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Instance

MMO

A private copy of a dungeon or raid for your group. Nobody else's group is in your instance.

“Everyone in the instance, we're starting.”

See also: Dungeon, Raid, Lockout

How to use it

  • “Everyone in the instance, we're starting.”

Related words

  1. DungeonA five-player instance. Pre-raid gear comes from here.
  2. RaidA large-group instance — 20 or 40 players in vanilla — and the group itself. Weekly lockouts, big bosses,…
  3. LockoutOnce you kill a raid boss, you're saved to that raid's instance until it resets: a week for the big raids,…

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