The Raven Council

Who is your character?
[Your character name, class, specs, and Armory link. Try to log out in main-spec gear]

Nahdaan, Paladin, Retribution, http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/d ... aan/simple

Who are you?

[Your name, age, where you're from, etc]

Alex, 28 from Norway.

Experience

[What is your prior raiding experience? Which tiers? LFR/Flex/Normal/Heroic(/Mythic)? And importantly: Did you clear these raids when they were current content (the most recent tier added), or come back in the next patch? If you've performed any character change re-rolling in your time, what character(s) and role(s) did you play during which content?]

Everything cleaned Pre-wod patc.

Raid role
[Describe your current role in a raid team, how you prepare for it and how you judge your own performance. Where do you learn new things and keep yourself updated on your class?]

Dps/Support. Provide damage reduction support trough bubbles,flash heals and hand of sacrifice. I judge my own performance largely on how i avoid(or fail) on boss mechanics. Damage output comes second. A dead dps is no dps. Updates on my class i recieve trough wowhead and mmo-champ.

Talent choices
[Please tell us what talents/important glyphs you chose to run for each of the last four bosses of SoO, and explain why you choose them (Not just "It's the best!"). We like to see the insight behind your choices, and it clarifies things in case Armory shows you in some strange PvP/soloing spec!]

Glyphs and talents are always tailored to individual raids and in few cases individual bosses during progression. Blinding light glyph aoe stun (which is gone now) for garrosh is a good example where my spec adapt to the fight. Holy avenger for fights with breaks between dps,lights hammer for spoils of pandaria and dual bubbles for Thok etc etc.

Off-specs and Alternative characters

How comfortable are you switching to your off-spec for a fight/raid if needed?

No problems as long as i know the fight in that role.

Do you have any alts that would also be a viable option for raiding with us? (for the case that we love you but can't fit your main in our rosters) Please add Armory links for other characters if so, and tell us to what degree they are/have been played.

Non that are currently actively played.

Communication

Do you have a microphone and how comfortable are you with using it during encounters if needed? Are you happy to use these forums for discussion of tactics/general scheming, and check back regularly for important information?]

Yes, yes and yes.

Combat Logs
[If possible please link a log showing your character raiding current content. If you have no logs, please explain why (eg, logs expired) and/or aim to log your performance from an LFR/Flex/PUG run, to add to your application. TRC raiders are expected to review their own performance on Warcraft Logs in order to improve, so you should be/get used to doing this. It's especially important for dps-players, and applicants who would need to transfer before we can trial them (eg Horde).]

Due to my very recent comback to the game i have no logs. I can provide some flex/normal ones, but i personally would find it useless since most boss mechanics can simply be burned trough at this stage in the game and as for dps it is a high chance it will not reflect our level 100 dps.

Your UI
[Attach a screenshot of your current raiding UI, and if it shows anything unusual (in the UI, not the chat box :p), feel free to explain your choices.]

http://imgur.com/Zf5kVtc

Guild History
[What other guilds have you been in? What made you move(/plan to move) from these guilds, and why do you want to join TRC?]

Deus ex machina. Was away from the game a few months after clearing all content both on 10 and 25. Now i start fresh with WoD. The Raven Council seems like a pretty friendly and good guild so it looks like a good choice.

Raid availability

[Can you generally make all of our raiding days/times, or are there any difficulties with this? Our current raid schedule is found here.

I have no problem making all the days/times.

References

[How did you hear about us? And do you know someone from the game who can vouch for you as player/person?]

Wowprogress. No i dont know anyone in the guild.

About you
[A little something about yourself as a person. It can be brief if you like, it's just a sort of introduction to the rest of the guild. ]

Not much to say really. I'm a simple guy from the 8bit era.
Pretty neutral to most things and drama free. Kinda guy who you cant start a argue with even if you try =)

Miscellaneous
[If you have any extra notes that do not necessarily fit in anywhere else, stick 'em here.]

Not that i can think of. Fire away. =)

Could you explain the reasoning behind your gemming, backed up by a stat priority?

Sure, pre-patch i capped my haste 40% and went for a strength build. Worked much better then stacking mastery. Tried out a crit build as well which worked surprisingly well on specific bosses. (surpassed the standard mastery stacking build) My static dps singletarget used to be 360k-410k if i remb correctly. As for why my gemming seems a bit strange right at this moment is because i haven't raided anything above flex since i come back 2 days ago. Considering the game has undergone some hefty changes i have not had time to test the best stat prio outside the haste cap - strength deal. I know a majority of people are used to go to a website and pick whatever they tell you to pick without doing any real simcraft themselves. This works in most cases, but you will never be able to min/max based on your current gear by doing it that way. I know this was not the answer you where looking for so i suppose maybe i could provide the stereotype pre-wod patch? Hit/exp cap -> haste cap -> strength -> mastery -> crit.
I expect multistrike to become one of the next pretty high on the list, maybe versatility. It's an exciting time ahead.

Please ask more qustions =) this is good. I notice the armory is missing a few achivements and stats are also a bit "funny" atm.

Hello Nahdaan!
Thank you for your application, please give us some time to review it!
As the raiding roster stands right now we've got alot of melee DPS, some of which are very very strong. Condering you're applying as one, the competition is very though. Hopefully some more insight to your playstyle, class etc. will help us to come to a conclussion.

Was wondering if you transfered your character to Defias Brotherhood or did a name change as I cannot find any information about you being in any guild named Deux Ex Machina.
Also wondering why you picked the purple colour to write your app in, just out of curiousity.

Lastly, we're most likely going to invite you for a chat on mumble to discuss any questions we might have for you. Make sure you've got mumble installed and we'll get back to you shortly!
Kind regards,
Beast

Beastaly wrote:Also wondering why you picked the purple colour to write your app in, just out of curiousity.

Pretty colors! \o/

Hi =) yes i have a (bad?) habit of changing my name based on what race i play for personal rp reasons. Last year i spent about 300-400euro on race changes made out of boredom. hehe I don't really rp i just have to have a fit for that current char personality. The last name i used was Aimì, but i cannot recall for how exactly long i used it for. Deux Ex Machina is a guild on Xavius. (there are many with same name i know) As for the purple color i wanted to separate my answers from the questions to make it easier for you guys to read and i like the color purple so...


Oh and yeh i transferred here today some hours ago. Thought i might aswell visit anyway even if i don't get the job. Never been on a pvp-rp server before. =)

Searching for that name doesn't come up with any results.
Any other name you've been using during 10/25HC progression? Your guild has been combatlogging for a very long time daiting back to January 2014.
Would help us confirm that you were raiding with them

Plenty.. and to make things worse most of the times when i change name the name i want is already taken so i make a ticket to release it if possible. I'm looking trough the logs now trying to find myself.

Hmm well slightly good news.. i found one of the names Arïa and a log

However its all pre-patch so.. it would be much easier if i just pugged and logged a flex at this point if epeen is what you are after. Or pugged with you guys i dunno.

Could you tell me why strength is so good?

Superior in general id say would be a bit harsh term to use.. slight advantage sure. Strength has always been cold hard damage. Crit is based on rng + specific boss mechanics and mastery is based on patchwerk fights. The thing is that simcraft don't take into account all the running around going on during a fight. Did crit perform better on some fights? yes did mastery on some fights? yes. But i found strength to be the best allrounder. I've been playing this game since vanilla and i've even made my own private server (based on mangos) a few years back. I like testing things.

So you just told me you're a guy, and the GM of the guild from those logs said that Arïa is a girl who did a couple of OpenRaid events with him and that she plays on the Turalyon server. Also, she's a moderator on OpenRaid.

Aria is the girl from openraid, raided with her a few times =) Arîa was my char. Not the same name.

<recruited as social based on Mumble interview>