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A good PvE'er but better PvP'er offers his Shaman

KeithC19 — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 17:02

Character Info
Name: 
Keiffer
Server: 
Tortheldrin
Race: 
Draenai
Class: 
Shaman
Role: 
Healing
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Raid Experience: 

If you do not feel like deciphering this here is a summary. I have been around since Beta and raided every instance to last boss kill. I remember every fight and continue to do so with every new encounter.

I will start from BETA to original : 40 mans : Scholomance, Stratholme, BRS, AQ, (then as proceeded the converted 25 - 10 - 5 mans they became) MC BWL NAXX. Other sizes, ZG. Then there is BC, 25 mans SSC, TK, MH, BT, SW. 10 man ZA. WOTLK Ulduar 25/10 VOA 10/25
May have forgotten some :(

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What timezone are you in?: 
SOUTH JERSEY WUT WUT
Tell us a little about yourself.: 
I am 20. I have the following: blonde hair, blue eyes, i am 5'10 160 pounds. I work out 3-4 times a week. I am in community college and I enjoy playing World of Warcraft in my spare time. It does not come first in my life. Nor will it ever, nor should it be for anyone. Once you stop having fun in this game, you lose all sight of what should be a fun recreational activity. Not to say much hard work does not turn into satisfactory enjoyment.
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Lunchbox's picture

As a healer there really is

Lunchbox — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 06:56

As a healer there really is no excuse for not having your trinkets macrod.  Most of the healing trinkets I run into are short recharge like a minute or so and any boss fight will go at least 5 mins minimum.  You really don't need to save the trinket unless it has like a 30 mins cooldown.  But if it is a short recharge rate you should be using as much as possible.

One perfectly exceptable

Ardea — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 12:00

One perfectly exceptable excuse: None of my trinkets are macroed... none of mine have an "on use".

I wouldn't macro the Darkmoon Card into my cast either. I would hotkey a separate macro for it's use.

Are we in the Knit-picky phase?

 the only healing trinket i

KeithC19 — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 08:59

 the only healing trinket i had was the darkmoon faire 1200 mana back. with its 5 minute cooldown you really only used it once per boss fight, so i pooped it at around 90% mana.  its a waste to use it near 100.  and I rarly used it twice on the same fight.

Prime8's picture

Sorry about ditching vent

Prime8 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 21:11

Sorry about ditching vent earlier, my power went out while we were talking. I think most of the math regarding trinkets is you get the most average benefit by macroing them. Certain fights (heart phase for XT comes to mind) you want to control when you use them. Its pretty easy to comment them out of your macros though.

#showtooltip nuke spell

/use 13

#use 14

/cast nuke spell

The second trinket is commented out, and won't get popped.

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I should have taken another

Prime8 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 12:07

I should have taken another look at your armory profile before that last post. Theres a couple of comments I have on enchants, gems etc.

You've still got that spell pen gem in your helm. From what you said on vent, you've got a replacement for that.

No enchant on your cloak, 23 haste should be there.

No BS Socket in your belt, that's another 20 haste you've given up.

SP/Spirit enchant on your pants (and its the cheap one). That should be the SP/stam enchant. Spirit does nothing for us, a little extra stam never hurts.

Everything else looks good. No set bonuses makes me a sad panda, especially since you've obviously spent a lot of emblems on other gear. That said, I understand sometimes you have to take the quick upgrade, rather than holding out for the big one. Do you have a full set of t7.5? If so, it will outperform the gear you have on now. Gearing up in ulduar, I didn't use any of my Conq gear until I had the 2p bonus, then I started using 2pt7 and 2pt8 until I had my 4pt8.

4/4 8.5 > 2/2 8.5+2/2 7.5 > 4/4 7.5 > 0/2 or 0/4 anything. At this point in the game (with conquest emblems flowing like wine) I wouldn't bother going back and picking up the old tier peices if you don't already have them. I would make the 8.5 chest a priority though.

 

Mix up

KeithC19 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 12:31

 Unfortuantly, armory did not show my raiding gear.  I have four sets of gear, pve resto, pvp ele, pve ele, and pvp resto.  I am sure all the gear was mixed up.  I am posting a link of the gear i plan to come with

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Hey Keith, does your

Prime8 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 11:51

Hey Keith, does your current/old guild parse it's raids? I'd like to take a look at your spell usage, overhealing, that sort of thing.

I noticed your manually popping your trinkets, rather than macroing them to one of your spells. Is there a reason for that?

Whats an appropriate use of Hex in a raid setting? (BTW Salmon, when I was talking to Keith on vent, he called Thunderstorm CLUTCH).

When and how are you using Wind Shear? Do you have a target of target or mouseover macro for it?

I noticed you still have 1 bound to attack. You can save yourself an action bar spot if you take it off. If you're used to hitting 1 to start attacking, try setting it to tilde (~ if you go into blizzard's keybinding interface you can set a key to attack target there, without it being on the action bar).

You can also make macros for your damage spells with the line "/startattack" at the beginning. This is more useful for enhance DPS, since there are times when you're surrounded by mobs, and you've tabbed through or assisted a tank and hit SS, but the damn thing is just out of range, or you lead with a MW 5 stack.

What healing assignment do you get on Assembly of Iron, Thorim, and Yogg?

Please get Totem Timers. Even if you just try it out. You can take every single one of your totems off your action bars. I do see flasks on the action bars, which is a big bonus. That tells me you bring consumables to raid. Speaking of consumables, what's your favorite food (IRL and buff food for both specs in game)?

Couple things

KeithC19 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 16:51

 I manually pop trinkets so I get more of a benefit.  I.E. not during a waste phase, with other classes buffs proccing, heroism, etc.  I legitametely used hex instinctively when a mage or cc'er died and i had to hex to make up for it.  Actually happened once or twice.  i have a mouse over bound to shift+f.    My healing assignments have aways been raid in 25.  Once I healed the tank during ignis 25.  That was it.   Getting those mods now.

Prime8's picture

Totem timers finally got an

Prime8 — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 10:25

Totem timers finally got an update to work with our new totem mechanics. It looks like they've made it so RaidTotems will set the totems to the Call of X spell you specify, that's pretty awesome. I liked the older version's weapon imbue better though. What do you think so far?

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Thank you, and sorry for

Lunchbox — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 10:54

Thank you, and sorry for being a hard ass.  I wasn't accusing you of C+P, it just felt a little more technical for my tastes of the explanation, but I feel you have the essence of what the class will bring to the raid and that was what I was looking for but thats fine. 

No problem

KeithC19 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 12:12

I encourage the hard questions and difficult ones.  Be honest.  I just wanted to make sure people didn't think I was plagarising.  If you have any other questions feel free to ask. 

Lunchbox's picture

Google would have answered

Lunchbox — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 12:25

Google would have answered that question if I was that intense about it.  Like I said not a big deal :)

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Hmm.  While your description

Lunchbox — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 09:10

Hmm.  While your description of what your class brings to raid was very detailed, it felt very very scripted to me.  Can you sum it up in your own words for me please, as it's easy to regurgitate what is used for what, but I didn't quite get the sense of your own terms of what you bring to the table for our raids as a Shaman.

If you want me to chastise him Shi I will. 

Absolutly

KeithC19 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 10:01

I will try to be as brief as possible and break it down.  

Healing:     I bring four totems with the following attributes: low aoe heal, spell haste, spell power, and armor.  I cast one buff earthshield, it can heal a tank or a caster.   I cast one heal over time buff, riptide.  It is pretty good.  I have one primary heal, chain heal, which can cast another heal over time proc on people.  I am used primarly as a raid healer.   Apart from that I can bring 1% hit which does not help the healer group I am usually in.

DPS:  You have a support consistent long dps'er.  So while everyone fluctuoates between aspect of viper or evocation I just keep dishing out the dps.  My main aspect is actually my totems.  I bring spell power and 3% CIRT, spell haste, low heal, and armor.   For casters I bring 5% spell crit in the absence of a boomkin.   If you calculate everyones increase in dps from the 3% crit they get, add it to my dps, I would usually be on top.  Other than that you look for me near the bottom of the meters above the tanks.  I would say ~3500 dps is where I am at.  I also bring 1% hit, a significant upgrade.  

I absolutly did not script that, I tried to write a long extensive description.  

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I disagree Box, I'm not sure

Aidin — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 09:32

I disagree Box, I'm not sure why you think it is scripted...I got the impression that he spent quite a bit of time typing that whole thing up.  While maybe he could have done a little copy paste, who could fault him for that...he typed a friggin wall.  Most people would say "I r shaman I chain cast chain hax, I win".

Make sure you /join dfrecruit.  Lots and Lots of 10 mans going on.  Exis-howevertheyspellitthisweek Rabbit and Git-R-Done are almost always looking for fillers.  Good way to get your name out there.

Appreciated

KeithC19 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 10:03

Thanks, I appreciate the tip.  Hope to look out for you during some 10 mans.  Wanted to add not one line of that was copy pasted. 

Aidn sniping my comments.

Felsteel — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 10:01

Aidn sniping my comments. grrrr :P

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I like this dude. He is a

Foresight — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 03:07

I like this dude. He is a healer and deeps, thats always awesome! Funny guy that knows his shit is full of win imo. I would like to talk to old boy in vent...get to know him...take him out to dinner...maybe a backrub...then....well I will stop there. Im joking! I kid I kid! But seriously I woulsd like to see you perform and see how he does. So far I like him!

/Salute

 Thank you for your support

KeithC19 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 09:53

 Thank you for your support Foresight.  Greatly apprecaite it.

Raid Salmon Needs You (now...

Ardea — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 18:31

Raid Salmon Needs You (now... log in)!

/join DFRecruit

T,W, TH 6 to 9pm Server time.

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I've been on vent talking to

Prime8 — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 17:26

I've been on vent talking to Keith for awhile about the app process. He pst'ed me at random and I did what I usually do when someone asks to talk to an officer about guild recruitment, I directed him to the site and explained the application process may take some time, with the expectation that he would give the "I HAS TO APLY? LOL FUCK THAT LOL" response that I usually get. Instead, it looks like he's given the application more consideration than any other app I can remember, and asked to come on vent to talk about the server, since he's thinking about transfering here.

There were some things I noticed with his spec that I didn't like, particularly the imp reincarnate for resto vs 5/5 TW, and HW vs healing focus. We talked about it on vent, but I'll let him explain it.

Seems like a cool guy. I'm interested to see what his pve gear looks like.

Yea a little explanation

KeithC19 — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 17:39

 I saw the need for cookie cutters and I know the one for shaman healing.  I changed the two points because it was actually benefical in my last guild and I knew I could get away with the 40% proc rate.  The 4% bonus you lose over the two points seems insignificant at the time, but if it is required I will re spec.  Although individual advnaces might show here and there, I understand the need for consistency with the highest percent probability of raid sucess.

garreth's picture

Knows his shit. Has a passion

garreth — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 17:22

Knows his shit. Has a passion for the game. Reminds me of 'Rupta without the bear-feathers. I had his wowhead profile up with his healing gear on and a refresh showed me his current pvp spec/gear.

This is a good player. What classes/roles are we missing most in guild?

Shihli's picture

Not going to chastise him for

Shihli — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 17:36

Not going to chastise him for lacking mods?  :)

We've mostly been lacking dps as of late.

I hear you like pvp, I like

Disrupter — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 22:57

I hear you like pvp, I like pvp too, lets be friends!

Caster cleave awaaaaaaay.

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I'm always looking for a good

Dragon — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 08:41

I'm always looking for a good shaman healer for Arenas on my arms warrior.

That being said, with Rupta and you we might actually be able to get a good 5s team going of just guildies :D

Warning

KeithC19 — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 10:08

Got to let you know my resil gear as of now is really low, and I am working on it. 

Yup

KeithC19 — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 17:43

Prime had stressed to me this guild's passion for grid.  I have found healbot to be near the same but if it is change that must be made, all I need is someone to walk me through the setup.

We are mainly looking for

Shinzwei — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 17:33

We are mainly looking for Staying outa Shit classes and Dont Die roles ;>

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