Cráb People

Who is applying?

Name: Tom Erik, call me Tom everyone else does.
Age: I've been around for 20 years now.
Nationality: I'm from Norway, a country quite north in Europe.
Sivil Status: Live with my girlfriend.

If you want to hear moar just let me know.



APPLICATION PALADIN

Before I go more specifically into my application I want to talk
about what I do for living. I live in my home town Levanger with my
girlfriend and has a certificate in scaffolding. I am an emplooyee
of a scaffolding company based in the neighboring town. I'm at work
from 07.00 to 15.00, Monday to Friday.

In my spare time I'm mostly with my girlfriend and hanging out with
my friends and sit at home having this "second life". I also got great
interests in motorcycles, boats and football. I'm currently running
with a Yamaha R6. Plus I stick with Spain and Rosenborg (a Norwegian
football team) in my interest in football.

So enough about my real life, I started my World of Warcraft career
when the first World of Warcraft expansion set The Burning Crusade came
out, after seeing my older cousin raiding in Molten Core in Vanilla
and trying it out I got totally hooked. But I waited to TBC to start playing
because I didn't saw any reason to begin leveling anything so close before
TBC. In TBC I started on the realm Frostmane as Alliance and leveled up a
Warrior to 70. In the start all I did was farming and raising my chosen
professions to max and reputations. Later in the expansion when I really picked
up my interests in doing PvE, and joined a guild which were called "Asylum" I will
get back to my progress with Asylum.

Hmm, where was I? After a good friendship and having a good time with Asylum I got
quite bored with PvE raiding so I hooked our epic resto druid and started farming
PvP. After a season or two I got so sick tired of my Warrior that I ragequited and
left a note that I would do a comeback some time. Quited playing and sold my
account to a noobiewan south in Norway.

PvE experience with Asylum during TBC with my warrior:

Karazhan - Zul Aman - Gruull's Lair - Maghteridon's Lair - Serpentshrine Cavern
Tempest Keep - Doomwalker - Mount Hyjal - The Black Temple cleared.

Wotlk was near and I bought World of Warcraft for my second time and leveled a
Paladin to 70 and joined my friendly guild Asylum. This paladin turned out to be
my main in Wrath of tha whore King ;)

Stayed in Asylum to the middle of the Call of the Crusade patch and moved
to Talnivarr and migrated Horde to play with my real life friends.

In WotLK I rolled healer main spec and retribution off spec because I was so sick
of tanking on my Warrior so I choosed to be retribution as my off spec.

The raid times you guys have are almost the same I am used to have with Asylum so
I will be available all days. But I prefer Fridays and Saturdays as off days.


- Character Information

I not sure which spec I going to apply with (depends what you guys want)
but as I mentioned above I have been Holy as main spec, through the
Wrath of the Lich King expansion set and retribution as off spec.
I am almost the same geared in both spec's. You pick self what gear you
want to see. I will also explain both specs later in my application for
this case.

Armory link: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet ... &cn=Luriel

Named: Luriel

Class: Belf Paladin

Profession(s):

I have only bothered raising Jewelcrafting and Cooking to 450,
I am still argueing with my self which secondary proffessio I
should raise. But I think I have finally decided to go for
Alchemy, so I can make my potions/flasks/elixirs for my spec's
an to avoid having to depend on the auction house having the
stuff I need.

Addons I use:

Omen - (Very useful to have because I can be a aggro whore)
Deadly Boss Mods - (Find this the most useful addon ever made)
Recount - (always fun to watch the raid)
Grid - (Raidframe addon that are very useful and easy to handle
but it is a shame that the names goes away when people
take damage)
PallyPower - (I have but i have declined because I see no use for
it any more and its quite bugged)
Forte X - (think it is called that, very useful addon to watch cd's)

Cant think of any else addons I use at the moment.

- Spec's and glyphs


Ill go ahead with Holy first:

I currently use a 31/5/0 spec.

Link: http://cata.wowhead.com/talent#scIbzrduuczhb

After thinking about the spec I have decided that this
spec will be an improvement:

Link: http://cata.wowhead.com/talent#sMIbzrkuufzhb

Because of the 2 points in Paragon of Virtue.
So now I want to hear anyone elses opinions about
my conclusion.

I not sure if the Metorite Crystal trinket from algalon 10
are any good after the patch so I currently use ilvl 245
vendor trinket and trinket from Marrowgar 10man. I have
to apologize for applying with these trinkets but I haven't
got the chance to roll on Solace and Althor Abacus yet that I
think is the BIS trinket for Holydin's at the moment.

Rotation Wise:
Healers haver never had any specially rotation, they should have knowledge
in all specific boss encounters and trash when tanks/raid take heavy damage etc.
And from that point consider what healing spells that will be necesary to use.
After the 4.0.1 patch Holy Paladin aint as much faceroll that it used to be
before the patch. Our epic mana regen is abit nerfed so alot of players have to
think what they are doing.

Glyphs:

Prime - Glyph of Word of Glory
- Glyph of Seal of Insight / Glyph of Divine Favor
- Glyph of Holy Shock / Glyph of Divine Favor

Major - Glyph of Light of Dawn / Glyph of Long Word
- Glyph of Bacon of Light
- Glyph of Divine Plea

Minor - Glyph of Blessing of Might
- Glyph of Lay on Hands
- Glyph of Insight


Then I will go ahead with my off spec Retribution:

I currently use a 3/2/31 as my Retribution off spec.

Link: http://cata.wowhead.com/talent#s0hZMZcbGsbkszfd

I find this spec quite epic, because I cant get more DPS
out of any else spec's in my opinion and knowledge. I might
get a question about why I havent put a point in Divine Storm.
This is because Divine Storm is so nerfed after the patch that
Retri paladins do more DPS with using Templars Verdict as
a finsihing move instead Divine Storm in AOE fights. I also
have put a point in Rebuke to get the Interrupt spell that is
quite useful in most boss encounters and trash fights etc.

As you will see, I should replace atleast one of my trinkets.
Specially my trinket from TotGC 10 man with the trinket from
Professor Putricide. Havet got any luck on my rolls yet so I'm
quite stuck on trinkets.

Rotation Wise:
Retribution isnt as much a rotation as it is a prio system
which goes as follows...

Single Target | TV -> CS -> HoW -> Exo -> Jugde -> HW -> Cons

Multiple Target | TV/DS -> CS -> HoW -> Exo -> J -> HW -> Cons

Even though TV/DS goes before CS only when I got 3 HP generated.
Also need to add with these rotations you will be unlikerly to use
Cons and Divine Plea during fights.

Glyphs:

Prime - Glyph of Templar's Verdict
- Glyph of Exorcism
- Glyph of Judgement

Major - Glyph of Divine Plea / Glyph of Hammer of Wrath
- Glyph of Salvation
- Glyph of Ascetic Crusader

Minor - Glyph of Lay on Hands
- Glyph of Blessing of Might
- Glyph of Truth


- PvE Experience in WotLK

RS 10 >4/4<
RS 25 >4/4<

ICC Heroic's 10man >11/12<
ICC Heroic's 25man >9/12<

Note: I was involved in around 50 attempts to bring The Lich King
down in Heroic both in ICC 10 & 25 man with Ransom @ Talnivarr.

ICC 10man >12/12<
ICC 25man >11/12< (slack, I know)

TotGC 25man >4/5<
TotGC 10man >5/5< (Dedicated Insanity earned)

Ulduar 10man >14/14<
Ulduar 25man >9/14<

Rest is cleared.


- My computer

Here is some of my parts:

Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 6GB CL9
XFX Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
Intel Coreâ„¢ i7 Quad Processor i7-975
moar?

Communication programs have been a must for me since back
to when I started playing Counter Strike 1,6 when it realeased.
So I got teamspeak, ventrilo, skype, and mumble that have been
really useful for me.

My internet still amazing how stable it is when I see so many people
DC'ing and shit like that. I got a 10mbits ore somthing fiber cable
& my avarage ms in-game is around 130-157.


- Currently & Previous guild(s)

Asylum @ Frostmane

When the two guilds Cinefactus and Kaos Contingency merged they
became Asylum. After some weeks I joined with my Warrior as tank
who was named Shadox at that time. It suprised me how quickly we after
the guild creation progressed and ended up with full clear and farm runs
in the PvE experience I wrote down earlier in my application. In Wotlk
as mentioned earlier I did a comeback with a Paladin and rolled healer.
Asylum cleared everything in Naxx, OS & Ulduar. When the ally to horde
migration became allowed, the guild disbanded and almost everyone moved
to Mazrigos. But I took the Azeroth Air Force 1 non-stop to Talnivarr
and migrated horde to play with friends. But anyways this is the best
guild ever that I've been in.

Ransom @ Talnivarr

Hmm, cant exactly remember when it was made but I think it was
early winter or late winter this year. Anyways I joined them in
a Ulduar 10 run & after the run I was asked to join em, and I said
yes. They were in the stage to expand the guild to become a 25man
guild. Quickly after we started with 25man icc. When the summer
holidays came I went Away for the summer to work, work and work.
In middle of july and this had setteled down I had the time to play
once moar. We progressed the Heroic's in ICC to around middle of
september I think and then the guild went completely dead so the GM
disbanded it ore something, anyways I left it. I'm still in tuch
with the leaders of Ransom.

Currently guild Aspire @ Talnivarr

I joined Aspire after leaving Ransom after their shit turn out
because I kinda know the GM and he wanted me in. Having a good
time with the guild, fun and mature players. But still I don't
fit in with Aspire.

Why am I applying to Cráb People, whats the reason?

I am applying to Cráb People because it seems you provide a mature,
strong & stable community and you have the ablility to achiv events
in a professional way but still having a great time with the game.
My main goals with playing is to complete all contents available, and
hunting after server firsts makes it total awesomeness as you people
are after.

What can I provide you guys with?

I can provide you a active & dedicated raider who have knowlegde of
his class and it's abilities. I'm always well prepared for raids
and are wise on the tactic section. I will be relaxed and focused for
all raids and I will always be willing to sit past raid times if it
necesary.



In the far end I will thank you for reading through my application
and I hope it was not to long. If you got questions just ask and I will
do my best to answer :)

Regards Luriel

I can't really comment much on your spec/glyph choice since my knowledge about paladins is limited, but I do have a few pointers:

- You should have sorted out your professions before you applied to an endgame raiding guild
- Your chest seems to be missing a gem (http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/t ... l/advanced)


Two questions:

- Why do you have 27 expertise in ret gear?
- Imagine battling Lich King 25 Heroic, you are ret and you are not assigned to stun the val'kyrs in phase 2, do you change your rotation/priority system at all?

Hello there

Chest sorted out, about my second profession I have mats
to raise alchemy to around 270-330 or something.

- It sucks but I have to live with it when I got a expertise trinket.
My expertise should be around 22,x something, but I cant do anything with it yet.
- I will be using that prio/rotation system, but I also need to have stun ready
in case it will needed while the val'kyrs.

Hope you are happy with the answers ;p

Regards Luriel

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