Death Knight (Frost DPS) application

[Faydin]

* Name: Eric

* Age: 18

* Nationality: Norway

* Preferred method to contact you: Skype or MSN

* Play schedule availability: I play every day, mostly from I get home from school (15.00-16.00) and until I go to bed at 11.00-00.30. (Minus one little dinner-break around 18.00 ). (Mostly, things do come up sometimes.). The weekedn may be somewhat limeted as I often go to parties and or visit my girlfriend on weekends.

Mon: 15.00/16.00 - 11.00/00.30

Tue: 15.00/16.00 - 11.00/00.30

Wed: 15.00/16.00 - 11.00/00.30

Thu: 15.00/16.00 - 11.00/00.30

Fri: 15.00/16.00 - 11.00/00.30

Sat: 15.00/16.00 - 11.00/00.30

Sun: 15.00/16.00 - 11.00/00.30


Your Character

* Character Name: Faydin

* Server: Haomarush

* Level: 85

* Class: Death Knight

* Race: Goblin

* Armory Link: eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/haomarush/faydin/advanced

* Primary and Secondary Talents: Primary: Frost DPS (7/31/3). Secondary: Blood Tank (33/6/2).

* Profession 1: Enchanting (525)

* Profession 2: Jewelcrafting (523)

* First Aid: 525

* Cooking: 94

* Fishing: 393


Do you read theory about your class?


* How do you keep yourself up to date? I mostly read up on my class on Elitistjerks (Death Knight on Elitistjerks). Other than that I do google things I would like to know and need to know, like spesific hit and expertise caps (Although I do know them in my head (Never hurts to double-check)). From Elitistjerks I find all my information as to what gems and enchants I should get, what the stat weights are and so on, so that I'm getting max dps out of my gear.


* Which sites and forums do you visit to find out about your class? Like I said, mostly Elitisjerks (Death Knight on Elitistjerks)


* What addons do you use? I use quite a lot of addons, so I'm just gonna list them all: NPCScan, NPCScan.Overlay, Addon Control Panel, Advanced Trade Skill Window, Archy, Atlas, Atlasloot, Auctioneer, AutoRepair, Bartender, Blood Shield Tracker, Broker_TolBarad, Cartographer(Disabled), Crap Away!, DBM, EPGP, EPGPLootmaster, EventAlert, GearScore, InFlight Taxi Timer, Magic Runes, Mapster, Marking Bar, NeedToKnow(Disabled), Omen Threat Meter, OmniCC, oRA2(Disabled), Prat, Quartz, Recount, SexyMap, Shadowed Unit Frames, SmartEnchant, sRaidFrames(Disabled), TauntMaster, TipTac, Tina [Speed], Titan Panel, Titan Panel [DualSpec], Titan Panel [Recount], TomTom, X-Perl UnitFrames(Disabled) and Zoom!!!



Past PvE experiences

* Vanilla: Unfortunately, I was not able to raid anything in Vanilla, as my parents went batshit paranoid and forbade me to play World of Warcraft... I did enjoy my first 12 levels as a Hunter in Mulgore, though!


* The Burning Crusade: Didn't raid in TBC.


* Wrath of the Lich King: Here was when I started to play seriously, with a DK; Faydin, which has been my main since WotLK was released. I was in 2 guilds, the first one wasn't very good, we could only do like 4 bosses in ICC, so I left for a better guild, which had a lot more progression, 7 bosses I think, within little time (1 week). Unfortunately the officers were corrupt and robbed the guild bank and disbanded the guild, lots of fun!


* Have you taken any breaks from WoW before? As I said when my parents went paranoid (Rest assured it won't happen again as I'm 18 now xD). And when the final guild I was in in WotLK got disbanded I kinda ragequit WoW until Cataclysm was released.


* What guilds have you been in, and why have you left them? First, it was Safe Haven I think. Wasn't very happy with the progression rate of the guild and left for another guild called "Sequence". But like I said, this unfortunately got disbanded and robbed by the officers.


* Have you been in a position of responsibility in any of your previous guilds? In Sequence, I was Co-Class-Leader, as we had two DK-class leaders, I was for Frost and the other one was for Unholy.



Your ambitions

* What are your reasons for choosing PvE? I love PvE, it's all I do in WoW, I've never been very into PvP. PvE is a lot of fun, as we are a lot of people, together, working towards a common goal, in which all of us can progress our characters with new gear and new experiences. I always strive towards being the best in PvE of my friends, and also if I'm in a Random HC group I always try to top the dps (And I most often do, if I might say so). I kinda think of PvE (for dpsers) as a friendly competition where one strives to be the best, yet keeping the bigger picture close, so that the raid goes before a single-persons dps (god knows how many wipes dps-greed has caused.. ). Simply put, it's what I want to excell at in WoW.


* Why do you want to become part of Team Liquid? I saw Syrix's add in the Trade-chat and I thought the guild looked interresting, as I'm currently not in a raiding-guild, which I really really wanna be. I asked him about the guild (thanks for the friendly information, btw , and it did look like a guild that had true potential for raiding and I wan't to be part of that experience. I really think I can contribute to the guild with good dps and the ability to read tactics and memorize them before fights, so that tactics shouldn't be a problem.


* Are you active in-game outside of raids? I'm very active Too active, some might say x) I do 25 dailies every day, I do random HC every day, and maybe a couple more HC's just for fun. I also spend some time on the AH; trying to keep my economics in check And sometimes I hit the weekly Arenapoints-cap with one of my friends.

Miscellaneous

* Where have you heard of Team Liquid WoW guild? As I said earlier, I saw Syrix's add in the Trade-chat in OG, and I thought it sounded interresting.

* Do you have any other information to add that you'd like us to know about you? Not really.. I'm a nice person, I never get angry, I'm quite patient and a flawless internet-connection with 10mb down and 10mb up.

* Post infight-screenshot from your UI, including keybindings:

(Please note that I had not started dpsing the boss at this point xD That's merely the diseases' dps

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[Aintnotroll]

Some things I'd like to ask,

1) why do you play frost? This is not criticism of any sort, just curious.
2) as I can see you are neither hit nor expertise capped, yet you reforged and gemmed mastery at some points, why is that?
3) you skill On a Pale Horse instead of Endless Winter, what is the reasoning behind that?


-troll

[Faydin]

Thanks for replying
For the questions:
1) Earlier, in WotLK, I played blood dps, as I thought that was the most fun, but at one point I was asked to respecc Frost dps to benefit my guild with the raid-wipde attack/cast speed buff, so I did (I'm not squeamish about changing specs and other things like that for the guild). I found out it's really a fun spec to play, and have played it ever since I've never been particulary fond of Unholy spec, think it has to do with the pet And as of now, the dps difference between Unholy and Frost is a mere ~1,5%, unfortunately in Unholy's favour, so it's still a very good dps spec, and as I am very used to and comfortable with Frost, I am confident that I would do better dps in Frost than Unholy, even if it's ~1,5% ahead. I like Frost (Although I'm DW now, I might change to 2H when 4.0.6 is released, as the 2H spec will recieve a buff of 12% weapon damage).
2) Well, I'm in a bit of a tricky spot atm, concerning reforging, but I just visited the reforger and I got it a bit more accurate, I'm now almost perfectly capped, as I have 8,01% hit and 26/26 expertise Before, it was 7,96% and 25/25, but I didn't see the way to reforge it to a better result, but it's fixed now. (And by the way the reason I reforge Mastery is because it's the best stat after strength > Hit to cap > Expertise to cap. And I tried to make it work, not over-capping myself, just a slight thoughtless moment that had me under the caps.
3) Up to now, quite frankly, it's just been for the practical reason of increased mount speed. It's a nice addition when you fly around doing so much dailies as I do And of course the movement reduction reduction (xP) does come in handy in one boss fight or two (and in arenas). As I haven't been in a raiding-guild up until now I haven't seen the benefit of switching to Endless Winter, although it was always my plan to switch to it if I got into a raiding guild So if you accept me, I will respecc for Endless Winter (as not having enough Runic Power to interrupt a boss' abilities could be fatal).

Sorry, it got kinda long there Thanks for reading, Faydin

[Aintnotroll]

Thank you for the reply, you will hear from me/us sometime today.

[pappahealar]

Whether or not you get accepted or not I have to kudos you for a well written application. You don't see those too often. But I can see that you put some time into your application =)

[Aintnotroll]

We have serious trouble with your application, hence the delay.

Thing is we have atleast 200 dk's more or less active but I like your app alot. We'll do some serious talking about you.

[Faydin]

That's ok, a delay is a minor obstacle
You just take your time, it's important to make sure your decision is well tought out and the right.
And thanks, pappahealer