Sola

Thanks for the warm welcome. I will be xferring early tomorrow morning before work and that will give me time to get my add ons set before tomorrow nights raid. Thanks again for the warm invite and i cannot wait to raid with you guys.

http://worldoflogs.com/reports/hed3ctdyk3qtnlnj/ http://worldoflogs.com/reports/hed3ctdyk3qtnlnj/ Some some reason wouldn't put me on two separate lines but keep in mind I was 20 ilvl behind with no tier two piece. I had a 498 ilvl when these logs were recorded.

Yes you should expect them. Sorry I was running ToT all night forgot to grab them but I will be posting Sat morning.

Yes we were.

Thanks evgeny I am happy to be a part and thanks again I am happy to be having another little monster

Hey Feja thanks for the questions. Yeah this was for the friends guild and if denied by you guys i will just hang with them for awhile lol. The tsulong kill on my shaman i was extremely undergeared as in approx 475ilvl i was just allowed to come in and soaked gear since it was a farm fight and yes i had never healed it on my shaman prior to that night. I do have logs that i will have to find for last nights raids since i did kill 1-9 in normal ToT last night but the guild keeps their logs private and that makes them very hard to get ahold but i will try to get ahold of them since i think i did pretty well since the other healers outgeared me by about 20 ilvls i was able to stay close to them in numbers.Since the whole night i was a whopping 498 ilvl. My druid has a lot of good moments but i didn't want to link them since i was apping on my druid but since you asked here is my druid epeen which shows i ranked on Horridon and Council last week. http://raidbots.com/epeenbot/us/mal'ganis/sola/ These numbers are while i was also heal leading(i am a heal leader in my druids guild) so if i could just zone out and heal like everyone else they would be a lot better but even heal leading i do very well. I would like to let my disc sit and just blow up meters but i am a fair believer in letting everyone get their turn. I also ranked back on heroic garalon back in the day and on imperial vizier and on H windlord and on Amber Shaper and on Grand empress. These are prob long gone by now but just showing i do know what i am doing.Thanks again Feja hope these answers were helpful.

Hey Ash, I might need a week off max for when the baby comes but even then he is not even coming until August so that is plenty of time. I get that my heroic experience on my monk is kind of low so i can see your hesitation but look at tiers back on my other healers and i think you will see that progression raiding is not something new to me and i can handle it fairly well. As for gear well i am working on that. I joined a friends guild this week that has no leather casters at all so i am working on gear in that sense. If nothing drops and i am not able o raise my ilvl well then the game just hates me. I just joined because they needed a healer and once again since i have a healer just sitting i volunteered to help them out. This in no way affects my wanting to join South of Heaven. I just needed a raid and they wanted me to join so i figured why not get some raiding experience on the monk and try and get some gear as well. This is not my first baby lol, I have become very adapt at multi tasking. Although the week the baby is born might be a little hectic it will surely calm down after that. I will help my wife when i am not raiding and she will help me when i am. We have a very good system in place and we already talked about how raiding with work after baby Eric gets here. I do understand your concerns though and thank you addressing me directly with them but i can assure you that it will not disrupt my raid schedule...too much lol

So kinda curious how are things looking?

Hey Ashin thanks for the questions i will be more than happy to answer them: The complexity of the monk comes with the many buffs you have to worry about keeping up and the procs you have to keep an eye on. For example this tier you have to worry about keeping serpents zeal,tiger power,tiger lust, mana tea procs, how many stacks of renewing mist you have up, when mana tea is off cooldown and when is it worthwhile to use it, whether this fight it is better to be a fistweaver or a ranged healer and keep using mana tea on CD. These are just a few of the things to keep track of and some of the many things that make a monk so much fun to play. A monk is more complicated than a druid in the way that a druid you really only have to manage harmony and a few spell cooldowns. That is not to say that they are complicated in their ways too but a monk just has so many things to watch for and so many more spells to manage a druid has to stand at range and heal because there is no need for them to be in melee while as a monk you have the option to choose which is gonna be better for the fight. For mana a druid watched innervate that is it and for a monk they have to manage mana tea/jab with BoK procs. A monk is one of the most versatile healers in the fact that they can switch from tank to raid healing without even skipping a beat where as most healers are primarily raid healers or tank healers the monk can be a jack of all trades and only one other healers is able to do significant damage and healing at the same time which makes the monk unique as well. A monk primarily suffers in 10 mans when there is single target damage going out since renewing mist is not doing nearly as much healing. As far as 25 mans go there is no real area where they suffer the only thing i can pick out is in 25 man revival does not do very much healing. So i just wish it would do a bit more healing. I heard about SoH guild through the wow recruitment forums. I had a thread on there looking for a guild and Midri made a post on my thread and you guys seemed amazing and fun so i decided to throw up a free style app and see how things went. After talking to Ashin he seemed interested and really cool from the limited conversation we had and i could not pass up the opportunity to try and be a part of a guild with a chill GM like that. I am not concerned about my game time with the second baby. My wife understands me wanting to play and as long as i am spending more time with family than i am with game she lets me have those few hours a week to do dailies and raid. I really found a special woman who allows me to have fun in game and not make me feel bad about it. Thanks again for the questions and i hope my answers were to your liking. If anyone else has anything to ask don't be shy. I am an open book and will be more than happy to answer any questions anyone may have.

I am just gonna freestyle this and use a loose format from past apps. First off Hello South of Heaven. How is everyone doing? My name is josh but EVERYONE in game calls me Sola and i have been playing WoW for about 5 years now and i have been healing ever since i started playing and am still healing today. Surprisingly i have not gotten sick of it yet, weird i know right? I am in the military and have been for about 10 years now. I plan to stay in until i retire. I have a wife and son and another son on the way. I love spending time with my little monster and going to the gym when i have a second of spare time(which doesn't happen very often). Now lets get down to the nitty gritty of gameplay, logs, etc. Like i stated above i have been healing ever since i started playing wow. I started my druid as my first class to level 70. I started playing in WotLK and i have been healing every since Naxx. I just enjoy it more than anything else. I healed on druid for Naxx,Ulduar,ICC,Tier 11,Firelands and healed on my shaman/druid for DS. When MoP came out i decided to stay with my druid UNTIL i leveled and started playing my MW. Once i started healing on my MW that is all i wanted to do. The complexity and versatility of the monk drew me and i couldn't stop. I healed on my monk all through 5.1 but due to a roster change in 5.2 i was asked to play my druid and since i didn't mind i said sure. Well sure enough the druid just isn't enough for me i need the monk back. So that brings me to South of Heaven. Here is my raid history and who i raided with: Naxx-Cleared 10 and 25 with my Resto Druid Ulduar-Missed due to military deployment caught the very end on my Resto Druid ToC-Cleared 10 and 25 with 3/5H 25 man on Resto Druid ICC-Cleared 10 and 25 with 9/12H 25 man on my Resto Druid Tier 11-Cleared 13/13 with 5/13H on my Resto druid/Holy pally Firelands-7/7 with 6/7H eventually 7/7H with my Resto Druid/Resto Shaman Dragon Soul- 8/8 with 8/8H(H spine at 5% and H Madness at 10%) with my Resto Druid,Resto Shaman and Holy Pally Tier 14- 16/16 with 11/16H with my Resto Druid and Mistweaver ToT- 12/12 with many attempts on H Jin on my Resto druid due to being asked to main swap I know you are thinking "ok why pick this guy?" " What can he bring to our guild?" Well i have the answer. Even though i am not the most geared player i know how to heal. This must be evident by me only healing since i have started playing. I have literally done nothing else. I have healed through every tier that i have been around for and every raid instance that i have EVER been in. I know healing and i know it very well. I adapt to change very well as i have had to do it on almost every healer i have. You will be very hard pressed to find anyone who knows healing better than me and if given that chance i am sure i could impress.Now to the boring stuff. Armory: http://us.battle.net...lamonk/advanced Logs:http://raidbots.com/...ganis/solamonk/ I realize they are a bit old but ToT pugs are so terrible right now it is very hard to find a decent one. UI: http://s1003.photobu...141920.jpg.html Addons on use: DBM, Grid w/clique for my healing addon, Weakauras and power auras for my CD tracking, and evlui for my UI setup. For my healing rotation i will give it my best shot seeing as monk healing is very complicated and would be easier to explain in mumble since mumble is amazing! I started off by getting my maximum 5 chi before the fight even starts. I am also having Renewing Mist spread to as many targets as i can so any initial damage can start to be healed. As soon as the fight starts i immediately throw a Enveloping Mist on the tank to absorb any damage that might come out initially. I then use my other chi to spread renewing mist more or start building chi by using soothing mist. Since 5.2 soothing mist a much more reliable chi builder. If i am close i use Jab but due to it high mana cost i try to refrain from the jab,jab uplift of last tier. When renewing mist is on 6 or more target and there is steady damage i use uplift. When i know there is damage coming out i will cast Thunder Focus Tea to get the maximum amount of targets for my renewing mist. I continue using jab,soothing,expel harm to buiild chi throughout the fight and using uplift or eveloping mist or BoK depending on what i feel with benefit the raid more. I use Life cocoon when the tanks need a heal either prior to a damaging ability or after he takes a huge hit IE tortos snapping bite. It gives the tank time to heal up and also increases my HoT's on him and since i use enveloping also increases my soothing healing as well so it double dips. I use revival when the raid needs a massive heal or when the raid needs a raid wide cleanse. IE poison or diseases on Horridon. I use mana tea whenever i have 2 stacks and it is off of CD. I have not seen amny fights this tier that really require fistweaving so i still prefer the old method but this is just a personal preference to choose higher healing over more dps and less healing. This is just a personal choice and up to the individuals playstyle. Well i have typed your ears off for long enough. So i will be letting you go now. Thank you so much for reading the app and look forward to hearing from you and if i don't well you have a damn good day anyway! Cya