# Murder Row +14 — TIMED
27:12 · +2, 20% under the 34:00 par · 4 deaths · Tyrannical, Fortified, affix 147
*2026-09-12 · 22:53 · `WoWCombatLog-091226_225225.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.
**Tip:** Blinding Light the imp packs on Lithiel
## Two chests by one second with no deaths on your sheet — and the Shaman's Skyfury is why your swings, Holy Power and damage all jumped tonight.
Nothing was lost here. 27:12 against a 34:01 par is a two-chest run, and the two-chest line is 27:13 — the four deaths' 1:00 of penalty came within a second of costing it. Balance Druid died three times without pressing a defensive in any of them, and Resto Shaman, a 302 item-level healer in a 320 party, died once; three of the four were to damage every player took (Xathuux's Fel Lightning hit all five of you 24 to 33 times, Defiled Slam six or seven times each) and the last to Lithiel's imps.
You finished at 254k, 104% of the other two damage dealers and the best Murder Row number you have posted as Retribution, up from 219k and 229k in the two +15s earlier tonight. The main reason is not something you changed. This group had a Resto Shaman, and Skyfury logged 272 extra attacks on you — 22% of your swings doubled — taking your auto-attacks from 28 a minute in the 18:44 key to 38 here, and everything that hangs off them. The three top parses this key was measured against all had a Shaman too. What the earlier write-up called an unexplained mechanism was their composition.
Your own play was the night's cleanest: 18 interrupts against 20 expected, eight Cleanse Toxins, five Lay on Hands and a battle resurrection spent on other people, five Sacrifices on the tank, cleanly this time. The one number that went the wrong way is Holy Power waste, 32%, with Blade of Justice pressed at cap 70 times.
**What to change**
1. Nothing to change on kicks, cleanses, externals or cooldowns — this is the key to keep doing.
2. Spend on three before pressing a plain Blade of Justice: 70 Blades landed at cap, and Skyfury fills the bar faster than it did before.
3. Bring or find a Shaman when you can — Skyfury is worth about a third more auto-attacks for a Retribution Paladin, and it is most of the gap between your 219k and 254k tonight.
4. Blinding Light the imp packs on Lithiel the moment they land; 134 Felfire Bursts got through and one of them was the last death.
5. To Balance Druid, not you: three deaths, zero defensives, and Ursol's Vortex, Typhoon and Incapacitating Roar never pressed.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **27:12** — 23:05 fighting |
| deaths | **4** — timer agrees (4.03 implied) |
| party damage taken | **361,075,235** — 260,723/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **151** |
| interrupts | **101/277** — 36% |
| dispels | **17/21** — 1,178,365 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Veng DH | Veng DH | tank | 320 | 122,364 | 54,791 | 112,857 | 0 | **B-** 75 |
| Resto Shaman | Resto Shaman | heal | 302 | 44,343 | 115,206 | 30,905 | 1 | **D+** 59 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 321 | 268,802 | 442 | 21,699 | 0 | **B** 76 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 320 | 254,262 | 7,906 | 33,529 | 0 | **B** 76 |
| Balance Druid | Balance | dps | 315 | 204,725 | 3,689 | 29,582 | 3 | **D** 53 |
*Gear and M+ score are from Raider.IO. No Warcraft Logs percentiles: not on warcraft logs (nobody uploaded this key).*
### Veng DH — Veng DH — B- (75/100)
*M+ score 3,176*
**Where the points went**
- **-12 utility** — scored 0: 0 used of ~4 the kit offered
- **-7 damage (rank)** — scored 62: 122,364 dps, 50% of the average DPS
- **-3 activity** — scored 78: 97% engaged while alive in combat
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **mitigation 96** [w 27%] — 100% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 62** [w 18%] — 122,364 dps, 50% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 96** [w 27%] — 64 stops vs 40 expected (group stopped 86% 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 ~4 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Darkness_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Demon Spikes, Fracture, Soul Fragment, Throw Glaive_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−4.2 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **throughput 56** [w 29%] — covered 69% of the 232,692,438 that needed an outside heal (36% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 7,262,706 absorbed; NOTE this key asked 147,302/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 56** [w 21%] — put back 37% of the 102,878,922 that landed in the party's worst windows
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 35** [w 15%] — 10 stops vs 25 expected (group stopped 86% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **dispel 82** [w 14%] — 17/18 of what one dispeller could reach (21 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 79** [w 12%] — 91% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 100** [w 8%] — 27 used of ~17 the kit offered
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **damage~ 82** [w 42%] — 268,803 dps, 113% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 72** [w 32%] — 8 stops vs 12 expected (group stopped 86% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 73** [w 26%] — 93% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 77** [w 0%] — 2 used of ~59 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Ice Block_
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **damage~ 78** [w 42%] — 254,262 dps, 104% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 77** [w 32%] — 18 stops vs 20 expected (group stopped 86% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 71** [w 26%] — 93% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 88** [w 0%] — 19 used of ~83 the kit offered
- _overcapped Holy Power: 532 of 1,684 generated (32%)_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Crusading Strikes_
All axes
- **survival− 28** [−13.0 pts] — 3 death(s)
- **damage~ 65** [w 42%] — 204,725 dps, 84% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 53** [w 32%] — 1 stops vs 5 expected (group stopped 86% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 84** [w 26%] — 96% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 79** [w 0%] — 2 used of ~45 the kit offered
- _overcapped Astral Power: 817 of 6,598 generated (12%)_
- _never pressed: Incapacitating Roar, Typhoon, Ursol's Vortex_