The Enigma Order

Hello, my name is Simo, I'm 20 years old, living in Jyväskylä, Finland and been gaming almost all my life. Upon my personal dawn of the internets, I started playing Warcraft 3 hardcore. I loved the depth of it, but after two years (or something) I started to see how every last player I faced just did the exact same strategies, over and over, copied straight from a pro replay! I saw how people started just following the newest trend of pro tactics without ever giving a thought to actual strategy present in the game. Around that time, a friend of mine started playing World of Warcraft. I, of course, being a member of the Warcraft III Master Race, dismissed it as a "no-skill" game of chasing carrot after carrot, designed to consume your entire life. Some dungeons I saw while visiting him looked pretty interesting though.

Around '06 autumn, another friend of mine asked me to try out a trial of WoW. I made a silly-looking, silly named Dwarf Paladin, and deleted the character in a couple of days. Mainly because of the name. I liked the attitude of the dwarf, even if he looked silly, and decided to try out a hunter (thinking, controlling two guys could be more fun than controlling just one!). I really liked leveling the hunter, but on some dungeon runs we did, I saw my inner calling in healing. I decided to try out a human female priest. I absolutely LOVED playing a priest, and tried to just run as much dungeons as I could, since I actually felt there was challenge in keeping groups of random people up. And I loved it. Soon the friends I started playing with started quitting the game for various reasons, and I was left alone. And many people began thinking I was "a girl IRL" with the way I typed or something. Creeped me out.

I remembered some people from our LAN parties who said they were playing WoW on a server called Stormreaver. I decided to make a new Dwarf, and a priest at that.
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet … suranceman
This would be the character I'm applying with!



I've been raiding since pre-tbc times, but never really gotten to the "real endgame" since, for some reason, all the guilds I have gotten into, people have just gotten 'burnt out' on wow, and raiding never really happened. I was in Adamantica back then, raided all of MC / AQ20 / ZG / Ony with half-pugs, sadly at the point I joined we didn't have enough people interested for our own raids. From the release of TBC to June 2007, I was in military service and didn't really get to see the "fall of Adamantica" as is. At this point I started playing shaman on another server, and ended up healing again. I was in some pug raids to Kara / gruul / ZA on my shammy, but an old wc3 friend migrated to Stormreaver with his guild. I didn't even know of this before I randomly clicked a profile link at a WC3 forum. I logged on SR, whispered him, ended up leveling my priest to 70 and joining Verdict. We raided... Well, Kara. Then Verdict disbanded. I did at least ZA with some pugs, but I didn't really touch my priest before WOTLK.

Come WOTLK, I first didn't find any spark at leveling, it took me two months to reach 80 on my mage, but I soon joined my roommate and his friend for a guild called Alive. They recently downed Sarth + 3D, but the time I spent in the guild, I wasn't impressed. It all seemed too random. People weren't really motivated, so they had the "quantity over quality" approach to raiding. Like 120 members or something. And no DKP system. I was lucky to get the loot that I wanted, if at all. And besides, I really wanted to heal, dpsing seemed to lack any real depth beside whoring the damage meter and buffing the raid. I hardly felt I contributed enough to the raid. So I went back on my priest. And here I am.

Adamantica's old guild master was online, and he was in a nicely named guild called Tar Valon. He said they are in need of healers, and I applied. I got in, and the first two weeks we had really nice raids. Soon, less and less people started appearing for raids, and I had a two-week break from wow by this time. When I came back, we couldn't get a 10-man raid going. I love the people here, but I want to be in a motivated raiding guild, actually interested in progress and harder challenges.



So, why The Enigma Order?
I remember seeing the guild name on some raids pre-TBC. Can't think of any specific players, but I remember you guys were one of the better guilds on the server, and the people seemed quite mature. A friend of mine (Izuel) was in your guild at some point back then. I never gave much thought to it, but recently I came across your guild name again, and I googled it up. Seems you are still the same people, not a copycat guild, and I'm impressed. Four years means you are doing something right. Then I clicked your "about" page.
http://enigmaorder.com/?page_id=2

Enough said. I am a friend of minimalism. After lurking your forums a little, you seemed like a nice bunch of people. I decided to apply, resulting in this here wall of text.



How would you contribute to The Enigma Order?
I am an oldschool player who can still learn new tricks. I recently found discipline healing and fell in love with the "mitigating damage beforehand" style. I always feel more "in control" of things than just patching up people after they take damage. Sure, I might not top healing meters but I know I contribute. I call it being free from the chains of meter whoring. I am a fast learner, and since I played WC3 beforehand, executing actions in wow feels very easy. I just have to know what to do. I do not easily get annoyed, if at all. I will listen to what people have to say on Vent, and I'll think of alternative solutions to problems rather than whining or pointing fingers. I might not have a lot of endgame raiding experience, but I have a lot of motivation. I am fine for a longer test period before getting accepted to a guild, as long as I know it will be worth it. I will bring flasks and whatever is required.

On the topic of endgame raiding experience, I have a few RL friends who were in Exploding Labrats at AQ40/Naxx times, and I visited them every now and then, and gave thought to the encounters. Does that count as experience?

I know my class well, I can spec to Holy or shadow too, I have about equal gear for both of them as well (shadow might not be hit capped though). I would much prefer being discipline though.

I have a very flexible schedule, and I can raid any day of the week. I am decent with computers, got a mic (I can also talk when needed. Sometimes too much), and my computer can handle anything in WoW really well.



Why not to choose Insuranceman?
I do not have an epic flyer. It is a shame, I am working on it though! I didn't spend a lot of time being max level at flying mount periods of WoW on my priest, and I'm bad at saving up gold




I also have some horde alts (or used-to-be-mains) on various realms which should not be all that important for this app, but linking the highest regardless. My mage used to be on Neptulon, and we migrated to Shatt Halls on a free migrate with a few friends. Bad mistake, the server could be considered dead and buried, no real interesting endgame guilds nor a great PVP battlegroup to play on.
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet … Vakuutettu
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet … suranceman
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet … ;n=Insured


Sorry for the amount of text, but if I forgot something really important, you can hit me up in-game (I might be on my hunter alt, Vakuutettu). I will be keeping an eye on this thread, of course