# Voidscar Arena +15 — ABANDONED

2:13 · 9 deaths · Fortified, Tyrannical, affix 147

*2026-09-06 · 10:59 · `WoWCombatLog-090626_105809.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:** Overpull: 8 mobs chained, none killed (group); Wrong target: Magma Totems left up, 22% of damage (group)

**Tip:** Use Divine Protection; it was never pressed

## Six Magma Totems with 19,202 health each did 22% of everything the party took; the +14 the day before killed nine of nine in about two seconds each, and there they cost 1.3%.

This is not your key to have lost. The group chain-pulled eight enemies in seventeen seconds at the start, poured Time Warp and every cooldown in the party into them, removed 82% of their combined health and killed none of them. Eight mobs at 2-31% is worth exactly the same as eight mobs at full: nothing dies, nothing stops casting.

What made it unsurvivable rather than merely slow was the totems. Each Enthralled Shaman drops two Magma Totems on about a thirty-second cycle. A Magma Totem has 19,202 health, roughly a thirtieth of a second of this party's damage. Six spawned. Three were killed, three were still ticking when the last person died, and between them they did 6,902,592 damage, 22% of everything the party took. The one that lived 14.6 seconds did 1,961,864 by itself, a hundred and two times its own health.

You healed 7,999,051 in 67 seconds of healing at 47.6% overheal, which is 47.4% in your best key on record, so overheal is not a finding here, it is just your number. What is different is that 37.6% of it went on yourself, against 21.7% in that key, because the thing hitting you took 72% of your health bar per cast.

Nine deaths is 2:15 of timer penalty against 2:13 of elapsed time. The key was over on the first pull.

**What to change**

1. Kill the Magma Totems the moment an Enthralled Shaman drops them. 19,202 health, one global, and they were 22% of the damage that killed this pull.
2. Move the interrupt to the Voidtouched Magi. Shadowbolt Volley is worth 7.3 Lava Bolts per cast and took 72% of your health bar three times.
3. Start pressing Divine Protection. It is a one-minute cooldown you did not use once in this key, and you used it twice in the next one.
4. Do not read the never-pressed Lay on Hands line as a mistake here. Your own Divine Shield had it locked out until the instant you died.
5. Keep the Divine Shield timing. You were at 1% health when you pressed it, and that was right even though it cost you Lay on Hands afterwards.
6. For the group: eight enemies with 104M of combined health is not a pull this comp finishes, and mobs left at 2-31% pay nothing.

## The run

| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **2:13** — 1:20 fighting |
| deaths | **9** |
| party damage taken | **31,603,287** — 396,031/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **3** |
| interrupts | **19/43** — 44% |
| dispels | **1/1** — 0 came through |

## Players

| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Doryhunky | Veng DH | tank | 317 | 120,107 | 61,827 | 114,793 | 1 | **B-** 73 |
| Hyporock | Holy Paladin | heal | 317 | 7,555 | 60,171 | 33,878 | 2 | **F** 35 |
| Ret Paladin | Ret Paladin | dps | 316 | 226,343 | 11,128 | 28,333 | 1 | **B+** 82 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 318 | 161,054 | 1,831 | 26,309 | 2 | **F** 48 |
| Frost DK | Frost DK | dps | 319 | 134,031 | 1,361 | 34,417 | 3 | **F** 47 |

### Doryhunky — Veng DH — B- (73/100)

**Where the points went**

- **-8 mitigation** — scored 76: 95% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **-6 mechanics (rank)** — scored 57: 10% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **-5 interrupts (rank)** — scored 84: 10 stops vs 9 expected

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 86** [−2.8 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **mitigation 76** [w 31%] — 95% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 87** [w 21%] — 120,107 dps, 69% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 57** [−6.1 pts] — 10% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 84** [w 31%] — 10 stops vs 9 expected (group stopped 44%, not scored here)
- **activity 83** [w 17%] — 97% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _never pressed: Imprison_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Demon Spikes, Fracture, Soul Cleave, Soul Fragment, Spirit Bomb, Throw Glaive_

</details>

### Hyporock — Holy Paladin — F (35/100)

**Where the points went**

- **-44 throughput** — scored 25: covered 31% of the 17,599,978 that needed an outside heal (46% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 517,323 absorbed
- **-14 activity** — scored 45: 69% engaged while alive in combat
- **-4 survival** — scored 72: 2 death(s)

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 72** [−4.2 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **throughput 25** [w 58%] — covered 31% of the 17,599,978 that needed an outside heal (46% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 517,323 absorbed; NOTE this key asked 132,392/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** — n/a. n/a, the party's worst windows cover 80% of a 80s fight -- there is no separate baseline left to have risen from
- **mechanics− 70** [−3.9 pts] — 7% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts** — n/a. no interrupt on the bar
- **dispel** — n/a. too few known-dispellable debuffs to judge
- **activity 45** [w 25%] — 69% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 100** [w 17%] — 4 used of ~4 the kit offered
- _overcapped Holy Power: 12 of 32 generated (38%)_
- _never pressed: Blinding Light, Lay on Hands_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Reclamation_

</details>

### Ret Paladin — Ret Paladin — B+ (82/100)

**Where the points went**

- **-11 activity** — scored 56: 86% engaged while alive in combat
- **-3 interrupts (rank)** — scored 90: 5 stops vs 3 expected
- **-3 survival** — scored 86: 1 death(s)

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 86** [−2.5 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 97** [w 42%] — 226,343 dps, 161% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 90** [w 32%] — 5 stops vs 3 expected (group stopped 44%, not scored here)
- **activity 56** [w 26%] — 86% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~3 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Blessing of Protection, Blessing of Sacrifice, Cleanse Toxins, Lay on Hands, Shield of Vengeance_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Avenging Wrath, Blade of Justice, Bound by Fire and Blaze, Crusading Strikes, Divine Storm, Light's Potential_

</details>

### Arcane Mage — Arcane Mage — F (48/100)

**Where the points went**

- **-19 damage (rank)** — scored 55: 161,054 dps, 72% of the other damage dealers' median
- **-14 activity** — scored 44: 69% engaged while alive in combat
- **-14 interrupts (rank)** — scored 56: 1 stops vs 4 expected

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 72** [−5.0 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **damage~ 55** [w 42%] — 161,054 dps, 72% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 56** [w 32%] — 1 stops vs 4 expected (group stopped 44%, not scored here)
- **activity 44** [w 26%] — 69% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~3 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Alter Time, Ice Block, Remove Curse, Spellsteal_

</details>

### Frost DK — Frost DK — F (47/100)

**Where the points went**

- **-17 activity** — scored 34: 52% engaged while alive in combat
- **-16 damage (rank)** — scored 62: 134,031 dps, 81% of the other damage dealers' median
- **-11 survival** — scored 39: 3 death(s)

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 39** [−11.0 pts] — 3 death(s)
- **damage~ 62** [w 42%] — 134,031 dps, 81% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 72** [w 32%] — 2 stops vs 3 expected (group stopped 44%, not scored here)
- **activity 34** [w 26%] — 52% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _overcapped Runic Power: 60 of 234 generated (26%)_

</details>

*Axes marked ~ are ranked against the other players in this key, not measured on their own. Someone is always in the middle.*

## Deaths

9 deaths in 2 separate incidents. The wipe at 1:01 (8 deaths in 39s) was the big one.

**What was landing while people died** — Counts only the seconds before each death, not the whole key.

| spell | in | damage | killing blows |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Melee | 2 of 9 | 5,510,498 | 1 |
| Searing Magma | 7 of 9 | 3,538,838 | 3 |
| Shadowbolt Volley | 5 of 9 | 2,311,333 | 2 |
| Lava Bolt | 5 of 9 | 1,888,919 | — |
| Savage Leap | 3 of 9 | 1,038,569 | 2 |
| Null Eruption | 1 of 9 | 365,057 | — |

### Death · 0:29 · Frost DK · dps

**0:29 · Frost DK · dps** — killed by **Shadowbolt Volley** for 441,418 from Voidtouched Magi

took **891,307** · in **1.2 s** · health at the start **90%** · before the last hit **46%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1.1s before | Searing Magma | 84,939 |
| 0.9s before | Searing Magma | 94,680 |
| 0.4s before | Savage Leap | 175,590 |
| 0.2s before | Searing Magma | 94,680 |
| at death | Shadowbolt Volley (killing blow) | 441,418 |

**no defensive pressed** · 9 healed · all their own

### Full wipe · 1:01 · 8 deaths in 39s — the healer went first

**1:01 · Hyporock · heal** — killed by **Searing Magma** for 91,159 from Magma Totem

took **779,616** · in **2.0 s** · health at the start **83%** · before the last hit **7%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1.9s before | Searing Magma | 84,389 |
| 0.9s before | Searing Magma | 83,545 |
| 0.6s before | Lava Bolt | 346,663 |
| 0.4s before | Searing Magma | 82,701 |
| 0.2s before | Searing Magma | 91,159 |
| at death | Searing Magma (killing blow) | 91,159 |
| | 1 smaller hits | 59,750 |

**no defensive pressed** · 7,462 healed · all their own

**1:06 · Arcane Mage · dps** — killed by **Savage Leap** for 118,985 from Feral Saberon

took **1,123,632** · in **8.5 s** · health at the start **82%** · before the last hit **8%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 8.2s before | Lava Bolt | 132,988 |
| 6.4s before | Searing Magma | 65,026 |
| 4.2s before | Searing Magma | 71,676 |
| 1.6s before | Lava Bolt | 146,538 |
| 0.8s before | Savage Leap | 208,597 |
| at death | Savage Leap (killing blow) | 118,985 |
| | 13 smaller hits | 379,822 |

Greater Invisibility -6.3s · Greater Invisibility -6.3s · Prismatic Barrier -3.5s · 326,517 healed · Doryhunky, Hyporock

**1:07 · Frost DK · dps** — killed by **Venomous Spit** for 137,665 from nil

took **1,061,775** · in **7.3 s** · health at the start **87%** · before the last hit **1%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 7.1s before | Searing Magma | 79,453 |
| 5.9s before | Searing Magma | 87,579 |
| 5.3s before | Searing Magma | 87,580 |
| 4.3s before | Searing Magma | 87,579 |
| 1.6s before | Null Eruption | 307,752 |
| at death | Venomous Spit (killing blow) | 137,665 |
| | 4 smaller hits | 274,167 |

Icebound Fortitude -0.4s · 140,894 healed · Doryhunky

**1:10 · Ret Paladin · dps** — killed by **Shadowbolt Volley** for 557,429 from Voidtouched Magi

took **1,549,979** · in **11.5 s** · health at the start **83%** · before the last hit **50%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 9.3s before | Searing Magma | 88,564 |
| 8.6s before | Searing Magma | 88,564 |
| 7.9s before | Searing Magma | 89,477 |
| 6.8s before | Searing Magma | 88,564 |
| 2.2s before | Lava Bolt | 390,544 |
| at death | Shadowbolt Volley (killing blow) | 557,429 |
| | 3 smaller hits | 246,837 |

**no defensive pressed** · 778,796 healed · Doryhunky, Hyporock

**1:21 · Hyporock · heal** — killed by **Savage Leap** for 106,660 from Feral Saberon

took **1,419,590** · in **11.1 s** · health at the start **16%** · before the last hit **12%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 10.8s before | Shadowbolt Volley | 587,790 |
| 3.8s before | Savage Leap | 102,014 |
| 2.8s before | Savage Leap | 123,500 |
| 1.7s before | Savage Leap | 122,254 |
| 1.4s before | Lava Bolt | 296,403 |
| at death | Savage Leap (killing blow) | 106,660 |
| | 1 smaller hits | 80,969 |

**no defensive pressed** · 700,720 healed · Doryhunky

**1:24 · Arcane Mage · dps** — killed by **Searing Magma** for 76,594 from Magma Totem

took **727,859** · in **1.4 s** · health at the start **22%** · before the last hit **10%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1.3s before | Shadowbolt Volley | 490,205 |
| 0.4s before | Searing Magma | 76,594 |
| 0.4s before | Refraction | 7,872 |
| 0.2s before | Searing Magma | 76,594 |
| at death | Searing Magma (killing blow) | 76,594 |

**no defensive pressed** · **no healing landed**

**1:26 · Doryhunky · tank** — killed by **Searing Magma** for 38,165 from Magma Totem

took **4,758,157** · in **13.3 s** · before the last hit **4%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 12.9s before | Melee | 193,288 |
| 10.4s before | Melee | 457,506 |
| 8.3s before | Melee | 324,514 |
| 6.2s before | Melee | 354,162 |
| 2.9s before | Melee | 359,774 |
| 2.9s before | Shadowbolt Volley | 234,491 |
| | 28 smaller hits | 2,834,422 |

Demon Spikes -9.3s · 1,942,490 healed · Hyporock

**1:40 · Frost DK · dps** — killed by **Melee** for 532,178 from Dominated Brawler

took **2,542,732** · in **3.7 s**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 3.6s before | Melee | 205,396 |
| 3.0s before | Melee | 503,050 |
| 2.6s before | Melee | 203,478 |
| 1.1s before | Melee | 372,426 |
| 0.6s before | Melee | 129,894 |
| at death | Melee (killing blow) | 1,128,488 |

**no defensive pressed** · **no healing landed**

## Where the time went

| | seconds | |
|---|---:|---|
| combat | 80 | 1:20 |
| wipe recovery | 10 | 0:10 |
| death penalty | 135 | 2:15 |
| lead in | 10 | 0:10 |

Costliest pulls — *Cost is the time the pull lost: a wipe loses the whole pull, a pull that held loses only its deaths.*

| pull | at | fighting | enemies | deaths | taken | cost |
|---:|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 | 0:10 | 1:16 | 3 | 8 | 29,060,555 | 3:26 |
| 2 | 1:36 | 0:04 | 0 | 1 | 2,542,732 | 0:15 |

## What the group left up

**Casts that could have been interrupted and were not**

- Lava Bolt: 18 of 30 got through
- Shadowbolt Volley: 5 of 8 got through
- Demoralizing Shout: 1 of 5 got through

**Damage one player took that similar players did not (check the raw hits before acting on this; a spell only one role can take looks the same)**

- Doryhunky: 1,585,407 (mostly Searing Magma)
- Hyporock: 321,238 (mostly Savage Leap)

**Hit most of the party (not graded: everyone took it, so nobody is charged for it)**

- Searing Magma: 5/5 players, 128 hits, 6,902,592 (22% of party intake)
- Shadowbolt Volley: 4/5 players, 15 hits, 5,989,993 (19% of party intake)

## Notes

### How close the pull actually came

Eight enemies were engaged between t=10 and t=25, one about every two seconds: Feral Saberon, two Longtooth Tuskarr, Dominated Brawler, Lost Sethrak, two Enthralled Shaman, Voidtouched Magi. Their combined health, read off the log, was 104,256,387.

```
  Voidtouched Magi     19,584,073   got to   5%
  Dominated Brawler    13,824,050            26%
  Enthralled Shaman    12,672,048             2%
  Enthralled Shaman    12,672,048            29%
  Feral Saberon        12,096,045            23%
  Longtooth Tuskarr    11,520,042            22%
  Longtooth Tuskarr    11,520,042            31%
  Lost Sethrak         10,368,039            11%
```

That is 85,726,399 removed, 82.2% of the pull, and 18,529,988 left standing. Checked a second way: summing every player damage event per target agrees with each of those eight figures to within 4%, and 85,726,399 over the 2:13 the log covers is 649,442 damage per second, against the 649,090 the report's own DPS column sums to.

So they were about seventeen more seconds of fighting away, at a rate that had already collapsed, because three of the five were dead by then. Nothing was healing the enemies: no mob's health rose by more than 1.6% at any point, which is sampling noise. Bolster is not the answer either. The Longtooth Tuskarr cast it six times here and fourteen times in the +14 that cleared, and nobody purged it in either.

### The totems, and the control that settles them

Same dungeon, one key level lower, the day before, completed.

```
                          2026-09-05 +14      this +15
  totems summoned                      9             6
  totems killed                        9             3
  median time alive              2.1 sec       9.6 sec
  Searing Magma damage         5,493,835     6,902,592
  share of party intake             1.3%         21.8%
```

Nine totems over a thirty-minute key did less damage than six totems did in seventy-nine seconds. Per totem: 610,426 there, 1,150,432 here. The three that were killed here lived 9.6, 14.6 and 3.2 seconds from their first tick; every one in the +14 was dead inside three.

This is the cheapest fix in the key by a wide margin. 19,202 health is one global from anyone in the group. The 6,902,592 it cost is more damage than you healed: your whole outside-healing contribution to the party was 5,455,993.

### Which kick was worth having

The group stopped 44% of what could be stopped, and put the kicks on the wrong caster. A leaked cast is one that started and was not interrupted.

```
  Enthralled Shaman, Lava Bolt           16 casts landed   2,633,376     164,586 each   kicked 6 times
  Voidtouched Magi, Shadowbolt Volley     5 casts landed   5,989,993   1,197,999 each   kicked 3 times
```

Shadowbolt Volley is a four-second cast that lands on four of the five of you and is worth 7.3 Lava Bolts. It hit you for 569,418 a time against a 792,620 health bar, 72% of your bar in one hit, three times, and it is the named killing blow on two of the nine deaths. Six of the group's eleven kicks went to the shaman instead.

The interrupts also stopped happening. Eight of the eleven landed before 11:00:16, and only two in the thirty-six seconds after that.

### Your grade, and what the run's shape decided for it

The F is 35, and two of the four scored axes were settled by the shape of the key rather than by your play.

throughput 25 means you covered 31% of the 17,599,978 that needed an outside heal. The report already flags why that is a floor: this key asked 132,392 per second, past the 130,287 that is the 95th percentile of the 55 keys the scale was cut on. The other half of that number is that 46% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill. People were being deleted, and a heal that lands after the killing blow counts for nothing.

activity 45 means you were pressing something in 69% of the seconds you were alive and in combat. On a seventy-nine second fight where you died at 1:00, the gap that drives it is the nine seconds between coming back up and your first cast after it.

response was dropped rather than scored, because the party's worst windows cover 80% of an eighty-second fight and there is no calmer baseline left to compare them against.

What you did well: every raid cooldown went out (Avenging Wrath, Divine Toll, Aura Mastery, Beacon of Virtue twice, Blessing of Sacrifice, Blessing of Protection), which is the 100 on utility. And Divine Shield at 0:31 looks panicky until you check the health trace: you bottomed out at 1% of your health bar in the five seconds before you pressed it.

### Three things in the record that are not right

The "never pressed: Lay on Hands" line is wrong for this run. Your own Divine Shield put Forbearance on you at 10:59:43.345. It fell off at 11:00:13.132. You died at 11:00:13.145, thirteen milliseconds later. Lay on Hands was locked out for the entire window between your two big damage events, and the line should not be read as a missed press.

Divine Protection is missing from the classified set. You never pressed it here, and it is not on the never-pressed list either, because Arbiter does not classify it. You pressed it twice in the +14 an hour later, so it is on the bar. It is the one defensive that was genuinely available and unused.

Nine deaths, but three of them recovered in about two seconds with no resurrection spell anywhere in the log: Frost DK died at t=28.7 and was casting at t=30.7, you died at t=60.7 and were casting at t=63.2, Arcane Mage died at t=65.7 and was rebuffing at t=68.8. Every aura including Well Fed was stripped, so these were real deaths. I could not identify what brought them back. The seasonal affix here is 147, which Arbiter has no name for. Whether the M+ timer charged those three is not something the log records.

## Method

Each axis is scored 0 to 100 against what this run allowed, not against a fixed target. A player is only scored on things their spec can do. An axis that does not apply is left out and the other weights are scaled up. 100 means nothing was missed; a solid, even key usually lands near 75. Survival and mechanics carry no weight of their own: they start at 100 and take points off when something went wrong.

*Generated 2026-09-06T11:25:40 · schema 7 · written analysis: Claude (Opus 5), from the combat log and the archive*