Mind
Apr 4, 2008, @ 05:58 AM
Hello HotC,
Before I get started today, let me first provide some assurance that for those that don't want to read, you can scroll to the bottom and I'll happily have listed there a TLDR version of this whole mess that's about to take shape.
For those that do enjoy a short read and/or are bored at work, please proceed on. (I'd also like to clear up before we get started that I'm in no way shape or form a roll-player, I'm purely trying to get the attention of a person or two by breaking with the ever-so-boring and overly used standard application format that seems to pollute guild recruitment forums. I hope it works.)
Now then, all that said, it's story time.........
The day was Dec. 14, the year 2004. A collector's edition copy of the latest and greatest of Blizzard's games sat on the top shelf of a small dorm room desk having waited two long weeks for finals to come to a much needed end. Now, finally with Pepsi in hand, I grabbed (ever so gently, this is a collector's edition mind you) the box, pulled off the plastic, put in the DVD, and then...(Yeah, you all remember how long it took to install)...watched some TV. Oh well, what's another 25 minutes, right? **fast forward** "Man!, I can't believe I had to create an account and download 5 patches. This game better be hella good."
After an eternity of installing, patching, and messing with my network connection, I finally got in. Hmmm...what class to play? Undead Warlock? Yeah, that sounds good. I was in the process of picking out a name, when the phone rang. "Have you installed WoW yet man? Finals are over!" "Yeah, I just got on and am making a character." "Go Alliance." "Why? The races all look stupid." "I've already got a level 12 ( lol ), I'll help you out." "Ok, lemme look at the classes again, and I'll call you back."
I jumped onto Blizzard's site and looked everything over. I was still set on a warlock, and was headed back to make my character when I noticed a banner that had little captions as you moused over them. A demon that appeared to be a boss of sorts had a chat bubble that said "She should have brought a priest" And the Night Elf next to her had a matching phrase "I should have brought a priest". I had fallen for Blizzard's healer propaganda....what a sucker.
I returned to the game still wanting to be a bad guy of sorts and read the priest description. What's this? You can be a dark priest? Done! Now then, a name...click, click, click, that'll work. Thus Moonrend on Lightning's Blade the PvP server came to be. **Enter World** The blue bar filled, and the movie guy voice told me all about Night Elves and what had happened since WC III.
I happily Smited my way through Shadowglen, and got to Dolanaar. "Man, this Relics of Awakening quest is hard, and my friend isn't on" **tell** "Can you help us do Relics of Awakening? we need someone to heal us." "Sure". About half an hour later, I had decided that that whole healing thing was pretty cool, and abandoned my plans for an evil priest. Things went forward from there, Blackfathom, Deadmines, Stockades, Gnomeregan. Then came Uldaman.
I was in one of those pre-raid, pre-any-idea-what-you're-doing guilds at the time, just minding my business in the Swamp of Sorrows when a guildie asked if I could come heal a run. Sure, why not. I joined the group with Rogal, Vecx, Aldon, and whatever my guildie's name was (He's not important to the story anymore....) It went great, everything fell in line, and we completed Uldaman all decently below the level of the last boss. "Man, that was cool", I thought. The next day, I logged on and there was a message from that guy Vecx in my mailbox. I read the message and at the end I was left wondering what "The Molten Core", "Onyxia", "Upper Blackrock Spire" and "Raiding" all were. So I added Vecx to my friends list and logged to head to class.
After I got home, I logged on and within seconds had a tell. I asked an explanation for all the aforementioned terms and was pleasantly surprised to find out that when you hit 60, that's just the beginning. That sounded good to me, so I typed a brief "Thanks for the good times" message in guild chat, asked Vecx how you quit a guild and promptly did so. I accepted the invite to <Sigil>, and a Month or so later stepped into MC for the first time. I had no idea what I had got myself into.
For anyone that's ever been a truly hardcore raider, You know what it can do to drain the fun out of the game. Progression was king, you didn't sleep 'til the boss was dead, there were no bio breaks, and the thought of an early night was unheard of. Christmas and maybe New Years were the only non-raid days in the schedule. But hey, world first kills are that important, right? Not for me they weren't. After a particularly un-fun night of doing heal assignments, DKP and all the other joys that come with having class leader as a second job title, I decided I was done. We were in the middle of the Majordomo first kill race and had just wiped at fifteen or so percent when I logged out, deleted my character and told the game to give me a new random server. It landed me on Dalaran.
So yeah, that got longer than I had intended but there you have it. Now you can't say you don't know at least something about me.
I had become somewhat attached to my name, but unfortunately it was taken. Oh well, not a problem, I'll just mix it up a bit. **Tada!** Mindrend! (Yeah, I know, real creative. :help: ) I leveled up in record time (this time I went shadow instead of holy to level) along the way meeting a couple people that now reside here in HotC. Among those, (and I don't count on them remembering me, but that's fine) Cammy back when Whitemaine's Chapeau was the "in thing" for headgear, and Curafin when a 5 man Baron was a truly epic feat.
Once I hit 60, I joined Darkmoon. I loved it there. It was low stress and fun people, but unfortunately it wasn't enough. Progression claimed another victim, and Darkmoon withered. Over the course of my time I had made friends with several people that called Vernal Equinox home. I figured I may as well get back into raiding somewhat, so I joined up. It was a blast, we got through the better part of AQ, and then Naxx descended upon us. VE held it's ground, we killed the Abomination wing, the Spider wing, Noth, Razuvious, and were working on Hegan when 25 man raids and the Burning Crusade put the nail in the coffin. VE struggled, had a few glimmers of hope, but eventually died.
I went free agent and bounced loosly between Gaia, LessQQmorePewPew, and a startup guild called Ashes to Ashes. At that point my friends and I in Ashes to Ashes heard about another small group of 5 players that had left Gaia and dubbed themselves <The Oath>. We started talking to them and soon enough decided we could make something work there. Ashes to Ashes was disbanded, and as The Oath we started working our way through Kara, then eventually SSC and TK. I got to know a lot of amazing people (You all might know this one hunter named Cofrancesco) that helped chew content up faster than I could have ever imagined without the stress of hardcore raiding. We climbed to just within grasping distance of Hyjal and BT, and then....life....We started to bleed key players. We tried to push through but had lost too many people to burn out and disinterest. Once again I said goodbye to a good guild.
Since then I've tried to call Requital and Might and Magic home. Neither one fit, which leads me to Heroes of the Command. Why HotC? Well, it's simple really. It's a guild that has stood the test of time, burnout, an expansion, and anything else you can throw at a guild, and it's still going strong. As you can see I've seen a lot of good guilds come to an end, and I really hope this is the place my poor, (he really is poor, I just bought epic flight training for my druid...) tired, priest can call home until Blizzard shuts off the servers.
I realize that being in a guild is a two sided equation (duh, all equations have two sides), so at this point I'm sure you all want to know what can I bring to the table. We'll start with experience. I've been just about every spec a priest can be, leveled three of them, and played them in about every roll you could play them. I know and understand class synergy, which is what leads me to my current spec and gear setup. That being said, I'm always open to suggestions. The day any player thinks they've got it all figured out, is the day they're useless to their guild and raid. It's rare that you'll ever see me turn down a help request from anyone unless, of course I'm already in the process of helping a different person. I play WoW to have fun, and half of that is enjoying the people you play the game with. I'm one of those crazy people that loves old school content. Don't be surprised if you see me on my druid soloing stuff in Silithus, or trying to get groups for MC, BWL, AQ, Naxx, whatever (I'm currently in the process of finishing up the green shard for the AQ line).
Outside of anything pertaining to the game, I'm a generally laid back person. I just finished up my BFA in 3D animation so I'm a total graphics geek. Count on me talking about particle effects and other nonsense on a regular basis. If you don't want to hear about it, feel free to tell me to shut up. I won't get offended, I promise...=]
I think that's about it. If you have any further questions feel free to contact me on Kelilyse, my druid, Mindrend, my priest or Xanae, my hordie. Check below here for the TLDR version, and a quick link to the armory. Thanks for your time, and if you were reading this at work, I hope it made your day go by a little faster.
-Mind-
The short version:
Name: Mindrend
Spec: Disc/Holy hybrid (28/33)
Armory Link: Me (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dalaran&n=Mindrend)
Why HotC? : It's a solid guild that's taken as much of a beating as any and keeps going. I'm looking for a place that I can join and stay.
Can you make all raid nights and times? : Currently, no. Post college life hasn't worked out as I might have hoped, so I can't make Sundays, but I'll be on without fail for Wednesday and Thursday. I'm in the market for a new job, so with any luck that won't be a permanent problem.
What's your previous raid experience? : Almost everything pre BC (Ouro, C'thun, Gothik, 4hm, Hegan, Loatheb, Sapph, and KT excepted). Post BC I've done everything prior to Kael and Vashj including ZA.
Members of HotC that you know? : I'm not sure that they all remember me, but Cammy, Curafin, and Cofrancesco all pop into my head. I'd have to check the roster to see if I know any others.
Why is the sky blue? : Because the Kool-aid man has a bucket.... Ohhh Yeah!
Before I get started today, let me first provide some assurance that for those that don't want to read, you can scroll to the bottom and I'll happily have listed there a TLDR version of this whole mess that's about to take shape.
For those that do enjoy a short read and/or are bored at work, please proceed on. (I'd also like to clear up before we get started that I'm in no way shape or form a roll-player, I'm purely trying to get the attention of a person or two by breaking with the ever-so-boring and overly used standard application format that seems to pollute guild recruitment forums. I hope it works.)
Now then, all that said, it's story time.........
The day was Dec. 14, the year 2004. A collector's edition copy of the latest and greatest of Blizzard's games sat on the top shelf of a small dorm room desk having waited two long weeks for finals to come to a much needed end. Now, finally with Pepsi in hand, I grabbed (ever so gently, this is a collector's edition mind you) the box, pulled off the plastic, put in the DVD, and then...(Yeah, you all remember how long it took to install)...watched some TV. Oh well, what's another 25 minutes, right? **fast forward** "Man!, I can't believe I had to create an account and download 5 patches. This game better be hella good."
After an eternity of installing, patching, and messing with my network connection, I finally got in. Hmmm...what class to play? Undead Warlock? Yeah, that sounds good. I was in the process of picking out a name, when the phone rang. "Have you installed WoW yet man? Finals are over!" "Yeah, I just got on and am making a character." "Go Alliance." "Why? The races all look stupid." "I've already got a level 12 ( lol ), I'll help you out." "Ok, lemme look at the classes again, and I'll call you back."
I jumped onto Blizzard's site and looked everything over. I was still set on a warlock, and was headed back to make my character when I noticed a banner that had little captions as you moused over them. A demon that appeared to be a boss of sorts had a chat bubble that said "She should have brought a priest" And the Night Elf next to her had a matching phrase "I should have brought a priest". I had fallen for Blizzard's healer propaganda....what a sucker.
I returned to the game still wanting to be a bad guy of sorts and read the priest description. What's this? You can be a dark priest? Done! Now then, a name...click, click, click, that'll work. Thus Moonrend on Lightning's Blade the PvP server came to be. **Enter World** The blue bar filled, and the movie guy voice told me all about Night Elves and what had happened since WC III.
I happily Smited my way through Shadowglen, and got to Dolanaar. "Man, this Relics of Awakening quest is hard, and my friend isn't on" **tell** "Can you help us do Relics of Awakening? we need someone to heal us." "Sure". About half an hour later, I had decided that that whole healing thing was pretty cool, and abandoned my plans for an evil priest. Things went forward from there, Blackfathom, Deadmines, Stockades, Gnomeregan. Then came Uldaman.
I was in one of those pre-raid, pre-any-idea-what-you're-doing guilds at the time, just minding my business in the Swamp of Sorrows when a guildie asked if I could come heal a run. Sure, why not. I joined the group with Rogal, Vecx, Aldon, and whatever my guildie's name was (He's not important to the story anymore....) It went great, everything fell in line, and we completed Uldaman all decently below the level of the last boss. "Man, that was cool", I thought. The next day, I logged on and there was a message from that guy Vecx in my mailbox. I read the message and at the end I was left wondering what "The Molten Core", "Onyxia", "Upper Blackrock Spire" and "Raiding" all were. So I added Vecx to my friends list and logged to head to class.
After I got home, I logged on and within seconds had a tell. I asked an explanation for all the aforementioned terms and was pleasantly surprised to find out that when you hit 60, that's just the beginning. That sounded good to me, so I typed a brief "Thanks for the good times" message in guild chat, asked Vecx how you quit a guild and promptly did so. I accepted the invite to <Sigil>, and a Month or so later stepped into MC for the first time. I had no idea what I had got myself into.
For anyone that's ever been a truly hardcore raider, You know what it can do to drain the fun out of the game. Progression was king, you didn't sleep 'til the boss was dead, there were no bio breaks, and the thought of an early night was unheard of. Christmas and maybe New Years were the only non-raid days in the schedule. But hey, world first kills are that important, right? Not for me they weren't. After a particularly un-fun night of doing heal assignments, DKP and all the other joys that come with having class leader as a second job title, I decided I was done. We were in the middle of the Majordomo first kill race and had just wiped at fifteen or so percent when I logged out, deleted my character and told the game to give me a new random server. It landed me on Dalaran.
So yeah, that got longer than I had intended but there you have it. Now you can't say you don't know at least something about me.
I had become somewhat attached to my name, but unfortunately it was taken. Oh well, not a problem, I'll just mix it up a bit. **Tada!** Mindrend! (Yeah, I know, real creative. :help: ) I leveled up in record time (this time I went shadow instead of holy to level) along the way meeting a couple people that now reside here in HotC. Among those, (and I don't count on them remembering me, but that's fine) Cammy back when Whitemaine's Chapeau was the "in thing" for headgear, and Curafin when a 5 man Baron was a truly epic feat.
Once I hit 60, I joined Darkmoon. I loved it there. It was low stress and fun people, but unfortunately it wasn't enough. Progression claimed another victim, and Darkmoon withered. Over the course of my time I had made friends with several people that called Vernal Equinox home. I figured I may as well get back into raiding somewhat, so I joined up. It was a blast, we got through the better part of AQ, and then Naxx descended upon us. VE held it's ground, we killed the Abomination wing, the Spider wing, Noth, Razuvious, and were working on Hegan when 25 man raids and the Burning Crusade put the nail in the coffin. VE struggled, had a few glimmers of hope, but eventually died.
I went free agent and bounced loosly between Gaia, LessQQmorePewPew, and a startup guild called Ashes to Ashes. At that point my friends and I in Ashes to Ashes heard about another small group of 5 players that had left Gaia and dubbed themselves <The Oath>. We started talking to them and soon enough decided we could make something work there. Ashes to Ashes was disbanded, and as The Oath we started working our way through Kara, then eventually SSC and TK. I got to know a lot of amazing people (You all might know this one hunter named Cofrancesco) that helped chew content up faster than I could have ever imagined without the stress of hardcore raiding. We climbed to just within grasping distance of Hyjal and BT, and then....life....We started to bleed key players. We tried to push through but had lost too many people to burn out and disinterest. Once again I said goodbye to a good guild.
Since then I've tried to call Requital and Might and Magic home. Neither one fit, which leads me to Heroes of the Command. Why HotC? Well, it's simple really. It's a guild that has stood the test of time, burnout, an expansion, and anything else you can throw at a guild, and it's still going strong. As you can see I've seen a lot of good guilds come to an end, and I really hope this is the place my poor, (he really is poor, I just bought epic flight training for my druid...) tired, priest can call home until Blizzard shuts off the servers.
I realize that being in a guild is a two sided equation (duh, all equations have two sides), so at this point I'm sure you all want to know what can I bring to the table. We'll start with experience. I've been just about every spec a priest can be, leveled three of them, and played them in about every roll you could play them. I know and understand class synergy, which is what leads me to my current spec and gear setup. That being said, I'm always open to suggestions. The day any player thinks they've got it all figured out, is the day they're useless to their guild and raid. It's rare that you'll ever see me turn down a help request from anyone unless, of course I'm already in the process of helping a different person. I play WoW to have fun, and half of that is enjoying the people you play the game with. I'm one of those crazy people that loves old school content. Don't be surprised if you see me on my druid soloing stuff in Silithus, or trying to get groups for MC, BWL, AQ, Naxx, whatever (I'm currently in the process of finishing up the green shard for the AQ line).
Outside of anything pertaining to the game, I'm a generally laid back person. I just finished up my BFA in 3D animation so I'm a total graphics geek. Count on me talking about particle effects and other nonsense on a regular basis. If you don't want to hear about it, feel free to tell me to shut up. I won't get offended, I promise...=]
I think that's about it. If you have any further questions feel free to contact me on Kelilyse, my druid, Mindrend, my priest or Xanae, my hordie. Check below here for the TLDR version, and a quick link to the armory. Thanks for your time, and if you were reading this at work, I hope it made your day go by a little faster.
-Mind-
The short version:
Name: Mindrend
Spec: Disc/Holy hybrid (28/33)
Armory Link: Me (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dalaran&n=Mindrend)
Why HotC? : It's a solid guild that's taken as much of a beating as any and keeps going. I'm looking for a place that I can join and stay.
Can you make all raid nights and times? : Currently, no. Post college life hasn't worked out as I might have hoped, so I can't make Sundays, but I'll be on without fail for Wednesday and Thursday. I'm in the market for a new job, so with any luck that won't be a permanent problem.
What's your previous raid experience? : Almost everything pre BC (Ouro, C'thun, Gothik, 4hm, Hegan, Loatheb, Sapph, and KT excepted). Post BC I've done everything prior to Kael and Vashj including ZA.
Members of HotC that you know? : I'm not sure that they all remember me, but Cammy, Curafin, and Cofrancesco all pop into my head. I'd have to check the roster to see if I know any others.
Why is the sky blue? : Because the Kool-aid man has a bucket.... Ohhh Yeah!