About Awesome Grats
We formed shortly after the launch of the Burning Crusade, and performed pretty well in the level 70 raid content, clearing up to Brutallus pre-nerf, and killing Kil'jaeden before the launch of Wrath of the Lich King. We hit a minor speedbump in Ulduar, where we tried initially to work on hardmodes after being lulled into a false sense of security by the ease of Naxxramas. Our 10 man raiding group has cleared all pre-ICC content, and 25 man hasn't been far behind. We're currently working on ICC 10 and 25 on all our regular raiding days. We do all this while raiding 25 man content only 3 days per week.

We have a friendly and fun atmosphere in the guild, and try to have regular guild meetings - most often in the UK but we have been known to visit Belgium, Sweden, Paris and Denmark... we'll basically turn up wherever a floor and some beer are offered. We're not proud.

Our Raiding
We believe in putting in the effort required to progress while still having fun. Our raiding schedule is reasonably light, raiding only 3 days per week when content is available. Our raid days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with invites beginning at 19:30 and the raid finishing at 00:00. We operate a DKP system tweaked to suit us (based on an hourly sum plus boss kill bonuses, depreciating depending how often the boss has died and whether achievements were completed). On off days we raid 10 man content for those who like to raid a little more often. We are usually in the top 2-3 horde guilds on Bloodhoof.

About You
You should be enthusiastic and preferably have a sense of humour capable of dealing with very strange people. We're looking for motivated members who don't mind wiping repeatedly while working on new content, and are always prepared for raiding in terms of consumables and maxing your character to the best of your abilities. It's very easy to tell how dedicated someone is by checking their armory; be prepared to have your reputations/gems/professions torn apart if they're not up to scratch. We have a couple of required addons, and also make use of Ventrilo in raids. We would expect you to be able to raid at least 2 of our raiding nights; 3 is infinitely preferable.

While we don't have an age restriction, we do expect a certain level of (im)maturity. Oh, and being able to get served in pubs is a definite plus. You can't buy us a round if you're 12. We know this because Ruffrayell tried.

Nah, I'm kidding... he doesn't get enough pocket money for buying rounds.

What are we currently recruiting?
We Currently have a great need for healers, priests are highly sought, but also a few dps spots are open, the complete list is on our recruitement board.

How to Apply
Either visit Awesome Grats (Do not pay any attention to the lack of news update we have had some server problems) or send me PM with the following information:

Your name and age
Character information (include armory link)
List your serious alts.
What is your guild history, and reason for leaving your present/previous guild?
Why do you want to join us?
What is your WoW experience to date?
Tell us a bit about yourself outside the game.
Please list some out-of-game contact information.

If you have anything else you'd like to add to the above, please do. It's not a definitive 'template', and the more information we have about you the more we'll pay attention to your application.

And please, please, please try to proof read your application before posting it. Run it through an online spellchecker, don't make an application while drunk and post as if you were posting on the EJs forum... if in doubt, read it again!

If you have any queries please feel free to either PM me here or on the AG forum, or create an alt to have a chat in game. Thanks for reading, and we hope to hear from you soon.