Raid Combat

The raid check

Whenever the raid must react — a pull, a mechanic, the enrage — the game rolls a check of the responsible raider's World Sense against a difficulty class. Higher World Sense relative to the difficulty means a better chance, floored at 5% and capped at 95% (there is always a chance, and never a certainty).

Threat: tanks must dominate

Raid aggro is not a binary. The boss splits its attention based on how thoroughly the top threat holder dominates the threat table. A tank who is clearly ahead absorbs the great majority of the damage; a tank who is barely ahead lets the rest splash across the raid — onto people with a fraction of the health.

• Tanks generate threat from their Threat stat, heavily multiplied by role, plus their damage.
• Damage dealers generate threat from damage — but high World Sense reduces the threat they make, because a perceptive raider knows when to hold back.
• Healers generate threat from healing.

A skilled tank's World Sense also reduces incoming damage for the whole raid by up to about a third. See Threat & Aggro.

Trash segments: the pull matters

Between bosses, the raid clears waves of trash, and it starts with the puller:

1. The pull check. A clean pull chains two waves for speed. A failed pull brings a train — several waves at once — and the worse the failure, the bigger the train.
2. Crowd control. Your crowd-control seats check to lock part of the train out of the fight.
3. Engagement discipline. Every damage-side raider checks not to engage early. Failing means a few rounds of an untanked enemy's undivided attention.
4. The burn. The raid trades damage with what is left, healers keeping people up.

A segment can be cleared, run out of time (and continue next tick), or wipe.

Boss segments

Two gates are set once at the start of a boss attempt:

• Positioning — the main tank reads the room. Pass, and the tank eats the boss's big frontal attacks alone. Fail, and the entire raid eats them for the rest of the attempt.
• Triage — the main healer establishes who to watch. Fail, and the healer chases the loudest health bar instead of the person actually holding aggro.

Then each round runs: aggro, mechanics, damage, healing.

Mechanics

Bosses fire authored mechanics on a timer or at health thresholds. What they can do:

The caller role assists everyone else's mechanic checks, which is why a good caller is worth a seat.

Enrage

Below a boss's enrage threshold, every damage-side raider checks World Sense every round, and a failure is an instant death. This is the wall that stops rosters who out-gear the boss but cannot read it.

Endurance and wipes

Raiders burn endurance per wave and per boss, and a drained raider fights at reduced power. A wipe costs a tick but fully restores health and endurance, so wounds only persist within an attempt. A raid run lasts 3 hours, resolved over twelve 15-minute ticks.