Voidscar Arena

Measured, and worth knowing before reading the death list.

Every one of the eight deaths was followed by that same player casting a spell again a few seconds later, and there is no resurrection spell anywhere in the run -- no battle rez, no soulstone, nothing. The gaps:

  Shadow Priest      0:25   back casting after  2.1s
  Hyporock      0:52   back casting after  2.9s
  Shadow Priest      0:52   back casting after  9.1s
  Arcane Mage          0:55   back casting after  3.9s
  Demo Lock  1:01   back casting after  7.8s
  Arcane Mage          5:12   back casting after  7.0s
  Shadow Priest      5:33   back casting after  5.1s
  Demo Lock  5:34   log ends

So the Arena stands you back up where you fell. Dying here feels almost free in the moment: the pull never stops, nobody runs back, the fight just continues one player short for three seconds.

It is not free. The timer charges the full penalty anyway. That is checked against three earlier Voidscar keys that were completed, where the grader can back-solve the number of deaths from the clock: the +8 solves to 5.93 against 6 real deaths, the +10 to 3.91 against 4, the +11 to 1.95 against 2. The penalty lands in full.

This is the trap the dungeon sets. Eight deaths that cost nothing visible cost 2:00, and the group had spent it before the second pack.

Pull 1 is the same opening wave every run, and it starts at the same moment every time -- 0:09 to 0:10 into the key on all five records.

  key   kicks on pull 1    damage taken     deaths
  +5      13/21   62%      14,072,019         0
  +8      20/28   71%      19,029,723         0
  +10     13/21   62%      13,182,585         0
  +11     18/26   69%      14,276,902         0
  +13     17/48   35%      36,789,249         5

Read the middle column first. The same opening pack did 2.6x the damage it has ever done. Then read the left column, and note what did NOT happen: the group did not stop fewer casts. Seventeen is inside the normal range of thirteen to twenty.

What changed is the denominator. Forty-eight stoppable casts came out instead of twenty-one to twenty-eight. The pull ran 102 seconds for twelve kills, where the +11 killed the same twelve in about sixty-four, so the enemies were alive long enough to cast roughly twice as much -- and once players started dying the damage went down and the pull got longer again.

The spells that leaked, all proven interruptible because this party has kicked them before:

  Lava Bolt          Enthralled Shaman     23 of 32 leaked
  Shadowbolt Volley  Voidtouched Magi       6 of 11 leaked
  Demoralizing Shout                         2 of  5 leaked

Lava Bolt landed the killing blow on Shadow Priest at 0:52 and on Arcane Mage at 0:55.

Seventeen stops. Eleven of them were the tank.

  Doryhunky      6 interrupts + 5 CC = 11 stops
  Arcane Mage           3
  Demo Lock   2   (both from the pet, Haadhun)
  Shadow Priest       1
  Hyporock       0   -- Holy Paladin has no interrupt; correctly not scored

Four players had a kick. Across 5:24 of combat their cooldowns offered somewhere near fifty presses between them. Twelve were used.

The tank is not the problem here and should not be asked to do more; he was already stopping more than double his share. The three damage dealers stopped six casts between them across the whole key.

Pull 3 at 3:30 was a different failure and mostly not a controllable one.

Chitigoth casts Insidious Aura on itself roughly every twenty seconds -- 13:42:16, 13:42:36, 13:42:57 -- and each cast pulses raid-wide damage. It did 12,914,734 across 69 hits, 14% of everything the party took all key, and it hit all five players almost identically: 14 hits on the tank, 14 on the healer, 15, 15 and 11 on the damage dealers. Damage that lands on the tank and the healer in equal measure is not a positioning mistake.

It killed Arcane Mage at 5:12 and Shadow Priest at 5:33, carrying 1,184,891 and 1,221,864 of their final bursts.

This is a repeat offender and the archive shows it. In the Voidscar +11 on 25 August, both deaths in the entire key were Insidious Aura, twenty seconds apart. It is a race: the aura ramps and you either kill Chitigoth or it kills you, and arriving at Chitigoth already down 2:00 of timer with a party that has been dying is arriving in the wrong shape.

Arcane Mage cast Greater Invisibility 1.4 seconds after Demo Lock's last death. That is the moment the key was called.

Four claims were tested and three of them were thrown away.

Shadow Priest's `never pressed: Dispel Magic, Mass Dispel, Purify Disease` is vacuous. The dispel axis dropped out of the healer's sheet in this key for lack of anything dispellable to judge. Do not read those lines as a fault.

Arcane Mage's `never pressed: Remove Curse, Spellsteal` is the same and should be ignored. `Ice Block` and `Alter Time` are not -- those are live defensives on a player who died twice.

The tank's `damage 79` is not a measurement of the tank. The band it is scored against was cut when the corpus was almost entirely this player in +2 to +9 keys, and has not been re-cut. Nobody should be told to do more damage on that evidence.

Hyporock's `over-exposed: Fel Steps x8 (peers 2)` is noise. Fel Steps did 1,208,381 party-wide, 1% of intake. The mechanics axis is effectively clean for all five.

Casts-per-minute is printed for every player and is not quoted anywhere above; the estimator behind it has been measured swinging 3x on the same player in one night.