Tauren Where It Counts · Kil'jaeden · Horde · US
Est. Sep 21, 2016 · MMXVI – MMXXVI
Years of
TWIC
01 — The numbers

The ten-year
box score

515raid nights
1,083hours together
7,126boss pulls
2,996boss kills
4,130wipes

We wiped 4,130 times.
We ran back 4,130 times.

01b — 1,083 hours is the same as…
Straight through45days straight without logging offOne continuous session. Do not disconnect. Do not die.
Payroll math27full-time work weeks40 hours each. You'd have been fired for raid.
Road trip26NYC → LA drivesAbout 41 hours of wheel time per crossing.
Pure combat22days of boss fights522 hours with a boss actually pulled.
The refund list11days of wipes269 hours we'd all like back.
02 — Every tier, no skips

The ten-year
world tour

21 tiers.
21 Ahead of the Curve.
2016–17Legion
First night Sep 21, 2016Emerald Nightmare
AotC Oct 13, 20167/7 M
The footnote of the whole decade: 5/7 Mythic when Nighthold opened Jan 17, 2017. They went back for Cenarius (Feb 23) and Xavius (Mar 2). No Cutting Edge, still a full clear — 93 Mythic progression pulls.
First night Nov 9, 2016Trial of Valor
AotC Dec 14, 20161/3 M
First night Jan 17, 2017The Nighthold
AotC Feb 23, 20175/10 M
First night Jun 20, 2017Tomb of Sargeras
AotC Aug 3, 20174/9 M
First night Nov 28, 2017Antorus, the Burning Throne
AotC Dec 21, 20173/11 M
2018–20Battle for Azeroth
First night Sep 4, 2018Uldir
AotC Oct 3, 20181/8 M
First night Jan 22, 2019Battle of Dazar'alor
AotC Feb 28, 20196/9 M
First night Apr 16, 2019Crucible of Storms
AotC Apr 18, 2019–
First night Jul 9, 2019The Eternal Palace
AotC Aug 7, 2019–
First night Jan 21, 2020Ny'alotha, the Waking City
AotC Feb 27, 20205/12 M
2020–22Shadowlands
First night Dec 8, 2020Castle Nathria
AotC Jan 28, 20213/10 M
First night Jul 7, 2021Sanctum of Domination
AotC Sep 9, 2021–
First night Mar 3, 2022Sepulcher of the First Ones
AotC Jun 16, 2022–
2022–24Dragonflight
First night Dec 14, 2022Vault of the Incarnates
AotC Feb 8, 2023–
First night May 9, 2023Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
AotC Jun 8, 2023–
First night Nov 14, 2023Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope
AotC Jan 31, 2024–
2024–25The War Within
First night Sep 10, 2024Nerub-ar Palace
AotC Oct 25, 2024–
First night Mar 4, 2025Liberation of Undermine
AotC Apr 25, 2025–
First night Aug 12, 2025Manaforge Omega
AotC Sep 19, 2025–
2026Midnight
First night Mar 17, 2026Voidspire · Dreamrift · Quel'Danas
AotC Apr 28, 2026–
First night Aug 18, 2026The Venomous Abyss
AotC Oct 6, 2026–
181different Heroic bosses killed
35Mythic bosses — incl. all 7 of Emerald Nightmare (Xavius Mar 2, 2017)
#882in the US · #4 on Kil'jaeden — best Heroic finish, Midnight S1
03 — The rhythm

Raid nights,
year by year

Legion was three nights a week. The model we kept: sprint to AotC, then go live your life.

Busiest year 2017 · 130 nights Most common night Wednesday

2016 starts Sep 21. 2026 runs through Oct 9.

People, year by year

Gold is raiders in their first year with us. Two recruiting waves rebuilt the guild: 23 new faces in 2017 and 21 in 2024.

first year with TWIC returning raiders Range since 2017 30–54 people / year

People who raided at least one logged night that year. New in 2016 counts everyone who opened Legion.

04 — The roster

130 people.
One guild.

That's how many people have pulled a boss with TWIC since Legion. Half of them have raided 25 nights or more.

How many came back
130
raided at least once
107
10 nights or more
49
50 nights or more
26
100 nights or more
9
300 nights or more
1
400 nights or more
Day one · Sep 21, 2016

21 walked into Emerald Nightmare

Twenty-one people opened Legion on Normal Emerald Nightmare. Three of them raided The Venomous Abyss ten years later:

Botokai · Keytosis · Slyxan

Full six-expansion run

Legion through Midnight

Five people raided every single expansion with the guild. Botokai's streak starts one earlier, at Highmaul, 2014.

Asterus · Botokai · Ewose · Keytosis · Wrekkd

Most raid nights · all ten years
RaiderNightsYearsChars
88%

of every raid night since Legion had Botokai in it. 454 of 515, on three characters.

323

nights side by side for Botokai & Keytosis — the longest-running pair in the guild.

34%

of all raid spots went to these ten people. The core has always carried the guild.

Comeback raiders

The door stays open

22 raiders took a year or more off and came back for at least ten more nights. Slyxan was away 6.6 years (Feb 2018 → Sep 2024) and has raided 61 nights since. Ohshifty came back after 4.4 years.

Flex duty

Altaholics

Enthalie has raided on 10 different classes. Keytosis has brought 11 different characters, from Nalorakk in 2016 to a Demon Hunter in 2026. The average raider has played 2.5.

05 — The pipeline

Where today's raid
came from

The 24 raiders of The Venomous Abyss, by the expansion they first raided with TWIC. 6 go back to Legion or earlier. 14 joined in the last two years.

12014WarlordsBotokai
52016LegionAsterus Keytosis Ohshifty Slyxan Wrekkd
22018Battle for AzerothDaemerok Ohemefgee
12020ShadowlandsKizzer
12022DragonflightGigademon
62024The War WithinDrinkincokes Kutham Pshaman Pudkudii Tdrex Vrisard
82026MidnightAdarna Bhu Hotlatte Lyria Mazer Meatballz Nihm Wizrdtamer

Season 2 roster: everyone with three or more Venomous Abyss nights, trials included. Expansion = their first logged night with the guild, on any character.

06 — Rivals & near misses

Old rivals
& near misses

Botokai vs. Kil'jaeden

Botokai hated KJ so much that 14 of the 61 nights he's missed in ten years were Legion Mythic nights. He was there for 79 of the 80 Heroic pulls it took to kill Kil'jaeden. Once KJ was dead, he skipped 18 of the 32 Tomb nights that followed.

KJ Heroic pulls attended79/ 80
Tomb nights skipped after KJ died18 / 32
41wipes with the boss under 1% health
55first kills came in the last minutes of the night
15:09longest pull ever — Sylvanas, Normal. It was a wipe.
32pulls in a single night — Uldir, Oct 11, 2018
The closest calls

Vigilant Guardian — 0.01%. Heroic, Aug 17, 2022.  ·  Crown of the Cosmos — 0.07%. Heroic, Apr 10, 2026.

Here's to
the next ten.

Before the beginning: the logs go back to 9 nights of Highmaul in December 2014 and January 2015, when the core that started this was already raiding together.