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<title>Vanquish / Staghelm &#187; Topic: What not to do as a prospective app.</title>
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<title>Norgulzar on "What not to do as a prospective app."</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Norgulzar</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;3 to 1: Dragonfire or ANG
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<title>iban on "What not to do as a prospective app."</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 11:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>iban</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;O_o who was this?
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<title>Arlynne on "What not to do as a prospective app."</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Arlynne</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;Rofl, someone is bitter arent they..... good for laughs though, wtb more tards like this.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;- Arls
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<title>arrith on "What not to do as a prospective app."</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 23:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>arrith</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;His final reponse, Made me lol&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;&#60;div&#62;Right,&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;I&#039;m sure you do, and I really don&#039;t mind, here you go &#34;assuming&#34; again. &#60;/div&#62;&#60;div&#62;&#60;br /&#62;
You think an awful lot about yourselves for a bunch of geeks who do nothing but play wow&#60;/div&#62;&#60;div&#62;:)&#60;br /&#62;
&#60;/div&#62;&#60;div&#62;Bye, &#60;/div&#62;
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<title>arrith on "What not to do as a prospective app."</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 20:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>arrith</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;This guy decided he wanted to argue the point at getting reject from the guild and after a cockup from me tried to responding more, Ya know not that he minds anways right?&#60;br /&#62;
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Rash decisions? Research? Not that you mind?&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;If you didn&#039;t mind you would not have responded to emails in such a manner.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;We check on all our apps the fact that you apped as ret/prot when we&#60;br /&#62;
were looking for a holy paladin and showed little effort to spec holy or&#60;br /&#62;
even log out in holy gear and we never make a rash choice. There was NO&#60;br /&#62;
WWS posted which is mandatory for all dps, Things like this shows us&#60;br /&#62;
that you cant even do that how can you put in an effort in our guild?&#60;br /&#62;
There is such a thing as being polite and saving people hassle and grief&#60;br /&#62;
when responding to denied applications because of the amount of whining&#60;br /&#62;
in emails such as this. Yes we have thick skin and so should top raiders&#60;br /&#62;
it still doesn&#039;t mean being an arsehole is acceptable. We after input&#60;br /&#62;
from many guildys decided what apps we will take on board. Its NOT our&#60;br /&#62;
responsibility to ask why you have bad gem choices, specs and attitude,&#60;br /&#62;
Its your responsibility to provide an outstanding application not for us&#60;br /&#62;
to chase you up . Pull your head out of your ass and get over yourself,&#60;br /&#62;
You weren&#039;t good enough for us deal with it.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Enjoy your new guild and best of luck with it.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;[b]&#60;br /&#62;
[/b]&#60;br /&#62;
[b]Micheal R Wrote[/b]:&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;The only thing there i feel justifiable, are these issues:&#60;br /&#62;
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The parry gem was sat their prior to me becoming a Jewelcrafter, I used it to meet meta requirements, I could have used anything else, but I decided against it. I&#039;m well aware the DR on Parry is utter BS.  As for the meta gem, I wasn&#039;t pushing the TPS he &#34;claimed&#039; I should be getting, so I was trying to maximize threat potential with that gem.  As for the CRIT over PURE, I was merely testing things out, it&#039;s gone and my prot build is back to how I see fit. It was their again only for testing purposes.&#60;br /&#62;
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You know if I can be so bold as to make a suggestion, instead of posting this kind of garbage behind peoples back you should try asking them for methods behind their madness.  You may find perfectly justifiable responses and may help offer some insight before you go making rash decisions based on pre-convinced notions you have concluded upon..  As for sparing peoples feelings, that&#039;s bullshit.  If you are serious about raiding you better have thick skin or get the fuck outta the market cause you won&#039;t last 5 minutes, scuse me for my bluntness.&#60;br /&#62;
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I might not have everything as perfectly placed as you deemed fit, but they were all their for good reasons.  Instead of jumping to conclusions it might actually HELP to do some research prior to rejecting people.&#60;br /&#62;
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Not that I mind.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.&#60;br /&#62;
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Regards,&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Art. &#60;/p&#62;
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On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Smoda &#38;lt;admin@vanquish-guild.com&#38;gt; wrote:&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Im human and make mistakes, It happens when you deal with alot of apps, What i said still stands. Below is what i should have sent.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;No wws even when apping as Ret/Prot/holy when its required for all dps, We only were looking for a holy paladin.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Couple things:&#60;br /&#62;
Ret spec, he took 5/5 toughness over 2/2 Divine guardian, his ret spec is fine but I shrug at that choice.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;His prot spec is silly, 6% crit over seals of the pure? sure if you&#039;re tanking single mobs that die in under 10 seconds, but it&#039;s a threat loss trade off, and even moreso considering he tried to threat spec and considered 6% crit over seal damage AND reckoning (which isn&#039;t that good but...)&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;That meta is just unnessecary for his defense, it&#039;s fine for a threat set but honestly, a 1% increase on the 8k tps he SHOULD be pulling is too insignificant on learning fights.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Professions are 100% top notch, but I am sorry I HATE anyone who under any circumstance of naxx+ gear gems parry in any form, the DR on it is so steep it&#039;s useless even as a blood spec dk.&#60;br /&#62;
 Little things apart from rng drops and money limitations make me assume apps are coming in at 3/4 of their potential instead of 100%.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Prot/Ret spec? why are we recruiting another prot or ret pally? Says he would like to go holy but isnt spec&#039;d for it or geared at all for it. Why would this app even be considered if hes not spec or geared at all for what I thought we needed?&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Honestly, I just wantd to mention alot of the information I gave was&#60;br /&#62;
related to prot and may not be what youre looking for but please if you&#60;br /&#62;
want me to log out in holy gear or if you\&#039;d like a link of my gear or&#60;br /&#62;
snapshot of my ui please let me know i\&#039;d be more than happy to comply.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Then why send an app in with prot/ret spec if he has holy gear and thats what i beleave is listed as what were looking for. If not then back to my first question.&#60;br /&#62;
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&#60;p&#62;[b]Michael R wrote[/b]:&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;That made about as much sense as the Chewbacca Defense from South Park.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;First, I&#039;m not a druid.&#60;br /&#62;
Second, I&#039;m not  a druid.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;And finally, I&#039;m not a druid.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; So either you really don&#039;t pay attention to detail, or you posted me something totally irrelevant.&#60;br /&#62;
Either way, have a nice day.&#60;br /&#62;
         &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;         On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Smoda &#38;lt;admin@vanquish-guild.com &#38;lt;mailto:admin@vanquish-guild.com&#38;gt;&#38;gt; wrote:&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;To save peoples feelings. Arguing the point and telling us to&#60;br /&#62;
&#34;loosen up&#34; doesn&#039;t help your cause at all, We are a progression&#60;br /&#62;
guild and seek the best players of the right caliber. We take&#60;br /&#62;
 raiding seriously and our apps too, We want them to be able to&#60;br /&#62;
preform in ulduar and its hard modes.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;           Quote from a  member which was one of many.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;           I&#039;m inclined to say no on this one. Her gemming is really&#60;br /&#62;
           sporadic, her gear is OK but 4 piece T7 is a must have really not&#60;br /&#62;
           sure wht she doesn&#039;t have it considering you can buy it with&#60;br /&#62;
           badges even if you&#039;re unlucky. It&#039;s so good I was having a hard&#60;br /&#62;
           time deciding to break it and I still use it on any fight where&#60;br /&#62;
           I&#039;m tank healing heavily.&#60;br /&#62;
           In terms of healing - she is overusing Regrowth - possibly going&#60;br /&#62;
           OOM extremely fast. That might have been OK in Naxx but it&#039;s going&#60;br /&#62;
           to get her into trouble in Ulduar. Besides with her healing style&#60;br /&#62;
           I don&#039;t know why she does not have the regrowth glyph - it is much&#60;br /&#62;
           better than any other glyph she can put in (the way she heals).&#60;/p&#62;
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&#60;p&#62;    [b]Michael R wrote[/b]:&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;               Not a problem at all,&#60;br /&#62;
                What is so secretive about your reason for denying me?&#60;br /&#62;
                Perhaps if you told me what ultimately made your decision it&#60;br /&#62;
               could help me as a player focus on certain things.&#60;br /&#62;
                This isn&#039;t the military, or even real life for that matter&#60;br /&#62;
               perhaps losening up and not sounding so serious would help?&#60;br /&#62;
                Regards,&#60;br /&#62;
                Art.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;               On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Smoda&#60;br /&#62;
               &#38;lt;admin@vanquish-guild.com &#38;lt;mailto:admin@vanquish-guild.com&#38;gt;&#60;br /&#62;
               &#38;lt;mailto:admin@vanquish-guild.com&#60;br /&#62;
               &#38;lt;mailto:admin@vanquish-guild.com&#38;gt;&#38;gt;&#38;gt; wrote:&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;                  Hi,&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;                  At the moment we have unfortunately decided to deny your&#60;br /&#62;
                  application to Vanquish. At this time we feel you wouldn&#039;t&#60;br /&#62;
               make a&#60;br /&#62;
                  good fit for this guild. Unfortunately I cannot divulge our&#60;br /&#62;
                  application process or our reasons for denying your&#60;br /&#62;
               application.&#60;br /&#62;
                  Thank you for your interest.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;                  -Smoda
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