# Ruby Life Pools +16 — ABANDONED

3:35 · -87% over the 28:00 par · 7 deaths · Tyrannical, Fortified, affix 147

*2026-09-14 · 20:28 · `WoWCombatLog-091426_193554.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: kept pulling after the healer died, 21 mobs (Doryhunky); No defensive: healer one-shot by Blast Chunks (Mistweaver Monk)

## The healer was one-shot at 0:27 and the tank kept going anyway — three packs chained across 220 yards, 21 mobs, ending on Defier Draghar — and everyone was dead by 3:15.

Abandoned at 3:34 after one pull that never ended. The tank engaged the first Earthshaper pack at 0:10 and was 123 yards on by 0:27 with ten mobs live; that is the second he lost his healer — Mistweaver Monk took Blast Chunks from a Primal Juggernaut for 925,883 in one hit, with nothing pressed. Most of those ten were dead by 1:35, with the healer back up on a resurrection and the mage dead at 1:28 to Excavating Blast. Then, instead of resetting, the tank moved 60 yards on and picked up seven more, and at 3:02, 223 yards from the start, three more and Defier Draghar. He died at 3:08 under 4.6 M of melee in eleven seconds and the other four followed within seven.

Sixteen of the twenty-one enemies did die, which is what the tank will point at; it took 3:06 of combat at 289k of party damage per second with the healer dead for part of it. The point where this was still a key was 0:27 — the moment to finish what was already live and reset, not the moment to keep walking.

Hyporock's B- is the one grade here that means something: 327k, top damage, four kicks, a Sacrifice on the tank as he went down, and one death at the very end with everyone else. Nothing in his sheet is why this ended.

**What to change**

1. Tank: when the healer dies at 0:27 the pull is finished where it stands. The eleven enemies engaged after that were a choice, and the last four of them were Defier Draghar's pack.
2. Kick Ice Shield on the Flashfrost Chillweavers — it is a channel, it is kickable, and the two that got through ate 8.55 M of the party's damage.
3. Healer and DPS: Frostbolt leaked 13 of 29 and was a killing blow; the healer stopped nothing and each DPS stopped three.
4. Nothing to change for Hyporock — top damage, kicks on par, the Sacrifice was right, and the death was the wipe's.

## The run

| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **3:35** — 3:06 fighting |
| deaths | **7** |
| party damage taken | **82,498,475** — 443,302/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **16** |
| interrupts | **21/36** — 58% |

## Players

| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Doryhunky | Veng DH | tank | 318 | 165,903 | 80,480 | 190,887 | 1 | **B** 78 |
| Mistweaver Monk | Mistweaver | heal | 320 | 51,037 | 155,040 | 49,556 | 2 | **F** 32 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 320 | 327,038 | 18,056 | 55,136 | 1 | **B-** 73 |
| Demo Lock | Demo Lock | dps | 321 | 314,384 | 18,755 | 53,039 | 1 | **C+** 71 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 321 | 305,481 | 3,545 | 35,956 | 2 | **C** 67 |

*Gear and M+ score are from Raider.IO. No Warcraft Logs percentiles: not on warcraft logs (nobody uploaded this key).*

### Doryhunky — Veng DH — B (78/100)

*M+ score 3,219*

**Where the points went**

- **-7 damage (rank)** — scored 64: 165,903 dps, 53% of the average DPS
- **-7 mitigation** — scored 77: 96% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **-4 interrupts (rank)** — scored 88: 10 stops vs 8 expected

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 86** [−2.8 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **mitigation 77** [w 31%] — 96% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 64** [w 21%] — 165,903 dps, 53% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 88** [w 31%] — 10 stops vs 8 expected (group stopped 70% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 95** [w 17%] — 98% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _never pressed: Imprison_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Demon Spikes, Felblade, Fracture, Soul Cleave, Soul Fragment, Throw Glaive_

</details>

### Mistweaver Monk — Mistweaver — F (32/100)

**Where the points went**

- **-22 throughput** — scored 47: covered 58% of the 51,964,217 that needed an outside heal (39% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 4,838,178 absorbed
- **-20 dispel** — scored 0: 0 dispels cast in a key with 49 sustained damaging debuffs
- **-17 interrupts (rank)** — scored 22: 1 stops vs 4 expected

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 61** [−5.8 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **throughput 47** [w 41%] — covered 58% of the 51,964,217 that needed an outside heal (39% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 4,838,178 absorbed; NOTE this key asked 242,236/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 82% of a 186s 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~ 22** [w 22%] — 1 stops vs 4 expected (group stopped 70% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **dispel 0** [w 20%] — 0 dispels cast in a key with 49 sustained damaging debuffs
- **activity 79** [w 18%] — 91% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _never pressed: Diffuse Magic_

</details>

### Hyporock — Ret Paladin — B- (73/100)

*M+ score 3,279*

**Where the points went**

- **-9 damage (rank)** — scored 79: 327,038 dps, 106% of the other damage dealers' median
- **-8 activity** — scored 67: 91% engaged while alive in combat
- **-7 interrupts (rank)** — scored 79: 4 stops vs 4 expected

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 86** [−2.5 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 79** [w 42%] — 327,038 dps, 106% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 79** [w 32%] — 4 stops vs 4 expected (group stopped 70% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 67** [w 26%] — 91% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 90** [w 0%] — 3 used of ~11 the kit offered
- _overcapped Holy Power: 83 of 239 generated (35%)_
- _never pressed: Blessing of Protection, Blinding Light, Cleanse Toxins_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Crusading Strikes_

</details>

### Demo Lock — Demo Lock — C+ (71/100)

*M+ score 3,334*

**Where the points went**

- **-11 damage (rank)** — scored 73: 314,385 dps, 95% of the other damage dealers' median
- **-10 activity** — scored 63: 89% engaged while alive in combat
- **-6 interrupts (rank)** — scored 82: 3 stops vs 3 expected

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 86** [−2.5 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 73** [w 42%] — 314,385 dps, 95% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 82** [w 32%] — 3 stops vs 3 expected (group stopped 70% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 63** [w 26%] — 89% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _overcapped Soul Shards: 4 of 96 generated (4%)_

</details>

### Arcane Mage — Arcane Mage — C (67/100)

**Where the points went**

- **-10 activity** — scored 60: 88% engaged while alive in combat
- **-10 damage (rank)** — scored 75: 305,481 dps, 99% of the other damage dealers' median
- **-7 survival** — scored 61: 2 death(s)

<details><summary>All axes</summary>

- **survival− 61** [−7.0 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **damage~ 75** [w 42%] — 305,481 dps, 99% 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 70% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 60** [w 26%] — 88% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~8 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Greater Invisibility, Ice Block, Remove Curse, Spellsteal_

</details>

*Axes marked ~ are ranked against the other players in this key, not measured on their own. Someone is always in the middle.*

## Deaths

7 deaths in 3 separate incidents. The wipe at 3:09 (5 deaths in 7s) was the big one.

**What was landing while people died** — Counts only the seconds before each death, not the whole key.

| spell | in | damage | killing blows |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Melee | 5 of 7 | 9,696,411 | 3 |
| Excavating Blast | 5 of 7 | 1,700,705 | 1 |
| Blast Chunks | 1 of 7 | 925,883 | 1 |
| Earthbound's Imprint | 1 of 7 | 530,828 | 1 |
| Frostbolt | 1 of 7 | 346,687 | 1 |
| Tectonic Strike | 1 of 7 | 332,131 | — |

### Death · 0:28 · Mistweaver Monk · heal

**0:28 · Mistweaver Monk · heal** — killed by **Blast Chunks** for 925,883 from Primal Juggernaut

took **1,137,423** · in **1.0 s** · health at the start **88%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 3.0s before | Excavating Blast | 160,248 |
| 2.1s before | Excavating Blast | 42,801 |
| 0.9s before | Excavating Blast | 102,620 |
| 0.9s before | Rune of Void-Tainted Shell | 899 |
| at death | Blast Chunks (killing blow) | 925,883 |
| at death | Excavating Blast | 108,021 |
| | 1 smaller hits | 450 |

**no defensive pressed** · 174,389 healed · all their own

### Death · 1:29 · Arcane Mage · dps

**1:29 · Arcane Mage · dps** — killed by **Excavating Blast** for 90,603 from Primal Juggernaut

took **953,332** · in **7.0 s** · health at the start **60%** · before the last hit **8%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 6.8s before | Excavating Blast | 302,930 |
| 5.9s before | Excavating Blast | 96,387 |
| 4.8s before | Excavating Blast | 96,388 |
| 4.0s before | Excavating Blast | 96,387 |
| 2.0s before | Excavating Blast | 90,604 |
| 0.9s before | Excavating Blast | 90,604 |
| | 8 smaller hits | 180,032 |

**no defensive pressed** · 172,690 healed · Mistweaver Monk

### Full wipe · 3:09 · 5 deaths in 7s — the tank went first

**3:09 · Doryhunky · tank** — killed by **Melee** for 310,831 from Defier Draghar

took **5,002,041** · in **11.5 s** · before the last hit **34%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 7.2s before | Melee | 463,754 |
| 5.4s before | Melee | 460,532 |
| 2.9s before | Melee | 591,188 |
| 1.4s before | Melee | 385,068 |
| 0.7s before | Melee | 399,824 |
| at death | Melee (killing blow) | 957,962 |
| | 9 smaller hits | 1,743,713 |

Demon Spikes -4.5s · Blessing of Sacrifice · Hyporock -0.2s · 1,393,549 healed · Hyporock, Mistweaver Monk

**3:09 · Hyporock · dps** — killed by **Melee** for 265,385 from Deepstone Earthshaper

took **1,697,207** · in **14.6 s** · health at the start **23%** · before the last hit **52%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 14.2s before | Excavating Blast | 100,773 |
| 13.3s before | Excavating Blast | 99,701 |
| 12.3s before | Excavating Blast | 51,593 |
| 11.4s before | Excavating Blast | 78,220 |
| 11.4s before | Rune of Void-Tainted Shell | 877 |
| at death | Melee (killing blow) | 1,364,298 |
| | 2 smaller hits | 1,745 |

**no defensive pressed** · 829,182 healed · Doryhunky, Mistweaver Monk

**3:10 · Arcane Mage · dps** — killed by **Earthbound's Imprint** for 86,058 from Earthbound Guardian

took **1,661,643** · in **14.3 s** · health at the start **55%** · before the last hit **6%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 5.8s before | Earthbound's Imprint | 151,007 |
| 4.9s before | Earthbound's Imprint | 107,573 |
| 4.0s before | Earthbound's Imprint | 107,573 |
| 2.7s before | Earthbound's Imprint | 78,617 |
| at death | Melee | 870,936 |
| at death | Earthbound's Imprint (killing blow) | 86,058 |
| | 14 smaller hits | 259,879 |

Prismatic Barrier -2.8s · 685,369 healed · Hyporock, Mistweaver Monk

**3:14 · Mistweaver Monk · heal** — killed by **Frostbolt** for 346,687 from Flashfrost Chillweaver

took **1,892,121** · in **1.6 s**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1.5s before | Melee | 222,470 |
| 1.1s before | Melee | 1,322,964 |
| at death | Frostbolt (killing blow) | 346,687 |

**no defensive pressed** · 123,716 healed · all their own

**3:15 · Demo Lock · dps** — killed by **Melee** for 329,948 from Earthbound Guardian

took **1,299,117** · in **2.0 s** · before the last hit **26%**

| when | what | damage |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1.9s before | Melee | 24,258 |
| 1.5s before | Fel Armor | 2,108 |
| 1.1s before | Melee | 615,884 |
| 0.4s before | Fel Armor | 1,188 |
| at death | Melee (killing blow) | 655,679 |

Dark Pact -4.0s · 11,631 healed · Mistweaver Monk

## Where the time went

| | seconds | |
|---|---:|---|
| combat | 186 | 3:06 |
| death penalty | 105 | 1:45 |
| lead in | 11 | 0:11 |

Costliest pulls — *Cost is the time the pull lost: a wipe loses the whole pull, a pull that held loses only its deaths.*

| pull | at | fighting | enemies | deaths | taken | cost |
|---:|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 | 0:11 | 3:06 | 16 | 7 | 80,065,886 | 4:51 |

## What the group left up

**Casts that could have been interrupted and were not**

- Frostbolt: 13 of 29 got through
- Ice Shield: 2 of 7 got through

**Party damage eaten by shields on the enemies: 3.3% of what was dealt never landed (not graded)**

- 8,552,428 absorbed of 249,666,643 landed
- Ice Shield: 8,552,428
- on: Deepstone Earthshaper (4,555,831), Earthbound Guardian (3,996,597)

**Hit most of the party (not graded: everyone took it, so nobody is charged for it)**

- Excavating Blast: 5/5 players, 221 hits, 21,326,585 (26% of party intake)

**Aimed at most of the party (the targeted player is not charged; hits on anyone else could have been avoided)**

- Earthbound's Imprint: 4/5 players, 102 hits, 11,133,176 (14% of party intake)

## Notes

### Whose fault: one decision, seven deaths

The log's positions on each player's own casts put the tank 123 yards from his first cast at 0:27, 182 yards on by 1:50, and 223 yards on at 3:06. Real enemies by first contact — a hit or a cast, the warlock's own Nether Portal demons excluded — run 8 by 0:20, 10 by 0:27, 17 by 2:00, 21 by 3:02. Three packs in one fight, with the second and third pulled after the healer had already died once.

**Mistweaver Monk, 0:27.** Blast Chunks, 925,883 in one hit, plus an Excavating Blast tick. No defensive, and there was no time for one — the Juggernaut's chunks land where they land. She was back on her feet (172k of her healing lands on the mage at 1:28) and died again at 3:13 to 1.55 M of melee in 1.6 s.

**Arcane Mage, 1:28.** Excavating Blast for 922k over seven seconds, nothing pressed; Prismatic Barrier was up for the second death at 3:10, which was 1.66 M over fourteen seconds.

**The wipe, 3:08–3:15.** The tank first, to Defier Draghar's melee, 5.0 M in 11.5 s with Demon Spikes and Hyporock's Blessing of Sacrifice both on him; then Hyporock (1.36 M of melee over 14.6 s, nothing pressed — Divine Shield had gone at 0:24 and Lay on Hands at 0:47, both on cooldown), the mage, the healer, the warlock. Five deaths in seven seconds is what a tank dying under twenty mobs looks like.

### What the pack did, and the two things that were stoppable

Excavating Blast was 26% of everything the party took — 221 hits, 21.3 M, on all five — and Earthbound's Imprint another 13%. Those are the Juggernaut's and the Guardians' baseline output at this pull size; they are unavoidable only in the sense that nobody can move out of four sources at once.

Two things were stoppable. Frostbolt got through 13 of 29 times, and it was the killing blow on the healer's second death. Ice Shield — the Flashfrost Chillweavers' channelled shield, kickable — got through 2 of 7, and the two that landed absorbed 8.55 M of the party's damage (3.3% of everything attempted, split across a Deepstone Earthshaper and an Earthbound Guardian). The group stopped 21 of 30 kickable casts; the tank had five of them, the three DPS three each, the healer none.

On the grades: a three-minute wipe is not a sample, and the peer-ranked axes are ranks among five people who all died. The healer's throughput line is the one to disregard entirely — she was dead from 0:27 for a stretch of a fight whose demand was set by the pull, not by her.

### Hyporock

327,038 DPS, 106% of the other damage dealers' median, 91% engaged, four casts stopped against four expected. Blessing of Sacrifice went onto the tank in his death window, which is the right external at the right moment and did not matter against 4.6 M of melee. One death, at 3:09 with the group, 1.7 M over fourteen seconds with nothing pressed — Divine Shield and Lay on Hands had both been spent in the first minute, Divine Protection would have bought a few seconds and no more, and there was nothing left to survive into. Holy Power overcap 35% on 239 generated is a small-sample number and not a finding.

The key that followed this one — the Ruby Life Pools +15, same tank, different group — went 28:20 and depleted by twenty seconds, which is its own record; this one was over before the second pack should have been pulled.

## Method

Each axis is scored 0 to 100 against what this run allowed, not against a fixed target. A player is only scored on things their spec can do. An axis that does not apply is left out and the other weights are scaled up. 100 means nothing was missed; a solid, even key usually lands near 75. Survival and mechanics carry no weight of their own: they start at 100 and take points off when something went wrong.

*Generated 2026-09-14T22:33:45 · schema 8 · written analysis: Claude (Opus 5), from the combat log and the archive*
