# The Blinding Vale +15 — TIMED
26:17 · +1, 12% under the 30:00 par · 3 deaths · Fortified, Tyrannical, affix 147
*2026-09-18 · 17:37 · `WoWCombatLog-091826_173351.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.
**Tip:** Step out of the Thornmaw's Solar Breath
## Timed with 3:43 spare. Hyporock died 3 times, twice to Solar Breath from a Thornmaw he stood in front of.
Clean for 4 of 5 players on a heavy key: the party needed 143k/s of healing, more than 95% of the keys the scale knows, and nobody but Hyporock died.
Hyporock's 3 deaths were all his. From 0:16 a Lightgorged Lasher and 3 small Lashers were on him, 3 s after the tank's first Thunder Clap, and he died at 0:23 with Divine Shield unused. At 13:29 and 14:15 the Luminous Thornmaw turned and cast Solar Breath, a 3 s frontal for 0.74M and 1.1M, and he was in front of it both times. Those 2 deaths are 21M of his 58M damage gap to the other two.
Resto Shaman's C+ is mostly the interrupt rank: 1 kick in 26 min.
**What to change**
1. Hyporock: on the Luminous Thornmaw, step sideways out of its front whenever the Solar Breath cast bar shows. It casts twice in a row and re-aims between them.
2. Hyporock: on the grove opener, give the tank 5 s before Judgment and Wake go into the Lightgorged Lasher, or press Divine Shield when the Lashers turn on you. It was available at 0:23.
3. Resto Shaman: Wind Shear on Seed Shot and Lightspore Shot. 27 of 50 got through and the kick is off the global cooldown.
4. Nothing to change for Prot Warrior: 97% mitigation uptime, 45 kicks, 0 deaths, and the Thornmaw pack that wiped the +16 was pulled before Ruia this time.
## The run
| | |
|---|---|
| on the clock | **26:17** — 23:58 fighting |
| deaths | **3** — timer agrees (2.97 implied) |
| party damage taken | **318,179,642** — 221,188/s while fighting |
| enemies killed | **131** |
| interrupts | **106/155** — 68% |
| dispels | **29/53** — 14,159,076 came through |
## Players
| player | spec | role | ilvl | DPS | HPS | taken/s | deaths | grade |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|
| Prot Warrior | Prot Warrior | tank | 320 | 140,320 | 24,634 | 72,168 | 0 | **A-** 88 |
| Resto Shaman | Resto Shaman | heal | 320 | 25,336 | 132,090 | 37,309 | 0 | **C+** 68 |
| Feral Druid | Feral | dps | 321 | 283,948 | 7,655 | 34,249 | 0 | **B+** 81 |
| Arcane Mage | Arcane Mage | dps | 322 | 274,250 | 1,316 | 25,570 | 0 | **B-** 75 |
| Hyporock | Ret Paladin | dps | 322 | 236,196 | 10,791 | 37,175 | 3 | **C** 65 |
*Gear and M+ score are from Raider.IO. No Warcraft Logs percentiles: not on warcraft logs (nobody uploaded this key).*
### Prot Warrior — Prot Warrior — A- (88/100)
*M+ score 3,255*
**Where the points went**
- **-6 interrupts (rank)** — scored 83: 45 stops vs 40 expected
- **-5 mitigation** — scored 85: 97% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **-1 activity** — scored 92: 98% engaged while alive in combat
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **mitigation 85** [w 33%] — 97% uptime of the 100% this kit can hold, 100% of worst windows covered
- **damage~** — n/a. 140,320 dps, 53% 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− 98** [−0.3 pts] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 83** [w 33%] — 45 stops vs 40 expected (group stopped 79% of what it could reach, not scored here); pressed 34x: 2 on casts already stopped, 1 just after the cast finished, 2 on nothing casting; 4 of those wasted the kick and a cast got through before it came back
- **activity 92** [w 19%] — 98% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 99** [w 15%] — 4 used of ~4 the kit offered
- _overcapped Rage: 1,291 of 20,596 generated (6%)_
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Avatar, Charge, Ignore Pain, Revenge, Shield Block, Shield Slam, Spell Reflection, Thunder Blast, Thunder Clap_
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **throughput 81** [w 29%] — covered 79% of the 220,349,176 that needed an outside heal (33% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill); 14,254,305 absorbed; NOTE this key needed 142,987/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 93** [w 21%] — put back 49% of the 98,117,039 that landed in the party's worst windows
- **mechanics− 98** [−0.3 pts] — 1% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 4** [w 15%] — 1 stops vs 24 expected (group stopped 79% of what it could reach, not scored here); pressed 3x: 2 on nothing casting; 1 of those wasted the kick and a cast got through before it came back
- **dispel 74** [w 14%] — 29/39 of what one dispeller could reach (53 landed; the rest overlapped a debuff already being cleansed)
- **activity 52** [w 12%] — 78% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 100** [w 8%] — 27 used of ~17 the kit offered
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **damage~ 81** [w 42%] — 283,948 dps, 110% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 98** [−0.4 pts] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 82** [w 32%] — 23 stops vs 20 expected (group stopped 79% of what it could reach, not scored here); pressed 23x: 1 just after the cast finished, 1 on unkickable casts, 3 on nothing casting; 2 of those wasted the kick and a cast got through before it came back
- **activity 82** [w 26%] — 95% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 81** [w 0%] — 3 used of ~53 the kit offered
- _overcapped Combo Points: 407 of 2,005 generated (20%)_
- _overcapped Energy: 734 of 6,637 generated (11%)_
All axes
- **survival− 100** [no charge] — 0 death(s)
- **damage~ 78** [w 42%] — 274,250 dps, 105% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 84** [−3.2 pts] — 4% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 66** [w 32%] — 6 stops vs 13 expected (group stopped 79% of what it could reach, not scored here); pressed 11x: 2 on casts already stopped, 3 on nothing casting; 2 of those wasted the kick and a cast got through before it came back
- **activity 95** [w 26%] — 98% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility** — n/a. no utility cooldown with a measured recharge yet
- _never pressed: Ice Block_
All axes
- **survival− 28** [−13.0 pts] — 3 death(s)
- **damage~ 66** [w 42%] — 236,196 dps, 86% of the other damage dealers' median
- **mechanics− 100** [no charge] — 0% of intake was damage comparable players did not take
- **interrupts~ 90** [w 32%] — 31 stops vs 21 expected (group stopped 79% of what it could reach, not scored here); pressed 27x: 5 on casts already stopped; 3 of those wasted the kick and a cast got through before it came back
- **activity 83** [w 26%] — 95% engaged while alive in combat
- **utility 85** [w 0%] — 11 used of ~86 the kit offered
- _not counted as button presses (procs, ticks): Crusading Strikes_