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Dungeons and Raids - Version 12 vs Version 13
Jul 5, 2026, 01:43 AM
Added Gray Fog Test Instances section: Clown Dungeon (mechanic-focused) and Utopia Theater (roguelike build mode)
Jul 5, 2026, 01:51 AM
Removed duplicate in-body wikilinks
11Overview22Instanced group content in Lord of Mysteries comes in three sizes: 6-player Dungeons, 12-player Raids, and large-scale Faction Sieges (covered separately under Faction Warfare and PvP). Each instance type uses the holy-trinity composition (tank / healer / DPS) and supports AI companion fill so groups can launch even outside peak hours.44Pathway-to-role mapping for all six Crimson Test Pathways is covered under Pathway Roles: Warrior tanks, Spectator heals, and Bard / Apprentice / Seer / Hermit cover damage and party support.66Dungeon Structure88A dungeon is a short-to-medium-length instance with a linear or semi-branching path through three to five mini-encounters and a final boss. Mini-encounters typically involve one of three patterns: a kill-room (clear all spawns in a confined arena), a ritual room (interact with a multi-step ritual while waves attack), or a chase / puzzle (avoid a hunter or solve a Sequence-themed puzzle).1010The final boss is the dungeon's signature encounter. It scales mechanically with difficulty: every difficulty step adds at least one new mechanic or meaningfully changes how an existing mechanic plays.1212Difficulty Modes1414Each instanced encounter has multiple difficulty tiers. The tier ladder progresses from Easy to Nightmare, with the highest difficulty hard-favouring full human parties:1616Easy: solo or duo accessible with AI companion fill. Loot is daily currency and gear-fragment material.1818Normal: balanced for a six-person party. The standard reward target.2020Hard: gear-checked. Adds a mechanic and tightens DPS / healing pace. Drops mid-tier ritual ingredients and rare cosmetics.2222Nightmare: the apex tier. Multiple new mechanics and a strict DPS / healing race. Drops top-tier ritual ingredients and the rarest dungeon cosmetics. Recommends a full human party; AI companions can complete it but at meaningfully lower clear rates.2424Raid Structure2626Raids are 12-player instances pitched longer than dungeons. Raid roster: 1 main tank, 1 off-tank, 2 healers, 8 DPS-or-hybrid roles. Raid bosses scale with the dungeon-difficulty ladder (Normal, Hard, Nightmare) and add raid-specific mechanics (concurrent two-team objectives, mechanic split-handling, sanity pressure during multi-phase fights).2828Raid loot is locked once per week per character per difficulty bracket. The lockout rolls back to free at the weekly maintenance reset. This means nightly raid-running of the same content has diminishing returns.3030Sanity Pressure3232Boss-tier encounters apply flat sanity hits during cosmic-horror set-pieces. Standing through a high-Sequence ritual cutscene, taking the gaze of a high-Sequence boss, or surviving an ultimate phase all cost sanity. Successful raid groups budget sanity tinctures and tea consumables before the pull and pace pulls so the bar can recover between attempts.3434AI Companions3636AI companions are competent stand-ins. They follow simple priority rules per role: tanks hold aggro and rotate cooldowns on telegraphed hits; healers triage by missing-HP percentage and apply major heals on damage spikes; DPS rotate baseline ability priority. They do not improvise around new mechanics, so high-difficulty content increasingly leans on human players. Players can summon AI companions in any combination (six AI for solo, three AI for half-fill, etc.).3838Currency and Progression4040Each clear awards instance-specific currency: dungeon coins, raid tokens, and Nightmare seals. These trade at NPCs in Backlund and the player's home base for gear, gear-upgrade material, ritual-ingredient bundles, and cosmetics. Long-tail progression is tied to weekly soft-cap currency, not raw farm hours.4242Crimson Test Scope4444The Crimson Test surfaces a small dungeon roster targeted at Sequence 9-7 progression. Raid-tier content is built but gated; full raid testing is reserved for a later beta phase.4646The one instance publicly named so far is May Manor, an aristocratic country estate adapted as a dungeon. Its boss is the Viscountess, an estate owner whose corruption is tied to the Red Moon. May Manor also appears as a marker on the game's official world map, so it doubles as both an explorable location and an instanced boss encounter. Other early instances pit groups against deliberately eldritch, hard-to-perceive bosses in line with the cosmic-horror Sanity System that frames the rest of the game.4848Gray Fog Test Instances5050The Gray Fog Test opened two named instances beyond the newbie dungeon, both drawn from the Beyonder setting. Testers who ran them described a clear step up in mechanical demand over the tutorial content.5252Clown Dungeon: a mechanic-first instance. It rewards reading and reacting to the boss patterns rather than racing a health bar, tightening the mechanic-handling the newbie dungeon only introduced. Correct execution matters more than raw damage output.5454Utopia Theater: a roguelike build mode. A run starts slow while the character's kit is still thin, then accelerates as in-run upgrades stack. Each pickup can grant a new attack method or a special effect, and the combinations compound into distinct builds by the later stages. Its rewards are reachable without forcing a single playstyle.5656Boss Design Framing5858High-end dungeon bosses are designed as unspeakable, eldritch encounters rather than conventional health-bar fights, and the studio places them in the same high-stakes category as cross-map battlefields and world bosses at the top of the combat ladder.6060Instance bosses are designed as explicit cosmic-horror set-pieces that read as eldritch encounters rather than reskinned MMO health-bar tanks. The studio's note tied dungeon bosses, arena opponents, and world bosses into a single category of high-stakes Beyonder content, all of which carry the Sanity cost framing described below.6464The same framing carries into the world-boss tier. Open-world world bosses are positioned as cosmic-horror cap-tier encounters, sitting at the top of the combat ladder for full pickup-party clears and rewarding the highest-tier ritual ingredients and cosmetics for the participating server. The fact that arenas (instanced, smaller-scale) and dungeons (instanced, 6-player) and world bosses (open-world, mass-party) all share the same 'incomprehensible Boss' identity is intentional in the dev framing.
