ARBITER
←SAT 19 SEP 2026 · 16:39 · KEY 68 OF 190→

The Blinding Vale

+15
Timed · +130:00 timer4 bosses killed2 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.
TipGet out of the Grovekeeper's Earthrupture Strike cone

Timed 28:53 with every reachable cast in the dungeon stopped - 133 of 133. Hyporock was one-shot at 28:05 by a frontal, not by a missed defensive.

The interrupt line is the whole story against the +16 earlier the same afternoon. There, two Leafy Grovecrawlers chain-cast unopposed for two minutes and the key died. Here the group stopped 100% of what it could reach and took 2 deaths instead of 7. Holy Paladin graded A with 22 of 22 dispels.

Hyporock's death at 28:05 was not a defensive miss and should not be read as one. Ziekett died at 27:52.9 but the key did not end - enemy forces were short - so the tank opened one more pull at 27:58. Hyporock correctly held off 9.4 s for threat, pressed at 28:02.7, and a Virid Grovekeeper began Earthrupture Strike 0.2 s later. It landed at 28:05.5 for 977,476 against a max health of 857,660.

It cost 15 s on a key that finished with 1:07 spare.

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
DPS231.7K
HPS4,226
Taken/s28.4K
Deaths1
iLvl322
M+3,326
The strongest part of your grade

Casting or attacking 97% of your time alive in combat

Activity scored 93. A solid, even key lands near 75.

Best grade of the last 8 keys in the archive
From the write-up

41 stops against 30 expected is the best interrupt line you had all night. You died at 28:05 to Earthrupture Strike with 55 seconds left. That is the Virid Grovekeeper cone and it one-shots a non-tank from full, so it is a positioning fix and not a defensive you missed.

From the written analysis of this key.
Last 8 keys in the archive

Your best of the last 8

The Blinding Vale +15: C 6565BV+15Den of Nalorakk +16: C- 6161DoN+16Den of Nalorakk +15: C+ 7070DoN+15Den of Nalorakk +15: F 3939DoN+15Den of Nalorakk +15: C- 6060DoN+15Den of Nalorakk +15: B- 7575DoN+15The Blinding Vale +16: B 7878BV+16The Blinding Vale +15: B 7878BV+15

78 is above your median of 67 over these 8 keys. It is the best of them.

How the grade was built

◆ = 75, a solid key
Survival72−5.0
1 death
Starts at 100. Each death takes points off.
Damage7542%
231.7K DPS, level with 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.
Interrupts8632%
41 stops, 30 expected. 4 kicks on casts already stopped · compared with this party
Casts you stopped, against how many your kick allowed.
Activity9326%
Casting or attacking 97% of your time alive in combat
The share of your time alive in combat that you spent casting or attacking.
Utility84not counted
9 uses, about 100 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 death

bars = hits · line = your health · red = the killing blow
28:05 Earthrupture Strike977.5Kfrom Virid Grovekeeper
Nothing pressed
−14 s−9 s−5 sdeath
took 1.06Min 13.5 shealth at the start 90%healed 61.1K by Holy Paladin

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 timertimed 28:53
0:007:3015:0022:3030:00

Where the 28:53 went

fighting 26:38
Before the first pull0:02
Fighting26:38
Walking between pulls1:43
Death penalty0:30

2 deaths added 0:30 to the timer, 15 seconds each.

How it went

  1. 16:25Ele Shaman to Solar Breath from Luminous Thornmaw. No defensive pressed.
  2. 28:05Hyporock to Earthrupture Strike from Virid Grovekeeper. No defensive pressed.
  3. 28:31Timed with 1:07 to spare.

What to change, biggest first

  1. Hyporock: when a Virid Grovekeeper starts Earthrupture Strike, get out of its front. Waiting for threat does not protect you from this one - facing does.
  2. Sacrifice: on Luminous Thornmaw, move sideways out of the Solar Breath cone. It casts twice and turns between the casts.
  3. Group: forces were short when Ziekett died, which forced 38 seconds of extra trash at 27:53-28:31 and produced the death. Worth picking up more on the way through.
  4. Nothing to change on the kicks: 133 of 133 reachable casts stopped, and Hyporock's 19 CC events were the most in the party.

What the group changes together

The group stopped 100% of what it could reach, which is the only perfect interrupt conversion of the night. The cost was 117 presses for 92 stops, so the coverage came from everyone pressing everything. An order would free up 25 globals a key. Dispels are the real gap: 22 of 37 removed and 8,403,563 damage through, with two curse removers on the roster who never pressed theirs.

The comp

Strong comp. Two Bloodlusts through Arcane Mage and Ele Shaman, a battle res on both Paladins, and every dispel type covered. The one thing it lacked was anybody actually using the curse cover.

Kick board stops against expected

expected
Doryhunky27 / 607 kicks on stopped casts
Arcane Mage13 / 192 kicks on stopped casts
Hyporock41 / 304 kicks on stopped casts
Ele Shaman29 / 393 kicks on stopped casts
16 of the group's 117 kick presses landed on casts somebody had already stopped.

What the group left up

Casts that went off
Seed Shot
21 of 70got through
Light Bolt
7 of 40got through
Warden's Wrath
5 of 10got through
Lightspore Shot
5 of 22got through
Debuffs left up
Spore Spines
396.7K3 times, 54 s up
Could have been dispelled and was not.
Toxic Spew
4.25M6 times, 54 s up
Could have been dispelled and was not.
Bloodthorn Roots
3.76M6 times, 40 s up
Could have been dispelled and was not.
Hit most of the party
Spouting Floret
11%of all damage taken
Hit 5 of 5. Everyone took it, so nobody is charged.
Oozing Xylem
9%of all damage taken
Hit 5 of 5. Everyone took it, so nobody is charged.
Lightmaw Beams
6%of all damage taken
Hit 5 of 5. Everyone took it, so nobody is charged.
Lightcrazed Frenzy
4%of all damage taken
Hit 5 of 5. Everyone took it, so nobody is charged.
Eaten by enemy shields
Spiny Shield, Lightbloom Pollination
2.9%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
DoryhunkyVeng DHD+58
KEEPCasting or attacking 99% of your time alive in combat
CHANGEInterrupts cost 16 points: 27 stops, 60 expected. 7 kicks on casts already stopped
Open the breakdown ↑
Holy PaladinHoly PaladinA97
CHANGEUtility cost 2 points: 52 uses, about 92 were available
Open the breakdown ↑
Arcane MageArcane MageB80
KEEPCasting or attacking 96% of your time alive in combat
CHANGEInterrupts cost 9 points: 13 stops, 19 expected. 2 kicks on casts already stopped
Open the breakdown ↑
HyporockRet PaladinB78
KEEPCasting or attacking 97% of your time alive in combat
CHANGEDamage cost 11 points: 231.7K DPS, level with the other damage dealers
Open the breakdown ↑
Ele ShamanEle ShamanC67
KEEPCasting or attacking 97% of your time alive in combat
CHANGEDamage cost 12 points: 227.8K DPS, 6% below the other damage dealers
Open the breakdown ↑

Notes

Where the numbers need a second look

Earthrupture Strike is a frontal, and it one-shots

The cast names no target - destGUID is all zeroes - so it is a cone, not a target-selected hit, on a 2.5-second cast. Across this key and the abandoned +16, 14 landings: 13 on the tank for 156,684 to 386,958, and one on Hyporock for 977,476. The very next cast 23 seconds later hit Doryhunky for 265,479, so the spread is the tank's mitigation and not a property of the victim.

977,476 against an 857,660 pool means it kills a Ret paladin from full. No defensive short of an immunity changes the outcome, and Blessing of Protection (178 s), Divine Shield (124 s) and Divine Protection (26 s) were all on cooldown at that pull anyway. Arbiter's 'no defensive pressed' line reads as a choice here when it was a lockout. The counter is the cast bar: step out of the cone.

What still leaks, and why it is not a miss

21 of 70 Seed Shots got through, clustered at 4:32-5:15 (12 in 43 seconds) and 0:27-2:04. Warden's Wrath leaked 5 of 10 on Ruia, with 17:13.29, 17:15.82 and 17:18.31 being three casts inside five seconds. Both are the same shape as the Grovecrawler problem: Arbiter counted 171 kickable casts against 4 interrupts, so the group was already stopping everything it could physically reach. These are a kill-order problem, not a reaction-time one.

Sacrifice's death at 16:24.92 is the other avoidable one: Solar Breath for 1,061,697. The Thornmaw fires those in pairs about 2.5 s apart and re-aims between them - 15:58.85 and 16:01.29 is one such pair. Strafe sideways, never back.