The Enigma Order

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Age: 32
Gender: Male
Nationality: English
Occupation: Engineer
How good is your English: I'm from the South, so you'll understand me!
Anything else about you, the person, we might be interested in: Nope

CHARACTER INFORMATION

Nickame: Rizzlla
BattleTag: Rizz#2221
Armory Link: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/r … lla/simple
Mainspec: Frost, Haste/Mastery build
Offspec: Arcane, though mainly because of gear synergy with Frost

I have 572+ fire gear too and was fire most of 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4. Though I'm currently Frost MS, I don't consider that will always be the case, it's just what I raided with most recently and I'm currently most comfortable with

Professions: Enchanting + Jewelcrafting

Regardless of its quality (ilvl), is you gear fully taken care of? Safe for some specific cases (eg. an item about to be replaced next week), we expect everything to be gemmed, enchanted and reforged optimally. We will likely consult your profile with Mr. Robot. If you're doing something different than it indicates (which is often the right things to do), please explain the reasoning.

I made sure I had a quick double-check before I applied! AFAIK, Mr Robot doesn't register haste break points, which is highly significant as frost

What do you consider the most significant pros and cons of your class/spec in the current state of affairs:

I could talk a lot here...

PROS
I've always loved the mage. I've genuinely played it as main character since Molten Core (I'm pretty sure I can link a quintessence if pushed). I've played pretty much every class and spec in the game and nothing compares to the little chap at the back casting the big spells. The variety of the specs is awesome, and each one is classic easy to play, difficult to master. I find Frost particularly fun presently, orb + Lance is a massacre :>

CONS
There's no doubt the mage needs some love before WoD, I don't think the class has had a great expansion overall. Constantly changing specs being overpowered, underpowered, nerfed after patches are released, buffed after patches are released ... Our bombs are insanely overpowered and on too short a timer and our 90 talents are pretty meh.. It hasn't helped that our evil cousin the warlock just outshines us in every department for most of the expansion:<

Are any of your alts suit for raiding? If so, tell us about them and link armory profile:

Main alt: Resto Shaman: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/r … llo/simple
Assassination Rogue: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/r … aar/simple
Fury/Prot warrior: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/r … xzz/simple

I have a geared PvP Shadow Priest too (horde ofc)

YOUR PERFORMANCE

Please provide a WoL log presenting your awesomeness. In absence of logs, post screenshots of recount/skada from an encounter of the current tier.
Without this, you will most likely be rejected.

Our complete logs are here: http://www.worldoflogs.com/guilds/21827/ (I hope you don't pick an off-night...) You might note that usually when my mage isn't there, one of my alts is instead (usually my shaman)

What's your best result in Prooving Grounds? This is especially valuable in case you cannot provide WoL log.

Endless 28 twice. I'd rather not talk about this any further... I have endless 10 of my shaman (the first time I made endless) but didn't realise I could drink between rounds and couldn't face going through it again on an alt but I'll go back to it one day when I've forgotten how irritating it is.

Which pve addons do you use?

I only generally play with the essentials: PitBull, DBM, TellMeWhen, Recount, Bagnon and CombustionHelper when Fire.

Show us your UI.

I'll get back to you with this one. It's fairly standard, but changed so my frames and buffs/debuffs are where I can actually see them...

Raiding Experience (we're mostly interested in your achievements in the current expansion, but do impress us with previous experience if you feel it helps):

I have 10/14 experience and for much of 5.4 we were a boss or 2 behind Enigma. We had a bad xmas though with many core players leaving and simply haven't been able to recover to get much progress time in.

I've raided since Vanilla, with my peak probably being BTC and being mid-sunwell prior to the 3.0 big nerf. I raided throughout WOTLK but took a long break in Cata and came back for the start of MoP

What attendence should we realistically expect from you (for the sake of clarity, please note that while our Monday and Thursday raids start at 19.30, the Sunday one starts at 18.45). If you can't make it on any of our raiding days on a general basis, do not apply.

I'm a consistent raider as you'll tell from my logs. I very rarely attend less than 2 nights a week. I would add that I hold a relatively senior manager position at work and occasionally I'll be a little late logging on.

Any external factors affecting activity we ought to know about (some flexibility applies, but we really want players able to join all 3 raids a week):

GUILD RELATED

Why are you applying to The Enigma Order, what made you choose us, when and where did you first hear about us:

A mature guild with good progress. I've bumped into a few of your members occasionally and always had a good impression. A Monk was doing Brawlers guild way back and was friendly, Elementios ran an OpenRaid ToT run that i joined over xmas. But most of a all: a noam Guild Leader.

Please confirm that you have read and understood our rules and they are ok for you (yes, this is our way to ensure we're not asked somewhat silly questions that are already answered in writing at the Rules section of the forum):

Yes

Is there anything else you would like to include that may assist your application?

No

HARDWARE

Please post Speed Test results. Run it from your place to Frankfurt, Germany.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3350929197

Is your computer good enough to handle 25 man heroic raids? If you only did 10 man and lfr until now, say so please.

I've raided 25 man all expansion no problem and generally sit around 75-90 FPS.

Do you have a working microphone and are you able to connect to TS3 servers?

Yes

Should you be accepted, you will be asked to provide your cellphone number to the leading team. This is for the sake of on-going coordination, your number will not be made public nor used for anything not related to the game. Is this ok?

Yes. My GFs going to think I've been ringing dodgy sites again...