Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
And then I got to wondering how far we can apply this to the way players keep wiping to raids and bosses, and yet the Warrior of Light continues to survive and win, from the viewpoint of everyone else.
The really simple answer is that the player messed up, and didn't make the character do what they needed to do to continue the pre-planned story.

But for an in-game explanation, there's the Echo.

For the most part, I've assumed that it is giving us some kind of premonition - a brief vision of what would happen in the near future if we don't dodge that attack, or aren't ready to heal our friend when they get targeted, or know how to respond to the spell that we saw the enemy casting, but didn't know what to expect.

Although having just replayed the Warriors of Darkness arc, I have to wonder about that. During the battle instance against them, you get them down to zero HP and then they "call on the power of the Echo", which revives them in a blaze of light.

So is that supposed to be a genuine "Echo mechanic" rather than just a gameplay mechanic? Do we really, actually call on the Echo and get revived?

Although on the other hand, perhaps not, as normal gameplay mechanics would suggest rewinding time as well (since we return to the start of the battle and the enemy follows their script again). We don't seem to see this happen in the WoD fight - we don't get sent back to the start of the battle each time they use the Echo.