Hello! My name is Chandler and I am 22 year old student studying ITAM in Washington State. I understand that you guys aren't necessarily interested in student raiders, due to inconsistency in showing up to raids. However, I think I can be an exception to that rule with being responsible and showing up to raids and events early.
I have been playing this game since the Dire Maul patch (.5 or .6 I believe?) with maybe a total of three breaks in between. I started off as a Dwarf Hunter on the server Elune, but found out quickly that Alliance doesn't suit me very well. I rerolled on Kael'thas with several friends and leveled a Troll Shaman, reached level cap and raided somewhat sucessfully in MC and BWL ( with <Inquistion>, currently <Blacklisted> now). I was able to down Ragnaros about 8 months before BC came out.
When BC hit, I kept raiding on my Shaman throughout all of BC, eventually killing Illidan one week before WotLK came out. As soon as WotLK hit I reached level cap, then stopped raiding for about 8 months. It was my first year of College and I wanted to experience as much as that as possible. As well as cheap dorm internet making me useless in most raiding aspects on 25 man. Eventually I came back to play, but I decided to transfer with some more friends, to Bonechewer, then eventually Drak'tharon. On Drak'tharon I only raided mildly (two days a week if we were lucky) and was an officer in that guild (<Ordo Hereticus>.
We didn't achieve anything too special until another officer and I decided to make a new guild (the GM of Ordo was hacked several times and still would not get an authenticator or give us control of the guild) due to a lot of issues with leadership, however when we created our own guild (Eidolon) and WotLK's final patch was released (after ICC) we were finally able to kill Heroic LK on 10-man (isn't anything special but for us, raiding on a low pop server and finally getting him down was extremely exciting for us. Especially without using any legendaries!) and I believe got server third for the kill. During this time I was playing my Protection Warrior, and kept playing him until Firelands when a healer was needed more than a tank.
My guild decided to try semi-hardcore raiding at the start of Cata, and try and achieve server firsts. We started Cata out strong, getting server 2nds through most fights, and server firsts as 10-man. The most exciting kill for us was heroic Halfus, which was extremely difficult on 10 man, then ofcourse Blizzard nerfed the fight 3 days later making it a joke. (But I'm not bitter .) Anyway, we finished tier 11 with 9/13 heroic's down. Unforunetly, my co-gm had to quit wow due to work and being newly married, so we went downhill from their. For tier 12, we stayed 10m until we started heroics, and then we decided we might try and do 25man. This wasn't a good idea for many reasons but mainly because we were on a low pop server. I had to switch to my healing priest, which was a lot of fun after playing a protection warrior for over 2 years. Several weeks before DW raid came out, I decided it was for the best that we transfer servers. In the end, I was burnt out from leading (3+ years as officer, 1 1/2 of being GM), so once we transfered we died out. A lot of my guildmates still play, but most are waiting for MOP I believe.
Now I'm sure your wondering why I'm applying on my Druid versuses my Warrior or Priest. It's mainly due to me wanting to try DPS as a ranged spec but also gives me the opportunity to switch specs based on guild needs. As far as my gear is concerned, theirs a few issues that I know about that I need to fix (relic/chest and a few other issues) but I'm applying for Mists of Panderia raiding and all I would like is a chance to prove myself.
Heres a few links to my guild/characters incase you want to look at something.
Guild on Drak'tharon: http://www.wowprogre...n/rating.tier11
Guild on Stormreaver: http://www.wowprogre...mreaver/Tsunami
Characters: http://us.battle.net...r/Gingga/simple
http://us.battle.net...er/Otton/simple
http://us.battle.net.../Jagfett/simple
Now the main reasons I am applying to SoH is to have a stable and reliable guild going into MoP. Being a former guild master and officer, the thing I look at most is leadership, dedication and stability. From the tiny amount I've heard on SR, you guys have these strong traits for a guild, and what I admire a lot is the fact that you guys are able to have this community through multiply games, not just WoW. You guys have a relaxed schedule that is easy to make, but also take raiding serious enough to achieve your high goals. Before I end this application, I wanted to go back to me being a student and making raids. In the last 3 years that I have raided, I have missed a total of three scheduled raids. An important aspect for me is respect for one another, If I don't show up to a scheduled raid, I feel terrible for wasting you're time. Not only that, but the impact on the success of the guild by not showing up or coming in late isn't something I like place on others.
I feel like this is a long application and I don't want to bore you guys to death, so I will end it real quick. Theirs much more I can tell you guys about myself and history with WoW but in the interest of time, I will wait for you guys to ask.I look forward to talking with you all more, and hope to hear some feedback. Thanks for your time!
