Deleyna - Resto Druid

bubblezcasto — Fri, 05/16/2008 - 12:19

Character Info

Information about the character.

Character Name:

Deleyna

Race:

Night Elf

Character Class:

Druid

Character Level:

lvl 70

Total play time at level 70:

9 days 23 hours

Total play time:

30 days

Average play time per week:

In all honesty, I'm a wow addict. If I'm at home & not busy with stuff around the house I play wow. I'd say anywhere from 4-6 hours a day most days.

Good computer/internet connection?:

Yes

What is your average latency?:

184 ms

Server you are currently on:

Gorgonnash

How long have you been on the above server?:

I've been on gorgonnash since I started playing wow over a year & half ago

Raiding

What talent build do you use to raid?:

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=0ZZxEsteqrest This is my raiding build. I enjoy healing the raid & keeping people alive. I respec during the week for dailys so my profile may be feral. I have a decent tanking set, not good, but ok to off tank kara so I'm told. My feral dps set is lacking, well, alot. It's mostly just a tanking set with a few dps pieces. Leveling up in "my guild" I was always the tank, when we had more people online each day we would do at least one instance each day, and I always tanked so I honestly didnt worry much about my dps set.

Tell us a little about how your class contributes to a raid.:

Mark of the Wild, Rebirth is a very important. Also Innervate is very helpful towards the healers in the raid. Seems I rarely run out of mana so i usually try to keep an eye on the other healers mana as well, and use it when needed on who needs it the most.

What role are you most comfortable/geared playing?:

Healing

Would it be a problem if you had to wait 3 weeks or 3 months to get into raid?:

No it wouldn't be a problem for me. I have been pugging Kara for the last few weeks, and I'm sure there are plenty of people online to chat with, run Heroics with & maybe do Kara. I have been playing Wow for over a year. It took me forever to level my lock to 70 and I lost interest with her lately. I originally had Deleyna as my 29 twink just for fun, and one day just decided to level her. I was amazed how quickly i leveled to 70. I had always wanted to raid with my lock, but being in a small guild (most of us are friends outside of wow) with so many people that just want to rush to 70 but never really see anything after that.. I never got the oportunity to join in a Kara run until my druid. I have quickly become "a raider" and I really look forward to seeing some content outside of Kara. I also want to get a bit better feral set as well, because like I said I enjoy doing both. Plus the weekly respec because lets face it, who Really want to do dailys or Rep grind as resto?

List the instances you have experience in, and the farthest you have been in that instance.:

I have experience in all the 5 man instances in outlands. I recently have started doin more Heroics. I have full cleared Kara many times now and feel i know kara very well, not only from a healer's prospective but also as dps on my warlock. I have "tryed" to pug Mag's Lair & Gruuls as well on several occasions but they never make it all the way through. I think it in the most part was too many people that really didnt understand what they were supposed to be doing. Usually there are people that leave after the first wipe, then you have to replace them, lose more etc. The most successful attempt on Mag we got him to 14% and we wiped. I joined in on The Eye once but that as well was not succesful. I realize that 25 mans are pretty hard to pug. I leveled as feral & have tanked most of the outlands instances as well. I enjoy tanking as much as healing but I am a better geared healer than tank. I didnt start playing Wow til after BC so i never really had much experience with any pre-BC raids. Although I have went to ZG once for a mount run, and helped kill Ysondre twice.

What is your favorite 25-man BC Boss encounter, and why?:

So far from what I have experience in I enjoyed Mag's its a bit different. But I haven't been in many.

What is your least favorite 25-man BC Boss encounter, and why?:

No least favorite 25 man since i havent experienced many.

General Questions

List your pertinent alts, as well as their classes and levels:

Casto - 70 human lock (was originally my main but I enjoy my druid more) [aff/demo mix] Crixianna - 47 dranaie Shaman [enhance] and ton of "bored" alts that aren't worth mentioning

Is this app for your main alone, or would you like to bring alts over as well?:

Main only

Why should we recruit you?:

I'm a mature adult, I enjoy raiding. I think I would be a good asset to Downfall because I'm a very friendly & outgoing person. I like to make people laugh. I don't get offended easily & I take constructive critism well. I am willing to respec when needed & do often go out of my way to help people out, although that is not nessicarily a good thing all the time. I pride myself on doing the best that I am capable of, and if I see or am told there are things I could do or should to to better my performance I will do what is needed.

Why have you chosen to apply to Downfall?:

I am looking for a guild that I can progress in & see some content past Kara. I enjoy Kara but I feel I am capable of going further than that & would like the oportunity to do so.

What do you expect to get out of Downfall membership?:

I hope to see content past kara & have a good "home" with the guild if I am accepted. Hopefully more raiding than I am currently doing.

How do you feel you will contribute to the downfall community?:

I try to be the best that I can be. I am a friendly person & try to help people out as much as possible.

Do you have any references in Downfall?:

How long do you intend to stay in Downfall?:

As long as I am welcomed.

What things might cause you to leave?:

If I was ever to quit wow (not likely) or horrible experience with a majority of the guild. I am not a quitter, I try to work out my differences I have with people & if problems can't be resolved I know how to use the ignore feature the situation calls for it

If you are applying to raid, which nights can you raid?:

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Are you going to burn out?:

Anything else you would like to add?:

Days/Nights available to raid is questionable. It really depends on what time the raid is. I work all night shift & I'm on the east coast. I'm off on weekends which is when I do most of my raiding. But I am available almost every day for 4 hours or more. So with the time difference it just depends what time raids are scheduled for. I make sure I am online for what times I sign up for to be able to have the chance to raid.

What timezone are you in?:

Eastern

How often do you think you would have to miss raid?:

Not often. If I sign up to raid I am always online & ready ahead of time, usually anxious to get started

What might the typical reasons for missing raid be?:

My daughter would be about the only reason.

Read everything here: http://www.downfallguild.org/loot Does that seem fair?:

Yes sounds fair to me

If Shihli tells a joke (good or bad), will you laugh?:

Yes

Your ass, or a hole in the ground?:

My ass

How do you feel about mods, particularly in a raid setting?:

As a healer I can not live without mods. My first experience in Kara I honesly knew nothing about raid frames except for the standard one. WOW i was shocked here i was supposed to be on raid healing & couldnt see everyone HP. I quickly figured out how to pull out from the frame & adjust the peoples bars so i could keep up with them. As soon as we cleared Kara that night I downloaded XPerl I like it, but am willing to change. I also use Omen, although I dont really like it much since 2.4 I think they just messed it up so badly. I use recount just so I can keep up with my healing & deadly Boss mods as well. The screenshot is in my healing gear but im specced feral when i took it so cant show tree of life & my spell bar for it

Are you willing to change mods that don't interface well with ours in raid?:

Yes

Personal

How long have you been playing WoW?:

I have been playing wow for a year and a half

How old are you?:

I'm 25, no wait crap I just had a birthday forgot wow yeah so I'm 26 now

Tell us about yourself.:

First off, and most importantly Im a mother of a 6 1/2 year old little girl. I share custody with her father so I do not have her all the time which sucks, but she needs her dad too. I'm very outgoing & try to make new friends. I'm not the "normal" girl. I dont get offended by cussing or stuff like that I really enjoy gaming, whether its Wow or playing on 360. My daughter is already an avid gamer. She has her own computer *my old one* and several different games she plays alot . I put her as first priority no matter what, which is how a parent should be. I would say I'm a fun person to be around, but that is my opinion of myself. I live with my boyfriend (more like husband) who got me playing Wow. He has several level 70's but he's more a pvp person than I am. He is the guild leader of my orginal guild, like I said which is small and mostly friends outside of wow.

Are you in school or working?:

full time job

What Country/State do you live in?:

USA/ Virginia

Any other significant hobbies?:

spending time with my daughter, we like to go to amuzement parks like Busch Gardens etc.

We loved this app and the

garreth — Wed, 05/28/2008 - 08:46

We loved this app and the attitude expressed here. Downfall looks forward to getting Deleyna active in more runs. Welcome aboard :) App closed.

I will be on pretty much all

bubblezcasto — Fri, 05/23/2008 - 11:25

I will be on pretty much all weekend, and have signed up for several events.. Hopefully it will give me a chance to prove myself a bit more. If anyone needs a healer for anything & I'm not online check Crixianna my alt I plan on doin some BG this weekend to get my trinket before I finally push to 70 :)

Nothing wrong with quiet in

Aidin — Tue, 05/20/2008 - 07:02

Nothing wrong with quiet in vent...Caronte and Dragon do enough talking for the whole raid....lol

thanks aidin i am kinda

bubblezcasto — Mon, 05/19/2008 - 15:20

thanks aidin

i am kinda quiet on vent in chat til i get to know people then I talk more

I like her enthusiasm!!!!

Aidin — Mon, 05/19/2008 - 13:15

I like her enthusiasm!!!! Can't wait to get you into raid again!!

sweet thanks for that link

bubblezcasto — Mon, 05/19/2008 - 12:25

sweet thanks for that link Garreth been reading it since i got up..also bookmarked it for future reference. Learned quiet a bit. Also have spent a while lookin up good macros and getting a general idea of how to make them..

On my druid, I use [Essence

starstalker — Mon, 05/19/2008 - 08:35

On my druid, I use [Essence of the Martyr] and [Lower City Prayerbook], and my lifebloom macro looks like this:

/use 13

/use 14

/someline that prevents "trinket not ready" errors that I cant remember

/case lifebloom(rank 1)

Being as they are on 1m and 2m cooldowns respectively, it meants that after the first use they will be up seperate of one another. Its kinda nice. If you check under the buffs section of the WWS parses for Gruuls/Mag, you'll see that I gained the blessing of Lower city 49 times, and Essence of the martyr 27 times. Thats far more than if I would have manually popped them.

Deleyna, I think it's time

garreth — Mon, 05/19/2008 - 08:16

Deleyna, I think it's time for this since you seem to kick a lot of ass:

http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t17783-druid_raiding_tree/

This is your Bible from here on out ;) Every single one of our BT-level raiding trees has most of that committed to memory. It's an incredible guide and extremely high-quality in terms of explanation and clarification. Tree-healing can be extremely complicated and this guide is sooooo good at explaining all the fine nuances of the role.

Let me know when you get through that guide and let's get you into guild.

also after reading your post

bubblezcasto — Mon, 05/19/2008 - 05:25

also after reading your post i have been looking into other "builds" for resto i think i have found one that might work well for helping me survive through the week.. thinking of a 14/0/47 build that should keep me from having to respec so much, and hopefully that will push me to doing more for rep grind. I kinda figured that most of those points were well wasted but i didnt really know what to do with them

yes aidin was my first time

bubblezcasto — Mon, 05/19/2008 - 04:43

yes aidin was my first time in both of them, so not only was nervous as hell but didnt really know what to do.. well i know healing but, as far as the little things like the cave ins etc. I will try to remember though

Cisper.. yes mostly pve.. i help out with arena when my boyfriend begs me to, but to be honest i dont like pvp much at all. And i realize some the points arent as good, I originally had i think like 8 or 9 points in balance to i could survive longer during the week & not have to respec.

I know i really need to grind rep with scryers.. honestly wish now I had chosen aldor, but originally planned on tanking with del and was told scryers was way to go for druid tank.. so now im kinda stuck. And cenarion & shatar as well I been tellin myself to do it just been putting it off. im tryin to get sso soon as possible seems the easiest one to grind for.

I dont mind waiting to raid as far as the bigger raids go. I enjoyed gruuls/mags and learned quiet a bit yesterday (need to learn to watch for fallin rocks especially LOL). Think i need to look into some more macros i saw a post about tree macros maybe i should look into it, it may help me some.. seems i dont use my trinkets enough (realizing this from the parses) i usually forget about them since they are on a separate key. I think just to be able to sign up & be sub-ed in whenever necessary would be fine for the big ones, since i understand there are already people that have been doing them.

Yarr, when it comes to "on

garreth — Mon, 05/19/2008 - 08:20

Yarr, when it comes to "on use" trinkets like [Essence of the Martyr] it's best just to macro them, imo. Instead of having to remember to manually pop them, just tie them to your main spells like so:

/use Essence of the Martyr
/use Other Trinket That's On Use
/cast Lifebloom

Make that a macro, and then drag it from your macro screen to where your Lifebloom used to be.

Nice Application, some

Cisper — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 22:32

Nice Application, some things you could work on though and consider;

- I don't know what you expect in terms of if you want to raid, our two main-raids have solidified a generally core group plus you're a little undergeared, but an oppurtunity may arise

- Is your spec just primarily PvE? A lot of your talents are somewhat useless in a PvE utility in the Restoration Tree, that's the good thing about Druids, it allows more flexibility for trees, suffice to say its fine though

- I don't your state in terms of gold or farming capabilities, but getting your Cenarion Expedition & Sha'tar rep up through instances/heroics would be helpful in the future, aswell as grinding out some Scryer rep. Good effort on the SSO dailies ;)

- I don't know how you gem, in terms of overall their good gems (No Greens ++), but your gear is very Spirit orientated, but you gem primarily Healing / Healing + Mp5. Either way you'll be fine, but it seems your a bit indifferent about orientating around a stat

Overall though, Excellent Application :>

http://wowwebstats.com/tl4pdo

Aidin — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 22:11

http://wowwebstats.com/tl4pdoheeno2c

I didn't realize it was your first time in these instances! That may explain your issues staying alive...lol Great showing on Mulgar though!! You've got those first time jitters out of the way!

well after mag/gruuls &

bubblezcasto — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 18:05

well after mag/gruuls & using grid I think i may finally gotten the hang of it more. Like Jos told me its kinda a shell shock when you first start using it, but i finally figured out how to make it a bit bigger & show more of people's names instead of like 4 letters of the name (which when i dont know people by name yet is hard) Also i wasn't really used to the class colors thing & for some reason the rogue's & hunters colors were really close so i changed them up a bit so its more difference between the two.. Learning bit more. Anyone that has any suggestions for me about anything that was in raid please feel free to tell me... I dont break easily LOL. Talk to you all soon I hope

OMG thank you all so much

bubblezcasto — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 17:17

OMG thank you all so much for letting me join in the Gruul's/Mag run it was such an awesome experience for me

I really enjoyed it & seeing them downed for the first time ever was awesome!!

Aww thanks JOS I <3 u too :)

bubblezcasto — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 13:27

Aww thanks JOS I <3 u too :)

And thanks for all the good comments, grid isnt as bad now, but im still used to seeing how much life someone has instead of little squares. Grid seems i dunno maybe too robotic? maybe its just me

I havent tryed to griffon yet but love apollos chariot

Let's seriously invite her,

karlizeth — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 08:48

Let's seriously invite her, she's going to fit right in. For one, you know we always encourage any serious gaming mature adult women to join. Secondly though, the bit where she said she didn't get offended by cussing and whatnot is the exact kind of thing we need someone to put out there. We all know Downfall tries very hard not to be offensive, but crude...well that's another thing.

I'm going to go ahead and just put it out there (but I'll probably get yelled at). I actually much prefer XPerl over grid. I do fine with the extra sizing/information that may seem to be a disadvantage over grid. I know I'm not a healer, but I ALWAYS kick ass on decursing and that's because when I can see a full name I can immediately make a split second decision as to whether I should bother clicking them or not. Being able to do this allows me to maximize the rest of my time doing my "normal" job (dps).

And for the record, I do know that at least a half dozen times now I've heard our grid users admit that they "healed the wrong green square" or something like that. IMHO if you have a unit frames that allows you to make smart, split-second decisions and maximize your time doing your raid job, then keep it.

You can make Grid show

garreth — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 12:54

You can make Grid show names. Some of us prefer not :P

"You can make Grid show

Shihli — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 17:21

"You can make Grid show names. Some of us prefer not :P"

And some of us have paid for that :P

"And some of us have paid

garreth — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 21:47

"And some of us have paid for that :P "

When those of you over-nuke and/or attack the wrong target.

" When those of you

Shihli — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 22:20

" When those of you over-nuke and/or attack the wrong target. "

Or those times when, y'know, you're on the main tank target windows, you tell the healers you're tanking a mob, and someone else of the same class gets all the heals because they healers can't see names.

She's got her stuff

pulga — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 07:01

She's got her stuff together. Hopefully yall can get her into a tryout sometime.

Also, favorite coaster there? I like apollo's chariot and the griffon.

I LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURVE HER.

Josalin — Sun, 05/18/2008 - 05:40

I LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURVE HER. Can I keep her? Pleeeeeeease Garreth???? /batseyelashes

If I had a car, that could go underwater...
xoxo,
Josalin

virginia

bubblezcasto — Sat, 05/17/2008 - 15:28

virginia

Virginia or Florida? Sorry

Dragonspear — Sat, 05/17/2008 - 15:08

Virginia or Florida? Sorry your the one who mentioned Busch Gardens.

Very good app IMO.

~Legendary Nobody

star, I have played with it

bubblezcasto — Sat, 05/17/2008 - 14:34

star, I have played with it a bit more & finally figured out how to make grid a bit bigger. dont need it tons bigger just a lil bit .

yeah Josalin i do need more stamina, but after i get out of some of the cloth pieces i am still wearing it will help. After next run of kara I will be able to get my new chest from badge vendor on the Isle so that will help a TON! and i wil msg ya if i need more help on grid hon thnx

Excellent app! WARNING:

Mavandon — Sat, 05/17/2008 - 07:54

Excellent app!

WARNING: This post will probably contribute absolutely nothing to the conversation, it will only waste a few seconds of your life. Mavandon's shenanigans should not be taken by children 10 and under or adults over the age of 70.

Great app, sounds like a lot

youshouldrun — Sat, 05/17/2008 - 07:01

Great app, sounds like a lot of effort went in. Raids are ~6-~10 depending on which raid the night and how much were trying to get done. at least thats when lf1m raids, tues-thurs for lf1m and tbh i dont pay attention to hamfist, other than /drooling a little when you guys link illi loot in g chat.

I love.. well like her, love the app.

You have my vote. =DD

A smiley AND a double chin!!!!

No trees were harmed in the making of this message.

However, innumerous electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

I keep the frames small

Josalin — Sat, 05/17/2008 - 05:46

I keep the frames small personally, You don't really need to see names to know who needs healed.

And its actually an option to show certain debuffs. Hit up Josalin in game if you have any questions on grid.

One more comment - NEEDS MOAR STAM. Other then that, roxors chicka <3

If I had a car, that could go underwater...
xoxo,
Josalin

The shape, size, and

starstalker — Sat, 05/17/2008 - 05:14

The shape, size, and color of Grid is completely customizable. I didn't like the smaller frames myself, so I made em bigger. Also, grid does show me who is poisoned or cursed, but I dont know if thats due to an addon I downloaded or whatnot.

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