# Voidscar Arena +14 — ABANDONED
18:22 · 12 deaths · Fortified, Tyrannical, affix 147
*2026-09-01 · 18:58 · `WoWCombatLog-090126_185533.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, four Warcraft Logs reports, the 12.1 client spell data and the archive.
**Why it failed:** Lack of interrupts: Corrosive Essence kicked 0 of 11 (Arms Warrior, Arcane Mage, Shadow Priest); Overpull: Voidscythe packs, two at once at 12:32 (group)
## Four Voidscar logs at +19 and +20 never fight the Agitated Voidscythe; this key fought four of them, ate 11 un-kicked Corrosive Essence casts, and lost three players in 17 seconds.
This key was not lost by the healer, and it was not lost by the tank. It was lost to a pack that groups clearing five key levels higher do not engage at all.
Agitated Voidscythe casts Corrosive Essence, a shadow damage-over-time debuff that lands on three to five people at once. It went out eleven times, applied 31 times, and did 20,972,182 damage — about 8.5% of everything the party took. Four of the twelve deaths list it as the killing blow. Nobody interrupted it once.
I checked the top four Holy Paladin logs for this dungeon on Warcraft Logs (one +20, three +19). Between them they list 65 to 84 distinct enemy types. Not one contains an Agitated Voidscythe, and not one contains Corrosive Essence. Atroxus appears in them, so these are complete runs and not partial reports.
The run is filed as abandoned, which means it stopped part-way, on Atroxus, and every axis below describes a truncated sample — 18:22 on the clock, not a finished key. Grades from an abandoned run are not comparable to timed ones without that caveat.
This record deliberately runs longer than the archive's usual three-to-five sections, because it is written to be read by the whole group rather than by one player.
**What to change**
1. Route around the Agitated Voidscythe. It is a normal pull mob, and four Voidscar logs at +19 and +20 contain none.
2. If one is unavoidable, never hold two at once. The 12:32 double pull produced both five-target Corrosive Essence waves and three of the twelve deaths.
3. Assign a named kicker to Corrosive Essence, ahead of Lava Bolt. Eleven casts, 20,972,182 damage, zero interrupts, same interrupt flags as a spell the party kicked six times.
4. Split pull 3. 25 enemies over 279 seconds took 60,764,145 damage and three deaths, at 11.2 seconds an enemy against 6.8 for the next pull.
5. Move the Lay on Hands prompt off the 40% health gate onto a group-aura condition on the ramp debuff, which can carry sound where a health threshold cannot.
6. Doryhunky: change nothing about execution. Zero deaths, 100% of worst windows mitigated, 20 interrupts against 15 expected. Do not read damage 85 as a note to do more damage.
7. Hyporock: change nothing about big-cooldown cadence. Aura Mastery, Avenging Wrath and Divine Toll all tested at or above what pressing them on cooldown would have achieved.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **18:22** — 16:59 fighting |
| deaths | **12** |
| party damage taken | **245,534,192** — 241,051/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **84** |
| interrupts | **37/58** — 64% |
| dispels | **12/31** — 20,972,182 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Doryhunky | Veng DH | tank | 314 | 116,092 | 46,578 | 90,619 | 0 | **A** 90 |
| Hyporock | Holy Paladin | heal | 316 | 15,262 | 122,098 | 33,476 | 2 | **B** 76 |
| Arms Warrior | Arms | dps | 313 | 193,790 | 12,452 | 39,818 | 4 | **C** 67 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 316 | 181,243 | 1,277 | 26,814 | 4 | **D+** 59 |
| Shadow Priest | Shadow Priest | dps | 305 | 148,749 | 9,119 | 32,177 | 2 | **F** 46 |
### Doryhunky — Veng DH — A (90/100)
**Where the points went**
- **-3 damage (rank)** — scored 85: 116,092 dps, 66% of the average DPS
- **-2 interrupts (rank)** — scored 91: 20 stops vs 15 expected
- **-2 mitigation** — scored 92: 99% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **mitigation 92** [w 27%] — 99% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 85** [w 18%] — 116,092 dps, 66% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 91** [w 27%] — 20 stops vs 15 expected (group stopped 64%, not scored here)
- **activity 96** [w 15%] — 98% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 83** [w 12%] — 1 used of ~3 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Imprison_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Demon Spikes, Felblade, Fracture, Soul Cleave, Soul Fragment, Throw Glaive_
All axes
- **survival− 61** [−5.8 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **throughput 76** [w 34%] — covered 77% of the 141,599,923 that needed an outside heal (44% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 9,148,099 absorbed
- **response 96** [w 25%] — put back 51% of the 97,352,368 that landed in the party's worst windows
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts** — n/a. no interrupt on the bar
- **dispel 69** [w 16%] — 12/19 of what one dispeller could reach (31 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 80** [w 15%] — 91% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 92** [w 10%] — 35 used of ~56 the kit offered
- _overcapped Holy Power: 91 of 527 generated (17%)_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Reclamation_
All axes
- **survival− 28** [−13.0 pts] — 4 death(s)
- **damage~ 83** [w 42%] — 193,789 dps, 116% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 90** [w 32%] — 11 stops vs 7 expected (group stopped 64%, not scored here)
- **activity 61** [w 26%] — 89% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 95** [w 0%] — 2 used of ~5 the kit offered
- _overcapped Rage: 263 of 1,518 generated (17%)_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Mortal Strike_
All axes
- **survival− 28** [−13.0 pts] — 4 death(s)
- **damage~ 79** [w 42%] — 181,243 dps, 107% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 68** [w 32%] — 4 stops vs 7 expected (group stopped 64%, not scored here)
- **activity 65** [w 26%] — 90% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~43 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Greater Invisibility, Ice Block, Remove Curse_
All axes
- **survival− 61** [−7.0 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **damage~ 61** [w 42%] — 148,749 dps, 79% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 33** [w 32%] — 1 stops vs 7 expected (group stopped 64%, not scored here)
- **activity 66** [w 26%] — 91% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~8 the kit offered
- _overcapped Insanity: 17 of 3,308 generated (1%)_
- _never pressed: Mass Dispel_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Mind Flay, Shadowy Apparition_