Raid Bosses

A Raid Boss is assigned to you the moment you reach Level 6, and runs alongside your weekly boss for 21 days — two enemies active at once. Every point of damage you deal to your weekly boss also hits the raid, at full value — landing the instant you log it (and if you uncheck a task, the raid heals by exactly what that check dealt). The raid boss itself only answers at night. Its health is sized to you — about 30% more than a strong three weeks would deal — and it advances through four phases as you beat it down, never by the calendar. A great three weeks always kills it. An ordinary three weeks doesn't, and it escapes, wounded, remembering you.

The Four Phases

The raid has one health bar, divided into four zones. It moves through them by damage dealt, not by day count — beat it to a line on a Wednesday and Wednesday night it changes form. Killing it on day 15 is a legend, not a bug.

Phases are one-way — regeneration can never un-break a line you've already crossed. If the raid is still alive at 10% HP or less on the night of day 21, it gets a Final Stand: one more night, one final all-or-nothing clue — reach Blazing Grace that day. Land it and the raid dies; miss and it escapes wounded. See The Final Stand below.

Assignment

• Available to any player Level 6 or higher (the same gate as the weekly boss's Tarnished tier). Veteran and Legendary raid bands unlock at the same levels as their weekly counterparts.
• Drawn from the 14 raid-eligible bosses, weighted by your class tier — never the boss you're currently fighting as your weekly boss, and (once you've slain a boss as a raid) never that boss again until every eligible boss in your tier has fallen to you at least once as a raid.
• The moment one raid closes — by kill, escape, or Final Stand — the next one is dealt at the very next Monday 2am run. No breather.
• A task you deactivate mid-raid still counts toward that week's goal — retiring a hard task doesn't shrink the target.

Health — Sized to You

A raid's HP pool isn't a fixed number by tier — it's built from your own recent output: about 30% more Rune-earning power than you'd typically produce across three weeks, based on the median day of your last 14 days of play (nothing skipped; raids dealt from October 19 on are sized this way, and a raid already running keeps its size). Only your permanent damage counts toward it — your weapon, class and strength, never a grease or a timed boost — and each of those days is priced as a hit on the very boss that was drawn, so that boss's Bane counts too. A single spiked day can't skew it. It's rail-clamped between 0.8× and 2.5× three of your tier's weekly bosses, so it can never be trivial or impossible regardless of a rough patch.

The target: a player who finds every clue and meets every week's goal kills by around day 19. A player who finds most clues and hits two of the three week goals is roughly a coin flip by day 21. An ordinary three weeks escapes having dealt 70–80% of the bar.

At each Monday boundary the raid regenerates 10% of its max HP — 20% if that week's goal was missed, plus one retaliation strike to your Vigor (the Feeding). The Feeding strike takes 20% of your max Vigor — bigger than any ordinary nightly hit — but is still bound by the night law below.

The Daily Clue

Every morning the raid strip on your Quests screen shows a clue — one behavior it fears today. (The New Day Card shows yesterday's clue and whether you found it.) A clue is only dealt if you have met it on at least two of your last 14 judged days, in every phase, so it is never an impossible ask. In Slumbering it comes every other day; from Stirring onward, every day. As the raid weakens the clues get harder, and in its last phase some clues stay whispered until you've done 3 tasks.

• Found it — your full damage lands, and tonight's extra hit and any curse are cancelled. The rage itself is never cancelled; it only calms on its own (see the Threat Ladder below). Its ordinary strike for that phase still comes, though — real damage in the Hunting and Cornered phases even on a night you found the clue.
• Missed it — only 35% of your damage lands, and the raid's move for the night fires (a bite of Runes early, a curse in the middle phases, a heavier blow at the end).

The card flips to FOUND the moment you log the behavior, and that night squares up the whole day again at full damage — though a clue about your own Grace can only flip once night falls. The 2am engine is the final authority. A dead night, a Last Rites night, or a night you've already Staggered the raid deals no clue and no attack at all — the boss simply waits.

The 21 Clues

The raid draws from 21 clues, in three sets. Which sets it can draw from depends on its phase: Slumbering draws only early clues, Stirring early and middle, Hunting middle and late, and Cornered only late clues. A “real workout” always means a logged workout that is not a rest day.

Clues That Name Your Task

Four clues name one of your own tasks, and the ask reads “Complete” followed by that task. The boss picks one of your Tier 1 or Tier 2 tasks (early) or one of your Tier 3 tasks (middle); Forgotten Rite picks a task on that day's list that you haven't completed in 7 or more days; Nemesis picks the task you completed on the fewest days of the last 14 (only tasks you've had the whole time). If no task qualifies, that clue isn't dealt. A named clue is found when you complete that task that day. Forgotten Rite is the one clue that is exempt from the two-of-your-last-14 rule above, since it asks for something you haven't done lately.

Whispered Clues

In the Cornered phase, a clue has a 25% chance of being whispered. A whispered clue stays hidden on your Quests screen — it reads WHISPERED CLUE and “Complete any 3 tasks to hear it” — until you've done any 3 tasks that day (Tier 1, 2 or 3, weekly and companion tasks all count). Then it speaks and shows its ask. Whatever you do before it speaks still counts at night.

Clues That Could Not Be Asked

When a clue could not fairly be asked of your day — a workout clue on a day you logged a rest day, or a named task that is gone or isn't on that day's list — the night reads NOT COUNTED instead of Missed. It is not a miss, and all of that day's damage counts. A night judged before October 5, 2026 keeps the label it already had.

Posture

A second bar on the raid strip tracks your posture for the day — it fills as you finish today's Tier 1 and Tier 2 tasks. Clear every one of them and your posture breaks: at tonight's rest, the raid takes a critical hit worth an extra 25% of everything you dealt it that day. The bar resets every morning.

Damage: Bane and Stagger

Every boss has a Bane — the habit family it hates most (workouts, meals, or tasks, depending on the boss). Damage from that family lands at ×1.5 against the raid, same as against its weekly self.

Each raid boss carries its own three week-goals (weeks 1–3, judged the closing Monday of each). Hit a week's goal and the raid takes a bonus blow worth 10% of its max HP and is Staggered for 3 nights — no hits, no moves, and everything you deal lands at ×1.5 as the critical blow. Week 3 is judged as the raid closes, so a met goal there gives the bonus blow only: no Stagger, and no regrowth after it.

The Threat Ladder

The raid hits with a fixed band for its tier, regardless of your own Grace that night — it's punishing you on its own terms, not amplifying a bad night the way your weekly boss does.

Rage calms only after two Burning-or-better nights in a row. A found clue cancels tonight's extra hit and any curse, but never the rage itself. A landed vigor-loss move replaces that night's base hit rather than stacking on top of it. Two bosses never both enrage on you the same night — if your weekly boss is enraged, the raid's rage is suppressed that night, and vice versa. Every ounce of vigor loss from both bosses combined is still capped by the night law: the weekly hit lands first at full strength, and the raid's entire share for the rest of the night — hit, Feeding strike, curse tick — is capped at 80% of whatever Vigor remains after the weekly hit. It genuinely cannot kill you by damage alone.

The Curses

The raid knows 30 curses: nine Mild, eight Middling, seven Heavy and six Deadly. Tap any curse in the app to read what it does and how to cure it. It may curse you in every phase — the odds simply rise as it goes.

Your day sets the severity: find the clue on a Blazing day and it lands as the mildest possible curse (the raid is always doing something); find it on an ordinary day and it lands a tier milder than the phase calls for; miss it and it lands at the phase's full tier, or a tier heavier if the night was already bad. Up to three curses can be active at once — a fourth bumps out whichever has been active longest. Every curse names its own cure and shows as a chip on the raid strip, and the curse meter (three pips) tells you at a glance how much is stacked up. “Burning+” below means Burning Grace or better, and a “real workout” is a logged workout that is not a rest day.

Deadly curses (and the Cornered blow) only draw in the Cornered phase, and only on a night you missed the clue.

The Curses That Work Differently

• Hollowing stacks. It takes 10 max Vigor the night it lands and 10 more on each night it is still uncured, to a most of 30. A real workout or a Site of Grace lifts it at that night's 2am run and clears every stack at once; your max Vigor comes back, but your current Vigor is not refilled. On a Final Stand day it gains no stack.
• Sleep and Deep Sleep blunt the first 3 (or 5) things you log that day — tasks, workouts, meals and steps, and a logged rest day counts too. Those actions are saved but earn no Runes and deal no damage; the app says “Action saved. Sleep blocked its Runes and damage,” and how many more actions it will take to wake. A blocked action still counts toward clues. Neither curse has a cure: you wake after the 3rd (or 5th) action, and it ends with the day. With both held, the larger count applies, never the sum.
  • A slept row says so. On the Quests tab a blocked task reads “+0 Runes · Sleep” (“· Deep Sleep” under Deep Sleep). Tap it and a plain plaque opens: “Sleep took this one: no Runes, no damage.” It names the curse, how many things it blocks today and when you wake.
  • Undo hands the slot back. Un-check a blocked task (daily, weekly or companion) or delete a blocked workout or meal, and its slot comes back, so the next thing you log sleeps in its place. The app says “Undone. That slot is free again.” and, while you are still asleep, how many of your next actions will earn nothing. Un-checking a task that did earn Runes hands nothing back.
  • Log Steps takes a slot too. The save that would pay the steps bonus takes a Sleep slot first. If Sleep takes it, the bonus pays 0 and that date counts as settled, so saving the same date again never pays it. Steps are not handed back by an undo.
• Pilfer steals one Common or Uncommon consumable from your Pouch each night it holds, picked by kind — every kind you hold is equally likely, however many of it you have. If it finds nothing it may take, it takes 10,000 Runes instead (or your whole balance, if you have less). It never takes Grace Wards, Lazuli Shards, Keys of the Realm, Writs, Starlight Shards, Neutralizing Boluses, Larval Tears, Great Runes, or gear (weapons, shields, talismans and greases).
• Ruin bites three times, then it is spent: 10% of your Runes when it lands, 10% more the next night, then 50% the night after. The app names the days, for example “10% taken Wednesday · 10% more at 2am Thursday · 50% at 2am Friday.” Find a clue (a found day) and it ends before the next bite; a night that earns the cure is never bitten.
• Second Wind heals your weekly boss for 5% of its max HP every night it holds. A weekly task clears it. The New Day Card says how much it healed.
• Changed from before: Bleed takes 10 Vigor a night (it was 3) and is now Mild; Chill bites every night it holds, not just once; Dread now switches off your companion's loot bonus instead of draining its happiness; Hollowing is now Middling and stacks; Blight needs four stacks to kill, not three. Several cures changed too — for example, Blood Tithe now needs 8 tasks in one day, and Gorge needs a lift of 4+ exercises or 20+ minutes of cardio. The Mark and Grab are retired.

When the Raid Can Kill You

Two curses can kill you outright, and both are timed rather than sudden. Blight adds one stack for each missed night in the Cornered phase and loses one for each found night; at four stacks you die at the 2am run (never on a night your weekly boss is enraged). Doom gives you three days to land one Burning+ day. The card names the last one — “One Burning+ day by Saturday, or you die at 2am Sunday” — and on that last day it reads “Today is your last chance.” If no Burning+ day comes, Doom kills you at 2am. Dying costs half your Runes; see The Death System.

The Last-Chance Banner

When tonight's 2am run will kill you unless you act today, a LAST CHANCE banner appears at the top of every tab and leads the New Day Card. It has no close button. That happens in two cases: Blight at 3 of its 4 stacks in the Cornered phase (not on a night your weekly boss is enraged), and Doom's last day. It reads YOU DIE TONIGHT and tells you what saves you:

• Blight at 3 of 4: find today's clue. The banner shows the clue's ask. If the Veil hides it, the banner says to have a great all-round day; if it is whispered, it says to complete any 3 tasks to hear it. When your phone shows the clue as met, the banner turns calm — “CLUE MET ON YOUR PHONE” — but the final check at 2am decides whether Blight drops to 2 stacks.
• Doom's last day: reach Burning Grace or better today. Grace is judged at 2am, so this banner holds all day.
• If both are lethal on the same night, you get one banner with both lines.

There is no banner on a Final Stand day, because nothing can kill you that night.

The Final Stand

If the raid is still at 10% HP or less after day 21, its last night is the Final Stand. On that day your Quests raid strip becomes the Final Stand screen, with one ask: THE LAST CLUE — Reach Blazing Grace today.

• Your strikes deal no raid damage today. Only the last clue can defeat the raid boss. Your weekly boss is not immune.
• Its curses fall silent; only the last clue matters. (Hollowing's lowered max Vigor is the one thing that does not lift that day.)
• Blazing: it dies, and the kill pays in full (see Rewards and Escape below).
• Anything less: it escapes with a Near Victory reward and is marked GRUDGE — if it returns, it starts at 85% and pays +25% when killed.
• Grace is judged at night, so the clue cannot turn during the day. 2am decides.

The Pact — Your Own Difficulty Dial

When a raid begins, the boss offers The Pact, once — to every hunter, and only while the raid still Slumbers, before its first health line breaks. The Pact is best taken on a hot streak: Burning-or-better Grace on at least 10 of your last 14 nights. If you are not on one, the offer still appears, but it carries a red NOT RECOMMENDED RIGHT NOW line with your own count (Burning+ on only so many of your last 14 nights). Accept, and everything gets harder: the pool grows 20% bigger, hits land at ×1.5, curses draw a tier heavier, and clues come every day starting on day one — even in Slumbering. In exchange, a kill pays double the Rune reward, 2 Skill Points, and +2 Ember, plus a unique title. You get the raid's Great Rune either way. It's an offer, not an obligation — the normal hunt is always the default button. Nobody has to take it.

Rewards and Escape

Every kill also pays 1 Skill Point, +1 Ember, double loot (a guaranteed Rare-or-better plus a bonus roll), that boss's Great Rune (see Great Runes), a title, and — if it's your first-ever kill of that boss in any mode — its Remembrance and Echo. Every raid kill also gifts every other player in the realm +1.0 Ember, announced with its own realm-wide blessing.

Zone crossings pay their own bounties along the way (10% of the kill reward at each of the first three phase lines), plus guaranteed phase loot at Stirring and Hunting.

If the raid survives to day 21:

• Near Victory (you dealt 70% or more) — 25% of the kill reward, a loot roll, and the boss is marked with a GRUDGE: the next time you draw it again, it returns at 85% HP already knowing your Bane, and pays +25% extra Runes when you finally kill it.
• Valiant Effort (31–69% dealt) — no Runes, just the Chronicle's respect.
• Escaped (under 31% dealt) — it simply leaves. No grudge, no penalty.

Which Bosses Can Raid

14 of the 28 weekly bosses are raid-eligible; the other 14 never appear as a raid and have no Great Rune. See All Bosses for the eligible list, each boss's three week-goals, and its Great Rune.

Notes & Tips

• Slumbering is a gift. The raid can't hit you at all in the first phase — front-load your biggest effort while it sleeps.
• A great player mostly shrugs off curses. Find your clues on a Blazing day and every curse the raid throws lands as mild. A rough week is when curses actually start to bite.
• The night law protects you from the raid, not from your weekly boss. The weekly boss's counterattack lands first and can kill you outright; the raid's hit comes after, capped against whatever Vigor that strike left you — it genuinely can't finish the job. Keep your Flask reserve up for the hit that actually can.
• An escape isn't a disaster. Near Victory still pays a real reward, and a GRUDGE boss you kill later pays extra for the trouble it caused you.
• Raid kills count toward the raid achievements and your Hall of Legacy record alongside weekly kills, but a boss slain as a raid and one slain as your weekly boss are tracked completely separately — killing one doesn't retire the other.