Race to World First: Manaforge Omega

Method are back in the Mythic Manaforge Omega clearing the trash and getting ready to take on the Nexus-King Salhadaar and give him a dressing down!

Method completed their reclear, and are currently running some Dimensius splits

Honestly have taken down Forgeweaver Araz for a world 6th!

Echo have made their way back inside the Mana forge and working on the reclear, making quick work of Plexus Sentinel already

火 锅 英 雄 are still working on Fractillus with some really consistent low pulls, with their best at 1.7%! It's worth noting they are 2 days behind, and this is without any boss adjustments, as they won't come through until the weekly reset!

火 锅 英 雄 (Huoguo Hero) are chipping away at Fractillus health, with their new best of 2.48% on pull 42!

Checking in on where the EU guilds are at, Method have cleared back up to Mythic Fractillus and Echo are currently doing Hard Mode Tazavesh for the Myth Track item reward you get for doing a deathless run.

Method have started their Mythic reclear. After reaching Nexus-King Salhadaar again, the plan is to do a number of targeted splits for Loom'ithar, followed by Dimensius Kills.

Echo continue to blast through their Heroic Splits (targeted to bosses that drop key items of loot for efficiency).

Liquid are offline, although its very likely they did a few private pulls of Dimensius to let their analysts and WeakAura team start some of their work whilst the players sleep.

Despite it being early morning for EU, there is already a lot of activity and guilds are wasting no time when it comes to the weekly reset:

• Method have done Tazavesh Hard Mode and are now starting up their Heroic Splits.
• Echo are in Heroic Splits.
• Liquid continue to pull Mythic Nexus-King Salhadaar, really looking to squeeze out that final 12.7% boss health they need to claim World First on this boss.

Liquid hit a new best of 12.8% on Mythic Nexus-King Salhadaar!

Liquid has hit a new best of 20.5% in phase 3 of Nexus-King Salhadaar, and have moved back into first place on the leaderboards.

There is still a lot of Normal / Heroic re-clears for most of the NA Guilds tonight still. We do see Liquid back from their dinner break and is looking into doing another heroic split of Dimensius, the All-Devouring and then talks of going back to progressing on Mythic Nexus-King Salhadaar

Liquid has stopped mythic prog for now to tackle more splits.

Liquid just got a new best on Nexus-King Salhadaar of 60.6%. Seems like the rest of the NA guilds have thrown themselves into re-clears of Heroics / Normal raid tonight.

Liquid has cleared back to Nexus-King Salhadaar. They have still lots of time for prog. It will be interesting to see how much the reset and splits will factor in tonight.

It looks like Liquid has stepped back into mythic after finishing their splits.

As the Eu winds down for the night, lets have a recap to see what happened today and where everyone is

• Echo reached 30.5% phase 3 on Nexus-King Salhadaar

• Method also reached phase 3 of Nexus-King at 66.4%

• liquid are currently running hardmodes and will do a reclear before we see them make any progress on their phase 3 62.4%

• 火 锅 英 雄(Hotpot Heroes) took down The Soul Hunters and have a best of 26.3% on Fractillus

• FatSharkYes are still working on Forgemaster Araz and just had a new best of 1.34%

• Synergy have just taken world 5th on Forgeweaver Araz!

Liquid are currently running hard mode Tazavesh. Its seems as the plan is to break for lunch after this before heading into Mythic for the reclear, then taking on some Dimensius Heroic splits before we see any progress.

Echo have finished up for the evening, and this reset! They'll be looking to get some rest in for a busy day tomorrow.

It'll be interesting to see if there is any change in the leaderboard before EU wakes up and logs on as Liquid and other NA guilds complete any splits and reclears needed before progressing during the night, along with the adjustments that have been made on the raid bosses.

Echo have made some changes to their strategy and are now 3 healing the Nexis-King. It's taken a few pulls to test it out, but its looking consistent as they hope to shave some more health off Salhadaar.

Echo looking to get that kill before bed as they get another new best of 30.5% P3 on Nexus-King Salhadaar!

Liquid is now awake and already in more Heroic splits before their Mythic re-clear later.

Echo is continuing their pulls on Nexus-King Salhadaar, but have yet to reach their best again just yet. They most likely won't be online much longer, as they will want to be up early for the EU reset.

Method is winding down with some M+ before an early night to start early tomorrow.

While Echo are on a dinner break (that is nearly finished), Method have opted to go into M+ and Mythic splits on some alts, possibly to see if they can pad out their vaults for the potential at better gear or to bring in some new classes for the Nexus-King Salhadaar fight.

Echo have had a really good pull with all players alive when Nexis-King enraged, pushing him down to 35.9% for a new best!

Method reach a new best on phase 3 of 66.4%!

Echo and Method are continuing to spend the afternoon facing down Nexus-King Salhadaar. Theres not been any changes in terms of best pull, with Echo sitting at 57.2% in phase 3, and Method also in phase 3 at 73.1% Both guilds are working on cleaning up the earlier phases to allow them to push further into phase 3.

Meanwhile 火 锅 英 雄(Hotpot Heroes) are getting really close to taking down The Soul Hunters with a 1.16% on pull 32!

火 锅 英 雄(Hotpot Heroes) are making some solid progress on The Soul Hunters with pull 20 hitting a new best of 14.3%!

Method are hungry to get back to second place as they get another new best of 62.4% P3 on Nexus-King Salhadaar!

After an extended break, Method has come back and got a new best on pull 46 of 86.4% P3 on Nexus-King Salhadaar!

Echo has a new best attempt for Nexus-King Salhadaar of 57.4% P3 on pull 50 (previously 81% P3 on pull 48), that's a really healthy drop in just 2 pulls since their previous best. Still a long way to go on this boss, but that pushes them into the lead and gives them some great experience on the boss.

Echo had taken a short break, but are back on Mythic Nexus-King Salhadaar, getting some more pulls in!

Method made some steady progress, hitting a new best of 90.1% P3 on Pull 44 (previously 91.7% P3).

火锅英雄 has a new best attempt for The Soul Hunters of 66.8% on Pull 7.

火锅英雄 has started making progress on The Soul Hunters, so far, they have a best of 73% on Pull 2.

Echo keep nudging their best % down, getting reps in on Nexus-King Salhadaar. Pushing their best attempt to 81% P3.

With Echo and Method both whittling away at the bosses health, the former getting him to 62.4% P3 and the latter getting him to 85.8% P3, let's have a look at what's happening in the EU and Asia regions.

In EU, there are several guilds on Forgeweaver Araz, some of the entries in the top 20 include:

• FatSharkYes on 17.40% after 113 pulls
• Synergy on 40.4% after 82 pulls
• Banhammer on 44.80% after 97 pulls
• Evolve on 53.97% after 33 pulls
• Advance on 56.73% after 13 pulls
• Inno on 62.65% after 45 pulls
• Honolulu on 64.15% after 78 pulls

In Asia, there are currently 3 guilds in the top 20, 2 of them on Forgeweaver Araz, while 火鍋英雄 (Huoguo Hero) move on to The Soul Hunters:

• 佶天鸿 (Jitianhong) on 37.10% after 36 pulls
• Identity on 37.18% after 110 pulls

火锅英雄 are incredibly close to defeating Forgeweaver Araz, with back to back pulls wiping at 1%, on pull 172 and 173. They will get this boss down today!

Echo are back in-front of Nexus-King Salhadaar Mythic and Method have hit a new best in their first few pulls today, getting just into Phase 3, with a new best of 94.7% P3.

火锅英雄 has a new best attempt for Forgeweaver Araz of 2.84% P2 on pull 164, they could get this boss down any pull now!

It's the morning for EU guilds, and they are getting ready to make the most of their final day before reset. Lets see where everyone is at:

• Instant Dollars pushed their best down to 4.8% on Forgeweaver Araz, but they have called it for tonight.
• Liquid are heading offline, after ending with some Splits as a warmup for their weekly reset tomorrow.
• Echo are actually in Mythic again, but at the first boss with some fresh characters to funnel some Mythic loot into a character they feel they need for the Nexus-King Salhadaar or Dimensius roster.
• Method are going back into Mythic, to get some more experience on Nexus-King Salhadaar today. Likely ending today with some weekly tasks or some final split raids for any of the characters that missed them.
• 火锅英雄 have started pulling Forgeweaver Araz again, with a best of 5.62% and a pull ending at 11.5% just now, they are in a prime position to be the next guild to get 4/8.

Late night NA update:

• Liquid has stopped mythic prog to do some last-minute splits before reset. Their best pull so far is 62.4% on 103 pulls.
• Instant Dollars hit a low of 11.1% on Forgeweaver recently, with their best still being the 8.72%.
• poptart corndoG has a best of 7.39% after 114 pulls on Forgeweaver as well.

Some progress has been going on with Forgeweaver Araz for poptart corndoG as they are at 100 pulls with a best at 18.1% P2. Instant Dollars with 148 pulls and their best of 8.72%. As for the progression of Nexus-King Salhadaar Liquid is still at 62.4% P3 with 81 pulls.

Liquid has gone to dinner with their best attempt still being the 62.4% attempt in P3.

Instant Dollars hit new a new best recently of 18.1% on Forgeweaver.

The night for the NA guilds are starting to get busy with the Mythic raiding:

• Liquid gets a new best with Nexus-King Salhadaar of 62.4% P3 on their 50th pull.
• Instant Dollars and poptart corndoG are attempting for new bests or a kill of Forgeweaver Araz
• SOMA and Melee Mechanics are working on their progression on Loom'ithar

Liquid hit a new best on Nexus-King Salhadaar of 59.4% on their 31st attempt. They are currently the only NA guild online and progging at the moment.

Method are also heading offline, after having a few new bests on Mythic Nexus-King Salhadaar. They have a full day of progress tomorrow, before the EU weekly reset.

Liquid continue to push on, looking for some big progress on this boss before the US weekly reset tomorrow. Now is their time to close the gap between them and Echo.

Liquid have reached 64.2%(P2) on their third pull of the Nexis-King!

Echo have finished up for the night after making some good progress on Nexis-King Salhadaar pushing him into phase 3 at 86.8%

Liquid are getting ready to make their first pull of the King.

With the reset coming in tomorrow for NA, it'll be interesting to see how far they can push before EU wake up for their final day of week 1!

Method has started their first pulls on Nexus-King Salhadaar, hitting 65.3% in Phase 2 on their 4th pull. Liquid has cleared trash and are forming up to join them. After 28 pulls Echo are sitting at 86.8% in Phase 3 as their best pull.

Liquid continues progress on Fractillus with another nail-biting 2% wipe. It could be any pull now! This would bring them back level with Echo and Method at 6/8 bosses cleared.

Continuing to take chunks off Nexus-King Salhadaar, on pull 21 Echo has improved to 86.8% in Phase 3. In the meantime, Method and Liquid are head to head to see who can be the first to join Echo at 6/8.

That's a new best attempt for Liquid on Fractillus, hitting 1.63% on their 45th pull

Echo has a new best attempt, seeing Phase 3 on Nexus-King Salhadaar for the first time. After another agonizing 2% pull on Fractillus Method are heading into their dinner break. Liquid are back in the raid with their first pulls of the day, hoping to improve on their 14.5% pull on Fractillus achieved yesterday.

Echo have been slowly whittling away at Nexus-King Salhadaar, with their latest new best of 61.2% Phase 2 after 12 pulls!

Meanwhile in the US, **Liquid ** has woken up and are doing their morning show before they start progress on Fractillus.

Method with another HUGE pull on Fractillus with a new best of 1.99%, dying to the enrage. Will we see a kill soon?

Method just shaved a MASSIVE amount of health off the boss, with a new best of 2.79% on Fractillus after 16 pulls!

Echo had 1 pull on Nexus-King Salhadaar before taking their dinner break, getting to 69.3% in intermission 1. Whether or not this is just for data gathering or if they will continue to pull on broadcast is yet to be seen.

Meanwhile, Method are chipping away at Fractillus, with a new best of 40.66% after 11 pulls! Will they be able to catch up with Liquid before they wake up?

Method head over to Fractillus, where they are currently at a best of 66.5% after doing 8 pulls before they started The Soul Hunters earlier. They join Echo who have just had a new best pull of 2.57%!

a sub 1% pull for Method on The Soul hunters of 0.97%!

Echo are edging closer to the kill with a new best of 3.7%!

Method are heart breakingly close to a kill with a new best of 1.29% on the Soul Hunters!

Echo have broken out the Vantus Runes on Fractillus. The extra damage might just give them the edge they need to break through the wall

While Method and Echo work on their bosses, a number of guilds are continuing to progress on Forgeweaver Araz

• 火 锅 英 雄(Hotpot Heroes) 21.5%
• Honestly 34.4%
• Ethical 49.2%
• Banhammer 61.6%
• JSUUG 62.5%

Echo are continuing to break through the wall and reaching a new best of 8.51% before hitting enrage!

Echo has taken the top spot once more as they get back to back best pulls, this time getting the boss to 13.75% on pull 12! They hit the hard enrage, but, unlike Liquid, they have opted to not use any Vantus Runes on this fight....so far.

Echo getting another new best of 30.86% on Fractillus after 11 pulls, slowly chipping away the boss bit by bit. It's interesting to note that they are using the one tank strat that Liquid used for some of their pulls before they ultimately went back to two tanks.

Meanwhile, Method are back from their lunch break and straight back into more pulls on The Soul Hunters, hoping to get this boss down and move onto Fractillus with the other 2 guilds that are there already.

Echo are taking no time to chill as they hit a new best of 34.09% on pull 3!

Echo have started progressing on Fractillus with a best of 52.8% on their 2nd pull!

A new best for Method of 3.69% on The Soul Hunters!

Echo have made their way back into the raid to take on Fractillus.

Meanwhile 火 锅 英 雄(Hotpot Heroes) are continuing to make progress on Forgeweaver Araz, with a best of 22.7%

Method are really forging their way through with a new best of 16.85% only 8 pulls in! It shouldnt be too much longer before we see the Hunters drop!

Method have just hit a new best of 24.62% on The Soul hunters on pull number 5!

Method have started to pull The Soul Hunters Mythic, with their first pull ending at 51.5%.

After Echo got their The Soul Hunters kill, they are now heading into some Mythic+.

Echo aren't slowing down, hitting a new low health attempt of 3.74%, a slightly new best.

Method are having a few exploration pulls on Fractillus (the "WeakAura boss" of Manaforge Omega), after which, they will head over to The Soul Hunters.

Ending on some progress, Liquid are heading offline. All eyes will now be on Echo, seeing how quickly they can put the next boss kill on the board and match Liquid on 5/8 Mythic.

Liquid and Echo are not slowing down.

• Liquid push their new best down from 17.2% to 14.5% for Fractillus on Pull 38.
• Echo are getting very close to a kill on The Soul Hunters already, with a new best of 4.45% on just Pull 6, their previous best was just 1 pull before!

Liquid have also identified a bug with Mythic Fractillus where using Paladin Bubble before the mechanic is causing walls not to spawn, and so have made sure to not play in a way that will cause that bug to occur.

Echo are not stopping, taking a huge step on The Soul Hunters and really wanting to close that gap. They go from a previous best of 31.1% to 9.53%!

The new bests are coming in quickly, Liquid push Fractillus down slightly lower than their previous best, to 17.2% on Pull 34.

Echo make a big leap in progress on Mythic The Soul Hunters, on just Pull 3, they hit 31.1%.

Echo waste no time on The Soul Hunters, getting back to their previous best of 69.3% on their first pull of the day.

Liquid have taken another chunk off their best attempt on Mythic Fractillus, with a new best of 18.2% on Pull 30!

Echo are online and forming their raid in-front of The Soul Hunters! They want to use the early start today to re-close the gap between themselves and Liquid, especially after Liquid killed The Soul Hunters whilst Echo were offline.

Liquid just achieved a new best of 25.6% on their 24th attempt! Could we see them kill it before bed?

It is just a night of progression all around, check it out:

Fractillus

• Liquid continues to make new bests now sitting at pull 10 with a 47.2%

Forgeweaver Araz

• Instant Dollars with a pulls at 98 and a best standing at 36.3%
• poptartcorndoG pull 44 and achieved a new best of 59.9%

Liquid is headed to dinner while they work out weakauras and strats. Their best attempt on Fractilus is 56.5% on 6 pulls.

Instant Dollars just hit a new best of 36.3% on Forgeweaver on their 86th attempt.

Humble also hit a new best on Forgeweaver of 67.4% on their 12th pull.

poptart corndoG hit 64.1% on their 36th pull of Forgeweaver.

Liquid with another new best of 5.42% on The Soul Hunters. They're getting closer and closer to the kill.

Early Evening Hours NA Guilds Updates:

This early in the evening and we have about 2 NA guilds showing some progress with new best:

• 21 pulls and Liquid gets a new best of 7.61% on The Soul Hunters
• 70 pulls and Instant Dollars gets a new best of 41.1% on Forgeweaver Araz

Liquid is getting there on The Soul Hunters. Their best attempt being 8.93% on 20 pulls. They very well could kill it before EU wakes up.

Liquid has hit a new best on The Soul Hunters of 28.9% on their 12th pull.

Method have decided to call it there for today, they will return tomorrow morning and focus on getting Forgeweaver Araz down.

Method have an incredibly close wipe of 0.94% on Forgeweaver Araz!

Liquid continue to make progress on Mythic The Soul Hunters, with a new best of 42.4% on Pull 9.

Liquid are chunking away at Mythic The Soul Hunters, with a new best of 51.4% on pull 6.

Echo appear to have gone offline, likely a good decision, meaning they can get online nice and early tomorrow for a full day of progress on either Fractillus or The Soul Hunters.

Method are not stopping either, they push their new best to 2.77%, down from a previous best of 9.51% just 2 pulls before!

Echo have a painfully low wipe at 1.65%, incredibly close to closing the gap with Liquid. They just need to find a tiny bit more damage and they will be truly neck-and-neck with Liquid.

Liquid are hot on the heals of Echo, with a 3.8% wipe of their own! This boss will die today!

Yet another incredibly low % attempt from Echo of 3% on Mythic Forgeweaver Araz, just 2 pulls after a pull that wiped at 1.87%! They are very close to a kill with this level of consistency.

Echo hit a new best of 1.87% on Pull 66, they are incredibly close to the kill on Forgeweaver Araz.

Echo have another very low % wipe on Forgeweaver Araz Mythic, they are hungry for that World First kill of the boss.

Especially since Liquid are also back pulling the boss, with the added benefit of being fresh and only recently coming online.

Method haven't had a new best since their 23.48% pull, however, as seen with Echo's progress path, all it takes is one clean pull into Phase 3 and the boss health can melt away. Then making it a question of final phase execution before the enrage (currently what Liquid and Echo are wiping to when at those very low attempts).

Echo has a new best on the table, getting Forgeweaver Araz to 2.48%! Will we see a kill soon?

Method and Echo getting new bests on the same pull (again!) with Method dropping to 23.5% on pull 55 and Echo getting the boss to 6.6% on pull 52!

Method and Echo both coming in with new bests on Forgeweaver Araz, with the former chipping 1% off their previous best with 20.3%, and the latter getting the boss to 34.4%!

火 锅 英 雄 (Hotpot Heroes) and Mate have started pulling Forgeweaver Araz, will we see them on the leaderboard soon?

Meanwhile, Echo and Method are still trying to beat their bests, with consistent low pulls for both. Will one of the EU guilds take him first, or will Liquid come on and take the boss down?

The yoyo between Echo and Method continue, as Echo come in with a new best of 21.8% after 34 pulls!

Method pull ahead ever so slightly, with a new best of 36.5 % after 32 pulls!

Echo have also made a jump forward in the fight, with a new best of 37.7% on Pull 31.

Method hit a new best on Mythic Forgeweaver Araz of 45% on Pull 28 and then 43.4% on Pull 29.

Echo and Method were taking a break for food. Both teams have their IRL food buff and are back for more Forgeweaver Araz progress!

Crimson have also started some pulls on Forgeweaver Araz Mythic, with a best of 84.5% on their second pull.

Echo are forging ahead with their new best of 40.1% on Forgeweaver Araz!

Method coming in with a new best of 63.98% on Forgeweaver Araz after 16 pulls!

Echo are hungry to get some good progress on the boss, with a new best of 48.6% on Forgeweaver Araz!

Echo and Method are fighting to get to the top as Echo overtake Method with a new best of 63.1%!

Method coming in hot with a new best on Forgeweaver Araz with 69.5% after 6 pulls!

Echo and Method are making progress on Forgeweaver Araz Mythic.

Echo have a best % of 71.6% on Pull 7, with 7 pulls total.

Method have a best % of 77.2% on Pull 2, with 4 pulls total.

Echo are finished with their Mythic+ and are jumping into Mythic Forgeweaver Araz again!

Method have defeated Mythic Soulbinder Naazindhri, they now move towards Loom'ithar.

Echo are finishing up some morning Mythic+ before returning to Mythic.

Method have started their Mythic progress, defeating Mythic Plexus Sentinel and moving on to Soulbinder Naazindhri!

Liquid have called it a night, with their current best attempt on Forgeweaver Araz Mythic standing at 1.51%. They have now seen the boss fully, and with a fresh day tomorrow, will send their final Vantus Runes (currently using 18 on their final few pulls of the night) to push the boss down ahead of their weekly reset on Tuesday.

Insanely low wipe from Liquid on Forgeweaver at 1.51%. Their previous best was 11.4%

After struggling to be consistent, Liquid has hit several low pulls all around the 11% mark. They feel the kill is real close.

Liquid hit a new low of 11.5% on the 65th pull. They're getting close, could we see the kill tonight?

The Late Night NA Guild Standings

3 Guilds: Forgeweaver Araz:

• Liquid at 31.1% P1 with 53 pulls
• poptart corndoG at 67.7% P1 with 8 pulls
• Instant Dollars at 69.5% P1 with 39 pulls

2 Guilds: Loom'ithar:

• Rain at 20.6 P2 with 8 Pulls
• Infernum at 41.6% P2 ending their night with 25 Pulls

Liquid are back from dinner and are pulling Forgeweaver Araz again

Instant Dollars has started pulling Forgeweaver. Their best attempt is 69.5% on 28 pulls.

Humble claims world 5th of Loom'ithar with poptart corndoG getting world 6th just five minutes later!

• Liquid takes a much needed dinner break as they progress on Forgeweaver Araz sitting at 35.1% and 41 pulls in.
• We are seeing a couple of NA guilds Humble and Rewind working on getting their 3/8 kill as they try to progress on Loom'ithar.

Liquid have hit a bit of a wall on Araz hitting 60.6% on their 20th pull but haven't been able to make it back since. No other NA guilds have come online just yet.

Liquid are back in Mythic after a brief excursion into some HC splits. They are fine tunning some strategies to help with progressing further into the fight!

The adds are causing some serious issues and need to be dealt with via knockbacks and stuns to avoid massive raid damage causing a wipe!

Liquid are back into 1st place after pushing Forgeweaver Araz to 64.4% after 9 pulls!

Its a long night ahead for EU as Liquid pushes the mythic bosses!

Liquid are back in to Mythic and progressing towards Forgeweaver Araz.

Echo appear to have gone offline for the time being.

It also appears that Method are going to be doing M+ for the rest of the evening.

Lots still to play for as the raid slowly progresses through week 1!

Echo are now 3/8 after downing Loom'ithar. They have now moved up to world 4th.

How far will they push through the raid before the night ends?

Echo have moved on through the 2nd boss and killed Soulbinder Naazindhri.

Loom'ithar is up next, but that shouldnt be a difficult boss for them.

Liquid are up and running and have opted to hit M+ before progressing any further, not sure what the plans are, but it will be interesting to see how it all develops as the day wears on!

Echo have officially stepped into the mythic raid, pulled and killed Plexus Sentinel on the first pull!

It appears they are going to go back into M+ for a short while, before coming back to the raid to clear trash to the next boss!

Echo have returned from their dinner break and jumped into Mythic+ keys, and then hopefully onto some Mythic raiding action later on!

Banhammer have taken the World 3rd kill on Loom'ithar on lucky pull 13!! This is also the EU 1st for this boss! Congrats!

Banhammer are really close to securing the Loom'ithar kill after a heartbreaking 0.1% wipe on pull 11

Checking in on the Top 2 EU Guilds, we are getting closer and closer to to seeing them enter Mythic.

Echo have been in Tazavesh Hard Mode for a little while now, and should be wrapping those up shortly, after which, we will either see some Mythic or more Mythic+.

Method are finishing up their final Heroic Nexus-King Salhadaar and Dimensius splits, then will also be going into Tazavesh Hard Mode ahead of Mythic.

EU guild's "final" splits are almost over, both Echo and Method are working on their final Heroic splits, with a few players doing Mythic+ when not assigned to a raid.

After some pulls to get more insight into Forgeweaver Araz Mythic, Liquid are calling it there for tonight, finishing with a best of 79% P1. Returning tomorrow to carry on their Mythic progress!

Liquid have 2 pulls on Forgeweaver Araz so far, and a new best of 86.2% P1.

Watching them do a boss like this is very interesting, every pull they are making leaps in knowledge, conceptualising WeakAuras that will be useful and adjusting their strategy on the fly. This is the first boss of Manaforge Omega that we can truly see how a World First guild tackles a challenging boss.

With Liquid deciding what they want to do to finish off their day, and US Guilds winding down and getting ready to log off for today, EU Guilds are now online and wasting no time.

Echo are currently working through their Dimensius splits. Method are doing the Ulduar Timewalking Raid last boss for the Hero Track loot item, before going back into Heroic Nexus-King and Dimensius splits.

Liquid is moving to M+ for a bit before tackling Forgeweaver Araz.

Liquid has claimed world second Loom'ithar after making quick work of Plexus and Soulbinder. They are on the move now.

As the night is slowing winding down for the NA guilds we see that Liquid is getting ready to start their Mythic Raiding journey. Instant Dollars had called it a night with Forgeweaver Araz ending their progression of 28 pulls with a 69.5%.

There is some Mythic Raiding Action going on:

• Instant Dollars has made their way to Forgeweaver Araz and are progressing at 84.3% in 6 pulls
• Winky Face at 88.3% and 2 pulls in with Loom'ithar
• Liquid looks to be in Tazavesh, so it looks like we could see Mythic raiding from them soon...

The NA Guilds evening hours has started. Although pretty chill night with Liquid finishing up on their Heroic Splits of Dimensius, the All-Devouring and talks of Mythic +s, Tazavesh, and then stepping into the Mythic raid, we have Instant Dollars taking a shot at Loom'ithar and with 2 pulls swatted it down to a 30%.

Theres not been much change as Liquid are still working through their splits on Dimensius, but appear to be down to their last few runs. It seems as though they'll be going into some Mythic+ before we see them step in the raid.

We've seen some Mythic activity on Loom'ithar earlier, with Consequence currently sitting with best pull at 50.7%!

Method have finished with their Mythic plus for today and will be looking to clean up the Heroic splits left on the Nexus-King and Dimensius tomorrow!

Liquid have been continuing their Dimensius heroic splits for now

Liquid are back in Manaforge Omega, their plan today is currently Heroic Dimensius splits, then some Mythic+, then to end the day off, MYTHIC! If their schedule stays as planned, EU should wake up to see Liquid at the top of the leaderboard, and potentially with the World First kill of Loom'ithar Mythic against their name.

There hasn't been any more Mythic progress yet unfortunately, although the day is still fresh for US guilds! Liquid have been back online for a few hours now, currently they are doing the final boss of Ulduar in timewalking for the random Hero Track item!

Echo have finished for today, looking to get on nice and early tomorrow to sort any final Mythic+ and Dimensius Heroic splits.

Method won't be far behind them, probably with enough time for just one more key before heading offline.

Guilds in Asia are following the US and EU pattern and powering through their splits.

Method are finishing up their final few splits of the day, then heading into Mythic+ for the remainder of their raiding schedule.

Echo have already started their Mythic+, and if they stick to their usual times as the last few days, they will be heading off slightly earlier (as they start earlier in the day) than most other EU guilds.

It has been an afternoon of more splits for EU. Method are scheduled to start their final 2 Heroic boss splits tomorrow, and Echo soon stopping splits to do Mythic+ for the remainder of today, returning tomorrow to attack Heroic Dimensius.

It won't be long now before Liquid start to head back online, likely in a few hours based on their raiding schedule so far. When they do, expect to either see some Mythic+ or more likely, Dimensius Heroic.

There hasn't been a lot to report on since the last update, with EU guilds pushing forward with more splits. Thankfully, they won't be too far away from moving onto the final phase of their splits, with the next stage being Dimensius Heroic for Echo and Nexus-King Salhadaar and Dimensius Heroic for Method.

There currently does not appear to be any active pulling happening for Mythic Loom'ithar. But perhaps that changes later today during prime raiding hours for EU and when US guilds get back online.

Liquid have called it for today, having another solid day of Splits. Finishing up their Heroic Nexus-King Salhadaar splits, only leaving Heroic Dimensius and Mythic+ for their Day 4. They will then be going into Mythic, so we will see Liquid enter Mythic towards the end of their Day 4 of Race to World First.

EU guilds are steadily working through their 3rd day of splits, with Echo and Method still doing full Normal into Heroic. A difference that people may not have noticed however, is Echo have been including Heroic Nexus-King Salhadaar in their Heroic splits already, whereas Method have opted to stop and restart their splits after Fractillus Heroic instead.

We also have a Top 10 Mythic Soulbinder Naazindhri locked in, now the question is who can claim World First Loom'ithar.

WOW this night just came alive almost 5 back to back Mythic kills of Soulbinder Naazindhri. Congrats to All the top 5. I am sure a 6th and beyond is coming soon. But the night is wearing down for NA and EU is slowly showing up so maybe more Mythic bosses to see go down, could this be the stop point of the SPLITS??

Congratulations to Consequence! World 3rd, NA 3rd of Soulbinder Naazindhri

Soulbinder Naazindhri World 2nd, NA 2nd has been achieved by Country Club with 4 pulls. Congratulations

The top 10 for Mythic Plexus has been secured! SOMA came through just a few minutes after Rewind claimed world 9th!

The night time hours are upon the NA and all guilds are drowning in Normal / Heroic Splits except for one guild at the moment showing some Mythic progress and it is Rewind working towards the 9th position of Plexus Sentinel with just 8 pulls and a best of 0.23%. Oh looks like they could take the 9th.

Revolutionist have also started pulling Mythic Plexus Sentinel again today, having a new best and very close attempt of 1.35% on Pull 4.

We have some more movement on Mythic!

The Early Shift and The Amazing Zoo are fighting for World 4th on Mythic Plexus Sentinel. Both guilds have got the boss to around 40%, with 9 Pulls from The Early Shift and 5 Pulls for The Amazing Zoo.

The EU day is quickly coming to an end, with Echo headed offline, and Method not far behind them, day 2 of splits for them is soon over.

Although there are likely many more splits on the list, some glimmer of hope for Mythic begins, as Liquid start to have conversations regarding Mythic; likely some composition conversations with the fact they are much closer than EU to ending their Splits.

A quick summary of what's been going on:

• EU have continued to blast through Normal and Heroic splits for the entire day.
• There hasn't been any further Mythic news or excitement, there are still only 3 defeats on Mythic Plexus Sentinel.
• Liquid have come online and have jumped straight into more splits.

Checking back in, and EU guilds are working through more splits as expected. Its looking like another full day of them currently, with the next question being when they will move onto the last 2 bosses of the Heroic raid.

As the EU day moves on, the EU guilds continue to push forward with their splits.

If you want to get involved with splits and earn some gold, you can sign up to join Method Splits at method.gg/discord.

For anyone that might be more unfamiliar, Splits is where a guild will split the raid team into multiple groups, those groups will then simultaneously do the raid on Normal and/or Heroic Difficulty.

The raid consists of guild members and in the case of the bigger guilds, helpers. These helpers are usually compensated with Gold in exchange for passing on all of the loot that drops. This loot is then funneled (prioritised) to specific guild characters, essentially identifying that character as a player's likely/potential main character for Mythic difficulty.

They do this as many times as they can, depending on how many guild characters they have available, or as many times as they feel they need to, in order to gear up a roster of desired Specs for the Mythic difficulty of the Manaforge Omega Raid.

EU guilds are now awake, Echo have been online for around 2 hours and doing splits. Method have more recently started up (having gone later into yesterday), but waste no time, jumping straight into Day 2 of splits!

Liquid have also just headed offline, calling an end to Day 2 of their splits.

Consequence has moved onto Heroic but they showed in 3 pulls against Mythic Loom'ithar it can be swatted down to a best of 59.6% P1. Also there is two other guilds working on Mythic Plexus Sentinel, Nurfed sitting at 43.4% with 10 pulls, and Trash Pandas at 84% with just 3 pulls. The race has now started, but the night is drawing near for NA guilds and soon we will be seeing some action from the EU guilds.

Consequence has came in with 1 pull and chucked down Plexus Sentinel to a 2.65%

Well there is one guild stirring up the pot, Invocation is working on Mythic Plexus Sentinel in just 5 pulls they have hit a best of 76.6%. As for the rest of the guilds still simmering in the normal / heroic splits and some mythic +s.

No further mythic progress has been made. Liquid and Instant Dollars are still crushing through splits. Hopefully we get some mythic action sometime soon.

US Guilds are back at it, proceeding with their second day of splits.

In the EU, Echo has headed offline for another early start tomorrow, and Method aren't far behind with their last Heroic splits most of the way through already.

We're still yet to see any more meaningful attempts at Mythic Plexus Sentinel.

It won't be too long until US guilds are waking up and starting their second day of splits.

EU guilds are powering through, already being online for around 13 hours today, they are pushing hard to get through as many as possible before calling it for today.

Checking in after a lunch breaks for most guilds, splits are still being worked through, and will likely be the only content the top guilds are doing today. It's possible we see some US guilds return later today, such as Melee Mechanics, to give Mythic another shot; however, with the tuning seen so far, its not likely before they have had a chance to get some more gear themselves!

Most guilds are looking for split helpers, so if you're geared, looking to help out and make some gold at the same time, check out the respective guild's Discord or stream for more details.

The splits continue, with most guilds opting for normal straight into Heroic, then merging groups for the final few Heroic bosses (they stop before Heroic Dimensius). When that group is done with Heroic, they form the next group and start with Normal again.

There are currently no guilds that have killed Heroic Dimensius, the All-Devouring.

US Guilds are now offline and have concluded their Day 1 of RWF!

EU Guilds are wasting no time, going straight into Normal and Heroic Splits.

Today will mostly be a question of which guild is able to optimise their split runs the most, and from the top 3 guilds, this will be their plan for the entire day (and likely the same tomorrow also). And unique to the Manaforge Omega raid tier, Tazavesh Hardmode will reward Myth Track loot when completed with a deathless run on Hardmode. Which could end up becoming quite a significant part of the gearing process this Race to World First.

As the NA guilds night comes to a close and no Mythic bosses down, the EU guilds are about to begin their journey of normal/heroic splits and, who knows maybe we will see a Mythic boss come down time will tell, stay tune.

NA guilds are still just chugging along with splits. We usually have a few guilds sneak in kills for the first boss at least, but haven't seen that so far. It seems like mythic is pretty challenging at the moment. Liquid came back from dinner and have continued with normal and heroic splits. Melee Mechanics has the best attempt on Mythic Plexus Sentinel with 8 pulls and a best of 62.1%

It has been a quiet night for NA guilds as they stomp through all their normal and heroic splits, but there seems to be a small amount of noise coming from 3 other guilds testing the waters of Mythic Plexus with attempts ranging in the 90 percentile with just 1 pull.

As expected, it's a quiet night so far for NA. Liquid, Nascent, Instant Dollars, and Melee Mechanics are doing splits, while others are working through M+

So far, Heroic is looking quite challenging in terms of tuning. Making some of these earlier Heroic splits a little harder. With a mixture of people learning the fights, needing to hit tight damage checks (including maximising any and all damage amplifications) and performance issues adding to the mix, there has not been a great deal of progress towards anyone hitting 7/8 Heroic.

Checking back in, US guilds are making good progress through their splits.

The further a guild has got in Heroic so far is Instant Dollars, at 6/8 Heroic, currently working on Nexus-King Salhadaar.

There has yet to be any more attempts from Melee Mechanics or any other guild on Mythic Plexus Sentinel.

It definitely seems like the race is going as intended so far. An early guild goes in to test the water, realises the first boss is tuned pretty highly for their current gear and so the real start to the Race to World First kicks off, SPLITS!

Which is now what we can expect from Melee Mechanics and guilds such as Liquid. That being said, Melee Mechanics may do only a few Heroic runs before attempting Mythic again, we will have to wait and see.

Melee Mechanics are slowly chipping away at Plexus Sentinel Mythic, with a new best of 62.1% on their last Pull (Pull 8).

After that pull, they have made a couple of composition swaps, notably a swap from Protection Warrior to Protection Paladin and have gone into Heroic Difficulty.

The Race to World First: Manaforge Omega has officially started, with US servers coming online, and guilds able to enter the raid!

Race to World First: Manaforge Omega starts on August 12th, and as always, we will provide coverage of the event as it unfolds.

Once again, Heroic and Mythic difficulty is available for guilds and players to enter straight away. However, its very unlikely we see any of the bigger guilds entering Mythic in the first few days, as they will be running a large number of Normal and Heroic splits (which you can sign-up to be a part of). That being said, there are usually a few guilds sparking some excitement by jumping into the raid early to claim some of the World First defeats of an earlier boss.

We will be providing coverage throughout the Race to World First, keeping you informed on what is happening, how the standings are looking and how close we get to the next World First being achieved. Coverage starts on August 12th, so make sure to check back in then!