Murder Row

Same character, same talents, same gear, the same dungeon three times in one evening. The 18:44 key had no Shaman; the 20:46 and 22:53 keys did.

  key            autos/min   doubled swings   Skyfury extra attacks   dps
  18:44 +15         28.1            0                    0            219k
  20:46 +15         40.0          22%                  320            229k
  22:53 +14         38.3          22%                  272            254k

Skyfury adds an extra auto-attack a fixed fraction of the time, and on a Retribution Paladin every auto-attack is a Crusading Strike: Holy Power every second swing, an Art of War chance to reset Blade of Justice, and fourteen thousand damage. The 22% doubling is the same 25-29% the top three Murder Row +15 Rets showed, and every one of them had a Shaman in the group. When you read a parse — yours or anyone's — check the composition first; a Ret with Skyfury and a Ret without are not on the same scale.

18:16 and 18:17, inside the 53-enemy pull that ran from 11:47 to 19:02 and included Xathuux: Fel Lightning, the boss's pulse, took Balance Druid for 2.37 M over 14 seconds from 59% and Resto Shaman for 2.35 M over 13 seconds from 89%. You put a Lay on Hands into Balance Druid 3.3 seconds before he died; the pulse kept coming. Neither pressed a personal defensive. Fel Lightning hit every player between 24 and 33 times, so this was a healing race the 302 item-level healer lost — her coverage was 69% of what needed an outside heal, and the report itself flags that this key asked more per second of her than 95% of the keys the scale was cut on.

22:39, Balance Druid again, to Defiled Slam from 54% over eight seconds, no defensive. The Slam hit all five of you six or seven times; standing at 54% when it lands is the only difference between him and the rest of you.

24:52, Balance Druid on Lithiel, to Felfire Burst from the Wild Imps that spawn from Fingers of Gul'dan. 134 of the imps' 167 casts got through. You pressed Blinding Light twice this key, which is twice more than in the earlier ones, and it is still the tool for that room.

Cost: one minute of penalty and a battle resurrection. The run two-chested by 1.1 seconds, so those deaths were very nearly a chest.

Alive and engaged for 23:04. GCD usage 88% — 1,046 presses of the 1,191 the clock allowed — with the idle time in 49 gaps averaging four seconds, which is movement between packs. Auto-attack uptime inside pulls 94%, against 79% in the 18:44 key; the two low pulls were Zaen (70%) and Lithiel (76%), both fights with forced movement.

Generators per engaged minute: Blade 4.6, Judgment 4.2, Hammer of Wrath 4.7, Wake 1.9, Toll 1.0; spenders 23.5. Inside Wings you pressed Hammer of Wrath 12 times a minute and Blade 2.5 — that is the Walk Into Light priority, and it is how the top parses play it too, so it stays. Holy Power: 532 of 1,684 wasted, 32%. Hammer of Wrath's per-target flood (50% of its Holy Power wasted) and auto-attacks at cap (146 events) are structural and cannot be played around; Blade of Justice at 36% with 70 cap events is the part you choose, and Skyfury makes it worse because the bar fills faster now — spend on three before a plain Blade.

Utility: 23 Rebukes for 18 stops (Fel Missiles mostly), 7 Hammers of Justice, 2 Blinding Lights. Heartstop Poison landed four times and you cleansed eight times; it ran for 31 seconds and 1.2 M, against 88 seconds and 11.6 M in the key before, when you cleansed once. Externals: Lay on Hands on Balance Druid three times and the tank once, Sacrifice on Veng DH five times, Blessing of Protection on Arcane Mage, Intercession on Balance Druid. The tank never dropped and neither did you, which is what a Sacrifice is supposed to look like.