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  1. Greetings SOH- I am writing to introduce myself and ask that your consider adding me to your ranks so that we might work together in killing internet dragon and forming a swarthy band of heroes. First my WoW story, then some discussion about myself as a hunter. (note: learned of SOH from an ingame mail KEP sent me earlier today; my response time is an indication of my real interest) WoW Story I am a 46 year old educator, currently teaching physical science at a progressive all-girls middle school in California. I am a husband and father of a 14 year old (who recently graduated from said school). I began playing a hunter in December 2007; long a fan of ranger/hunter classes in other fantasy games, the choice of playing hunter was an easy one for me. I leveled slowly as I immersed myself in this incredible world that Blizz has created for us to play in. A long time game enthusiast, this was my first foray into an MMO, and I fell head over heels immediately. As the Burning Crusade happened around me, my WoW awareness gradually increased. An historic night for me early on was an invitation to go to Karazan and play with a small guild group that was the best group I had ever played with at the time. The night climaxed with a kill of the prince, and they gave me the incredible bow that he dropped. And that is how I found raiding... Once Woltk was released, after dabbling with some friends, I decided to join a "real raiding guild". I was taken in by a guild on Muradin called Ultio Mea Est who was working on Ulduar at the time. I was encouraged and supported, and kept getting better and more sure of my toolset as a hunter. When the guild fractured shortly after I joined, I went with the raid leader who formed a dynamic 10 man group called Phase Four. We had an absolutely great time playing together, and were very successful in our little Muradin pond (server 2nd algalon kill on our first night on the fight - 58th minute was our first real highlight). We got server first 10 man tribute and decided to go 25 man for ICC. The rigors of real life and raid leading wore out the GM/RL who had to step away and the group fell apart. Hungry for raiding, I joined another 25 man on the server that got to 11/12 heroic. The dynamic of that group, however, was pretty rough and despite the reasonable level of progression, I didn't feel the kinship and sense of teamwork I had previously experienced with P4. So, when Cata was released and the RL of P4 came back to the game, I quickly decided to join them for casual raiding in T11. We did ok on our 2 night or so schedule, had fun playing together, getting 3/16 heroic or something like that on 10 man. Once Firelands came out, things got sluggish and I decided I was ready as a player to take the next step. I started looking and found a 25 man guild on Llane called Monolith that had a long and very stable history. (Their guild philosopy and approach appears to share several common themes with SOH). They had a need for a hunter, and brought me in when they were 150 pulls into Heroic Rags, working on P2 transition. I got a trial by fire (literally; had a couple real early challenges with world in flames), was able to get myself up to speed on the fight and earn my spot on the progression team that achieved a server first kill (US 93 25 man on Nov 7). We worked our way as a group through DS, again earning a server first kill on Heroic DW and winding up US 119th 25-man. The leadership seriously considered closing shop at that point, with an accumulation of turnover and hard work recruiting and integrating new folks taking its toll. They decided to keep going through MoP, but the writing was on the fall. After reaching 3/16 heroic with a good deal of angst and less rapid progression, the struggle between the harder core progressionists and the guild leadership wanting to preserve loyalty and previous devotion as counting for something finally broke the spirit of the RL and GL, who decided to close down the Monolith raiding team. It was a sad night indeed given the long history of success and friendships that had been forged, but ulimately the effort of sustaining 25 man raiding on a dead server side was too much. A group of 11-12 of us who wanted to keep playing together decided to make a stab at 10 man raiding on Llane. We formed Fully Torqued and had a fun if brief run together, reaching 12/16 H before the loss of a couple of people and inablity to recruit on Llane horde side led to the decision to give up. Another sad night...really fun group. That night, I came across a post on MMO about a 10 man guild on Area 52 that needed a hunter and that was identically progressed. Seemed very fortituous at the time. They chatted me up on vent, looked at a couple of logs, and invited me that night. I transferred over and on our 2nd night together helped them kill H Grand Sheeker (http://www.worldoflo.../?s=5810&e=6675). I raided with the group for about 3 lockouts, and we reached 15/16 H. The chemistry was mixed, though. I felt like it was just early getting used to new people, but they decided to remake 3 spots on the raid team for 5.2 and brought in another hunter to replace me. I was told I was a solid player with areas to improve on (certainly true for all of us), a really nice guy, but just not a good fit of the group. I have been offered a place on one of the other 10 man groups in the guild, but after a couple of nights playing with them, I don't think their level of progression will compensate for the fact I feel zero connection to anyone in the group. So, I am looking (again) for that most elusive of things: a stable and mature place to play, to build in game friendships again, and challenge myself as a player. Playing a Hunter Namour (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/area-52/Namour/advanced) was my original toon and has been my only main. It is telling that my next 2 highest level toons are a hunter (86) and shaman (58). I love playing a hunter. For solo play and leveling, I can't imagine not having a pet to work with along with the incredible bag of tricks that hunters have for controlling and killing large numbers of mobs quickly and efficiently. As a raider, I use a full range of resources in game and out to make sure I can keep getting better as a player and adapting as the class charactistics evolve. Primary addons I rely on are shadowed unit frames (only unit frame addon I have found that has moveable boss frames), dbm and weak auras to amplify raid awareness, buff/debuff/range/ tracking tools configured for hunter specific info (My ui: http://i49.tinypic.com/14y7gy.jpg), reforgelite to optimize new equipment, auctioneer to help with making gold so support my toon. Out of game, I am daily reader of MMO forums (there has been a very interested discussion by Clojure regarding a mathematical analysis of the RPPM details in understanding the relative values of the new trinkets). I use icy veins written descriptiona and a range of videos (fatboss often) to familiarize myself and start planning spec/talent/glyph/macros for upcoming fights. I use WoL and comparebots to analyze performance and seek ways to improve myself as a player. As a player, I would describe myself as a good and focused player who is reasonably consistent night to night. I learn from my mistakes and get better with practice. There are mechanics that from time to time take me longer to master than I like (engulfing flames, see above), but I have always been able to get things down and usually stay alive on kills. I am solid on both single target movement (here is heroic vizor: http://www.worldoflo.../?s=8260&e=8732) and aoe fights (here is parse on Horridon from last night: http://www.worldoflo.../?s=1920&e=2505). I am not a world class player, and would never put myself out as one. I will rank from time to time, generally in the 90%, do have occassion dumbshit moments, and am always open to suggestions that will make me a better player. Other Important Details As part of my role as a dad and husband, I do have a need to pick up my daughter from dance class. She has class Tues-Thurs; my wife works a random selection of 3 out of every 7 days (nurse), so on those nights that my daughter is at class and my wife works, I have to pick her up. Class is 15 min away, so results in a 30 min afk. Typically happens about once per week, sometimes zero, occasionally 2, never 3. Also, I received a tremendous honor and have been invited to give a talk to the physics majors at the college from which I graduated, so I will be offline the week of april 8th and would miss that entire raid week. At this point, I have proabably told you enough to get the question process started. Thank you for your considering of my interest in joining South of Heaven. With enthusiasm, Namour
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