Personal Responsibility in Raids

In a raid, almost nothing is fully your fault — and almost everything is partly your responsibility. The players who improve fastest are the ones who audit themselves before the group does.

Survival is your job

• Healers triage; they do not carry players who stand in things. Use your defensive before the big hit, not after.
• Personal defensives, healthstones, and movement tools exist for scheduled damage — spend them on schedule.
• Dying to a mechanic you knew about is the reviewable mistake; dying to chaos is raiding.

Mechanics before meters

The damage meter shows one column of a fight. The player who does fewer numbers but handles every assignment is worth more than the meter-topper standing in the wrong place. On progression, 'did we execute the plan' outranks 'who parsed'.

Review yourself honestly

• After a wipe, ask what killed you before asking what killed the raid.
• One mechanic at a time: fix the thing that killed you last pull, then the next.
• Ask for specifics — 'what should I do on the spread?' — rather than absorbing vague advice.

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