Aszmodan

Was watching Synn's stream. Nice kill, congrats guys!!

I read that in the other application and I totally understand. I'm definitely patient, when the time comes that you are accepting new applicants I will be around. Thanks for the reply!

Hello all. I know it has been awhile but our new baby has been here for a little over 2 months now and is finally sleeping a good 5-6 hours consistently in a night, which gives me a consistent schedule during raid time . I have been keeping tabs on you guys and from the outside it appears that you are still in search of a Mage. Now that my hectic family life has finally calmed down somewhat I'd like to reopen my application if that is alright with all of you. I understand you guys are in the middle of your Lei Shen push (congrats btw!) and that it might be hard to take on a new person right at this moment, but I would greatly appreciate the opportunity once you are able to make some openings. My btag is Kazadoom#1948 if Ashin or anyone else would like to speak in game. I like forward to hearing from you guys and good luck on Lei Shen and Raden!!

We just go word today that my wife's due date is moved up two weeks and she will be induced on the 16th now. Which means I would most likely be out for a large majority of my trial. I am going to postpone my application until after the baby is born and things settle down. I don't want to join a guild and then be gone for two weeks right away. Sorry for the timing, if we would have found out sooner I would have waited to apply. Thanks again for the consideration and good luck guys!

Hi Ashin, I completely understand your concerns. I might be overly optimistic given how our first newborn experience went, but the reality is that I can't guarantee what will happen this second time around. I wish I could. I am definitely fine with postponing until things settle down for us. The reason I didn't wait to apply in the first place was because going back to 25 mans has been something I've been wanting to do since before Christmas and kept telling myself to wait until after the baby is born. And then after a certain point it felt like the longer I waited the harder it was going to be so I decided to apply and just see how it went. If it wasn't going to work for your guild I was going in with the mentality to wait until after, like you suggested. I also understand that your roster needs and recruitment desires may change by the time things settle down in our household. I will keep your Btag in the meantime and be in contact whenever that happens to see where things are. Thanks for your time and good luck to you guys in the meantime! Aszmodan

I haven't played Aion at all. The reference I originally used for it was from the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan, a character named Asmodean who was one of the Forsaken sworn to the Dark One. That name was unavailable so I changed it up a bit. Then D3 came up with a closer incarnation of the name...

I think I had Patron back in my college days. I'll have to pickup a bottle next time I visit the store. I'll try pretty much any kind of tequila that isn't a 3 dollar Montezuma bottle. =)

Hi Ashin, I'm not too picky about my Tequila, but in my ritas I usually go with the safe play with Jose. Otherwise I really like Cabo Wabo too for straight tequila. I was not online at 11pm, but I checked this morning and you are on my list. Saturday afternoon should work fine for me, probably between 1pm and 2pm central time would work best for me if that works for you. Looking forward to speaking with you! Aszmodan

Hi Negido, My favorite color is Green. I'm not a huge music person, but if I had to choose I guess I'd say either something from the 80's (hair bands) or rap, yeah that's right I like hip hop! Quite the range in taste i know! I drink occasionally and my favorite drink by FAR is Margarita on the rocks. I'm a tequila guy for life. No special skills per se, but I do have a pinkie that is literally crooked, like stuck in a 90 degree angle crooked. People think it's pretty weird. Favorite disney movie, hmm that's a good question. I'll have to go with my daughters favorite Aladdin and your avatar picture! I'd describe myself as a socially pleasant hermit. I'd much rather be in the confines of my own home with own family, but I'm not awkward or socially inept either. Aszmodan

Hi Noesis. I have never really been big into PvP in WoW. I'd much rather spend my time either raiding or reading up on boss strategies and information on my class. I specced into Flameglow just to try it out. I wanted to see if I could tell a difference but I find it incredibly hard to notice a difference between an "always on" talent and two others that benefit more from usage at high damage times. After a week or two of Flameglow I actually think I prefer Ice Barrier more because I notice the most difference out of that talent during large damage spikes. The only thing I don't like about Ice Barrier is the lost gcd. But i feel it more than makes up for it being able to easily stay alive during those intense damage periods. I never really liked or noticed Temporal Shield much. It's great it has a low cd and does not consume a gcd, but you still take 100% of the damage, which negates the point of that tier of talents to me. I've never seen a real need for Blazing Speed, as I have never had problem with movement. With blink being available almost every time I need it, i feel like PoM offers a better advantage because of the dps increase. In a fight where movement was a huge issue Blazing Speed might be a better alternative. But even in a fight like Tortos with high movement, it is just constant movement, so it doesn't matter how fast you move unless you cannot move out of the rockfalls, which isn't a problem at all with blink. If it were a high movement fight where you had to get to certain position quickly and blink wasn't enough to get you there, Blazing Speed would certainly be a good choice. Our guild used to use Vent and switched to Mumble in Cata. There was a noticeable difference in latency between vent and mumble, with mumble being the clear winner. In fights where callouts need to timely, I haven't experienced anything better than Mumble. Thanks for the response and nice to meet you Noesis. Aszmodan

Hi Boombox. I couldn't agree more about Arcane, I really wish they would have left scorch weaving in and just lowered the numbers. As for trinkets, I don't have any more data that what's already posted out there and the only trinket I've gotten my hands on yet is Breath of the Hydra but the top trinket I'm looking for is Cha-Ye's Essence of Brilliance. Given all different theories flying around right now, all that crit on one trinket is too sexy to pass up imo. Wushoolay's Final Choice has too much hit on it for my liking. I already have too much hit I don't know what to do with so I'm not sure this trink would benefit me personally as much. Unerring Vision of Lei-Shen is very intriguing. But reports of the low proc rate on it kinda of push me away from it. You see 100% crit rate and as a fire mage you drool a little, but if it only procs once every 4 or 5 minutes I'm not sure how worth it is. I think right now my top two trinkets for me personally are Breath of the Hydra and Cha-Ye's Essence of Brilliance. I have an upgraded heroic Light of the Cosmos so I really have no interest in the VP trinket either, all the reports I've seen say an upgraded LoTC is better than the VP trinket. What is your take on the trinkets? And thanks for the response, I look forward to discussing more magery with you. Aszmodan

Hi Ashin, thanks for the reply. I'll add you as soon as I login this evening. As for your questions, I play a Mage mainly because I like range dps and I fell in love with the mage class while I was leveling one. I love the big numbers mages can generate and when I'm playing a non-mage, I find myself trying to blink all over the place to no avail. For me the biggest thing is actually being able to level a class to max level. Mage, shaman, and DK are the only classes I've been able to bear leveling to max level. Mage and shaman are my favorite classes, and if I'm on a shaman I'd prefer to heal, so Mage is my go to for range dps. Mages bring exceptional dps to most raids. The fire spec is one of the better raid dps specs in the game because of the way we scale with gear, arguably better than any other class. Outside of dps though, Mages do not bring a whole lot of utility to raids outside of buffs other classes can bring. And as of late this has been one of the biggest gripes of most mages, if we aren't bringing dps there isn't a whole lot more we can bring unless you don't have another Bloodlust (highly unlikely). We do however, bring utility in the form of absorbs and cheat death mechanics. Cauterize is a great cheat death mechanic that be used to negate high damage that would ordinarily kill another class will save a mage. Ice Block is another great utility mechanic that can be used to either completely negate damage or remove a dangerous debuff. Another great self utility skill is Greater Invis, which can be very useful as yet another damage reduction cooldown. Some examples of using said abilities in the last tier that I have done involve talenting for double Ice Block on Blade Lord so I can ice block off two wind steps to help healers and using Greater Invis on the heroic Elegon fight to soak an add explosion. Other examples that I was prepared to try but never got the chance because we never got to those fights are using a combination of blink, ice block, and cauterize to soak multiple add explosions on the heroic Will fight and also use blink to quickly apply the damage debuff to Lei Shi on the heroic fight, especially during Get Away. During the first tier I felt pretty good about the mage class. Fire is my absolute favorite mage spec, so I obviously was pretty ecstatic when it was pulling huge numbers towards the beginning of the expansion. I was pretty discouraged when the nerf to fire happened, and although it was needed, I still believe it was way to harsh at the time. However, I quickly got over it when I realized how good Arcane was then. I'm not sure why, but I very much preferred and actually liked the scorch weaving rotation of Arcane over the old dump and evocate rotation (damage and numbers aside). I have not tried Frost yet this expansion, but I would be more than willing to learn it and play it if needed. Currently, I think mages are pretty good overall due to how well fire scales. I wasn't super excited over the increase in bomb damage essentially turning us into a super mult-dotting class, but with change so must we change. =) Thanks again for the response and I'll add you tonight once I get in game. Aszmodan

Hello and thanks for taking the time to look over my application. Name and Class Aszmodan - Mage Armory Link http://us.battle.net...zmodan/advanced Recent WoL Parses http://www.worldoflo.../?s=1109&e=1574 http://www.worldoflo.../?s=4049&e=4327 All logs can be found here (http://www.worldoflo...om/guilds/2790/) Voice Communication Mumble (preferred) Vent Have working microphone and willing to use it Past Guilds and Raid History I started raiding on my shaman (Kazadoom - http://us.battle.net...zadoom/advanced) as a healer while I was in Matador on the Madoran server. At the time I was playing with a few friends I worked with and we joined up with some other guys from another guild to create Matador. We started raiding in BC about 3 or 4 months after release, just doing 10 man Kharazan. Soon after we cleared that instance we decided we wanted to grow the guild to a 25 man raiding guild. At this time I was promoted to officer in the guild and helped build it up from a 10 man guild. After a couple weeks of intense recruiting we had enough to field 25 mans and started doing Gruul's Lair. During BC, our goal was to kill Illidan in Black Temple before the next expansion released. I took over as Guild Leader during SSC and we were able to accomplish the goal of killing Illidan, in addition to killing Vashj, Kael'thas, and Archimonde before the giant nerf to all BC raids. We were not able to get into Sunwell before the nerf however. Our Illidan kill was a Horde first and 2nd overall on the server at the time. So we were proud to have come up from nothing at the start of BC to accomplish that. In Wrath of the Lich King we continued in 25s and we cleared Naxx, Malygos, and a server first 25 man 3d pretty soon after release of the expansion. We continued on into Ulduar and although we did not get a server first Yogg Saron kill (alliance guild beat us to it) we did manage to get the server first Algalon kill as well as many other 25 man server firsts in Ulduar. In ToGC we managed to kill all heroic fights except for Anubarak. We also got all hard modes in ICC down on 25 man except for Lich King, whom we were working on for what seemed like an eternity. Cataclysm was a very weird time for our guild. I spent a lot of my time between my mage (Hideus - http://us.battle.net...Hideus/advanced) and my shaman (Kazadoom - http://us.battle.net...zadoom/advanced), so my experience was wildly split between the two early in this expansion. During the expansion our guild swapped back and forth between 10 and 25 mans what seemed like every 3rd raid week. Because of the inconsistency in our raid group, our progression was not what I would have expected out of our guild based on past expansions. We only managed to do 6/6 heroic in Blackwing Descent, 2/5 heroic in Bastion of Twilight, and no heroic kills in Throne of Four winds. I did end up taking a small break towards the beginning of Firelands because it was one of the many points in the expansion where we transitioned from 25m to 10m, and I was not enjoying the 10m environment at all. Later during Firelands, we then transitioned back to 25m again and I picked up on my shaman healing again and continued through Dragon Soul. We eventually got 6/8 in heroic Dragon Soul down in 25m but, once again, transitioned back to 10m when we lost so many of our core players we couldn't continue in 25m. This is when I stopped playing in Cataclysm. The guild did go on to clear heroic Dragon Soul in 10m, but I was not apart of that as I was not interested in 10m. I had no intention of playing in Mists, but when a co-worker suggested I join his guild and play the expansion with him I decided I would give it a try. I started a new mage, Aszmodan whom I am applying to this guild with today, and started on the Lethon server in a guild called Thousand Sons. This was a very very casual guild. We didn't even start raiding until 3 or 4 weeks after the expansion came out, and when we did it was for a couple hours two nights a week. Coming from a more serious raiding guild, I realized that the reason I play this game is to raid at a high level, which this guild was not doing. My co-worker and I then transferred back to Madoran and joined my old guild, Matador. We joined the guild a couple weeks after HoF was released and we were able to go 4/6H in Vaults, and 5/6H in HoF. We only made a few attempts on heroic in Terrace, which I was a little discouraged about. I also wasn't incredibly happy that we never cleared Vaults on heroic, given how much we over geared the instance at the time. Which brings us to current day ToT, where we are currently 9/12 in normal mode. All of my experience thus far in Mists has been in 10 man. Why Am I Applying to <South of Heaven>? The biggest reason I am applying is because I want to go back to 25 mans. I never enjoyed 10 man as much as I did 25 man, and while I have been enjoying the current expansion much more than the previous two, I think I would enjoy it even more if I were playing in the format I enjoy the most. Another big reason is because I really want to do all heroic content in a tier while it is relevant. In BC (outside of Sunwell) and ICC I was able to partake in all endgame content that I expected to. Unfortunately, since then progression has been trailing off at a rapid rate and I have not witnessed quite a few of the endgame heroic fights in the last few tiers. I feel as though I am a very capable raider and would be an asset to any heroic team, I just need to be in a guild that shares the same values as I do. There are various other reasons as well that I would be more than willing to discuss in an interview, but the above reasons are really 90% of the reason I am applying. What about <South of Heave> interested me? My main concern was finding a guild that raided only 3 nights a week. I am a husband and father, and at this point in my life cannot devote more than 3 nights consistently to a game. There are occasional weeks where I might be able to, but it would not be fair to a guild to only be able to count on my the 4th night once a month. I have done a lot of research and I wanted to find a guild that only raided 3 nights a week between the hours of 8 and 12 central time. I also really preferred a guild/realm in the Chicago data center as I am located in central Wisconsin and it is the closest geographically. Another large consideration was finding a guild that was either working on heroics, or very close to working on heroics. I feel as though I am able to be a great addition to a heroic team, but am being somewhat held back by what I consider stalled progression. I have read through other applications in your forums and can really tell that you put a lot of thought and effort into who raids in your guild. To me this shows a dedication and commitment to making your guild as successful as possible, which is very attractive. And last but not least, I want a 25man guild that has been around for awhile and does not have any intentions of disbanding and/or moving to a 10 man format. This guild seems to have a very rich history, being 8 years old, which is also very attractive. Who Am I? My name is Nate and I am 32 years old. As I mentioned above, I am a husband and father who very much values my family above all else. When I'm not doing family stuff though, I absolutely love gaming. I started my MMO career in The Realm, anyone remember that one? I then moved on to Everquest for many years and raiding through the Planes and stopped in GoD. I still hop on to Everquest every now and then when I'm bored and box 3-4 characters since it is now Free To Play. After Everquest, I moved to WoW and am still here today. I've also dabbled in LoTR Online and Rift, but always found WoW more polished. Though I do love the Rift class system. I also play LoL every now and then when I find time, but I'm still only level 15 or so and still very much learning that game. I work 8-5 everyday as a programmer for an insurance company. When I'm not gaming, there's a very good chance I'm programming something for fun. I work in .NET mostly on web applications. If anyone has ideas for the next million dollar web application but just needs a programmer, let me know! I am also an avid sports fan. Played sports my entire life but my main sports were Football, Soccer, and Basketball. The only sport I don't care for much as Baseball. Yes I even like Tennis and Golf more than Baseball. I am an absolute die hard Green Bay Packers fan, and never miss a game. Been lucky enough to go to games at Lambeau Field at least 30 times throughout my life. The start of football season is like Christmas for me, it's in every way a holiday. Why would I be an asset to your guild? I am a very dedicated raider and guild mate I always want what is best for the guild, if that means me sitting out for a certain fight due to comp reasons or passing gear to a raider in greater need. Guild progression always comes first to me. I am extremely reliable. I can not always predict family concerns that will keep me away from a raid night, but if I cannot make a raid night I make every effort to notify the raid leader or another officer as soon as possible. That being said, I don't miss many raid nights. I play this game to raid and missing a night is missing my favorite thing about this game. I am dedicated to my class. I'm not a person who wants to switch mains every month. I put in endless hours of research to make sure I am playing as optimally as possible. When a new patch drops, I research as much as possible to make sure I am 100% on top of any class changes that might modify my gearing or rotation. My greatest asset in a raid is I don't die. I pride myself on understanding mechanics and I will always put survivability on the forefront of my game play. Playing a healer for many many years has taught me to not rely on always being healed, but rely on your abilities and positioning to keep you alive. Granted I do make mistakes, but I will absolutely never make the same mistake twice. In addition, I learn from the mistakes of my peers. If I see another teammate make a mistake, I try and do everything in my power to learn from that mistake and not repeat it. Thanks again for looking through my application and I look forward to speaking with you further. Aszmodan