Name: Steakbomb
Class: Druid
Race: Tauren
Level: 80
Email: brandenmurray at gmail.com

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Have you read the sticky on the forum titled 'Applicants, Read Before You Apply?'
Yes

What is your current age (Suggested minimum age is 18)?
22

What is your total played time on this character (type /played)?
67 days last I checked

Do you have ventrillo and the ability to talk?
Yes

What role and spec do you want to fill with Requiem's raids?
Feral Cat Form DPS

Post your link from the armory, explain any discrepancies currently showing(i.e. are you a pvp spec? pvp gear? Waiting on a certain enchant or gem, etc...)
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Drenden&n=Steakbomb

I need to get the SoH shoulder enchant and get the KotEb head enchant, somehow I skipped over that rep but working on revered for the enchant. Testing out the gems, may change some of them to Straight 20 Agi gems

What is your character's guild history and the reason for leaving prior guilds?
Requiem

If a Requiem member has asked you to submit this application, tell us who?
Left Blank

Any friends in Requiem?
I like to think most of Requiem are my friends :-)

What made you decide to apply to Requiem at this time?
Was in the H ToC 25 man tonight as cat DPS and I really like DPSing and Im still quite squishy as a tank and the guild doesn't really need tanks right now so I switched my main spec and gear to Cat DPS

What kind of raid experience do you have? Vanilla, TBC, or Wrath; list all that you think are applicable.
Most of Vanilla, All of BC except for Sunwell on my Pally, All Naxx 10 and 25, OS 10 and 25, VoA 10 and 25, Onyxia 10 and 25, EoE 10 and 25(haven't killed him but know fight), like 9 or 10 bosses in Ulduar 10 and 25, ToC 10 and 25 all, H ToC 25 first 2 bosses.

Our raid schedule is Tuesday and Thursday 10-1 and Sunday 9-1, can you make a minimum of 75% of these raids?
Yes

Post a recent WWS (or equivalent) from a raid you participated in. Feel free to explain any mitigating circumstances on the log (lack of buffs/blessings/etc...)
Anyone in tonights H ToC 25 man saw my DPS and that was before I finished gemming and changing enchants around on my gear. The highest I saw on my own meter was 4.5K and that was before changing stuff. Although in the last fight my FPS was crap and I died quick into the fight.

What is one thing you are currently working on to make you perform better in a raid environment?
(Gear is something EVERYONE is working on, please do not say you need gear)
Gear? LOL, my rotation to maximize my dps. Started using a mod called Feral By Night which helps a ton but I need to make some tweeks to it

Are you a douchebag? If yes, please hold the alt key and hit F4 for a 'special' message before completing this application.
No

If asked to respond to this application you will need to create an account on this website with your applying character's name and request that account to be authorized with the rank of applicant, do you understand this process (we've had some issues)?
Already done

Tell us about yourself? If you happen to be a faction transfer this would be the place to elaborate.
Currently in the guild as a friend rank to get gear so I could start raiding with everyone. I now have the gear to be thrown into the mix and should help out in the future once I finish fixing my gear which should be in the next week at the latest. Originally joined Requiem early last year and raided for about 9 months on my Pally Unholyheala but got frustrated and bored with the game so I quit for about 7 months and now I have been back since around March and still enjoying the game and starting to like DPS a lot more than I did. Still love my pally though. He needs to hit 80 soon!

We'll bump ya up to recruit. Get that cat shit down pat and you'll see some really big numbers. It's one of the more demanding rotations but a little practice and it's not too bad. Like to see you at a consistent 6k+ dps. Hard modes may be tough to get into, especially at first, but stick with it and it'll work out. Keep your offspec tank for versatility and your value only goes up.

A couple things to note. First off your gear is pretty solid, especially with those ilvl 258 hard mode pants you got, but you are WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY over hit cap. You need to drop 2% hit and also pick up a bit of expertise. I'm not sure if things have changed much since the arp nerf but I do know that prior to the nerf that arp was stacked to soft cap with grim toll or mjolnir. Your arp is very very low, if I were you I'd spread sheet it and see if it's worth gemming with your gear. Even if you can't get one of those trinkets you should still ditch one of your current ones since once you get to about 50-55% crit unbuffed the AEP of crit becomes tremendously low to the point that haste dominates it.

After looking at your gear I guess it probably wouldn't be too easy to ditch that hit but as it sits right now it's just wasted budget.

Yea all my hit is in my gear LOL. But I am going to keep my Tank spec to the side if needed. Problem is that alot of the gear I have on right now was in my Tank gear just gemmed and enchanted differently. Should be a suiteable Heroic, Uld 10, and maybe still a ToC 10 tank tho.

I know my expertise is low. I saw that last night. Should I start gemming for Arm Pen and Expertise at this point?

Also once I get the orbs for my Bracers that will help a ton and get rid of these crap Naxx ones

I just added a 20 expertise gem bringing my percent up to 6.25, still need another .25% to get capped. Added a + 20 arPen gem too. Gonna bring that up a bit

Also gonna farm right now for the mats for the bracers assuming I can get the orbs, since I saw chaco post that you guys just put 14 more in the bank.

maybe it can help:
http://ensidia.com/home/guides/complete-feral/

don't know if it's updated to 3.2 but it's worth reading it.

I took a look at that but I do a lot of theorycrafting. I been using RAWR forever now. Thinking that since my armor pen is so low right now Im going to gem straight Agi for the time being and hopefully get some better gear shortly.

I H ToC earlier I was doing 5K DPS according to Myso's family which I was in their group and in reg ToC with JUST Mark buff I was doing about 4.5k most of the time.