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 follow up Liquid's kill of Forgeweaver Araz for World 2nd after 73 attempts!
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.
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Liquid claim World First Forgeweaver Araz Mythic, with 93 Pulls!
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 Loom'ithar! After some strategy talking they will move on to Forgeweaver Araz.
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.
Liquid have finished their team talks (muted comms) and are about to blast some pulls on Mythic Forgeweaver Araz for science and mostly practice for their healers to get setup.
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...
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World 1st of Loom'ithar has been taken as Instant Dollars squashed it flat in just 5 pulls. Congratulations!
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.
EU guilds are making their way online now and jump very quickly into more splits, EU Day 3 will likely look at a lot like US Day 3; the top guilds will stick with a barrage of Splits, and the guilds entering Mythic will hit 2/8 Mythic. The question there is, will anyone take World First Loom'ithar Mythic today?
Liquid continue with their splits on Heroic Nexus-King Salhadaar, doing specifically this boss back to back.
A few more kills have also rolled in for Mythic Soulbinder Naazindhri, congratulations to: Memory, Just Woke Up, Slurp Squad, Bound and most recently Literacy Test for hitting 2/8 Mythic in Manaforge Omega!
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
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And a World 1st, NA 1st of Soulbinder Naazindhri was taken by SOMA with just 6 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.
We have had World 4th (Revolutionist) and World 5th (The Amazing Zoo) kills of Mythic Plexus Sentinel claimed in the last 10 minutes!
Only 1 guild, Consequence, has attempted some pulls on Loom'ithar so far, but that was around 17 hours ago. So eyes will be on if any of the guilds that have killed Plexus Sentinel more recently decide to test out the second boss! However, with the 2 most recent guilds being EU guilds, and it being around 11pm in most of Europe, its unlikely we see that today.
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.
Crimson have joined the top of the leaderboard, defeating Mythic Plexus Sentinel, World 3rd!
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.
Nurfed secure the world 2nd defeat of Plexus Sentinel Mythic after 20 pulls, the only other guild so far to take down the opening boss of Manaforge Omega.
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.
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Consequence has taken down Plexus Sentinel, World First, on their 2nd pull!
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.
In some World First news (finally), we have the first Heroic Dimensius, the All-Devouring defeat, by the guild called BIGFLY!
Congratulations to them!
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.
Melee Mechanics are wasting no time in attempting Mythic difficulty Plexus Sentinel! With a current best of 78% and 5 Pulls in total.
This guild often grabs some of the earlier World Firsts in the Mythic raid, so definitely worth watching! Especially since a lot of other guilds are starting with Normal and Heroic split raids.
They are also claiming that the boss may have already had a HP nerf.
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!