Lord of Mysteries May Manor Raid Guide: 12-Player Mechanics

May Manor is the game's first 12-player raid, and the group frames in the footage show the full two-column roster of twelve with a resurrection count on the side. Before you queue, do an honest dummy check: the community benchmark for this raid is around 11k DPS on the training dummy, and groups below it tend to run out of time on the enrage (community-tested figure, not an official requirement).

The opening encounter is the Offspring Projection in a cracked red arena. Phase one is deliberately simple: pump the boss, sidestep the red telegraphs, and pick up the summoned adds — an Earth Golem joins the fight while the boss counts down toward Berserk, so the group should cleave adds down without slowing boss damage.

When the large orange circle lands, the game itself tells you what to do: split into two teams and gather inside to share the damage. Assign the two soak groups before the pull — the community guide recommends deciding in advance who stacks where, because hesitating on the way in is how people die to a shared hit meant for six.

Sharing the hit is only half the mechanic. As soon as the soak lands, get out of each other's circles: the community guide stresses that standing in overlapping orange zones takes the damage multiple times. The frames here catch the moment the shared hit lands — 2129 damage split across the stacked team — right before everyone peels off.

Between soaks the Projection chains ground casts — Earth Fission rips fissures across the arena while the raid keeps uptime. Don't greed a cast bar over a glowing crack; the community guide's general warning for this raid is that its mechanics are more time-sensitive than most MMOs in the genre, and the adds from step two keep pressuring the healers throughout.

Before the pull, the raid leader must place a gathering marker on the core your team will focus in phase two. When the phase begins, everyone stacks on that preset point and burns the core down first: if it is not destroyed in time, it instantly kills whoever is inside its range. Reposition quickly afterwards, because the boss follows the core phase with a melee attack.

When the Crimson War notification appears, the whole raid gathers in one spot — this is the healer's window to top the entire group with a map-wide heal. It is the same discipline as the orange-circle soak: pre-assigned spot, everyone in, no stragglers. The community guide lists missing this collapse as one of the quiet run-killers in this fight.

The boss periodically spawns smaller creatures. If a red line connects you to one, you have aggro: kite it around until a trap appears, drag the creature inside, and use the bell that drops from it — that is the intended way to neutralize the add. The moment an aberrant spawns, the whole raid switches to it before anything else. Watch your feet, too: players caught in a trap lose 20% of their HP every second inside it (community-tested figure).

From the mid-fight onward the boss traps two players at a time — call out the cages and swap damage onto them immediately to break the pair free. Soon after, the boss spawns three creatures that charge the team in sequence: the counter-play is to stand on a single point before the charges come so the whole raid sidesteps together, instead of being scattered into overlapping lanes.

Past the Projection, the raid moves into the manor proper for the second encounter: the Anthea & Mr. Barney marionette duel (objective: Defeat Believer Number One). The ballroom version of the orange circle reads Gather around the targeted teammate to share the damage together — same rule as before, now with a dual boss splitting the raid's attention between two health bars.

Anthea periodically casts Puppet Show — her own line makes the threat explicit: you come be Anthea's puppet. Tethered players are briefly turned against the group; everyone else should stop hits on the boss and break the puppets out before the strings resolve. Note how the frame shows Mr. Barney already down to 30% while Anthea is still near full: your raid should agree on a kill order and stick to it.

Late in the ballroom fight the arena shifts to a chase sequence: glowing blue rings trace a route across the floor while the game counts down and tells you to run to the finish line quickly. Anthea hunts the stragglers — the on-screen warning literally says she is going to catch up — so save a mobility skill for the last stretch and don't stop to cast.

May Manor gear does not drop straight into bags — the clear opens the Great Auction. Every piece and material goes on the group's auction list (the footage shows Cocoon Silk climbing past 960,000 while Defensive Materials sit at their 10,000 starting bids), and players bid against each other, pass, or pre-bid. Agree on loot rules before the run so the auction is a formality, not a fight.

Believer Number One falls and the raid gets its Bright Star damage summary along with the remaining resurrection count — the footage's clear had several revives left to spare, which is the margin you want on a first kill. The distribution window then hands out the boxes and materials; rolls and passes resolve automatically once every lot is decided.

Before the lots close it is worth inspecting the actual items. The recording's owner opens the Wear panel to examine an Invisible Prophecy +3 cane — a level-84 weapon with damage-boost dungeon perks and skill enhancement rolls — the tier of gear May Manor's Great Auction moves between players. Knowing the stats stops you from over-bidding on a sidegrade.

The other level-52 endgame encounter your raid will meet in this tier is Antigonus Ray. At 80% HP the boss spawns a clown that walks toward the center of your team every 20–30 seconds and strips sanity from anyone caught nearby — the tank and whoever holds aggro must rotate the boss around the room so the DPS never stands between the clown and the boss (community-tested timings).

In phase two the arena becomes a maze — run the corridors to the green safe area, then resume damage. Complications stack up: a second clown spawns that repositions every 10–15 seconds (twice as fast as the first), the boss fires a laser the rest of the raid must dodge behind the tank, and black holes teleport anyone they touch back to the maze start. Keep rotating the boss away from both clowns until the final burn.