Lazeil Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Character Name: Lazeil Realm: Gul’dan Race, Class & Spec: Blood elf, Paladin, Holy. Armory Link: http://us.battle.net...Lazeil/advanced Professions: I am currently Jewel crafting and enchanting to min/max my character. The increased +40 int to rings and as well the increased benefit from the jewel crafting only gems. Sadly you’ll notice that they are not maxed out. Though they’re at the point where I am able to benefit from the profession. I started to play this toon again not too long ago. I will get it maxed out soon...actually I’ll go ahead and do that this coming weekend. Age: 26 Male/Female: Male Location: DFW Texas. If accepted, when is the earliest you can start raiding with us? As soon as if and when accepted this toon is ready to transfer. Availability (Tues to Thur 9pm EST to 12 am) Not a problem. I work the standard 9-5 job Monday through Friday. Your raid schedule for me is 8-11PM. Which is preferred as my former raid schedule was 12-230AM. Previous guilds & why you left: Shady Shenanigans: I joined this guild when they were recruiting for 25 man heroic DS. I Got accepted. We did 25 mans for about two weeks. People expressed burn out at this time and leadership decided to work out two ten mans. Did this for couple more weeks and got stuck on heroic black horn. Finally got that encounter down and worked on spine for about two weeks. At this time more people expressed burn out and leadership decided in order to recruit further the guild needs to be at 8/8HM. Guild broke it down to one ten man. As no real reason was given to me as I was not chosen for this ten man. I would assume that they picked the other paladin over me due to seniority as he’s been with the guild for some time, and was a former officer. Tell us a little about your class and spec. specifically, how do you gear? How do you gem? What is your rotation/priority on a given fight? Paladin, one of the two classes who can heal, tank and DPS. I have chosen to play the Holy speculation of the class. Holy paladins are considered to excel at single targeting healing. Ideal for tanking healing. With changes that came across Cataclysm and the introduction of Holy radiance and Light of Dawn. This added the AOE healing element that Holy Paladins were missing. With the current changes to Holy radiance, it has allowed us to start competing with other AOE heavy healing classes. Stat priories are as followed, Intellect. spirit, haste, crit, mastery. At this point gearing to meet haste break points. 777 haste grants the 5th tick while divine favor is active. 2,284 next breaking point to gain another tick during blood lust and divine favor. Point being…gear for haste to make me a holy radiance machine. Please post a screen shot of your UI. http://tinypic.com/r/3094lr9/6 Raiding Add-Ons. Clique: Easier method of spell casting. Adding in Hover casting plus faster reaction speed. GRID: Better healing raid frame, from the standard blizzard UI. GTFO: Make sure that I don’t stand in anything nasty to avoid the whole “Laz stood in the shiz” DBM: Standard raid add-on Other add-ons to assist with my UI management. Please include any WWS or WMO logs you might have. http://www.worldoflo.../guilds/168737/ Every player has room for improvements, even the best players, give us an area where you personally can improve, and possible steps you have taken to improve in this area. Also, can we expect you to improve on a week to week basis on every encounter we do? Weak points in my playing style that I need work on. Cool down management. When and when not to pop CDs. Also More use of holy radiance, I don’t want to over heal so at times I can make the wrong judgment on when to unload or hold back on using Holy Radiance. As I get more familiar with an encounter I make better judgment calls. W are human and we are always learning on ways to improve our self. In Closing... I have questions for you folks. From reading your forum requirement. I’ve noticed that you all have just recently formed to a 25 man run from two previous 10 mans. Why choice to form the 25 man? Has your numbers overly increased in time? Have you all been spared from the burn out most WoW players are experiencing right now? As a possible new person to your guild. If the 25 man were to fail I would not continue on to a 10 man group. As there are veterans in all guilds who can make up those spots. Where would the people left out stand? As stated above my guild formed back down to one raid team. The statement was made out as a whole to the guild. I expressed my frustration to this to guild leadership, and all I got was sorry for ya. Wait till MOP when we are able to recreate our 25 man team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Corbendallas Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 In Closing... I have questions for you folks. From reading your forum requirement. I’ve noticed that you all have just recently formed to a 25 man run from two previous 10 mans. Why choice to form the 25 man? Has your numbers overly increased in time? Have you all been spared from the burn out most WoW players are experiencing right now? I can answer a question or two, hopefully. The 25-man format has been chosen by the majority of the guild as a whole, after being put to vote. Overall my take on the 25man format benefits the guild as a whole, by allowing us to work together, and not feel so separated from one another. Folks could be in the guild for a month and not know Raider X because they were on a different team. I'm sure there's other reasons but continuity is a big one. For the most part SoH raiders tend to be very resilient when it comes to burnout. I personally experienced it this tier(also just major videogame burnout in general) and retired from raiding for the time being. The ten man teams have usually had a stable roster, and folks are usually generous enough to give the team time to find a suitable replacement before leaving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazeil Posted July 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 I can answer a question or two, hopefully. The 25-man format has been chosen by the majority of the guild as a whole, after being put to vote. Overall my take on the 25man format benefits the guild as a whole, by allowing us to work together, and not feel so separated from one another. Folks could be in the guild for a month and not know Raider X because they were on a different team. I'm sure there's other reasons but continuity is a big one. For the most part SoH raiders tend to be very resilient when it comes to burnout. I personally experienced it this tier(also just major videogame burnout in general) and retired from raiding for the time being. The ten man teams have usually had a stable roster, and folks are usually generous enough to give the team time to find a suitable replacement before leaving. Awesome! it's nice to see a guild that cares about the their raider and getting more of a community feel going on. In my previous guild as much as I tired to join conversion in gchat or get to know my fellow raiders it ended up just being ignored and left me feeling alone. I never once actually spoke to the GM of the guild. All I got from the GM from the guild was " PEOPLE NEED TO STOP SUCKING!!" She once joined our run as a stand in. Cussed us all out, stepped over the raid leaders...mmmm good times... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashin Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 In Closing...I have questions for you folks. From reading your forum requirement. I’ve noticed that you all have just recently formed to a 25 man run from two previous 10 mans. Why choice to form the 25 man? Has your numbers overly increased in time? Have you all been spared from the burn out most WoW players are experiencing right now? As a possible new person to your guild. If the 25 man were to fail I would not continue on to a 10 man group. As there are veterans in all guilds who can make up those spots. Where would the people left out stand? As stated above my guild formed back down to one raid team. The statement was made out as a whole to the guild. I expressed my frustration to this to guild leadership, and all I got was sorry for ya. Wait till MOP when we are able to recreate our 25 man team. Hi, welcome and thanks for the intro. Those are all good questions. 25m was a decision that we discussed and contemplated for basically all of T12. There were a lot of reasons for our change - many long threads were filled with the pro's and con's as you might imagine. At the end of the day, the biggest reason (for me) was that I did not like a situation where half the guild always felt second-best. We tried very hard to avoid having an A vs. B team, and in fact we did a good job of that. The teams were similar. But only one could ever get a "guild first". The community and cohesion of the guild are very important to me, and having two separate teams was not helpful. I'm very fortunate because, even though we had some folks who were very skeptical of 25m, everyone stayed on board and has committed to making the change work. We've actually never lost a member to another guild in WoW, so you can see we engender those sorts of long term friendships among our members. I wouldn't say that we are immune to fatigue - Dragon Soul certainly feels old at this point, especially with all the nerfs. But there was never any question about whether we'd keep the trains running. Both teams did their full 8/8H clear within the first 48 hours if Diablo 3's launch, if that tells you anything. (Yes there are a ton of us playing that too.) Your last question isn't one I can give a simple answer to, because it would be very circumstantial. We're not interested in running two co-equal raid teams again, for the reasons I mentioned above. If we ultimately decided that 25m didn't work, we would contemplate either two intentionally different raid teams (ie, a weeknight vs. weekend, a 3 night vs. a 2 night, etc.), or just one 10m team. If it were one 10m team yes we'd need to retire a lot of raiders. It would be uncomfortable and that's why we solved our original problem by bumping up to 25m rather than down from 20 to 10. I can tell you though that we wouldn't give up on 25m due to recruitment/attendance problems. Those problems would be solved through recruitment. We would only abandon 25m if we found that the format fundamentally didn't work for us on some level. Our guild really doesn't miss raids or have the kinds of attendance/motivation issues you may have been exposed to in past guilds. When we decide we're doing something, it is pretty much hell or high water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazeil Posted July 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 (edited) Everything that I have been allowed to see so far goes with your answers! Seems like you all are a tight knit guild. Even with the vast size of being a 25 man guild. I'm looking for a new home to plant my feet in and hope to stay with. Be able to enjoy this game again as I have before with good people. The process of guild jumping has been really taxing on me and my enjoyment of this game. Edited July 2, 2012 by Lazeil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashin Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Could you talk a little bit about what was going on during T11 and T12? Have you healed for a competitive HM raiding guild (let's say us top 1000 and above) before? When did you first start playing WoW? Do you ever do any rated Bg's or arena? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazeil Posted July 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Could you talk a little bit about what was going on during T11 and T12? I have Been playing sense the start of Cataclysm. The data for those raids are held on my other paladin Lazeil@Misha. I switched to Lazeil@Gul'Dan due the fact that the guild on other Lazeil was a casual guild and I wanted to start doing HM raids. Talking with the GM of the Misha guild I was permitted to do so. Luckily I have two paladin that I could do that with. I'll be honest and admit my HM raiding did not fully start till T13. Have you healed for a competitive HM raiding guild (let's say us top 1000 and above) before? My experience with HM raiding has strictly been with shady shenanigans. With Wowprogress being down. I am unable to determine where they stand on the HM fights they've completed. I personally feel that I am ready to start contending in a HM environment, and will totally understand if you folks are looking for someone a little more seasoned then me. When did you first start playing WoW? I started to play WoW during TBC days. My first 70 was Lazeil@Misha. Continued on to WOLK raiding with friends in a 10m environment. Moving foreword to Cataclysm I spent t11 and t12 and the start of t13 raiding with friends. Then branched off to find a HM guild to spread my wings with. Do you ever do any rated Bg's or arena? I do have to admit PVP has not been my favorite, but I'm not opposed to trying it out, but I'll be a complete novice in that environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hip Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Welsome to the boards Laz, thanks for taking the time to fill out a thorough app. It seems you really enjoy being a pally, I dig it. What draws you to playing pally over having other classes as alts/co-mains/whatever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazeil Posted July 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 (edited) The idea of doing honorable and doing justice as paladin crusader!! It was more of a cosmetic choice then anything. Being able to deploy wings of justice for 30 seconds is awesome! Though I do on the off chance like being to smash things as a warrior with big huge honking two handers! Edited July 2, 2012 by Lazeil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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