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# Mechanics
#### 🧙 Party Customization
Build your dream team and fine-tune every detail. You’ll be able to:
* Raise your characters’ Base Stats (1–150)
* Equip Weapons and Offhands (T1–T10)
* Equip Gems into your Weapons and Offhands
* Equip Unique Items for powerful effects
* Assign Talents to boost Raid performance
Choose from four Classes, each with unique bonuses:
* Warrior: +15 Combat
* Marksman: +10 Fortune / +10 Luck
* Mage: +5 Damage
* Priest: +15 Vitality
Strategically position your party for extra bonuses:
* Slot 1: +15 Vitality
* Slot 2: +15 Combat
* Slot 3: +10 Fortune / +10 Luck
đź’ˇ ***Tip***: Any Class, Slot, or Potion boosts will display as labels underneath your characters.
And remember - you can **return to Nightvale** before your characters are defeated to safely keep their loot.
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#### ⚔️ Boss Fights
Each Raid Boss fight is divided into one or more rounds, with a few important rules to keep in mind:
**Turn Order Matters:**
The order of attacks in each round is determined by **Combat**. If a character’s Combat is higher than the Boss’s, then that character will act **before** the Boss. Defeating the Boss before it takes its turn allows you to **avoid all incoming damage** for that round.
**Strike Outcomes:**\
There are two kinds of attacks your characters (and bosses) can land:
* **Glancing Blow**: Deals only partial damage.
* **Full Damage Attack**: Deals 100% of your character’s possible damage.
💡 ***Tip***: The difference between a Glancing Blow and a Full Damage Attack is based on your Combat in comparison to the Bosses’ Combat.
**Boss Attacks:**
Each round, the Boss performs one or more of the following devastating attacks:
* **Single Target Attack**: The Boss focuses its strike on the character with the lowest current Health, dealing heavy damage to that target.
* **Area of Effect (AOE) Attack**: The Boss unleashes a wide-reaching assault that damages all party members simultaneously.
đź’ˇ ***Tip***: The Vitality tree can help reduce the damage you take from boss attacks.
**Environmental Damage:**
In addition to the Boss’s attacks, every round introduces a layer of environmental damage that affects all characters. This represents the volatile conditions of the Raid - i.e. toxic mists, falling debris, unstable magic, or other hazards.
* Environmental damage is applied at the end of each round.
* It affects every party member, regardless of position.
đź’ˇ ***Tip***: The Vitality tree can help reduce the damage you take from Environmental Damage.
⚠️ **New Negative Events**
Certain defeats or critical failures during a Raid can trigger negative events, adding real risk to every encounter:
* Major Equipment Break: One or more equipped Weapons or Offhands can become damaged. Repairing them requires GOLD, and for T8–T10 gear, you’ll also need specific resources to complete the repair.
* Unique Item Break: Any equipped Unique Items have a chance to permanently break, removing them from your inventory.
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**Victory & Defeat Conditions:**
The fight continues until one of two outcomes occurs:
* The Boss is defeated → you win the encounter.
* All of your characters are defeated → you lose the encounter.
đź’ˇ ***Tip***: After each boss fight, you can view the Battle Report to see a full breakdown of each round and analyze your performance.
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**Preparation Between Bosses:**
Before Boss #2 and Boss #3, you’ll have the chance to use one potion per character per stage. Potions can:
* **Restore Health** (up to max)
* **Increase Damage** for the next stage
* **Increase Combat** for the entire next stage
💡 ***Tip***: If you don’t have any potions handy, then you can pay GOLD to use a potion of your choice.
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🛡️ **The addition of Combat and Vitality Talents**
These talents are primarily raid-centric and may be the factor that helps you turn the tides in Raids.
**Combat Talents (Tier 1–5)**:
1. ***Battle Tempered*** - Adds +5 Combat
2. ***Mythic Force*** - Adds +25 Combat (Dungeons/Mythics only)
3. ***Class Synergy*** - Doubles the Raid class bonus for this character
4. ***Opener’s Edge*** - The first attack on each boss deals 15% more damage
5. ***Relentless Force*** - Each attack in Raids deals +20 additional damage
**Vitality Talents (Tier 1–5):**
1. ***Bulwark Vitality*** - Adds +5 Vitality
2. ***Second Wind*** - Restores 10 Health after each boss is defeated (up to max health)
3. ***Environmental Armour*** - Reduces Environmental Damage by 5 each round in Raids
4. ***Fortified Stance*** - Reduces damage from all boss attacks by 5
5. ***Sacred Evasion*** - The first attack from each boss does 50% less damage
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#### ✝️ Priest Death Prevention
***Priests possess the rare divine ability to intervene during death events, giving your party a fighting chance to survive the harshest outcomes***.
The following rules apply:
* The Priest has a 33% chance to save a character who triggers the Death negative event.
* The Priest can roll to prevent her own death when triggering the same event.
* The Priest can theoretically save all three characters if each one triggers the Death negative event in the same encounter.
* Stacking Priests does not increase the number of rolls — having multiple Priests still provides only one roll per character per death trigger.
* The Priest can still roll to save a character from Death even if she has already been defeated, including rolling to save herself.
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#### đź’€ Defeat, Risk, and Rewards
Each character’s health equals their total **Vitality**. When health reaches zero, that character is **defeated** - losing all loot collected during the Raid and triggering a **negative event roll** tied to the boss they were fighting.
Be especially cautious with Boss #3, as your character can suffer **permanent death**. Fortunately, if you have a **Priest** in your party, they’ll have a chance to prevent death-related negative events, including their own.
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#### 🏆 Phase 2: The Leaderboards
In Phase 2, defeating all three bosses will earn you a Raid Score — your ticket to the Raid Leaderboards, where players will compete for exclusive rewards and recognition.