# The Blinding Vale +16 — ABANDONED
20:37 · -31% over the 30:00 par · 8 deaths · Fortified, Tyrannical, affix 147
*2026-09-18 · 11:58 · `WoWCombatLog-091826_081228.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:** Bad pull: Ruia pulled with 4 trash mobs alive (Brewmaster Monk)
**Tip:** Move on the Belch Spores cast
## The Lasher side was clean. The key died when Ruia was pulled with 4 trash mobs alive and the healer fell 16 s in.
The grove side was the cleanest this group has run it: every Lightgorged Lasher died 44 to 82 s after it was engaged, and Pollen Surge healed 15M all key, 1.3% of the party's damage. On the two earlier wipes it was 35% and 40%. Kill order was not the problem.
The key ended on Lightwarden Ruia. Brewmaster Monk pulled her at 15:58 with a Thornmaw, 2 Saptors and a Grovecrawler still alive. Resto Druid died at 16:14 to the Thornmaw's Solar Breath, Arcane Mage at 16:19 to Seed Shot; both were brezzed. At 18:05, with Ruia at 35%, Spirits of the Vale added an untargetable Bear and Moonkin, and 4 players died in the next 110 s. Brewmaster Monk soloed the last 2.4%. She died at 20:27.
**What to change**
1. Brewmaster Monk: finish the second pack before Ruia. A Thornmaw, 2 Saptors and a Grovecrawler were alive at the pull; the Thornmaw's Solar Breath killed the healer 16 s in, and you spent 2 kicks on Seed Shot while tanking a boss.
2. Kill order on the grove side stays as it was: Lightgorged Lasher under single target, small Lashers to cleave. When a Belcher is up it goes before the Stalkers; Spouting Floret was 20M on its own.
3. Hyporock: Belch Spores at 2:17 was a 907k one-shot with nothing pressed. It is a 1.5 s cast that lands about 3 s later and was dodged on most of its 5 casts. Move on the cast.
4. Ruia: at 2:03 into the fight, with her at 35%, she summons a Spirit Bear and Spirit Moonkin that cannot be attacked. Timed groups kill her in about 2:25 and see 20 s of that. She has to be low, with everyone alive, before it happens.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **20:37** — 19:42 fighting |
| deaths | **8** |
| party damage taken | **353,276,542** — 298,855/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **110** |
| interrupts | **69/109** — 63% |
| dispels | **23/30** — 2,850,892 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Brewmaster Monk | Brewmaster | tank | 323 | 136,439 | 92,114 | 147,281 | 0 | **F** 42 |
| Resto Druid | Resto Druid | heal | 321 | 26,820 | 129,540 | 36,986 | 2 | **C+** 71 |
| Ele Shaman | Ele Shaman | dps | 322 | 256,144 | 9,512 | 33,428 | 1 | **B-** 74 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 326 | 274,859 | 3,485 | 30,321 | 3 | **C** 68 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 322 | 232,565 | 12,775 | 37,661 | 2 | **C-** 63 |
*Gear and M+ score are from Raider.IO. No Warcraft Logs percentiles: not on warcraft logs (nobody uploaded this key).*
### Brewmaster Monk — Brewmaster — F (42/100)
*M+ score 3,327*
**Where the points went**
- **-26 mitigation** — scored 23: 8% uptime of the 13% this kit can hold, 0% of worst windows covered
- **-15 utility** — scored 0: 0 used of ~11 the kit offered
- **-12 interrupts (rank)** — scored 64: 25 stops vs 34 expected
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **mitigation 23** [w 33%] — 8% uptime of the 13% this kit can hold, 0% of worst windows covered
- **damage~** — n/a. 136,439 dps, 54% of the average DPS; not scored, because a tank's damage can only be compared with other tanks (Warcraft Logs), not with this party's damage dealers
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 64** [w 33%] — 25 stops vs 34 expected (group stopped 73% of what it could reach, not scored here); pressed 28x: 5 on casts already stopped, 1 just after the cast finished; 4 of those wasted the kick and a cast got through before it came back
- **activity 73** [w 19%] — 96% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 15%] — 0 used of ~11 the kit offered
- _overcapped Energy: 1,566 of 1,800 generated (87%)_
- _never pressed: Detox_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Breath of Fire, Gift of the Ox, Keg Smash_
All axes
- **survival− 50** [−7.5 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **throughput 67** [w 34%] — covered 73% of the 168,471,330 that needed an outside heal (45% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); NOTE this key needed 136,235/s of healing, more than 95% of the 55 keys this scale was built from (cut-off 130,287/s, median 90,211/s). The score is a floor: no healer in that set has covered this much
- **response 92** [w 25%] — put back 49% of the 114,947,416 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 79** [w 16%] — 23/27 of what one dispeller could reach (30 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 96** [w 15%] — 96% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 62** [w 10%] — 32 used of ~87 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Improved Nature's Cure, Soothe, Ursol's Vortex_
All axes
- **survival− 72** [−5.0 pts] — 1 death(s)
- **damage~ 77** [w 42%] — 256,144 dps, 102% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 74** [w 32%] — 14 stops vs 19 expected (group stopped 73% of what it could reach, not scored here); pressed 17x: 4 on casts already stopped; 2 of those wasted the kick and a cast got through before it came back
- **activity 90** [w 26%] — 97% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~45 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Cleanse Spirit, Purge_
All axes
- **survival− 28** [−13.0 pts] — 3 death(s)
- **damage~ 85** [w 42%] — 274,859 dps, 120% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 67** [−6.5 pts] — 8% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 83** [w 32%] — 13 stops vs 11 expected (group stopped 73% of what it could reach, not scored here); pressed 18x: 6 on casts already stopped; 3 of those wasted the kick and a cast got through before it came back
- **activity 96** [w 26%] — 98% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 0** [w 0%] — 0 used of ~45 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Ice Block, Remove Curse, Spellsteal_
All axes
- **survival− 50** [−9.0 pts] — 2 death(s)
- **damage~ 62** [w 42%] — 232,565 dps, 81% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 79** [w 32%] — 17 stops vs 17 expected (group stopped 73% of what it could reach, not scored here); pressed 19x: 4 on casts already stopped, 1 on nothing casting; 3 of those wasted the kick and a cast got through before it came back
- **activity 81** [w 26%] — 95% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 84** [w 0%] — 8 used of ~70 the kit offered
- _never pressed: Blinding Light, Cleanse Toxins_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Avenging Wrath, Crusading Strikes_