[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":746},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site-settings":3,"article:\u002Fresources\u002Fguides\u002Ffrostmourne-tier-7-parsing-rules-explained":16},{"id":4,"description":5,"email":6,"extension":7,"footerNote":8,"legalNotice":9,"locale":10,"meta":11,"name":12,"stem":13,"url":14,"__hash__":15},"settings\u002Fsettings.yml","Compare World of Warcraft realms by expansion, region, population and play style.","listings@realmlist.org","yml","An independent realm directory.","Not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.","en",{},"RealmList","settings","https:\u002F\u002Frealmlist.org","QXaYspLUSxnrVumL6oFir6PInhNsRw-yJchxEYSe1AU",{"id":17,"title":18,"author":19,"body":20,"category":711,"description":712,"draft":713,"extension":714,"featured":713,"meta":715,"navigation":716,"path":717,"publishedAt":718,"seo":719,"sitemap":720,"sources":725,"stem":737,"tags":738,"updatedAt":744,"__hash__":745},"articles\u002Fresources\u002Fguides\u002Ffrostmourne-tier-7-parsing-rules-explained.md","How Frostmourne Tier 7 Parsing Works: Excluded Adds, PI Caps, and the Complete Raid Rules","RealmList Editorial",{"type":21,"value":22,"toc":700},"minimark",[23,36,44,50,55,58,108,115,119,209,212,236,240,243,249,255,293,300,306,312,331,335,338,343,401,408,412,415,441,444,605,608,612,619,622,643,659,663,694],[24,25,26,27,31,32,35],"p",{},"Tier 7 Normal opens on Frostmourne on ",[28,29,30],"strong",{},"Wednesday, September 30",", with Heroic following on ",[28,33,34],{},"October 7"," — and Heroic entry will require the corresponding Normal progression. Before the first pull, there is a document worth reading that most private-server players never get: Whitemane published the realm's complete ranking rules for Tier 7 in advance, down to individual spell, NPC and item IDs.",[24,37,38,43],{},[39,40],"img",{"alt":41,"src":42},"Editorial illustration of a candlelit scholar desk with a ledger of combat records, parchment logs, an abacus and a magnifying glass","https:\u002F\u002Fs3.nanosnail.com\u002Frealmlist\u002Farticles\u002Fguides\u002Ffrostmourne-tier-7-parsing-rules-explained.png"," {width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"}",[24,45,46],{},[47,48,49],"em",{},"Original editorial illustration by RealmList, generated for this article. This is artwork, not game footage or official promotional material.",[51,52,54],"h2",{"id":53},"three-different-numbers-from-one-log","Three different numbers, from one log",[24,56,57],{},"The rules exist because \"damage done\" is three different questions, and Frostmourne reports all three from the same combat log:",[59,60,61,74],"table",{},[62,63,64],"thead",{},[65,66,67,71],"tr",{},[68,69,70],"th",{},"View",[68,72,73],{},"What it contains",[75,76,77,88,98],"tbody",{},[65,78,79,85],{},[80,81,82],"td",{},[28,83,84],{},"Boss Fight",[80,86,87],{},"Only damage inside killed boss encounters that qualifies under the rules. Normal trash, explicitly excluded adds, and Kel'Thuzad's Phase 1 are removed.",[65,89,90,95],{},[80,91,92],{},[28,93,94],{},"Boss + Trash",[80,96,97],{},"Boss damage plus trash damage, including adds that are excluded from Boss Fight.",[65,99,100,105],{},[80,101,102],{},[28,103,104],{},"Raw totals",[80,106,107],{},"Untouched. Parsing rules never rewrite what the log recorded — duration, healing and damage stay as uploaded.",[24,109,110,111,114],{},"Exclusions are applied ",[28,112,113],{},"by creature type",": list an NPC once and every spawn of it is covered. And the rules only decide which numbers are eligible for competitive rankings — they do not stop you using any spell, buff, item or strategy in actual play.",[51,116,118],{"id":117},"what-gets-cut-out-of-your-boss-parse","What gets cut out of your boss parse",[59,120,121,131],{},[62,122,123],{},[65,124,125,128],{},[68,126,127],{},"Encounter",[68,129,130],{},"Excluded",[75,132,133,141,149,157,165,177,185,193,201],{},[65,134,135,138],{},[80,136,137],{},"Noth the Plaguebringer",[80,139,140],{},"Plagued Champion, Plagued Warrior",[65,142,143,146],{},[80,144,145],{},"Grobbulus",[80,147,148],{},"Fallout Slime",[65,150,151,154],{},[80,152,153],{},"Gluth",[80,155,156],{},"Zombie Chow",[65,158,159,162],{},[80,160,161],{},"Anub'Rekhan",[80,163,164],{},"Corpse Scarab",[65,166,167,170],{},[80,168,169],{},"Grand Widow Faerlina",[80,171,172,173,176],{},"Naxxramas Worshipper, plus the Rebuffed-specific ",[28,174,175],{},"Risen Worshipper"," (NPC 900126) that replaces dead worshippers on Heroic",[65,178,179,182],{},[80,180,181],{},"Maexxna",[80,183,184],{},"Maexxna Spiderling",[65,186,187,190],{},[80,188,189],{},"Instructor Razuvious",[80,191,192],{},"Death Knight Understudy",[65,194,195,198],{},[80,196,197],{},"Kel'Thuzad",[80,199,200],{},"Phase 1 entirely, plus Soldier of the Frozen Wastes, Unstoppable Abomination and Guardian of Icecrown",[65,202,203,206],{},[80,204,205],{},"Patchwerk",[80,207,208],{},"Every Patchwork Golem (NPC 16017) and any other non-boss creature pulled into the room",[24,210,211],{},"Four footnotes matter more than the table:",[213,214,215,222,227,233],"ul",{},[216,217,218,221],"li",{},[28,219,220],{},"Faerlina's Naxxramas Follower (NPC 16505) is not excluded."," Only the Worshipper pool is.",[216,223,224],{},[28,225,226],{},"Gothik the Harvester still shows as an encounter but earns no Damage All Stars points and does not count toward Complete Raid Boss rankings.",[216,228,229,232],{},[28,230,231],{},"All ordinary trash is excluded"," from personal boss parses, even when it is pulled during a boss fight.",[216,234,235],{},"Pulling the entire Patchwerk room will not improve anyone's Patchwerk parse. It is explicitly excluded.",[51,237,239],{"id":238},"the-external-buffs-that-can-invalidate-a-run","The external buffs that can invalidate a run",[24,241,242],{},"This is the section that costs guilds world-rank attempts, because two of the four categories are silent failures rather than visible mistakes.",[24,244,245,248],{},[28,246,247],{},"Power Infusion has a hard per-beneficiary ceiling."," Multiple priests may cast it on the same player, but the combined uptime cannot exceed what a single priest could provide. The published formula, where T is fight duration in seconds:",[250,251,252],"blockquote",{},[24,253,254],{},"Maximum PI uptime = 15 × floor(T ÷ 120) + min(15, T mod 120)",[59,256,257,267],{},[62,258,259],{},[65,260,261,264],{},[68,262,263],{},"Fight length",[68,265,266],{},"Max external PI uptime per beneficiary",[75,268,269,277,285],{},[65,270,271,274],{},[80,272,273],{},"60–120 seconds",[80,275,276],{},"15 seconds",[65,278,279,282],{},[80,280,281],{},"180–240 seconds",[80,283,284],{},"30 seconds",[65,286,287,290],{},[80,288,289],{},"300 seconds",[80,291,292],{},"45 seconds",[24,294,295,296,299],{},"Overlapping casts count as one shared uptime window, not two. Hitting the cap exactly is legal; exceeding it invalidates ",[28,297,298],{},"only the affected beneficiaries' parses",", not the whole encounter, the guild, or other players. A priest casting Power Infusion on themselves is not counted as external.",[24,301,302,305],{},[28,303,304],{},"Tricks of the Trade and Hysteria are not banned — they are reattributed."," Both effects have their bonus damage split off from the beneficiary and assigned to a separate synthetic parser actor belonging to the caster. Never merged, never credited to the person who received it, and Hysteria works the same way when a Death Knight casts it on themselves. Periodic effects that snapshot the buff keep contributing to the synthetic actor even after the aura expires. In practice this means ToTT and Hysteria are usable in competitive play, and a rogue or DK cannot farm a parse by buffing a teammate.",[24,307,308,311],{},[28,309,310],{},"Restricted buffs invalidate outright."," Having any of these auras in a ranked boss window invalidates that boss parse and the related Complete Raid parse: Arcane Focus (51777), Zeal (51605), Might of Malygos (51800), Fury of Ragnaros (15288), Arcane Might (17150), Dark Whispers (16587), Blessing of Blackfathom (8733), Soul Revival (28681) and Battle Squawk (23060).",[24,313,314,315,318,319,322,323,326,327,330],{},"Related and easy to trip over: ",[28,316,317],{},"Loatheb's Fungal Creep spores may be carried on Loatheb and on trash, but bringing that aura into any other boss encounter invalidates that boss's ranking",". The ",[28,320,321],{},"Gnomish Battle Chicken"," chain is fully logged for audit — item 10725, use spell 23133, summon 13166, creature 8836, aura 23060 — with the recipe itself (spell 12906) not treated as an invalidator. And two one-use quest items are legal to use but disqualified from rankings: ",[28,324,325],{},"Fishliver Oil"," (item 1322) and ",[28,328,329],{},"Light of Elune"," (item 5816).",[51,332,334],{"id":333},"the-life-tap-trap-healing-parses-only","The Life Tap trap (healing parses only)",[24,336,337],{},"Repeated Life Tap is a way to manufacture healing numbers, so it is capped per warlock, per successful attempt. Counting every player-available Wrath rank of the spell, the ceiling is:",[250,339,340],{},[24,341,342],{},"Total-cast cap = max(8, 4 × ceil(fight duration in seconds ÷ 60))",[59,344,345,357],{},[62,346,347],{},[65,348,349,351,354],{},[68,350,263],{},[68,352,353],{},"Total Life Tap casts allowed",[68,355,356],{},"Boundary behaviour",[75,358,359,370,379,390],{},[65,360,361,364,367],{},[80,362,363],{},"60 seconds",[80,365,366],{},"8",[80,368,369],{},"8 legal, 9 over",[65,371,372,375,377],{},[80,373,374],{},"120 seconds",[80,376,366],{},[80,378,369],{},[65,380,381,384,387],{},[80,382,383],{},"180 seconds",[80,385,386],{},"12",[80,388,389],{},"12 legal unless 7 fall inside any rolling 30-second window",[65,391,392,395,398],{},[80,393,394],{},"240 seconds",[80,396,397],{},"16",[80,399,400],{},"same rolling-window condition",[24,402,403,404,407],{},"There is a second, more brutal rule: ",[28,405,406],{},"more than six successful Life Taps inside any rolling 30-second window invalidates the healing parse even if you are under the global cap."," The penalty is scoped to that boss's healing only — boss damage, Damage All Stars, Complete Raid Boss Fight, Boss + Trash and speed records are unaffected.",[51,409,411],{"id":410},"complete-raid-speed-runs-start-end-and-the-60-second-tax","Complete Raid speed runs: start, end, and the 60-second tax",[24,413,414],{},"Complete Raid rankings require all fifteen Naxxramas encounters killed in one continuous run, judged by encounter state rather than by a creature death event. The details change how guilds should plan a run:",[213,416,417,423,429,435],{},[216,418,419,422],{},[28,420,421],{},"The clock starts"," at the first qualifying trash fight, provided one of the designated starter creatures (Poisonous Skitterer, Dread Creeper, Patchwork Golem, Death Knight, Shade of Naxxramas, Plague Slime or Stoneskin Gargoyle) appears within the preceding ten seconds.",[216,424,425,428],{},[28,426,427],{},"The clock ends"," at Kel'Thuzad's death. Trash killed after Kel'Thuzad cannot backfill anything you skipped.",[216,430,431,434],{},[28,432,433],{},"Every roster swap costs 60 seconds."," Participants are counted by distinct player GUID with at least one counted combat event between start and end. Roster swaps are calculated as distinct participant GUIDs minus raid size (10 or 25). Disconnecting and reconnecting on the same character is free; swapping in a different character — including your own alt — is not. Pets, guardians, NPCs and spectators are ignored, and starting a 10-man with nine and adding the tenth player carries no penalty.",[216,436,437,440],{},[28,438,439],{},"Missing required trash does not invalidate the run — it adds time."," The penalty is 300 seconds divided by the required count for that specific row, applied per row. Kill 10 of a required 11 and you add 30 seconds. Pooled NPC entries (Bile Retcher and Sludge Belcher, for example) combine, and every individual spawn counts separately.",[24,442,443],{},"A condensed look at the required trash list, as 10-man \u002F 25-man requirements:",[59,445,446,459],{},[62,447,448],{},[65,449,450,453,456],{},[68,451,452],{},"Wing",[68,454,455],{},"Creature pool",[68,457,458],{},"Required (10 \u002F 25)",[75,460,461,472,482,492,502,513,523,533,543,554,564,574,585,595],{},[65,462,463,466,469],{},[80,464,465],{},"Spider",[80,467,468],{},"Poisonous Skitterer",[80,470,471],{},"88 \u002F 110",[65,473,474,476,479],{},[80,475,465],{},[80,477,478],{},"Venom Stalker",[80,480,481],{},"10 \u002F 10",[65,483,484,486,489],{},[80,485,465],{},[80,487,488],{},"Dread Creeper",[80,490,491],{},"14 \u002F 22",[65,493,494,496,499],{},[80,495,465],{},[80,497,498],{},"Naxxramas Cultist + Acolyte (pooled)",[80,500,501],{},"32 \u002F 32",[65,503,504,507,510],{},[80,505,506],{},"Construct",[80,508,509],{},"Patchwork Golem",[80,511,512],{},"7 \u002F 16",[65,514,515,517,520],{},[80,516,506],{},[80,518,519],{},"Embalming Slime",[80,521,522],{},"16 \u002F 20",[65,524,525,527,530],{},[80,526,506],{},[80,528,529],{},"Surgical Assistant",[80,531,532],{},"9 \u002F 15",[65,534,535,537,540],{},[80,536,506],{},[80,538,539],{},"Stitched Giant",[80,541,542],{},"6 \u002F 7",[65,544,545,548,551],{},[80,546,547],{},"Military",[80,549,550],{},"Death Knight",[80,552,553],{},"21 \u002F 24",[65,555,556,558,561],{},[80,557,547],{},[80,559,560],{},"Death Knight Cavalier",[80,562,563],{},"11 \u002F 13",[65,565,566,568,571],{},[80,567,547],{},[80,569,570],{},"Dark Touched Warrior",[80,572,573],{},"19 \u002F 22",[65,575,576,579,582],{},[80,577,578],{},"Plague",[80,580,581],{},"Infectious Ghoul",[80,583,584],{},"6 \u002F 9",[65,586,587,589,592],{},[80,588,578],{},[80,590,591],{},"Frenzied Bat + Plagued Bat",[80,593,594],{},"10 \u002F 10 each",[65,596,597,599,602],{},[80,598,578],{},[80,600,601],{},"Eye Stalk + Maggots (pooled)",[80,603,604],{},"20 \u002F 20",[24,606,607],{},"The full document lists every pool with its NPC IDs and exact counts, and it is worth pulling up before your first speed attempt rather than after.",[51,609,611],{"id":610},"why-this-matters-more-on-a-private-server-than-on-retail","Why this matters more on a private server than on retail",[24,613,614,615,618],{},"On a well-run realm, rankings are a social currency: guild recruiting, loot disputes and \"who actually carried\" arguments all lean on them. Whitemane's approach here is unusually defensible for one reason — ",[28,616,617],{},"everything is published up front, with IDs",". There is no opaque \"invalid parse\" verdict to appeal; you can audit your own log against the same list the server uses, and every future addition will be announced with its exact spell or item ID rather than silently disqualifying players.",[24,620,621],{},"For raiders, three habits follow directly:",[623,624,625,631,637],"ol",{},[216,626,627,630],{},[28,628,629],{},"Check buffs before the pull."," Restricted auras and stray Fungal Creep are the two most common silent invalidators, and both are visible in a log after the fact.",[216,632,633,636],{},[28,634,635],{},"Plan the roster, not just the fights."," A single mid-run character swap adds a minute to a speed time, which is far more than most guilds think it costs.",[216,638,639,642],{},[28,640,641],{},"Earmark trash counts."," Skipping a pack on the way to Patchwerk now has an explicit price, and it is per creature.",[24,644,645,646,653,654,658],{},"While you are prepping, two adjacent pieces are worth a read: how ",[647,648,652],"a",{"href":649,"rel":650},"https:\u002F\u002Fwhitemane.gg\u002Fen\u002Fnews\u002Fpersonal-loot",[651],"nofollow","Personal Loot behaves in Heroic Dungeon Finder"," while you gear up for Tier 7, and our field guide to ",[647,655,657],{"href":656},"\u002Fresources\u002Fguides\u002Ffrostmourne-wotlk-rebuffed-systems-guide","how Frostmourne's Rebuffed systems actually work"," — Quality Upgrades, the five-currency economy and the Heroic Naxxramas design intent.",[51,660,662],{"id":661},"what-to-watch","What to watch",[213,664,665,671,677,683],{},[216,666,667,670],{},[28,668,669],{},"September 30 (Normal) and October 7 (Heroic)."," Heroic opens a week behind Normal and is gated on Normal progression, so Normal clears are a prerequisite rather than an optional warm-up.",[216,672,673,676],{},[28,674,675],{},"Heroic adds mechanics, not multipliers."," Whitemane has recorded more than 80 player-facing Heroic Naxxramas changes plus 37 custom spell records, so expect the excluded-add lists to grow as new Heroic-only creatures appear.",[216,678,679,682],{},[28,680,681],{},"Post-launch rule additions."," The project has committed to publishing new invalidating effects with exact IDs; watch the parsing post for amendments rather than assuming the September 4 list is final.",[216,684,685,688,689,693],{},[28,686,687],{},"Known issues still open."," The ",[647,690,692],{"href":691},"\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Ffrostmourne-launch-weekend-known-issues","September 20 known-issues post"," remains the reference for launch-week bugs, including addon compatibility and the final-boss item guarantee that Whitemane says it is still fixing.",[695,696,697],"note",{},[24,698,699],{},"Accurate as of September 28, 2026. All rules, formulas, NPC and spell IDs come from Whitemane's official \"Parsing in Tier 7\" post of September 4, 2026, with schedule details from \"The Final Stretch.\" The trash-requirement table above is a condensed subset — the official post lists every creature pool in full and should be treated as authoritative. Ranked values are the project's published design rules and can be amended at any time; exact drop rates and Heroic-only exclusion lists may change as Heroic opens on October 7.",{"title":701,"searchDepth":702,"depth":702,"links":703},"",2,[704,705,706,707,708,709,710],{"id":53,"depth":702,"text":54},{"id":117,"depth":702,"text":118},{"id":238,"depth":702,"text":239},{"id":333,"depth":702,"text":334},{"id":410,"depth":702,"text":411},{"id":610,"depth":702,"text":611},{"id":661,"depth":702,"text":662},"guides","Whitemane published its Tier 7 ranking rules with exact spell, NPC and item IDs. A practical guide to what counts in your Frostmourne parse — and what silently invalidates it — ahead of Normal opening on September 30.",false,"md",{},true,"\u002Fresources\u002Fguides\u002Ffrostmourne-tier-7-parsing-rules-explained","2026-09-28",{"title":18,"description":712},{"loc":717,"images":721,"changefreq":723,"priority":724},[722],{"loc":42},"weekly",0.7,[726,729,732,735],{"label":727,"url":728},"Whitemane — Parsing in Tier 7 (September 4, 2026)","https:\u002F\u002Fwhitemane.gg\u002Fen\u002Fnews\u002Fparsing-in-tier-7",{"label":730,"url":731},"Whitemane — The Final Stretch (Tier 7 schedule and Naxxramas Heroic overview)","https:\u002F\u002Fwhitemane.gg\u002Fen\u002Fnews\u002Fthe-final-stretch",{"label":733,"url":734},"Whitemane — WotLK Rebuffed Known Issues, September 20","https:\u002F\u002Fwhitemane.gg\u002Fen\u002Fnews\u002Fwotlk-rebuffed-known-issues-september-20",{"label":736,"url":649},"Whitemane — DPS Stole My Tank Item?! 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