Fifteen Years Of Reading My Own Wrecks
Fifteen years of combat telemetry, several frontiers, one obsession: the exact second a squad stops winning.
Destiny 2 and WoW are my sterile labs — where encounter math is absolute, tolerances are measured in milliseconds, and execution is binary. ARC Raiders, Marathon, and extraction zones are the live field tests where human error collides with sudden panic.
I audit both worlds the exact same way an examiner reads an autopsy. These are the records that survived.
1,420+
Wipes Audited
14
World Top-50 Clears
312
Encounter Autopsies
17
Years Since First Pull
Destiny 2 — Contest & Master
- Day-One Contest clears across Salvation’s Edge, Last Wish, and Vault of Glass.
- Master clears of every current raid, logged wipe by wipe.
- Fireteam DPS audits: burst windows, surge stacking, and damage-phase drift.
- Communication forensics: call timing, overlap, and the cost of dead air.
WoW Forever — 60-Cap
- 40-man Naxxramas progression at the level-60 cap.
- Temple of Ahn’Qiraj through C’Thun with a fixed, high-attrition roster.
- Blackwing Lair farm and the roster math that keeps it stable.
- Consumable audits: flasks, protections, and the real cost of one missed potion.
Why are extraction shooters archived alongside MMO raid bosses?
Because an encounter collapse is universal. A 40-player raid failing an enrage timer and a 3-man fireteam wiped 10 meters from extraction share the exact same pathology: hesitation, comms saturation, and positional greed.
A failed 40-man pull in Naxxramas and a wiped squad in ARC Raiders or Marathon leave the exact same autopsy report. The boss changes; the human failure doesn’t.
Luke Bennett