Murder Row +17 — Ret prep

Built from your timed Murder Row +16 on 2026-09-26 (28:04 against 34:01, 4 deaths, your one death at 9:01), the boss plans in the Season 2 boss cooldown plans, and 3,454 US +17 runs from Raider.IO. At +17 every enemy has 10% more health and hits about 10% harder. No new affix.

The short version

  1. The clock is not the problem. Play the +16 again at +17 and it finishes around 30:25 with the same 4 deaths, 29:25 with none, against 34:01. That leaves about 3½ minutes. The only thing that depletes this key is a wipe on the big demon pull (pull 5, 5 minutes of fighting).
  2. Murder Row is the most-timed +17 in the pool: 90% of US runs. At the same group item level, groups time it about as often as a +16 and finish 15–25 s closer to the timer.
  3. The two Whirlwind deaths and your Warehouse Worker death are the ones that get worse. Each was one or two hits. At +17 those hits are 10% bigger and nothing else changes.
  4. Wings sat unused for a full cooldown on Zaen and on Lithiel. It was ready at the pull both times and first pressed 48 s and 58 s in. That's two windows in fights long enough for three.
  5. Kick Seduction, Fel Missiles and Fel Rage first. Fel Missiles was 2.0 M of the 2.2 M you took in pull 1 and took you to 36%.

The time budget

+16 on 09-26 same play at +17
clock 28:04 ~30:25 with 4 deaths, ~29:25 with none
fighting 23:29 ~25:52 (health +10%)
walking 3:31 same
death penalty 1:00 (4 × 15 s) 0:00 if clean
par 34:01 34:01

A +2 needs 27:13, which isn't realistic at +17 from this pace. Timing it at all is worth about +13–14 score over your 431.5 Murder Row +16.

The route, pull by pull

In the order the +16 went. "Low" is your lowest health in that pull at +16. Add 10% to every hit.

# pull what hurt you what you do
1 Felonious Mages ×4, Seductive Sayaads ×2, Felwyrms ×6, Row Hooligans, Bribed Guard Fel Missiles (2.0 M on you, kickable channel), Glaive Toss (bleed) Kick Seduction, then Fel Missiles. You pressed Divine Shield 17 s in at 36%. At +17, press Divine Protection before that happens.
2 Felwyrms ×12, Tiny Felwyrms ×8, Row Hooligans ×8, Mages ×5, Street Sneaks ×4, Massive Felwyrm Fel Missiles 2.3 M, Cutpurse (bleed, 1.8 M), Burning Fel from the Massive Felwyrm 1.2 M, melee 1.2 M Cleanse Toxins Heartstop Poison. The Sneaks cast it 10 times, and you cleansed 4. Stoneform clears Cutpurse. Low 29% at Burning Fel.
— Kystia Manaheart see below Low 28% (Chaos Barrage).
4 Warehouse Workers ×6 + Keen Taskmasters ×2, chained into Zaen Workers' melee (1.5 M in 1.4 s killed you), Sharp Nail (bleed) Taskmaster's Back to Work! enrages the Workers. Kill or stun the Taskmasters first, and get the Soother to Soothe it. If Workers turn on you, press Divine Protection (it was ready when you died). Don't BoP yourself here: the Forbearance it gave you locked out Divine Shield when you needed it.
— Zaen Bladesorrow see below Low 32%. Fel-Infused Freight (5.5 M) was your biggest single source of damage all key.
5 Shivan Punishers ×2, Wrathguard Flayers ×5, Fel Invokers ×5, Felcaster Neophytes ×4, Sayaads ×2, Corrupted Warlock, Felmaster Lucsei, Felhunters ×8, Demon Flies ×20, imps Demonic Frenzy (4.0 M, the Punishers' aura), Blade Dance (Lucsei, 2.7 M), Fel Dash (Demon Flies), Drain Life (unkickable, 1.2 M), Flay (bleed) 51 enemies, 5 minutes, both Whirlwind deaths. Shivan Punisher's Whirlwind has a 4 s cast bar and killed two DPS in one hit each (~930 k at +16). Call it and walk out of melee. Kick Fel Rage and Seduction. Lowest 27% at Drain Life. You had Wings for all five windows here, which was good.
— Xathuux the Annihilator see below Low 27% at Demonic Rage.
7 Unleashed Imps ×24, Felhunters ×5, Wrathguard Flayers ×4, Fel Invokers ×2, Corrupted Warlock, Shivan Punisher Demonic Frenzy 1.6 M, Drain Life 1.0 M, Felfire Burst 1.0 M 100 kickable casts, 54 stopped. Save Rebuke for Fel Rage and Health Funnel, not imps. Whirlwind again. Wings pack. Low 44%.
8 Defiled Golem, Fel Invokers ×2, Felhunters ×2 Defiled Slam (2.9 M on you, 2 s cast, unkickable), Fel Beam (1.4 M) Low 21%. You used Divine Shield and Lay on Hands here. An Enh Shaman died to Defiled Slam, then Felfire Bombardment. Divine Protection on each Defiled Slam, and get out of the Bombardment.
— Lithiel Cinderfury see below Low 20%. Your lowest of the key.

Rebuke priority (15 s)

  1. Seduction: Seductive Sayaad, 3 s channel, charms a player. Group kicked 7 of 9.
  2. Fel Missiles: Felonious Mage channel. 40 of 78 got through at +16. It's the pull-1 and pull-2 damage.
  3. Fel Rage: Wrathguard Flayer, 3.5 s self-enrage. 4 of 27 got through.
  4. Chaos Bolt: Lithiel. 13 of 14 kicked, keep it that way.
  5. Scathing Review: Influential Reviewer. 3 of 4 kicked.
  6. Felstorm: Kystia. Kicked 7 times.
  7. Health Funnel: Fel Invoker. Kicked 15 times.
  8. Filler: Felfire Burst (imps, 1.5 s, 149 casts a key). Not worth a 15 s cooldown while anything above it is up.

Can't be kicked, don't waste Rebuke: Whirlwind, Drain Life, Curse of Doom, Defiled Slam, Fel Beam, Eye Beam, Blade Dance, Corroding Spittle, Glaive Toss, Chaos Barrage, Freight Explosion.

The bosses

Kystia Manaheart — Wings at the stuns

At +16 the stuns (Destabilized: 20 s, +115% damage taken) came at +68 s and +143 s. Felshield (−80% damage taken) was up from +91 to +143.

Zaen Bladesorrow — Wings on cooldown, starting at the pull

At +16, Murder in a Row came at +28 s and +70 s. Hide behind a Forbidden Freight crate. Freight Explosion (5 s cast, 21 casts) blows up the crates, and Fel-Infused Freight hit you for 5.5 M, more than anything else in the key. Don't stand next to a crate that's casting.

Xathuux the Annihilator — hold the opener to ~40 s

At +16 you pressed Wings at +34 and +94, which lined up with the Demonic Rage windows (41–56 and 98–114 in top parses). That's the plan. Keep it.

Lithiel Cinderfury — Wings at the pull

Your utility in this dungeon

button use it on
Cleanse Toxins Heartstop Poison: the Street Sneaks in pull 2 (10 casts) and Zaen's Envenom on the tank.
Stoneform Cutpurse, Flay, Sharp Nail and Glaive Toss (bleeds), Murder in a Row's bleed, Curse of Doom, Corroding Spittle.
Blessing of Protection A DPS the Warehouse Workers turn on, or Cutpurse bleeds on someone else. Not on yourself before the Workers: Forbearance locked out your Divine Shield.
Divine Protection Fel Missiles (pull 1), Chaotic Burst, Worker melee, Defiled Slam, Searing Fel Flame on Lithiel.
Divine Shield Pulls 1 and 8 and Lithiel, where you used it at +16.
Blinding Light Where you pressed it at +16: pull 2, Kystia, pull 5, pull 7, Lithiel. Best on the imp packs (pull 7, Lithiel's Wild Imps).
Rebuke / Hammer of Justice See the kick list. HoJ the Keen Taskmaster before Back to Work! if Rebuke is down (it's a 3 s cast).

Where you nearly died at +16

health when from
dead 9:01, Warehouse Workers 3 Worker melee hits, 1.5 M in 1.4 s, enraged, BoP just expired
20% Lithiel Searing Fel Flame
21% Defiled Golem pack Defiled Slam
27% Xathuux Demonic Rage (after Axe Toss + Fel Lightning)
27% Big demon pull Drain Life
28% Kystia Chaos Barrage
29% Pull 2 Burning Fel

At +17 each of those hits is ~10% bigger. The first three are deaths if the defensive comes late.

Evidence