The Blinding Vale

Blinding Vale has two starting paths and the archive has keys on both. On the grove side the first pack sits at the same spot every time -- 14 mobs in the +13 (83M at that level), 15 in the +12 (77M) -- and both groups fought it where it stood, killed the three Lightgorged Lashers within 32-48 seconds of engaging them, and finished the pack at 1:22 and 1:18 with zero deaths. The Belcher pack (a Sporeblight Belcher, two Underbrush Stalkers, eight Lashers) was pulled separately, at 1:22 and 1:05.

This group engaged nine mobs of the first pack at 0:12 and the tank kept moving: by 0:22 the fight was at the Belcher pack's spot, 80 yards on. Seventeen mobs, 150M of health, a Belcher casting Spouting Floret on the whole party every 32 seconds, and four Stalkers casting Thornblade instead of two. Party intake ran 480k a second against 159k for the first pack alone in both timed keys. Three levels of scaling do not close that gap; it is roughly double what the first pack by itself would have done at +16.

Kill order made it worse. The eight small Lashers (2.5M each, 20M together) were dead by 0:54. The nine big mobs were then still carrying over 120M and being healed.

Lightbloom Pollination (1238158) is an instant the two Lightgorged Lashers cast every 20-25 seconds -- 0:25, 0:30, 0:46, 1:10, 1:30, 1:53. Arbiter reports the absorb it puts on the caster (3.5M eaten, 2.4% of output) and misses the rest: the same cast applies Pollen Surge (1238173) to every allied plant in range, a heal-over-time ticking 5% of maximum health -- 1.14M a tick on the Belcher, 634k on each Stalker. 82 ticks, 46.4M healed, against 133M the party dealt to those seventeen mobs. Net damage was 87M of a 150M pool, which is why at the wipe the Belcher had bottomed at 55%, the Grovekeeper at 59%, the Stalkers between 16% and 48%, and the Lightgorged Lashers themselves at 20% and 33%.

There is no counter except killing the casters. Pollination is instant -- no cast bar, nothing to kick -- and Pollen Surge has no dispel type in the client's SpellCategories table, so Purge and Mass Dispel would not strip it. In the +13 and the +12 the Lightgorged Lashers died 32-48 seconds after being engaged and Pollen Surge healed 9.1M and 8.4M across the first five minutes of each key. Here they were the two mobs nobody killed, and it healed 46.4M in two.

0:32-0:38. The first Spouting Floret (0:32, four ticks over six seconds, 0.8-1.0M per player on 840-950k health pools) overlapped a Light Bolt Volley the Radiant Spellsower started at 0:31. The Volley is a four-second cast, it is interruptible, and four interrupts were off cooldown -- Fury Warrior's Pummel since 0:28, Ele Shaman's Wind Shear from 0:31, and neither Veng DH nor Hyporock had used theirs yet. It landed at 0:35 for 550-590k on the three non-tanks it reached and 386k on the tank. Fury Warrior died a second later; Ele Shaman took Uproot for 368k at 0:36 and died at 0:38 with no defensive pressed (Astral Shift came after his Reincarnation). Hyporock, who had put up Divine Shield at 0:27, was the one player the Volley registered as immune on, and he spent the window keeping others alive: Lay on Hands on the tank at 6% (0:31), Blessing of Sacrifice on the healer at 39% (0:37).

1:20. Belch Spores: one hit of 909,708 on Hyporock's 838k pool. Three casts in the fight, one player hit once -- it is dodgeable. The healer was at 2-16% health and self-preserving for the seven seconds around it.

1:37-1:47. The third Floret arrived with everyone at 48-71%; a second later everyone was at 26-41%. The healer died at 1:41 (Thornblade, a Bleed nobody in this party can remove), then Hyporock, Fury Warrior and Ele Shaman inside six seconds with no healer alive. A second wave of 13 mobs -- nine Lashers, two more Lightgorged Lashers, a Spellsower, a Stalker -- was first touched by the tank's Sigil of Chains at 1:41 and had not been in combat before; it dealt about 4M of the 53M, all after the wipe was underway. The log ends at 2:07 with the tank alive among 22 mobs.

Throughput 33 is a floor, as the report itself says: the demand was outside anything the scale was cut on, and response dropped out. Both are the shape of the key, not the healer's play.

Every melee figure carries the swing double-count Arbiter still has. 'Party took 68M' is 53M with melee counted once, and the 'Melee 526,340' in Fury Warrior's death window is about 263k. Nothing above rests on a melee number.

Fury Warrior's damage score of 36 is two deaths (out from 0:36 to 0:45 and from 1:46), 67% activity, and 302 item level against 320-321 for the rest of the party. The gear gap is real; price it before the play.

Veng DH's interrupts read 60 for 3 stops against 5 expected. The group stopped 11 of 16 and the one that mattered is the Volley above. And the tool has no line for enemy healing at all -- the 46.4M is invisible to it, which is how a party dealing 1.3M a second stood in a pack for a hundred seconds and removed less than half of it.