Ruby Life Pools

29:36 against a 28:00 par: 26:59 fighting, 1:20 walking, 0:09 lead-in, 1:15 of death penalty. The tool prints 2:15 because it charges all nine deaths; the game's timer (29:36 against 28:30 of real elapsed time) charges five. Deaths after the timer expires add nothing.

The 2026-09-13 +15 that timed had the same party output (838k/s then, 811k/s tonight): 23:11 of fighting, two deaths. A +16 adds ~10% enemy health, so about 2:20 more fighting was owed; tonight had 3:48 more. The extra ~1:30 is what deaths cost beyond the penalty -- 21 seconds with no healer in the fire camp, the shaman's self-res and second death, the boss cascade.

The gauntlet (21:21-24:54) spawned 48 Primal Thunderclouds, each with a Stormcloud Barrier. Fourteen were stripped (eleven by Ele Shaman's Purge, three by Arcane Mage's Arcane Phoenix); the other 34 were burned through: 187.6M absorbed, ~5.5M a shield, 11.6% of everything the party swung for, or 3:51 of the whole party's output. Cleave that also hit a real target is not all lost; against the +15 that timed (10.8% into enemy shields), tonight's 14.4% is ~58M more, about 70 seconds of party output.

Opening pull (30 enemies, two Primal Juggernauts). 0:25 Holy Paladin, sixteen seconds in: Blast Chunks 862k plus Excavating Blast 399k in three seconds. Blast Chunks is the Juggernaut's ceiling debris ("within 6 yards of the impacts", per the spell data); it landed twice all key, both kills. 2:21 Hyporock: eight seconds of Earthbound's Imprint (1.14M) and Excavating Blast, then Blast Chunks 817k. Nothing useful was up -- Divine Protection 1:56, Divine Shield 0:23, Lay on Hands 0:52. 3:29 Holy Paladin: Molten Steel 742k, a ground pool.

Fire camp. 10:51 Holy Paladin, one-shot by Fiery Blast for 1.33M -- a four-second kickable bar that started at 10:46. Guardian Druid's Skull Bash (10:47) and Ele Shaman's Wind Shear (10:49) both went into 2.5-second Cinderbolts; Hyporock's Rebuke sat unused from 10:10 to 11:07. 14:17 Ele Shaman: Living Bomb 996k plus Inferno 701k in four seconds. The bomb kills its carrier unless he walks 16 yards off; he was inside Inferno's stamp with it.

Kyrakka and Erkhart (timer expired 26:54). Stormslam is two hits per cast -- a Physical slam that armour and Ironfur cut to 110-310k, and a 544k Nature burst -- and its tooltip reads "increasing Nature damage taken by 100% for 30 sec. This effect stacks." The debuff is Magic. Holy Paladin cleansed the first three; the fourth, applied 26:42, was still on the tank at 27:06, and that burst hit for 809k -- 149% of its listed base against 8-54% for the other five, no absorb, no crit. 1.84M in 2.4 seconds, healed 375k; Survival Instincts was available. 27:10 Ele Shaman: Roaring Firebreath, started as the tank fell, hit Kyrakka's new target for 895k through Astral Shift; Reincarnation 27:14. 27:19 Hyporock: he resurrected the tank at 27:10, then held both bosses -- nine swings, ~1.8M in 6.8 seconds. At 27:15, at about 70%, he pressed Lay on Hands on himself for 322k; Forbearance then locked out Divine Shield (up since 25:31) and Blessing of Protection. 27:39 Ele Shaman again: 957k of Inferno Spit, Kyrakka's floor fire, 25 seconds after his self-res.

Guardian Druid (Guardian, C). Mitigation 91 is 98% of the uptime this kit can hold, every worst window covered -- keep it. Interrupts 63 is 38 stops against the 53 a 15-second Skull Bash could reach; damage 63 is a rank.

Holy Paladin (Holy Paladin, C). Throughput 78 means 78% of the 251M that needed an outside heal was covered -- and the key demanded 147k/s, above the range the scale was cut on, so read it as a floor. Survival 28 is three deaths, two in ground effects; the third was a kick failure, not hers. Dispel 68 is three of five, and one of the two left up killed the tank.

Hyporock (Retribution, B). Most damage (240.5k, 111% of the other DPS median), most stops (42 against 27 expected), both battle resurrections well placed. Holy Power overcap 24% is a constant of the build, not a fault. To change: the Rebuke at 10:46, the Lay on Hands at 27:15, the debris at 2:21.

Arcane Mage (Arcane Mage, B+). No deaths, 226.8k (the median), 24 stops against 16 expected. The phoenix stole three barriers; he cast no Spellsteal himself.

Ele Shaman (Elemental, D+). Three deaths cost 11 points; 208.8k is 90% of the median; 22 stops against 33 expected (Wind Shear is the shortest kick here). Eleven Purges on Stormcloud Barrier is a first in five Ruby Life Pools keys on record (1 of 48 on 09-08, 0 of 113 on 09-14). To change: walk the bomb out, Wind Shear the four-second bars, the fire after a self-res.

The "!! implies 5.0 deaths, parser found 9" warning is not a parser error: both numbers are right, because deaths after the timer runs out are not charged. The time-budget line overstates the penalty by exactly 1:00.

Melee in every death entry is doubled, a known unfixed defect: Hyporock's "Melee 3,214,714" is 1.79M off the raw swings.

Mechanics reads 100 for all five. Inferno (69.6M, 18% of everything the party took) is excused because everybody took it; it is the key's largest damage source and pure position -- a 3.5-second bar, a radius, nothing to kick or stun. The score cannot see it; the kill order can: the four Destroyers died 1:36, 2:55, 1:49 and 3:25 into their pulls, the last one the final mob of its pack.