noun Gaming Slang

body check

· noun · gaming

A mechanic that wipes the group if anyone's dead or out of place.

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A mechanic that checks every player is alive and standing where they should be. One dead or misplaced body and the whole group wipes. No carrying dead weight through it.

“This is a body check, if anyone's dead from the last hit we all die here.”
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Often the wall that ends a prog pull — you only pass once everyone's accounted for.

“We keep failing the body check because two people forget to come back in.”
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body check In A Sentence

This is a body check, if anyone's dead from the last hit we all die here.
We keep failing the body check because two people forget to come back in.

Origin & Usage

FFXIV raiding term for a mechanic that 'counts bodies' — every player must be alive and positioned correctly to survive.

Variants body checks

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