Please be aware that I never expect to be accepted into any raid team in my characters current state. I am constantly switching and upgrading my gear since returning and I'll start to gem/enchant once I have my SoO raid finder gear. I am applying to be part of a guild that is active, and keen to be on bleeding edge progression. I'd mainly like to fully prepare for WoD. So I'm saving gold and levelling alts / professions on alts then focusing on gearing up. I'm still making sure to finish all raid finders with my Paladin every week.
What I'm really trying to get across is that I am very, very active. I have a lot of time to play WoW. My girlfriend is living in Australia and she is applying for a Visa to come live here and I have a steady job 9-5pm. So I am always free at raid times and have a lot of spare time for WoW.
I read up on my class, tactics, and I make sure I have all the obligated raid ready abilities, Flasks/Pots/Food/Professions etc.
I am really humble about this application. I know I am nowhere near the level you guys would require for SoO, this is more in mind of having a long term member of the guild that will be ready to kick ass in WoD.
Speaking of WoD, I have 2 weeks holiday from work ready to book off as soon as release date is announced.
I also have a good mic/hardware setup/internet speed. I speak English as a first language and I am used to leading raids in previous guilds. (Although I have a Scottish accent and people say I sound like a pirate).
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PERSONAL
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Name: Stephen Biggerstaff (really!)
Age: 24
Language: English
Battletag: Biggs#2237
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CHARACTER
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Character
Character name: xerò
Class: Paladin
Current spec/ Offspec: Retribution / Protection
Armory link: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/twilights-hammer/Xerò/simple
Guild experience
Raid experience:
AQ40 Cleared in vanilla (although only Cthun once), I was playing on Balnazzar Alliance on a guild called Toast, then many members joined Phoenix Flame, which became Paparazzi.
TBC I rerolled horde Paladin on an account, completed Karazan and Gruul pretty quickly then quit due to school exams that I almost failed. I was in a guild called Ridiculed which later merged with Celebrity after I quit (same server, Balnazzar).
WoTLK I came back around half way through the expansion and formed a guild with some IRL friends that were new to the game. I was guild master for a little while and helped my friends get to grips with raiding. Together we managed to clear Ulduar in 10 man, also clearing a lot of 25 man while it was current. We were then better set up for when ToC came out, and as Raid leader and GM, I led the team to clear 10 man heroic. I also done it with a tribute to skill, although after faction changing and checking my achievements there while filling out this application, I've noticed it isn't listen in my feats of strength. I'm going to message a GM about that.
I quit just before ICC due to University exams. I am quite conscious that warcraft takes up a lot of time. I tend to be either all in or not in at all so during the two exam periods of my life I quit the game.
I had come back for MoP. However my IRL friends had been playing on a different server by now, so I changed to play on Outland. A week later when MoP hit, the game was pretty unplayable due to massive lag, server restarts and 5+ hour queues to get in game. We took a free character migration to outland and switched to horde.
If you look at my achievements I had a level 90 only a couple of days after MoP hit, with max professions very, very soon after. (check achievements for dates) I also had my second 90 quite quickly too. After being GM of a guild again for the second time in my life, we tried recruiting a 10 man team, managed to down 1 boss in MSV but it was very hard recruiting people who were ready for hardcore raiding so soon after MoP hit. After a couple of weeks my friends who were officers in the game quit, and I decided to follow.
However I'm now back. Although all the people I knew on this server have quit. I am now in a steady 9-5 job that very, very rarely requires any overtime. I have a stable relationship and I feel I can now introduce WoW back into my life without anything being disruptive.
Previous guild(s): Midnight Dragons, Toast, Phoenix Flame (Balnazzar/Alliance/Classic), Ridiculed (Balnazzar/Horde/TBC), Kinetic (Ravencrest/Alliance/WotLK), Kinetic (Twilights Hammer/Horde/Beginning of Mists)
Why are you leaving your current guild: I only have a bank guild at the moment due to just coming back last week.
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WORLD OF LOGS
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Post your worldoflogs/ warcraftlogs down below: N/A due to not having been back and raiding.
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NETSPEED/ SCREENSHOT
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Post your internetspeed here: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3327389205
Please note this is wifi from the next room from the router on my macbook pro. When I play WoW I play on a new top specced 27 inch iMac with wired connection so it's around 150mb and 20mb upload. My FPS is usually around 70 during raiding and with all my add ons turned on.
I have a good job so equipment and high speed net will never be an issue.
An ingame screenshot when in a raid: I don't have a raiding UI set up at the moment, however in the past from memory the main add ons I had were grid, pit bull, bartender, decursive, Omen threat, recount DPS, Deadly boss mods, Omni CC, Quartz cast bars, Elkano's buff bars.
Note I also theory craft quite a lot. I read up on icy veins and MMO champ for my class to keep up with current stats to stack when I'm actively raiding. I always make sure I'm hit/expertise capped, flanked, stacked with pots and if accepted, will make sure cooking is at a better standard than it currently is.
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VOICECHAT
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Are you able to listen to TS: Yes.
Are you able to talk on TS? Yes. Experience Raid leading and being GM.
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ANYTHING ELSE?
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Got something else you want to add? I have a level 90 rogue on this server too: xerol. I also have a 83 druid that will be my gatherer in WoD: Buxtons and I'll be using my 90 boost on a Mage and DK, to have 5 level 90s across 2 WoW accounts. Professions will be as follows:
Paladin: BS/JC
Rogue: Ench/Alch
Mage: Tailoring/Inscription
DK: Engineering/Alch
Druid: Mining/Herb
