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Lockout

Raiding & dungeons

Also: Raid ID

Once you kill a raid boss, you're saved to that raid's instance until it resets: a week for the big raids, three days for Zul'Gurub and Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj.

I'm locked to MC this week, can't come.

See also: Raid, Reset

How to use it

  • I'm locked to MC this week, can't come.

Related words

  1. RaidA large-group instance — 20 or 40 players in vanilla — and the group itself. Weekly lockouts, big bosses,…
  2. ResetWhen an instance's lockout ends and the bosses are back. Also: leaving a dungeon and re-entering to respawn…

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