First Title on the Books, Excuses Still in Stock
Week 3 of Midnight Season 1 is on the ledger, and for the first time this season, Gizmo Goldscrap gets to stamp a title. One player cleared the bar. The rest are still fumbling with the ladder. The scores are in, the rosters have been audited, and the guild is making noise in both the raid hall and the mythic+ circuit — some of it the good kind. Pull up a chair, check your rating, and ask yourself honestly: is your name in the black this week, or are you still running a deficit?
Raiding Update
Belo'ren has fallen. The guild walked in, did what needed doing, and collected the corpse like a business expense. Efficient. Profitable. Gizmo approves.
That leaves one boss standing between this guild and a fully cleared raid tier. One. The finish line is close enough to smell, and it smells like gold. Don't get sentimental about it — get in there and close the books.
Guild Chatter
Two names got stamped this week: Avynxx and Faffywaffle have both cleared their trials and earned their raider tags. The probationary period is over. The real audit begins now. Gizmo has opened a fresh ledger page for each of them, and the ink is still wet. Don't make him regret the promotion.
Over on Discord, Faerlina has gone on record with a promise — a 3000 rated healer. Public declaration. Witnessed. Logged. Gizmo has filed it under "Outstanding Liabilities" and will be revisiting that entry every single week until the invoice is paid. His current healer score is 324. The gap between a promise and a deliverable is where reputations go to die, and right now that gap is approximately 2,676 rating points wide.
Finally, Garz has reportedly fallen through the floor of Silvermoon City and has not been seen since. Gizmo wishes him well in whatever subterranean economy he's stumbled into, but urges everyone present: do not drop anything valuable down there. Rings in particular. You know who you are.
The Weekly Rant
Let's start at the top, because the top is where the money is.
Edvin has done something no one else in this club has managed yet — he has earned the first Keystone Master Supreme title of the season. All three roles cleared 2000 rating. The tank slot went from 400 to 2301. The healer slot went from 1358 to 2500. The DPS slot was already comfortable and stayed that way. That is not a week's work. That is a statement of intent delivered in three installments, paid in full. Gizmo is impressed, and Gizmo is not easily impressed. What's more, Edvin is already at 97.4% toward Keystone Hero Supreme, which means he is essentially standing on the doorstep of the next title holding a battering ram. The tank slot needs roughly 200 more points to cross the 2500 threshold. At his current pace, that door comes down next week. Watch this space.
Now, the rest of the ledger.
Damson deserves a line item in the good column this week. The DPS slot went from 955 to 2159 — that is not progress, that is a hostile takeover. Tank moved from 2710 to 2873. Two roles moving in the right direction is exactly the kind of diversified portfolio Gizmo likes to see. The healer slot remains at zero, which is the one outstanding debt on an otherwise tidy balance sheet. Get it started, Damson. Even a small deposit counts.
Xytrixz is sitting at 99.3% completion toward Keystone Master Supreme, which is the most agonizing number Gizmo has seen all season. The healer slot climbed from 2887 to 3032. The tank slot went from 1601 to 1956 — solid work. The DPS slot moved from 2805.5 to 2806.7, which is technically progress in the same way that breathing on a scale is technically weight gain. One focused session. That is all that stands between Xytrixz and a title. Gizmo will be very unhappy if this number is still 99.3 next week.
Potatoad put in a real shift across two fronts. DPS climbed from 2760 to 3003, clearing the 3000 threshold cleanly. Tank moved from 2521 to 2608. That's two roles trending upward, and Gizmo respects the effort. The healer slot has not moved since it was logged. It is sitting at 1308 like a forgotten invoice on a dusty desk. It would be a shame to let two roles of solid work get dragged down by one role of complete inertia.
Marty pushed DPS from 1746 to 2116, and the healer slot moved from 2831 to 2875. Two roles with genuine movement — respectable. The tank slot went from 1409 to 1410. One point. Gizmo has seen more dramatic shifts in currency exchange rates during off-peak hours. The tank slot is not a priority, clearly. At 90.2% toward Keystone Master Supreme, the math is not complicated. Sort the tank out.
Now for the single-role operators. Gizmo is watching you, and he is not charmed.
Faerlina pushed his DPS from 3096 to 3207 and his tank from 3110 to 3136. Fine. Both of those numbers are comfortably over 3000, which would be impressive if the healer slot wasn't sitting at 324.5 — completely unchanged from last week. This is the same Faerlina who stood up in Discord and promised a 3000 rated healer. The promise is logged. The healer is not logging anything. Gizmo is patient. He is also extremely good at keeping records.
Rantheza had the second biggest individual jump of the week — DPS from 1513 to 2228, which is a substantial haul. Gizmo acknowledges it. However, the tank and healer slots remain at zero, meaning all of that work is going into one column of a three-column spreadsheet. It's not wrong. It's just incomplete accounting.
North pushed DPS from 2806 to 2950 — real progress, closing in on 3000. The tank slot has not moved since it was first entered. The healer slot does not exist. North is running a one-revenue-stream operation, and Gizmo has seen enough of those to know how they end.
Neek brought DPS from 2981 to 3071, which is clean work and clears a meaningful threshold. The healer slot registered its first actual score this week — 583 — which is either a genuine start or a very slow accident. The tank slot remains at zero. Gizmo is cautiously noting the healer entry. Do not let it be a one-time transaction.
Four Set Pete — and yes, Gizmo is using the name — moved his DPS from 2913 to 3089. Good number. Strong role. Completely alone on the balance sheet. Tank: zero. Healer: zero. Pete has one gear slot active and two sitting in the bank collecting dust. At this rate he will complete the challenge sometime around the heat death of the universe, assuming he eventually rolls a tank and a healer between now and then. Gizmo is not holding his breath.
Kara hit 3325 on DPS, which is one of the highest raw scores in the club. It would mean considerably more if the tank and healer slots weren't both sitting at zero. Enormous number on one line. Nothing on the other two. Kara is running the most top-heavy portfolio in the club and calling it a strategy.
And finally, Moocheteclaw. DPS moved from 3020 to 3041. Twenty points. Tank: zero. Healer: zero. Gizmo has invoices that have aged more aggressively than this. Moocheteclaw has one job — technically three jobs — and is currently completing approximately one of them, slowly. This is the kind of output that gets a strongly worded memo in most organisations. Consider this the memo.
Last Throughts
Three weeks in, and the ledger is finally showing some life. A title has been awarded, a few accounts are trending upward, and Xytrixz is one decent session away from joining Edvin on the board. Gizmo is, cautiously, not disappointed. Don't let that go to your head.
To those of you still running deficits across two or three roles — the season is not over. The books are still open. There is time to fix the numbers, but time is the one commodity that does not come back once it's spent. Get to work.
And if you're reading this from the sidelines — not yet signed up, telling yourself you'll do it later — later is a trap. The challenge is live, the doors are open, and it costs nothing to get in except a Battle.net login and an invite code. You'll find it pinned in the mythic+ channel on Discord. Everyone is welcome. Even you.
Gizmo out.