Glossary
BUD means base ultimate damage; ilvl means equipment item level. Use the entries below to distinguish champion levels, bench seats and combat effects.
BUD
Base ultimate damage records a recent high hit and supplies the damage reference used by ultimates. Champion level and equipment level are separate progression measures.
BBEG
BBEG is a champion name: Big Bad Evil Guy. In general tabletop usage it is also an abbreviation, so context matters when reading formation advice.
Item level (ilvl)
Each piece of gear has its own level. Duplicate gear and blacksmithing contracts raise equipment levels. A champion’s quoted average item level summarizes equipment slots; it is not the gold-bought champion level within an adventure.
Bench seat
A bench seat is a roster slot shared by several champions. One champion from that seat can deploy at a time. Seats are not the positions drawn on an adventure’s formation map.
Awful Ones
Antrius, Evandra, Nixie and Vlithryn are listed with the Awful Ones affiliation in the community wiki.
Enrage
Enemies become stronger when combat lasts too long. Formation advice about enrage concerns surviving a prolonged encounter, rather than a permanent champion stat.
Fog
The developer’s 28 October 2026 update describes fog as a miss chance based on champion wisdom. Use the current adventure’s restriction text for its particular effect.
Critical hit
The community critical-hit page describes a baseline chance and lists champions with different critical-hit effects. A critical-hit modifier is a combat mechanic rather than a bench role.
FAQ
What is BUD?
Base ultimate damage, a record of a recent high hit.
What is fog?
A wisdom-based miss chance described in the 28 October 2026 developer post.
Related
Sources
- Official FAQ — checked 2026-11-09
- Awful Ones — checked 2026-11-09
- Debuffs — checked 2026-11-09
- Developer blog — checked 2026-11-09
- Critical Hit — checked 2026-11-09
- Gear — equipment levels — checked 2026-11-09