Application as a Holy Priest - Shaelynn [EU-Aegwynn]

[Shaelynn]

Hello Numen!

I wish to apply for an open slot in your raid pool as a Priest (Holy/Disc).

Why have you decided to apply for Numen?
The whole process started with looking for European high-end guilds on http://www.wowprogress.com and I got stuck by your entry. I liked your announce and I felt that it totally referred to me. As I finished reading your expectations I recognized that everything fits perfectly and so I just started writing this application to you.

Info about my Character
My Night Elf Priestess Shaelynn is currently located at the German server Aegwynn.
This character’s got its own history. But I’ve got a bit larger one in the World Of Warcraft.

My History
Everything began with my Night Elf Rogue named Finrod on the Server Mal’Ganis. I started playing this character at the release of Vanilla (and even before in the Closed European Beta). Leveling and exploring the whole new world was a lot of fun; but right before reaching Level 60, my guild (Skill of Dragons) started over at another Server – but this time with Horde Characters. That’s why I lost my interest in playing a Rogue and started leveling a Priest. The name of that Priest was Aelorie. Reaching Level 60, I had the opportunity to choose between lots of guilds and soon started to raid with the guild Knights of Valor. We killed a lot of evil monsters and bosses. Ragnaros, Nefarian, Onyxia and C‘Thun. In Naxxramas we sadly just were able to clear the Spider Wing before the release of The Burning Crusade.
After the release we all wanted to be the first one to reach Level 70 – but a lot of our raiders gave up during the first levels because of the item inflation. That’s why I’ve decided to change my guild – because the old one simply didn’t exist anymore!
Within several days I was able to reach Level 70 and started to raid with my new guild (Synergy). Prince Malchezaar, Gruul, Magtheridon, Lady Vashj, Kael’Thas, Archimonde and Illidan had to end their life pretty fast and hand over their loot to us. Sadly, a lot of people in our guild were extremely focused on achieving loot and forgot about the fact that they need to kill bosses for loot – or even stronger bosses for even better loot. That’s why the guild lost a lot of members after the release of Sunwell – so we weren’t able to go further than Kalecgos pre-nerf, and Brutallus plus Felmyst post-nerf. We would’ve been able to kill more bosses in Sunwell, but the summer had cost us a lot of members, too, and so we had to raid with decelerated speed. After our Felmyst kill, our guild management called out a raiding-break until release of The Wrath of The Lich King.
New Addon, new Server. Together with some of my best ingame friends I decided to change the Server to explore a new community with guilds located in it, that are higher in the world ranking than the guilds of Mal’Ganis. So we transferred our characters to Eredar and hoped to be able to form a very successful, new, guild. We wrote an awesome announcement, built an extremely good looking homepage and generally spent a lot of time in creating a very special guild; but unfortunately almost 90% of the good players already were in a guild so we had a hard time to even form a 25-man Raid. I fulfilled the position of the Priest Classleader, Webmaster, Recruitment Officer and Guild/Raid Leader. It was a very special time I’ll never forget. Even though we had to accept over 70% of the applications we received, because of our lack of members, and 90% of them were very lazy and untalented players. But it was fun to create a whole new guild and to lead raids – even though its way harder to plan and lead raids with people you can’t really rely on, than to plan and lead raids with skilled and dependable player.
At the End of December we decided to disband the guild because we had a lot of 10-player raids – but just four 25-player raids – and that really sucked for a lot of us.
Some of our guild-members cancelled their subscription, some continued playing WoW guild less and some, including me, started to apply for a slot in another raid.
This time, I wanted to join a special guild. Not focused on a guild located on my server – a guild located in the highest ranks, compared to other guilds world-wide. After 2 days of applying “Utopie” liked my application, invited me for a Ventrilo interview – and told me that they would like to have me as one of their holy priest. I instantly transferred my character to Blackrock then and started raiding. Experienced the whole 3.0 Content, inclusive the hardest modes 3.0 had to offer (Sartharion 3D in 10 player as a single healer and with ‘beginner’ equip, The Immortal in Naxx25, several Naxx HM, Malygos Speedkill, and so on…). After two weeks my trial-phase was finished (two weeks earlier than usual) and so I was able to raid as a fully raid member. Then the PTR for 3.1 came and we spent raiding every day a boss spawned in Ulduar – and I always was part of it. We killed several bosses and then finally started to realize the same on Live-Servers. We cleared Ulduar and also did a lot of Hard modes, but I sadly missed all of the hard mode-achievements and Algalon, because I unfortunately had to do a World of Warcraft break because of my exams (started the break at the beginning of May). Thanks to my break, I passed my exams with good results, enjoyed my vacation in the US and started an apprenticeship as an IT-specialist. After all that stress/relaxing stuff was done, my hunger for World of Warcraft returned – but sadly there wasn’t any place left for a priest at my old guild – and that’s why I transferred my priest to Aegwynn (Horde) because of some co-workers that play World of Warcraft, too. But raiding with them was frankly very boring because they are not very talented ingame (I, of course, never missed a chance to tell them the same in RL ;)) and due to the free character transfer service they transferred to another server – and I switched my priest back to alliance.
I’m actually busy with being bored and frustrated by raiding with random raids. That’s why I’m not doing really a big progress. All of the 3.2 and 3.3 Content was achieved with random groups – so I really can’t give you great achievements there. But with the end of Patch 3.3 and the actual Addon, I want to change that. I want to raid successful again on a high competitive, international, level. And because of my love for the English language I looked primary for English-speaking guilds, found you, started to write this application, and now just finished my History part.


Previous Guilds
Skill of Dragons
Knights of Valor
Synergy
Noctasis (Page shut down)
Utopie

Armory Link
Like mentioned earlier:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Aegwynn&n=Shaelynn

I know that my equipment isn’t the best you’ve ever seen. But my equip is good enough for the whole content and my skill is far beyond that ;-)

Okay. But how does your „perfect“ equip look like? And what Talent Specialization do you prefer?
My Equip and Holy-Spec would look like this: http://www.chardev.org/?profile=338691

I also included my professions in that sheet.
You can find my Discipline-Specialization at my armory profile.

Holy
Tier 1
Healing Focus 2/2: A lot of ICC bosses are doing great AoE damage. I don’t want to lose casting time.
Holy Specialization: Extra Crit is always nice.
Imp. Renew 2/3: I Renew a lot, but spent the 3rd point in Healing Prayers for more mana – would exchange points with better equipment.
Tier 2
Spell Warding 5/5: Same with Healing Focus. I don’t want to take too much unnecessary damage. And in ICC I take a lot of it!
Tier 3
Inspiration 3/3: Nice for a tank to receive less physical damage.
Desperate Prayer 1/1: To reach Tier 5 and Self-Heal is nice for emergency situations.
Tier 4
Holy Reach 2/2: If my CoH and PoH have got a wider range – more get healed. Nice!
Tier 5
Healing Prayers 2/2: I use these two spells very often – so reduced mana costs is nice to have.
Spirit of Redemption 1/1: 5% more Spirit. Yay! To be able to heal while being dead? Yay!
Spiritual Guidance 5/5: A lot of Spirit = a lot of Spellpower! Great!
Tier 6
Surge of Light 2/2: A very very nice spell I always use when it proccs.
Spiritual Healing 5/5: 10% Extra Healing is nice.
Tier 7
Holy Concentration 3/3: Combined with Holy Specialization and some neat Crit: Awesome!
Blessed Resilience 3/3: 3% increased Healing on all Spells. Need that!
Tier 8
Serendipity 3/3: I urgently need that improved speed for Prayer of Healing. A great help!
Tier 9
Circle of Healing 1/1: This skill is on CD ;)
Empowered Renew 3/3: A stronger Renew with a little instant heal is a must have (I use renew a lot).
Test of Faith 3/3: Very nice, because a lot of targets are actually below 50% while Raid healing.
Tier 10
Divine Providence 5/5: That reduced PoM-Cooldown is awesome. Combined with extra heal a must-have talent.
Tier 11
Guardian Spirit 1/1: “Tank…. 5% HP?!? Oh F*!%!“ also nice for incredible high foreseeable damage.

Discipline
Tier 1
Twin Disciplines 5/5: Nice for my instants… like CoH.
Tier 2
Improved Inner Fire 3/3: More Spellpower. Who needs more Spellpower? Me!
Improved Power Word: Fortitude 2/2: These extra 4% Stamina could safe my life.
Tier 3
Inner Focus 1/1: Nice for expensive Spells like Divine Hymn and in general for mana-saving.
Meditation 3/3: Helps my mana-regeneration a lot!

Why didn’t you spec…
Divine Fury (Holy, T2)? Because I don’t use Greater Heal often/at all.
Improved Healing (Holy, T4)? Reduced Manacost for spells I rarely/never use? Never!
Lightwell (Holy, T7)? Actually… no one really uses it (effectively). So why spent a point in there? If it’s well known in your Raid – then I’d skill it.
Empowered Healing (Holy, T8)? These points are better spent in Blessed Resilience and Test of Faith, where ALL my spells are affected.
Body and Soul (Holy, T7)? Cleansing poison with my shield is nice – but not worth 2 Points. Especially when only I am affected.


Would you respect for our Raid?
Since I’m well experienced with all three talent specializations… this will never be a problem. Never.

Dungeon Experience
Like mentioned in my small&short History:

Classic

• Molten Core
• Blackwing Lair
• Ahn'Qiraj
• Naxxramas (Spider-Wing)

Burning Cursade

• SSC
• Eye
• MH
• BT
• Sunwell (Kalecgos, Brutallus, Felmyst)

Wrath of the Lich King

• Naxxramas
• Eye of Eternity (HM)
• The Obsidian Sanctum (HM)
• Vault of Archavon
• Ulduar (minus Algalon)
• Onyxia’s Lair
• Trial of the Crusader (10 & 25 Player)
• Trial of the Grand Crusader (4/5 - 10 Player)
• Trial of the Grand Crusader (25 Player)
• Icecrown Citadel (4/12 – 25 Player)
• Icecrown Citadel (6/12 – 10 Player)

Your /played
Played total
300 Days

Played at this level (80)
80 Days

Your UI
http://www3.picfront.org/token/y4KU/2010/01/19/1740052.jpg

This screenshot is 2 weeks old (That’s why I’m a sexy Blood Elf).
The Thunderbolt symbolizes 3/3 Serendipity, The Flame an Instant Flash Heal and the arrow a missing Inner Fire.


Your Key Bindings
http://www6.picfront.org/picture/8lT12aUGnKQ/img/Keybinds.jpg
The left Bar is bound from 1 to ´.
In the right Bar I mixed a lot of Keys around WASD with the Shift-Key
SQ to example means Shift+Q

More about me
My name is Simon. I’m 19 years old and I’m from Bavaria (Germany). I bet you know that state. It’s full with beer and we do celebrate the Oktoberfest all day (No, not really).
I’m living in a single apartment due to my apprenticeship. That’s why I’m able to plan everything on my own without being affected by my parents.
My Hobbies are Acting (Youth), going to the Cinema, listen to (good) music and (Warning: Surprise!) World of Warcraft.

Raidtimes (CET)
Mo-We: 17.00 – Midnight.
Th&Fr: 20.00 – Midnight.
Sa: 14.00 – Midnight.
Su: Midnight – 18.30

Technical Details about your hardware
My ping is very good during raiding (about 50ms on German realms – don’t think that this would be any different on the English ones). Minimum 30 FPS during raiding and my Headset works perfect (Sennheiser) with an awesome sound quality (*advertise* *advertise*). Ventrilo, TS2, TS3, Mumble – I know and can handle all of them.

Why are you the best for Numen and what are you expecting from us?
That I’m the Mr. Right for Numen, proofs my versatile knowledge around World of Warcraft and, especially, priests.
I often read a lot of interesting postings in the EJ and official WoW-Forum to stay up-to-date and get to know the latest numbers and facts about everything.
I know all the three talent trees perfectly and how to use them raid-wisely.
I also always want to get out the maximum of my character – with my Equip, Play style and charm ;-)
Additionally I’m very active and I’m always best prepared for all kind of raids. Due to my past as a raid leader I know how to get to know all bosses which aren’t even out yet and am able to explain the tactic to everyone; even if I would never have visited that boss. I can handle criticism and am able to convert it into something useful.
I learn pretty fast and if I should make a mistake, I will never do the same mistake again.
Because I’m so fascinated about World of Warcraft, Healing, the Players and the Harmodes/Raid-Achievements you can count on me as a player that would like to stay in your guild and hunt all the Worldwide First kills until the servers will be turned off.

What I’m expecting from you, is a guild with a skilled and experienced Leadership, that’s got a structured overview over their guild&raid.
Additionally I hope to meet like-minded people, which also want to get out the maximum out of their characters and do also play like that.

Aha… sounds nice! But can you proof it?
Because I’m not in a guild actually, I just can give you these WoL-Entries I recorded for my application. I’d love to show you a better one (Newer ICC Bosses, TotGC), but it’s not that easy as a guildless player.

World of Logs – My Application Guild

How and when can we contact you?
Ingame: Shaelynn or Alass (both Aegwynn)
Per ICQ: 179224610
Per MSN: wasu@gmx.net
Per E-Mail: simon.weitnau@googlemail.com
Or just here by PM.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to introduce myself to you and I’m happy to receive your interview-invitation, soon.

Best Wishes,

Shaelynn

//EDIT: Typo in the second headline

[izolight]

Applications looks nice although I don't fully agree on your opinion about "Body and Soul". You only talked about the poison self dispel and not about the imo important part of the speed for the person shielded. I may not be that much of an issue on normal modes but I really can see that talent getting some use on hardmodes of putricide for the kiting of the brown ooze or blood princes when people need to go in the path of the empowered orb.

[Shaelynn]

Applications looks nice although I don't fully agree on your opinion about "Body and Soul". You only talked about the poison self dispel and not about the imo important part of the speed for the person shielded. I may not be that much of an issue on normal modes but I really can see that talent getting some use on hardmodes of putricide for the kiting of the brown ooze or blood princes when people need to go in the path of the empowered orb.

Hi izolight,

Yes you got that right. But like I mentioned in my application - this is just the talent specialization that I do prefer. By overlooking the whole tree a few times additionally for the application, I also spend some time at the World of Warcraft Armory to look at your (The Priest's of Numen) Talent Specializations. What I found out is, that some of you already specced that - and due the Debuff you receive by Power Word: Shield it wouldn't make much sense to also spec it. That's why I didn't spec Body & Soul at all. When the heroic mode will be available - I surely would specc it also (maybe there are more targets affected) and drop the two neccessary points from Blessed Resilience (or drop all 3 points and then spend the extra point into Lightwell).
That's also the reason why I didn't mention it 100%ly in my application. It's the same with Improved Power Word: Fortitude. The raid-wise extra function is already existing by other players.

[Airsha]

Hello,

I am one of the healing Priest in Numen so I thought I will write something about your application. Overall I enjoyed it - pretty nicely written .

As you told your gear isn't really great. I understand it is hard for you to obtain better one but still I think you could do a lot better in that area. It is 6 weeks since Emblems of Frost were released. It is 84 emblems from dailies and 30 from weekly - you should already buy something.
I don't understand your gemming to be honest. For start meta - Insightful for Holy in my opinion is far superior from that one. You would lose only a bit int but gain very valuable mana restore (which is lot better than 25 spell power), especially when you got all mana regen talents. Don't know what is the role on crit gems as well - it's like worse choice for holy - even 12 sp / 10 int would be better imho. Not mentioning my favourite 12 sp / 10 haste .
Talents are more or less fine. I don't agree with all your choices - like 2 / 2 Surge of Light is not worth it imho, I have it on 1 / 2 and it is still up most of the time (cause I prefer to cast one renew instead of flash, cause it is more healing done especially on heavy aoe fights like there are many in ICC); healing prayer 2/2 are as well not necessary but if you having mana issues then ok (change meta!), that lets you max imp. renew. Body and Soul was already covered.. Good you see it's utility.

Overall I am not sure if you are able to heal end of ICC, cause I don't think your gear can handle fights like Queen (I felt at some points my output and regen is not enough and i have like 600 more sp, 160 haste and over 100 mp5 while casting with 2k mana pool bigger unbuffed) and soon (in like 2 weeks when HM are released) it will be even harder - which is the potential point of recruiting you in case I finally crash my car and break my arms . There is not much time left to obtain some gear.. But I am might be wrong and of course it is not official statement, maybe officers will decide something else..

Anyway good luck!
Airsha

[Shaelynn]

Hi Airsha,

thank you really much for your feedback. I greatly appreciate every single one, because I don't really have got a lot of people to talk about that. I just had an interesting conversation with an Priest from another successful guild and he told me that he never's got mana issues while raiding in ICC. Others (like you) tell me complete other things. I replaced all my Haste-Gems with Int. Or - at least I planned to, but like you can see at my actual Equipment, I somehow gemmed crit. This was not really intended and maybe done because it was 4am and I was up for 30 hours - this will be changed in some minutes; I swear .
Like you can see in my "nice-to-have"-Chardev-Character I gemmed INT instead of Haste/Crit. I heard a lot of different opinions about raiding in ICC but experienced ICC till Professor Putricide and I didn't really have a lot of mana problems, too. But I anyway plan to gem INT instead of Haste. Why? Because I heard so many different opinions. As I never visited the Crimson Hall I want to go sure and gem INT because of the little extra ManaReg. Haste would be nice, too. Thats completely right, but it would "waste" mana while INT gives me Mana and ManaReg (plus Crit).

I don't understand your gemming to be honest. For start meta - Insightful for Holy in my opinion is far superior from that one. You would lose only a bit int but gain very valuable mana restore (which is lot better than 25 spell power), especially when you got all mana regen talents.

Yeah - one week ago I used to have Insightful, too. But the SP in addition to the bonus of INT was too nice to 'not' have. Why? Because INT also gives me some manareg (Replenishment, Mana Tide Totem, Shadowfiend, and Hymn of Hope), crit and increases my mana pool.
So this Gem gives me Spellpower (which is the most important stat for me) and with - let's estimate - 1.400 INT it gives me 28 Int. Please remind that I did not focus purely on Haste for my gear - so this is the best Meta-Gem available for me.

Don't know what is the role on crit gems as well - it's like worse choice for holy - even 12 sp / 10 int would be better imho. Not mentioning my favourite 12 sp / 10 haste .

You are completely right - please just read the top of this post.

Talents are more or less fine. I don't agree with all your choices - like 2 / 2 Surge of Light is not worth it imho, I have it on 1 / 2 and it is still up most of the time (cause I prefer to cast one renew instead of flash, cause it is more healing done especially on heavy aoe fights like there are many in ICC); healing prayer 2/2 are as well not necessary but if you having mana issues then ok (change meta!), that lets you max imp. renew. Body and Soul was already covered.. Good you see it's utility.

You're right with 1/2 SoL. It would be enough, but like you said - you are casting Renew more often, even when SoL is up - and I always (try to) use it instantly - so it's not really wasted. I could also go 1/2 SoL and drop one point in Blessed Resilience and put these two extra points in Body and Soul - but that's only happening when I see that this is urgently needed (Blood Princes/Heroic). Otherwise I could spend that extra point in Lightwell - but not with Randoms. So I find that 2/2 SoL even though pretty useful.
Healing Prayer 2/2 is really nice - and since I'm not directly gemming for ManaReg (just INT) - this Talent is very useful for me - I may would go OOM without this talent, that's right. But it always was enough for now - so I only foresee some changes, when I will experience the new Crimson Hall for myself. Like I mentioned above - Everyone says something different and you can never be 100%ly sure, until you experienced it for yourself.

Overall I am not sure if you are able to heal end of ICC, cause I don't think your gear can handle fights like Queen (I felt at some points my output and regen is not enough and i have like 600 more sp, 160 haste and over 100 mp5 while casting with 2k mana pool bigger unbuffed) and soon (in like 2 weeks when HM are released) it will be even harder - which is the potential point of recruiting you in case I finally crash my car and break my arms . There is not much time left to obtain some gear.. But I am might be wrong and of course it is not official statement, maybe officers will decide something else..

Yeah I dont think, this needs another statement - I just would repeat myself (like the previous 20 times ;)

Edit: Typo

[Arascope]

Thank you for your interest with Numen Guild on Talnivarr (EU - PvP).

Unfortunately on this occasion we will not be progressing your application to the next stage, but would like to thank you for taking the time to apply.

Regards,
Lockkster