ARBITER
←FRI 18 SEP 2026 · 11:58 · KEY 76 OF 190→

The Blinding Vale

+16
Abandoned 20:37 in30:00 timer3 bosses killed8 deathsFortifiedTyrannicalXal'atath's Guile
Timer · The time allowed for the key. Beat it to upgrade the keystone.Kick · An interrupt that stops a cast.Personal · A defensive cooldown that only protects you.Cascade · Several deaths within seconds of each other.Leaked cast · An enemy cast that could have been interrupted and went off.Overcap · Resource generated while already full, so it was lost.Fortified · Trash has 20% more health and hits up to 20% harder.Tyrannical · Bosses have 25% more health and hit up to 15% harder.Xal'atath's Guile · Every death takes 15 seconds off the timer.
Bad pullRuia pulled with 4 trash mobs aliveBrewmaster MonkTipMove on the Belch Spores cast

The Lasher side was clean. The key died when Ruia was pulled with 4 trash mobs alive and the healer fell 16 s in.

The grove side was the cleanest this group has run it: every Lightgorged Lasher died 44 to 82 s after it was engaged, and Pollen Surge healed 15M all key, 1.3% of the party's damage. On the two earlier wipes it was 35% and 40%. Kill order was not the problem.

The key ended on Lightwarden Ruia. Brewmaster Monk pulled her at 15:58 with a Thornmaw, 2 Saptors and a Grovecrawler still alive. Resto Druid died at 16:14 to the Thornmaw's Solar Breath, Arcane Mage at 16:19 to Seed Shot; both were brezzed. At 18:05, with Ruia at 35%, Spirits of the Vale added an untargetable Bear and Moonkin, and 4 players died in the next 110 s. Brewmaster Monk soloed the last 2.4%. She died at 20:27.

Written by Claude (Opus 5) from the combat log and the archive. The numbers come from the log, and the text can be wrong.
BREAKDOWN FOR

Hyporock

Retribution Paladin · DPS
DPS232.6K
HPS12.8K
Taken/s37.7K
Deaths2
iLvl322
M+3,325
The strongest part of your grade

Casting or attacking 95% of your time alive in combat

Activity scored 81. A solid, even key lands near 75.

Where the most points went

Damage: −16 points

232.6K DPS, 19% below the other damage dealers.

Measured. Nobody has written advice for this key yet.
Last 8 keys in the archive

Below your usual

Den of Nalorakk +14: B+ 8383DoN+14Ruby Life Pools +16: B 7979RLP+16Voidscar Arena +15: B- 7676VA+15Voidscar Arena +15: B+ 8484VA+15Voidscar Arena +15: C 6767VA+15Voidscar Arena +15: C+ 7070VA+15Den of Nalorakk +16: C+ 6868DoN+16The Blinding Vale +16: C- 6363BV+16

63 is below your median of 73 over these 8 keys. Best: 84 on Voidscar Arena +15.

How the grade was built

◆ = 75, a solid key
Survival50−9.0
2 deaths
Starts at 100. Each death takes points off.
Damage6242%
232.6K DPS, 19% below the other damage dealers · compared with this party
Your damage, against your spec on Warcraft Logs when the key was uploaded, otherwise against this group.
Mechanics100−0
No avoidable damage that others in your role dodged · compared with this party
Damage you took that players in your role avoided.
Interrupts7932%
17 stops, 17 expected. 4 kicks on casts already stopped · compared with this party
Casts you stopped, against how many your kick allowed.
Activity8126%
Casting or attacking 95% of your time alive in combat
The share of your time alive in combat that you spent casting or attacking.
Utility84not counted
8 uses, about 70 were available
How often you used your spec's utility buttons, like stuns and immunities.

% = its share of the grade. Survival and mechanics carry no share: they start at 100 and only take points off. "Not counted" parts are shown for context and do not move the grade.

Your deaths

bars = hits · line = your health · red = the killing blow
2:20 Belch Spores907.4Kfrom Sporeblight Belcher
Nothing pressed
−6 s−4 s−2 sdeath
took 907.4Kin one hithealth at the start 95%no healing landed
19:54 Grievous Thrash52.0Kfrom Spirit Bear
Nothing pressed
−7 s−5 s−2 sdeath
took 1.11Min 7.0 shealth at the start 49%before the last hit 2%healed 593.7K by Brewmaster Monk

The Run

The same for everyone in the group

The whole key, on the timer

a pull, brighter = more damage takendeath penaltya death, in class colour
30:00 timerleft 22:28
0:007:3015:0022:3030:00

Where the 22:28 went

fighting 19:42
Before the first pull0:03
Fighting19:42
Walking between pulls0:34
Death penalty2:00
Out of combat, not walking0:10

8 deaths added 2:00 to the timer, 15 seconds each.

How it went

  1. 2:20Hyporock to Belch Spores from Sporeblight Belcher. No defensive pressed.
  2. 13:47Arcane Mage to Incise from Ikuzz the Light Hunter. Prismatic Barrier and Lay on Hands from Hyporock in the window.
  3. 16:15CascadeResto Druid and Arcane Mage in 5 s, to Solar Breath and Seed Shot. Resto Druid went first. No defensive pressed by either.
  4. 18:12CascadeResto Druid and Arcane Mage in 4 s, to Lightfire and Grievous Thrash. Resto Druid went first.
  5. 18:48Ele Shaman to Grievous Thrash from Spirit Bear. No defensive pressed.
  6. 19:54Hyporock to Grievous Thrash from Spirit Bear. No defensive pressed.
  7. 20:37The key was dropped 20:37 in, with 7:32 left on the timer.

What to change, biggest first

  1. Brewmaster Monk: finish the second pack before Ruia. A Thornmaw, 2 Saptors and a Grovecrawler were alive at the pull; the Thornmaw's Solar Breath killed the healer 16 s in, and you spent 2 kicks on Seed Shot while tanking a boss.
  2. Kill order on the grove side stays as it was: Lightgorged Lasher under single target, small Lashers to cleave. When a Belcher is up it goes before the Stalkers; Spouting Floret was 20M on its own.
  3. Hyporock: Belch Spores at 2:17 was a 907k one-shot with nothing pressed. It is a 1.5 s cast that lands about 3 s later and was dodged on most of its 5 casts. Move on the cast.
  4. Ruia: at 2:03 into the fight, with her at 35%, she summons a Spirit Bear and Spirit Moonkin that cannot be attacked. Timed groups kill her in about 2:25 and see 20 s of that. She has to be low, with everyone alive, before it happens.

Kick board stops against expected

expected
Brewmaster Monk25 / 345 kicks on stopped casts
Ele Shaman14 / 194 kicks on stopped casts
Arcane Mage13 / 116 kicks on stopped casts
Hyporock17 / 174 kicks on stopped casts
19 of the group's 82 kick presses landed on casts somebody had already stopped.

What the group left up

Casts that went off
Light Bolt
18 of 57got through
Seed Shot
12 of 23got through
Warden's Wrath
9 of 13got through
Frantic Blooming
1 of 2got through
Debuffs left up
Spore Spines
976.5K5 times, 80 s up
Could have been dispelled and was not.
Bloodthorn Roots
1.87M2 times, 15 s up
Could have been dispelled and was not.
Hit most of the party
Spouting Floret
8%of all damage taken
Hit 5 of 5. Everyone took it, so nobody is charged.
Lightcrazed Frenzy
5%of all damage taken
Hit 5 of 5. Everyone took it, so nobody is charged.
Bedrock Surge
4%of all damage taken
Hit 5 of 5. Everyone took it, so nobody is charged.
Thorncaller Roar
3%of all damage taken
Hit 5 of 5. Everyone took it, so nobody is charged.
Eaten by enemy shields
Spiny Shield, Lightbloom Pollination
2.2%of the damage dealt
A normal key loses 0.4 to 2.5%.

What Each of You Takes Away

One thing to keep, one to change
Brewmaster MonkBrewmasterF42
CHANGEMitigation cost 26 points: Defensives up 8% of what your kit can hold; 0% of the worst moments covered
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Resto DruidResto DruidC+71
KEEPCasting or attacking 96% of your time alive in combat
CHANGEHealing cost 11 points: Healed 73% of the damage that needed an outside heal
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Ele ShamanEle ShamanB-74
KEEPCasting or attacking 97% of your time alive in combat
CHANGEDamage cost 10 points: 256.1K DPS, level with the other damage dealers
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Arcane MageArcane MageC68
KEEPCasting or attacking 98% of your time alive in combat
CHANGESurvival cost 13 points: 3 deaths
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HyporockRet PaladinC-63
KEEPCasting or attacking 95% of your time alive in combat
CHANGEDamage cost 16 points: 232.6K DPS, 19% below the other damage dealers
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Notes

Where the numbers need a second look

Kill order on the Lasher packs, measured

Hyporock put 6.7M of the first Lightgorged Lasher's 11.4M in himself while Arcane Mage and Ele Shaman cleaved the 3 small Lashers, which died at 21 to 23 s. The Lightgorged died at 44 s. That split repeated on all 12: small Lashers (2.1 to 2.7M each) fell to cleave in about 20 s, the Lightgorged (11M) to single target in a median 60 s.

What hurt the party on that side was not the Lashers. The 2 Belchers did 24M (Spouting Floret 20M), 7 Stalkers 20M (Thornblade bleed 14M), 2 Grovekeepers 10M, 46 small Lashers 9M between them. The 11 Lightgorged hit for 0.7M each, melee only.

Was the abandon right, and the tank's F

Ruia died at 22:27 on the timer (20:27 plus 2:00 of death penalty), leaving 7:33. The timed +14 on 09-04 and +12 on 09-08 needed 4:23 and 4:42 from Ruia's death to the end. 110 enemies were dead against 119 in that +14, which had one trash pull left. With 4 people running back from the entrance it was about a minute inside the timer, if nobody died again.

Brewmaster Monk's F is the grader, not the tank. Stagger is passive and Purifying Brew is filed as not-a-button, so the mitigation axis reads 8% for a Brewmaster. 0 deaths on 20 minutes of tanking is the real number.