Jacklight - Mage

[Jack]

General

Name: Jacklight
Class: Mage
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Armory: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kil%27jaeden&n=Jacklight


What are your professions? Alchemy + Enchanting


PVE talent build: Arcane PvE/Frost PvE


Our raidtimes are Sunday --> Thursday 6:00 pm PST to 12:00 am PST during progression. Can you meet this demanding schedule during times of progression?

Yes. I have semi-intermittent family commitments but I make my own schedule in advance.


Will you play at all outside of scheduled raid times? Yes. I log on daily.


Have you read and do you understand our guild charter? The guild charter is located at viewtopic.php?f=35&t=22

Yes.


Character Details

Tell us about your PVE experience? What have you raided?

I started playing in Beta4. I progressed through MC as a Horde priest until a week before BWL was released, when I had to quit playing.

I came back on a mage two months before TBC was released and did ZG and AQ20, then progressed up to Magtheridon before changing to a Horde paladin. I ended up healing and tanking through TK, MH, BT and pre-nerf Sunwell. During this time I also co-lead a static group that successfully farmed Amani War Bears every reset for 4 consecutive months. I also progressed a rogue into BT.

I continued to tank and dps as a paladin into T7. I was one of the tanks in my guild's server 2nd OS 3D kill. Due to server overpopulation, I chose to take a free xfer to another server, where I continued to tank and dps into Ulduar 25 hard modes.

Due to server underpopulation, and the announcement that Alliance were getting Worgen, I decided to abandon the Horde and rerolled on Kil'jaeden. I started here with a warlock and progressed through heroic ToC 10, and then decided to switch to a mage because of the latest warlock nerf.

As a mage I have killed every current boss except Prof. Putricide and Blood Queen Lana'thel.


Friends/Family currently in HiJ(not required, just curious):

No one.


Prior guilds and reasons for leaving: (if you are a transfer please talk to us in game or via PM):

My present guild consists largely of people who do not have the same dedication level as I do. I'm looking to play a better game.

Before that I was guilded with a few people who rerolled here with me, but most of them have since /wowquit or gone to play on other servers. Previous to this I was Horde on Drak'Tharon. I honestly don't remember the names of the guilds I was in then.

Important Section

Why do you want to join us and what can you offer? Sell yourself to us. (This is especially important if you are undergeared)

I raided with HiJ once before and I was profoundly impressed by the level of excellence displayed. I made it a goal to prepare myself to be able to raid at such a consistently high level ever since. In the interim, I haven't had the time IRL to dedicate fully to raiding, and as such could not apply until I had the requisite gear and experience with the mage.

I want to raid as long as it takes each week to get everything done as efficiently as possible.


On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst, 10 being the best) How would you rate your ability to take, often times very harsh critisism? Do you take it and learn from it or are you a whining little bitch who will /gquit as soon as someone says anything in his general direction?

11. I get off on it.


What is your role in raids and how does a good player excel at this role to be considered strong at their class?

I shut up and do what I'm told while striving to achieve the maximum possible total damage done.


Do you have a microphone and are you capable of talking on vent?

Yes.


What is your ideal set of items (Please include items from patch 3.3)?

Sanctified Bloodmage Hood
Blood Queen's Crimson Choker
Sanctified Bloodmage Shoulderpads
Frostbinder's Shredded Cape
Sanctifed Bloodmage Robe
Ether-Soaked Bracers
\Sanctified Bloodmage Gloves
Crushing Coldwraith Belt
Leggings of Woven Death
Plague Scientist's Boots
Ashen Band of Endless Destruction
Valanar's Other Signet Ring
Dislodged Foreign Object
Reign of the Unliving
Frozen Bonespike
Shadow Silk Spindle
Corpse-Impaling Spike


Major Glyphs: Arcane Blast + Arcane Missles + Molten Armor


Upload a SS of your UI to imageshack or photobucket and give us a link to it so that we can see your keybinds:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1049/jacklight.jpg
Numerous UI elements in this image are not generally visible.


Post a WWS report / World of Logs / Wow Meter Online showing a recent raid:
http://wowwebstats.com/pip1glkjwc3m3?s=bossdown
http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/11406173#damageout

[Wilkz]

- Good use of diction in your app, always appreciated.

- Your UI seems like a mess....what is the huge thing in the center of the screen and what's the significance of it? (beyond the "4" which obviously relates to arcane blast stacks)

- Your (looks like Quartz) bars overlap? Uh....why? lol

- I don't play a mage so I won't comment on gear/spec/gem choices.

- I'm just going to ask because I know someone will...no TOGC 25 kills and no Insanity on 10man? What's the problem there?

- What's the deal with the family obligations? We don't need to know what those obligations are, but what type of time chunk / frequency are we talking about and how much will it affect raiding?

[jilli]

short and sweet. you lost to ovilas mage on rotface when you outgear him. also, he got infected more than you did. dont respond, its a no.

[Jack]

- Your UI seems like a mess....what is the huge thing in the center of the screen and what's the significance of it? (beyond the "4" which obviously relates to arcane blast stacks)

The circles represent active cooldowns; Icy Veins, Missile Barrage, Clearcasting, Arcane Blast, and there's one for Black Magic when I'm using a weapon that has it. They are usually not all visible and when they are it's not for long. Additionally the TellMeWhen panel in the middle left can be made smaller as I see fit. The action buttons in the lower left are not usually seen, I've long since memorized my keyboard layout. Recount is not usually displayed during an encounter.

- Your (looks like Quartz) bars overlap? Uh....why? lol

The large casting bar in the upper middle is for my target, it's huge so I know when to Counterspell if that is called for.

- I'm just going to ask because I know someone will...no TOGC 25 kills and no Insanity on 10man? What's the problem there?

I'm relatively new to this server and the crowd that I've fallen in with isn't interested in excelling. My Mad Skill achievement came with 49 attempts left, after that 8 out of 10 people said "I guess that's good enough" and never went back. Other achievements that I've accomplished on Kil'jaeden can be seen on my warlock, http://www.wowarmory.com/character-achievements.xml?r=Kil%27jaeden&cn=Papaj&gn=Cunning+Linguist

- What's the deal with the family obligations? We don't need to know what those obligations are, but what type of time chunk / frequency are we talking about and how much will it affect raiding?

Other than taking a night off about once a month, it won't affect raiding at all.

[Jack]

short and sweet. you lost to ovilas mage on rotface when you outgear him. also, he got infected more than you did. dont respond, its a no.

Neither of those parses are very good and do not represent the best possible performance, but they're the two most recent things that I've done and that's what you asked for. Additionally the ICC report comes from the first time I went to the 25 Plagueworks, so while the damage done is pretty shitty, I consider it to be not absolutely terrible for progression attempts.

If you want to judge the whole of my 5 years experience playing this game on a single parse, you're welcome to do that.

[finer]

We're currently fine on mages right now so we're going to pass on this app.