Characters & Classes:Currently rocking the world with my.... rank 5 Archmage, Deliberation, whose WAR PvP experience to date is being overrun, stomped flat, burned to a crisp, and throwing HoTs and DotS all over the place in the starter Khaine scenario. My first character. Whom I have played for all of 3 hours. In other words, I have no idea what I will be playing long term if I end up playing long term at all, and have less idea about how the classes actually work than a Night Goblin Fanatic high on shrooms, but given my usual preferences it will likely be some sort of hybrid or class with so weird game mechanics I cannot optimize it trivially from a mathematical perspective.
Age:34
Location:Denmark
Timezone:CET
Gaming Style:Mostly casual when not having an obsession to achieve a specific goal, in which case I play way too much. In RPGs, CRPGs, and MMORPGs I prefer to play generalist characters rather than specialists as I like having lots of options, lots of gear to collect (more bagspace, now!), not being bound to do the same thing all the time. My MMORPG experience is limited to one month of AOC and... way too many years (and counting!) of WoW, joining up a few weeks after European release, joining a bunch of my friends from a common gaming forum and earlier MP adventures.
I played almost exclusively PvE tanking/healing/dps (hey, variety is good
on my usually feral specced druid Deliverance (which name, alas, was already taken on Karak-Hirn). I tend to prioritise friends over success, except in such situations where we have agreed between us to achieve certain goals - in which case they can damn well do their best just as I am doing.
I tend to verbally hammer or run mental circles around those who are unable to abide by the simple rules of civility and those who deliberately mangle the English language in the cause of injustice: Leet speak is an abomination in the eyes of the lord.
Based on WoW experience, I do not heal or tank PUGs as a general rule of thumb, only guild groups or with people I know. Life is too short. WAR may very well be different due to the PvP focus - let's see.
Unlike an estimated 99.3% of those posting on various non-guild gaming forums, I am not a PvP god - in fact, I'm pretty bad at it. One thing is knowing how mechanics work in principle (which I usually end up doing second to none), another is to actually hit those darn buttons in the right order at the right time, something I am... distinctly below average at.
Ps: Generally speaking, I do not play dwarves and I tend to tease friendly dwarves a bit when the opportunity arises. It is entirely for their own good - adversity is the mother of growth for the stunted ones, for only in adversity can they truly stand tall! Not that there's anything wrong with the shape of a dwarf - it makes them easier to stack.*
About you:A born mathematician with a sense of humour, I am occasionally accused by my friends of being a human calculator. This is false and I can prove it. They do have a point, though, as anybody who has been subjected to an analysis of their performance (with advice on how to improve it) based on WWS logs and the like can attest, and even worse I tend to analyze situations in somewhat greater depth than they really warrant and write very, very, long posts.
Nights are mostly spent gaming (primarily strategy games, and I
mean strategy, not tactics) or reading, days are spent programming in an IT company.
By now, it should come as absolutely no surprise to anybody who has read the last few applications, that the core of the bunch of people I play/played WoW with are Dehn, Jarkko, Hrodgar, Kahzar and a handful of others who'll probably sign up any day now, and that I'm applying to the Hands of Justice because Jarkko said so. Generally speaking, he has the long term planning abilities of a concussed duckling, but occasionally he gets a great idea, and trying to gather some of our old crowd, which is too small for a guild of our own in WAR, in your guild, which seems rather likable on the face of it, is one of his better recently.
Questions for us?Since it appears the rest of the crowd are joining, would you be willing to take the originator of the "Deli-mega-post" syndrome along as well? I cannot promise to play a lot each week, I cannot even promise to stay playing the game for long, in fact, I bring very, very, little to the guild at the moment.... but I can promise that when I do play, be it ever so little, I am a nice and helpful player.
* Congratulations, Dehn and Hrodgar - this joke is for you, the dynamic dwarf-tank duo.
