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Keys and Attunements

Free Response: Character

Which pieces of your gear, with the exception of your neck, belt, rings, ranged, and trinkets are currently not enchanted with the best available enchant? Why? Will this be fixed in the immediate future?

How quickly do you apply enchants to newly awarded gear?

What are your next two ideal upgrades? Why these two pieces?

Free Response: Schedule

Can you be online 80% of raid nights per current raid schedule?

Are you willing to post your expected attendance at least one day prior to a scheduled raid?

Are you willing to sit out on scheduled calendar days to promote an active queue system?

Please post your expected availability by day:

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Free Response: Preparation

Would you spend your available free time farming materials or producing items on behalf of the raid effort? How much time would be available each week? Would you be able to personally provide the best available consumables available to your class for each progression night?

Would you actively read and contribute to new boss kills by research and discussion in our web forums?

What drive do you have to understand and grasp new concepts, tactics and strategies? Do you have a background in music, sports, military, or another academic or similar institution that would contribute to your ability to develop new strategy?

Free Response: Guild Match

Is your computer and connection fully capable of handling new, processor intensive content?

Are you willing to change your talent spec as requested by the guild?

Would you be willing to change your professions as requested by the guild?

What is your raiding background? Specifically, what content have you completed?

What were the circumstances in your prior guild?

What do you want out of RWO?

What do you know about RWO?

Do you have a guild sponsor or know anyone in guild?

What is your view on leadership and individualism in a raiding environment?

What does teamwork mean to you?

What are your feelings on the dynamic of the Burning Crusade expansion?

Free Response: Mods, Macros, and UI... Oh my!

Are all required mods currently installed on your system? Are you able to install new mods as requested by the guild?

Other than the raiding mods that we require (Omen, oRA2, BW/DBM), list 3 other mods that you find invaluable when raiding.

Copy and paste your favorite macro (if any) and explain why you can't live without it.

Please link a screenshot of your UI in a raid environment.

Class Specific: Druid

What is a Druid's role in an end game instance?

Talent Spec: If we are clearing a new raid instance, what talent spec will you use?

You are in the middle of a raid encounter and many players are running out of mana. Under what circumstances do you innervate:
- Priest
- Druid
- Shaman
- Mage
- Warlock
- Hunter
- Pally

Feral: What do you bring to the raid in terms of tanking and dps that no other class can bring?

Feral: In an encounter in which you do not have to move what is your optimal dps rotation? Why?

Feral: How do you generate burst threat to begin a boss encounter as the main tank?

Moonkin: What do you bring to the raid that no other class can bring? (Why should we bring you instead of another mage/warlock?)

Moonkin: Assuming an ideal encounter (you don't have to move or decurse) what is your spell rotation for optimal dps? Why?

Restoration: If you are healing the main tank, what is your primary healing rotation? When would you alter this?

Restoration: If you are assigned to raid heal, what strategy do you take?

Restoration: With which healers do druids have the most synergy? Why?

Restoration: What are the primary weaknesses of resto druids and how can they be combated?

Class Specific: Hunter

What is a Hunter's role in an end game instance?

Talent Spec: If we are clearing a new raid instance, what talent spec will you use?

What precautions do you take to ensure that your pet is not a problem for the raid? Are there situations when you would dismiss your pet, specific to the encounter or phase?

What shot cycle do you use to maximize your dps? When would you alter this cycle?

How do you monitor your threat so that you never pull agro?

Discuss when haste is or is not an appropriate stat for your class.

Class Specific: Mage

What is a Mage's role in an end game instance?

Talent Spec: If we are clearing a new raid instance, what talent spec will you use?

What makes you a better mage than others? Do you perform well in a certain area and why?

How important is movement to a mage? Give an example.

Do you have a firm grasp of threat scaling and tools you can utilize to prevent unintended aggro gain (such as the 10-30 rule)?

Discuss when haste is or is not an appropriate stat for your class.

Class Specific: Shaman

What is a Shaman's role in an end game instance?

Talent Spec: If we are clearing a new raid instance, what talent spec will you use?

Restoration: What stat, useful in a healing role do you feel your current gear is most in need of increasing? How do you prioritize your stats when evaluating new gear options and how to enchant or socket it?

Elemental: How do you manage your own mana pool such that you can put out meaningful dps over an extended period of time, assuming you don't have access to a shadow priest?

Elemental: In what situation, if any, would you prioritize the use of tranquil air totem over wrath of air?

Enhancement: When making weapon choices, what are the primary stats or traits you look for in a weapon (including speed, weapon type, and/or beneficial stats).

Enhancement: How do you prioritize Windfury over Grace of Air?

Enhancement: How do you manage your threat while still providing meaningful dps?

Class Specific: Paladin

Talent Spec: If we are clearing a new instance, what talent spec would you use? Please explain your choices in detail.

When do you use your auras and what affects this decision?

Explain how you would assign blessings based on three raids: a raid with one paladin, a second with two paladins, and a third with three paladins.

One of the strongest assets of a paladin is his or her survivability. When there is a great deal of damage being done to raid (including yourself), what do you to do to keep yourself alive? (The answer here isn't "just bubble")

Holy: Elaborate on what makes you an excellent healer. What do you do in a raid situation? What do you do in a 5-man when you are the only healer there? Explain the advantages and disadvantages of your class in a healing role.

Protection: What do you feel affects your threat generation the most? What spell rotation do you perform when you are building threat on single AND multi-target scenarios? Explain the advantages and disadvantages of your class in a tanking role.

Retribution: What do you bring to the raid that no other meele dps can bring? (Why should we take you over another rogue/warrior?)

Class Specific: Priest

What is a Priest's role in an end game instance?

Discuss when haste is or is not an appropriate stat for your class.

Talent Spec: If we are clearing a new raid instance, what talent spec will you use?

Talent Spec: If a balanced 25-man raid of a new raid instance had four priests, how would you spec each of them and explain why?

Holy/Discipline: What spells do you normally cast when healing? What spells would you cast when healing the main tank and why?

Shadow: What spells do you normally cast when DPSing and why?

Class Specific: Rogue

What is a Rogue's role in an end game instance?

Talent Spec: If we are clearing a new raid instance, what talent spec will you use?

Assuming a hypothetical, ideal, encounter (one high-health target, no movement, no disruption to melee moves), what sort of cycle would you use with your abilities to optimize damage output given your current spec? How would it differ in an alternate spec, if at all?

Explain how you use poisons in a raid environment.

Discuss when haste is or is not an appropriate stat for your class.

Class Specific: Warlock

What is a Warlock's role in an end game instance?

Talent Spec: If we are clearing a new raid instance, what talent spec will you use?

How many soul shards do you carry at any given time? How many (give a number) do you feel a prepared warlock should bring to raid new content?

Please explain the methods you employ to prevent pulling aggro. Be specific. Also, list two raid bosses where pulling aggro can be an issue for warlocks.

Explain how the following stats affect warlock DPS. Given items or gems of equal item-level, in what order would you prefer the following stats?
- Spell Damage
- Spell Hit Rating
- Spell Crit Rating
- Spell Haste Rating
- Stamina
- Intellect

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each curse. In what priority should each be applied? In what situations should a different priority be assigned?
- Weakness
- Recklessness
- Shadow
- Elements
- Agony
- Doom
- Tongues

Class Specific: Warrior

What is a Warrior's role in an end game instance?

Talent Spec: If we are clearing a new raid instance, what talent spec will you use?

How important is movement to a Warrior?

Protection: Explain the different times you would use each of the aggro-generating abilities and explain why you would use them? Are there times and instance where you would use certain abilities over others? If so, list them.

Protection: In a fight that requires only 1 tank, you are assigned to DPS. Would you change your gear? What type of weapon would you use? Would you take off your shield?

Protection: What makes you good at holding aggro? Do you have a good understanding on how aggro scales?

Protection: What is effective health? Please give a brief summary.

Arms/Fury: What is/are the talent points that affect your DPS the most and why? Are there substitutes for other talent points that would increase your overall DPS in raids?

Arms/Fury: When dps'ing, what are some things that you should be mindful of?

Arms/Fury: List the different attributes in gear that you would look for if you were going for PvE DPS for the following: Mortal Strike? Fury? 2-hand Fury? Include all the stats and bonuses you may find.

Arms/Fury: Discuss when haste is or is not an appropriate stat for your class.

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