Race to World First: Midnight Season 1

After Echo got a new best for Crown of the Cosmos of 90.2% P2 on Pull 3, they have headed into a few more Mythic Chimaerus Splits.

Echo and Method nudge their bests a little further, with a current best of 4.7% for Echo and 9.91% for Method.

A slight improvement towards the end of the fight where it gets really challenging and this boss dies for either guild! Letting them move on to Crown of the Cosmos.

Method and Echo are making deeper progress into Mythic Lightblinded Vanguard, pushing their best attempts lower and much closer to a kill.

• Echo have a best of 14.8% on Pull 29
• Method have a best of 20.5% on Pull 22

Lightblinded Vanguard chopped down a bit more by Method as they get another new best of 56.6%, pull 9, still securing them 3rd on leaderboard and just nipping the heels 2nd.

All NA Guilds, but Liquid have called it a night.

Method with a new best at 62.7%, pull 8 on Lightblinded Vanguard

Liquid pull attempt 28 of Crown of the Cosmos earned them a new best of 7.25% P2

Most NA Guilds are calling it a night, and the EU Guilds are starting their hours of Mythic Raid progressing.

Method is now locked in and ready to make some more progress onto Lightblinded Vanguard

Liquid at 4 pulls later (pull 25) now has a new best set at 13.6% on Crown of the Cosmos

Instant Dollars, Incarnate and Consequence won the dance off of the Dragons Vaelgor & Ezzorak, and they now move to the paladins of Lightblinded Vanguard to prove their worth.

Crown of the Cosmos Pull 21, yes we are in the 20s for pull counts, Liquid gets a new low best of 14.3% P2

We now have a few more guilds join the dancing with the dragons of Vaelgor & Ezzorak and at this time Instant Dollars is really showing their dance moves as they get a low best of 8.01%

And just after the dinner break and 2 pulls Liquid get a new best of 16% P2, pull 18 on Crown of the Cosmos

It's the Dance of the Dragons as 3 guilds are actively furthering up their ranking on Vaelgor & Ezzorak. - Incarnate best of 42% at 13 pulls - Tempo best of 56.3% at 12 pulls - Vesper best of 67.7% at 44 pulls

Liquid is coming back from their dinner break, refreshed, and looking into getting more consistence with getting close to or hitting into P3 of Crown of the Cosmos

After many times of sub 20s% P2 Liquid gets a new best of 17.3% P2 on their 14th pull.

Seeing Tempo in with Vaelgor & Ezzorak and in their 4th pull a new best of 66.7%, seems like the are wanting that World 6th

Liquid at 9 pulls of Crown of the Cosmos and already at a 22.7% P2, they are hoping to be touching P3 soon.

It is the NA hours of raid time / progression, and at this time there only a few guilds progressing in the Mythic Raids.

Liquid are working on the Crown of the Cosmos, they are 5 pulls in and a best of 31.9% P2.

It maybe quiet now but there are few bosses that have some world rankings that need to be taken and I am sure we could see that happen.

Liquid had a very good pull managed to get the bosses down to 0.2% on pull 50 of Lightblinded Vanguard!

They want this boss down so they can have as much time as possible on Crown of the Cosmos.

FatSharkYes have killed Chimaerus, the Undreamt God, putting them at 5/9 Mythic and they join the top of the leaderboard in 4th position.

Liquid have had a couple of sub 20% wipes on Lightblinded Vanguard after their food break, they are looking primed to take down this boss before EU wake up tomorrow morning.

Liquid has a great Pull on Lightblinded Vanguard, wiping at 5.74% on Pull 38. With a previous best of 20.8%, they have made a big leap forward in boss health and seeing through the fight, so now its a case of optimising for that final few percent and the boss will die.

They are now taking a 30 minute food break.

Liquid has pushed their new best a little lower, reaching 20.8% on Pull 36 of Lightblinded Vanguard.

They have one more pull before taking a food break for lunch.

In the last couple of hours we have quite a few highlights:

• Incentive killed Vaelgor & Ezzorak after 29 Pulls, achieving World 4th!
• Liquid has a new best for Lightblinded Vanguard of 24% on Pull 31.
• Echo have ended raid for the day and a few players have headed into Mythic+ before going offline. Their best attempt on Lightblinded Vanguard ended at 29.7% on Pull 16.
• Method have gone offline, after doing a few Lightblinded Vanguard pulls for testing ready to progress the boss properly tomorrow morning.
• FatSharkYes has a new best for Vaelgor & Ezzorak of 52.2% on their 2nd Pull.

Method killed Vaelgor & Ezzorak, joining Echo and Liquid on Lightblinded Vanguard. But are ending streams for today and will be back tomorrow morning to push progress on the boss.

Echo nudge their way into the lead with a new best of 46.6% on Pull 8 of Lightblinded Vanguard Mythic. Their previous best was 62.2%.

Followed up by another new best of 42.5% the next pull, Pull 9.

Liquid and Echo are making progress into Lightblinded Vanguard Mythic:

• Echo has a new best attempt of 62.2% on pull 4
• Liquid has a new best attempt of 57.9% on pull 15

Liquid are also actively pulling Mythic Lightblinded Vanguard, reaching a new best attempt of 57.9% on Pull 15.

Method has defeated Mythic Fallen-King Salhadaar and move onto Vaelgor & Ezzorak.

Echo have resumed pulling on Lightblinded Vanguard, starting their second pull on the boss.

Method have entered The Voidspire on Mythic difficulty, taking down Imperator Averzian and moving quickly towards Vorasius.

Echo are back from their food break and starting their second pull of Mythic Vaelgor & Ezzorak.

Echo have a best attempt of 37.5% on Vaelgor & Ezzorak Mythic on their first Pull. They are taking a dinner break for 25 minutes, then will return to push further into The Voidspire raid.

Method have finished with their Mythic Chimaerus, the Undreamt God splits, and will enter The Voidspire Mythic after a dinner break.

Echo have jumped into The Voidspire Mythic and make light work of Imperator Averzian, Vorasius and Fallen-King Salhadaar; putting them at 4/9 Mythic Progress.

They are talking over Vaelgor & Ezzorak before their first pull of the boss, killing this boss will put them very close to Liquid in terms of overall progress.

Method have finished with their Mythic+ and are grouping up in front of Mythic Chimaerus the Undreamt God. They will do a number of splits on this boss, hoping for some Mythic Gaze of Alnseer Trinkets amongst other loot!

Echo have finished their Heroic split and are back into some Mythic+.

Method are doing a final few Mythic+ dungeons and then heading into Mythic Chimaerus Splits.

Honestly hit a bit of a wall on Vaelgor & Ezzorak, heading into a few Crown of the Cosmos normal splits to gain a little more loot. And that will be the end of their raiding for today.

Cope and Honestly are now in a bit of a head-to-head for who can kill Mythic Vaelgor & Ezzorak first to claim the World 2nd kill. But with Cope calling their raid for the night it's up to Honestly for if they can kill the boss before ending their raid.

• Cope best attempt is 45.1% with 7 Pulls Total.
• Honestly best attempt is 54.7% with 3 Pulls Total.

We have had some movement in the leaderboards again, with Honestly killing Chimaerus, the Undreamt God after 11 Pulls.

They have quickly headed over to Vaelgor & Ezzorak and reach a best of 66.7% on their first Pull!

This puts them at 4/9 and bumps them into the 4th place.

Echo are back from their lunch break and have headed into a Heroic Split.

Echo have defeated Mythic Chimaerus the Undreamt God, EU 1st. And with some insane luck, they have 2x Gaze of the Alnseer drop!

They will proceed with a few more Mythic splits for the same boss before going into The Voidspire.

Echo are standing in front of Mythic Chimaerus, the Undreamt God and have started pulling. This marks the start to their Mythic splits on the boss, likely followed by entering The Voidspire to reclaim some ground on Liquid.

Method will also be entering shortly after having a lunch break and finalising some Mythic+ for crafting.

Liquid have swapped out of Mythic and headed into Mythic+ to finish out their day.

Echo and Method have started their day with Heroic splits, they are now both in Mythic+ before going into the Mythic Raid. And with Liquid setting the route of doing Mythic splits, we will be seeing the top 2 EU guilds doing the same in a few hours.

Liquid are still progressing with Lightblinded Vanguard with 5 pulls and a best of 65.6%. Will this be a little higher of pulls count boss now that it was hotfixed?

Few more guilds placing themselves into the 3/9 spot as they have taken down Fallen-King Salhadaar or Chimaerus the Undreamt God taking World 4th, 5th, and 6th.

As the night starts to wind down a few NA Guilds are still combating away against Fallen-King Salhadaar and Chimaerus the Undreamt God

Liquid has now moved onto Lightblinded Vanguard and with just 2 pulls and 67.8% best. They are now on a 15min break as the sort out loot, healer can chat, and possible comp changes.

A "hotfix" had been rolled focusing on the last 2 bosses of Voidspire mainly indicating the bosses health increased and a few increases to the Mythic Paladins and their Shields.

Liquid is now off dinner break and getting to make their pull on Vaelgor & Ezzorak

There are still plenty of other guilds making their progress onto Chimaerus the Undreamt God and Fallen-King Salhadaar.

In 22 pulls Ji Tian Hong secures World of 3rd, Asia 2nd of Chimaerus the Undreamt God

With all that said Tempo takes World 3rd, NA 3rd of Fallen-King Salhadaar!!!

Liquid had moved onto Vaelgor & Ezzorak and after 3 pulls and a best of 12% are taking a much needed dinner break in hoping to have the kill when they return.

There is now a few guilds working on their progress of Fallen-King Salhadaar and Chimaerus the Undreamt God

World 2nd, NA 2nd of Fallen-King Salhadaar achieved by Instant Dollars!!

It was neck to neck for the World 6th as Liquid and Instant Dollars battle it out on Vorasius but Instant Dollars took the World 6th. Then not to long after Liquid secured the World 7th, but shot themselves up to 1st on the leaderboard, as they have 3 Mythic bosses down.

Nurfed is showing their hunger of World 3rd of Chimaerus the Undreamt God as they get a new best of 69.6% in 2 pulls.

Tempo a 15% wipe on Fallen-King Salhadaar placing them 2nd on leaderboard at this time.

We have stepped into the evening hours and..

• Liquid has now stepped into the Voidspire Raid and has one shot Imperator Averzian
• Instant Dollars has now began their race and are now standing in front of Vorasius
• Huoguo Hero have taken World 2nd, Asia 1st of Chimaerus the Undreamt God

and how about a World 5th, NA 1st kill by Tempo of Vorasius in 1 pull.

And just like that, Liquid have taken down Mythic Chimaerus again. A side-effect of the 3 separate Raids that make up the Midnight Season 1 Raid Tier is the viability of Mythic splits!

Doing splits on this boss on Mythic is made much more appealing because The Dreamrift Raid Lockout is separate to The Voidspire raid lockout, meaning they can use these splits to funnel Mythic gear to characters more effectively without committing a group of characters to a single raid.

From listening to the Liquid stream, it appears their plan is to do 4x Mythic Chimaerus the Undreamt God and then there was suggestions they may use Vantus Rune for Mythic Vaelgor & Ezzorak splits. Which if that happened, would mean Liquid would be playing with the assumption Crown of the Cosmos (Alleria Windrunner) won't die this reset.

On their 2nd and 3rd kills of the boss, they got a Mythic Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket (2 in total), which is one of the most highly sought after items from the boss!

Its been quiet for most of today in terms of boss progress beyond the first Mythic boss, but we finally have some!

Incentive killed Vorasius after 2 pulls, World 2nd.

As we get further into the Day, we see EU Guilds continue to work through a combination of Heroic Raid Splits and Mythic+ Dungeons. Only really taking breaks for meals and short resets between raids.

NA Guilds are also coming online. Liquid in particular are starting with some Mythic+ and Heroic Splits.

Cope is pulling Mythic Vorasius, reaching a new best of 20.3% on Pull 2. Putting them quite close to achieving World 2nd for the boss.

Whilst most top EU Guilds continue with their Splits, there have been a few more Guilds taking on Mythic Imperator Averzian.

• Cope killed Imperator Averzian in 2 Pulls.
• Indecent have killed Imperator Averzian in 9 Pulls.

EU Guilds continue to work through Heroic Splits. And with likely a full day of Splits from most guilds, today's progress will be more focused on efficiency and loot drop luck.

From EU, Echo and Method are getting straight to it and heading right into splits.

With NA side, Unbalanced are still progressing on Vorasius, achieving a new best of 9.81% on pull 7, aiming to get that world second.

EU servers are up! Method and Echo players are in game and checking vaults. Both guilds are expected to spend long hours in splits today to optimize gear before stepping into Mythic.

Servers are slow to come online after EU reset but Imperator Averzian continues to fall in North America. Unbalanced guild takes Worth 6th, NA 6th and Wing It guild takes World 7th, NA 7th.

• Availed takes World 5th, NA 5th of Mythic Imperator Averzian in 5 pulls.
• Nurfed showing progress on Mythic Vorasius as they hit a new best of 13.3% in under 2 pulls.

At this time the rest of the NA guilds are ready to call it night.

EU Guilds and Method are now up, refreshed, and ready to conquer at this time Heroic Splits as soon as they defeat the server boss.

Oh could we be seeing our World 1st of Mythic Vorasius as Alpha still progressing along has achieved a new best of 17% on their 6th pull.

When you thought things were slow, well not in this case, things are heating up as more guilds make their attempts in filling the World 4th - 10th of Mythic Imperator Averizian. With that being said we have a 4th World First claimed by Nurfed in 3 pulls. SCH is not too far behind for World 5th as they had a new best of 8.53% on their 8th pull.

World 3rd of Imperator Averzian had been taken by just sit me with just 3 pulls!!

There you have it the Race to World First is officially on as a few other NA guilds are making there attempts onto Imperator Averzian.

And we have a World 2nd of Imperator Averzian taking down by Alpha

Awe some Mythic action is upon us, for a couple of NA Guilds right now and its all against Imperator Averzian

• Seems Good is making attempts with just 2 pulls and a 77.2% best
• Cursed with 2 pulls as well and a 75.6% best.

NA Guilds are in the heart of the evening hours and still no Mythic progress, but plenty of Heroic Splits and Mythic +s being played out. Amazing how just one boss from one guild is the only Mythic Raid progress at this time. Makes you wonder how this raid tier is gonna pan out, we will have to see....

It is now the Midnight hours for EU and most of the Guilds are getting the much rest before they begin their journey of this new Expansion, new Season of RWF. As for the NA Guilds the majority of them are deep into Heroic Splits and Mythic +s. as the start of the nightly hours are upon them.

It's been almost 2 hours since Melee Mechanics has pulled on Mythic, they have since been doing a Heroic split.

There has also not been any further progress from NA guilds so far, they are all continuing to gear through Mythic+ and Heroic Raid splits.

EU RWF Guilds will be asleep, with most planning to start very early tomorrow morning ready for EU reset. That being said, be prepared for a day of splits.

Melee Mechanics after a best of 61.4% on Chimaerus Mythic have headed into Heroic splits.

Melee Mechanics have seen a little into the fight, reaching a best attempt of 63.4% on Pull 4.

Liquid are following the expected route of starting their Mythic week with a continuation of Heroic splits, and will likely do this for the full day. Doing this will put them closer to the gear requirements of the harder Mythic bosses, with tighter damage and healing checks.

Melee Mechanics have swapped over to Mythic Chimaerus the Undreamt God. With a current best attempt of 45.1% on Pull 4 of Vorasius, it will be interesting to see how challenging Chimaerus the Undreamt God is on Mythic difficulty.

Melee Mechanics first pull of Vorasius shows that the boss might only take a few pulls to defeat, likely a similar amount of pulls as Imperator Averzian Mythic.

They reach a best of 49.7% on Pull 1 of the boss!

The Early Shift, a usual name we see on the early Mythic progress leaderboard has also joined in the action, with a best attempt for Imperator Averzian of 66.2% on Pull 4.

Melee Mechanics have started to pull Mythic Vorasius!