6 Hour Team · Meet the team

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

The logs hold 21 of their kills on 10 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

189 raid nights across 6 tiers, dating back to Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. Nobody has told them they can leave.

Has been at 3 of the tier's raids and looks personally offended by the concept of a night off.

Has, on record, a 18 parse on Soulbinder Naazindhri (Manaforge Omega, Mythic). The rest is just consistency.

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

Keeps 5 alts on standby (Abbed, Abedassa, Abedd, Abedsvision, Abeed), one of which is definitely better geared than the main.

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

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

Career best is still Loom'ithar at 81 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Mythic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

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

Has been at 3 of the tier's raids and looks personally offended by the concept of a night off.

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

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.

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

3 raids out of 3. We have stopped asking whether they have other hobbies.

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

Second tier with us, 78 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

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

Has been turning up since Nerub-ar Palace: 3 tiers and 83 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

Their high-water mark is a 80 on Plexus Sentinel (Manaforge Omega, Mythic), and it comes up whenever the meter does.

3 raids out of 3. We have stopped asking whether they have other hobbies.

37 parses deep on 7 bosses, which is either dedication or a lack of alternatives.

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

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

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

All-time peak: 89 on Plexus Sentinel back in Manaforge Omega, Mythic. They have not stopped chasing it since.

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

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

Has been at 3 of the tier's raids and looks personally offended by the concept of a night off.

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

78 raid nights across 3 tiers, dating back to Liberation of Undermine. Nobody has told them they can leave.

3 raids out of 3. We have stopped asking whether they have other hobbies.

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

Career best is still Plexus Sentinel at 86 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Mythic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Has been at 3 of the tier's raids and looks personally offended by the concept of a night off.

15 nights over two tiers since Liberation of Undermine: officially past the trial and into the resentment.

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

All-time peak: 81 on Forgeweaver Araz back in Manaforge Omega, Heroic. They have not stopped chasing it since.

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.

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

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

Career best is still Nexus-King Salhadaar at 24 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Heroic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

6 nights over two tiers since Liberation of Undermine: officially past the trial and into the resentment.

3 raids out of 3. We have stopped asking whether they have other hobbies.

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

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

Has been at 3 of the tier's raids and looks personally offended by the concept of a night off.

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

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

Second tier with us, 16 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

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

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

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

Has been turning up since Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope: 5 tiers and 54 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

2377 Mythic+ score and a +12 Altar of Fangs best, achieved with only mild shouting.

Career best is still Nymrissa Wavecaller at 27 percentile (The Venomous Abyss, Heroic). 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.

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

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.

HOLY PALADIN SEEKS PLACEMENT. Eight tiers, eighty-nine nights, one beacon, permanently on the wrong person for the first four seconds and the right one thereafter. Comes with a second character called Mickevoker, sold as seen. Will heal your raid. Will not heal the warrior who keeps doing that.

Green numbers, grey hair. The two are related.

2530 Mythic+ score and a +13 Murder Row best, achieved with only mild shouting.

Attends 67% 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.

Their high-water mark is a 37 on The Soul Hunters (Manaforge Omega, Mythic), and it comes up whenever the meter does.

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

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

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.

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.

Attends 67% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

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

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, 5 raid nights in.