Hello! My name is Hayley aka Devotional and I play a holy paladin! I'm 23, I work a part time flexible job and I love to play WoW. ...and this may be a long post...
I started playing very casually during Vanilla, sharing an account with a friend. In BC, I (wo)manned up and got my own account and raided casually through Kara on my mage. I took a long break and started playing seriously again just after Wrath launched. I raided Naxx, Ulduar and ToC at a casual pace & shortly after ICC was released, I joined a guild called Calamitious Intent. I started raiding with them on my mage, and quickly was offered a spot in the officer 10man group doing heroics. When Cata released and we got around to raiding, the GM blatantly stopped caring. Our raid leader quit WoW very suddenly and overnight deleted his account. We were in an even tougher spot, so I stepped up and brought my paladin alt in (semi-geared from doing arenas and RBGS) to heal in the meantime. Firelands was released, and the guild was in even worse condition. I apped to Church of RNG, who saw potential in me and I transferred after giving CI my 2 weeks.
I raided with Church of RNG, at first only a raider and after MoP launched, I was promoted to an officer. Church fell apart after several of the talented players quit the game. The GM and officers of Church of RNG applied to a recently transferred guild to the server, Inner City Gym, who started their guild over from scratch and quickly became one of the best 10mans on the server. They raided less hours a week than we did, but with more progression. We wanted a guild with quality of players and quality of attempts over quanitity. One week into our four week trial, the ex-GM of Church and I were made raider rank on the spot for exceptional performances on Heroic Amber-Shaper and Heroic Grand Empress (first kills).
As you may have surmised, I know Sheitan the shadow priest who has also applied here. ('Know him' is a loose term...we live together.) For the reasons he's stated, ICG is no longer a good fit for either of us. Whimsical raid times and guild decisions are not my style.
This of course brings me to why I'm applying. I want consistent raid times and a guild run by adults. I still want quality over quantity. South of Heaven seems to have the stability and dedication of players I'm looking for. I don't apply to guilds willy nilly, I'm looking for a home.
I believe I am a solid player, I come prepared for raids with flasks/pots/300 food and knowledge of the encounters. I don't miss raids often, in fact over the past 2 years I've missed raids for planned vacations (with notice, of course), and for Blizzcon 2011! (It was as awesome as you've always imagined!) In addition to my attendance, I take constructive criticism well, and I love to try different talents/glyphs/sets of equipment for different fights. I don't mind being sat for classes more suited to the fight, and I don't mind being given the special jobs either. Whatever gets the fight down, I will do it. For example, we've been giving heroic Tortos some attempts and I've been assigned a specific tank to keep a crystal shield maxxed on. I've been experimenting with different ways of keeping his shield full and mine to where it doesn't fall off while still maximizing my Holy Power generation efficiently. HPS suffers greatly, but that's okay. It's about getting it done.
I have Mumble already and a mic, and I'm not afraid to use it. I am a fun person, and I like to have fun with the people I spend so much time a week with. I've made alot of friends in this game. Hell, I'm still friends with the raid leader that quit WoW suddenly that made me switch to my holy paladin as my main in the first place. I like to PvP, level alts, play the auction house, do transmog runs, solo old content, achieve-whore and in a guild raiding less than 18 hours a week, maybe I'll get a chance to do those things again. I really enjoy playing outside of raids, and hopefully I can find a good group of players within SoH who share those interests.
I have decent past progression, as well.
T12: 6/7 H 25m
T13: 8/8 H 25m (15% nerf)
T14: 15/16 H 10m
T15: 2/12 H 25m
WoL: http://worldoflogs.c...maq0i79hd18ce2/
Armory: http://us.battle.net...tional/advanced
I would love a chance to prove myself and earn a spot. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. My battletag is , and I look forward to hearing from you! :]