Template:How to Damage A Boss

Anyone can help defeat a boss by completing your own personal Dailies, To-Dos, and performing positive Habits. Every time you click one of these items, it adds to your day's damage to that boss; your accumulated damage for the day is actually applied at your next Cron.

In other words: get your tasks done in order to damage a boss.

Mages and Warriors in Boss Fights
Mages and Warriors have skills (Burst of Flames and Brutal Smash, respectively) that when cast on a Daily, To-Do, or Habit add to the accumulated damage for the day based on the current color of the task. This will help kill the boss faster than just using skills alone.

Rogues and Healers in Boss Fights
Both Rogues and Healers are able to help defeat a boss by normal skill completion; their skills do not cause damage to bosses.
 * Rogues' skills are more helpful in Collection quests; the Backstab skill does not damage bosses (it affects tasks only).
 * Healers skills are helpful in healing the party back up from the damage a boss does to a party; their buff skill also indirectly helps somewhat by reducing the amount of damage that a player takes from their own Dailies, but it does not reduce damage from the boss itself.

Checklists and Boss Damage
If a Daily or To-Do has a checklist, it can be considered in some ways as if it were several Dailies or To-Dos folded under one checkable item.
 * Checking off a To-Do with multiple items checked causes damage for each individual checked item. Unchecked checklist items do no additional damage to the boss when you check off the To-Do.
 * Not checking off a Daily but checking off at least some of the checklist items causes less damage to you and the party. It also causes zero damage to the boss even if you checked off checklist items.