# The Blinding Vale +16 — ABANDONED
2:13 · -93% over the 30:00 par · 7 deaths · Tyrannical, Fortified, affix 147
*2026-09-13 · 18:37 · `WoWCombatLog-091326_175855.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: ran pack 1 into the Belcher pack, 17 mobs (Veng DH); Wrong target: Lightgorged Lashers never killed (group)
**Tip:** Step out of Belch Spores
## Seventeen mobs at once and the two that heal the grove left alive: Pollen Surge put back 46M of the 133M dealt, and the party took three times the damage of a normal opener.
Abandoned at 2:07 after one pull and seven deaths, and the pull is the whole answer. The tank took the first pack of the grove at 0:12 and, ten seconds later, ran it 80 yards forward into the Sporeblight Belcher's pack -- 17 mobs and 150M of health engaged as one. The two timed keys on this side of the dungeon in the archive (the +13 on 09-01 and the +12 on 08-29) pulled the first pack alone, 14-15 mobs, killed it in about seventy seconds with nobody dying, and took the Belcher pack afterwards.
It was not a healing problem. From first contact to the healer's death the party took 480k damage a second, melee counted once; the +13's first pack alone did 159k a second, and the +12's the same. Holy Priest put back 225k a second of effective healing over those 89 seconds -- two and a half times what the +13's healer needed on that pack -- and it was never going to be enough. The tank never fell below 6% and self-healed 17.8M on top of it.
The part nobody could see is why the pull stayed unwinnable after the first two deaths. The two Lightgorged Lashers cast Lightbloom Pollination every twenty seconds, a heal-over-time on every plant in the pack ticking 5% of maximum health. It put back 46.4M -- 35% of the 133M the party dealt. All eight small Lashers were killed first; neither Lightgorged Lasher was killed at all.
**What to change**
1. Veng DH: pull the first grove pack by itself and fight it where it stands; the Belcher pack is its own pull. Both timed keys on this side did exactly that with zero deaths.
2. Kill order in the grove: Lightgorged Lashers first, always -- they are the pack's healers and nothing else removes Pollen Surge. Then the Radiant Spellsower, then the Stalkers. The small Lashers die to cleave; leave them.
3. Assign Light Bolt Volley. Four-second cast, roughly 570k on everyone, kickable; four kicks were up when it went out at 0:31, and it is what turned the first Floret into two deaths.
4. Ele Shaman: Astral Shift into the first Spouting Floret, not after Reincarnation. Hyporock: Belch Spores reached a player on one of three casts -- it is dodgeable, and it was the only avoidable death in the key.
5. Holy Priest: nothing to change on output. 225k a second effective, Guardian Spirit on a 6% tank, Divine Hymn the moment the first two dropped. The 33 is the pull, not you.
6. Fury Warrior at 302 item level is 18 below the party in a +16; that is the first thing to fix, ahead of anything in the play.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **2:13** — 1:55 fighting |
| deaths | **7** |
| party damage taken | **68,186,476** — 592,926/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **8** |
| interrupts | **11/17** — 65% |
| dispels | **7/9** — 2,011,197 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Veng DH | Veng DH | tank | 320 | 280,450 | 133,528 | 297,578 | 0 | **B** 80 |
| Holy Priest | Holy Priest | heal | 320 | 7,648 | 157,222 | 55,503 | 1 | **D+** 58 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 320 | 328,151 | 21,436 | 52,346 | 2 | **B+** 83 |
| Ele Shaman | Ele Shaman | dps | 321 | 265,970 | 11,337 | 54,828 | 2 | **B-** 74 |
| Fury Warrior | Fury | dps | 302 | 161,035 | 11,809 | 51,664 | 2 | **D-** 50 |
*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 (80/100)
*M+ score 3,176*
**Where the points went**
- **-12 interrupts (rank)** — scored 60: 3 stops vs 5 expected
- **-6 mitigation** — scored 81: 97% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **-1 activity** — scored 93: 98% engaged while alive in combat
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **mitigation 81** [w 31%] — 97% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 99** [w 21%] — 280,450 dps, 111% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 97** [−0.4 pts] — 1% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 60** [w 31%] — 3 stops vs 5 expected (group stopped 69% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 93** [w 17%] — 98% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _never pressed: Darkness, Imprison_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Fracture, Soul Cleave, Soul Fragment, Spirit Bomb, Throw Glaive_
All axes
- **survival− 86** [−2.1 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **throughput 33** [w 46%] — covered 41% of the 38,439,487 that needed an outside heal (43% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 534,276 absorbed; NOTE this key asked 288,589/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 83% of a 115s fight -- there is no separate baseline left to have risen from
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts** — n/a. no interrupt on the bar
- **dispel 100** [w 22%] — 7/7 of what one dispeller could reach (9 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 52** [w 20%] — 79% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 100** [w 13%] — 10 used of ~3 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Dispel Magic, Mass Dispel, Psychic Scream_
All axes
- **survival− 61** [−7.0 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **damage~ 98** [w 42%] — 328,151 dps, 186% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 70** [w 32%] — 1 stops vs 2 expected (group stopped 69% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 100** [w 26%] — 100% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 97** [w 0%] — 3 used of ~5 the kit offered
- _overcapped Holy Power: 46 of 116 generated (40%)_
- _never pressed: Blinding Light, Cleanse Toxins_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Crusading Strikes_
All axes
- **survival− 61** [−7.0 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **damage~ 75** [w 42%] — 265,970 dps, 98% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 84** [w 32%] — 3 stops vs 2 expected (group stopped 69% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 85** [w 26%] — 96% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~4 the kit offered
- _overcapped Maelstrom: 27 of 862 generated (3%)_
- _never pressed: Cleanse Spirit, Purge_
All axes
- **survival− 61** [−7.0 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **damage~ 36** [w 42%] — 161,035 dps, 47% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 96** [w 32%] — 4 stops vs 2 expected (group stopped 69% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 43** [w 26%] — 67% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _overcapped Rage: 113 of 804 generated (14%)_
- _never pressed: Rallying Cry, Shockwave_