# Altar of Fangs +13 — TIMED
29:44 · +1, 1% under the 30:00 par · 3 deaths · Fortified, Tyrannical, affix 147
*2026-09-07 · 13:09 · `WoWCombatLog-090726_123531.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, the archive and Warcraft Logs.
**Tip:** Divine Shield locks LoH and BoP for 30 s; plan for it
## Timed by 16 seconds while paying 45 in death penalty, and the Envenom that killed Hyporock was the dispellable one, not the one everybody was interrupting.
This key was won on the clock and nearly lost on the graveyard. The run finished 16 seconds under a 30:00 par, and the three deaths added 45 seconds to that clock. Take the deaths away and the margin is a comfortable minute; add one more and the margin is one second; add two and it depletes. Nothing else in the run came close to mattering that much.
The deaths themselves split cleanly. One was unavoidable in the sense that nothing a healer could do would have changed it. Two were not, and in both cases the player had a button available and was pressing something else.
The thing worth carrying out of this key is smaller and stranger than the deaths, though. Altar of Fangs has two entirely different abilities both called Envenom: a three-second cast from the High Evolutionist that the group interrupted 26 times, and a stacking poison that ticks on whoever it lands on. The group spent the key fighting the first one. The second one is what actually killed a player, and it is removed by a completely different button. Reading the report by name alone points at the wrong fix.
**What to change**
1. Hyporock: treat Divine Shield as spending Lay on Hands and Blessing of Protection for thirty seconds, because it does. The death came 27 seconds into a Forbearance he applied himself.
2. Hyporock: press Divine Protection on cooldown rather than saving it. It is the only major defensive Forbearance does not block, and it sat unused for 4:41 across the death.
3. Holy Paladin: cleanse priority on the Envenom poison over the Paralyzing Shots - the poison ticked 140 times and produced a killing blow; the shots did not.
4. Arcane Mage: Axegrinder gives about nine seconds between the cast starting and the damage landing. Move, or use Ice Block, which was not pressed at all this key.
5. Everyone: do not read Envenom in this dungeon's report as one ability. Kicks answer the cast, cleanses answer the poison, and the poison is the one that kills.
6. Nothing to change on interrupt coverage. The group stopped 99% of the casts it could actually reach, and the leaked ones were mostly out of range or off cooldown, not ignored.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **29:44** — 27:14 fighting |
| deaths | **3** — timer agrees (3.02 implied) |
| party damage taken | **324,431,875** — 198,539/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **159** |
| interrupts | **83/105** — 79% |
| dispels | **25/39** — 9,952,957 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Veng DH | Veng DH | tank | 315 | 165,844 | 45,587 | 80,909 | 0 | **B-** 74 |
| Holy Paladin | Holy Paladin | heal | 313 | 16,281 | 100,644 | 24,237 | 0 | **B-** 75 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 316 | 216,944 | 9,137 | 28,215 | 1 | **B-** 75 |
| Shadow Priest | Shadow Priest | dps | 312 | 198,635 | 7,418 | 28,516 | 1 | **B-** 73 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 314 | 203,014 | 17 | 23,821 | 1 | **C+** 70 |
*Gear and M+ score are from Raider.IO. Percentiles are from Warcraft Logs, against other +13 runs; WCL does not say how many. As a whole, this clear ranks 91st of 835,931 logged clears of this dungeon.*
### Veng DH — Veng DH — B- (74/100)
*M+ score 3,070 · DPS 93rd percentile*
**Where the points went**
- **-12 utility** — scored 0: 0 used of ~6 the kit offered
- **-8 interrupts (rank)** — scored 71: 36 stops vs 41 expected
- **-3 activity** — scored 78: 97% engaged while alive in combat
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **mitigation 95** [w 27%] — 99% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 96** [w 18%] — 165,844 dps, 80% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 99** [−0.2 pts] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 71** [w 27%] — 36 stops vs 41 expected (group stopped 99% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 78** [w 15%] — 97% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 12%] — 0 used of ~6 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Darkness_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Felblade, Fracture, Soul Cleave, Soul Fragment_
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **throughput 81** [w 34%] — covered 79% of the 189,943,604 that needed an outside heal (43% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 12,762,684 absorbed
- **response 62** [w 25%] — put back 39% of the 83,779,965 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 80** [w 16%] — 25/28 of what one dispeller could reach (39 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 94** [w 15%] — 94% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 47** [w 10%] — 25 used of ~92 the kit offered
- _overcapped Holy Power: 247 of 997 generated (25%)_
- _never pressed: Blessing of Protection, Blessing of Sacrifice, Lay on Hands_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Reclamation_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.0 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 80** [w 42%] — 216,944 dps, 109% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 75** [w 32%] — 16 stops vs 20 expected (group stopped 99% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 87** [w 26%] — 96% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 88** [w 0%] — 17 used of ~78 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Blinding Light_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Crusading Strikes_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.0 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 72** [w 42%] — 198,635 dps, 94% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 95** [w 32%] — 18 stops vs 10 expected (group stopped 99% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 65** [w 26%] — 90% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~13 the kit offered
- _overcapped Insanity: 46 of 6,476 generated (1%)_
- _never pressed: Dispel Magic, Mass Dispel_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Shadowy Apparition, Void Volley_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.0 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 75** [w 42%] — 203,014 dps, 97% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 79** [w 32%] — 12 stops vs 12 expected (group stopped 99% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 72** [w 26%] — 93% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~70 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Ice Block, Remove Curse, Spellsteal_