Plan a boss in Parallax

Pick the boss and the team

Open the Raid planner. Along the top, choose the raid, the difficulty and the boss. The timings come from a real kill of that boss: your own log, Warcraft Logs or Archon.

The planner has three steps: Raid team, Cooldowns and Assignments. In Raid team, click a name to bring that raider in or bench them for this boss.

Lay out the cooldowns

In Cooldowns, every boss ability has its own lane, with each cast where it happened in the kill. Put each raider's cooldowns under the abilities they answer. Parallax warns you when a cooldown won't be back in time.

Open Assignments

Assignments tell each raider their job: where to soak, when to dispel, when to kick. They go into the same note as the cooldowns.

The step opens on the Overview. For a new plan it offers to Start with what the boss casts, or Build my own. Use the Phase picker at the top to see one phase at a time. The Room, Timeline and Extras tabs each show one thing, so nothing competes for space. Everything is counted on the kill the raid note is timed on, so a cast you pick is the cast the note fires on.

Add from what the boss does

Press + Add assignment. Pick a phase, and the page lists what the boss casts in it on the kill, with how many casts and who cast them. Each ability has the job raids usually give it: a soak, a dispel, a kick team, a tank swap. Choose a job opens Build my own ready for that ability, and an ability already planned says so.

A general instruction adds in one click. Other phases, abilities this kill can't time, Custom, and the whole boss kit (a complete draft for the boss with seats filled, best for a new plan) are one click further. When you're done, press ← Back to overview.

Build your own

For anything your raid does its own way, choose Build my own. It takes five short steps, one at a time, and the keyboard works in every one.

1. Mechanic: pick the kind of job, each with its own small drawing, and the boss ability it answers.
2. People & places: groups of players, single players, or roles and specs. Seats are numbered beside the phase's room: click a seat, then a player. Fill all empty seats spreads the raid evenly, tanks first, then healers.
3. Casts & turns: the four rules are drawn as small timelines: all groups every cast, take turns, take turns in order, or choose on the timeline. The phase's casts sit on a lettered timeline; paint each with the group that takes it.
4. Reminder: text, bar, icon or circle; the message with the group's name or marker; a countdown and a voice if you want them. It shows what a raider will see.
5. Check: one sentence per group saying who takes which casts and where they stand, and what still needs a look.

Nothing is saved until you press Add to plan. To change it later, press Edit on its card; leaving with an unadded draft asks first.

See an example of each of the eight kinds ↓

Set up kick teams

In Build my own, pick Interrupts. Each target is a marked team of kickers. Tie it to one add, or let it kick every cast. The kickers take the casts in seat order, and the last seats can be backups who take no turn. One target per add makes a team for each add at once.

The last step shows a card for each kicker: their interrupt, the add to focus, their turns and a macro to copy. Send each kicker their macro.

Kick teams are checked too: a turn that comes before the kicker's interrupt is back is flagged.

Check before the raid

Back on the Overview, every assignment says Ready or how many things there are to check. Click a card to see what. Here, nobody is seated for the dispels yet: Fill empty seats seats your team in one click, or Edit the assignment to choose.

Ready means no flagged checks, not that everything was checked. Open Not checked to see the limits: a kick target tied to one add has its turns in the note preview, and its cooldown and job clashes are not checked on the board.

The Timeline tab puts every assignment on one boss timeline. It flags a group nobody is in, a cast nobody takes, a player with two jobs at once, and a kick that comes before the interrupt is back. The Room tab shows where each group stands; drag a marker to move it.

Copy the note into the game

Open Export note. Choose NSRT or MRT, then This boss, All bosses or One raider, and press Copy NSRT note. Paste it into the addon in game.

With NSRT, each raider gets only the lines meant for them, as reminders on screen: a line can name players, or roles, classes or groups. MRT shows the raid one shared note. Every change saves on its own, so what you copy is always the saved plan.

After the pull

Anyone running Parallax records the pull from their screen. In Review, each recording lines up to the combat log. Each planned cooldown is marked on time, early, late or missed, one click from that moment in the video.

Change what didn't work, copy the note again, and pull.