6 Hour Team · Meet the team

They still tell the one about the demon hunter who leapt blindfolded into a pack without checking what was in it, cleared the lot, and landed facing entirely the wrong way. They tell it because he did it again the following week, and the week after that, and is fully expected to do it again this Sunday. The healers no longer flinch. They have simply built the evening around him. He has never seen it coming, and has never yet been wrong.

Spends the fight watching twenty health bars and one very specific person who stands in things.

Every guild has one boss they cannot parse on. Theirs is The Soul Hunters, at a stately 61.

Once put up a 89 on Plexus Sentinel. The guild has heard about it. Twice.

Has been turning up since Manaforge Omega: 3 tiers and 64 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

126 logged kills across 17 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

Sits at a 76 average parse: quietly good, which is somehow more irritating than loud and good.

Has been at 4 of the tier's raids and looks personally offended by the concept of a night off.

BEAST MASTERY HUNTER (Orc). Range: everywhere, for years, without interruption. Habitat: the same spot on every fight, very slightly to the left. Diet: whatever the pet does not want. Distinguishing feature: quietly outranks most of the people who assume he is just some bloke with a bow. Behaviour when threatened: sends the pet. Behaviour when the guild is threatened: also sends the pet, then fixes whatever went wrong without mentioning it. Migration: none recorded, and none expected.

ELEMENTAL SHAMAN (Orc). Range: six tiers, a hundred and thirty-six nights, always the same three feet of floor. Feeding: lightning, mostly. Notable behaviour: does not chase keys, does not chase parses, does not chase anything — the boss comes to him, or it does not, and either way he is signed up for Wednesday.

Spends the fight watching twenty health bars and one very specific person who stands in things.

Has been turning up since Nerub-ar Palace: 5 tiers and 105 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

Attends 75% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

Peaked at 94 on The Soul Hunters, a screenshot that still exists somewhere.

142 parses deep on 17 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

A 82 average parse. Mentions it roughly once per pull, entirely unprompted.

Exists to make a number go up, and to make sure everybody hears about the number.

80 parses deep on 8 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

Present for 3 raids, absent for exactly the ones with the loot they wanted.

Has been turning up since Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 3 tiers and 34 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

Dimensius, the All-Devouring is the reason they do not link their own logs unprompted.

79 percentile on average, achieved with the calm of someone who has read the log first.

Peaked at 96 on Plexus Sentinel, a screenshot that still exists somewhere.

Keeps the raid alive in spite of its life choices, then gets told the healing was low.

121 logged kills across 18 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

All-time peak: 86 on Soulbinder Naazindhri back in Manaforge Omega, Mythic. They have not stopped chasing it since.

2655 Mythic+ score and a +11 Voidscar Arena best, achieved with only mild shouting.

Present for 3 raids, absent for exactly the ones with the loot they wanted.

Has been turning up since Nerub-ar Palace: 4 tiers and 81 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

Armory history runs to 3 raids, topping out at 8/8 Heroic in The Venomous Abyss.

AVAILABLE: one haranir druid. Will bring starlight to your raid and a lantern to your problem, whatever the problem is, without being asked twice. Happy on either team, happy on any boss, visibly happier when somebody else gets the loot. Does not roll on things, which the loot has noticed and taken personally. Enquiries after nine in the evening server time; before that she is asleep and will not be moved.

Would do more damage if they didn't keep having to move, as they will explain at length.

109 logged kills across 18 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

Attends 75% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

Runs keys properly: 3000 score, best a +13 in Altar of Fangs.

Has been turning up since Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 6 tiers and 169 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

Owns exactly one 65 parse, on The Soul Hunters, and has built a personality around it.

Sits at a 64 average parse: quietly good, which is somehow more irritating than loud and good.

Professional wall. Takes the enormous hits so a mage can stand still and criticise the positioning.

The logs hold 87 of their kills on 15 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

29 nights over two tiers since Manaforge Omega: officially past the trial and into the resentment.

Averages 56, and has never once let a good parse get in the way of doing a mechanic.

Attends 75% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

Their best night is Soulbinder Naazindhri at 79, and they can tell you exactly what they pressed.

Has an ongoing disagreement with Dimensius, the All-Devouring, who is winning.

Presses buttons, produces numbers, blames the healers. The circle of raiding.

Once put up a 47 on The Soul Hunters. The guild has heard about it. Twice.

Attends 75% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

Politely requests we skip Nexus-King Salhadaar, where the logs read 18 and the memories read worse.

Has been turning up since Nerub-ar Palace: 3 tiers and 45 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

Averages 32 and measures success in survival rather than percentiles. Frankly, fair.

Career best is still Plexus Sentinel at 66 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Mythic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

Would do more damage if they didn't keep having to move, as they will explain at length.

The logs hold 68 of their kills on 16 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

Has, on record, a 95 parse on Dimensius, the All-Devouring (Manaforge Omega, Mythic). The rest is just consistency.

The Soul Hunters is where it clicks: 15 percentile, achieved once, referenced forever.

Averages 15 and measures success in survival rather than percentiles. Frankly, fair.

Attends 75% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

Second tier with us, 27 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

Would do more damage if they didn't keep having to move, as they will explain at length.

Attends 75% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

151 parses deep on 18 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

Has, on record, a 100 parse on Vaelgor & Ezzorak (VS / DR / MQD, Mythic). The rest is just consistency.

Has no parses on record, which they insist is a deliberate lifestyle choice.

Has been turning up since Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 7 tiers and 116 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

Fully committed to the damage meter, and only loosely committed to the mechanics around it.

All-time peak: 57 on Soulbinder Naazindhri back in Manaforge Omega, Mythic. They have not stopped chasing it since.

Attends 75% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

53 parses deep on 8 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

Has no parses on record, which they insist is a deliberate lifestyle choice.

132 raid nights across 5 tiers, dating back to Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. Nobody has told them they can leave.

Contributes damage, opinions about damage, and a running commentary on everyone else's damage.

Has been turning up since Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 6 tiers and 32 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

26 logged kills across 14 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

Politely requests we skip Nexus-King Salhadaar, where the logs read 63 and the memories read worse.

Averages a 80 percentile across 9 kills and would like everyone to know that.

Owns exactly one 99 parse, on Fractillus, and has built a personality around it.

Their high-water mark is a 100 on Vaelgor & Ezzorak (VS / DR / MQD, Heroic), and it comes up whenever the meter does.

Exists to make a number go up, and to make sure everybody hears about the number.

Sits at a 73 average parse: quietly good, which is somehow more irritating than loud and good.

11 parses deep on 8 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

Attends 50% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

23 raid nights across 5 tiers, dating back to Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. Nobody has told them they can leave.

Career highlight: 87 percentile on Fractillus, brought up at every opportunity.

Take one dark iron monk, aged eight tiers. Add mist, generously and continuously. Do not stir; he will circulate on his own. Season with a hundred and sixty-one nights of knowing exactly when the damage lands. Rest briefly between pulls. The dish improves the longer it has been in the guild, which is the whole trick of it.

Fully committed to the damage meter, and only loosely committed to the mechanics around it.

The logs hold 67 of their kills on 7 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

Attends 50% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

Has no parses on record, which they insist is a deliberate lifestyle choice.

New enough to still be enthusiastic, 26 raid nights in.

Career best is still Soulbinder Naazindhri at 76 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Mythic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

Would do more damage if they didn't keep having to move, as they will explain at length.

Career best is still Soulbinder Naazindhri at 40 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Mythic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

Present for 2 raids, absent for exactly the ones with the loot they wanted.

Has no parses on record, which they insist is a deliberate lifestyle choice.

New enough to still be enthusiastic, 4 raid nights in.

They gave him the officer rank and then, with no supervision whatsoever, the loot council. Frost death knight, never misses a raid, colder than the spec. If your name is on the item you get a fair hearing and probably the item. If you are a balance druid you get a fair hearing. Somewhere in the middle of Norman's explanation he will ask Findruid, not quietly, whether someone can fucking mute him. Nobody ever has.

Fully committed to the damage meter, and only loosely committed to the mechanics around it.

The logs hold 6 of their kills on 6 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

Career best is still Fractillus at 92 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Heroic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

A 89 average parse. Mentions it roughly once per pull, entirely unprompted.

Second tier with us, 2 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

Peaked at 89 on The Soul Hunters, a screenshot that still exists somewhere.

Presses buttons, produces numbers, blames the healers. The circle of raiding.

A 86 average parse. Mentions it roughly once per pull, entirely unprompted.

A 25% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

Armory history runs to 2 raids, topping out at 8/8 Heroic in The Venomous Abyss.

11 raid nights across 4 tiers, dating back to Nerub-ar Palace. Nobody has told them they can leave.

18 parses deep on 15 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

2873 Mythic+ score and a +12 Murder Row best, achieved with only mild shouting.

Exists to make a number go up, and to make sure everybody hears about the number.

Their best night is The Soul Hunters at 78, and they can tell you exactly what they pressed.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

78 percentile on average, achieved with the calm of someone who has read the log first.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

Turns up, hits the boss, dies to something avoidable, links the meter anyway.

Sits at a 69 average parse: quietly good, which is somehow more irritating than loud and good.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

Loom'ithar is where it clicks: 81 percentile, achieved once, referenced forever.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

21 logged kills across 8 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

Contributes damage, opinions about damage, and a running commentary on everyone else's damage.

A 25% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

The logs hold 8 of their kills on 8 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

66 percentile on average, achieved with the calm of someone who has read the log first.

Once put up a 81 on Loom'ithar. The guild has heard about it. Twice.

Fully committed to the damage meter, and only loosely committed to the mechanics around it.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

Sits at a 63 average parse: quietly good, which is somehow more irritating than loud and good.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

Once put up a 63 on The Soul Hunters. The guild has heard about it. Twice.

The logs hold 8 of their kills on 6 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

Presses buttons, produces numbers, blames the healers. The circle of raiding.

Fractillus is where it clicks: 85 percentile, achieved once, referenced forever.

16 parses deep on 8 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

Whatever Dimensius, the All-Devouring does, it does it to them first: 41 percentile and a lot of excuses.

A steady 59 percentile. Not the biggest number on the meter, still standing at the end of it.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

Holy Priest — seven tiers, one hundred and seventy-eight nights, four guild rosters, no gaps. Duties: healing; also remembering what happened in Aberrus, which nobody else can. Key achievement: outlasted every raid leader she has ever had. Reason for leaving previous tier: it ended.

Word is the nightborne turned up two tiers ago already knowing every fight, and has never once admitted it. Word is his bow is genuinely, on the tooltip, in writing, called P.O.W. x3, and that he has declined to explain this to officers, to friends, or to anyone who has ever worked up the nerve to ask. The prevailing theory in the channel is that he is a great deal better than he lets on and finds the whole thing funnier this way.

Fully committed to the damage meter, and only loosely committed to the mechanics around it.

All-time peak: 87 on The Lost Explorers back in The Venomous Abyss, Heroic. They have not stopped chasing it since.

29 parses deep on 17 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

Armory history runs to 4 raids, topping out at 8/8 Heroic in The Venomous Abyss.

A 25% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

Every guild has one boss they cannot parse on. Theirs is Nexus-King Salhadaar, at a stately 39.

Mythic+ score of 3159, topping out at a +14 Altar of Fangs that is still discussed.

Quietly undoes everyone else's mistakes and has never once been thanked in a timely fashion.

A 25% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

Career highlight: 65 percentile on The Soul Hunters, brought up at every opportunity.

105 raid nights across 5 tiers, dating back to Nerub-ar Palace. Nobody has told them they can leave.

41 parses deep on 14 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

A steady 48 percentile. Not the biggest number on the meter, still standing at the end of it.

Whatever Nexus-King Salhadaar does, it does it to them first: 31 percentile and a lot of excuses.

Spends the fight facing away from the raid, which is both a tanking requirement and a coping strategy.

A steady 45 percentile. Not the biggest number on the meter, still standing at the end of it.

8 parses deep on 8 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

Owns exactly one 61 parse, on Plexus Sentinel, and has built a personality around it.

Every guild has one boss they cannot parse on. Theirs is Nexus-King Salhadaar, at a stately 28.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

Holds the boss still. Gets thanked for it roughly once a tier, usually by accident.

Their best night is Nexus-King Salhadaar at 41, and they can tell you exactly what they pressed.

Second tier with us, 26 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

6 logged kills across 6 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

A 25% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

Career best is still Soulbinder Naazindhri at 83 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Heroic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

Averages 41, and has never once let a good parse get in the way of doing a mechanic.

The first one in and, on a good night, the last one alive to say so.

A 34 average parse and a flawless record of being alive to complain about it.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

7 logged kills across 7 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

Nexus-King Salhadaar is where it clicks: 49 percentile, achieved once, referenced forever.

Second tier with us, 2 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

Green numbers, grey hair. The two are related.

7 logged kills across 7 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

Owns exactly one 35 parse, on The Soul Hunters, and has built a personality around it.

All-time peak: 58 on Forgeweaver Araz back in Manaforge Omega, Heroic. They have not stopped chasing it since.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

A 30 average parse and a flawless record of being alive to complain about it.

Presses buttons, produces numbers, blames the healers. The circle of raiding.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

The logs hold 33 of their kills on 15 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

A 18 average parse and a flawless record of being alive to complain about it.

Career best is still The Soul Hunters at 66 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Heroic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

9 raid nights across 5 tiers, dating back to Liberation of Undermine. Nobody has told them they can leave.

The Soul Hunters is where it clicks: 18 percentile, achieved once, referenced forever.

Would do more damage if they didn't keep having to move, as they will explain at length.

Politely requests we skip Nexus-King Salhadaar, where the logs read 8 and the memories read worse.

Their high-water mark is a 29 on Plexus Sentinel (Manaforge Omega, Heroic), and it comes up whenever the meter does.

The Soul Hunters is where it clicks: 26 percentile, achieved once, referenced forever.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

Averages 17 and measures success in survival rather than percentiles. Frankly, fair.

A 25% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

Keeps the raid alive in spite of its life choices, then gets told the healing was low.

Once put up a 15 on Plexus Sentinel. The guild has heard about it. Twice.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

Averages 11 and measures success in survival rather than percentiles. Frankly, fair.

Quietly undoes everyone else's mistakes and has never once been thanked in a timely fashion.

17 logged kills across 7 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

A 25% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

Averages 10 and measures success in survival rather than percentiles. Frankly, fair.

Has been turning up since Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 3 tiers and 11 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

Career best is still Soulbinder Naazindhri at 80 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Mythic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

Once put up a 10 on Nexus-King Salhadaar. The guild has heard about it. Twice.

Would do more damage if they didn't keep having to move, as they will explain at length.

Freshly arrived, and has not yet learned what we are like on a Wednesday.

The logs hold 6 of their kills on 6 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

Once put up a 9 on The Soul Hunters. The guild has heard about it. Twice.

Averages 9 and measures success in survival rather than percentiles. Frankly, fair.

Job description: be hit by the largest thing in the room, on purpose, repeatedly, without comment.

Their high-water mark is a 56 on Chimaerus, the Undreamt God (VS / DR / MQD, Mythic), and it comes up whenever the meter does.

Second tier with us, 8 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

Career highlight: 3 percentile on The Soul Hunters, brought up at every opportunity.

A 3 average parse and a flawless record of being alive to complain about it.

18 parses deep on 14 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

Turns up for 1 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.