This is going to look more than a bit like Caswallon's recent application for reasons that will become abundantly clear to the observant reader as he progresses through the multiple paragraphs of mostly relevant information to come.
Character: Deliverance
Race: Night Elf
Class: Bear
Nationality: Danish
Playing Time: Since March 2005 - I got my hands on WoW about two weeks delayed and thus cannot claim to have played since the European start.
Armoury Links:My main, Deliverance:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tarren+Mill&n=DeliveranceMy primary alt, Binder the Grinder:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tarren+Mill&n=BinderBoth are currently using test specs.
Playing schedule and plans for WotLK:My RL schedule is currently erratic and, as a result, so are my playing times. It is my intention going into WotLK to play it fairly casually where time investment is required compared to WoW1.0 and 2.0 (and this time I really mean it!), so at a guess I will be playing ~3 nights per week with the occasional weekend afternoon thrown in once the initial frenzy has passed, except when I find a obsession to pursue at which point I will dedicate an extraordinary amount of time to complete it. God willing, I will not suffer a craze like I did when the Badge of Tenacity was introduced ever again. My overall goals in WotLK are to do 5 mans for fun and companionship with the occasional 10 man thrown in.
Current Guild: Inertia
Who am I?A born mathematician with a sense of humour, I'm currently 34, growing on 80+ in cynicism and faith in humanity. I love playing games – just about any type will do, but my heart belongs to the genre of
true strategy games, by which I mean games designed by those who know the difference between strategy and tactics and are not afraid to alienate those who do not, as these are some of the few games that can actually challenge me on other grounds than reaction speed. A close second is the CRPG genre. Let's face it, while I love numbers and analysing situations, I am also a sucker for a good story.
In that connection I have run into a decent number of good men and true that share my passion for games, two of whom are the reason for this application, Caswallon and Dehn whom I have been playing WoW with since March 2005 and other games since earlier yet.
As a child I wrote and played games on my ZX81 and later C64, as an adolescent this continued on the Amiga, and as an adult after becoming a master of mathematics, I'm afraid I returned to my roots writing very simple games for limited platforms, this time for pay, while reading fantasy, science fiction, and history books, when not playing better games made by other people in my copious spare time.
Contrary to popular rumour, I am not a human calculator. Nor am I able, as Dehn has occasionally claimed, to write a forum post while tanking raid content. I just type fast while not tanking.
That was the WoW that was...I will try to keep this section shorter than Caswallon's, primarily to demonstrate how I do not
always write overly long posts. (I will probably fail, but it is the intent that counts).
Upon acquiring WoW, it became clear from the manual that the most complicated and versatile classes were likely to be the Druid and the Warlock. Given that the Druid could turn into a
bear, my choice was clear and Deliverance was born in early March 2005.
Joining my regular online playing friends from a game forum near you (if you know where to look, that is), I became a card carrying member of the Mithrilguard on Deathwing and had good and bad times as we tried to make raiding work with an alliance of multiple guilds (the ”MC alliance”), something that ultimately failed for any number of reasons. Given that itemization and talents for druid tanking was absolutely horrible in WoW 1.0, I nevertheless did my best to acquire the best available gear.... just to end up healing underequipped teenage leetspeaking warriors without a clue who got the tank slots ”because they are warriors”. Dehn was in much the same boat, so at least misery was shared. The logistic nightmare of being one of the officers in a guild dealing with a raiding alliance as well as the headaches of dealing with 40 egos drove me to swear off raiding in TBC – until I heard it would be the smaller 10 and 25 man.
By the time of TBC, the Mithrilguard had migrated to Tarren-Mill from Deathping, and, remaining at the time a pure social guild (and a very good one at that), ran into trouble in Karazhan that ultimately caused a split between those willing to go semi-hardcore and those unwilling to do so. Rather than ending my WoW life at that time, Dehn and Caswallon (yes, it is a familiar refrain) convinced me to given TBC raiding a chance with them in their new guild Inertia (formly Air), which I did. I was one of our main tanks through Inertia's raiding life, though, due to not being a complete no-lifer like Dehn whose only goal was to main tank, I often played the off tank role that I like well enough; after all, the strength of the druid is in his versatility, and you use such a small part of it while main tanking – switching from shape to shape and using any of all the disparate druid abilities as circumstances dictate is ever so much more challenging, even if it isn't the adrenaline rush of being pounded by something huge and nasty while 24 lives hang in the balance.
With summer 2008 killing off half of our raid group or so, the raiders of Inertia and Liberation made a new guild, Trivium. By that time I was so tired of 25 man raiding, whiners, mathematical incompetents unable to understand a simple analysis of their performance, people unable to plan their lives, and leetspeaking underage monstrosities unable to see beyond personal aggrandizement, that I happily threw in the towel and decided to stay away until WotLK, at which time I would never, ever, choose to become a guild officer ever again, nor would I do 25 man raiding. Not that everybody fell in those categories, mind you, far from it, the raiding core was mostly solid, but you only need 15-20% for it to become intolerable for the leadership in the long run.
This is the WoW that will be...Well, perhaps – that mostly depend on whether IAE accepts my application.
With WotLK within reach and Inertia being currently an alt guild for all practical purposes, I am looking for a place to level and have a reasonable chance of participating in 5 man groups with the occasional 10 man raid thrown in over the next many months (or full blown 10 man raid progression if it can be done without dedicating my life to it and if enough other members are interested). Dehn claims you can always use another tank, even if only an occasional one, and that you are low on the number of leetspeaking monstrosities (definitely a plus) and high on people of a proper age, so all in all I could probably do worse than asking to join him and Caswallon again for the third guild in a row since WoW start, and you could probably do worse than accepting me as a social friend who's not out to steal your precious raid spots.
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