Thank you for your application to Downfall. We are not currently recruiting for our 25 man MH/BT/SW raids. This does not mean that your application is or will be rejected. What it does mean, is that you will now be faced with a few tasks.

Downfall is a community first and foremost and a successful raiding guild second. First you need to ask yourself what it is you want from Downfall. If it's a spot in end game raid, and nothing more...then you may want to seek entry into another one of the many guilds on Gorgonnash.

If you desire a strong sense of community then get ready to work for it! When we talk about community, we aren't talking about the type of community that jumps when you say OMGRUNMYALTTHRUVC!!!! We're talking about a group for people who love this game we pour our lives into, people who will run things with you when they have time, people who may have their own special way of contributing to the community.

Now that you have applied (and if my wall of text didn't lose u 2 paragraphs ago), don't just sit there and hope someone will come hunt you down and say "HERE'S YOUR INVITE!!" because that simply will not happen. Those who gain entry into Downfall work for it. Members have waited upwards of 3 months or more to be part of our community. How do you ensure that you have every option to be the next addition?

Here's an idea:

• Stay active on this thread, it's your application. You will receive feedback and recommendations. Don't take anything personal, if you can't take constructive criticism, you will never make it in guild chat. Applications are open to the entire community, not just officers, so if you were a douche to a member in the past, be ready for it to bite you in the ass.
• If given goals to meet, make them.
• Sign up for events you can make and which you are geared for. No need to sign up for MH/BT/SW, as those aren't testing grounds for new members. Focus on the Sunday Gruul/Mag run by yours truly or the Saturday SSC/TK run by Grasen.
• If you sign up...show up. No one likes an app who signs up for all raids and never shows.
• Download the raid pack. DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT show up to a Gruul/Mag or SSC/TK without our required add ons. If you do not understand what you are looking at, then research it. If you still don't understand, post you're question and someone will help you. (If you think only bad players use mods, we can say our goodbyes right now)
• Do everything you can to get your name out there, and show why you should be part of our community. Run 5 mans, Run 10 mans, participate in forum discussions.

If and when you are accepted into Downfall, you are strictly on a trial basis. If we invite you because you convinced us you were the worlds greatest healer/tank/random dps class, and you looooooooooove to run 5 mans...but you never run a thing, you never sign up for fun runs, and you burn out and don't sign on for 1+ months, don't be surprised if you find yourself guildless on log in one day.

It's very simple, don't say what we want to hear just to get in,
because it will haunt you in the end. Be honest, and we will be fair.

With that said....GOOD LUCK ON YOUR APPLICATION!

i live in normandy park. its right by seatac on the water. you?

Yikes.. Timbals Trinket on a mage? Wow..Might want to read up on your class a little bit.

Hmm......

You do realize that we usually keep a BYOB policy right?  We don't fund YOUR drinking habits anymore than you fund ours......

I have an observation similar to Aidin's, but I would like to make a recommendation.  Your Tailoring is 344 already, so your well on your way.   Why not run Shadow Labs and Shattered Halls until you gets the recipe for the [Spellstrike Pants] and the [Spellstrike Hood].  I would pickup the pants to get that nice +92 set bonus.

My recommendation is to go around each of the Alliance towns throughout Outlands and get the Tailoring recipes they sell for the Imbued Netherweave Set.  Fairly inexpensive to make, and they'll take you right to 375 to be able to make your spellstrike set. 

From there I would make a whole pile of netherweave gloves and DE them all for planar essences and arcane dust.  You'll be funding not only the mats for your imbued netherweave bolts, but also for leveling your enchanting.  Heh, and YOU choose Scryer!  Which means you can level your Enchanting right there in the Scryer tower instead of flying all the way out to Honor Hold!

Finally, (and keep in mind, I'm not a Mage) if mages have the same spell-hit req's that the rest of us do, you should probably invest in some different gems/gear to get your spellhit up from 2% to 17%.

Do some lookin into spell hit, spell crit, and spell penetration info.  Mechanics seriously threw me for a loop when I came back.

Welcome back!   I feel your pain on having been offline for so long.  I only recently started playing again on Gorrgy in May.  (Speaking of which, if you have any spare Illusion Dust, Eternal Essence, or Large Brilliant Shards I'll be happy to 'take care' of them for you.  :) )