# Altar of Fangs +13 — DEPLETED
33:13 · 6 deaths · Tyrannical, Fortified, affix 147
*2026-08-30 · 08:43 · `WoWCombatLog-083026_080944.txt`*
> **AI-WRITTEN ANALYSIS** — The numbers come from the combat log. The verdict and notes were written by an AI reading them, and can be wrong in ways the numbers cannot. Written by Claude (Opus 5), from the combat log and the archive.
**Why it failed:** Missed mechanic: Zul'jan wipe on Fang Empowered, cost 4:10 (group)
**Tip:** Divine Protection when a long bleed drains you
## One Zul'jan wipe cost 4:10 on a key you missed by at most 2:11 — and the only thing that separated that attempt from the kill was how long the boss kept a stacking buff on himself.
Whose fault: not the healing. This is the joint-best healing performance on any of the twelve Altar of Fangs keys you have on record — 81.5, against 81.9 for the +12 on 26 August, which is a dead heat once you allow for the ±9 the model puts on a single key. You covered more of the damage that needed you, you responded better to the worst moments of it, and you cleansed every debuff a single dispeller could physically get to. You did that while the key asked more of you per second than the +12 you timed an hour earlier.
Where the key went. The timer read 33:13. A combat log contains no par time — the game does not write one — so nothing here can tell you the exact margin; from this run and the ones before it, Altar's par is pinned to somewhere between 31:02 and 33:13, which means you missed it by no more than 2:11 and possibly by seconds. The wipe on Zul'jan cost 4:10 all by itself: 1:37 spent on the attempt that failed, 1:18 walking back, and 1:15 of timer penalty for five deaths, because at +13 the game adds fifteen seconds per death rather than five. Take that away and the key finishes near 29:03 with room to spare.
So this was not a key lost by a slow route or by throughput. It was lost once, on one pull, in about twenty seconds.
**What to change**
1. Find out what feeds Fang Empowered and what sheds it. You held it to 1.8 seconds on the kill and 7.8 on the wipe, so the group already does the right thing sometimes without knowing which thing it is.
2. On Zul'jan, treat a 14-second bleed-down as a defensive cue rather than a healing one. Divine Protection or a wall in the 26:41 window keeps you up, and keeping you up is worth the other three deaths.
3. Nothing to fix on cleansing or on output for this key. Both were at or above what the scale expects, and chasing them further is not where the 2:11 is.
4. Holy Power overcap was 161 of 994 generated (16%), unchanged from your recent keys and still the cheapest throughput on the table if you want one small thing.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **33:13** — 28:38 fighting |
| deaths | **6** — timer agrees (5.99 implied) |
| party damage taken | **366,891,481** — 213,595/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **157** |
| interrupts | **72/75** — 96% |
| dispels | **21/25** — 1,918,308 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Prot Paladin | Prot Paladin | tank | 310 | 91,732 | 19,668 | 90,718 | 1 | **B-** 73 |
| Hyporock | Holy Paladin | heal | 311 | 16,222 | 126,990 | 28,302 | 2 | **B+** 82 |
| Demo Lock | Demo Lock | dps | 311 | 283,867 | 3,105 | 22,389 | 1 | **B+** 83 |
| Arms Warrior | Arms | dps | 315 | 180,722 | 10,354 | 30,406 | 1 | **C** 67 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 313 | 186,120 | 1,708 | 20,074 | 1 | **C** 66 |
### Prot Paladin — Prot Paladin — B- (73/100)
**Where the points went**
- **-9 damage (rank)** — scored 51: 91,731 dps, 42% of the average DPS
- **-6 survival** — scored 72: 1 death(s)
- **-5 interrupts (rank)** — scored 81: 31 stops vs 29 expected
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.6 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **mitigation 88** [w 27%] — 98% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 51** [w 18%] — 91,731 dps, 42% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 99** [−0.2 pts] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 81** [w 27%] — 31 stops vs 29 expected (group stopped 96%, not scored here)
- **activity 96** [w 15%] — 98% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 75** [w 12%] — 4 used of ~20 the kit offered
- _overcapped Holy Power: 438 of 1,644 generated (27%)_
- _never pressed: Blessing of Sacrifice, Blessing of Spellwarding_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Blessed Hammer, Divine Hammer, Empyrean Hammer, Sacrosanct Crusade, Shield of the Righteous_
All axes
- **survival− 61** [−5.8 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **throughput 82** [w 34%] — covered 80% of the 259,011,703 that needed an outside heal (30% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 14,184,042 absorbed; NOTE this key asked 135,467/s, past the 130,287/s 95th percentile of the 55 keys the curve was cut on (median 90,211/s) -- coverage stops being a fair scale once demand runs past what any observed output can cover, so read this as a floor
- **response 94** [w 25%] — put back 50% of the 91,799,689 that landed in the party's worst windows
- **mechanics− 88** [−1.5 pts] — 3% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts** — n/a. no interrupt on the bar
- **dispel 100** [w 16%] — 21/21 of what one dispeller could reach (25 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 97** [w 15%] — 96% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 70** [w 10%] — 42 used of ~95 the kit offered
- _overcapped Holy Power: 161 of 994 generated (16%)_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Reclamation_
All axes
- **survival− 86** [−2.5 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 97** [w 42%] — 283,867 dps, 155% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 67** [w 32%] — 7 stops vs 14 expected (group stopped 96%, not scored here)
- **activity 91** [w 26%] — 97% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _overcapped Soul Shards: 10 of 1,074 generated (1%)_
All axes
- **survival− 86** [−2.5 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 59** [w 42%] — 180,722 dps, 77% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 81** [w 32%] — 16 stops vs 14 expected (group stopped 96%, not scored here)
- **activity 73** [w 26%] — 93% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _overcapped Rage: 968 of 2,612 generated (37%)_
All axes
- **survival− 86** [−2.5 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 62** [w 42%] — 186,120 dps, 80% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 78** [w 32%] — 13 stops vs 14 expected (group stopped 96%, not scored here)
- **activity 70** [w 26%] — 92% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~74 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Alter Time, Ice Block, Remove Curse_