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Alamo
07-31-2010, 01:23 PM
Section 1 - Character Information
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Name: Xod
Class: Priest
Armory Profile: Xod of Burning Blade (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Burning+Blade&cn=Xod) You can click these-- I just edited my post. :)
Main Spec: Discipline, Raid Mitigation spec'd with Regenerative/mana-efficient talents. (http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bVcbuuhVRIsffRtbe0c:VAbczM)
Off Spec: Shadow PvP spec. (Still has Discipline PvP glyphs in case I do arenas.) (http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bxcMhZZGxfiRfk0fafkAo:IhiczV)


Professions & Levels:

1- Enchanting, 450 with most patterns.
2- Jewelcrafting, 450.


1. Reason(s) for leaving current guild:

I'm unable to commit the amount of time required to be a part of their raid team.

2. Why do you want to join TFB:

I'd like to join TFB because the raid schedule is very light, yet progression isn't an issue. Things seem to be accomplished quickly and efficiently rather than strung out across several days with a lot of down time in between.

3. Are you easily offended by racist, sexist, or other such humor?:

Nope. If something does become offensive to me, I just ignore it and stop joking around, or if it continues, I handle it calmly through PMs. Gotta handle shit like an adult.

4. Do you have any friends within TFB? Any enemies?:

No... >_> <_<

5. Do you have Ventrilo?:

Yes

6. Do you have a Mic?:

Yes

7. What is your internet connection type?:

FIOS

8. How reliable is your internet connection on a scale of 1 to 5?:

5

9. Do you have any alts worth mentioning?:

I have a fairly geared Fury/Prot warrior that I may decide to transfer over at a later time.



Achievements:

How many achievement points do you have?: 7700
What achievement are you the most proud of and why?: I'm proud of my Bane of the Fallen King achievement the most. Despite being a 10 player achievement, it took an incredible amount of work and perseverance from the people that achieved it. Heroic Lich King is one of the hardest, if not the hardest boss in game at the moment (taking progression into account), and I feel that it was one of those achievements you really had to earn with hard work and practice.



Our Raid Schedule:

Wednesday: 7:00 - 11:00+
Monday: 7:00 - 11:00+
(10Mans are Optional and schedule around these 2 dates)

What is the absolute Latest you can raid until, we often will go 30min to 1hr later than scheduled depending on progress and content left? 2:00am Server Time on Weekdays, and 5:00am on Weekends. I don't sleep much. :)

Availability to Raid (List available START to END time that you can make)

Monday: 6:30pm - 2:00am
Tuesday: 6:30pm - 2:00am
Wednesday: 6:30pm - 2:00am
Thursday: 6:30pm - 2:00am
Friday: 6:30pm - 2:00am
Saturday: 6:30pm - 5:00am
Sunday: 6:30pm - 5:00am



Section 3a: Misc.
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1. If the raid leader was to wrongfully chew you out in the middle of a raid, how would you react? (be honest and explain!)

If it were something that was very crucial to the raid's success (such as correctly shielding the raid on Heroic Lich King), and I knew I did it properly, I would ask to speak to them privately in vent between the next pull and explain to them why I did it correctly, whatever it may be. If they don't accept that, I'll pull up the logs and prove it after the raid so that my name is clear, and that I'm doing my job.

If it were minor, I'd talk to them about it after raid, or perhaps not at all. People make mistakes, both raiders and leaders. If it's not going to affect anything, it's not worth mentioning. Raid leaders usually have quite a lot to deal with, and pride isn't something worth bothering someone over.

2. If you were asked to sit out for a raid that you signed up for well in advance, how would you react? (be honest and explain!)

I would be fine with it, for the most part. If it were a raid where we both needed something, I'd ask why I had been sat, and I would also ask if I would be allowed to come in for someone that didn't need anything from that raid. If that all fails, I'd ask what I can do as an alternative.



Section 3b: Misc.
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1. If you were in charge of TFB, what would you make the guild ranks called (Leader, Officers, Raiders, Casuals)?


Unless you're guildmaster:

Shit Shoveller.

2. What two web sites do you visit the most for WoW information?

Elitist Jerks
Shadowpriest.com
The World of Warcraft official forums
MMO Champion, and their forums
WoWhead.com's forums.

(Sorry, that's more than two.)

3. If you lost both your hands in an accident and the doctors said, 'Well, we can leave them as stumps or we could attach the hands of a monkey', what would you do?

Who would want to look like a freak? Just keep the stumps, and bind every key and mouse button to Power Word Shield, and steer your character with a joystick using your junk. (You need to master your joystick. ;D)

4. Your best friend of the opposite sex is dying of a degenerative bone disease. One day he/she tells you it's their dying wish to have sex with you. You agree but after a few minutes he/she coughs, sputters and dies. Do you finish?

No, I do not finish. I was faking the whole time; she was just bad.

5. Why are you actively searching a new guild? What expectations do you have?

I'm looking for a new guild because I simply don't have the time to raid 5 nights a week at the moment. I also want to find a guild where I can meet some chill people, socialize, have a good time, and essentially be able to enjoy myself in progression raids.

My expectations are fairly simple; I'm looking for a guild that I essentially can fit into. I want to find a niche in a guild where both parties feel comfortable with eachother. That being said, I normally don't get along too well with downies. Basically, I don't care if people make mistakes, so long as they're aware of their mistakes and that they're actively searching to improve and prevent those mistakes from reoccuring. Progression comes second nature to that.

Besides, if people suck you can just carry them on the back of a feral druid or use Levitate to carry them.

6. How long have you been playing WoW and how many guilds have you been a member of?

I've been playing World of Warcraft for five years, 6 months. I've been an active part of nearly 15 different guilds over the years. My longest tenure in one guild was in Lunaris on Garona, where I was a Warrior class leader for nearly two years. (Yes I see the question below this one; just thought I'd explain.)

7. What is your longest tenure in any one guild?

&gt; 1 Year

7b. Was this a raiding guild?

Yes

8. Do you have any suggestions for questions that can be added to this section (bonus points given for non WoW related questions)?

Yes, I do.

Q: Scrubby applicant! What is best in life?

A: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.


Additional information.


C WUT I DID THAR? I re-edited my application to make it less shitty. GG.

Thanks for taking time to review my application. Here are some tasty, juicy WorldofLogs and screenshots for you.

World of Logs - Heroic Lich King Attempts: Healing done for ALL attempts. (http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-i76q9kn14li1lkir/sum/healingDone/)

Click for my Screenshot (http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw40928.png) - The screenshot was used for my UI that I uploaded to WoWinterface. It's still there. You can PM me if you like it; it's been de-cluttered by a large margin.

Eagleclaw
07-31-2010, 06:39 PM
1) 1 point in Absolution instead of Desperate Prayer?
2) You're Disc. Why do you have nearly every piece of gear with spirit?
3) You're past the haste cap

Alamo
07-31-2010, 07:00 PM
1) 1 point in Absolution instead of Desperate Prayer?
2) You're Disc. Why do you have nearly every piece of gear with spirit?
3) You're past the haste cap

1) If you need to use Desperate Prayer, you either are getting hit by things you don't need to be getting hit by, or you have mana issues and don't feel like using Binding Heal.

2) I didn't have the best luck on gear. Spirit gear is fine with our Meditation talent. There are also not many offpieces with Crit/MP5 that are easily available or they just never dropped for me.

3. Again, I didn't have the best luck, and you may be looking at another set on the armory. I mess around with gear a lot. I mainly replaced other gear that had the same stat types that I had before, and wasn't lucky enough to get MP5 gear. Essentially, I rolled on it to up my spellpower because no one else needed it.

Eagleclaw
07-31-2010, 07:07 PM
Denying yourself an "Oh shit" button because being in an "Oh shit" scenario means you screwed up isn't exactly the best argument. It's always good to have options whenever you're in a bit of a spot or on the run

I understand about RNG. As Holy I'm using Mp5 because I'm just getting fed the leftovers

Alamo
07-31-2010, 07:22 PM
Denying yourself an "Oh shit" button because being in an "Oh shit" scenario means you screwed up isn't exactly the best argument. It's always good to have options whenever you're in a bit of a spot or on the run

I understand about RNG. As Holy I'm using Mp5 because I'm just getting fed the leftovers

Yeah. My last guild was very unlucky. Hell, We've had 42 Vanq, and 11 Conq tokens drop. It's bullshit.

Either way, the gear isn't a problem. Crit isn't very valuable anyway; You can't crit PW:S, only the glyph does. It may be more valuable than Haste after cap (which I am wayyy past. Look at my chest and cape which are uber bad), but ultimately I'd take a 277 piece with 15 extra SP and haste over a 266 with the loss of SP and the Crit/MP5.

Also, I rarely ever used the Desperate Prayer. I never forgot about it, but I used it maybe once when I was in Ulduar as Holy. Once. I'd rather get more regeneration or less mana costs over the Oh Shit button that isn't as great as it used to be. Especially for Heroic Lich King, which I was spec'd for. I found that dispelling took up a large chunk of my mana as well. Sometimes I play with the spec with going 4/5 into Spell Warding since so many bosses in ICC do magic damage.

I agree 100% that the gear is less than optimal though. I'd love to get my hands on my appropriate gear, however I'm going to lose priority to DPS or other healers since it doesn't affect my healing as much as theirs. :<

On a positive note, I do have the Haste staff from LK25, as well as the 5th piece of my tier (which is Crit). If I win the Corp'Rethar Crown Heroic, I'd be able to switch back.

I wish there was more available in ICC for us Disc priests, but that's why they gave us Meditation since we're one of a kind in our cloth group in regards to what we need in stats.

:D Nice questions.

kittikat
07-31-2010, 07:25 PM
Impressive, well-read application. I particularly like the well thought-out answer given for 3a.1.

Alamo
07-31-2010, 07:27 PM
Impressive, well-read application. I particularly like the well thought-out answer given for 3a.1.

Thank you very much.

If there's anything I wasn't clear about and it comes to mind to ask, please do!

kittikat
07-31-2010, 07:39 PM
Thank you very much.

If there's anything I wasn't clear about and it comes to mind to ask, please do!a/s/l?
:3

Alamo
07-31-2010, 07:50 PM
a/s/l?
:3

20/M/Toronto. ;)

I shall find pics!

Eagleclaw
07-31-2010, 08:33 PM
Fair explanation. Either way, I tend to grill apps just to make sure they're able to justify why they spec something instead of responding "Oh, I'll go change it"

Also, the helm you're looking for I can safely say no one wants, so now it's just having it drop

Side question: if the situation calls for it, would you be able to swap to Holy?

Alamo
07-31-2010, 08:48 PM
Fair explanation. Either way, I tend to grill apps just to make sure they're able to justify why they spec something instead of responding "Oh, I'll go change it"

Also, the helm you're looking for I can safely say no one wants, so now it's just having it drop

Side question: if the situation calls for it, would you be able to swap to Holy?

Glad to hear that. :)

Good to know you'll be grilling me. I actually enjoy it. It's very thought-provoking for me.

If you're asking if I would play Holy full-time in TFB at this point, the answer would be a definate "no". If I can't play full-time Discipline, I'd more than likely look for another guild that needed it.

If you're asking if I'd switch to kill a certain boss or if the situation called for it, sure. I don't mind respeccing for the guild when it's needed.

It's very situational. If you want to ask about a certain situation if you had one in mind, I'd be happy to answer that for you as well. I'm not exactly certain of what context you are asking about.

Eagleclaw
07-31-2010, 08:54 PM
You will most likely be Disc 99% of the time. We need one for heroic LK that's reliable. However, say for Dreamwalker, would you be able to switch to Holy to raid heal?

Alamo
07-31-2010, 09:08 PM
You will most likely be Disc 99% of the time. We need one for heroic LK that's reliable. However, say for Dreamwalker, would you be able to switch to Holy to raid heal?

Absolutely.

It'd be a single target spec if it were just for that boss, but if there is any sort of things like that where we need a holy priest, I'm game.

Even if we needed 6/12 for me to be Holy, I wouldn't mind at all.

Lucky you! You recruited a Disc priest that has a lot of experience with Heroic LK... :)

haha

Any other questions for me?

Astraeus
07-31-2010, 09:42 PM
Any other questions for me?

Why are you not playing SC2?!

Alamo
07-31-2010, 10:18 PM
Why are you not playing SC2?!

Can't spend money that I don't have at the moment. I just took out a large mortgage on a business with a business partner, so... gotta penny pinch at the moment. I'm also going back to college in september. That business is also my home now (I live upstairs; it's a bookshop.) so I have to be careful!

I'm probably going to buy it anyway in a couple of weeks... I just can't friggin' resist. ><

Oh christ, I'm PINK now. What the fuck?

kittikat
07-31-2010, 11:29 PM
AH MAH GAHD! A SIG SELLER!! DAMNED CRAZY GAYSIANS!!!

Alamo
07-31-2010, 11:49 PM
AH MAH GAHD! A SIG SELLER!! DAMNED CRAZY GAYSIANS!!!
I'm white .

Novacurse
08-01-2010, 08:42 AM
Heh sorry for the pink. We like to humiliate our apps as much as possible, so we made the app forum rank that color :-P

Purely Butter
08-01-2010, 09:22 AM
Heh sorry for the pink. We like to humiliate our apps and Purely as much as possible, so we made the app forum rank that color :-P

Fixed.

Alamo
08-01-2010, 01:59 PM
Heh sorry for the pink. We like to humiliate our apps as much as possible, so we made the app forum rank that color :-P

Go for it.


Fixed.

lol

Xieo
08-02-2010, 09:33 AM
Bookshop in toronto? Where at? (couple of toronto people here, is why i ask)

Novacurse
08-02-2010, 10:07 AM
Please be prepared to possibly raid tonight (8/2). We'll be using our last 20 attempts on LK HM, and then knocking out Halion.

Alamo
08-02-2010, 03:31 PM
Bookshop in toronto? Where at? (couple of toronto people here, is why i ask)
I prefer not to say.. :)

Please be prepared to possibly raid tonight (8/2). We'll be using our last 20 attempts on LK HM, and then knocking out Halion.
Was planning on it.

8/2? *woosh*

What do you mean by that?

Novacurse
08-02-2010, 03:37 PM
Tonight is August 2nd. 8/2.

Qaadolip
08-02-2010, 03:50 PM
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7697/xod.jpg

Alamo
08-02-2010, 03:54 PM
Tonight is August 2nd. 8/2.

Sorry. I'm used to reading timestamps, and since you said tonight, posting a date seemed pointless to me, and I didn't make the connection.

/facepalm @ me.

Novacurse
08-02-2010, 03:58 PM
Haha it's a habit I get into with work, where I often have to clarrify dates with people, because people are stupid.

Indira
08-02-2010, 04:13 PM
rofl

Alamo
08-02-2010, 04:22 PM
Haha it's a habit I get into with work, where I often have to clarrify dates with people, because people are stupid.

:D

I try not to be stupid. Ironically, my paying attention to dates made me look stupid.

GG!

Alamo
08-04-2010, 10:45 PM
God that priest has such bad puns. Pass IMO.

Astraeus
08-05-2010, 04:53 AM
You did great tonight, and other healers shared that opinion so keep it up. Just watch the battle raises at bad timing and you'll get to be a real TFB Raider! (Not Pikachu guild rank!) :-D

Purely Butter
08-05-2010, 10:06 AM
You did great tonight, and other healers shared that opinion so keep it up. Just watch the battle raises at bad timing and you'll get to be a real TFB Raider! (Not Pikachu guild rank!) :-D

That sounds shocking.

Stallions
08-05-2010, 12:27 PM
That sounds shocking.


i fucking hate you

Alamo
08-05-2010, 07:52 PM
lol truth be told, I misclicked that. I felt pretty stupid.

Good to hear, though. :D