I was told there would be punch and pie

[Jairbrin]

General Info

Character name(s), class(s), build(s), and level(s)
Jairbrin - Paladin (Ret/Prot) - 80

Player name (We operate on a first name basis in HDL)
Chris (if too many Chris' I also go by FK)

Player age - [HDL] guild and Ventrilo chatter is for mature audiences only. If you are not 18+, you will need to be sponsored by a guild member in good standing.
29

Where did you hear about [HDL]?
A guy I worked with, Lee (Toons: Gzab and Xargoth)

Why do you want to join [HDL]?
I am looking for a casual raiding guild that has great human beings.

What is your guild membership history? Why did you leave or want to leave?
Was in a work guild, Plague of Terror.  99% of people stopped playing, so I left.  I then joined *shiver* Defenders of Lordaeron.  I left after having issues with the way some of their players treated others, the fact we had more canceled raids then we ever ran, and I got booted from what was to be my first ICC 10 so we could allow a DK (Already had 2) who had not signed up for the raid because he had a slightly higher GS.

What do you want from a guild?
An entertaining guild chat (for when I'm waiting around for something to happen), and to actually do a few scheduled raids.

Can you follow kill order?
I think of a kill order like Lucky Charms: Marshmallow Skulls, red crosses, pink diamonds, blue moons and orange circles.

Are you a Casual player, Raiding oriented player, or a PvP oriented player?  If you think you are a combination of any of those, what percentage of time would you spend on each?
60% Casual, 40% Raid, 10% PvP

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Raiding Questions

Will you dedicate 5 days a week to raiding?
I have not dedicated that much time to raiding since EverCrack, and I won't do that again, lol.

If you answered ""Yes" to the question above, are you aware that [HDL] is not a hard core raiding guild?

Will you dedicate 2 nights a week to raiding?
Only if there is punch and pie.  ;D

Are you willing to take/accept criticism to make you a better player?
As long as its constructive.  If you say, "DOOD! WTF WIT UR GEAR!"  I will not repsond well.

We do require Omen and Deadly Boss Mods. Do you have these installed?
Yes

What is your primary and secondary talent build? Which do you prefer?
Primary is Prot with Secondary being Ret.  I like them both equally, but prefer Ret for raids and instances I don't know very well.

What is your rotation for your primary and secondary builds?
Prot is normally: Avenger's Shield, Holy Shield, Hammer of Rightous, Consecrate, Judgement, Taunt the mob off the Troll Rogue, repeat.  Ret is standard 969696.

Explain your gear choices, including gems and enchants.
STA/STR whenever possible, make sure I'm hit capped, and uncrittable for Prot.  STR/STA, Hit capped again, Critical Strike, Attack power, Armor Pen for Ret.

What do you think of Gearscore?
Queerscore?  Honestly its only good purpose is to make sure you don't have a 3k tank, whose armor is "waffer thin", making life miserable for the healers.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PVP Questions

You are headed to run an instance with non-guildies when you spot a flagged gnome. What is the proper course of action: 1) Ignore the gnome and head to the instance, 2) Send a message to the guild of your find. flag immediately, and kill the gnome, leaving the PUG to wait, or 3) neither. If you selected 3, what course of action would you take?
2) They would understand, Gnomes are not people.

You are headed to an instance with the guild when you spot a flagged gnome. What is the proper course of action: 1) Ignore the gnome and head to the instance, 2) Send a message to the guild of your find, flag immediately, and kill the gnome, leaving the group to wait, or 3) neither. If you selected 3, what course of action would you take?
2) See above answer

A tea bag is 1) a small porous bag containing tea leaves or powdered tea, onto which boiling water is poured in order to make a drink of tea, or 2) a verb.
3) What is done to the prior Gnome after death.

Do you prefer Battlegrounds, Arenas, or World PVP? Why?
Battlegrounds, I can do them at my lesiure. 

What is your favorite battleground? Why?
Warsung Gultch, I love capture the flag.  Its my favorite TF2 mode too!

Rank in important to stack for an Arena battle: Resilience, Attack Power/Spell Power, Critical Strike, Hit Rating.
Resilience, Critical Strike, Attack Power, Hit Rating.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Social Questions

How would you rate yourself as a World of Warcraft player?
Better then average, but by no means l33t.

Does .Net suck?
404-Forbidden

Whiskey or whisky?
in the jar, oh?

Rank in importance to you: Raiding, Fun, PVP, Loot, Camaraderie, Wine, Women/Men, Music, Altaholism, Crafting.
Fun, Camaraderie, women, tacos, raiding, loot, music, crafting, and my name is Chris and I'm a recovered Altaholic!

Please provide a perl script that will sort a CSV file by first column, then second, and then insert into a mysql database.
Thats what she said!

What is your favorite instance? What is your favorite boss fight?
I love HoR, it just fails a lot.  Running from Arthus reminds me of Monty Python, "Run Away!!"
 
Are you easily offended? Is your hot button race, religion, sex, or politics?
I am sometimes offensive, never offended.

Are you aware the [HDL] is largely a collection of angry and cynical players and under-geared toons?
Aren't we all?

Really? Why do you still want to join [HDL]
Because I'm a glutton for punishment.

[Jairbrin]

Ret is standard 969696

I actually use a tanking Rotation for ret as well....or not.
Standard rotation for ret is normaly FCFS or Crusader Strike, Judgement, Divine Storm, Consecrate, Exorcism, and repeat.

[Vitandus]

Can you follow kill order?
I think of a kill order like Lucky Charms: Marshmallow Skulls, red crosses, pink diamonds, blue moons and orange circles.

I knew I could not be the only one.

We have quite a few Paladins in the guild. Will you be alright in sitting out on a regular basis?

[Jairbrin]

Melee dps is a dime a dozen, especially with pallys.  I understand and don't mind.  If there are some interesting conversations going on, that will keep me entertained. =)

[Thraice]

Are you willing to take/accept criticism to make you a better player?
As long as its constructive.  If you say, "DOOD! WTF WIT UR GEAR!"  I will not repsond well.

You won't hear anything like that from us. You very well may receive the (constructive) criticism, though. As Vitandus already pointed out, we are heavy on Paladins - good ones, at that. There is a lot of Paladin button smashing experience, across the board spec. wise, here for you to use and learn from. Whether it is gear or glyph related, to your rotation or stat prioritization. Utilize them and you will no doubt do well.

What is your primary and secondary talent build? Which do you prefer?
Primary is Prot with Secondary being Ret.  I like them both equally, but prefer Ret for raids and instances I don't know very well.

You list here that your 'primary' is the Protection spec. but it looks like (at least from www.wow-heroes.com) that your Retribution spec. is actually your better geared one. Now, I notice you mention you would prefer to raid as Retribution. Is this because of your current gear spread or the interest in melee DPSing vice Tanking?

What do you think of Gearscore?
Queerscore?  Honestly its only good purpose is to make sure you don't have a 3k tank, whose armor is "waffer thin", making life miserable for the healers.

It has a couple other uses, depending on what role you fill and its application. I agree, though, it shouldn't be a sole decision factor on a person.


Although I know we don't ask about your raiding experience, you seem to enjoy raiding from your responses. I do notice that 'Jairbrin' does not have any Icecrown Citadel (ICC) (10 or 25) kills, and limited experience in other Raid environments, so I was wondering if you happened to have any experience in ICC on another undisclosed Alternate toon or were you looking to gain that opportunity here?

[Jairbrin]

You list here that your 'primary' is the Protection spec. but it looks like (at least from www.wow-heroes.com) that your Retribution spec. is actually your better geared one. Now, I notice you mention you would prefer to raid as Retribution. Is this because of your current gear spread or the interest in melee DPSing vice Tanking?

When I first created Jairbrin, it was with the intention of being a tank for our guild Plague of Terror.  When everyone quit, I only had experience tanking heroic randoms.  I have found that a lot of PUG raids do not care for tanks who need to have the instance explained, so I began joining raids as DPS to better understand the mechanics of most encounters.  As most groups reward gear based on the spec you are running as, my ret gear has gotten better then my prot.  I do enjoy the challenge of tanking vs button mashing for damage.

Although I know we don't ask about your raiding experience, you seem to enjoy raiding from your responses. I do notice that 'Jairbrin' does not have any Icecrown Citadel (ICC) (10 or 25) kills, and limited experience in other Raid environments, so I was wondering if you happened to have any experience in ICC on another undisclosed Alternate toon or were you looking to gain that opportunity here?

I will be honest, my pre-WotLK raiding experience is very limited.  In my first guild they had all done the BC progression and were looking to start WotLK encounters.  I do not have ICC experience.  I would not expect to get into an ICC guild raid right away, but would hope to one day prove my worth.  I really enjoy the raiding experience and hope to do more of it.

[Thraice]

...  I have found that a lot of PUG raids do not care for tanks who need to have the instance explained, so I began joining raids as DPS to better understand the mechanics of most encounters.  As most groups reward gear based on the spec you are running as, my ret gear has gotten better then my prot.  I do enjoy the challenge of tanking vs button mashing for damage.

Well, our Guild raids are quite unlike PUGs. As long as you do your homework reviewing the Boss fight mechanics, and show a will to learn and an interest to do so, I have no problem teaching you the Instance.

I will be honest, ...

That's all I ask and expect. :)

... my pre-WotLK raiding experience is very limited.  In my first guild they had all done the BC progression and were looking to start WotLK encounters.  I do not have ICC experience.  I would not expect to get into an ICC guild raid right away, but would hope to one day prove my worth.  I really enjoy the raiding experience and hope to do more of it.

Your lack of ICC experience won't keep you out of Guild raids into ICC. You might not be at the top of the list for a progression raid but how else would you learn the encounters? "Proving your worth", as you mention here will come by your displayed familiarity with the encounters from reviewing the Boss abilities and common fight strategies which you can find some of on our site and all over the Internet. You can always ask me where to find something and I'll be happy to point you in the right direction.

[Jairbrin]

I just wanted to give an update of my status.

On Friday, July 16th, my account was hacked and afterwards banned due to the person selling all my gear and selling my gold.  It has been a long process of communicating with Blizzard's admins, but the issue has finally been resolved.  I am still interested in joining HDL, but have not been on due to obvious issues.  I am waiting for an authenticator before I log back in as I still have no clue how this occured, but want to prevent such issues from occuring again.

It was was made worse because the day this occured I was very much looking forward to doing a TotC 25 at 8:30p with Hedonismbot (from a prior weeks invite). 

Anyway, just wanted to let you know.

[Ian]

Thanks for the update, man.  Glad to hear you're still interested in joining our little ragtag team.  Just hit up an officer or a guildy once you get in game again, we'll shoot you an invite.