Mage application. [TRIAL]

[Ariel]

Hello Zero Gravitas.
Once more, here I am, humbly knocking on your doors.

~~ Character information ~~

Character Name : Janosaudron

Race & Class : Blood Elf, Mage.

Current Server : Runetotem

Armory Link : http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Runetotem&n=Janosaudron

As additional gear pieces, it comes down just to 'Elemental Focus Stone' trinket - in case there's no 3% hit provider such as Boomkin or S-priest in the raid.

~~Playing Times ~~

- What are your normal playing hours?
From early morning till late night. Unless I'm on college, from which I come back around 15.00 h.

- How many days per week (Monday-Friday) are you regularly available to raid?
6, unless a totally extraordinary friday evening makes me go out of my dark little room where the PC is, then it'd be 5.

~~ History ~~

Previous Guilds :

Naga - Joined back in tbc, leveled there, and experienced my first raids, the guild disbanded shortly after Wotlk was released.
Nightraiders - After Wotlk hit the ground, I teamed up with NRs for some late night action (no, not pornography, but raiding), and it was all well untill the point of de-merging with Droods, when the guild started sinking.
Paradigma - Well, what can I say. 8 hours long hard core raids. Triumphs and fails, wipes and victories. Was beautifull. Then the summer came.. The guild took a major hit with some awesome players leaving, including our raid leader and the main tank. Raiding stopped, and it's unknown when or will it continue, sadly. And the Colosseum race is about to begin...

Reasons for Applying :

-Why have you decided to find a new guild, and specifically, why Zero Gravitas?
As stated above, I'm inclined to look for a new home, and I believe that ZG, is what I'm looking for. Reasons are simple, progress, friends, good social enviroment, long history. I'm aware that you have lots of active mages, but I'm giving it a shot anyway.

~~Raiding Experience ~~

-What have you achieved so far in WoW, both prior to, and during Wrath of the Lich King?
Pre-BC : None.

TBC : Pre-nerf - everything up to council in BT. (Kael and Vashj after the nerf tho).
Archimonde and Ilidan remained unkilled by my hand 'till level 80 sadly.
As for SWP, I've only seen Kalcegos, the rest was a mistery for me.

WOTLK : Cleared everything, just missing a couple of Ulduar 25 man H-modes. (Freya, Mimi, General, Yoggi.. *shivers*)

-What are your goals for the future?
Server first kills. Hard mode kills. Evolving the Mage class till the point where Recount can't track the damage data anymore. Everything and anything that new / current content can offer.

~~Your Role~~

-Explain what you perceive your character's role in endgame content to be.
Uh oh, how much can you say about Mages ? DRINKS - SHEEPS - PORTALS! Decursing if needed too! And bits of dps of course, just about enough to /beatdown Warlocks.

-Explain how your current gear, gem, glyph and talent choices mesh with performing that role, and any ways in which you are still working on improving your character.
Not much to say, EJ / Spreadsheets do the work for me. Get hit capped / obtain (and always add more) vast amounts of SP and Crit / start pumping up Haste.

A prior note before anyone says 'Why gemming pure haste?", the reason is simple : Spreadsheets are showing that after 2400~ish SP, haste scales as the best dps stat. And fortunately the static SP trinkets (Illustration / Brood Mother) allowed me to test and confirm this fact. (I will one day hit the haste cap, I'm sure of it!)

When it comes to specs, as main I'm using the Totw / Fire cookie cutter. Meaning that I keep up LB, and spam Fireballs / HS procs. (And oh well, keeping scorch up if there's no Warlock with improved SB, and saving Fireblast for 'move out of fire and cast fire' moments.)
Tho I am used to a little cheat when it comes to Totw/Fire, since it has no DPS boost cooldowns, I hope there's a happy discipline priest runnin' round with Power Infusion ready to be smashed on me as soon as Bloodlust has finished (or I get a target which is tank&spank, like the tentacles on Yogg-Saron, where I don't have to loose precious seconds in order to run away from a iceblock falling on my head). :)

As secondary, Arcane school. A simple rotation that consist of ABx3 / Barrage / Missles on each proc, with the exception of ABx2 and x4, depending on the situation (saving mana, or nuking harder). And a proper personal CDs timing, of course.
Then again, I'm always willing to spec in any way the raid and situation requires me to. Example : Improved Blizzard for Council meduim mode (uh, this is the offspec showing on Armory atm, I just forgot to respec), takin' the Slow talent for Mimi H-mode (for the nasty lil bombs), frost spec for General H-mode, etc etc.

UI screenshot(s) :

Idle in the city.

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4452/wowscrnshot073109100756.jpg

Raid enviroment (or rather 'in combat', since I've just took this UI package, which is still in the process of minor tweaking) :

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4433/wowscrnshot073109101047.jpg

The keybinds are rather simple, everything I need is at my left hand, leaving my right one free for mouse-targetting, camera moving etc etc.



~~Personal Information ~~
Hmm, some of you may remember what happened the last time when I tried to write something under this headline.. I'm not good at writing applications. So I'll keep it clear now!

My real name is Davor, I'm a 21 year old student from Belgrade, Serbia. Who has recently lost his job due to ignoring customers "cuz of WoW" (well yea, that's what happens when you get a 50 Mbit / s connection on your workplace, luckily I still own the net caffe). Guess I should also mention that I have a really competative nature, so don't mind me if I pick a fight with a lock or a s-priest over the damage meters.

That's it, not much more to say. I hope you've had a fun time reading, and looking forward to replies!
Janos.

[Datalord]

Well, like last time, I'll completely vouch for Janos. Top player, great guy. Win.

[Gristle]

Hi Jano, nice application. We will have an answer for you very soon.

[Ariel]

Hello ZG. Let me start off with :

- A word of appologies.
This is regarding the 'Vanished' status. Well, I wouldn't like this to sound as exuses, altho I would like to explain what happened straight after I started my trial. A mere 2 days after getting the invite, my family dragged me to a one-day river rifting party, and well, after falling into freezing water from a 45-ish temperature outside, I got hospitalized for 7 days. In that time, my WoW sub ran out, my ISP called the quits on their company, and I've lost my old home and was forced to move. After all of that, WoW was sadly the last thing I was able to think about, and I decided to call it quits myself back then. That's about when I posted on the forum, and gave my account away to Data. In the meanwhile, I got dragged into playing Aion with Paradigma, for the past 4 months (yeah, took me 3 months to realise that the game just... Failed).

With all that said, all I can add is - I'm very sorry for what happened.

Now to get down to buisness. Yes, if possible, I would like to re-apply here.
Altho this is a -formal- application, I took the liberty of re-posting on my old one (with additions), I hope this is not a major problem, as not many things have changed, other than :

EDIT : - Raiding expirience : On what's previously stated, I can add that I've cleared ToC 25, Onyxia, and up to and including Saurfang in ICC (Hum hum, pugs are not very friendly theese days, no one wants to take a mage to Icc without the 'link achievment' horror).

Now, regarding my gear (which is sadly quite outdated at this point) - concidering the fact that I've re-subbed 3 days ago, all I've been able to gather so far are some tiny upgrades, such as 2 T9 pieces, a ring, a weapon, and a headpiece.
I am trying my best to get hold on those frost badges, and besides doing the 'random hcs' as much as possible. I will not list the upgrades which I am (or, would like) to aim at, the list would be too long, altho I'm aware of what I do need.

Next topic!
Some of you may wonder - 'Why ZG, why not some other guild that's currently raiding content that would scale with my current gear?'

The answer is actually quite simple - I wouldn't like to just 'exploit' a guild to get enough gear upgrades, since I would most definately just re-apply here again after getting the stuff. Then again, I can't see myself in a casual, or semi-hardcore guild, as my playtimes are drastic, and my hunger for downing bosses and competition doesn't seem to suit those 'non-hc' guilds, either.

As for the raiding spec, it would primarly be Arcane for now, seeing as it's currently (or shall I say, in my current gear) superior to Fire/Totw. This can be changed into anything tho, if the raid would require me to do so.

I think that summarised it all in a short version, I've got nothing more to say. If you have any questions for me, shoot 'em out, I'll be happy to answer.

*shivers while waiting for replies*

Best regards, Janos.

[Ariel]

Aaand a tiny update : I've pretty much finished getting everything I wanted with the Triumph emblems, now the process of gearing becomes more painfull, as it consists of Frost badges (somehow I've managed to get up to 42 in 5 days, hoping for some T10 soon enough) / ToGC / Icc drops (and those darned Saronites, for the crafted boots, at least). I know it's not much and still pretty outdated to your current level, but just tought I should keep you folks updated.

(ps : the T9 pieces are sadly not of highest level, pugs are still failing in ToC25, and getting even that 1 Trophy was a pain in the ***. :errf: )

[Zelb]

Hi again Janos,
Sorry to hear about what happened to you. Give us some time to discuss and we'll get back to you. I wouldn't keep my hopes up at the moment since we don't have raid spots to spare, but we'll let you know as soon as possible.

[Ariel]

Hello Zelb, and thanks for your reply. I am well aware that you have quite a few active mages, yet I still have to give it a shot.

Either way it turns out, thank you for at least concidering the application after all the mess I've made.

[Zelb]

As discussed in-game as well, we will decline at present. This is mainly due to the gear level. Feel free to reopen your app when you are ready and we will consider it then.

[Ariel]

Sooooooooo. It has been a while since my last post here, and I think it deserves a little bump.

In this month that has passed, I've been able to upgrade from full T8.5, to a 4 set bonus of T10, along with some other tiny shinies. It's not much, I admit, and I certainly can't -yet- compare or equalise my dps output to your mages, but heck, I'll try. As for the rest of upgrades - my priorities now changed to Belt / Boots / Neck / Cloak, as the main pieces are finally settled.

Why has it taken so long ? Please take into consideration that I've been pugging everything for the past month. And the math with pugs was brought down to 39 Frost badges per week (unless I would get really lucky with a group and make a few extra, up to like 50).

Looking forward to your replies, again! :pray:

PS : Sadly, I won't be online tonight due to my roommate's birthday that occupied like, 98% of my space! Exceptions like theese happen once or twice a year, other than this, you can expect 100% attendance from meh.

[Zelb]

Hey Janos, sorry for the delay. Contact an officer in game when you get the chance.