Ruby Life Pools

**Living Bomb, three carriers.** Resto Shaman 9:36 (1.04 M of bomb plus 706k of Inferno, nothing pressed), Demo Lock 13:18 (914k, nothing pressed), Hyporock 19:27 (749k of bomb under Tempest Stormshield and Thunderous Stomp — Divine Protection and Blessing of Protection were pressed, and neither touches it). The bomb is cast on one player, lands two seconds later, ticks six times, then explodes; Barkskin-class reductions cut the ticks and an immunity removes them. Hyporock's Divine Shield had gone at 18:32, fifty-five seconds earlier, so nothing he had left answered it — that death belongs to the wipe it was part of.

**Burnout, 10:22.** The Blazebound Destroyer explodes when it dies. It died at 10:23; Hyporock took the full 1,307,127 (overkill 467k) standing on it, with no healing in the window because there was no window. The warlock's pets ate 70k each from the same blast — that is what standing 10 yards away costs. Step off a Destroyer under 20%.

**Molten Boulder, 17:37.** Kokia's rolling boulder for 858k, with Inferno ticking behind it for 682k. Dodgeable, and 444k of healing was already on him.

**The gauntlet, 19:27–19:43.** Hyporock (bomb), then the healer to Lightning Torrent (920k over 9.5 s, nothing pressed), the warlock to Torrent and Stormshield over 14.8 s, the tank to 4.9 M of melee in 5.3 s, the warrior to melee and Stormshield. Arms Warrior died to Torrent again at 22:33 when they went back in.

The party attempted 1.26 billion damage this key and 276 M of it — 18% — was absorbed by enemy shields. Stormcloud Barrier on the Primal Thunderclouds took 229 M of that on its own; 113 barriers went up and none came off. The archive's earlier reads of this pack say the same thing every time: the Tempest Channeler and High Channeler Ryvati summon the clouds, each cloud arrives with a ~3 M shield, the clouds expire on their own, and AoE poured into them accomplishes nothing while Ryvati's Tempest Stormshield lands on everyone every fifteen seconds. Two of the five wipe deaths were Lightning Torrent, which is the channelers casting.

Stormcloud Barrier is Magic. Purge removes it, and a Resto Shaman purged one in a +12 on 09-08 to prove it. Nobody cast Purge tonight. That is not the main fix — 113 purges is not a use of a healer's globals — but the four or five clouds standing on the tank are. The main fix is the target: the two channelers first, and the enemy count as the signal the pull is being won, not the damage meter.

The other shields were the usual: Ice Bulwark on Melidrussa 14.3 M, Blaze of Glory on the Ashseer Flamelasher 10.1 M (also Magic, also purgeable), Ice Shield 6.8 M.

228k, 109% of the other damage dealers' median, 16 casts stopped against 17 expected, 94% engaged, one battle resurrection. The rotation numbers are where the earlier keys tonight put them; the three deaths are the whole of the C, and two of the three were position — on the Destroyer as it died, in the boulder's path. The Living Bomb one had Blessing of Protection pressed at it, which is the wrong button by school — Divine Shield is the one that answers a bomb — but Divine Shield was on cooldown from 18:32, so there was no right button left.

The fire camp after Melidrussa is where two of the ten deaths came from, and this pack has now killed players in three keys in two nights. Inferno is a 3.5 s cast that cannot be kicked or stunned and stamps a five-second debuff on everyone in range when it completes — 487 ticks tonight, 49.8 M, 13% of the party's intake and the largest line in the party-wide list. The only counter is distance when the bar fills. Twenty seconds of everyone on the Destroyer and the Cinderweaver together is a clean pull; entering it piecemeal stretches it and stacks an Inferno, a bomb and a Cinderbolt into the same ten seconds.