# The Blinding Vale +14 — ABANDONED
2:15 · -93% over the 30:00 par · 11 deaths · Tyrannical, Fortified, affix 147
*2026-09-14 · 21:25 · `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: ran 120 yd into the Belcher pack, 21 mobs (Blood DK); Wrong target: Lightgorged Lashers never killed (group)
## Over at 0:38: the tank ran 120 yards into the Belcher pack on the pull, 21 mobs live by 0:30, four players dead by 0:38, and four Lightgorged Lashers healed back 40% of what the party landed.
Decided in its first thirty seconds. The tank engaged the grove's first pack at 0:10 and kept running: by 0:28 he was standing on the Sporeblight Belcher's pack, 122 yards from where he started, with 21 enemies awake behind him and six more joining at 1:23 — sixteen Lashers, four Lightgorged Lashers, four Underbrush Stalkers, a Radiant Spellsower, a Virid Grovekeeper and the Belcher in all. The archive's timed openers fight the first pack alone, where it stands, at about 159k of party damage per second; last night's abandoned +16 pulled the two together and ran 480k. Tonight ran 371k in a typical second, 953k in the worst ten, and the mage, the warrior, Hyporock and the healer were all dead between 0:33 and 0:38.
What kept it from being recoverable is the thing this dungeon punishes every time: nobody killed a Lightgorged Lasher. Their Pollen Surge — an instant, unkickable, undispellable heal on every plant nearby — put 49.5 M back into the pack, 40% of the 122 M the party managed to land, while a third of that damage went into the sixteen small Lashers. The four that mattered finished the pull at 42%, 69%, 69% and 86%.
Everything after 0:38 was people releasing, running the twenty yards back in and dying again — eleven deaths in under two minutes; the tank went down at 1:58 after nine million damage in fifteen seconds and the last two followed within three seconds. Whose fault is not a hard question here; the grades below are two minutes of noise.
**What to change**
1. Tank: engage the grove's first pack where it stands and fight it there; the Belcher pack is a second pull, 60–80 yards on. Both timed openers on record did it that way with zero deaths.
2. Everyone: Lightgorged Lashers first. Four of them healed the pack 49.5 M tonight; the sixteen small Lashers you killed instead were 2.1 M each.
3. If the tank does pull both anyway: the party stands with him on the Belcher and Lightgorged Lashers get every AoE's centre — not the small Lashers at the edge.
4. Kick Light Bolt Volley (4 s cast, hits everyone for ~570k); it got through twice, and the healer and mage stopped nothing.
5. After four deaths at 0:38 with 27 mobs at full health, releasing and running back in is three more deaths each; call it there.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **2:15** — 1:52 fighting |
| deaths | **11** |
| party damage taken | **66,422,202** — 594,648/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **12** |
| interrupts | **9/16** — 56% |
| dispels | **4/11** — 3,262,125 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Blood DK | Blood DK | tank | 322 | 305,078 | 152,944 | 286,454 | 1 | **A-** 85 |
| Resto Shaman | Resto Shaman | heal | 299 | 29,968 | 126,451 | 62,550 | 2 | **F** 29 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 320 | 177,052 | 9,039 | 43,565 | 3 | **B** 79 |
| Fury Warrior | Fury | dps | 319 | 180,052 | 12,762 | 50,945 | 3 | **F** 48 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 320 | 215,934 | 4,921 | 49,473 | 2 | **F** 37 |
*Gear and M+ score are from Raider.IO. No Warcraft Logs percentiles: not on warcraft logs (nobody uploaded this key).*
### Blood DK — Blood DK — A- (85/100)
**Where the points went**
- **-12 mitigation** — scored 63: 65% uptime of the 77% this kit can hold, 88% of worst windows covered
- **-3 survival** — scored 86: 1 death(s)
All axes
- **survival− 86** [−2.8 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **mitigation 63** [w 31%] — 65% uptime of the 77% this kit can hold, 88% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 100** [w 21%] — 305,078 dps, 160% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 98** [w 31%] — 7 stops vs 3 expected (group stopped 56% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 100** [w 17%] — 100% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _overcapped Runic Power: 346 of 1,339 generated (26%)_
- _never pressed: Icebound Fortitude_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Blood Boil, Death Strike, Heart Strike, Infliction of Sorrow, Marrowrend, Vampiric Strike_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−4.2 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **throughput 28** [w 41%] — covered 35% of the 36,423,498 that needed an outside heal (45% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 737,869 absorbed; NOTE this key asked 270,336/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 79% of a 112s 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~ 0** [w 22%] — 0 stops vs 2 expected (group stopped 56% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **dispel 63** [w 20%] — 4/10 of what one dispeller could reach (11 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 54** [w 18%] — 82% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _never pressed: Capacitor Totem, Purge_
All axes
- **survival− 50** [−9.0 pts] — 3 death(s)
- **damage~ 98** [w 42%] — 177,052 dps, 171% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 79** [w 32%] — 1 stops vs 1 expected (group stopped 56% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 82** [w 26%] — 95% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 97** [w 0%] — 2 used of ~3 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Blessing of Protection, Blinding Light, Cleanse Toxins_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Avenging Wrath, Crusading Strikes_
All axes
- **survival− 61** [−7.0 pts] — 3 death(s)
- **damage~ 47** [w 42%] — 180,053 dps, 62% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 71** [w 32%] — 1 stops vs 2 expected (group stopped 56% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 48** [w 26%] — 75% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _overcapped Rage: 152 of 798 generated (19%)_
- _never pressed: Impending Victory, Rallying Cry, Shockwave, Storm Bolt_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.0 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **damage~ 67** [w 42%] — 215,934 dps, 87% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 0** [w 32%] — 0 stops vs 1 expected (group stopped 56% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 52** [w 26%] — 82% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~4 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Alter Time, Greater Invisibility, Ice Block, Remove Curse, Spellsteal_