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Tier 20, Mythic Raid Progress
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Guild Ranking
  • #1 Method
    EU
    9/9
  • #2 Exorsus
    EU
    9/9
  • #3 AFK R
    ASIA
    9/9
  • #4 Alpha
    ASIA
    9/9
  • #5 Style War
    ASIA
    9/9
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UPDATE - 21st August, 2017, 3:15 am (GMT) By starym
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We have three more Kj kills, as Error Code get the EU 11th, World 24th followed by Pieces and Wait for It with the EU 12th and 13th!

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UPDATE - 18th August, 2017, 2:17 pm (GMT) By starym
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We have some shuffling in the post-top 20 world as it appears Chinese guild MoShen got Kj down before Aversion, therefore claiming the rightful 21st spot and pushing Aversion and Encore down 1 spot.

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UPDATE - 18th August, 2017, 4:31 am (GMT) By starym
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Two more KJ kills and a US/OC 5th in there as well! We have Aversion with the World 21st, EU 10th and Encore with the 22nd/ US/OC 5th!

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UPDATE - 16th August, 2017, 2:10 pm (GMT) By starym
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The top 20 is done as the US/OC kills keep on comin, as Honestly down Kil'jaeden region 4th, World 20th!

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UPDATE - 15th August, 2017, 12:19 am (GMT) By starym
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Typical, I step away for a day and the kills start pouring in! We have two more KJ kills by NollTvåTre and FatSharkYes, making it 18 guilds done with ToS! NollTvåTre get the EU 8th and the obese sharks affirmative get the 9th!

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UPDATE - 13th August, 2017, 11:34 pm (GMT) By starym
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A World 16th has arrived! Nova has claimed the EU 7th and finished up ToS.

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UPDATE - 12th August, 2017, 8:46 pm (GMT) By starym
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The nerfs keep on giving! We have a EU 6th, World 14th in Bleached Bones, getting that 9/9 KJ kill!

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UPDATE - 12th August, 2017, 4:48 pm (GMT) By starym
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It seems the nerf did in fact help as we almost immediately got the next kill! Libertad claim the EU 5th, World 13th kill and finish up the Tomb! Gz!

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UPDATE - 12th August, 2017, 2:48 am (GMT) By starym
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Some more Kil'jaeden Mythic nerfs today so we should hopefully see some new kills soon! It's been 4 days!

Tomb of Sargeras

  • Kil’jaeden
    • Reduced Kil’jaeden’s melee damage by 15% on Normal difficulty.
    • Armageddon Hail damage reduced by 15% on Normal difficulty.
    • Rupturing Singularity cast during Deceiver's Veil now spawn in fixed locations on Mythic difficulty.
    • Shadowsouls are no longer immune to Death Grip on Mythic Difficulty.

 

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UPDATE - 7th August, 2017, 4:15 pm (GMT) By starym
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The race for the top 20 continues as we get our World 12th, with Chinese guild Light of Dawn claiming the Asia 7th on Kil'jaden and finish up ToS!

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UPDATE - 3rd August, 2017, 10:55 pm (GMT) By starym
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We're still top10less, but we did get a pretty nice clip from today's Q&A with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, concerning the whole "KJ wasn't tested, top guilds are betatesters" issue:

You can check out the full Q&A clip here.

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UPDATE - 2nd August, 2017, 10:44 pm (GMT) By starym
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So, since it's been a while since the last kill and we're down to mostly the hardcore progress race followers, what would you guys like to see in terms of articles/blogs on the site, related to the progress race, its history or anything close to that? Just post in the comments with suggestions and ideas and I'll summarily decide it's too hard to do!

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UPDATE - 1st August, 2017, 8:51 pm (GMT) By starym
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We are now 1 off from the top 10 as Right claim the World 9th, Asia 5th on Kil'jaeden. Over half the guilds that have finished up Mythic ToS are from Asia servers, showing off their skill and big involvement in the race, so congrats to all of them!

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UPDATE - 1st August, 2017, 3:48 am (GMT) By starym
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More news today as we get our World 8th, again from China with Stars Gaming, who also claim the Asia 4th!

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UPDATE - 31st July, 2017, 10:39 pm (GMT) By starym
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If you just can't get enough Method interviews, here's yesterday's Final Boss show featuring Sco, Rogerbrown and Josh!

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UPDATE - 30th July, 2017, 11:36 pm (GMT) By starym
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And we're heading towards that top 10, as Memento secure the No.7 spot and the EU 4th! Congrats!

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UPDATE - 30th July, 2017, 1:26 am (GMT) By starym
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Another kill! ScrubBusters grab the EU 3rd, World 6th and finish up Tomb of Sargeras. Gz!

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UPDATE - 27th July, 2017, 7:14 pm (GMT) By starym
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More updates in the race for World 3rd as Alpha has made it down to 8.7% when KJ enraged and Style war are at 26%. It seems even with the recent nerfs KJ is still a formidable foe.

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UPDATE - 27th July, 2017, 1:38 pm (GMT) By starym
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Some updates on the Alpha front, they recently hit 1235 wipes, their best try is at 21%, and they're even practicing the dark phase on the Heroic version of the fight. Seems like it may take some time until we get our bronze medalist!

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UPDATE - 26th July, 2017, 12:58 am (GMT) By starym
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well, with Mythic ToS having been cleared a little over a week ago for the first time ever, it's obviously time for the next raid to start testing! This weekend sees the fist time the presumably final raid of Legion, Antorus: The Burning Throne, will see the (non-datamined etc.) light of day. Check out the full testing schedule here.

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UPDATE - 25th July, 2017, 3:12 am (GMT) By starym
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It seems Exorsus had some choice words for the encounter designers after the recent KJ nerfs:

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UPDATE - 25th July, 2017, 1:47 am (GMT) By starym
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Today's hotfixes bring some more nerfs for Fallen Avatar and Kil'jaeden, with KJ getting quite a beating. Shouldn't be long now before that World 3rd and beyond.

Dungeons and Raids

Tomb of Sargeras

  • The Fallen Avatar
    • The Fallen Avatar’s health is reduced by 5% in Mythic difficulty.
  • Kil’jaeden
    • Kil'jaeden's health reduced by 5% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Armageddon now creates 6 Armageddon Rains (was 8) in Mythic difficulty.
    • Illidan's Sightless Gaze now deals less damage in all difficulties.
    • Demonic Obelisk now spawns 3 Obelisks on the first cast in Mythic difficulty.

 

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UPDATE - 23rd July, 2017, 8:09 pm (GMT) By starym
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And the big Method ToS race interview is live! Check out all the details of the stealth changes to Avatar and KJ, class balance in the raid and more!

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UPDATE - 23rd July, 2017, 2:34 am (GMT) By starym
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And the US/OC top 5 for Fallen Avatar is complete as Limit get past him at their own pace.

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UPDATE - 22nd July, 2017, 3:43 pm (GMT) By starym
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And here's a clip for that 39% Alpha try. You can also check out the full try here.

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UPDATE - 20th July, 2017, 1:08 pm (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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Fallen Avatar US news: Encore take the US/OC 3rd & Ego take the US/OC 4th!

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UPDATE - 19th July, 2017, 5:58 pm (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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We have some more info on the Asian guilds now thanks to @andyice_77!

For the Fallen Avatar: ChaoJie actually downed it 8th before Honesty and Libertad, making them the World 16th spot for Avatar. 19th goes to YiBoLiu and 20th to DingXin.

And here is the total amount of guilds that have killed the bosses, including the CN guilds:

Goroth: 4712

Demonic Inq: 2789

Harjatan: 3224

Sisters: 1320

Desolate Host: 817

Mistress Sassz'ine: 151

Maiden: 103

Avatar: 22

Kil'jaeden: 1

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UPDATE - 19th July, 2017, 5:03 pm (GMT) By starym
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Style War, the Fallen Avatar World 4th, have also been going at Kil'jaeden pretty hard, with their current wipe count at 637 and their best try at 57%. Meanwhile, Alpha just had a wipe at 50.6%!

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UPDATE - 19th July, 2017, 3:40 pm (GMT) By starym
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A little update on Alpha and their search for that World 2nd on Kil'jaeden: they've wiped 784 times on him so far and their best try was at only 58%! That just sounds crazy, but KJ seems to be a very specific boss. Let's see if Exorsus can keep their current No.2 spot or if it gets taken by another guild!

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UPDATE - 19th July, 2017, 12:16 am (GMT) By starym
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After the weird coincidence of Kil'jaeden falling on the exact same day as Archimonde did 2 years earlier, I though I'd look through the history of raid progress every now and then to see if anything interesting happened on this day. Well, it's 1AM in Europe, so it's the 19th, and what else do we have that happened on the 19th of July?

Why, it's Paragon's Ragnaros Heroic World First from Firelands and Cataclysm! The boss died on the very last day of the second reset, almost making it to the vaunted 3rd reset, but he just missed it and so Al'akir remained the youngest boss to have lived beyond week 2. Until Archimonde dethroned him and then Kil'jaeden after that. Rag v2.0 also lived for 11 days after the penultimate boss, Majordomo Staghelm, was first defeated, compared to the 12 days KJ lived after Avatar's demise.

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UPDATE - 17th July, 2017, 8:01 pm (GMT) By starym
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Some more Fallen Avatar kills: Right actually got him down before Honestly, claiming the World 15th, Asia 7th and Libertad got him after Honestly, with the World 17th/EU 10th!

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UPDATE - 17th July, 2017, 3:22 pm (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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Honestly defeat the Fallen Avatar! US Second!

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UPDATE - 17th July, 2017, 12:16 am (GMT) By starym
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Some more info on Method's Kil'jaeden progress, we get to see how much they actually accomplished before the fixes (Y = combat time X = pull):

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UPDATE - 16th July, 2017, 10:30 pm (GMT) By starym
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And yet more Avatar Fallen-ers, as Nova head to 8/9 and KJ, grabbing the EU 9th as well!

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UPDATE - 16th July, 2017, 9:52 pm (GMT) By starym
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Meanwhile, back in the Fallen Avatar kills division, today we got two more as Chinese guild Light of Dawn got him down World 13th, Asia 6th and a little later Future got him as well, claiming the EU 8th.

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UPDATE - 16th July, 2017, 9:49 pm (GMT) By starym
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Sco decided to reveal what the secret phase on Kil'jaeden is. Unfortunately he forgot to mention the 500k revenge crit (I wonder if anyone got that reference, I'm guessing no):

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UPDATE - 16th July, 2017, 3:14 pm (GMT) By starym
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And so the WF for ToS has been decided, congratulations to Method for sticking it out with KJ all this time! Now it's time to see who can claim that silver, if it'll be one of the Asian guilds like Alpha or Style War, or if Exorsus, despite their reduced raiding hours, will hold on to that 2nd spot. One big thing that Method's WF did is that is showed all the other guilds that the boss is actually killable, and the Raider.io raid setup (if it's not messed with through logouts etc like Exorsus did on Gul'dan with that low ilev Paladin) should help as well.

So, Method won as expected, but place your bets for the silver and bronze!

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UPDATE - 15th July, 2017, 8:44 pm (GMT) By starym
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We have a new Fallen Avatar kill today, as Pieces claim the World 12th, EU 7th on ToS's penultimate boss! 8/9 and on to Kil'jaeden.

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UPDATE - 15th July, 2017, 3:20 pm (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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We are still waiting on any big news today, but in the meantime we have had a KR 4th on Maiden from Mulpas, and a TW 1st from Asgard also on Maiden!

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UPDATE - 14th July, 2017, 4:04 pm (GMT) By starym
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Another dawn Kil'jaeden (who is Archimonde's equal, and not lower than him in the Burning Legion food chain, as has been painstakingly pointed out to me in various places) gets to see, and gets ever closer to that fourth reset, today let's take a look at how far other guilds have progressed into ToS.

The numbers here will be somewhat approximated, as Wowprogress doesn't keep track of Chinese guilds (despite the fact that they weirdly did manually add Alpha and Style War, but not KeaHoarl and Stars Gaming).

We already know there are 11 guilds on 8/9 and progressing on KJ, so, let's start with Maiden of Vigilance and Mistress Sassz'ine:
At least 42 guilds have gotten past the vigilant one and are currently progressing on Fallen Avatar: 29 EU, 11 US/OC and 2 Korean.
There are actually fewer guilds that got past only the naga lady than the tall lady, as only 32 guilds sit at 6/9:  21 EU, 10 US/OC and 1 Korean.

The rest we'll just round up more quickly: 339 on 5/9, 272 on 4/9, 774 on 3/9, 343 on 2/9 and 717 with only poor Goroth down!

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UPDATE - 13th July, 2017, 9:41 pm (GMT) By starym
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Edit: It seems there may have been some kills on avatar from Chinese guilds before FatShark got to him, so we'll see if we can get the exact details there and keep you updated.
And we have another Avatar kill and Kil'jaeden contender, as FatSharkYes get the World 9th, Eu 6thand head to 8/9!

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UPDATE - 13th July, 2017, 8:00 pm (GMT) By starym
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It seems the fact KJ has outlived Archi didn't quite sit right with Method and Exorsus as we got quite a few tweets regarding his difficulty:

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UPDATE - 13th July, 2017, 6:53 pm (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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We have an EU 5th for Fallen Avatar, Aversion!

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UPDATE - 13th July, 2017, 2:07 pm (GMT) By starym
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Fallen Avatar goes down again as we get our World 7th and AFK R get that Asia 3rd and move on to Kil'jaeden and 8/9!

7 guilds now on Kil'jaeden with 3 weeks worth of gear and a few nerfs/fixes to the encounter, big red's time may be drawing short.

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UPDATE - 12th July, 2017, 10:08 pm (GMT) By starym
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It's a bad day for Avatar as we get another kill very quickly after the 5th - Memento claim the World 6th, Eu 4th and head to 8/9!

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UPDATE - 12th July, 2017, 6:49 pm (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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Exorsus have also managed to reach the big bad guy Kil'Jaeden again!

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UPDATE - 12th July, 2017, 3:49 pm (GMT) By starym
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And it's off to the races for Method once again, as they down Avatar and head back to Kil'jaeden! Let's see who wins the "longest alive" competition between the two leaders of the Burning Legion.

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UPDATE - 12th July, 2017, 2:33 pm (GMT) By starym
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It's reset day for the EU and the top 2 guilds, as they re-clear to Kil'jaeden and have a much better shot at him with another week's worth of gear. The Asian guilds haven't had their reset yet so Alpha and Style War get to play with big red a bit more.

Kil'jaeden has to live one more day to outlast our previous 3 reset champion, his direct superior in the Burning Legion (before he died anyway) Archimonde from Hellfire Citadel back in WoD.  For future comparison, here's the wipe count for Archi: Method 472, Paragon 675, Exorsus 749. I feel pretty sure that the count for KJ will be significantly higher, in fact it's probably higher already! And if you're the historian type like me, the other boss to have lived past 2 resets before Archimonde, if we don't count limited attempt boss Ra-Den, was way back at the beginning of Cataclysm, namely Al'akir in the Throne of the Four Winds, taken down by Paragon!

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UPDATE - 11th July, 2017, 7:10 pm (GMT) By starym
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More Avatar nerfs with today's hotfixes, as commenters have already noticed, specifically for the Mythic version:

Fallen Avatar

  • [With realm restarts in each region] On Mythic difficulty, 5 Shadowy Blades now spawn (was 7).

Now let's see if we can get a top 5 on the penultimate Tomb of Sargeras boss or if he'll prove to be too much of a challenge for the other guilds a while longer.

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UPDATE - 11th July, 2017, 2:59 am (GMT) By starym
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It seems some changes have come to Kil'jaeden, as Sco points out:  

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UPDATE - 10th July, 2017, 8:29 pm (GMT) By starym
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If you want to know what utter disappointment looks like, it seems Alpha have just the clip for you. After around 750 wipes on Avatar they managed to get him down to 0.1%. And then...

At the end those would be the very definition of anti-nerdscreams. As someone that's been in situations like the above plenty of times, I can tell you there really isn't a worse feeling in the game. And it just keeps getting worse and worse for every attempt after it that you don't kill the boss. In any case, good luck to Alpha, as that World 3rd is looking more and more likely!

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UPDATE - 6th July, 2017, 4:19 am (GMT) By starym
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And we have more re-clears as Easy get back to their previous progress spot and head on to the second chapter of their Fallen Avatar story. Let's not forget, that World 2nd kill is still out there for anyone of the 30 or so guilds that are or were on 7/9 to get.

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UPDATE - 5th July, 2017, 9:09 pm (GMT) By starym
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Method have now gotten past new and improved Mistress, and Maiden will probably follow quickly after that.

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UPDATE - 5th July, 2017, 6:19 pm (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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As things usually are when things are written down, it quickly comes to fruition. Exorsus got her down, and then followed by Maidens quite quickly, and they're now back at Fallen Avatar, or as he's better known, The Wall. 

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UPDATE - 5th July, 2017, 6:07 pm (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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With the reclears well on their way in Europe and across the pond in the Americas, it seems like most guilds have hit quite an unexpected new wall. With the reset Blizzard have done some small changes to the Miss Sassz'ine encounter. You can no longer handle the beams by simply letting your Blood DKs taking the full hit, as it now stuns no matter what sort of immunities you have up, it also stuns for a far longer duration.

Let's see how long it takes and what guild manage to figure out a good way to handle this encounter, so that they may continue their progress on the latter bosses with their new and improved gear!

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UPDATE - 5th July, 2017, 3:31 pm (GMT) By starym
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With EU re-clear day well on the way it's time to see just how fast the guilds get back to their respective maximums, especially with Method as Fallen Avatar might still take a while even with a winning strategy and a new reset's worth of gear. We also have the potential of a World 2nd from Asian guilds as their reset hasn't happened yet.

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UPDATE - 4th July, 2017, 7:34 pm (GMT) By starym
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There's something coming from Method:

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UPDATE - 4th July, 2017, 4:56 pm (GMT) By starym
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And we finally got the World First videos for the Tomb's first two bosses from Easy:

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UPDATE - 4th July, 2017, 1:55 pm (GMT) By starym
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A bit of an update for the Asia 4th kill on Maiden, it seems A Stars managed to down her just before breaking up, so the 4 slot goes to them instead of Right.  ChaoJie also got it before the Korean guild and claimed the Asia 5th.

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UPDATE - 4th July, 2017, 1:39 pm (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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Maiden is once again dead, this time killed by Right, making them the 4th Asian guild to reach the wall!

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UPDATE - 4th July, 2017, 8:44 am (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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We've gotten quite a few new US kills, with US 4th, 5th and 6th Maiden of Vigilance going to Encore Alacrity and WHATEVER WERE AWESOME respectively! 

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UPDATE - 3rd July, 2017, 10:11 pm (GMT) By starym
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We've had a few more kills since the last update, with three on Maiden of Vigilance (Prime, Fusion, set sail for fail and very recently Wait for it) and two on Mistress Sassz'ine (Time is Mana and Gambit).

We've also heard a part of A Stars has reformed as "Stars Gaming", have gone to farm Heroic ToS and it seems quite unlikely they'll be able to rejoin the race. Hopefully we'll see them back next time around.

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UPDATE - 3rd July, 2017, 1:04 pm (GMT) By starym
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And we have a US/OC third for Maiden as Honestly climb to that ever growing 7/9 pack, now containing 16 guilds!

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UPDATE - 3rd July, 2017, 2:23 am (GMT) By starym
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We have the US/OC 5th on Mistress Sassz'ine with WHATEVER WERE AWESOME downing her and heading to 6/9.

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UPDATE - 2nd July, 2017, 7:33 pm (GMT) By starym
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Two more Maiden kills as Nova and Future move on to that pillar of notlettingyougetpastit, Avatar.

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UPDATE - 2nd July, 2017, 6:19 pm (GMT) By starym
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It seems some have been lead to believe that Avatar is mathematically impossible and that's why Method hasn't been raiding literally 24/7 on him and Sco has a totally honest and absolutely NOT exaggerated or jokey update on the situation:

 P.S. It's a joke.

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UPDATE - 2nd July, 2017, 2:42 pm (GMT) By starym
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It seems there's a bit of a lull at the moment, with the most recent kill being Honestly's US/OC 4th Mistress Sassz'ine, so I wanted to share this pretty damn amazing trailer that just came out. It has a special significance for me in relation to the World First race, as Naxx was the first raid where I really felt that true WF rush (C'thun was just stupidly tuned and then hotfixed at a time more convenient for EU guilds, so I never really considered that such a big deal), and that Kel'thuzad first was truly an incredible feeling and really established Nihilum as one of the very top guilds at the time. In any case, Hurricane made this incredible Naxxramas trailer and you should check out his channel for even more cool stuff, like the Burning Crusade T5 trailer.

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UPDATE - 2nd July, 2017, 8:29 am (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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We've got some movement in the Asian scene, namely Qidi and A Stars who downed Mistress Sassz'ine as Asian 4th and 5th, respectively. 

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 10:46 pm (GMT) By starym
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Maiden day continues as we get two more vigilant kills, courtesy of NollTvåTre and ScrubBusters as EU 7th and 8th.

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 9:15 pm (GMT) By starym
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Maidens, Maidens and yet more Maidens as we have another kill by Aversion who head to 7/9, EU 6th.

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 7:43 pm (GMT) By starym
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Two very close Maiden kills it seems as Pieces get the vigilant one down some 5 minutes after FatShark for the EU 5th.

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 7:37 pm (GMT) By starym
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It seems it's Maiden downing day today, as we have yet another kill, with FatSharkYes' World 9th, EU 4th!

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 7:04 pm (GMT) By starym
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Style War are next on the 7/9 list, grabbing the World 8th, Asia 3rd!

We also had another Mistress Sassz'ine kill, with ScrubBusters getting the EU 9th.

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 4:37 pm (GMT) By starym
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We have yet another Maiden of Vigilance kill and it's AFK R with the World 7th, Asia 2nd!

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 3:27 pm (GMT) By starym
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And another Maiden kill as Memento climb to 6th place overall and get the EU third! 7/9 and on to Avatar!

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 2:23 pm (GMT) By starym
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If you wanna check out some Fallen Avatar tries, Alpha is streaming them right now!

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 11:04 am (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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Style War is the next in line to down Mistress Sassz'ine, claiming World #14, Asian 3rd! 

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UPDATE - 1st July, 2017, 5:18 am (GMT) By starym
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The US guilds are on deck and we have another Sassz'kill, with Alacrity taking hime the US/OC third!

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UPDATE - 30th June, 2017, 11:19 pm (GMT) By starym
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Two more guilds have downed Mistress Sassz'ine: NollTvåTre and Nova get the Eu 7th and 8th.

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UPDATE - 30th June, 2017, 10:42 pm (GMT) By starym
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It's a Sassz'slaughter as Aversion gets the EU 6th!

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UPDATE - 30th June, 2017, 10:08 pm (GMT) By starym
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And another 6/9 as FatSharkYes down Mistress Sassz'ine Eu 5th!

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UPDATE - 30th June, 2017, 9:52 pm (GMT) By starym
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Another Mistress kill as Memento grab the EU 4th, World 8th and move to 6/9 with Easy, Pieces and AFK R.

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UPDATE - 30th June, 2017, 7:55 pm (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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Pieces claim another boss and enter the 6/9 group after defeating Mistress Sassz'ine! Claiming EU 3rd and World 6th.

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UPDATE - 30th June, 2017, 1:13 am (GMT) By starym
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The desolation is getting out of hand as a whopping 11 guilds have hosted the bosses death in the past 5 hours:  Future, Aversion, Ingenium, Fusion, Wait for it, NollTvåTre, Prime, ScrubBusters, Black Lotus, Alpha and Style War all head to 5/9 and on to Mistress Sassz'ine!

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 8:43 pm (GMT) By starym
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Yet more Hosts have been Desolated as FatSharkYes get the EU 5th and Memento the EU 6th on the boss!

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 8:23 pm (GMT) By starym
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Nova heads to 5/9 and gets past the Desolate Host World 11th, EU 4th. We also had four more guilds down Sisters, namely Empty Promises, Prime, Black Lotus and Aversion.

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 6:55 pm (GMT) By starym
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We have three new Sisters of the Moon killers and 4/9ers with Memento, Future and FatSharkYes getting the EU 7th, 8th and 9th on the boss.

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 5:48 pm (GMT) By starym
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Another Desolate Host kill, we have the Asia third from KeaHoarl!

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 4:59 pm (GMT) By starym
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AFK R move up in the world and down the Desolate Host World 8th and Asia 2nd! They're up at 5/9 joining Big Dumb Guild, Pieces, Easy, Alacrity and A Stars.

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 3:21 pm (GMT) By starym
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In all the excitement Fusion also downed Sisters of the Moon, EU 6th, World 18th.

So, with the Chinese guilds taken into account we now have two guilds on 7/9, one on 6/9, five on 5/9 and 11 on 4/9!

I want to thank AndyIce once again for the Chinese guild updates as well as raider.io for the pretty damn fast updates on the guilds we don't get direct info from ourselves!

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 6:20 am (GMT) By starym
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It seems we skipped a kill on Desolate Host as it was Alacrity that got the World sixth US third on the boss, and Limit came in after them. Apologies!

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 4:05 am (GMT) By starym
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Now that there's a slight lull in the action, let's take a look at Method's Harjatan and Sisters of the Moon kills:

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 2:36 am (GMT) By starym
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It seems one US kill draws another, as Alacrity also get past Sisters of the Moon, get that US/OC 5th and are on 4/9.

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UPDATE - 29th June, 2017, 2:29 am (GMT) By starym
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We have a US/OC fourth kill on Sisters of the Moon, with Strawberry Puppy Kisses heading to 4/9 and grabbing that World 9th.

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 11:35 pm (GMT) By starym
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Even more action as we get another Sisters of the Moon kill (which I keep wanting to type as Sisters on the Moon for some reason, must be Winston's fault), with Ингениум aka Ingenium (I hope) getting the World 8th, EU 5th and heading to 4/9!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 10:44 pm (GMT) By starym
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And we have a seventh 4/9 with Nova defeating Sister of the Moon EU fourth!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 8:47 pm (GMT) By starym
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And we finally have another 4/9! Pieces have downed Sisters of the Moon Eu 3rd and World 6th!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 8:19 pm (GMT) By starym
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There has been a rash of Harjatan and Demonic Inquisition kills recently, and we now have 53 guilds that downed three bosses in the Tomb! There are also 35 that only managed to get two and 70 that only got poor Goroth down. The top remains the same with only Limit and Easy on 4/9, Big Dumb Guild and Exorsus on 5/9 and Method at the top with 6.

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 5:21 pm (GMT) By starym
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The action has calmed down somewhat so let's take a look at our old friends set sail for fail who've recently entered the Tomb and downed 3 bosses in around an hour! They only around rank 14 EU but they're climbing fast.

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 2:46 pm (GMT) By starym
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And I'm back and updating, pleasantly surprised we didn't see any new World Firsts, but it seems Method and Exorsus are living up to the hype and at the forefront as usual. Taking the route the US/OC guilds laid out it's now a three way tie at the top and four bosses left less than 24 hours after the raid was live. Let's see how fast Method and Exorsus separate from the pack and if this early clear was any indication for which of the two will finish ahead.

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 12:57 pm (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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Exorsus bring it back with another kill, placing them with a World 3rd for Desolate Host, and EU 2nd! Now 5/9!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 10:15 am (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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Фьюжн join 3/9 by taking down Harjatan, and with it EU 5th!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 9:26 am (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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Waít for it continue the kills, now taking EU 5th Demonic Inquisition!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 9:21 am (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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Фьюжн claim EU 5th Goroth, now at 1/9.

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 9:12 am (GMT) By Crewealexboy
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Pieces claim EU 4th Harjatan, now joining the others at 3/9!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 8:52 am (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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Nova takes another EU second in Harjatan, putting them together with Exorsus at 3/9. Let's see how big of a challenge the upcoming bosses are!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 8:50 am (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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Method and Pieces have both taken down Demonic Inquisition, putting them at 2/9, giving them Third and Fourth. Their armory updated at the exact same time, so we'll have to wait and see in what order the two kills came!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 8:37 am (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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Nova and Method seems to be doing the Mythic bosses before their split raids as well, getting Goroth down EU Second and Third respectively!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 8:24 am (GMT) By Warriorsarri
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Exorsus are off to a fast start, getting EU first Goroth and Demonic Inquisition!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 3:13 am (GMT) By starym
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Four more 3/9ers, with Fused, vodkaz, DNOgaming and Strawberry Puppy Kisses bringing the group's grand total to 10 members!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 2:44 am (GMT) By starym
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We have a brand new entry that skyrocketed straight to the, well not top, but close enough - Encore reach the 3/9 group! Meanwhile Storm, DNOgaming, Overcoming, vodkaz and Club Camel reach the 2/9 level and we have 7 other guilds down at 1/9!

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 1:34 am (GMT) By starym
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Just as a slot opens up in the previously 5 strong 3/9 group, WHATEVER WERE AWESOME come in and fill it, grabbing that Demonic Inquisition kill. Fused also jumped to 2/9, downing DI just ahead of WWA.

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 12:49 am (GMT) By starym
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Alacrity live up to their name and join the big pack on 3/9, making it 5 strong by going through Harjatan, as WHATEVER WERE AWESOME move into Alacrity's previous spot at 2/9.

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UPDATE - 28th June, 2017, 12:25 am (GMT) By starym
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Alacrity move on to 2/9, according to Raider.io, as I get my Command Golem ability. Oh, crap, wrong game to update!

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 11:53 pm (GMT) By starym
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It seems word of my playing Diablo has gotten out as we have two more guilds join the race at 1/9! Both Alacrity and Fused got passed Goroth and are looking ahead to that big 3/9 pack. We also see the return of the loudest guild in the race, WHATEVER WERE AWESOME, at 1/9 as well.

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 11:29 pm (GMT) By starym
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As expected, the very instant I started up Diablo 3, 2 kills happened. Benched joined the other three guilds on 3/9 by clearing up Demonic Inquisition and Storm joined the Mythic guilds by downing Goroth and 1/9ing!

It also seems Limit are having a bit of trouble with 2 raiders getting stuck:

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 10:54 pm (GMT) By starym
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Instant Dollars join up with Easy and Limit on 3/9, downing Demonic Inquisition World 4th, which makes it their third World 4th in ToS!

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 10:36 pm (GMT) By starym
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Aaaand 3/9 for Limit with Harjatan being barely a barrier briefly.

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 10:25 pm (GMT) By starym
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Unsurprisingly Limit move up in the world quickly with the W3rd Demonic Inquisition kill, and they'll probably be on 4/9 pretty soon as well as they remain the favorites for the US/OC crown. And so we now have three guilds on 2/9, but of those only Limit went for DI before Harjatan, who seems to be the more popular/easier choice.

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 10:14 pm (GMT) By starym
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Instant Dollars instantly move up to 2/9 via Harjatan and Limit enter the race and down Goroth!

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 9:41 pm (GMT) By starym
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Another guild has joined in the Goroth bashing and gone to 1/9, welcome to Instant Dollars!

Also, we're using both Raider.io and Wowprogress to track the guilds we don't get direct updates from, just to keep you guys as up to date as possible.

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 8:25 pm (GMT) By starym
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Benched move up in the world, downing Harjatan World 3rd and get to 2/9!

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 7:40 pm (GMT) By starym
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It seems things have actually calmed down now as Easy and Big Dumb Guild work on that 4/9 and we haven't had any new guild entries in a while. To compare the pace with Nighthold, the first three bosses went down around an hour faster back at the end of tier 19, but as you'll remember the fourth boss was Spellblade and she was quite a leap in difficulty. But, if we go by the NH comparison, ignoring the 1 extra boss in the raid, the next kill isn't even close, as we'll be seeing it around 3AM CEST, aka some 6+ hours from now.

Also, it seems Wowprogress finally updated Big Dumb Guild's Goroth kill and it's now properly marked as World 2nd, as we previously reported, hopefully ending any confusion anyone may have had.

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 6:16 pm (GMT) By starym
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A third guild has entered the fray and broken through the gatekeeper of the Tomb! Benched have downed Goroth World 3rd and climbed to 1/9!

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 5:17 pm (GMT) By starym
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In case you wanted to follow these WF happenings directly, one of our very own Method Synergy PvP players is streaming right now with the current leaders, Big Dumb Guild!

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 4:58 pm (GMT) By starym
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Now that I have a minute to breathe, it seems we have two guilds neck and neck, each choosing a different path after Goroth. And just to clarify for those of you also following Wowprogress, our rankings are correct and it was Easy that downed Goroth first, by about 5 minutes. Right now it seems these two will go at it until they reach a relatively difficult boss and then probably head to split Heroic for some gear, and we should begin seeing some more guilds enter the race relatively soon as well.

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 3:09 pm (GMT) By starym
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In case you just showed up for the start of progress and haven't been following the ins and outs of which guilds quit, what to watch out for in this tier etc, a certain intrepid writer over at Icy Veins wrote up an introduction for the ToS race/summary of what happened at the end of Nighthold, so you can check it out if you want a quick primer for the race.

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UPDATE - 27th June, 2017, 2:13 pm (GMT) By starym
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Here we go! US maintenance has concluded and there will be a number of guilds heading into Tomb as soon as possible, so there should be some World Firsts coming our way pretty quickly!

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UPDATE - 17th June, 2017, 12:26 am (GMT) By starym
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The new boss thumbnails and banners are up and they're pretty damn good if I do say so myself, courtesy of @SkogDesigns!
The progress page itself has also been upgraded, so you can decide just how much info you want to see and can jump right to the boss tables, killshots and videos, progress-related articles, or just see the text updates only! We also removed the killfeed and replaced it with a more standard top 5 guilds ranking, so let us know how you like the changes and if there's anything you want added!