# Murder Row +15 — ABANDONED
18:14 · -46% over the 34:00 par · 3 deaths · Tyrannical, Fortified, affix 147
*2026-09-12 · 18:44 · `WoWCombatLog-091226_174820.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:** Player left: healer stopped casting at 15:40 (Holy Priest)
**Tip:** Divine Protection in the same breath as Sacrifice
## On pace with two bosses down at 13:25, the key ended when the healer stopped casting at 15:40; your own death on Zaen was a Sacrifice you cast and then played through.
This key was not lost by anything you did. Kystia died at 8:27 and Zaen at 13:25 against a 34:01 timer — a timeable pace; the earlier key had the third boss down at 20:36. Then, in the trash after Zaen, the healer's last cast of the entire key landed at 15:40. Arcane Mage was channelled to death by Drain Life from 15:39 to 15:45 and Demo Lock from 15:59 to 16:07 with no healing on either; the healer's Fortitude left the party at 17:50 and the log stops at 18:14. A disconnect and a quit look the same from here.
Your death at 10:01 is the one thing on your sheet worth studying, and the pipeline misreads it. It says a Warehouse Worker's melee killed you; what emptied your bar was your own Blessing of Sacrifice, which moved 1,087,828 of the tank's damage onto you in 6.4 seconds — 124% of your health — an event the pipeline does not read. The instinct was right — the tank was at 7% — but your Lay on Hands 1.3 s later did the saving alone, and 97% of the transferred damage arrived after it. You then opened Avenging Wrath at 42% with the Sacrifice still running, and Divine Protection was off cooldown and unpressed.
Your damage sat at 75–80% of the lock and 85–100% of the mage in every window with all three alive, at equal item level — where the archive's same-spec control says Retribution sits next to a strong Demonology lock, not a mistake. Cooldowns, kicks and potions were on schedule.
**What to change**
1. When you Sacrifice the tank, press Divine Protection in the same breath and stop pressing damage until it ends — 30% of a tank's intake is more than your bar can hold at +15. If Lay on Hands is up, use it alone; it saves the tank without moving anything onto you, and here 97% of the split arrived after the LoH had already done the job.
2. Never open Avenging Wrath below 50% with Sacrifice running.
3. Cleanse Toxins on the tank every time Heartstop Poison lands when the healer is a priest — nobody else in the group can, and it is −30% max health plus 873k over 15 s.
4. Close the Blade of Justice gaps on bosses: 14 casts in Kystia's 180 seconds where 20 fit.
5. Nothing to change on cooldowns, kicks or potions — Wings 15 for 15, Wake 27, Toll 14, 13 kicks against 10 expected, 4 potions in 18 minutes.
6. To the group, not you: Drain Life cannot be interrupted or stunned, so Corrupted Warlocks are the kill target and the healer's target for those 7 seconds; a DPS with Ice Block should press it.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **18:14** — 14:33 fighting |
| deaths | **3** |
| party damage taken | **317,517,138** — 363,541/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **101** |
| interrupts | **42/94** — 45% |
| dispels | **13/17** — 5,280,926 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Blood DK | Blood DK | tank | 318 | 123,355 | 65,706 | 185,113 | 0 | **C-** 62 |
| Holy Priest | Holy Priest | heal | 318 | 16,680 | 116,033 | 24,916 | 0 | **D+** 57 |
| Demo Lock | Demo Lock | dps | 320 | 296,411 | 3,337 | 26,340 | 1 | **A-** 85 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 313 | 244,504 | 2,328 | 24,398 | 1 | **C+** 70 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 320 | 218,610 | 8,714 | 29,452 | 1 | **C** 67 |
*Gear and M+ score are from Raider.IO. No Warcraft Logs percentiles: not on warcraft logs (nobody uploaded this key).*
### Blood DK — Blood DK — C- (62/100)
*M+ score 3,118*
**Where the points went**
- **-12 mitigation** — scored 57: 59% uptime of the 75% this kit can hold, 75% of worst windows covered
- **-11 interrupts (rank)** — scored 61: 13 stops vs 20 expected
- **-7 damage (rank)** — scored 59: 123,355 dps, 49% of the average DPS
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **mitigation 57** [w 27%] — 59% uptime of the 75% this kit can hold, 75% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 59** [w 18%] — 123,355 dps, 49% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 61** [w 27%] — 13 stops vs 20 expected (group stopped 66% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 59** [w 15%] — 94% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 80** [w 12%] — 1 used of ~4 the kit offered
- _overcapped Runic Power: 624 of 7,856 generated (8%)_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Infliction of Sorrow_
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **throughput 44** [w 34%] — covered 54% of the 215,946,583 that needed an outside heal (33% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 10,555,077 absorbed; NOTE this key asked 197,380/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 46** [w 25%] — put back 31% of the 139,668,105 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 82** [w 16%] — 13/14 of what one dispeller could reach (17 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 53** [w 15%] — 80% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 100** [w 10%] — 35 used of ~20 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Desperate Prayer, Mass Dispel_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.0 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 90** [w 42%] — 296,411 dps, 129% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 96** [w 32%] — 12 stops vs 6 expected (group stopped 66% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 81** [w 26%] — 95% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _overcapped Soul Shards: 10 of 581 generated (2%)_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.0 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 72** [w 42%] — 244,504 dps, 94% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 67** [w 32%] — 3 stops vs 6 expected (group stopped 66% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 88** [w 26%] — 96% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 85** [w 0%] — 5 used of ~37 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Ice Block, Spellsteal_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.0 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 62** [w 42%] — 218,610 dps, 80% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 85** [w 32%] — 13 stops vs 10 expected (group stopped 66% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 71** [w 26%] — 93% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 90** [w 0%] — 15 used of ~52 the kit offered
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Avenging Wrath, Crusading Strikes_