Anatomy of a 15-Minute Tick

Step 1: Recovery (once, at the start)

Before any fighting, your character recovers once:

• Health: Recovery stat, amplified by Heal Potency — Recovery x (1 + Heal Potency%).
• Endurance: 5% of max Endurance + Endurance Regen.

This is the only recovery in the tick. Everything after this point spends what you have.

Step 2: The encounters

A combat tick rolls 3 to 5 encounters (four on average solo; more in a group). Roughly one in five common encounters is a pack of 2-3 enemies at once. Each encounter resolves in a single pass:

• Your time-to-kill (how fast you drop the enemy) is compared against your time-to-fall (how fast it drops you). Kill faster and you win. See Combat & Damage.
• Win, and you deal damage equal to the enemy's full health pool and bank the rewards.
• Each encounter drains endurance by the enemy's rarity (see below), and your endurance fraction sets a performance multiplier for the next fight. See Endurance.
• If the projected next hit would kill you, your character flees — ending the run but keeping everything already banked.

Endurance across the tick

Endurance recovers once (Step 1), then drains per encounter. This is why a long, tough tick leaves you fatigued by the final fight:

Step 3: The spoils

Each won encounter banks:

• Gold — scales with enemy rarity and zone tier (a common in a Tier 1 zone pays far less than a world boss in Tier 4).
• Experience — flat and time-based. You earn a set amount per tick for your level, multiplied by XP Rate gear. It does not depend on what you fight, so a quiet tick and a brutal one pay the same experience.
• Loot — a rarity roll per drop (see Loot & Magic Find), plus a ~6% chance per combat tick at an inscription and rare companion offers.

Nothing enters your bags until you collect. Offline, the world banks up to 32 ticks (8 hours) for you to claim on return.