gems to hit cap.  This is obviously limited by your access to runed orbs and badges, but in an ideal world, that would be the way to go for fireball. At the very least, you should gem hit till you cap.

All in all, a very good applicant on paper.

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Obligatory

garreth — Thu, 07/02/2009 - 10:14

Go get Grid and get used to it.  It's the only raid frames you'll ever need and works in tandem with all our raid mods.  And I'm also interested to see what your mage is rocking for a UI.

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Being nice to the new app?

Vitriola — Thu, 07/02/2009 - 09:57

No one has yelled to go get grid.  Nor has anyone mentioned that he is apping for his mage and shows a UI shot from his pallie.  DANG but you guys are being nice!  :)

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 You say you work on wall

cromi — Thu, 07/02/2009 - 08:59

 You say you work on wall street? Are you a broker, a runner, a CEO fired after a large blunder trying to make way up the ladder again working as a runner. And if you do work on wallstreet, your career is in a more stable postion, I haven't heard that in a while... Of course people that are smart know it is time to buy, well time to buy months ago. 

 Older players yes, more mature.... I'm not going to go there.

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Well there is 1 issue.   One

saedo — Thu, 07/02/2009 - 01:34

Well there is 1 issue.   One of the rings isn't enchanted.

But otherwise, yea, wtf is going on.    Someone that can gem and enchant and generally gear themselves properly?

Reign on Arthas huh, wasn't that the guild that transfered to Gorgonnash back around BWL days?

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Profile:

garreth — Thu, 07/02/2009 - 01:23

Profile: http://profiler.wowhead.com/?profile=us.gorgonnash.kwondre The first app in a long time that is geared adequately, gemmed correctly and enchanted fully. From a purely text-on-page perspective I vote "yes" and would like to extend an invite to you for our Yogg kill on Monday. Also, do you have any parses lying around that you're particularly proud of? I'd like to take a look.

Couple answers for you guys

Kwondre — Fri, 07/03/2009 - 09:48

1) I am hit capped depending on which items I equip.i've got http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45148 and http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45866. But http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45466 is the best trinket I have, and I will now go gem to make sure I've got 13% Hit pre Dranei/Moonkin/Misery benefits.

2) Ring isn't enchanted because i recently dropped enchanting to level tailoring. My cloak has the lightweave embroidery.

3) Unfortunately, I've never used Grid, but I will definitely read up on and familiarize myself with it before Monday. Nor have I saved any parses. It's only been about 2 months since returning to the game, and I'm still getting familiar with a lot of the new theorycrafting. My UI is identical for the mage, which is why I posted my pally. Sorry.

4) I've read a lot of theorycrafting on haste vs crit. Last night, I regemmed my +9SP /+9Crit gems to +9SP/+9 Haste. I'm really torn between the two, but Sash of AP would be better if I really needed the hit. But since my gear outside of that slot does not mandate more hit, I prefer the Cord. 

5) As for RL, I'm an Equity Research Analyst - meaning I advise Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds (Only $10 B+) on which stocks to buy. My specialty is consumer stocks. Beyond that, I'm actually not allowed to disclose much. And no i don't think I'm cool cause of that. My career is stable because I'm good at it, and despite all the bad press, Wall Street is a meritocracy - make money and you can stay.

6) Please feel free to criticize me more I can take it - so long as its along the "this is what you can do to be better" versus "you're an idiot for not being this"

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How dare an app tell us not

saedo — Fri, 07/03/2009 - 10:10

How dare an app tell us not to call him an idiot!!!!

I can't really find anything to complain about.   Damn this app is becoming boring.   You even get your profs high when switching over instead of like some that leave it god awful low for months.    

So you don't have Grid.   How do you currently handle decursing?

Decursing

Kwondre — Sat, 07/04/2009 - 00:05

I use decursive...it tells me what to decurse, as well as allowing me to set priorities (MT's, healers, etc). I just click a "grid" so to speak on the right side and poof, curses gone.

 

just regemmed

Kwondre — Fri, 07/03/2009 - 09:57

I regemmed two +SP/+Haste gems to +SP/+Hit to reach 13% cap pre raid buffs.

One controversy defused!, i hope...now gotta bbq and read about grid

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Also, mouseover that link. I

garreth — Thu, 07/02/2009 - 01:24

Also, mouseover that link. I just had a massive nerd-out seeing the new WoWHead profile mouseovers in action :)

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