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Four tiers in and this guild still calls him the new mage, which he stopped correcting years ago, which is the funniest part of the whole thing. He is an S tier frost mage. He is a D tier arcane one. He has played arcane all season without one complaint, because arcane is the meta and somebody had to fall on it. Say the word frost to him and watch a man remember who he used to be.

Beast mastery hunter who stands in melee. The pet waits at range where the hunter should be, the hunter is in the middle of the pack where the pet should be, and after six tiers this is simply how it is done here. Six tiers ago she pulled a boss early by accident and the raid killed it anyway. She has been chasing that feeling from two yards ever since and she is not stopping.

Twenty people, eight tiers, one voice holding the whole thing together through the worst connection in Europe. A child gets out of bed two rooms away, he walks them back, and picks the sentence up exactly where he dropped it. When the channel talks over him he says 'right, that's it, you're muted', and twenty grown adults go quiet like it's assembly. Then he dies to the mechanic he was explaining, and every one of them follows him in anyway.

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

Second tier with us, 91 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

Has been at 19 of the tier's raids and looks personally offended by the concept of a night off.

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

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

18 raids out of 18. We have stopped asking whether they have other hobbies.

New enough to still be enthusiastic, 36 raid nights in.

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

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

Career best is still Chimaerus, the Undreamt God at 65 percentile (VS / DR / MQD, Mythic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

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.

Has been at 18 of the tier's raids and looks personally offended by the concept of a night off.

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

Eight tiers, never missed an invite, never once fed the pet, and there is no version of this raid that works without him in it. Welsh, and treats every England result as a personal event, in the channel, at length, with receipts. Throws a punch the moment you leave one open and does not hold back on the follow-through. A committed baiter and, by unanimous agreement of everyone here, the master of it.

Top of the meter, five tiers, and it has never once been a conversation. She dies most weeks to something she has personally explained to two other people, which she would like recorded as unrelated. Then she is straight back up and needed for the next pull before anyone can get a joke out. In lieu of flowers the family asks that you stop standing in her poison and stop asking how she does it.

For the record, and he would very much like this on the record: three thousand two hundred and fifty-five Mythic+ rating this season, filed in response to certain remarks about whether he does keys at all. He has kept this raid breathing for five tiers, largely by putting a totem where nobody is standing and moving it before anyone notices. Runs on sarcasm and spite, neither of which has shown any sign of running out.

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

New enough to still be enthusiastic, 28 raid nights in.

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

Shows up to 90% of raids, which is more reliable than most raid timers.

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

Has been turning up since Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 6 tiers and 110 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

16 raids in and still answering the invite before the whisper finishes sending.

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

The logs hold 61 of their kills on 16 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

All-time peak: 52 on Plexus Sentinel back in Manaforge Omega, Mythic. They have not stopped chasing it since.

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

102 raid nights across 3 tiers, dating back to Nerub-ar Palace. Nobody has told them they can leave.

Shows up to 84% of raids, which is more reliable than most raid timers.

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

Also answers to Luxyn, usually when the raid needs the other armour type.

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

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

Attends 79% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

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

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

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

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

Present for 15 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, 15 raid nights in.

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

Present for 13 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, 35 raid nights in.

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

88 nights over two tiers since Nerub-ar Palace: officially past the trial and into the resentment.

Attends 63% 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.

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

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

Attends 63% of the time: regular enough to be a fixture, rare enough to keep an air of mystery.

New enough to still be enthusiastic, 31 raid nights in.

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

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

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

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.

Career best is still Plexus Sentinel at 54 percentile (Manaforge Omega, Mythic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

Has 2 Mythic bosses in The Venomous Abyss to their name, and the receipts to prove it.

The stone is up before anybody asks, every single week, and he calls it putting the wardrobe up. Then the cookies come out. This is the fifth time tonight the cookies have come out and the fifth time nobody has touched one, and he has told the channel so, and he will do it all again on Sunday. Nobody in this guild has walked to a raid in four tiers because of him.

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

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

Present for 10 raids, absent for exactly the ones with the loot they wanted.

New enough to still be enthusiastic, 10 raid nights in.

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.

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

Turns up for 7 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

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

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

Has, on record, a 37 parse on Vorasius (VS / DR / MQD, Mythic). The rest is just consistency.

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

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

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.

A 37% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

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.

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

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

Has been turning up since Nerub-ar Palace: 6 tiers and 141 raid nights of accumulated grievance.

+14 Murder Row and a 3031 Mythic+ score, in case the raid logs were not enough.

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

All-time peak: 93 on Nek'zali the Soulcoiler back in The Venomous Abyss, Heroic. They have not stopped chasing it since.

A 32% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

The logs hold 13 of their kills on 10 bosses. There is nowhere to hide.

Keeps 5 alts on standby (Grimlocky, Grimsmage, Grimsmonk, Grimsun, Grimwars), one of which is definitely better geared than the main.

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

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

Second tier with us, 35 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

Turns up for 6 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

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

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

Mythic+ score of 541, topping out at a +12 Murder Row that is still discussed.

19 logged kills across 10 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

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.

Turns up for 3 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

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.

Second tier with us, 5 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

Turns up for 2 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

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.

A 10% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

5 nights over two tiers since Nerub-ar Palace: officially past the trial and into the resentment.

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

A 10% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

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

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

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

Career best is still Ula'tek at 96 percentile (The Venomous Abyss, Heroic). Every tier since has been a rebuilding year.

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

A 10% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

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

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

A 10% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

Second tier with us, 5 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

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

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

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

26 logged kills across 13 different bosses, every one of them a matter of public record.

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

+14 Voidscar Arena and a 2664 Mythic+ score, in case the raid logs were not enough.

Has, on record, a 36 parse on Nek'zali the Soulcoiler (The Venomous Abyss, Heroic). The rest is just consistency.

Turns up for 2 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

Marksmanship hunter, quietly excellent, and nobody can remember formally inviting them at any point in five tiers. They simply appear, at range, on time, already near the top of their bracket. Five tiers in that channel and not one unkind word about a single person. What they do instead is tell Phonchick she is doing a lovely job, roughly once a night, whether or not anybody asked.

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

Turns up for 2 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

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

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

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

A 10% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

5 nights over two tiers since Nerub-ar Palace: officially past the trial and into the resentment.

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.

Turns up for 2 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.

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

Second tier with us, 5 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.

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

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

A 10% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

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

A 10% attendance rare spawn. Sightings are usually on progression night, never on farm.

5 nights over two tiers since Nerub-ar Palace: officially past the trial and into the resentment.

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.

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

Second tier with us, 5 nights in, and has learned exactly which mechanics we ignore.

Turns up for 2 raids a tier, all of them somehow the important ones.