[Supgee]

Faction change completed! New name: Supgee

Discuss your talents and tell us how long you have been this particular spec:
Both my specs are cookie cutter, although I have reviewed all the talents for myself and considered some different options - I don't just blindly trust in the advice of others. My elemental spec is pretty static, but I am definitely going to be playing around with my restoration spec for raid healing. Telluric Currents is definitely something I'm going to put points into if I'm going to be raid healing, and I am also considering Ancestral Resolve. In which case, points will be removed probably from Cleansing Waters, and maybe one from Nature's Blessing (as I assume I won't be tank healing).

Ventrilo and do you have a mic:
Yes.

Do you have an authenticator?
Yes.

Typical Weekly Playtime:
I generally am online whenever a raid is happening (even if I am not in said raid, I wait outside the instance and read/work on homework). I am also online long enough to do my Heroic Daily.

Time Zone:
CST - but the conversion to EST is easy, lol.

Previous Guilds:
<Evident>/<Sin> on Burning Legion in Vanilla (server first Nef kill!)
<Conviction> on Illidan in BC (cleared everything up to Brutallus)
<Riders of Lohan> on Gorefiend in WotLK (consisted of me and one other friend, didn't raid in WotLK)
<The Mourning> on Drenden (Alliance) in Cataclysm (currently in this guild, but they don't need another Shaman. I was recruited because their geared Shaman disappeared. She has since returned, and I have been left without a regular raid spot - although they still bring me in when they can because I'm competent.)
<Quattroporte> on Drenden (Alliance)


Previous Raiding Experience:
I have killed all twelve raid bosses in normal and Halfus on Heroic. I have gotten Chimaeron to 6% and Mag to 800k HP on Heroic. I know enough about each fight to perform my role well, but I couldn't exactly explain the tanking mechanics to you..

Why are you applying to us:
I am applying to Heresiarch because you guys are right at the ideal progression spot for me. I am still undergeared for Heroic raids, but with some VP gear (T11 Chest/Gloves), Normal progression is the right spot for me right now. Also, I have a friend in Heresiarch (not a raider - Firstaidkit).

Link us your Armory:
Supgee's Armory

I just picked up my T11 gloves today from the VP vendor, so I now have the two piece bonus. They are not yet gemmed/enchanted so the armory link will not reflect this. I've also picked up a few pieces of "versatility" gear so I can rotate some stats in and out for healing.

World of Logs Report:
Since I last app'd I have been doing some healing in raids. I am still off-spec healing though, so I was instructed not to reforge to a more healing oriented stat structure. Still, I pull 7.5k HPS in raids and I have healed every boss fight in BWD and BoT. When I left <The Mourning>, I joined <Quattroporte> and they have not yet downed Nef/Cho'gall, so I have not yet healed through a successful kill on those bosses. Unfortunately, Quattro is not on WoL so I don't have any available logs.

Do you know anyone in guild? If so please list your pals.
Yeah, I know Firstaidkit, but you might be asking, "Who?". Yeah.. he doesn't raid. :F

Tell us a bit about yourself:
I'm 23, I am about to graduate from Bradley University with a degree in History. I live in a really nice apartment in a shitty part of town and if you hear gunshots in the background while I'm talking on vent, do not be alarmed, because I'm used to it. Other than WoW I play Heroes of Newerth and I watch Anime. I also enjoy social drinking and I'm a pretty decent dancer.

EDIT: If you guys want to run a Heroic with me or something, send me a tell in-game![/b]

[Locklove]

You say that you would prefer not to be carried. Just find it odd and what not, the guild you were running H modes with could have taught you alot. Granted we have some GREAT players with vast amounts of knowledge. I read your reasons I still just cant understand why you would want to downgrade. But I do see your toon has improved in gear. Im gonna let the other players check for the other changes you should have done. The whole WOL thing you knew it was on the app, knew we were gonna ask for it and you refused to make one. I dont have much room to talk in this one, but if I was told to go get one I would have. Shows commitment/drive that you want to be in this guild


But from what I can tell its applicable

[Supgee]

Locklove, on 16 April 2011 - 09:52 PM, said:

You say that you would prefer not to be carried. Just find it odd and what not, the guild you were running H modes with could have taught you alot. Granted we have some GREAT players with vast amounts of knowledge. I read your reasons I still just cant understand why you would want to downgrade. But I do see your toon has improved in gear. Im gonna let the other players check for the other changes you should have done. The whole WOL thing you knew it was on the app, knew we were gonna ask for it and you refused to make one. I dont have much room to talk in this one, but if I was told to go get one I would have.

But from what I can tell its applicable

Well, I actually didn't expect to faction transfer - I kind of did it on a whim. My friends on server started playing again suddenly and they're both Horde. I actually thought WoL logs came automatically. I'll try and make some logs before reset day.

Anyway, being carried is boring. It's much more satisfying when you have to work for the achievement. Loot is just pixels, DPS is just numbers. Having to work for them gives them their meaning for me. Plus you meet a lot of cool people along the way. I don't think I could explain it any better than that.

And yes <The Mourning> taught me a few things, like fight mechanics and the value of Volcanic Potions (and how to cheat to use 2 on each attempt). If I had stuck it out for a month or two killing farm content for gear with them on Tuesdays I may have earned a spot in the core, I just got impatient and talked it over with the officers and decided to look for a core raid spot elsewhere.

[Locklove]

http://www.heresiarc...hock-85-shaman/

from you previous application Post 1 and 4 mention the WOL/parse, post #4 from our GM. A clear indication to do your homework to learn about them. Takes less than 1 minute to google "what is world of logs and how to use it" or "How do I make a parse" etc etc. Also your last app Obviously proves that you didnt even research or "think they come automatically" If you did think they came automatically then you should have posted that in app and admitted your mistake but still no excuse not to research it..
By all means dont take me out of context. Im really nice and friendly, but my biggest pet peeve is a person not doing their homework. We all have lives outside of wow and putting a little time out of wow to do some research not only benefits you the most but the people in your guild, and shows that you want to be better.

Like I said b4 I like the app looks solid. When Sobe says something pay attention and learn from it. Everything he says is to help you.

[Deceax]

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Anyway, being carried is boring. It's much more satisfying when you have to work for the achievement. Loot is just pixels, DPS is just numbers. Having to work for them gives them their meaning for me. Plus you meet a lot of cool people along the way. I don't think I could explain it any better than that.

This struck home with me. I recently transferred and joined a guild that was doing HM content when I wasn't really geared for it and I just felt like I was carried. It was an interesting an experience but it made me realize what I want out of this game. Came back to Heresiarch so I would feel like I was actually contributing to a raid and the people here are pretty cool (minus the haters ).

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Both my specs are cookie cutter, although I have reviewed all the talents for myself and considered some different options - I don't just blindly trust in the advice of others.

So how do you figure out what spec you like. Do you do any simulation testing or just blindly pick talents thinking they are beneficial? Blindly trusting the advice of others can be a pitfall but if you understand the reasoning behind the choices it might make more sense than making up a random spec on your own.

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When Sobe says something pay attention and learn from it. Everything he says is to help you.

Unless it's during a raid. "Just wipe it guys" /bosskill

[Wrathblood]

If I see you on we can run a random heroic to see how you do. Its not really ideal because healing an overgeared tank through a heroic isn't always a real test (though I can make it a little more interesting). Healing a BH or something tells a bit more. What are you saved to?

[Sobeyet]

Lucky for you our resto shaman just dropped out this week for RL reasons, I did like the original app, and now that you're Horde we can actually run something with you. If you're not saved to BH I'll go along with you on one; not sure if faction transfer resets raid IDs any more.

[Supgee]

Yeah, I'm not saved to anything due to faction transfer. I am, however, restricted when it comes to the social functions of the game until Monday. Hence, I cannot whisper you, you will have to initiate.

[Wrathblood]

Huh, thats odd. Well, lets see if we can get you into a bh or something.

[Sobeyet]

http://www.worldoflo...52wznvqgl1gh5d/

BH was a mess, though to no fault of yours. Other healer was in greens and we should've brought a 3rd. Hard to really get a feel for it from that, but if you're free we can run a couple of heroics. Otherwise we only have Cho'gall and Al left this week so we'd have to bring you to a few bosses on Tuesday.

[Guinthel]

A few things I want clarification on:


1.I understand the not blindly trusting in others, that's usual good initiative for testing things out for yourself. However I would be disappointed to hear you arent looking through the EJ pages on resto healing at the very least as a result of this.

2. Last I checked on EJ, Telluric currents is still a pipedream... We are coming very close to working on hardmodes and you simply wont have time for filler casts. Drop cleansing waters for ancestral resolve.

3. "I assume I won't be tank healing" What gives you this idea? We currently only have a single holy paladin, and come hard modes a single holy paladin will not be solo healing. Much of our remaining healing team is comprised of priests, and when it comes to reactive, burst and preventive healing.... priests are the ideal HPS batteries.

I have always been a subscriber that shamans are the best filler healer, that you build your healing setup around the more defined healing classes and then just toss the "jack of all trades, master of none" guy in to throw heals about. Shamans are more than capable of tank healing, and we run 10mans, not 25's. You won't catch many shamans tank healing on 25's because of how earth living works (OP in 25's for raid healing). But in our ten mans I would defiantly come prepared for timing your heals with swing timers.

Often these ideal situations of having each person fill the healing role that is best suited to them is unrealistic at best though. because tank healing is so important, the strongest healer should usually be assigned to tank heal and that could be you.


4. When you say you pull 7.5k hps on most bosses on normal, this number really means nothing (no offense). HPS is a far more relative number than DPS is. For example I pulled 16k on a maloriak kill last night, but that was only because the other healers were relatively weak. What matters when it comes to HPS, is that each of our three healers are sharing an equal load of the damage and that no one runs out of mana because of someone elses neglect.

5. I would suggest to occifers to just bring him along on a few farm bosses when we have the time, so i can get a really good measure of his cast breakdown and what not.