Dysphoric - Boomkin/Resto Druid

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Dysphoric - Boomkin/Resto Druid

Tell us tell us a little about yourself.
My life outside of WoW...I'm mostly what we refer to as the homework parent. I make sure my teenager gets his homework done, schlep him around to his after school events and make sure in general he does what he needs to do. Prior to this like I was an IT manager with a huge drive to succeed but I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis about 8 years ago and went on full time disability about 5 years ago and my life looks really different but much better now. During the day I rest a lot and take naps when the family is off at work and school so that I can be up, attentive and helpful when they are home. My partner is also applying to your guild, Euphoric (hunter).

Tell us about your WoW experience.
I have played since early in WoW, not the start but shortly after. Played through until late in BC then took a break. Came back at the beginning of Cata and have been around since. Have changed servers about three times and have been on Proudmoore since right before BC. We leveled on Draka. Moved to Garona then raided in MC with a cross guild group called Alliance of Guilds on Garona. We then moved to Proudmoore and raided with Defenders of Apathy for just a bit and then we started our own guild with one of our best friends Exquisite Pain. My partner did most of the leading of the guild with our friend but I did a lot of the administrative stuff behind the scenes. Web site admin, membership cleanup, guild bank management, etc. I raided through the start of Black Temple with the group but that is when i started having health problems and while working with the doctors it became to much to regularly raid. I came back at the start of Cata but didn't raid regularly until during MoP. I did lots of PuGs all through Cata and MoP as I am not hesitant to do a random group. Towards the middle to end of MoP when the cross server access was opened up we raided once to twice a week with a group called "Twitterland Raiding". We completed all the raids and the meta achievements in MoP with this group. We started raiding with Mattachine Knights at the start of Draenor and have completed heroic for T17 and are 10/13N 1/13H currently.

What class and spec(s) are you applying with? What other classes have you played? When did you start playing? What guilds were you in? How much raiding have you done? PVP much?
I main a druid and prefer Balance or Resto but if it were absolutely necessary I could switch to feral but I have lots of problems with the movement requirements and some issues I have with movement in my hands due to my MS. I really enjoy playing my shaman (elemental/resto), mage (frost/arcane) and my monk (brew/wind). I have a rogue that I can't stand but I keep her around because she is my enchanter and I have all the other classes somewhere in the leveling tree, mostly in the 80s. See above answer for some of the other questions. As far as PVP, I do battlegrounds when I'm looking for something different to do but I can't say I do it a lot. I have nothing against it and if a group is going to do it I love to participate, just hate doing it by myself.

What is your Weakness?
In life or in game? In life, I can be hard on myself and in game my weaknesses tend to relate to movement issues that I can't resolve due to mobility issues. I have gotten really good at working around almost all of them but it can still be frustrating at times.

What do you struggle with? What are you working on improving?
Since I just switched to resto this tier due to a healer availability issue I am struggling with getting my HPS up to where I want it. I am reviewing logs and comparing them to both our other resto druid in my own guild but also to other resto druids that are known "good entities" in the druid world. I made some good changes last week and need to keep reviewing and working at it.

What was your favorite gaming moment?
Geting my "insane in the membrane" achievement

Extra Credit
Can you link a Warcraft Logs raid parse? How about a screenshot of your interface? These aren't essential but would be nice to confirm that you aren't this guy, with more addons than boss showing.

I'm happy to send you a pic of my UI but I don't have a way to host it to link it to you. The only add-ons that show on my screen during raid is the basic bars from ElvUI and the raidframe also from ElvUI. I also use some weak-auras to track eclipse energy and buffs towards the bottom middle of the screen and I have a "get out of bad" weak aura as well that is Tier specific that is pretty hard to miss (always a good thing).

Warcraft log:
This is a log for one of the last Boomkin fights I did. I had to switch for just one night from Resto so there are only about 4 fights where I have dps logs.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/aj6n2LtVbTGz1xNK#fight=41

Here is a resto log (it was our first attempt at Heroic Assault):
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/MAj9nBQVTHZvFz8w#fight=4

Let me know if you have any additional questions I can answer.

mutagen
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Hello Dysphoric, it's great

Hello Dysphoric, it's great to see your interest in raiding with us. We currently have an abundance of healing so we'd probably ask you to DPS most of the time. Still, we like the flexibility of dual spec players and appreciate the switch when needed.

You and your partner are welcome to join us tonight, we're likely to hit up the back half of HFC and if all goes well spend some more time learning the Archimonde fight.

Skarn
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Heyo!

Hi, Dysphoric! Nice to see your app too. I assume Euphoric passed on most of what we talked about. As Mutagen reiterated, we'd likely have you DPS most of the time, with some occasional healing.

Any short names you two go by? Euphoric and Dysphoric may be a bit long for comms during a boss fight. ;)

For Science!

Dysphoric
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DPS is great no biggie, I

DPS is great no biggie, I just need to switch one gem and enchant so that the cloak I share has the mastery instead of haste ones on it full time. We usually just go by Euph and Dys. Nobody really calls us by the whole name anyway.

Euphoric
And people have been known to

And people have been known to call us the "phorics" if they are wanting us both. But euph and dys is most common. That being said, I've had at least one battle rez sent my way that I think was meant for our healer. ;)

Skarn
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Names

That was my guess, so glad to know I won't be stepping on any toes!

For Science!

sanzaru
I object to Dys, because it's

I object to Dys, because it's too much like Diz. Skarn already confuses Diz and Dikka, and we're going to add a Dys into the group? :D

Dikka
Imagine if I go back to druid

Imagine if I go back to druid... :D

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