Race to World First: Vault of the Incarnates

With the top 10 completed for Vault of the Incarnates, our coverage will end here until the next raid tier!

Thank you to everyone who used our coverage for the Race to World First, and we look forward to the next race later this year!

Congratulations to Instant Dollars on World 8th / US 3rd Mythic Raszageth after 246 pulls! Rest well gamers, you've earned it!

Congratulations to Skyline on World 5th / Asia 1st and Huo Guo Chao Jie on World 6th / Asia 2nd Mythic Raszageth.

BDGG with a 2.08% wipe, that's got to hurt, but they are so close! It could go down any pull now!

A 10.6% wipe for Method and BDGG enter p3.

BDGG has a heart breaking wipe at 7.39% this race for 3rd is going head to head and down to the wire with Method closer to the end of their raid day than BDGG. This is getting exciting, checkout both teams streams.

Method has a new best of 3.27%.

BDGG have completed their reclear they will now be back onto Raszageth.

Method has a new best of 6.93% after 384 pulls. BDGG are currently going through mythic re-clear.

A quick update on our two top teams pushing for world 3rd. Method has the best pull of 43.4% after 341 attempts. BDGG after 291 pulls have the best attempt sat at 45.6%

After 313 pulls Method has a new best of 44.1%

Method have hit a new best of 46.32% on Raszageth earlier today, with 2 similar pulls shortly afterwards.

Method have started raiding for today, taking longer food breaks to spend time with family.

Method has achieved a new best attempt of 54.5% with 216 pulls on the boss.

Method have recently hit a new best on Raszageth of 56.7% (pull 180). They are currently on pull 182.

Jitianhong have defeated Broodkeeper Diurna

Method are back after their break and continue progress on Mythic Raszageth. 155 pulls in total, with a best attempt of 64.8%. Once they break through the intermission, this best should drop by a significant amount, as shown by the top 2 guilds progression (Echo and Liquid).

Method have started their raiding for today, with an adjusted schedule.

Instant Dollars takes World 5th / NA 3rd Mythic Broodkeeper Diurna in 71 pulls and Skyline takes World 6th / CN 1st in 93 pulls! Congratulations to all those gamers and good luck on Raszageth!

Method has head offline for today, returning tomorrow on an adjusted schedule to continue progress whilst also taking breaks for festivities.

Liquid have a 0.35% wipe on Mythic Raszageth. They are so incredibly close, any pull will be a kill!

Liquid have another really close attempt, wiping at 3.71%. Checkout their streams, we expect the boss to drop any pull now!

And let's not forget, that BDGG and Method are still on! They are literally tied on pull count AND percentage!

Due to crazy climate issues we are not sure if BDGG will be able to raid today, but for now, Method is ready to pull the boss again after a break!

Method new best of 64.99% after 59 pulls.

Echo are up and starting their day on mythic Raszageth progress! With Liquid currently holding the best % before they went to bed. Echo knows that the pressure is on, are they feeling it? Will they defeat her before North America wakes up or before I finish my Christmas shopping?

Over in China, it's approaching 5 pm. 天涯 (Skyline) 佶天鸿 (Jitianhong) and 火锅超界 (Huo Guo Chao Jie) are all progressing Broodkeeper Diurna and each has good pulls of 32.42%, 76.34% and 80.78% retrospectively. One thing to remember is that the Asian reset was yesterday, Thursday. This means that these teams now have better gear. Will we see one of these teams catch up with the 4 teams progressing Raszageth?

Liquid have just had their best pull yet, solidly into the burn phase, they push their best attempt to 14.2%.

Method have started their day of Raszageth Mythic progression, they will be looking to get some solid progress on the boss whilst BDGG (US) are offline.

Liquid continue to pull. Since their best attempt, within the span of 4 pulls, they hit the 23% mark 3 times (pulls 341,342 and 344), currently on pull 350, so go check out their stream before they go offline today! They are certainly getting closer and closer to defeating Raszageth the Storm-Eater.

Liquid has taken the lead with a great pull of 17.68%!

And another great pull by Liquid with a 20.49% wipe! Inching closer and closer to Echo's best pull. Strong possibility that Liquid could surpass Echo tonight since they still have 4.5-5 hours left in their day.

Liquid have made it to Phase 3 of Raszageth with a new best pull of 35.49%.

Congratulations to Instant Dollars on World 8th / US 3rd Mythic Kurog Grimtotem. They defeated the boss in 45 pulls!

With 300+ pulls it's really great to see the Liquid team laughing and joking.

And we are approaching the Holidays already! Maybe we will see Raszageth with a Santa Hat? Let's hope not.

But while we wait to see what will happen, this is the recap of what we have seen: 天涯 (Skyline), 佶天鸿 (Jitianhong) and 火锅超界 (Huo Guo Chao Jie) are all showing the power of the Asian guilds! They are all pushing hard on Broodkeeper Diurna and Skyline already reached 66% of the boss HP! And what an impressive performance from 佶天鸿 (Jitianhong)! They really caught up to the front runners and surpassed 火锅超界 (Huo Guo Chao Jie) by just a bit, but still really impressive.

On the EU front, Method got an astonishing performance for the day, and already got all the way down the 67% on Raszageth. And I don't even know how to start with Echo! They not only got multiple days blowing right past the 16 hours of raiding, but they had a crazy pull, playing out of their minds, and pushing the boss to the unseen mark of 19.6%! They really showed why they are the defending champions, and put the pressure entirely on Liquid to match that amazing pull.

Speaking of the NA squad Liquid is also pulling such a performance! They not only dominated the tier in terms of World Firsts kills so far, they are also showing that if Echo wants the World First, they will have to keep up with a whole new level of gameplay. We said here before, but until this point, both squads actually were in a race of their own. But together with Method, BDGG showed both squads that if they slip, only a little bit, there is also amazingly talented squads waiting to get the glory, no questions asked, and I think this is the magic of the RWF, it doesn't matter how far ahead you think got, there's always competition! The Golden squad is currently pushing Raszageth as well, having reached a whopping 67.3% after only 64 pulls in.

From behind and catching up we have Honolulu on 4 out of 8 mythic! Here comes the steam train!! Also a another thank you for the boss guides.

Tactic update, in the last phase, players have to keep orbs away from Raszageth, if an orb gets to the boss she heals for 5% per orb hence why in Echo's last pull the boss healed up from 19.9%

BDGG has a new best pull of 68.32%

Hot from the vault as the last update was posted we see a new best from both BDGG and Method with 70.82% and 71.43% retrospectively. This race is getting spicy.

Liquid are set to come online over the next 15 minutes, starting their day of Mythic Raszageth progression!

Echo have had another run of great pulls, 3 of the 4 last pulls getting below 46%, pushing their best attempt to 43.79% on Pull 203. They are paused to discuss before starting their next attempt.

Method are looking close to a Broodkeeper Diurna kill, with a very close attempt of 1.86%.

Echo have had a flurry of pulls hitting their lowest attempt (~48%), with their latest pull pushing their best slightly lower to 48.2%. After a short pause, they are sending our ready checks for pull 199.

3 pulls after their previous best of 28.6%, Method have hit a new best of 14.86% on Pull 33. Currently they are on pull 35.

Method has a new best on Broodkeeper at pull 30 of 28.6%

Echo are chipping away at Mythic Raszageth, hitting a new best percentage of 50.68% on pull 188, currently on pull 193.

With Liquid going slightly later into the night, they have at least a few more hours before they are going head-to-head.

Echo have seen a new best attempt already today of 53% (pull 177), with a 57.7% (pull 182) attempt 5 pulls later.

Echo are pushing forward, definitely check them out today on stream to watch them drop their best attempt percentage!

Method are starting their day of Mythic raiding very soon, grouping and setting up the raid in-front of Kurog Grimtotem.

And with that BDGG has called it a night for prog while their players continue to get some Mythic+ in before bed. Liquid is still going at Raszageth with their 265th attempt.

On pull 262 Liquid has a new best on Raszageth of 47.83%! Their intermissions are getting cleaner every pull and it's been fun to watch the progression and optimizations they've been able to make.

Meanwhile, BDGG has gotten one pull on Raszageth and are now having a guild meeting and running Mythic+.

Congratulations to BDGG on World 3rd / NA 2nd Mythic Broodkeeper Diurna in 101 pulls!

BDGG are closing in on a Broodkeeper Diurna kill with a wipe of 0.99%. Any pull now could be the kill.

After 224 pulls Liquid has a new best of 63.39%

As BDGG go and get food Liquid jump back into progress.

BDGG have a terrific pull of 10.4% after 81 pulls, will Broodkeeper fall down for them soon.

Speaking of Method, the Orange squad is currently reclearing Mythic Kurog, and should be pretty soon back at Mythic Broodkeeper with all the extra gear from the Mythic reclear and extra splits done earlier today.

Liquid got some pretty good pulls already in this crazy Raszageth encounter, but they will be stopping for lunch!

Meanwhile, BDGG is pushing hard on Mythic Broodkeeper, after they were done with their reclear. They are still fighting Method for that World 3rd on the boss

Method is finally back for more Mythic action! They just started their reclear and should be back soon for some more Mythic Broodkeeper progression!

Liquid is currently focusing on getting back with consistency. They are having a little bit of trouble to get back at the add platform phase, but rightfully so. As we expected from yesterday speculation, they indeed changed a bit of the composition, bringing an extra Havoc Demon Hunter in the spot previously taken by a Marksmanship Hunter, and they decided to use only 4 healers for the fight.

Echo on the other hand, also brought the Demon Hunter to replace the Hunter, but they kept the 5 healers strategy! Let's see how this difference will play out with more practice from the NA squad as the day progresses.

What a pull for Echo! They just barely managed to give us a look at the shield phase, and it does look scary!

They still haven't managed to kill all 3 adds in both platforms, but apparently the boss has a fixed timer that you have to beat, and if you fail, the boss goes to the third platform anyway and starts the shield cast and you can't possibly break it without already being there do DPS it down.

Keep in mind that if the shield is not broken, it applies a very powerful damage over time effect that lasts an entire minute and a half, so it's pretty much a wipe.

And we are again in one of those weird situations where tracking boss health until they can get to P3 will be weird since the boss become immune at the end of P1, so I will do my best to keep you posted on the amount of adds left in the platforms, since if they can clear them all, we may finally see the feared shield mechanic in all of its Mythic glory!

So far Echo managed to kill 2 out of 3 big air elemental adds in the platform, but they had almost 2 full parties, about 9 raiders falling on the last pushback or just not been able to withstand the damage spikes.

On Liquid's end, they did only 3 pulls so far, but they have killed only 1 big add, and just barely, but with almost the entire raid dead. With more tries today I am sure they catch up pretty fast, and they have the time on their side, since Echo has been raiding pretty much since around 5 AM in Switzerland, where they are located.

Both Echo and Liquid came back to this fight in an impressive shape! I was expecting a little bit more wipes on P1 back to back due to having to reacquire that muscle memory for all the pushbacks, but by the looks of it, the reclear haven't phased them out of the fight at all!

Both reached P2, the add phase, pretty consistently so far, not short of random deaths in P1, but still very impressive!

Liquid is back online! And they are not willing to waste any more time, already in front of Mythic Raszageth and pulling

Echo are back and preparing to pull Mythic Raszageth again.

Liquid has their stream starting up, we will hopefully see some progress pulls from them soon.

It looks like BDGG are back up and into mythic Broodkeeper.

With Echo still in reclear heaven Aversion and Method are still in splits. We await the dawn with our NA teams who will be continuing there day.

Reset day continues to be splits central for the rest of EU. Hopefully, we see some boss progression later today.

Echo have finished their splits and are heading back into Mythic to reclear. Will be interesting to see if they make it back to Raszageth before Liquid wake up.

Aversion have joined the other teams in splits heaven.

EU guilds continue to run Heroic splits. But we will likely start to see guilds begin their Mythic re-clear within the next few hours.

Liquid have called it a day and are heading offline until tomorrow. Finishing their day with a best percentage of 64.8% and 186 pulls in total.

Skyline are having a similar experience to other guilds on Mythic Kurog Grimtotem. Those last few % of the boss' health are elusive. With back-to-back best attempts, they lower their best attempt from 3.85% to 3.31%. They are getting very close to defeating this boss before their region's reset tomorrow (Thursday).

Skyline are getting close to a kill on Kurog Grimtotem, with a new best of 3.85% after 68 pulls.

Echo are doing Broodkeeper Diurna Heroic splits currently. They have also done some specific boss Mythic splits for new characters (we believe one to be an additional Death Knight DPS).

Liquid are actively pulling Mythic Raszageth, having re-cleared during their day today. They will likely soon be going offline as it's getting late for them.

Method are coming online soon after finishing up Mythic+ vaults yesterday. They will start off the day opening vaults and likely jump into splits before returning to Mythic!

Liquid has finished their Mythic reclear and are currently prepping for more progression on Raszageth. BDGG just finished theirs as well, just downing Kurog Grimtotem. Echo are still working through their Heroic splits.

BDGG has cleared Mythic Dathea and are getting ready to pull Kurog Grimtotem in order to get back to Broodkeeper Diurna progression. Liquid is still pulling Broodkeeper.

On the other side of the pond, Echo is currently getting ready for their splits after reset. They are starting bright and early at 6:25am GMT after having a shorter day yesterday.

Liquid and BDGG are zooming through their reclears. Liquid is getting ready to pull Broodkeeper Diurna and BDGG is currently working on Dathea.

Liquid is back in Mythic now after Heroic Splits. Currently they have cleared Eranog and Terros and are heading towards the Primal Council. BDGG is still doing their splits and are pulling Heroic Raszageth.

Liquid still pushing strong with splits, so sadly the Mythic progression is brought into a halt. But for a good reason, the extra gear that both NA is getting right now, and EU will get shortly after will for sure bring them to face Raszageth way stronger!

BDGG is also pushing for splits, which lead me to believe that they will get back to Mythic by their dinner time.

Again, I strongly believe that they will do a full reclear of all bosses they killed so far, but they still got the option, specially BDGG that is racing for that World 3rd on Broodkeeper Diurna.

And we're back to Splitsville, sadly. Obviously NA guilds are doing all the chores for extra gear in order to get back on Mythic at full speed!

Liquid and BDGG are both focusing on farming some missing tier pieces and the huge trinket from The Primal Council, but the very low drop chance is turning this splits into a huge time sink so far, they still have the last shot, at the Mythic reclear, which would be massive for any raider that gets it.

Method and Aversion are still pushing in the EU front, but as we slowly approaching the server weekly reset, I wonder how far will they go before going to bed to try and wake up by the time the servers are back up.

Liquid is actually taking the full Heroic split strategy backup! They have multiple groups doing runs simultaneously, and by the looks of it, after they are done with specific bosses with helpers, they will reclear up until Heroic Raszageth with alt characters from raiders.

BDGG is doing something similar, so the question is how long will it take them to get back to Mythic, and if there will be any changes in compositions, what would they look like after so much more gear is acquired!

Liquid is doing a full Heroic run by the looks of it! Interesting strategy for sure, lets see how long they take to start the Mythic reclear.

As we are approaching the EU reset, here is the current status:

BDGG is farming Heroic gear, the same goes for Imperative

Liquid is currently getting all the loot from The Great Vault, maybe they will start on Heroic the same way as the other guilds? Or they may go directly into Mythic again

Method and FatSharkYes are still raiding, the same cannot be said about Echo that is aiming to getting up right after the server reset.

Method is on Mythic Broodkeeper, with 12 pulls in, and a best percentage of 65% on the boss HP mark.

FatSharkYes is on Mythic Kurog, having only done 4 pulls, maybe to feel the fight and plan for the reset, but they got his HP bar all the way down the 69.1% mark.

BDGG seems to be doing Heroic only for specific pieces of loot! Since they blasted only 2 bosses and are already back with another group.

My bet would be the huge stat budget of Whispering Incarnate Icon from The Primal Council, but let's see how this strategy plays out

Echo is apparently looking for a shorter day of raiding, in order to wake up as soon as the EU realms are back up after the reset! They have about 10 hours for some last minute chores, Mythic+ runs and sleep, lets see if other EU guilds will follow the same strategy.

FatSharkYes just defeated Mythic Dathea for World 9th, EU 3rd after 115 pulls!

BDGG is also back in the raid, and similar to Imperative their back straight to Heroic splits!

Speaking of reclears, Imperative is back the raid, but currently doing a Heroic split!

It will be very interesting to see if the loot out of the Great Vault changes something about Liquid and BDGG's composition if they change something for today.

Keep in mind, that I'm pretty sure they will reclear the raid entirely on Mythic before coming back to progression.

And the NA servers are back up! We should see US guilds coming back online in the next few hours for some Great Vault action!

Method is back at the Vault! They decided to start progression on the crazy Mythic Broodkeeper encounter, currently with 85.9% as their best percentage in terms of boss HP, and having reached all the way down 5 eggs out of the 32 they need to break before the soft enrage for P2.

After hitting a wall on Raszageth the Storm-Eater, Echo has decided to call raiding for today and switched to mythic+ for gear upgrades

After 97 pulls, Method has defeated Kurog Grimtotem! This kill is World 4th and EU 2nd.

Taking a quick look for movement on progress and we can see that whilst US guilds and specifically Liquid still sleep, Echo are still frequently getting to the 65% mark.

With Chao Jie recently taking down Dathea, Skyline will feel the pressure, still ahead on Kurog, having nudged their best attempt down to 44.4% across 32 pulls.

Conspiracy and Aversion are going head-to-head, both having a best of ~55%.

Method have another best attempt of 0.28%, that makes three under 1% wipes on this boss in the last 6 pulls. Making watching this fight, and I assume playing it, high intensity right until the boss is defeated.

Method has had another painfully close pull on Kurog Grimtotem. Lowering their best attempt from 1.88% to 0.86%.

With so many low attempts, they are making the hard decision to send Vantus Runes on Kurog Grimtotem to maximise Broodkeeper Diurna experience today. With the goal of defeating Diurna on the re-clear.

Echo has just hit pull 100 on Mythic Raszageth, with pulls frequently reaching their current best of 64.8%

Echo and Method have both started on EU Day 7. Echo is now going into pull number 93 on Mythic Raszageth while Method is on pull 68 of Kurog Grimtotem.

Looks like with the hotfixes that went in earlier tonight with Mythic Raszageth, Kurog Grimtotem received some nerfs and Broodkeeper Diurna received some fixes.

• Kurog Grimtotem
  • Increased the enrage timer to 10 minutes on Mythic difficulty (was 9 minutes)
  • Decreased the following enemies health by 15% on Mythic difficulty:
    • Frostwrought Dominator
    • Earthwought Smasher
    • Flamewrought eradicator
    • Stormwrought Despoiler
    • Tectonic Crusher
    • Frozen Destroyer
    • Blazing Fiend
    • Thundering Ravager
  • Fixed an issue where Kurog Grimtotem's Earth, Flame, Frost, and Storm Dominance were not interacting correctly with Evoker's ability Rewind (all difficulties)
• Broodkeeper Diurna
  • Fixed an issue which could affect the responsiveness of Primalist Forces on when they become active on all difficulties
  • Fixed an issue which could cause Empowered Greatstaff's Wrath to target a tank-specialization player over other valid targets.

With these changes here's to hoping we see the Method team bring home some kills!

Here is the Blue Post on December 19th Hotfixes

Liquid on pull 126 finally made it to the first intermission cleanly. They sent everyone except one of their tanks to one of the two platforms. They were barely short of clearing the one platform before the Vault Integrity hit 50%. I wonder how much different these DPS checks are going to feel after reset.

BDGG has called it a night. They end their night with 41 pulls on Broodkeeper Diurna and a best of 57.9% and the World 3rd kill of Kurog Grimtotem.

Congratulations to Skyline for World 6th, CN 1st Mythic Dathea, Ascended! They defeated the windy elemental in 163 pulls!

Instant Dollars have ended raid for the night. They stopped with 23.1% still as their best pull. Liquid is still pulling Raszageth and are currently on pull 120 and still trying to get a clean transition into Phase 2. BDGG is still at it as well with a best pull of 58.9% on Broodkeeper Diurna. Imperative didn't step into raid tonight and ran Mythic+ instead.

Instant Dollars with another best pull of 23.1%. There is a chance that we could see another Kurog kill tonight.

Liquid on their 93rd pull reached a new best of 64.86%, edging slightly ahead of Echo. They are currently on their 102nd pull of this boss. BDGG is still working on Broodkeeper with a new best pull 63.73% and a total of 22 pulls. Instant Dollars has a new best pull on Kurog Grimtotem of 40.08% on 21 pulls.

Liquid keep hammering away at Raszageth, their latest best pull is 65% which is within 0.1% of Echo's best pull. Time for the race to start heating up!

Imperative is currently running keys while BDGG are continuing to pull Broodkeeper Diurna. Instant Dollars still have a best pull of 46% on Kurog Grimtotem.

Instant Dollars have started pulling Kurog Grimtotem tonight, so far only two pulls in with a best of 46%. Liquid is still trying to optimize their comp and see further into the Raszageth fight. BDGG has gotten a handful of pulls in on Broodkeeper Diurna with a best of 82.6%.

BDGG have returned from an officer meeting & Mythic+ and have started pulling Broodkeeper Diurna.

Now that BDGG have defeated Kurog Grimtotem, they've elected to do more Mythic+ before pulling Broodkeeper Diurna.

With the NA reset approaching, Method decided to call it a day, having wiped at 1.8% on Mythic Kurog, they will get ready for some Broodkeeper action tomorrow for sure!

BDGG is getting ready for Mythic Broodkeeper and decided in the meantime farm some more gear on Mythic+. They should be back at the raid today still.

With Liquid finally pulling the boss again, we can see that both them and Echo found that Time Spiral is the key for surviving the pushbacks without the puddles from Heroic.

It will be interesting to see how the Evoker difference will play out though, because Liquid decided to bring 2 Preservation Evokers and use the Time Spiral from a single Devastation Evoker to fill a ranged DPS spot, while Echo decided to go with 3 Preservation Evokers.

This crazy amount of Evokers is mainly due to the spell, but throughput wise, Evokers are also very powerful, so I'm wondering why Echo didn't want to bring the Devastation. Keep in mind that both can use the massive Kharnalex weapon from Broodkeeper Diurna.

On the other side of the pond, Method is also pushing hard on Mythic Kurog! They just lowered their best percentage to 14%!

BDGG got such a close call! They just wiped at 1.1% of the boss HP! They are not out of Kurog's room yet, but they are just one good pull away for sure

Liquid is still pushing that extra gear, which makes me wonder if they are waiting for Echo to go get some rest before showing their new strategy.

Yesterday the last pulls they did on Raszageth were with only 18 raiders, so I'm curious to see what they will be bringing to the raid today.

Another great pull from Echo on what is turning out to be an insane encounter with Raszageth!

The Mythic only mechanic for the add platform is a Fire Lieutenant that spawns, and has a cast that wipes the raid if not interrupted. The problem that they are having is this cast going through, because this Lieutenant also casts a shield, for a massive 70% of his maximum HP that prevents interrupts.

The question that is left for us, and I guess for them as well, is what is the condition for that add to cast the shield? Or is it just an insanely high damage check? The cast went out roughly 10 seconds after they get to the platform, so if that is the case, we may be in for a long run.

Liquid is not looking that they will come back to Mythic any time soon.

The raiders are focused on acquiring important upgrades, spamming mostly the same Mythic+ keys each.

The question that this strategy raises is, we know that Echo did the most amount of splits of all the major guilds, and Method and BDGG together with Liquid are all behind in terms of raw item level, so will the other EU and NA contenders have to do this as well?

The other side of the epic head-to-head going on for the Raszageth glory is just waking up!

Liquid is with an average item level across their main raid composition of 403! That's just below Echo, currently at the 404.5 mark, and maybe for that reason, they are starting the day with some raiders spamming some Mythic+ keys!

It will be interesting to see how the time management for them plays out today, since yesterday they burned a bit of the time advantage they had to gear an extra Evoker for the challenging knockbacks in the encounter ahead of them.

Method just reached a new best of 38.1% HP remaining on Kurog's HP bar!

After 41 pulls, they will keep pushing hard to get to Mythic Broodkeeper Diurna in the next few hours!

Echo sees a new best percentage of 66% on their 66th pull on Raszageth the Storm-Eater!

A big step forward for BDGG as they reach 9.71% on their 41st pull of Kurog Grimtotem

After 77 pulls Aversion has defeated Sennarth, the Cold Breath.

Method has a new best percentage on Kurog Grimtotem. After 29 pulls, they have reached 39%

Echo have hit a new best, getting even closer to seeing the next phase of the Mythic Raszageth fight. Their new best is 68.2% after 39 pulls.

Echo are making steady progress on Mythic Raszageth, with a best attempt of 70% on pull 31 (currently on pull 36). This new best percentage puts them ahead of Liquid, all be it only by ~0.4%.

Liquid will still be offline, but will likely be back online for their final raid day before the reset in 3-4 hours from now.

Taking a look at how guilds in Asia are doing, there has been some solid progress from Skyline and Huo Guo Chao Jie on Dathea, Ascended.

**Skyline **are very close to a kill, with a new best of 1.33% on pull 95 (currently on pull 106).

Chao Jie are further away from the kill, with a best of 40.2% on pull 57 (currently on pull 64)

It looks like Liquid has called it for today. Player streams are going offline after a solid day of progress and a personal favourite highlight of the Race with the Echo vs. Liquid head-to-head on Broodkeeper Diurna.

Method are waking up, grouping up and looking for a swift kill of Mythic Dathea, Ascended. They have notably swapped out an Enhancement Shaman for another Balance Druid, lets see if it has the impact they hope for.

The remaining players (as with most guilds) fill their raid down-time with Mythic+ to squeeze out all the gearing that they can.

Liquid continue to build their experience in Phase 1 of the Mythic Raszageth encounter. Their best % so far is 70.42% (Pull 24), with a handful of pulls finishing close to that point since then. They are taking a short break before starting their 53rd pull.

BDGG is consistently reaching the first intermission on Kurog's very hard encounter, they are sitting at 42.8% as their best percentage of the boss HP after 26 attempts so far!

Liquid is actually pushing their advantage, using the time gained by defeating the Mythic Broodkeeper encounter so early in their raiding day. They are currently running a Heroic split, funneling gear on some specific characters that they believe will be important for the progression ahead of them on the Mythic Raszageth encounter.

Imperative did some pulls on Mythic Dathea, but ultimately decided to call it a day, and get some well deserved rest.

Vesper is back at the Vault, currently progressing on Mythic Terros

Instant Dollars got some pulls on Mythic Kurog, but ultimately decided to call it a day, still what a day it was!

Instant Dollars are trying to find that consistency to get to P3 on the Mythic Dathea encounter and having reached 0.95% on the boss HP bar, its just a matter of time for them to move over to Mythic Kurog.

Meanwhile, BDGG is getting further and further into Mythic Kurog, having reached 43.4% as their personal best in the encounter, after only 15 attempts.

For comparison, Liquid took 59 pulls to defeat the boss.

Liquid is back from their dinner break, and before going back to Mythic Raszageth they will apparently do a quick Normal split, to funnel gear into another Preservation Evoker, which would make sense since earlier in progression they mentioned switching a Priest to an extra Evoker.

The knockback mechanic seems to be the only reason behind the change, since the Evoker only spell Time Spiral gets crazy value by helping them survive.

Liquid apparently got into a very hard wall in the Mythic Raszageth encounter! And funny enough, its not a damage check, or a healing one.

The Mythic version of the encounter removes the puddles that slows you on Heroic and Normal, making the huge knockback from the boss the biggest challenge on P1. They are apparently even considering swapping some low mobility classes since they haven't managed to survive the third cast yet!

Their personal best is still at 70.4% after 32 attempts already, and they got this percentage 8 pulls ago.

BDGG is making crazy good progress! They pushed Mythic Kurog all the way down to 66.7% after only 5 pulls! They can reach Broodkeeper in the next few hours if they keep this pace!

Instant Dollars is also really pushing, having reached 5.5% on Mythic Dathea's HP bar.

And Imperative is trying to get back consistently to P3 on Mythic Sennarth, because they know they can killed it, they just need a clean P3.

BDGG is coming in hot! They reached the first intermission in just 1 pull on Kurog! Of course there is still a lot of progression on the fight, but what a start!

That was so close! Instant Dollars just had a soul crushing wipe at 9.6%! They definitely got this, and the perfect, clean pull is for sure coming soon™!

BDGG is back from the Mythic+ break they had! Mythic Kurog Grimtotem is facing the next challenger!

While Liquid is busy figuring out the first phase of this crazy version of the Raszageth encounter, this is the overall status for NA:

BDGG just killed Mythic Dathea and decided to try to squeeze some extra Mythic+ runs before coming back to the raid to face the very hard Mythic Kurog Grimtotem.

Imperative is still pushing Mythic Sennarth, having reached a heartbreaking wipe at 3.8% of the boss HP after 47 attempts.

Instant Dollars is keeping up with their impressive performance from yesterday, having already pushed all the way down the 23.7% mark on Mythic Dathea's HP bar, and with the closest guilds being FatSharkYes and Method, both EU guilds and currently sleeping, they have a big chance here to swoop the World 4th and keep the Dark Horse run alive, and set the stage to massively improve their performance from last tier, where they reached World 10th on Mythic The Jailer, but they still have ground to cover since Method is sitting at 15% as their best percentage already.

What an unstoppable squad! Even though Echo is raiding for more than 16 hours at this point, after defeating Mythic Broodkeeper they still found strength to do some pulls on Raszageth, already pushing for 91% of the boss HP.

They called a day for now, but this just shows that they are far from defeated, and if anything, they are more motivated to get back at Liquid tomorrow, for a full day on the angry dragon

The heat is on over at Mythic Broodkeeper, but in the coldest depths of the Vault, Conspiracy just defeated Mythic Sennarth, getting them World 9th, EU 4th!

Each P1 wipe for Echo is so heartbreaking! They are very tired for sure, but they got this! Just hope they pull the boss again before going to bed.

Echo and Liquid are back at the Mythic Broodkeeper's room! The time is on Liquid's side though, because the EU squad is pushing some late hours since yesterday!

Echo is back at it! The race is back at full pace with the head-to-head between them and Liquid for the Mythic Broodkeeper

In some non-Echo, non-Liquid news, Aversion just joined the 3/8 Mythic gang, having just defeated Mythic Terros, after 23 pulls, securing them World 18th, EU 8th!

Liquid is not willing to give a chance for an upset, already back at it, while Echo is still discussing last pull.

Our current status for the front runners is:

Echo and Liquid are head-to-head, with Liquid slightly ahead in the mayhem of the Mythic Broodkeeper Diurna encounter.

Method, BDGG, FatSharkYes and Skyline are all progressing on Mythic Dathea with different levels of progression, but Method is leading with the lower best percentage, having reached 42.5% on the boss' HP bar after 51 attempts.

Echo seems to be getting pretty consistent in breaking all the eggs! They still have to iron out the transition to P2 itself, but they are closing in!

An interesting difference between healer compositions for Liquid and Echo is that the NA squad is currently setup with 2 Holy Priests, 1 Discipline Priest, a Holy Paladin and an Evoker closing out the 5th position.

Echo on the other hand is running the same classes, but in different distributions, with 1 Holy and 1 Discipline Priests, the Holy Paladin and 2 Evokers.

It will be interesting to see who is the target for the Power Infusion from the extra Priest that Liquid got going on, and how much of a difference can it make in terms of damage output.

Echo is not willing to let Liquid open too much though, having downed their best percentage down to 51% after only 16 attempts on this crazy Mythic Broodkeeper Diurna encounter!

Echo continues to progress on Broodkeeper Diurna. After 13 attempts, their best percentage pull is 58%

Liquid is back in the raid, preparing to pull Broodkeeper Diurna once again. Yesterday they achieved a best percentage of 27.9% after 37 pulls.

Turning our attention to US, BDGG is awake and back in the raid pulling again. After 3 pulls on Dathea, their best percentage is 69.5%. Liquid are not currently online yet but we expect to see them soon.

Taking a quick look around EU;

• Echo has taken their first few pulls on Broodkeeper Diurna. After 3 pulls their best percentage is 76.9%.
• After 28 pulls, Method is consistently seeing sub-50% pulls on Dathea, Ascended.
• Also on Dathea, FatSharkYes have a best pull percentage of 65% after 15 attempts
• Aversion is currently in Mythic+

Big progress for Method as they get Dathea to a new best percentage of 49.2%. #UpTheOrange

FatSharkYes have defeated Sennarth, joining 4 other guilds on 4 of 8 bosses down.

Aversion have entered Mythic Vault earlier today and really started their raid race. One-shotting Eranog and The Primal Council, currently on Pull 2 of Terros with a best of 39.3%.

Skyline and Huo Guo Chao Jie are also both getting very close to a kill on Sennarth. Skyline achieved a best of 9%, roughly 15 minutes ago and Huo Guo Chao Jie reached their best of 14.8% roughly 10 minutes ago.

We can expect both guilds to secure a kill on Sennarth before the end of their raid day.

Echo are back in the raid and preparing to pull Kurog Grimtotem again after spending a few hours in Mythic+. Their current best is 11.3%, so this extra gear could see them defeating this boss soon.

Method have continued onto Sennarth and have a best of 55.3%, currently on pull 3 of this boss.

Skyline are making steady progress on Sennarth, achieving a new best of 34.5% on pull 16 (currently on pull 18).

After achieving their new best percentage on Kurog Grimtotem, Echo have sent their players into Mythic+ to squeeze out the extra gear and damage they need to finish the final burn of the boss.

And Method is off to the races! They've stepped back into Mythic once more and having started pulling Terros. On their first pull, they've gotten him down to 19.2%! Here's to a quick kill and a monster day from the team.

Echo ate their Wheaties and are coming on strong early this morning! New best pull of 35.6% Kurog Grimtotem.

Liquid has called it a night after 37 pulls on Broodkeeper Diurna with a best of 27.9%. Even after a late night, there was discussions by their casters that Liquid might have an early morning ahead of them.

As of ten minutes ago, Echo has started pulls for EU Day 5 of the Race to World First! As of right now, they have a total of eight pulls on Kurog Grimtotem with a best of 45.7%.

Congratulations to Chao Jie on getting World 10th Mythic Terros!

Similar to most other guilds, the kill was tight, with the floor fully covered and the boss enrage slamming.

Liquid have just had a new best on Broodkeeper Diurna with 28.17%! It's getting around midnight for them, will this be the time to start burning the midnight oil?

And Mythic Terros goes down again! Congratulations to Skyline for defeating the giant rocky boy. Terros really isn't having a good night, three defeats in the last couple of hours.

After some exciting new kills here's what everyone is up to:

• Liquid are still on break
• BDGG & Instant Dollars are running more Mythic+
• Imperative turned in for the night
• poptart corndoG stopped raiding after getting the most recent Terros kill. Some of them went to bed and others went to push Mythic+

The real question for tonight though, will we see another new best on Broodkeeper Diurna from Liquid?

Congratulations to poptart corndoG on World 8th, US 6th Mythic Terros. They defeated the boss in 26 pulls.

poptart corndoG is getting really close to the next Mythic Terros kill! Just had a 2% wipe.

Congratulations to xD for World 7th, US 5th Mythic Terros

By the looks of it, Imperative will keep pushing, as they get prepared to pull Mythic Sennarth!

Imperative just defeated Mythic Terros after 37 pulls, securing them World 6th, US 4th!

After 43 pulls, and reaching 56% remaining in the boss HP, Instant Dollars decided to stop progression on Mythic Dathea for now, and run a last minute Heroic split, to maybe close the gap a little bit in terms of gear.

Another heartbreaking wipe for Imperative, having reached all the way down to 1.7% of the Mythic Terros' HP bar.

What a crazy fight it is! Mythic Broodkeeper still holding Liquid's squad at the 70% mark, still to beat the enrage.

The major change the NA team is bringing right now, is a third tank! They are running double Blood Death Knights and one Protection Warrior, just showing how important the add management is for this encounter.

We haven't been talking much about it, but this is the current Tier Set status: Liquid who is currently pulling Mythic Broodkeeper Diurna, have 17 4-piece bonus active on the raid, and believe or not, their Blood Death Knight is not even with 2-pieces, but still going strong.

Echo who is still working on Mythic Kurog Grimtotem, have the same 17 4-piece count, but everybody else have the 2-piece effect working.

BDGG by the time they defeated Mythic Sennarth had the same 17 4-piece bonuses.

Method is the currently sitting at 18 4-piece bonuses active by the time they defeated Mythic The Primal Council.

And for a point of comparison, Instant Dollars are progressing on Mythic Dathea with 13 4-piece effects working.

And another break for Liquid! They stop for dinner now, but they got pretty good progress in terms of eggs destroyed, but still haven't made to their personal best again.

Another thing that is different from last time is gear wise, their characters got pretty significant upgrades, with some raiders even already committing their Valor points, and this levelled a bit the difference between them and Echo , with now both sitting at an average of 402 item level across the raiders.

Imperative is closing in the kill on Mythic Terros! They just had a heartbreaking wipe at 2.9%, after 18 pulls.

They just need a clean last phase, and they can defeat the encounter for sure!

Liquid is done with their Mythic+ runs, and are back at the action, currently pulling Mythic Broodkeeper

And after some pretty intense moments earlier today, this is the status:

Imperative and Instant Dollars are in the raid, progressing Mythic Terros and Mythic Dathea respectively.

Liquid, BDGG and poptart Corndog opted to run more Mythic+ runs, but they still have plenty of time to go back to progression.

Instant Dollars decided to keep the Mythic push for NA going, having got down to 69.4% on Mythic Dathea HP bar, after only 8 attempts!

poptart Corndog is back at the dusty Mythic Terros room, lowering their best percentage to 39% after 8 pulls!

Such a close call! Liquid manage to get all the way down to 2 eggs! It will sound weird, since the boss HP were still sitting at 93%, but this is a personal best for the NA squad, again failing to beat the soft enrage timer for P2, but still in very good pace.

Liquid just got an amazing pull on Mythic Broodkeeper, going all the way down to 4 eggs remaining, still 92% remaining of the boss HP.

This pull was important to see when the soft enrage barrier is set, and we learn that you have about 5 minutes and a half to break all 32 eggs and phase the boss. This for sure will be a challenging encounter

Liquid just got a few pulls in, but I think it will be extremely important to mention that to track boss HP for this fight, at least for now, will be deceiving.

The NA squad got their personal best for Mythic Broodkeeper sitting at 93%, but they got all the way down to 14 eggs remaining in the room (out of 32), which is very close to P2 already, so lets keep an eye for when they can reach P2 since this fight is very intensive on the number of add spawns!

But EU fans, don't worry! FatSharkYes is apparently going offline for now, but they got the Mythic Sennarth encounter all the way down to 13% after only 16 pulls!

The NA action does not stop! Instant Dollars is back at the spider's den, having reached a dangerously low 4.8% on Mythic Sennarth after 24 attempts.

The next time your friend AFK's in front of the boss during a break, don't be mad, even Liquid has do deal with it, having technically just done their first pull.

The NA squad looks ready to start progressing on what can be a very challenging encounter after the recent buffs.

Mythic Broodkeeper is the only thing between them and our beloved angry dragon, Raszageth!

And it seems like Method decided not to keep pushing Mythic today. They went instead and got a very high number of Mythic+ keys and if we can learn anything from Echo, is that this gear is very valuable in cutting corners and shaving pull counts so far.

Speaking of Echo, they are making hasty progress on Mythic Kurog, having reached 45.7% on the boss after just 7 pulls.

Liquid, who just defeated Mythic Kurog, got the encounter done after 59 pulls and they decided to take their lunch break, and come back for our first look after the buff on Mythic Broodkeeper Diurna!

Echo showing the power of the extra gear! They just started Mythic Kurog progression, with their first pulls already reaching 65% for their personal best.

And the gear race behind the scenes continue! Method is currently chasing that last bit of advantage they can get from high item level Mythic+ gear, and the same goes for BDGG.

For the current front runners, Echo got Mythic Dathea kill with 3 4-piece bonuses missing in the raid comp, while Liquid got it with a whopping 19 4-piece buffs active.

I think only time will tell how much this will affect the race from now on.

Echo is also closing in for the kill, dropping Mythic Dathea all the way down to 4.1%, and only after 56 attempts, still under Liquid record.

Imperative just defeated Heroic Raszageth after 35 pulls, securing them World 14th, US 4th.

** 天涯 (Skyline)** is keeping the heat on **火锅超界 (Huo Guo Chao Jie)**on the Asia Realms, having tied the competition at 2/8 M for both.

But Huo Guo Chao Jie is currently sitting at a very low 6.2% as their best percentage for Mythic Terros, while Skyline has not pulled the boss yet.

Team Liquid has started the day off strong with a 12.81% pull on Kurog Grimtotem. They expect to see this boss go down soon!

Checking back in with Echo, after 37 pulls they have reached 14.76% with their best pull on Dathea, Ascended. Will we see this boss go down today?

FatSharkYes has jumped into Mythic progress and quickly dispatched both Eranog & The Primal Council. After 3 pulls, they have reached 71.5% on Terros.

As the EU guilds start breaking for dinner, we turn our focus back to NA. BDGG is still running Mythic+ and Imperative are still working on Heroic Raszageth. We haven't seen anyone from Liquid going live today. Could there be pulls happening offline? We will have to wait and see!

Huo Guo Chao Jie (火锅超界) have entered the Mythic race with their Asia #1 kill of Eranog & Primal Council.

After 26 pulls, Echo is seeing steady progression on Dathea, Ascended. Their current best pull is 37.36%. BDGG have joined Method on the Mythic+ train, searching for a few more item-level upgrades before continuing Mythic progression.

Pull 56 is the magic number for BDGG, as they down Sennarth, the Cold Breath. We will now see Echo and BDGG go head to head to see who can defeat Dathea, Ascended first.

We have a new best percentage for Echo, wiping at 44.56%. They are currently at 22 pulls

BDGG is heading back into the fight, preparing to resume progress on Sennarth, the Cold Breath. They ended the previous day with an agonizingly close 3.34% wipe after their

Echo have just pulled Dathea, Ascended for the first time in Mythic. This first pull saw them reach 69.53%

Echo continue to battle against Sennarth, currently on their 10th pull.

Method are doing Mythic+, presumably to get a little extra gear before facing the tight damage check of Mythic Terros.

Echo have just had a 1% wipe on Mythic Sennarth, the Cold Breath. They are getting very close to a kill!

Method have moved onto the Primal Council, whilst Echo are having a very strong first pull on Sennarth, reaching the last phase.

Echo have taken a pause and are discussing strategy before starting progress on Sennarth, the Cold Breath.

Echo have had progressively better pulls in pulls 1 through 3. Based on a clean pull, they certainly have the damage to kill the boss.

Jeathe, a former Echo player and currently casting on Echo's stream, believes that Echo has been bringing a lower geared character they don't want to use for progress to each Mythic boss (for the first 2 bosses at least) to bank loot on. Giving them more flexibility on funneling gear to the best characters.

Meanwhile in EU, Method are finishing up some loot distribution from their HC Raszageth and some Mythic+ to make use of the time, next up Mythic Vault progress time.

Aversion will also be going live shortly.

Echo is starting their first pull of Mythic Terros, after a little preparation of setups and strategy.

By defeating this boss, they will be World 4th and EU 1st to kill Terros. Also moving them to position 4 in the global leaderboard.

The pull count to beat is 5, achieved by Liquid.

Liquid's extra pulls were worth it, reaching a new best of 28.2% on pull 39 (their final pull of the night). Putting them in great spirits and confident about continuing their progress tomorrow.

Max has mentioned that a lot of their tech wasn't working as intended on this boss, but despite that, gave big praise to the raiders for performing really well today.

Liquid were planning to have 1 more pull on Kurog Grimtotem today, then will call it and head offline. Race to World First guilds also enjoy a cheeky, "just 1 more pull".

EU guilds are slowly appearing at their desks, with Method streams starting up and players grouping up for some more Heroic Raszageth.

Echo should be (according to their stream) starting their raid day at 10:30 CET (in 1 hour 20m from this post). It's very likely we see a solid day of Mythic action for them, so definitely worth keeping an eye on their streams today!

Skyline have defeated Heroic Raszageth World 9th, Asia 2nd, keeping the pressure on Huo Guo Chao Jie.

BDGG decided they needed a break from infinite spiders. They called it a day after 55 attempts, with 3.3% as their best percentage on Mythic Sennarth to a well deserved rest!

火锅超界 (Huo Guo Chao Jie) just had a heartbreaking wipe, with just 1.4% left on the boss HP.

It seems like the Heroic Raszageth Asia 1st title is still open to contention!

At it looks like both 火锅超界 (Huo Guo Chao Jie) and 天涯 (Skyline) are back at the crazy Heroic Raszageth encounter!

火锅超界 (Huo Guo Chao Jie) is currently sitting at an impressive 8.4% as their best percentage so far, while 天涯 (Skyline) have wiped at 9.5%.

Considering they have only been raiding for 2 days, I'm a strong believer that they can tackle Mythic bosses pretty soon.

New best for Liquid on Mythic Kurog, now sitting at 51.5% after 21 pulls.

We are not yet out of Sennarth's webs!

BDGG is getting so close, and bit by bit they are dropping their best percentage, currently at 7.39% after 45 attempts.

Instant Dollars seems to have grasped pretty quickly the first phases of the fight, currently sitting at 34.1% after 12 pulls, but if experience have showed us something, is that this fight is very dangerous towards the end, so they might have just gotten to the real progression.

Its still anyone's game in the frozen den inside the Vault!

Something changed with their strategy, as Liquid decided to go back and start with the Fire Totem for Mythic Kurog.

As for the front runners over at Liquid, they changed a little bit their strategy from before the dinner break.

They decided to switch the starting totem that empowers Mythic Kurog from Fire to Earth Totem.

We will see how this strategy pays off in the next pulls, but they haven't changed their personal best yet, as the raiders are getting used to the new movement requirements and assignments.

And in our little Head-to-Head between BDGG and Instant Dollars, we have a very different situation, with BDGG squad currently having 17 4 piece bonus active out of the 20 players in the raid, with 1 unlucky DPS player and both tanks with the 2 piece effect.

As for Instant Dollars they got only 12 4 piece effects working, with 5 DPS players only having 2 tier pieces as of the Mythic Terros kill for both.

Let's see how this difference will manifest in their direct competition for Mythic Sennarth!

We haven't been talking much about Tier pieces, but an interesting fact, Liquid got 4 pieces on all their DPS and Healer characters (as of the kill on Mythic Dathea) and only one of the tanks currently don't have the 4 piece bonus active, but have the 2 piece effect.

In a few hours, it will be interesting to see how Echo and Method will distribute theirs, and if that explains the long session of splits today.

Instant Dollars is ready to get some pulls on Mythic Sennarth, bringing the race to an interesting Head-to-Head dispute!

Can BDGG, currently sitting at 9.25% after 37 attempts pull it off, or will Instant Dollars swoop them out of the glory for World 2nd?

Liquid just did some pulls before dinner time for them, and we can already see some of the most complex mechanics we have encountered so far on this tier.

Their personal best is sitting at a comfortable 67.4%, but my guess is that this boss is far from being defeated.

Quick update:

Liquid is back at Mythic Kurog's room, ready for some more Mythic action.

BDGG is pushing closer and closer to defeating Mythic Sennarth.

The Instant Dollars squad is getting impressive pulls on Mythic Terros with their personal best sitting at a dangerously low 22.4% after only 4 pulls.

Instant Dollars is joining the NA Mythic gang, currently pulling Mythic Terros.

Can they catch up to BDGG and reach Mythic Sennarth today?

By the looks of it, a lot more preparation needs to take place before any pulls on Mythic Kurog Grimtotem for Liquid.

The raiders are currently doing multiple Mythic+ runs while the analysts are discussing strategies and possibly even creating or fixing WeakAuras and Add-ons much needed for the fight ahead.

BDGG is getting closer and closer to defeating Mythic Sennarth, they took 2% off their previous personal best in the last two pulls, currently sitting at 15.9% after 16 attempts total.

This fight is the perfect example to remember that this RWF is more a marathon than a sprint.

And NA keeps the pedal to the medal, with BDGG already back at Mythic Sennarth!

Meanwhile Liquid is getting ready for Mythic Kurog Grimtotem

Do Air Elementals have sleeves? The only thing I'm sure is that Dathea still have some tricks up it!

Despite amazing pulls after the nerf, Liquid still to beat their best pull, with some close calls. It's still definitely a matter of time now.

BDGG is apparently taking a little break, but well deserved. I wouldn't want to keep looking at this spider for so long either.

Their best percentage still 17.3.%, after 12 pulls, reaching Liquid pull count, and very close to closing the encounter.

After another great pull, reaching sub 15%, I thinks its safe to assume it was a pretty significant nerf.

Liquid were already in kill range, so now its just a matter of time.

There are more good news for NA fans, BDGG just reached their best percentage of 17.3% on Mythic Sennarth

And in case you are wondering about Liquid, they are looking to reach consistency on the incredible Mythic Dathea encounter, and as they have reached 30.7% already after 52 pulls, they for sure have it in killing range.

Imperative is currently on a break, and may be back straight to Mythic, lets wait and see.

And as a last standing for EU today, FatSharkYes have some players doing Mythic+, hopefully getting ready for progression tomorrow.

BDGG is steadily progressing on Mythic Sennarth, already reaching 37.5% as their best percetage for boss HP, maybe they can match Liquid progression today?

BDGG decided to keep the Mythic train going, by heading straight to Mythic Sennarth!

They got this absolute nightmare of a fight already pretty far, with their personal best sitting at 58.7% after just 2 pulls.

Method and Echo decided to call it a day after a couple more splits and Mythic+ runs, probably getting ready for a big Mythic day tomorrow!

Imperative is also back online, but they look like they are looking for more Mythic+ gear before heading back to the raid.

So, here it go, a little bit of the overall status:

BDGG is pushing really hard, having reached 6.15% on Mythic Terros after just 10 pulls!

Liquid is progressing on Mythic Dathea, having just slightly improved their personal best, down to 42.9%.

Method and Echo are preparing for the big moment, with the Orange squad pushing Heroic Raszageth and the Echo gang pushing Mythic+.

BDGG is pedal to the metal, having downed Mythic The Primal Council after 1 pull, joining the 2/8 Mythic gang.

Liquid is back up and running! Happy to see some more Mythic action!

Method are still working on their second kill of Heroic Raszageth while Echo are doing the last chores required, while analysts are probably running to get the loot from all the Heroic splits sorted for the raiders to start the show.

BDGG just defeated Mythic Eranog! The question now is are they going to face Terros or The Primal Council?

Liquid is awake, and ready to face Mythic Dathea for the second round!

Their best pull so far got the boss down to 43.8%, let's see how then can improve that with a rested mind and body.

Method on the other hand, is currently on their second Heroic Raszageth split, which reinforces our suspicion that everybody is pushing hard on Heroic splits to don't have to come back after they enter Mythic.

Echo is also among those lines, having decided to go for Mythic+ runs while they sort all the loot from splits.

Echo just completed yet another Heroic Raszageth split!

It's clear that they got the fight locked down, lets see if they finally go for Mythic!

Method have defeated Heroic Raszageth, World 5th, EU 2nd.

Unfortunately, this is likely just the beginning of their Raszageth splits.

Skyline decided to turn up the heat on Huo Guo Chao Jie, hitting a new best of 38.6% on Raszageth Heroic.

Huo Guo Chao Jie have a new best of 13.8% on HC Raszageth, making them the front runners in the Asia region.

Echo is suspected to be on heroic Raszageth split 8 of 9 meaning we will hopefully see some mythic kills from them shortly.

Mythic Grimtotem and Raszageth have both been buffed! This has just made this race a lot more exciting! Neither of these bosses has been pulled yet! I estimate that this race will go over to the next reset! Will we see any more buffs?

Check out this Wowhead article for more information.

Method 10% wipe on heroic Raszageth

As NA teams start to wake up, we see Method jump into Heroic Raszageth for the first time. We expect to see this fight a few times as they finish up their Heroic splits. Aversion & Echo are also still working on Heroic Splits

Echo have defeated Heroic Raszageth for the second time, this time after only 4 pulls.

Regrouping quickly, they are preparing to pull Raszageth Heroic for the third time.

Echo have quickly gone back into another Heroic Raszageth, working on defeating the boss for the second time.

After what feels like an eternity, we do have some movement from the top EU guilds.

• Method have been distributing loots accumulated from the splits and have started looking at crafted gear, they will then likely be going into Heroic
• Aversion have been doing more Heroic splits today
• Echo have started off today with Heroic Raszageth

Guilds in Asia will be nearing the end of their raiding day. There hasn't been an Asia first defeat of Raszageth yet, with both of the front-runners, Huo Guo Chao Jie and Skyline killing Heroic Broodkeeper Diurna 24 and 6 hours ago respectively. They appear to be following a similar approach to US and EU region guilds as the teams that are still online are now doing Mythic+ or Heroic splits.

Day 4 has started with Method doing mythic plus. The Echo stream is starting up. As I predicted we didn't see another boss kill from Liquid through the night but we did some great progress from them seeing a best pull of 43.8% so well done to them.

Will we see some mythic kills from our top contenders today? Stay tuned to the Method stream to find out.

Liquid are still making progress on Dathea, Ascended, with a new best of 57.3% on their 16th pull. They have a total of 19 pulls on the boss, and are discussing between pulls on how to get their strategy locked down.

EU is still very quiet; Method are starting their day with Mythic+, whilst Echo and other EU guilds are yet to be online.

The EU Race to World First guilds are starting to wake up and prepare for (hopefully) a day of Mythic progress today. Its quite likely that we see them start with Heroic Raszageth, as there are currently no EU guilds to have defeated the boss on Heroic, so it will be interesting to see the early race strategy for EU compared to US guilds.

Do they clear up to Liquid's progress of 4/8 and return to an easier Heroic Raszageth because of the extra gear, without the downside of showing any strategy they have for a later boss such as Dathea, Ascended of Kurog Grimtotem? Or do they replicate Liquid's approach of doing Heroic Raszageth split runs and fly through the earlier Mythic bosses? We should find out today, so keep an eye on the RWF guilds today!

Speaking of US guilds, the majority have finished for today, or are close to being finished:

• Liquid are still progressing Dathea, Ascended Mythic with a current best of 61.5% with 12 pulls on the encounter.
• Poptart Corndog (Terros 39% best) are finishing their day with Mythic+
• Idiot are progressing Heroic Raszageth
• Imperative (Terros 44.3% best) have finished for today

While Liquid is starting to explore the depth of this beautiful Mythic Dathea encounter, Vesper decided to call it a day for raiding, having left Heroic Raszageth with 21.4% on their best pull, putting 52 grueling attempts on the board tonight.

Hopefully they can get back on their feet to come back with full focus tomorrow!

Liquid is trying to keep up the heat on EU, having started progression on Mythic Dathea.

Instant Dollars decided to call it a day, and what a day it was.

Idiot is still pushing Heroic Raszageth together with Vesper, while BDGG is trying to get their second loot drop as soon as possible, preparing a big day tomorrow, possibly going straight to Mythic!

By the looks of it, both Melee Mechanics and Imperative are calling a day, and going back to some last minute chores and some well deserved rest!

Imperative was progressing on Heroic Raszageth, with 21 attempts done, having reached 45.4% in terms of boss HP.

Melee Mechanics on the other hand, went to sleep with a pretty comfortable 2 out of 8 Mythic bosses already defeated, and have the option to go either to Mythic Dathea or Heroic Raszageth tomorrow!

Quick update, Liquid's Mythic instance is fixed.

They are regrouping and getting ready for more Mythic progression for our delight, heading straight to Mythic Dathea!

And we have some action from the other side of the world with 天涯 (Skyline) having defeated Heroic Broodkeeper Diurna already, reaching the 7/8 mark in just 2 days of the patch being available in the Asian realms!

At this rate, they may enter Mythic in the next hours, which would be absolutely mental!

Instant Dollars on the other hand, decided not to commit to Mythic, getting promptly back to Raszageth's room for more Heroic splits!

On the other spectrum, BDGG are still sitting at the their personal best of 7.74% after 21 pulls, and hopefully they can get the last phase right, because they already showed they got the damage to bring this angry dragon down.

Good news! Liquid already got in touch with GMs and the fix should be up any minute, so they decided to commit to the multiple already formed Mythic+ parties and will get back straight to Mythic Dathea as soon as possible!

And by the looks of it, Liquid got a weird bug where the room after both bosses they have killed didn't open, which mean they can't physically walk up to the next room of the raid!

We hope they can get this fixed soon! But in the meantime they are planning on using that time for some more Mythic+ runs.

Although I'm guessing everybody wants to see more Mythic pulls by NA tonight, with more and more guilds approaching the kill on Heroic Raszageth it just means we will eventually reach a point where there is not that much gear left to be grabbed, and only Mythic will remain!

Getting World 2nd right now is huge for NA, since EU should be waking up in the next few hours, already with even more catch up to do, the pressure is on!

Liquid is back from their dinner break, and ready for some more Mythic action! They have the option to go for either Mythic Dathia or Mythic Kurog Grimtotem, and based on a previous exploratory pull, my bet would be Kurog for tonight!

BDGG has a new best pull on Heroic Raszageth with 7.74%. They are currently in a race with Instant Dollars to see who can defeat the Storm Eater for World Second AOTC. There is a strong chance both of these guilds kill this boss tonight.

On the Mythic front, we have poptart corndoG and Vision progressing on Mythic Terros with 39% & 55.9% as their best pulls respectively. Could we possibly see a world second kill tonight on Terros?

Instant Dollars is getting really close to killing Heroic Raszageth. It was heartbreaking 0.78% wipe, we were REALLY rooting for their Blood Death Knight to solo the last little bit.

Congratulations to Muscle Memory for World 9th & Consequence for World 10th Mythic Primal Council. Muscle Memory defeated the council in 7 pulls while Consequence downed the boss in 8.

Currently have the following guilds all pulling Heroic Raszageth:

• BDGG: 60.9% / 7 Pulls
• Imperative: 45.4% / 19 Pulls
• Vesper: 46.8% / 34 Pulls
• Instant Dollars: 55.5% / Pulls 5
• Spike Flail: 74.6% / Pulls 5

Who's going to get World 2nd AOTC? Will we see it tonight?

Congratulations to Spike Flail on World 8th Primal Council after three pulls!

Now with the EU teams heading to bed that leaves us with our NA friends for the rest of the night. Imperative have started pulling Heroic Raszagath while Liquid, BDGG, and Vesper have opted to do Mythic+. Other teams like Instant Dollars and Intern KTB are continuing with more Heroic bosses.

The EU day is coming to an end, with a lot of splits! Both Method and Echo spent they entire day on Mythic+ runs and Heroic splits, and even FatSharkYes decided not to enter Mythic Vault just yet.

The Next Step, Imperative and BDGG are all doing splits as well, leaving Mythic progression for Liquid so far, who pulled ahead and are close to defeat Mythic Sennarth.

We are not in the clear from spiders yet! Liquid just downed their personal best to 4.72% on Mythic Sennarth.

And they are already displaying some interesting tech, with one of their healers using the Residual Neural Channeling Agent to squeeze a little bit more damage to the boss, after they inevitably reached the enrage timer.

Innominatum just defeated Mythic The Primal Council after 8 pulls, achieving World 7th, EU 4th.

We are getting to the end of the raiding day for EU, and Method, Echo and FatSharkYes are both finishing off Heroic splits, probably already setting up for a full Mythic day tomorrow!

Meanwhile, Imperative is back on progressing Heroic Broodkeeper Diurna, and BDGG is currently in a meeting, maybe we see another NA guild starting Mythic today?

The Next Step keeps on pushing, having just defeated Mythic The Primal Council securing them World 6th, EU 3rd after 8 pulls.

It looks like Mythic Terros still got some tricks up his sleeve, not going down just yet, but Liquid just pushed their personal best to 2.6%.

The Mythic train is starting to move for NA, but meanwhile Method and Echo are still doing their Heroic splits.

It will be interesting to see how fast they will catch up with this extra gear pieces!

We have yet to see some Mythic pulls for EU's top guilds, with both Echo and Method currently back in the raid, but doing more Heroic splits.

On the other side of the pond, BDGG is also pushing more Heroic splits, while Liquid is doing their Mythic+ chores.

We are finally getting some well needed Mythic action with currently 2 guilds, Imperative for NA and Tony Halme Pro Skater for EU, pushing Mythic Terros!

We got some improvements, with the best percentage currently at 44.3% for Imperative, but it will be a close call since this was after 5 pulls, while the EU squad is still on their second attempt.

Imperative pulling out an impressive performance beating Vesper best pull on their first attempt on Mythic Terros, lowering the boss health down to 47.7%.

After we finally got some Mythic action, Aversion, Method, FatSharkYes and BDGG are all doing Heroic splits, in various characters.

Meanwhile, Echo is pushing some Mythic+ keys for extra gear pieces.

It seems only Tony Halme Pro Skater and Imperative decided to keep pushing for Mythic The Primal Council and Mythic Terros respectively.

It looks like we are getting close to more NA guilds defeating the Primal Council, with Imperative and Idiot both posting new best percentages. Imperative is at 9.54% after 3 pulls and Idiot is at 13.1% after 10 pulls.

Method presses pause on Heroic splits for the moment, with the majority of the guild heading into Mythic+. This could be the last set of targeted looting we see before they step into Mythic for the first time!

As the first day of raiding ends for the Asia region, Huo Guo Chao Jie (火锅超界) leads the pack having already reached 7/8 heroic. Skyline (天涯) is just behind with 6/8 heroic bosses defeated.

It will be interesting to see how quickly they close the gap to getting into Mythic!

Echo have opted to do Mythic+, and it appears that part of their strategy is that some of the loot from the previous Heroic split(s) is being held on characters up to the 2 hour trading window. This allows them to have a higher chance that the HC loot goes to players that won't replace it, maximising their looting efficiency and effectiveness.

Method's break is over, and they continue their Heroic splits, currently pulling Broodkeeper Diurna.

Echo appear to be having a meeting, so we should see their next move shortly.

FatSharkYes players continue to do Mythic+, we assume until their team is ready to return to raiding.

With today being Thursday, realms in Asia have also unlocked with their weekly reset.

The majority of guilds in these regions are following a similar approach that we've seen across the NA and EU regions, normal splits, and then presumably the next step being heroic splits.

We continue to see more Heroic splits from both Echo and Method. With other guilds, like Aversion, finishing up a few more Normal splits before hitting Heroic.

As we watch the splits and mythic plus runs, one starts to wonder, how quickly will we see these bosses fall? It currently looks like Eranog then The Primal Council will be defeated swiftly, but how much quicker than the guilds that have already faced up against them? Hopefully we will find out how the EU teams will do later today.

Method and Echo are continuing with more splits. The guild from down under, Honestly, are making some steady progress too. FatSharkYes are starting the day with mythic plus. Aversion have their stream up and are starting to raid in a few minutes.

We see Echo in their third Raszageth split of the morning and Method is jumping into some more splits.

EU are starting up their engines for their second day.

Echo are in normal to try and get a few last bits of gear, are they preparing for Mythic? What are our team in Orange and Black doing? Well I think after the beast of a day they had yesterday I would like to think that they are waking up refreshed and getting ready for some pulls. The question is, will they head to Mythic or run more splits? The Method stream is up so tune in to find out.

The majority of the US guilds have headed offline after setting the fire alight on Mythic boss kills today.

In the lead currently, is Vesper, having taken both World First Eranog and World First The Primal Council. They are the only guild so far to have attempted pulls on Terros, achieving a best of 48.4% after only 5 pulls.

Idiot just had their best pull on Mythic Primal Council of 13.1% and getting close to World Second!

Congrats to the gamers in DMG for World 3rd Mythic Eranog and Idiot for World 4th! Each guild defeated the boss in five and six pulls respectively.

NA has gotten busy tonight! Nascent has claimed World Second on Mythic Eranog!

Liquid has taken down Heroic Broodkeeper Diurna after two pulls and BDGG not far behind them with 14 pulls!

While EU has mostly called it a night, NA teams are still going strong in their split runs. Will one of these teams pull Mythic Eranogg again before the night is over? Guess we'll have to stay tuned and find out.

After finishing more Heroic splits, Method and Echo are taking a lunch break. Some of the players taking this as a chance to do a couple of Mythic+ keys.

With splits being almost completed (surely?), I think we can expect to see some EU Mythic action later today!

Liquid just took down Heroic Dathea, joining other guilds in the 6/8 mark.

Meanwhile, Instant Dollars is back at the Vault, progressing on Heroic Dathea while BDGG is deep down the splits rabbit hole.

Day 2 Splits Boogaloo

The second day of the Vault of the Incarnates: Race to World First started a lot earlier than we have seen before with the EU servers coming up at 5am CET and what did our glorious EU contenders do… splits! The Method channel sprung to life with the glory of Kexman and Samtalkz, at the turn of the hour the splits began and Method opted to go for two runs at a time, whereas the current reigning champions, Echo, were running three at time.

Our combatants started with normal splits before going to heroic at the time of writing this, 00:42 GMT, no team has defeated Raszageth on Heroic. What we have seen is that there are now eight teams that have killed Kurog Grimtotem, including our home team Method. Bigger still we saw the heroic progression move forward once more boss as four teams took down Broodkeeper Diurna which saw three EU teams take the first three kills on her, which leaves us with Echo leading the race followed by FatSharkYes and Revolutionist. BDGG were soon to come up behind to take the 4th spot.

As our NA friends start their day we see a combination of approaches, BDGG and Imperative are doing splits and Liquid have been doing Mythic plus keys. At the time of writing this 00:42 GMT Liquid were having a meeting and then some lunch, and judging by what they're menu looks like it's going to be tasty, but not as tasty as what we will wake up to on the morrow from our NA friends.

The question on everyone's lips right now is when will we see some mythic kills? Will it be on Thursday? I personally am hoping so. But what else does Thursday bring, our friends over in Asia entering the race and we know from the past they are like Raszageth’s wind, fierce, deadly and fast. What tremendous performance will we see from them? How long will it take them to catch up? Will we see an Asian guild take world first? I guess you will have to keep an eye on the app and the Method stream for more information.

And Vesper pulled ahead!

Having reached the furthest into the Heroic Raszageth encounter, they are now sitting at 54.5% as their personal best!

While Liquid has been doing Mythic+ runs, Imperative is deep into their reclear, having just reached Heroic Kurog Grimtotem with their alt characters.

BDGG, on the other hand, got their sights set for another 411 item level pieces but Heroic Broodkeeper Diurna is standing between them and the chest.

Vesper just matched Echo percentage on Heroic Raszageth! They are now both tied in 60.1% right after the first big shield cast.

Speaking of NA, we have Imperative kicking out their raiding day having recleared most of the raid in Heroic, and with a full Normal run already in the bag.

On the other hand, BDGG is pushing more Normal runs, while Liquid is catching up on Heroic progress still, but having defeated Heroic Kurog Grimtotem already they are changing gears to focus on Mythic+ runs.

With Method and Echo closing out the day, we are left with a pretty good situation, both guilds got pretty far into Heroic already, meaning that there is more time tomorrow to hopefully some Mythic action.

We still have FatSharkYes doing some last minute rares and quests, but the ball is currently with NA, to match the progression so far, and maybe already give us some Mythic Eranog pulls?

The BDDG squad just joined the 7/8 guilds, having defeated Heroic Broodkeeper Diurna after 14 pulls.

Vesper is still pushing Heroic Raszageth, having reached almost the same milestone as Echo, with 64% on the boss' health bar after 7 pulls.

Meanwhile, most other guilds are on various stages of Heroic splits, and the Asia Realms are the next realms to receive their patch, so soon we will be able to compare every region's strategy, and hopefully by then, we can see some Mythic action.

Revolutionist (EU-Ragnaros) were also able to overcome the Heroic Broodkeeper Diurna encounter, becoming the 4th guild to break into the 7/8 mark.

Let's see, if like Vesper they will give a shot at Heroic Raszageth

Looks like Vesper is taking on the challenge, having pulled Heroic Raszageth and currently sitting at 79% as their personal best for boss HP.

Will they be able to overcome the encounter? Living up to her name, this 4 platform fight is loaded with pushing winds and lightning and LOTS of damage, but they are ready to try, and that deserves respect.

Method, Echo and Aversion are all doing as much splits as they can as we get close to dinner break for EU.