APPROVED - App: Sfarha123 - by GM Fright

[Sfarha123]

The application submitted by Sfarha123 is as follows:

[Sfarha123]

http://www.guildox.com/go/g.asp?a=8&p=heavi&r=Suramar-us

Make sure you hit Update at the top:D

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[GM Fright]

Thanks for redoing it. Some of our members will probably try and do a few heroic runs with you, and they might have some questions to ask of you here. Do your best to accomodate, and give us a little time to discuss your application, and we'll get back with you as soon as we're able. Definitely before the next raid lock-out reset.

Thanks again,
-Fright

[Tavie]

Greetings Heavi and thanks for the app.

I must confess reviewing your armory makes me one confused druid.

1. You seem to have the healing boots equipped, but neither of your specs are resto. /confused

2. Your inscriptions on both specs looks as if you are not sure what role you are going to be doing. If this is a PVP thing could you please explain your rationale, cause it is not intuitive? How would you glyph for PVE?

3. Your reforging seems much like you are trying to split the difference between tanking/dpsing. What role would you prefer to raid with? In that role, how would you optimize your gear to min/max your ability to fit that role?

4. How would you approach min/maxing the role you didn't choose in question 3 above? I ask this because druids are quite versatile, it might be necessary for you to be a flex role for us.

5. Because of the boots you have and your glpyhs, do you have a resto set and do you have experience with healing in Cata? Is that something you might be interested in if so?

Look forward to hearing your responses

[Masticrom]

Taking a look at your gear, im gonna say mainly that your apping as a tank, with DPS, which your specs look pretty solid on that, but still some questions for you.

Looking at your tanking spec, give me a rundown on your thought process with these talents, King of the Jungle, Stampede, Endless Carnage, Infected Wounds and Feral Aggression. Now with those talents, I would you to tell me how you believe they hurt or enhance your threat and dmg mitigation as a bear tank.

Could you please give and explaination of your current glyphs choices for your tank spec, and the reasons your chose them, also as to why you left a minor one un-used?

What is your mind set for gearing/enchanting/reforging a bear tank? Are you Pro-Mastery/Stam or Pro-Agil/Dodge?

[Sfarha123]

Hey guys, To tavie, I would like to say, if you are looking at Bloodthirsty boots, i dotn wear those, Wow-heroes must be a bit messed up. I dont have not one piece of PvP gear in my tank set. My offspec is DPS. I have no idea why it says resto>.-
But yea, i dont mix my tank set with dps. I stack agility as a bear because it gives me Crit, dodge, and AP. I focus on mitigation. Agility gives me all the mitigation because, When i Crit, I absorb(mastery). And dodge? Dodge is what makes a bear tank. And yes, i reforged mastery alot so I can absorb alot. Has nothing to do with DPS. theres your rundown:D

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[Sfarha123]

By the way, I accidently had healing boots on=/ WOW lol.... Yea I equipped my tanking boots. Sorry about that. WoW Equipment manager is messing up

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[Tavie]

Thanks for clearing up the issue with your boots, however, I just wanted to point out we are waiting for answers to the other questions asked above.

thanks

[Sfarha123]

3. Your reforging seems much like you are trying to split the difference between tanking/dpsing. What role would you prefer to raid with? In that role, how would you optimize your gear to min/max your ability to fit that role?
Well, Bear tank is a Similar to Feral dps. You may think that mastery reforging is dps stuff but its not. Its a plus to my mastery. Nothing I reforge has to do with DPS.

4. How would you approach min/maxing the role you didn't choose in question 3 above? I ask this because druids are quite versatile, it might be necessary for you to be a flex role for us.
I can dps. I have some Epics for DPS that i may start using for my set. I do not mind Dps'ing at all.

5. Because of the boots you have and your glpyhs, do you have a resto set and do you have experience with healing in Cata? Is that something you might be interested in if so?
I do have a resto set but do not heal anymore. My glyphs need to be removed but theres nothing HUGE to replace them with. My main glyphs are all set.

Could you please give and explaination of your current glyphs choices for your tank spec, and the reasons your chose them, also as to why you left a minor one un-used?
My current glyph choices were made for A better mangle. Mangle hits hard and causes alot of threat. Having a 10percent bonus to Mangle increases threat. I have a barkskin glyph to reduce crit strike chance on me when i use it. And then I have Maul glyph. When i use it, I'm able to hit 2 ppl instead of one. That helps as another AoE.

What is your mind set for gearing/enchanting/reforging a bear tank? Are you Pro-Mastery/Stam or Pro-Agil/Dodge?
My mind set in bear tank is MITIGATION. To me, if a bear tank does anything else, he's wrong. Im currently at a 35 percent dodge rate while other bears are at 29-30percent. Why? They decide to stack Stamina which I do not believe in. I've had healers tell me they love healing me even on the Chimaeron fight. I have dodged his double attacks which is a big relief for healers. I am also Pro-Agil/Dodge. Agility provides alot To a bear. It gives Crit, dodge, and AP. All of three which a bear really needs. When I crit, i absorb which helps alot. I do have mastery in there also to absorb more. That helps mitigate a bit of damage.

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[Masticrom]

[Sfarha123]

Looking at your tanking spec, give me a rundown on your thought process with these talents, King of the Jungle, Stampede, Endless Carnage, Infected Wounds and Feral Aggression. Now with those talents, I would you to tell me how you believe they hurt or enhance your threat and dmg mitigation as a bear tank.

King of Jungle: I did not spec into this. I feel like my damage and threat is pretty much good and the talent points arent worth this spec. If i had Threat problems, Iwould probably spec into that and use My enrage before I pull. However, Idont.

Stampede: I spec'd into this simply for the faster threat gain after my opening charged. Pretty simple talent.

Endless Carnage: This increases my Pulverize duration. Pulverize increases my crit chance. If that is up for a long time, I crit alot. When I crit, I absorb. Helps alot.

Infected Wounds:I spec'd into this so that my mangle and maul slows the target and slows the attack speed. Slower attack speed causes damage to come in slower. Not as fast.

Feral Aggression: I spec'd into this simply for the 2 stacks of Faerie Fire. Faerie fire reduces armor AND causes a high threat, when I apply two stacks at once, it helps alot with threat and armor reduction.

Now, With my glyphs. Like i said, I stopped healing. To be TOTALLY HONEST, im still in the process of removing them. I will have them removed tomorrow. They arent supposed to be there. Glyph of bark skin is in my list but not activated. My glyphs will be fixed by tomorrow.

Lastly, My current absorption is 75 percent.

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[Masticrom]

Thanks for answer my questions Heavi, good luck with the app!

[Tavie]

While I agree with your general approach to reforging, I am confused why you reforge to Hit on your weapon? Hit is a near useless stat for Bear tanks, so why reforge into it?

Also, you seemed to have dodged the question about how you would optimize your gear if you were kitty dps?
I am just another opinion around here, but we seem pretty solid in the tanking department, so the raid would have more flexibility if we use you as flex tank. This leaves you dpsing potentially a good bit of the time.

I am also surprised you find so little value in the lacerate and beserk glyphs. Both increase dmg and thus threat, why would you prefer swiftmend ever over either of those as a tank. Very few glyphs are an incredible boost to any class, but most provide some marginal benefit. As these two do, so I am perplexed why you would not change them on your own terms instead of having us point it out. Especially coming to the conclusion that your "main glyphs are set"

While I appreciate you have addressed the comments that have been made here, the real question I have is this. Are you sure you are ready to raid in a progression guild? Ideally that means 25 people who are working hard to be their best Mon-Wed and bringing 110% to each raid. Are you sure you are up for that? I question this because from where I sit, you have not put 110% into your app with us.

It is not my intention to be mean, but in my opionion a good tank doing heroic progression needs pay attention to detail. Your app says to me, you don't pay attention to detail. I am raising this here so you can speak to this concern, I have heard you do well in the normal raiding content, are you prepared to take it to the next level? Normal content for the most part, is a cake walk.

Look forward to hearing from you..

[Sfarha123]

Hey Tavie, Masticus and I kinda Sorted out the problems with my glyphs. I used to heal, and i had those glyphs. Idon't know why I forgot to activate my old tank ones. I had already learned them, forgot to activate them. I reforged to hit on my weapon because I had a few problems with missing. I decided to raise my hit up a little bit. Seeing that there was NO difference, last night, i reforged a lot of things different. I don't know why Wow-heroes hasent updated it... I know alot about my class and don't lack on any part. I also do feel like I am ready for a 25 man Heroic Progression guild because of the fact that I do know about my class. P.S Last night, I fixed my glyphs, I am not that dimwitted to use Swiftmend glyphs in a bear spec.

About my Cat spec. To optimize that, I would be using some old gear I replaced(Still epics). In a cat spec, I'd reforge alot of things to mastery. I would be iffy about CAPPING on hit because cats are pretty much like rogues. We have constant and quick damage. Not alot of Cd's.

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[Sfarha123]

Btw, Tavie, When sent me a tell earlier, i was AFK. If you want to talk some more in game. Im on right now, You can send me a tell.

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