Wiki / Guild Raid Boss (Beta)

🐉 Thessaly, the Plague Warden

A storm given a body, bound centuries ago to guard the dead pits beneath the old plague wards — she doesn't attack so much as she simply never stops.

Raids are opening gradually: more bosses will appear here as they unlock. Numbers on this page are pulled live from the game's own code and change with balance patches, so this page is always current as of whatever's actually deployed right now.

Requires Combat 60+ to join. Up to 8 raiders per attempt — every raid skill lend below scales with no level cap, so there's no such thing as "maxed out" for a lender, only diminishing returns on roster slots (only 8 fit, and there are 10 skills that do something in this fight).

Stats above are Normal. Practice: 25,025 HP / 1950 ATK (no loot, for learning the fight). Hard: 50,050 HP / 3900 ATK, with raid-wide and over-time damage scaled the same way.

⚡ Lightning resist — the main defense against Stormsurge and Shocked

Thessaly, the Plague Warden requires 62 total lightning resist to mitigate most of its lightning damage. That total comes from two independent sources that add together — neither one alone is meant to be enough. (Every boss uses one of three elements — fire, frost, or lightning — and Ward/gear resist always check whichever one the current boss actually uses, not fire specifically.)

Meeting the full 62 requirement doesn't negate lightning damage entirely — it only reduces it by 50% (the mitigation cap). Falling short scales the penalty smoothly: the further under 62 total resist you are, the less of that 50% you actually get. Bring real lightning-resist gear — Ward alone was never meant to carry the whole requirement.

Ability rotation

A new ability is telegraphed 4s before it resolves, on a fixed 15s cadence — the full 7-ability cycle repeats every 105s.

Enrage

There's no hard timer that ends the fight — a wipe always comes from the boss actually overwhelming the raid. But the boss doesn't sit still forever either: starting at 210s into the fight,Static Shock, Stormsurge, and Shocked damage all begin climbing, reaching double strength 60s after that point and continuing to climb with no ceiling the longer the fight drags on. A roster that only ever heals and never brings the boss's HP down will eventually take damage faster than any amount of healing can keep up with — that's the real pressure, not a clock.

Raid lends — one skill, one buff, no cap

Every raider always has a basic Attack. Lending one tradeskill to the raid unlocks exactly one more action for whoever lends it — shown here at level 70 as a reference point, but every one of these keeps scaling higher the more that tradeskill is leveled, with no cap. That level is your effective level — skill-boosting gloves/trinkets count toward it, same as everywhere else in the game. Only 8 raid slots exist, so covering every skill at once is a real roster tradeoff — coordinate with your guild, since a skill two people both lend doesn't stack.

The tank role (Combat lend)

Combat is the one lend that's foundational rather than swappable — same tier as "bring a healer," not part of the interchangeable support pool. Lending Combat:

• Unlocks 🎯 Challenge — taunts Static Shock onto the tank for 32s per cast.
• Grants a passive self DEF/HP bonus on top, scaling with Combat level (no cap).
• Takes 65% less damage from Static Shock specifically while actively taunting — stacking with the DEF bonus and with Fortify.

If the tank goes down, taunt lapses and Static Shock starts landing on random raiders at full force instead.

Special-skill refresh timing

Fortify, Veil, War Cry, Ward, and Rend all run on the same 28s refresh window — they're refresh-not-stack (recasting early just extends the same window, it doesn't add a second one), and a dedicated lender mostly attacks in between recasts rather than spamming the buff every turn. Reinforce shares that same 28s cooldown as an instant shield burst instead of a timed window — but the shield itself has no timer at all once it's up, it only wears off by actually being depleted. Cleanse has no cooldown of its own; like Mend/Regrowth, how often it fires is gated only by the caster's own action bar.

Loot

Everyone in the winning group (alive or not) rolls this table independently on a win — no master loot, no need/greed, no rolling against each other. Item Find doesn't affect these rolls.

Weekly loot: your first clear of each boss per week on Normal or Hard rolls loot for everyone in the group, alive or not (Normal and Hard share it). After that the boss is marked loot claimed for you until the weekly reset, Monday 00:00 Eastern, the same moment for every player. You can keep raiding it as often as you like for leaderboard times. Practice never drops loot and doesn't use your weekly loot.

Progression: bosses unlock in order (Ashmaw → Thessaly → Morwenna → Grimjaw → Skarth), and everyone in the group must meet the requirement. Practice and Normal of a boss need the previous boss cleared on Normal (a Hard clear counts too). Hard of any boss needs that same boss cleared on Normal first. Ashmaw's Practice and Normal are always open. A win counts for everyone in the group, alive or not. Practice clears never count.

Thessaly's Tempest set bonus — equip all 3 pieces from this boss's drop table at once for +14 XP/task, +12% 2x Gather, +11 Lightning Resist.

Everyone in the group that defeats it on Normal or Hard (alive or not) unlocks the Storm Warden chat title. It's not a roll and doesn't depend on loot.