# Ruby Life Pools +16 — DEPLETED
29:36 · 6% over the 28:00 par · 9 deaths · Fortified, Tyrannical, affix 147
*2026-09-17 · 13:10 · `WoWCombatLog-091726_121020.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:** Avoidable damage: 5 trash deaths: pools, debris, bomb (Holy Paladin, Hyporock, Ele Shaman); Wrong target: cloud shields ate 188M (group)
## Depleted by 1:36: five trash deaths (1:15 of penalty) sent the party into Kyrakka at 26:01 on a 28:00 clock; the four deaths on the boss came after the timer had already run out.
This key was lost on trash, before the last boss was pulled. Five players died while the timer was still running -- three in the opening pull, the healer to a Fiery Blast in the fire camp, the shaman to his own Living Bomb -- and at +16 each one adds 15 seconds. The party engaged Kyrakka and Erkhart with 26:01 on a 28:00 clock: two minutes for a fight this group has never finished in under 2:38 at +15. The timer expired at 26:54, twelve seconds before the tank died, so the four deaths in the boss cascade cost nothing on the clock.
No single player depleted it. Holy Paladin stood in two ground effects inside the first 3.5 minutes; Hyporock died to ceiling debris at 2:21 with his cooldowns already spent; a lethal four-second cast got through the fire camp while three kicks were up; Ele Shaman carried a bomb inside Inferno's radius; and the tank died on the boss to a Stormslam the healer had not cleansed, which doubles the next one. Underneath it all is the Ruby Life Pools tax: 34 Stormcloud Barriers ate 188M of the party's damage, the fifth key in a row with that shape -- though for the first time on record the shaman purged eleven of them.
What went right: 93% of stoppable casts were stopped, the tank held 98% mitigation uptime, Hyporock led the party in damage and in kicks, and a three-death cascade on the last boss was recovered with three battle resurrections and turned into a kill.
**What to change**
1. Fire camp: kill the Blazebound Destroyer first, every pull. Tonight the four Destroyers were among the last things to die, and Inferno -- unkickable, unstunnable -- was 18% of all damage taken.
2. Kick priority in the fire camp: Fiery Blast (four-second bar, one-shots anyone but the tank) over Cinderbolt (2.5 seconds, 200-400k). Whoever's kick is up when that bar starts takes it; at 10:46 that was Hyporock.
3. Gauntlet: kill the Tempest Channelers and Ryvati and stop hitting the clouds. Ele Shaman keeps purging; Arcane Mage adds Spellsteal -- one global removes a 5.5M shield.
4. Holy Paladin: cleanse Stormslam every time it lands on the tank; the one left up at 26:42 doubled the slam that killed him at 27:06. And the two ground pools in the opener.
5. Hyporock: two bosses on you and Divine Shield up means Divine Shield. Lay on Hands at 70% healed 322k and Forbearance locked out both immunities for the four seconds you had left.
6. Keep: 93% of stoppable casts stopped, 98% mitigation uptime, and the three-resurrection recovery on the boss. Nothing to change in the group's kicking overall or the tank's mitigation.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **29:36** — 26:59 fighting |
| deaths | **9** — !! timer implies 5.01 |
| party damage taken | **395,648,287** — 244,318/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **176** |
| interrupts | **129/152** — 85% |
| dispels | **3/5** — 1,884,114 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Guardian Druid | Guardian | tank | 325 | 115,586 | 40,912 | 84,246 | 1 | **C** 65 |
| Holy Paladin | Holy Paladin | heal | 322 | 19,002 | 134,453 | 40,712 | 3 | **C** 64 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 322 | 226,782 | 1,654 | 26,844 | 0 | **B+** 82 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 322 | 240,511 | 8,333 | 37,952 | 2 | **B** 79 |
| Ele Shaman | Ele Shaman | dps | 321 | 208,752 | 12,464 | 41,657 | 3 | **D+** 58 |
*Gear and M+ score are from Raider.IO. No Warcraft Logs percentiles: not on warcraft logs (nobody uploaded this key).*
### Guardian Druid — Guardian — C (65/100)
*M+ score 3,262*
**Where the points went**
- **-12 utility** — scored 0: 0 used of ~112 the kit offered
- **-10 interrupts (rank)** — scored 63: 38 stops vs 53 expected
- **-7 damage (rank)** — scored 63: 115,586 dps, 51% of the average DPS
All axes
- **survival− 86** [−2.8 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **mitigation 91** [w 27%] — 98% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~ 63** [w 18%] — 115,586 dps, 51% of the average DPS
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 63** [w 27%] — 38 stops vs 53 expected (group stopped 93% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 97** [w 15%] — 99% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 12%] — 0 used of ~112 the kit offered
- _overcapped Astral Power: 1,460 of 1,656 generated (88%)_
- _overcapped Rage: 555 of 18,520 generated (3%)_
- _never pressed: Remove Corruption, Soothe_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Ironfur, Lunar Beam, Moonfire, Skull Bash_
All axes
- **survival− 28** [−10.8 pts] — 3 death(s)
- **throughput 78** [w 34%] — covered 78% of the 250,757,232 that needed an outside heal (38% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 28,206,143 absorbed; NOTE this key asked 146,666/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 88** [w 25%] — put back 48% of the 108,978,446 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 68** [w 16%] — 3/5 of what one dispeller could reach
- **activity 70** [w 15%] — 89% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 51** [w 10%] — 27 used of ~91 the kit offered
- _overcapped Holy Power: 98 of 850 generated (12%)_
- _never pressed: Blessing of Protection_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Reclamation_
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **damage~ 76** [w 42%] — 226,782 dps, 100% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 90** [w 32%] — 24 stops vs 16 expected (group stopped 93% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 82** [w 26%] — 95% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~70 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Ice Block, Remove Curse_
All axes
- **survival− 61** [−7.0 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **damage~ 81** [w 42%] — 240,511 dps, 111% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 92** [w 32%] — 42 stops vs 27 expected (group stopped 93% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 87** [w 26%] — 96% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 83** [w 0%] — 8 used of ~97 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Cleanse Toxins_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Crusading Strikes_
All axes
- **survival− 39** [−11.0 pts] — 3 death(s)
- **damage~ 69** [w 42%] — 208,752 dps, 90% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 72** [w 32%] — 22 stops vs 33 expected (group stopped 93% of what it could reach, not scored here)
- **activity 66** [w 26%] — 91% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 86** [w 0%] — 11 used of ~66 the kit offered
- _overcapped Maelstrom: 850 of 10,252 generated (8%)_
- _never pressed: Cleanse Spirit_