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Character Name: Rezzil
Age:18
Armory Link: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... s&n=Rezzil
1: Explain how you see your role in a raid and what you use to fill that role. (class strengths, glyphs, mods, talent spec, etc.), also do you have any off-spec experience?
Holy paladins are incredible healers when it comes to certain situations. We are the masters at healing two tanks at the same time, but we also do good beaconing the main tank and playing whack-a-mole with the raid.
Glyphs used,
Seal of Wisdom - Simply a good glyph that helps me save some mana. I highly prefer this one over Seal of Light because a 5% increase in my healing would most likely go as overhealing.
Flash of Light - 5% increased crit on Flash of Light. I do believe that holy pallies do not need to spam holy light 100% of the time. Flash of light can be very useful and costs pretty much no mana. You must simply know when to use FoL and when to use HL to help with your mana management.
Holy Light - Heals 5 people around the healed target for 10% of the holy light's healing done. This glyph is marvelous in some cases. Earlier this week, I noticed it did 13% of my healing done during Festergut. It's an absolute necessity.

Gemming - I am currently gemming all intellect. I was starting to think about switch to hybrid gems for socket bonuses, but I am quite fine with my current gemming and gear. I go get my meta gem bonus with one orange and one green, rest is all +intellect.

For interface addons I use,
Bartender for my skills
Pitbull for the target, player and focus windows, as well as the raid interface. Pitbull does tell you enough, mixed along with DBM.

For my talent spec, I went for an increased crit build over raid survivability build by getting some talents in prot. I am aware that choosing the raid survivability spec might be a better option and I am willing to re-spec accordingly.



Off-spec experience - I played as retribution DPS during the end of BC. I have not DPS'd a lot of raids as retribution, but that does not mean that I don't know the content from a DPS perspective, as I have more than one lvl 80. My gear is pretty average, with an ICC weapon, a few togc10 pieces and the rest being mostly from badges.

2: What is the one thing you wish you could change about your main class or spec, either to make you more effective or to make it more enjoyable to play?
Honestly there is not much to change about holy paladins. Our mana management is excellent, our single-target healing is simply the best, and with the use of judgements of light as well as the glyph oh holy light, we can do some decent AoE healing (though still not even close to other healing classes).
I dont think holy paladins need to cry a lot over a lack of AoE healing as we are the best tank healers out there by far. My only complait is about Divine Plea because most of the time, on hard fights where you NEED to get your mana back using that skill, you dont have much time to suffer from the reduced healing it gives. But on most fights it is not that big of a deal, or, like marrowgar for example, there are breaks where you can use it safely.

3: Explain your biggest strength and biggest weakness as a raider. How are you working to improve on this weakness?
My biggest strenght is that I care for the well-being of our raid. I am usually very aware of what is going on and can easily spot mistakes some people (or myself) make so that I can help them with constructive critisism. Of course, I except the same from you guys to do on me.

My biggest weakness is that I sometimes notice myself trying to take over the raid. I will start trying to take control of the raid and diriging players not necessarily in the direction where our raid leader wants to go.

I will try to fix that by minding my own business more. However that does not mean that I will stop looking around for general mistakes we can make, and point them out if need be. I also tend to slack a bit on trash.

4: Explain what you look for in a raiding guild. Examples of what you did and did not like about previous raiding guilds would be helpful. Please also elaborate upon what appeals to you about this guild. If applicable, explain why you are leaving your current guild.
I look for a raiding guild that tries to get as far as possible. I am not interested in joining a casual guild that does not really care about progression, or takes it very lightly. What I didn't like from my second last guild is that there were some good and bad people in the raid. And nobody was doing anything to try to make these bad people improve. That pretty much stopped us from progressing in hard modes in ulduar and we broke up after a while. My last(current, but willing to leave) guild does take care of slackers pretty harshly, which is a good thing. However I do not think the overall skill level of the raid is high enough. By that I mean that its simply 10-15 people that are only slacking slightly, which is very hard to fix for the raid leader while hurting our raid performance by a lot.
What I am looking for in this guild is simply a group of successful people. I am getting severly annoyed by people standing in fires.

5: Detail your availability. How frequently do you miss raids? How frequently will you be late or need to leave early? What do you do when you are not raiding?
I have school, so there are no problems for raiding during week days. Ending at 1pm (my time) during school days might be bothersome sometimes but I will not leave earlier for that reason. I am pretty much always on time, however it is possible that due to badminton activities on the weekdays that I come home shortly before the raids, but I dont intend to ever miss a raid night =).

6: What is your guild history and why did you leave each guild, also post any relevant references?
Well I explained a lot of that in the past question.
Death Strike - raided a lot in Ulduar with them. I started a few months after the release of WOTLK.
Core Gaming - Current guild, we're (slowly) progressing on the 2nd wing of ICC.

I do not have a lot of raiding experience, because I didnt raid seriously during BC. However I have no fear that I am more than capable of pulling my own weight.

References: Death Strike - Aratar
Core Gaming - Dijin, Xcore, Iwantmore (he left the guild though.)

7: Tell us about yourself:
My name is Anthony. I am french canadian but have no problem speaking up in english on vent (with a pretty bad accent, of course =)). I currently am in CEGEP (quebec equivalent of a college) in computer science. I consider myself as a pretty friendly person that likes to have a good time. I also play Counter-strike:Source and Heroes of Newerth.

Oh, and I also watch anime. (don't hate!)



8: Hardware/Connection: Quad core 2.4ghz with a 8800GS nvidia GFX card, 612mb of memory. I have 4gb of RAM. My connection is very stable.
9: Combatlogs (for various roles if applicable, link the entire report not an individual fight):
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/e0vgrlaa3gws3dan/
10: Screen shot of your UI in a raid situation:
http://yfrog.com/3dcapturewzp

I have read and understand the guild policies as stated and am agreeing to adhere to them. I understand that filling out an application is not a guarantee to a Raid Trial.

By the way, im a friend of Pzcake

Signed,
Rezzil

Your healing seems to be okay, one thing people will ask you about is if you use grid. It doesn't seem like you do with your UI shot and your list of mods you use, and while that may be okay you should know that almost all of our healers do use it and things are assigned with the notion that people have it.

I would comment on your spec, but with what you said you seem to have an understanding of the class with what you said in regards. I think you would need to go more into prot just due to the gains you get from holy/ret are very small when compared to the gains a raid gets from a holy/prot pally.

Your gemming is fine as well I guess, though like I've said before most end game paladins are going back to more of an sp/int/mp gemming as opposed to straight int. Just some food for thought.

Over-all the app is one worth taking a look at at the very least. Good luck sir.

P.S. I giggled when I read you played badminton.

To be honest, I do not use grid as I have been doing fine without it. However it would not be a problem at all for me to get it if you guys prefer.
And yes, about my spec, at the moment I am torn between ret and prot as 2nd branch. I do think that for serious raiding, going into prot is the better option.

I'm not a healer so I'll leave the main responses to them, but here's my real question. We have gotten many apps that say they don't use grid and in my opinion you don't have to use grid to be a good healer, but could you be better with it? Some mods if you don't at least try them you're doing a disservice to yourself and hampering your ability to be the best healer you can be. If you don't enjoy the mod and have found other ways that you prefer and can still be effective that's great and I'm sure other healers would love to hear about it. If you haven't tried the mod because you think you do ok already and don't need to continue working to get better, then that's just laziness and not the type of person we're looking for. We enjoy progression and have a lot of fun while raiding in a pretty relaxed atmosphere but at our core I believe every member of our raiding team is constantly looking for ways to improve themselves be it mods/strats/respecs/regems/duel specs or whatever else we need to do growing with the ever changing game we play. Hope this helps.

I totally see your point. I installed grid and raided tonight and am pretty familiar with it now.

If you haven't yet, make sure that you Google an article on how to configure Grid properly. It takes awhile to get it set up, but it's totally worthwhile in the long run.
I'm not sure what Eldun tracks with his side indicators, but I have mine showing Weakened Soul/PoM/Renew (in addition to the default aggro, etc.).
The default settings that it comes with are horrid, if I had to play with those tiny squares I'd probably /wrists.

thanks for your app

please message mutogra or sreypech ingame.
i'd like to go over a few things !
cya then