[Declined] Frenky - retribution/holy paladin [raiding application]

[Frenky]

Your character name, level, class and armoury link
Character name: Frenky
Level: 80
Class: Paladin (Retribution/Holy)
Armory Link: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Darkmoon+Faire&cn=Frenky


Tell us a little about yourself as a person, such as your name, age, country and ability with English.
My name is Filip, I live in Croatia, Zagreb. I'm 17 years old and I belive my english is enough good to speak on team speak or any other communication program.


Do you currently know anyone in Prophecy?
In Prophecy i know Quun, Eramor, Ruz, Desti, Adibjan and many others.


Do you have any other characters that you play on a regular basis?
There are 2 alts that I'm playing, first one is my shadow priest Smrtnik he's mostly for pvping same as Xra the death knight.

Smrtnik's armory link: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Darkmoon+Faire&cn=Smrtnik

Xra's armory link: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Darkmoon+Faire&cn=Xra


Why do you want to join Prophecy? What are your game goals? (endgame PvE-raiding, PvP, RP, ...)
I want to join Prophecy becouse I met many of Prophecy's members that are frendly, also I want to experience and test myself on end-game contest.


Have you been in other guilds? If so, what are the reasons for leaving your previous guild(s)?
Swampweed - after not having enough people for 25man Ulduar many times, officership decided to disband a guild and move to another realm to find raiders to join them, they moved but I still had friends Darkmoon Faire and I decided to stay here.

Dark Elders - I'd like to keep the thing that happened there out of public section, it's a complex issue. If you'd like to know them just whisper me.


What do you expect from the guild?

From Prophecy I expect relaxed and frendly atmosphere but in same time serious and mature group of people when it comes to raiding.


We currently raid on Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday and Tuesday, from 20.00 to 0.00 server time. Can you regularly attend these times, at least 2-3 times per week?
It's not a problem for me, I'll surely have very high attendance, but I'll have few breaks in the year of course.


What is your raiding experience? By this, we refer to preTBC raids done preTBC, TBC raids done during TBC and WotLK raids done while level 80.
I started to play World of Warcraft at start of Burning Crusade and I've raided with 3 of my characters.
-rogue-
BC:
Karazhan
Zul'aman
WotLK:
none

-shaman-
BC:
Karazhan - cleared
Zul'aman - cleared
Magtheridon's lair - cleared
Gruul's lair - cleared
Tempest Keep - 3/4
Serpentshrine Cavern 4/6
Hyjal summit - 2/5
Wotlk:
none

(I started to play serious when WotLK came)

-paladin- (I rerolled paladin when WotLK came)
WotLK:
(10)Naxxramas - cleared
(25)Naxxramas - cleared
(10)Ulduar - cleared + (done all hard modes)
(25)Ulduar - cleared + (FL +4, XT-002, Thorim, Hodir,IC on hard mode & Algaon)
(10)Trial of the Crusader - cleared + (Tribute of Insanity)
(25)Trial of the Crusader - cleared + (Beasts and Lord Jarraxus on heroic mode)
(10)Icecrown Citadel - 10/12 (I both healed and DPS'd all 10 bosses also got Sindragosa very low)
(25)Icecrown Citadel - 10/12 (I've healed on Valithria Dreamwalker)



Have you read and fully understood the raid rules? Are you agreeing to follow them?
I have understood them and I'm agreeing to follow them.


Is your connection stable enough to handle 25-man raiding for 4 hours?
Yeah it is, but rare disconnect are there of course.


Briefly state your pc specs!
Intel(r) Core(TM)2 cpu 6600 @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz, 2,00 GB Ram-a


Post a picture of your UI in a raid environment and detail a few key addons you use for raiding. (Failure to do this will affect your application in a negative way)

http://yfrog.com/izwowscrnshot041910190529j

1. Dominos - I use this for changing position of casting bars, making invisible casting bars and fixing keybinds.

2. Grid - This one is usefull when I need to target person that will be gain some kind of buff/debuff and I can't predict it, if I could do it I would use a macro. The example is Blood Queen

3. Healbot - I use this for holy(it's explained later)

4. Omen - It's must for raiding, threat calculator addon.

5. Palypower - It's must for paladins. It's good becouse it combinates all paladins buffs in party/raid in 1.

6. Pitbull - Until Frames

7. Power Auras Classic - If i get stunned, slowed or silenced I'll get a message in middle of my screen

8. Quartz - Casting bars

9. Deadly Boss Mods - It's must for raiding. I guess everybody has it


Tell us a bit about how you play. Your keybindings, your awareness level. What you've done so far to improve your play and what you plan to do.

My Keybinds for retribution:

1 - Macroed Crusader Strike ( /startattack /cast Crusader Strike)
2 - Macroed Divine Storm ( /startattack /cast Divine Storm)
3 - Macroed Judgaments (When I press 3 I use Judgement of Light,
when i press alt + 3 I use Judgement of Wisdom, when i press
ctrl + 3 I use Judgement of Justice.I made this macro to get another 2 keybinds free.)
Here's how macro goes:
/cast [nomodifier] Judgement of Light
/cast [modifier:alt] Judgement of Wisdom
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Judgement of Justice
4 - Macroed Consecration ( /startattack /cast Consecration)
5 - Macroed Exorcism ( /startattack /cast Exorcism)
6 - Macroed Holy Wrath ( /startattack /cast Holy Wrath)
R - Macroed Hammer of Wrath ( /start attack /cast Hammer of Wrath)
(I've done this mostly becouse some spells don't target enemy, they just occur)

Shift + 1 - Divine Plea
Shift + 2 - Sacred Shield (hided bar)
Shift + 3 - Turn Evil (hided bar)
< - Macroed Flash of Light (I use 3 modifiers for this one, alt, ctrl and shift) I used this maintly in PvP but it can be useful in Pve too (hided bar)
Here's how macro goes:
/cast [modifier:alt, target=xxx] [modifier:shift, target=xxx] [modifier:ctrl, target=xxx][nomod] Flash of Light
y - Macroed Holy light (same as Flash of Light) (hided bar)
x - Macroed Cleanse (same as Flash of Light and Holy Light, but this one can be  really useful in PvE, here's an example with this macro i could dispell
Steelbreaker's dot on a tank, so healers wouldn't waste their global cooldown on it.)  (hided bar)
alt + 1 - Avenging Wrath
alt + 2 - Arcane Torrent
¸ - Divine Shield (It's close to my other main abilitys becouse I use it sometimes if it's emegracy so it's helpful if I don't have any modifiers with it)
T - Macroed Hammer of Justice(I use focus macro for this ability so i don't need to target enemy that i'm not planning to dps but I'm planning to slow him
down this can be useful on fight like Faction Champions.)
This is how macro goes:
/cast [modifier:ctrl, target=focus] [nomod] Hammer of Justice
G - Macroed Repentance (same as Hammer of Justice)
V - Divine Sacrifice
C - Macroed Hand of Sacrifice (same as Flash of Light)
F - Macroed Hand of Freedom(same as Flash of Light)
Ctrl + R - Macroed Health stone & Battlemaster Trinket & Healing potion

Klicked:

Hand of Protection (Lack of keybinds, but macroed same as Flash of Light)
Lay on Hands (Lack of keybinds, but macroed by focus)
Hand of Salvation (Lack of keybinds, but macroed same as Flash of Light)

My keybinds for holy:

For holy i use healbot
Left klick -> Flash of Light
Left klick + Shift -> Hand of Salvation
Left klick + Ctrl -> Beacon of Light
Left klick + Alt -> Cleanse
Middle klick -> Holy Shock
Middle klick + Shift -> Lay on Hands
Middle klick + Ctrl -> Hand of Freedom
Middle klick + Alt -> Protection
Right klick -> Holy Light
Right klick + Shift -> none
Right klick + Ctrl -> Sacred Shield
Right klick + Alt -> Hand of Sacrifice

1 - Macroed judgaments
2 - Divine Plea
3 - Divine Illuminatiom
4 - Aura Mastery
5 - Divine Favor
¸ - Divine Shield
Alt + 1 - Avenging Wrath
Alt + 2 - Arcane Torrent
T - Hammer of Justice
V - Divine Sacrifice
Ctrl + R - Macroed Health stone & Battlemaster Trinket & Healing potion

I've keybinded and macroed all my abilitys, so I don't need to target raid member when I need to cast something on someone, also I use Hided bar for spells that doesn't have a cooldown since I know how much each spell cost I don't need to see those ablitys to cast them. (this includes Sacred Shield, Flash of Light, Cleanse, Holy Light and Turn Evil)


What talent spec do you currently use for raiding? Detail a few key aspects of the talent build, explaining them.
Retribution spec:

1. http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#sVcdZVZVfrt0IuhdIfsu "aura mastery"
This is first possiblity for Retribution's, I see it useful becouse
of aura mastery bonus on frost and shadow resistance which makes 1 of them boost resistance
to 260 and it's great for 25 heroic Lich King - Frostmourne phase.

2. http://www.wowhead.com/talent#sVZE0zZVfrt0IuhdIfsu "divine sacrifice"
This is another good spec for retribution paladin, Divine sacrifice can be
useful in many situations but the main reason why I see this talent build
very good is becouse it can fill in tank's rotation, for example proffesor
pructide tank's cooldown rotation. Reducing party's damage taken by 30% is
insanely alot on that boss.

Retribution spec can't be fully definied becouse there are many raid
buffs that they give and share with other classes/specs here are some examples

3% crit to raid - Ret / Ele shaman / Mut rogue
3% all damage to raid - Ret / BM hunter / Arcane Mage
3% haste to raid - Ret / Moonkin  
AP Debuff - Ret or Prot paladin / Warriors / Warlocks / Ferals

Holy spec:

1. http://www.wowhead.com/talent#sxAzgM0sVu0tgdxZVcbL "RetHoly"
This gives me another 4% crit bonus but compared to Divine Sacrifice it's far behide

2. http://www.wowhead.com/talent#sxAzgM0siu0tgdxGzub "Holy divine sacrifice"
This is the best possible holy talent build, becouse I can go for Improved Divine Sacrifice
and it reduces damage taken of whole raid by 20% for 6 seconds which is amazing


For your class and spec, which stats do you focus on? Explain your choice - based on your enchants and gems too.
Retribution:
Enchants
-Head: +50attack power & +20critical strike raiting
-shoulders: +120attack power & +15critical strike raiting
-chest: +10stats
-cloak: +21agility
-bracers: +50attack power
-hands: +44attack power
--legs: +75attack power & 22critical strike raiting
-feet: +32attack power(I should change this enchant since I'm not hit capped)
-weapon: Berserking

Gems
Meta - I see 21agility + 3% crit damage much better then any other becouse
Nightmare Tear fulfills requestments for this meta gem.
Red - 20 strenght
yellow - 10 strenght and 10 critical strike raiting(but only if there's 4 or more strenght bonus)
blue - 20 strenght I ignore socket bonus even it's 6 strenght

Holy:
Enchants
-Head: +50 Spell Power & 20critical strike raiting
-Shoulders: +24 Spell Power &15critical strike raiting
-Chest: +250Mana
-Cloak: +22Haste raiting
-Bracers: +16Intellect
-hands: +28Spell Power
-legs: +50Spellpower & 30stamina
-feet: 12critical strike raiting & 12 hit raiting
-weapon: 63Spell Power
-shield: 25intellect

Gems
Meta - 21intellect + 5% chance to get 600 mana with 15sec internal cooldown
Becouse it requests 1 red, 1 yellow and 1 blue gem I use Nightmare's Tear
Other gems - I stack Intellect since I'm HL user


What glyphs do you use for raid purposes?

Retribution glyphs:

-Major glyphs:
Glyph of Judgements(Your Judgements deal 10% more damage.) - I use this one becouse it boosts my damage by 2% since 20% of my damage done is from judgements.
Glyph of Seal of Vegeance(Your Seal of Vengeance or Seal of Corruption also grants 10 expertise while active.) - It's one of -must- glyphs, since it saves you getting another 10 expertise, and you can use those 10 expertise on something more important
Glyph of Exorcism(Increases damage done by Exorcism by 20%.) - This glyph gives me around 50 dps, there's another solution Gylph of Consecration, it's also good, gives me 2 free seconds and 108 mp5, but I neither have problems with mana nor I need 2secs for casting another abilitys.

-Minor glyphs:
Glyph of Sense Undead(Damage against Undead increased by 1% while your Sense Undead ability is active.) - It's only real useful minor glyph, and it's -must- for every retribution paladin.
Glyph of Lay on Hands(Reduces the cooldown of your Lay on Hands spell by 5 min.) - Ths is last usefull minor glyph. Sometimes can save tank's life.
Glyph of Blessing of Might(Increases the duration of your Blessing of Might spell by 20 min when cast on yourself.) - It's not realy useful glyph, but it can save me from reagent sometimes.

Holy Gylphs:
-Major glyphs:
Glyph of Seal of Wisdom(While Seal of Wisdom is active, the cost of your healing spells is reduced by 5%.) - This glyph makes me almost immune on going out of mana becouse sometimes I've a chance to get mana by judging or even meleeing enemy.
Glyph of Holy Light(Your Holy Light grants 10% of it's heal amount to up to 5 friendly targets within 8 yards of the initial target.) - This glyph can be very effective at healing when the whole raid is takes damage. It can be very useful on Sindragosa or Pructide becouse of low raid damage.
Glyph of Beacon of Light(Increases the duration of Beacon of Light by 30 sec.) - This glyph saves me casting one Beacon of Light every 3 minutes, also it saves me global cooldown when i might really need it.

Minor Glyphs:
Glyph of Lay on Hands(Reduces the cooldown of your Lay on Hands spell by 5 min.) - Only really useful minor glyph for holy paladins.
Glyph of Blessing of Kings(Reduces the mana cost of your Blessing of Kings and Greater Blessing of Kings spells by 50%.) - This one can be useful if someone dies and I need to rebuff him.
Glyph of Blessing of Wisdom( Increases the duration of your Blessing of Wisdom spell by 20 min when cast on yourself.) - Can save me from reagent

Tell us a bit how you do your research. For raid encounters, class knowledge etc.
For raid ecounters I'm mostly checking top guild's guides, tankspot tactic's,movies and wowhead's suggestions. For my class/specs I'm using rawr.Visiting mmo-champion, elitist jerks also I read everything possible that is on patch notes becouse I want to know what change with others classes becouse I need to know that for arena but also it's fun, and last but not least I'm also checking Warcraftmovies.com becouse that's the place where i found about about modifiers and others things that help me with PvE and PvP.


Do you have any additional questions/comments ?

Yeah i've some questions. Can I somewhere see your game-play, your videos or something becouse there's huge diffrence between guilds in their tactics.
I hope this was helpfull to someone If you have any questions feel free to ask me in-game, you also can find me on Skype - Filip. Currently I don't have proper specs, so please check the builds I linked not the ones I currently have on WoW armory both are pvp specs retribution and holy.

[Selassie]

Greetins Frenky,

Thank you for you application. We will discuss it and get back to you in a few days.

We do have a few videos out there. Here is our Yogg+0 kill for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vExDjE8_8Ns

And here are a few others including Algalon:
http://www.youtube.com/user/rbellkohli

/Selassie

[Selassie]

Hello Again Frenky,

I'm sorry to inform you that we can not accept your application at this point. Best of luck in your future adventures.

/Selassie