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Dear Potential Raider,

If you're looking to apply to <Pie Chart>, please read this post and follow the directions for properly submitting an application.

As of 1-17-09, we are looking to recruit the following:


1x Holy Pally
1x Resto Shaman
1x Holy/Disc Priest
1x Resto Druid

Understand that we are willing to accept applicants from all walks of the game, assuming that they can make a strong enough case to prove their worth. If you lack gear, or experience, you should be able to convince us why you could still shine in our environment. Going against the odds and coming out on top is a characteristic we expect from all members.



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Guild Rules / Raider Guidelines
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As is the case with any stable guild, there should be some basic guidelines that we can all follow and adhere to, to provide us with some consistency in dealing with guild matters.

• We raid 4 nights a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sundays from 7:00 PM to 12:30 AM (EST). Some weeks we will only raid 3 days, but during progression, all four are generally used.
  
• We are a 25 Man Raiding Guild. Members do participate in 10 mans, but we do not sanction those. All our efforts are focused primarily on 25 man. All the basics apply. Show up on time, come prepared and carry your weight. If you aren't prepared, you won't raid with us. If you are deadweight or are late with fair notice, you won't raid with us.
  
• Play your best and don't cause drama. This is as simple as it gets. We run a Loot Council and don't tolerate bad playstyles, loot whores or drama queens. If any of those apply to you, go away. If you ever have a concern or complaint, bring it up with us outside of a raid: when raiding, we deal with raiding.
  
• While these rules are sparse, we are a very active and ambitious guild. All applicants should want to raid at a cutting edge level. We are currently ranked 1st on our Server, 46th in the US and 89th Worldwide. (http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/us/firetree/Pie+Chart)

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Directions for Applying
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THE ONLY WAY TO APPLY IS TO SEND A PRIVATE MESSAGE. YOU CANNOT POST IN THESE FORUMS.

1.) ALL Applications must be PM-ed to Hawtfire. You Must Register To Do This and Wait For Validation.
2.) Please copy and paste the Application template into your PM.
3.) Thoroughly fill out the application and send. If your application is incomplete in any way, shape, or form, you will be automatically denied. (This doesn't include the "optional" questions. We have received many applications where people fail to post their UI's or provide parses. If this is the case with your application, we will deny you.)


** Click HERE to PM Hawtfire. **


** We will try and keep you updated on the status of your application as best as we can, depending on our application load. PLEASE, do NOT whisper us in game, asking about the status of your application. As a General Rule of Thumb, we have our weekly Officer Meetings every Monday at 6:30 PM EST. You can expect a reply to usually come the Monday after you applied.**



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Application
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1.) Name:

2.) Age:

3.) Time Zone:

4.) Character Name:

5.) Level / Race / Class:

6.) Current Server (transfers are welcome, but we'll have to have an interview):

7.) Link to Armory profile, and explanation of anything that may not be readily apparent from your Armory profile (alternate sets of gear, currently PvP-specced, etc.):

8.) What is your Primary Raiding Spec? Your intentions? Are you geared for any other specs? How willing are you to play off spec when needed? What's your experience with said off-spec?

9.) What are your Primary Professions? Any special recipes?

10.) Do you have 450 First Aid? Cooking? Fishing?

11.) Do you have any serious alts? If so, what levels are they? Anything special about them?

12.) How are you on personal finances? Do you do dailies? Are you good at farming the AH? How do you acquire gold, and how much do you have on a day-to-day basis?

13.) What consumables do you use? How do you acquire them? Why do you use these particular consumables?

14.) Do you have Ventrilo?

15.) Do you use a Microphone?

16.) Sometimes, we may choose to interview with an applicant via Ventrilo. Would you be able to participate in such event?

17.) Briefly explain what your class and spec are intended to do in endgame raids. How do your gear and talent choices contribute to this role? How do you go about performing your role?

18.) Please include a link to a picture of your current UI. Explain as needed, whatever it is that you would like to, about your UI. (http://imageshack.us)

19.) Do you have any sponsors in the guild? Anyone who can vouch for you?

20.) We require WWS/WOM/WOL parses from all applicants to better understand their playstyles. Please provide any and all useful parses that we can analyze.

21.) What is your schedule like? Which nights are you available? Which nights can you consistently not make raids?

22.) Please provide a complete guild history, explaining which guilds you've been in, and why you may have left each. Be honest.

23.) Why do you want to leave your current guild? Why do you want to join this guild?

24.) Please discuss all of your previous raiding experience.

25.) [Optional] Out-of-game contact information (e-mail, AIM, MSN, etc.)

26.) Tell us a bit about yourself. Do you work or go to school?

27.) We expect 100% Attendance from Recruits during Trial periods. Beyond trials, we expect that our players can maintain a very high attendance ratio. Do you foresee any conflicts with this? If so, what are they?

28.) What is your gaming experience like? How long have you played WoW? Other games?

29.) What is your computer like? Specs etc?

30.) Do you have a solid connection? Where do you play from and what is your latency typically like?