# Temple of Sethraliss +14 — DEPLETED
33:49 · 6% over the 32:00 par · 6 deaths · Tyrannical, Fortified, affix 147
*2026-09-11 · 18:19 · `WoWCombatLog-091126_180651.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:** No defensive: Corruption Burst killed 4, nothing pressed (group); Too slow: route was 18 s over before any death (group)
**Tip:** Divine Protection before Avatar's adds reach burst range
## One Corruption Burst killed four of five on the first Avatar attempt, and the 90 seconds those deaths added to the timer is 83% of the 1:48 this key finished over par.
Everything died and the key still went. The group's real elapsed time was 32:19 against a 32:01 par, so they were eighteen seconds short before a single death was counted. Six deaths at fifteen seconds each turned eighteen into a hundred and eight.
Five of those six deaths are one event. At 26:44, two hundred and twenty-four seconds into the first Avatar of Sethraliss attempt, a Corruption Burst from the Lifeforce adds hit four players for 1.3-1.4 million each inside four tenths of a second. Nobody had a defensive up. The retry then cost another 247 seconds, and the first attempt's 242 seconds were spent for nothing.
On damage: three damage dealers, and Hyporock was the third of them at 86% of the other two's median, which is what put that axis at 66 rather than the 75 the scale calls average. Warcraft Logs, comparing him only against other Retribution Paladins in +14 Temple of Sethraliss, puts the run at the 13th percentile, with Destro Lock at the 16th and the whole clear at the 37th percentile of every logged run of this dungeon. This was a slow key and he was at the slow end of it, but the deaths, not the damage, are what the timer lost to.
**What to change**
1. On Avatar of Sethraliss, press Divine Protection before the Lifeforce adds are in burst range rather than after - it was 3.5 minutes off cooldown when Corruption Burst killed four of five, and the burst is instant, so there is nothing to react to.
2. Keep the utility exactly as played. It cost roughly 5,300 damage per second at the ceiling and bought 23 interrupt stops, 8 dispels, a battle resurrection and 2.8 million in absorbs - and the global cooldowns it used were sitting idle anyway.
3. Work the Blade of Justice tail, not the cadence. The median gap of 9.03 seconds is correct; the 19 gaps over twenty seconds are where the damage is, and they are worth about 14 seconds a minute.
4. Do not read Merektha as a personal failure. Same targets, same priority, highest press rate of the key - Arcane out-bursts Retribution on a snake pile and that is the spec, not the play.
5. For the group: the route had eighteen seconds of debt before anybody died. Even a clean run of this route depletes unless something is trimmed.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **33:49** — 29:40 fighting |
| deaths | **6** — timer agrees (6.04 implied) |
| party damage taken | **261,606,080** — 147,003/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **244** |
| interrupts | **77/130** — 59% |
| dispels | **17/48** — 13,342,342 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Doryhunky | Veng DH | tank | 318 | 98,617 | 37,061 | 64,400 | 1 | **C+** 68 |
| Disc Priest | Disc Priest | heal | 321 | 18,656 | 82,515 | 15,722 | 2 | **C** 65 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 320 | 249,832 | 1,440 | 17,805 | 1 | **B** 78 |
| Destro Lock | Destro Lock | dps | 319 | 204,641 | 2,606 | 19,366 | 1 | **C+** 68 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 320 | 195,411 | 4,958 | 17,056 | 1 | **C** 67 |
*Gear and M+ score are from Raider.IO. Percentiles are from Warcraft Logs, against other +14 runs; WCL does not say how many. As a whole, this clear ranks 37th of 886,805 logged clears of this dungeon.*
### Doryhunky — Veng DH — C+ (68/100)
*M+ score 3,219 · DPS 5th percentile*
**Where the points went**
- **-8 interrupts (rank)** — scored 70: 32 stops vs 37 expected
- **-8 damage (rank)** — scored 55: 98,617 dps, 46% of the average DPS
- **-6 activity** — scored 61: 95% engaged while alive in combat
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.6 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **mitigation 92** [w 27%] — 99% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 55** [w 18%] — 98,617 dps, 46% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 70** [w 27%] — 32 stops vs 37 expected (group stopped 75% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 61** [w 15%] — 95% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 86** [w 12%] — 2 used of ~5 the kit offered
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Felblade, Fracture, Soul Cleave, Soul Fragment, Throw Glaive_
All axes
- **survival− 61** [−5.8 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **throughput 99** [w 34%] — covered 98% of the 207,586,320 that needed an outside heal (44% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 69,183,037 absorbed
- **response 52** [w 25%] — put back 35% of the 81,458,787 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 65** [w 16%] — 17/35 of what one dispeller could reach (48 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 80** [w 15%] — 91% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 19** [w 10%] — 23 used of ~212 the kit offered
All axes
- **survival− 86** [−2.5 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 88** [w 42%] — 249,832 dps, 125% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 79** [w 32%] — 11 stops vs 11 expected (group stopped 75% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 70** [w 26%] — 92% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 84** [w 0%] — 8 used of ~76 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Ice Block, Remove Curse_
All axes
- **survival− 86** [−2.5 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 71** [w 42%] — 204,641 dps, 92% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 88** [−2.5 pts] — 3% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 79** [w 32%] — 11 stops vs 11 expected (group stopped 75% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 70** [w 26%] — 92% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _overcapped Soul Shards: 8 of 72 generated (11%)_
All axes
- **survival− 86** [−2.5 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 66** [w 42%] — 195,411 dps, 86% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 79** [−4.2 pts] — 5% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 84** [w 32%] — 23 stops vs 18 expected (group stopped 75% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 73** [w 26%] — 93% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 89** [w 0%] — 24 used of ~93 the kit offered
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Crusading Strikes_