Altar of Fangs

23:38 fighting (92%), 1:48 walking, 0:15 death penalty, 0:19 pull timer. Thirteen pulls, 176 enemies, 308,300,201 damage taken by the party.

  Rav'i              2:52
  The Writhing Coil  2:44
  Zul'jan            3:18

Bosses accounted for 22% of the damage taken and two of the three deaths; trash took the other 78%. The two pulls that cost time were the last two: pull 12 at 19:11 (25 enemies, one death) and pull 13 at 22:27 (Zul'jan, two deaths).

The group stopped 72 of 85 stoppable casts (85%). Envenom leaked 12 times of 53 and Mass Envenom once of 7 - 'leaked' meaning a cast that could have been kicked and was not.

WHAT WAS NOT YOURS

Triple Shot: 64 ticks for 5,170,894, from six selections you had no input into. The axis no longer charges it, and the report now names it under 'not charged, the enemy chose the targets' rather than dropping it silently.

Unstable Totem (5,613,157 over 113 ticks) and Bloodletting (1,086,007) log with no source and hit the whole party at roughly equal rates - Arms Warrior took 5,744,583 and 972,355 of the same two. Neither is attributable to anyone.

WHAT YOU DID WELL

• Dispels, 22 of the 22 a single presser could reach out of 33 that landed. Three of those 22 are Blessing of Freedom taking Paralyzing Shots off, which the grader could not see until this pass - Freedom removes a debuff without ever logging a dispel, so all three read as debuffs left up.
• Utility 94 - 30 uses against the ~77 presses your kit offered across the key.
• The rez chain on Zul'jan. You died at 23:10; Blood DK had Raise Ally on you by 23:13. Arcane Mage died at 24:39 and you had Intercession on them by 24:41. Two battle rezzes on the last boss, both inside three seconds, and the key still timed.

WHAT TO CHANGE

1. Paralyzing Shots is yours alone, and it is the steep one. Envenom is a Poison, so Balance Druid's Remove Corruption reaches it - and Balance Druid took 5 of the 12 Envenom cleanses to your 7. Paralyzing Shots is Magic; a Balance druid cannot touch it. Two were left up for ten seconds in total and cost 4,750,266. That is 475,027 per second of uptime against Envenom's 93,339. When both are up, take the Shots and leave the Poison to the druid. Freedom is a second answer to it and you already use it that way.

2. Zul'jan's melee killed you, and only you and the tank were in it. Axegrinder landed on exactly two people all fight: Blood DK nine times, you three. It was the largest single slice - 562,428 of 1,117,124 - of the 2.1-second burst that killed you at 23:10. You pressed Shield of the Righteous twice and Divine Protection inside that window and still died, and as the only healer there was no external to save you. The defensives were not the problem; the standing position was.

3. Throughput 64 means you covered 69% of the 191,887,943 that needed an outside heal - 41% of the party's intake was self-covered or overkill and never yours to catch. That is below your own archived median of about 77, but it is an ordinary bad-ish number rather than the outlier. The outlier was mechanics, and mechanics was Triple Shot.

WHAT YOU DID WELL

• Interrupts, 100. 21 stops against the 14 the model expects of the role, out of 72 the group landed - second only to Balance Druid's 22, and on a key where Envenom got through twelve times, the ones that landed were carrying weight.
• Mechanics 95: 1% of your intake was damage comparable players did not take. The single flag, Toxic Surge 20x against a party median of 9.5, is 524,281 out of a 41,604,579 intake. It is noise.
• 194,842 dps, on the median for the key, while doing the most interrupting.

WHAT TO CHANGE

1. You pressed nothing when you died. At 19:42 you took 959,820 over 2.3 seconds - Venom Burst 517,277, Toxic Beam 287,357, Toxic Surge 155,186 - and used no defensive at all. Die by the Sword was cast once in the entire key, at 25:35, so it was certainly available at 19:42. Rallying Cry, Spell Reflection and Storm Bolt are in your loadout and were not pressed once all run. Hyporock put 191,157 into you inside that window and it was nowhere near enough on its own.

2. Rage: 709 of 2,905 generated was lost to the cap - 24%, the highest waste fraction of the three DPS.

3. Activity 80 - you were engaged 92% of the time you were alive and in combat, against 97% for both Arcane Mage and Balance Druid. That is roughly two minutes of standing still that the other two DPS did not have, and it is the cheapest of the three to fix.

Two fixes came out of this run, and both were things the tool could not see rather than things it weighed wrongly.

1. `derive.forced_multi_target`. Its sibling `forced_single_target` already excused a debuff the log proves an enemy chose a player for, but it demands one victim and two casters, and the commonest unavoidable debuff has neither - a boss picking k of the party per cast. The new rule wants three or more bursts of simultaneous applications whose target set MOVES: a frontal cone also stamps several players at one instant, and eating a cone is position, but a cone keeps hitting whoever stands in front while a selection rule spreads across the party. Triple Shot's six bursts of three covered all five.

   Where the check sits was half the fix. It was consulted only inside the `med == 0` branch, which a single-target debuff always reaches because every peer sits at zero - but a debuff dealt to three of five leaves the other two with a healthy median, so the player it favoured was charged the difference and never came near the test.

   Across the 30 player-keys of 2026-08-25 it moved three: An Arcane Mage's Altar of Fangs mechanics 77 -> 100 (they were the six-of-six target that night, for 2,141,359), an Unholy DK 70 -> 77, Doryhunky 98 -> 100. It is a narrow rule, not a general amnesty.

2. Blessing of Freedom counts as a removal. Freedom and Blessing of Protection take a debuff off without ever logging SPELL_DISPEL - grepping every log on disk for one returns zero rows - so the dispel scan, which is gated on that event, could not see them at all. They behave like an immunity: the aura just goes away, within milliseconds of the cast. Detected now as cast-then-removal, with the hostile-DEBUFF check and a 250 ms window doing the work; widened to a second the same scan starts collecting the target's own buffs expiring.

   It moved this key's dispels from 19/30 to 22/33. The three extra opportunities are the tell: those instances were being deleted by the four-second flicker filter, because Freedom ended them so fast and nothing had recorded a remover. That is the same shape as the fast-cleanse bug of 2026-08-22, arriving through a different door.

   Learned into a separate `breakable` table, never into `dispellable`. The two are different claims - a root only Freedom can take off is not something a cleanse reaches, and writing it there would start charging every later healer for not pressing a button they do not have.