Broodling kicks, globules and Eternal Venom, the Feast founts, the snakes, and every death, pull by pull. Piian's Mid-Pressure progression night, 8 November.
Every pull of Mythic Twin Fangs runs to the same script, so every pull can share one time axis, running to the length of the longest pull (272 seconds). A pull's row ends where it ended. The wipe starts at the first death of the first run of 4 deaths within 8 seconds. Deaths from there on are drawn small and faded and are not held against anyone. Pick a pull to see it player by player, with soaks, kicks and Feast hits.
Where the pulls broke: before the first Rouse (pull 6), the first Feast and its founts (pulls 1, 7, 20 and 23), the second Rouse (pulls 3, 9, 11, 12 and 26), the second Feast (pulls 4, 5 and 19) and after Submerge (pulls 2, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24 and 25). What started the wipes, by the first death of each: Caustic Globule soak (7), Ravenous Feast (4), Caustic Globule explosion (4), Visceral Burst from a missed kick (3), Eternal Venom ticks (3), Stone Breaker (2), attrition from Toxic Fumes (2) and Stir the Depths waves (1). 21 pulls reached the second Rouse.
Timings are from this log. Both bosses are fought together, and Eternal Venom stacks tie the mechanics together.
54 Rouses before a wipe, with 534 Broodlings. 16 Broodlings got a Visceral Burst off, in 13 of the 54 Rouses; the other 41 had none. Nothing after a wipe started is counted. Half of the 16 went off 10.0 seconds or more after the Rouse began. 12 of the 16 came in a second Rouse at a boss position (Rouse 2). Broodlings went off most often at L3 (3), L4 (3), R1 (3) and L5 (3).
Fixed spots. A Broodling is placed at the nearest of the ten spots by where it first took damage. 42 were kicked before anything hit them, so the log has no position for them. Sides always alternate, so their side is known. 23 of them could also be placed, because only one spot fits the spawn rules (the first Rouse at each boss position, before Submerge and again in the corner after it, uses every spot once). The other 19 are known by side only. Kicking the same spot most of the night (60% or more): Piiaan (L1, 63%), Indris (R3, 61%) and Aelyssar (L4, 63%).
Was a kick available? For each Broodling that went off, the table at the end of this section lists every kicker who was alive with their interrupt off cooldown. “On that side” means a kicker who normally kicks the side the Broodling was on. For all 16, at least one such kicker was ready. The 5 Broodlings that started a wipe: R2 on pull 3 (Atheniás and Preng’s pair), L4 on pull 3 (Mattiseppo and Aelyssar’s pair), R2 on pull 9 (Atheniás and Preng’s pair), R1 on pull 9 (Atheniás and Preng’s pair) and R5 on pull 25 (Laradendusk and Vesemirr’s pair). The log has no range check, so “ready” means the cooldown was up, not that the Broodling was in reach.
One row per Rouse, spots left to right as in the room. A cell is who kicked that Broodling. The small number after the name is the kick order in that Rouse, so Vesemirr 4 means Vesemirr kicked the 4th Broodling to be kicked; it is not seconds. Red cells went off. After the ✗ is when the first kick aimed at that Broodling came, measured from the Burst: ✗ +0.03s missed by a hair, ✗ +2.5s was sent after the Burst was seen and landed on its next cast. A name after the ✗ means someone else tried first. ✗ no kick: nobody aimed one at it. Dotted underline: there is no position in the log, so the spot is the only one the spawn rules allow. “?” holds the ones even the rules cannot place, with their side (L or R). wipe after a row: a missed kick in that Rouse started the wipe.
Where the second Rouse doubles up. The first Rouse at each boss position puts one Broodling on every spot; the second can reuse one, but only from three or more Broodlings back on that side, so only the 4th and 5th on a side ever land on a used spot. Across 80 Mythic kills a side only ever runs one of the five sequences below (see Rouse spawn pattern). This night 19 of the 27 sides read in full had a repeat. 15 other sides could not be read in full: 14 had a Broodling with no spot and 1 was cut short by the wipe. Tags read pull and side: P3 L is the left side of pull 3’s second Rouse.
Kickers. Main spot: where they kicked most, with its share. Same side: share of their kicks on their usual side. Median order: which Broodling of the Rouse they usually kicked (1 = the first kicked). Order spread: how much that varied. Pattern: a one-line reading of the three.
| Kicker | Interrupt | Kicks | Rouses alive | Main spot | Same side | Median order | Order spread | Pattern |
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Against the kick plan. Each pair of spots has an early kicker, who takes the first Broodling to surface there, a late kicker for the second, and a backup for a third or any whose kicker is dead. The tanks share the front pair however the mechanics let them, so they count as one. Centre backups cover a side and the front. 339 of the 482 placed Broodlings (70%) were kicked by the player the plan gave them to. Best-kept pair: L5+R5 (87% kicked by the assigned player); least: L3+L4 (45%). On L3+L4 the kicks moved between Aelyssar, Mattiseppo and Taranus with no settled order: Taranus took 13 of Mattiseppo’s, Mattiseppo took 11 of Aelyssar’s and Aelyssar took 10 of Mattiseppo’s. That is a spot pair the 3 of them need to settle, not one player’s miss. Kicked most of their own: Piiaan (45 of 51), Alfi (38 of 47) and Indris (34 of 43). Backups filling in: Taranus (22), Huibalast (16), Шамшыммыч (15) and Squashiclysm (14).
Theirs: the placed Broodlings the plan gave this player, by spawn order in their pair; a dead kicker’s go to the backup, then the centre backup. Broodlings with no spot (“?”) are left out, and so are 33 that came after one on the same side, since the unplaced one may have been the first in their pair. Kicked: theirs they kicked. Taken: theirs someone else kicked; …ready: of those, how many came while their own interrupt was off cooldown (cooldown only: the log cannot tell whether they were in range). Off: theirs that finished a Visceral Burst. Helped: kicks on Broodlings the plan gave someone else. Speed: median seconds from a Broodling surfacing to their kick, on their own ones.
| Kicker | Job | Theirs | Kicked | Taken | …ready | Off | Helped | Speed | Taken most by |
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| Pull · Rouse | Spot | Went off at | Surfaced | Kicked after | Ready on that side | Ready elsewhere | Started the wipe |
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Soaks. 45 Feasts before a wipe. 4 smashes went out to the whole raid because too few were in them. All 4 Feasts that started a wipe had a smash go out to the raid (players hit per smash: pull 1 8 · 7 · all 20; pull 4 9 · 5 · all 20; pull 17 8 · all 18; pull 19 all 18). In 2 of them the other smashes had 12 or more between them, so the people were there but not spread across all three. A smash went to the raid or a Tainted Burst went off in 1 of 25 first Feasts, 2 of 16 second and 1 of 4 third. Everyone soaked at least three in four of the Feasts they were alive for. Alfi took 69 globule-soak stacks and skipped 11 of 44 Feasts; Feast soaks are the only way to shed stacks. Every soak takes one Eternal Venom stack off, so a skipped Feast is a stack kept. Players who die in a smash that went to the raid are often the ones who did go in; they count in the deaths below.
Tainted Blood. 0 of the 45 Feasts ended in Tainted Burst. Healing into the founts came from Arúgál (29%), Valanarr (26%), Balkaneros (20%) and Aeonara (17%); everyone else together gave 8%.
| Pull | Feast at | Players hit per smash | Founts | Healed most |
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13 globules exploded unsoaked before a wipe: pull 4 in wave 1; pulls 3, 7, 8, 12, 19, 20, 22 and 24 in wave 2; pull 14 in wave 4; pull 5 at 123s from Angryde’s globules (1 death within 1.5s), pull 13 at 165s from Alfi’s globules (12 deaths within 1.5s) and pull 18 at 164s from Squashiclysm’s globules (12 deaths within 1.5s). The shields were not the problem: 817 of the 822 Barbed Bulwarks were stripped by crowd control, mostly by Paladins (177), Druids (166) and Shamans (109). Another 20 went off after a wipe had started, mostly the globules dead players drop: a cost of wiping, not a soak problem.
Each globule is one stack for one player. With about 20 alive and 15 globules a wave, about 5 people go without one in every wave by design, so these lists only mean something when the same name keeps coming up. Tanks are left out. Most important — alive and without a globule in a wave where one exploded: Arozax (8 of 10), Piiaan (6 of 10), Шамшыммыч (6 of 10), Atheniás (5 of 9), Huibalast (5 of 10) and Aeonara (4 of 10). Soaked in under half the waves they were alive for: Arozax (14 of 59). Took two or more in one wave: Angryde (6 waves), Alfi (5 waves), Arúgál (5 waves), Squashiclysm (5 waves), Aeonara (4 waves) and Valanarr (4 waves); usually someone covering a gap, at the cost of the extra stack.
The count. 61 globule waves came before a wipe. Each dropped 15 globules. Players who died during a wave dropped 27 more, one to three each, two seconds after the death (Arozax on pull 9; Vesemirr on pull 10; Taranus on pull 12; Taranus, Alfi and Piiaan on pull 16; Angryde and Squashiclysm on pull 17; Atheniás on pull 19; Angryde on pull 23; Piiaan on pull 24; Angryde on pull 25). Another 118 dropped outside those waves: 113 from players dying away from a wave and 5 not tied to a death. That makes 1060 in all.
Where the stacks came from. 3087 stacks before a wipe: 35% from Venomous Emergence, which everyone takes, 32% from globule soaks, and 10% from globules exploding. 10% came from waves, 6% from snake spit on its target and 1% from spit cleaving someone next to the target, and Vile Flood (3%) and globules landing on someone as they dropped (2%) gave the rest. Most wave and spit-cleave stacks, from not dodging during mechanics: Laradendusk (42), Vesemirr (31), Valanarr (27) and Indris (23). (The spit’s target can’t dodge the beam, so their stacks are left out.) Most Vile Flood stacks, from standing in the beam during Submerge: Arozax (13), Alfi (11), Squashiclysm (11), Angryde (9), Atheniás (9) and Valanarr (9). 11 deaths to Eternal Venom ticks before a wipe started: 7 at 9 stacks, 1 at 7 stacks, 1 at 6 stacks and 2 at 4 stacks. (A Venom death that started a wipe is counted with the wipe causes above.)
| Eternal Venom stacks by source | ||||||||||||||
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| Player | Waves alive | Waves soaked | Globules per wave | Waves with 2+ | Death globules soaked | No soak, one exploded | Feasts soaked | soaks | spit target | spit cleave | waves | Vile Flood | landed on | other |
Waves soaked is waves with at least one globule, not globules, so taking two in a wave doesn’t raise it. Globules per wave is wave globules soaked divided by waves alive; 15 globules over about 20 people is about 0.75 each. Death globules soaked: a dead player’s globules are extra work, not a missed soak, so they are kept out of the other columns. The log doesn’t say which globule a soak was. In a wave where someone died, a player’s 2nd or later soak after the death drop counts as a death globule, up to the number dropped. Outside a wave, any soak 2–15 s after a death counts.
54 Venomous Emergences before a wipe. All three snakes died in 50 of them, the last at a median of 14.4 seconds after they surfaced. They got off 195 Corrosive Spits, a median of 3 per Emergence. Every spit that lands is a stack: 6% of the night’s stacks were on the spit’s target, and 1% on players caught in the cleave.
The table shows how much of each dps player's damage went into the snakes while any were alive. Most of it: Preng (90%), Atheniás (77%), Шамшыммыч (76%) and Huibalast (76%). Lowest: Mattiseppo (8%) and Indris (1%). Check these against who was assigned to the snakes before reading them as a problem; a player kept on the bosses will show low here. They were cleaved down together: for the median dps, 32% of their snake damage went into the first one to die, about an even split across the three.
| Player | Emergences | Hit a snake | Share of damage into snakes | On the first to die | First hit (median) |
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58 deaths came before a wipe started, and 453 after. Players were dying before most wipes: in 20 of 26 pulls someone died before the wipe started. Pulls that reached Submerge averaged 3.4 deaths before the wipe and the rest 1.1, mostly because they ran longer: per minute it is 1.02 against 0.65. Most deaths before a wipe: Angryde (7), Squashiclysm (7), Preng (5) and Taranus (5). First to die in a pull: Laradendusk (3), Angryde (2), Atheniás (2), Preng (2), Squashiclysm (2) and Taranus (2). A death by Toxic Fumes (the room's constant damage) is counted as the biggest hit in the five seconds before it.
| Player | Deaths before a wipe | First to die | Causes |
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How this is read. A wipe starts at the first death of the first run of 4 deaths within 8 seconds; the kill, if there is one, has none. A mechanic that opens after the wipe started is not counted, and inside one that was already running, nothing after the wipe start counts (Broodlings, Bursts, kicks, smashes, snake damage). A globule wave cut off by the wipe within 7.5 seconds (before its drops end) is not a wave; its globules are counted on their own. What started a wipe is the cause of its first death. Alive: a player is dead from their death until they next cast something, so a battle rez brings them back. A Broodling's spot is the nearest of the ten spots to where it first took damage, within seven yards. A kick ready means the kicker was alive and their interrupt's cooldown was up when the Burst completed; the night's most-used interrupt counts for each player. A globule soak is a Caustic Globule hit on one player. An explosion is the other Caustic Globule spell hitting three or more players within 0.6 seconds. A stack's source is the hit that landed from 0.35 seconds before the stack to 0.15 seconds after it. A shield strip is a Barbed Bulwark dropping within 0.4 seconds of a stun, fear or incapacitate on that globule. Healing into a fount is healing absorbed on a player while they carry Tainted Blood, leaving out anyone also under Blood Torrent's absorb.