Race to World First: The Venomous Abyss

Method has a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 2.41% P3 on pull 388 (previously 9.14% P3), they are closing in on the kill!

Method has a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 9.14% P3 on pull 373 (previously 11.7% P3)

Instant Dollars are closing in on the World 5th kill for The Coiled Altar getting a new best of 2.96% in Phase 3

Update: Mythic The Coiled Altar:

• Instant Dollars pull 165- new best of 26.5% P3.
• poptartcorndoG pull 139- new best of 15.3% P2.

With the World 5th of Mythic The Coiled Altar still up for grabs we see that Instant Dollars is getting in some attempts as they did get a new best of 31.3% P3, pull 151

Echo are going to be racing against Blizzard, as Maximum (the Liquid raid leader) has said Blizzard are actively working on preventing the "jump into the venom" in Phase 3 from working. This strategy allows them to ignore all of the final mechanics during the damage amp, making the final platform push much easier to deal with.

In Maximum's words, if they continue to use it they won't be in trouble, just that they should be aware it could get fixed at any moment.

Echo have another painfully low wipe, setting a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 1.23% P3 on Pull 329.

Liquid hit back with a new best of 15.6% on Ula'Tek, wiping on the final platform of Phase 3 just as the Damage Amp started. Up until that point their damage was on-track for it being a kill.

Echo have another incredibly low wipe at 2.84% P3. This pull they had improved almost all of their previous best boss health milestones, but didn't quite have enough in the final damage amp to finish the boss, with 1 DPS dying before the final platform and 1 near the beginning of the damage amp, this fight really requires perfect play.

Liquid are online, grouped up and getting ready to start what is likely their final day of the RWF!

Echo are having more consistent pulls into Phase 3. On their 3.6% wipe pull, Ula'Tek was at around:

• 68% health after the first Venomous Heart Damage Amp
• 46% health after the second Venomous Heart Damage Amp (entering Phase 3)
• 38% health when swapping over to Platform 2
• 30% health when swapping over to Platform 3
• 23% health when swapping over to Platform 4 (final)
• 20% health before the final Venomous Heart Damage Amp started

So these are the values to keep an eye on for determining if they have done enough damage to make the check.

Method are chipping away at Phase 3, wiping during the movement over to platform 3. This puts their current best attempt for Ula'tek at 32.5% P3 on Pull 314 (previously 37% P3).

Echo have finished their food break, ready checks are going out, consumables are being used and they know the objective.

Liquid usually come online in around 1.5 hours from now, perhaps slightly earlier today, so Echo will be pushing to kill this boss as soon as possible to secure the win.

Method make it further into Phase 3, reaching a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 37% P3 on Pull 307 (previously 49.1% P3).

Echo has a new best attempt for Ula'Tek of 7.41% P3 on pull 301, wiping close to the end of the final damage amp, and jumping into the venom for an extra few seconds before the enrage.

With back to back new best pulls seeing all the way on to that final platform of Phase 3, they are hungry to take that World First, and have all the info they need to achieve it.

Method have a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 49.1% P3, wiping during the triple stacked group soak in Phase 3. Also currently trying out stacking all three together, rather than a combination of spreading them like Liquid did (2 stacked and 1 separate).

Echo has a new best attempt for Ula'Tek of 23.3% P3 on pull 300 (previously 40.2% P3). This is a big jump in boss health, and pushes them closer to a kill being possible!

They wiped on the final platform just before the damage amp cast had started, which means they have seen the entire phase and now have one final hurdle to overcome.

Echo has a new best attempt for Ula'Tek of 40.2% P3 on Pull 287. Making it deeper into Phase 3, wiping fully on platform 3, but having almost half the raid die towards the end of platform 2.

Interestingly, for the Serpent's Bite group soaks in Phase 3, they are stacking all 3 up in Melee. Resulting in a lot less venom being sent out from players. Liquid did something similar on their best pull, but opted for 2 soaks stacking in melee and the third stack was in range (but with the healers standing out of it).

They are now taking a food break after that great pull.

Echo are really heating up, having new bests 3 pulls in a row. With their latest pull wiping shortly into Phase 3 at 46.4% P3.

Echo have really started to ramp up the boss damage, with a new best for Ula'tek of 50.3% P3 (previously 56.3% P3), wiping quite early into the first Phase 3 platform, but showing strong progress on having the boss HP as low as possible going into P3.

Echo has a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 56.3% P3 on Pull 280, dying just as they landed from the platform knock-up transition for Phase 3. But this is some improvement on boss health entering the final Phase.

Today's focus, just like for Method, is trying to build up a consistent entry into Phase 3, while balancing the damage they can do within the Venomous Heart Damage Amp windows.

Method has a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 58.8% I1 on Pull 262, dying right before the start of Phase 3. They now need to get more consistent and comfortable with the fight after moving the Bloodlust to the Phase 2 Venomous Heart Damage Amp, which happens just before entering into the Intermission.

Liquid decide to end their night just after a great pull bringing Ula'tek to 32% in Phase 3. As Ula'tek gets lower and lower we could be looking at the beginning of the final days for the race.

Another great pull for Liquid getting another new best of 31.94% and getting very deep into Phase 3 getting to see the 2nd platform break.

The start of the EU day has begun with both Method and Echo live and ready to progress deeper into the Ula'tek fight.

Liquid late into their night have an amazing pull getting the boss to 39.53% in Phase 3 and surviving the first platform break with all 20 people alive, but quickly wipe due to missing a tank for the Mother's Wrath ability.

Liquid are back from their from their dinner break and slowly working on progressing on Ula'Tek as they got a new best of 42.9% P3, pull 267.

As for the news with The Coiled Altar there are a few guilds are making their attempts on getting that World 4th.

Liquid get a new best pull in Phase 3 of Ula'tek, managing to get the boss down to 43.19%. They managed to survive the first Serpent's Bite soaks, and got to see the first platform break along with the Blightscale Wretch spawn in Phase 3 before wiping to the Blightscale Viper debuffs.

Right after that pull Liquid are having their dinner break.

Oh we start this NA evening with Liquid receiving a new best of 49.5% P3, pull 254 on Mythic Ula'Tek.

Echo and Method have both called it for today. While Liquid have the majority of their day to progress even further.

Method has a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 63.2% P3 on Pull 240, a couple pulls after their previous new best of 65.4% P3!

Liquid has a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 50.3% P3 on Pull 221 (previously 74.6% P3). This is a huge push forward on boss health, and pushes them firmly into the lead on the leaderboard.

Echo and Method have been hard at work on Ula'Tek. There are no new bests to report, but they are building up a lot of muscle memory on the boss, which is vital to reach beyond the Intermission and into Phase 3.

Liquid streams are coming online, and the raid team are standing in front of Ula'Tek, ready to start progressing again.

Method have re-killed Mythic The Coiled Altar after 8 pulls, moving on-to Ula'Tek!

Painfully, 4 of the wipes were under 6% left in Phase 3, but they got the fight finished and can now spend the rest of the day doing the final push for the Race to World First.

Echo have finished some strategy discussions, and are pulling Ula'Tek!

Echo and Method have both re-cleared up to The Coiled Altar, ready to pull the only boss standing between them and Ula'Tek Mythic progress.

Echo have re-killed The Twin Fangs and now only have The Coiled Altar remaining. They are swapping out from The Venomous Abyss and go into Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller

Method have defeated Nek'zali the Soulcoiler, officially starting their re-clear.

Echo continue re-clearing The Venomous Abyss on Mythic. They have a very low wipe on their first pull of The Twin Fangs, the first of the 2 bosses standing between them and Ula'Tek!

Method have finished their Heroic Splits and are now doing a number of Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller before heading into Mythic for their re-clear.

Echo are grouping up at the start of The Venomous Abyss Raid on Mythic!

Re-killing Mythic The Coiled Altar will be a key time-save when compared to Liquid, who took 3 hours to re-kill that boss.

Echo and Method continue to work through Heroic Splits, Delves, Weekly Quests for a Crafting Spark and/or Mythic+.

Liquid are very close to the end of their day, spending their final time doing crafting and gear upgrades.

Liquid look to be running a few Nymrissa splits before heading to Ula'tek.

Liquid take down The Coiled Altar after struggling to rekill the boss after taking 23 pulls. They can now continue to progress Ula'tek or... go back to splits?

The EU reset has hit and now Method and Echo are live and are jumping right into splits.

The Mythic Re-clear The Coiled Altar has become somewhat of a wall for Liquid at this time as they make pull upon pulls hoping for that one attempt to lead them to Ula'Tek.

Liquid are now taking their dinner break as the Re-clear of Mythic The Coiled Altar is still standing. Speaking of this boss looks like Identity (pull 377, best 91.1% P3) are working on their attempts as World 4th is still up for grabs.

Liquid are now back in Mythic and at The Coiled Altar. Could be the beginning of soon to be Ula'Tek progression?

So here we are with Mythic Re-clears, and Heroic dare I say... SPLITS. That is the name of the game for the NA teams tonight so far, but will keep in tuned to see if any Mythic Spli... just kidding Raiding especially Mythic Ula'Tek comes into play.

Liquid have now completed 7 Heroic Ula'tek splits. It is unknown how many more they plan to do but they still need to finish re-clearing Mythic The Coiled Altar before being able to get back to Mythic Ula'tek progress.

Liquid are back from their food break, and switch from Mythic The Coiled Altar into some Heroic Ula'Tek splits. The actual amount of them is unknown, but their analyst said they should expect there to be at least 4.

It's worth noting that their Mythic The Coiled Altar re-kill attempt was without upgrades, Mythic loot gained or any split runs, so we should expect to see the boss melt when they come back into Mythic.

Liquid have wiped at just 3.1% P3 on The Coiled Altar on their first pull of the boss; Zul'jan was at 1% health and Malacrass had 5% health.

They have gone for a food break and will be handing out the loot before coming back to finish their re-clear of The Venomous Abyss Mythic, putting them back in front of Ula'Tek with as much of their day available as possible.

Liquid have re-killed up to The Coiled Altar Mythic in The Venomous Abyss, taking them almost exactly 2 hours to reach the penultimate boss.

Liquid are making good progress re-clearing the The Venomous Abyss on Mythic. Getting ready to pull Sszorak, having taken down the first 4 bosses within around 1 hour.

Method have finished up their Heroic raid, with a few players running a Mythic+ key before going offline. They will be back bright and early tomorrow morning for the EU reset.

Method have headed away from Mythic Ula'Tek and are going to kill Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller.

After this, they will go into a Heroic run of The Venomous Abyss.

Echo streams have gone offline after finishing off a few Mythic+, but they are seen on logs doing an extra pull. Its unlikely they will continue too much longer before taking an early night, ready to wake up very early tomorrow for EU reset.

Liquid have come online and start off with some Heroic Splits, before doing their Mythic reclear. They have mapped out a plan that maximises loot and crests for what they need to take down Ula'Tek.

Echo have gone from a Heroic run of a few bosses in The Venomous Abyss into a Mythic split of The Venomous Abyss. Looking for a little more gear before the EU weekly reset, after which they will likely be going back into Mythic Ula'Tek.

Echo have taken a break from Mythic Ula'Tek once again, and have switched into a Heroic Ula'Tek run instead.

Method reach a new best of 78% I1, seeing until the end of the intermission, with the start of the Phase 3 transition starting, but with too few players alive. Their focus will now be on cleaning up the intermission, correctly handling the eggs and the slams.

Echo hit a new best of 60.8% Phase 3, completing the first set of Serpent's Bite soaks, but they lost a few players to the waves that shoot out from the Volatile Purge spread mechanic and it quickly fell apart from there.

Something to keep an eye on will be the boss health when entering Phase 3, and after the Venomous Heart Damage Amps throughout the fight. Echo had the boss at 67% health after the 2nd venomous heart damage amp (before entering intermission).

Echo make it into Phase 3 of Ula'Tek with 18 players alive, getting to see the first soak mechanic.

This pushed their best attempt to 66.1% P3, and more importantly let them see how they can get through the intermission with everyone alive, and to start to get a feel for Phase 3! This will be the drive they need to push forward, especially since its only mid-way through the EU raid day.

They plan to do a few more pulls before taking a food break.

Both Echo and Method get a new best for Ula'Tek on their latest pull:

• Echo has a new best attempt for Ula'Tek of 70.4% P3 (previously 76.5% P3). There were only 8 players alive a the time of entering P3, but they are adjusting how they approach the fight slightly to get more of the bosses health gone before entering that final phase.
• Method has a new best attempt for Ula'Tek of 82.1% P2, getting more experience with handling the sides of the room during Phase 2.

Liquid decide to end their night by finishing off any weekly chores and some Heroic splits.

Method and Echo have woken up and are live both guilds ready for another day of Ula'tek progress.

Liquid have a good pull on Ula'tek managing to get through the intermission with 17 players alive but unfortunately a Blightscale Viper quickly rips through the players wiping them before they manage to see much of Phase 3.

xD is really making a whole a lot of progress with The Coiled Altar as they achieved a new best of 8.5% P1, pull 21

Liquid are now back from their dinner break and back to working themselves back to Phase 3 of Ula'Tek .

Liquid is now taking their dinner break, there is no new best it is still standing at 74.6% P3, pull 183. It seems they still have a few areas to work out before having that clean transition into phase three again. There is some action happening around The Coiled Altar a few teams are progressing:

• xD - 32.3% P1, pull 11
• poptartcorndoG - 70.2% P2, pull 95
• Identity - 97.3% P3, pull 277

Early evening hours are upon the NA Teams and at this time only one team is progressing at this time in Mythic Venomous Abyss. With that said Liquid receives a new best with Ula'Tek, 74.6% P3, pull 166.

Liquid come back from their food break and quickly get back to deeper into the Intermission, setting a new best of 78.4% P3; just dipping into Phase 3, but with too many eggs left on the ground, and a good chunk of their raid already dead.

But they used this to talk through how to handle the intermission the most effectively, since there is quite a lot of chaos having to do rapid soaks whilst grabbing eggs, and in all within specific groups that have to call over each other.

Liquid nudge their way into Phase 3 of Ula'Tek, reaching a new best of 79.5% P3 on Pull 140. Just like Echo, their goal now is to get back to the intermission consistently and work through surviving it with everyone alive.

After pushing the furthest into the Ula'Tek fight so far, Echo have called it for today, waking up early tomorrow to get a full day of progress on the boss before the EU weekly reset on Wednesday. Their best pull so far stands at 76.5% P3.

Liquid have reached a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 81.6% I1, making it out of Phase 2 for the first time on Pull 139.

Liquid are online and head straight into the raid. Their main priority today will be to get the absolute most out of their final raid day before the reset!

Echo have started to get the hang of P1 and P2, entering the Intermission very smoothly and with everyone alive. Unfortunately the pull did break down shortly after the first slams, but they are getting good experience within the Intermission, that no other team have done yet.

They just tipped into Phase 3 again on their latest pull, setting a new best attempt of 78.6% P3. However, they were all dead before the phase actually started, so surviving the intermission is their main point of progress still.

Echo push Mythic Ula'Tek to 81% P3. Everyone but two DK tanks where dead when the platform broke into four pieces to begin Phase 3, but they continue to see further and further into the fight!

Echo and Method keep pushing on with Mythic Ula'Tek. Method have a current best of 78.1% P2 on Pull 62 and Echo have a best of 79.7% I1.

It will be about an hour until Liquid usually come online, at which point they will continue progressing for their final day before the NA weekly reset.

Outside of Ula'Tek progression, there is a couple of guilds progressing on the penultimate boss, The Coiled Altar.

• Banhammer has a best of 62.4% P2 on pull 149
• 静思网游UUG has a best of 21.9% P2 on pull 163
• Mate has a best of 99.7% P3 on pull 162
• Copium has a best of 30.4% P1 on pull 13

Echo has made it into Intermission 1 after 130 pulls on Ula'Tek! This means that they cleared the hallways with the eggs and made it back to the main platform where it quickly fell apart.

With Liquid not due to wake up for a few hours, let's take a look at how the guilds are progressing currently.

On Ula'Tek , Echo are currently in the lead, with 73.6% P2 after 128 pulls. Hot on their heels is Liquid, at 76.5% P2 after 124 pulls. Method, who has had significantly less time on the boss than the other 2 with only 47 pulls, has a best of 77.6% P2. That means that all the top guilds are within 4% of each other, although all seem to be hitting the same wall in P2. Do we see nerfs on Ula'Tek soon? Will it go to a second reset?

Echo and Method have spent most of today working through Ula'Tek Phase 1 and Phase 2. Making small adjustments to their strategy and their tech to make it as consistent as they can.

With the difficulty as it is now, it feels like there could be a change required to the boss, with neither Liquid or Echo making it out of Phase 2 in over 100 pulls.

Echo have gone back to do some heroic splits of The Coiled Altar and Ula'tek, likely looking to gain some extra weapons and trinkets.

Liquid end their raid night leaving Echo and now Method to progress deeper in to the Ula'tek fight throughout the day.

Method take down The Coiled Altar and claim the World 3rd kill early in the morning and move onto Ula'tek.

Method have decided to send all 20 Vantus Runes into The Coiled Altar, getting deep into Phase 3 getting both bosses within below 1% before wiping.

Method are live looking to finish off The Coiled Altar and get some progress in to Ula'tek.

Echo have woken up and have gone live looking to continue the progress they made on Ula'tek.

A quiet night for NA as Liquid continue to work their way through P2 of Mythic Ula'tek.

There are some NA guilds progressing The Coiled Altar with Instant Dollars getting a new best of 89.1% getting in to P3. and poptart corndoG working their way through P2.

Two NA teams getting their new bests on The Coiled Altar:

• Instant Dollars- 92.6% P3, pull 107
• poptartcorndoG- 75% P2, pull 65

Liquid still holding their best of 76.5% P2, pull 96 on Ula'Tek.

• Liquid are now on their dinner break and still holding with a best of 76.5% P2 of Ula'Tek.

• Instant Dollars pulls another new best of the night on The Coiled Altar, pull 92 and best 3.95% P2.

• poptartcorndoG has now become active with The Coiled Altar starting their night on pull 41with a best of 94.6% P2

Liquid still in deep concentration with every pull they attempt with Ula'Tek, they are currently pull 77, best at 76.5% P2.

Seeing that Instant Dollars is making some progress as well as they are on The Coiled Altar pull 85, best 4.12% P2

Still early in the evening for NA and still a lot of time to progress.

Liquid are about to restart pulling the boss after a break.

They have closed the gap on 1st place getting the boss down to 79.25%, which is 3% short of the top spot. They have many hours left of progress as EU is now deep into snoozy time.

Also noted is that they are only 49 pulls into the boss, so they havent been chain pulling and being a bit more specific about tuning pulls to push deeper into the fight.

Method have now also called it a night.

They have made significant progress on the boss, with much more consistency getting to P3 and with several sub 10% wipes on the boss.

There best attempt was 2.47% P3.

They will be looking to have a good nights rest, then get up and get the boss down pretty quick tomorrow morning.

After that it will likely be on to Ula'Tek or will they look to gear up something for that boss first? Time will tell!

Echo have now called it for the evening and have left the boss on 76% of P2

Liquid and Echo are going head to head on the pulls for Ula'Tek with a few percent between the 2 teams. The first phase is looking to be very tough with everything going on in it at the moment.

But they are making progress to this each pull they make.

Liquid are now up and active on Ula'Tek.

This now means we have the data showing up from what happened when they went dark last night, turns out they have had 21 pulls before stopping and going to bed. In that time they only getting the boss a few % down on those pulls, which means all they were doing was gathering data and seeing what things they could expect from the slithery boy.

After there first pull today they hit 90.9%. They will want to get right into the groove and hit the ground running.

No time wasted today as they work towards catching up after a whole day of progress from Echo.

Method are now very close to a kill on The Coiled Altar, wiping at 2.88% P3, just a few seconds before Zul'jan would die and they would have the short window to kill Malacrass before he berserks. They are now taking a food break before returning to the boss.

Echo continue to make progress on Ula'Tek, with a new best of 81.6% P2 on Pull 64.

Echo take a break from Mythic Ula'Tek to do a Heroic Ula'Tek kill for some extra gear. They now have a Heroic Sszorak kill planned before going for a food break.

Method push a new best for The Coiled Altar of 8.08% P3 (previously 12.3% P3). Unfortunately at the end of that pull they lost a few players to the mechanic overlap of Ghosts, Orbs and the tank frontal, leaving them a few players short in the Guillotine soak, resulting in a wipe.

Method are in the final stages of the Coiled Altar fight, nudging down the boss health to a best attempt of 12.3% P3 (previous best was 14.5% P3 from 3 pulls before). Getting the final sets of mechanic overlaps cleaner is critical to reaching a kill, so lets hope they can keep up this consistency.

Echo are consistently getting into Phase 2 of Mythic Ula'Tek. It's worth noting that Warcraft Logs have made a few adjustments to their leaderboard logic, with their adjusted current best sitting at 83.8% P2. They are currently working through some strategy discussions before pulling again, something that has worked quite well for them so far this Race to World First.

Method have hit new bests on both of their last 2 pulls of The Coiled Altar. They reach a new best of 14.5% P3 on Pull 351, and their previous best was 16% P3 the pull before.

Echo move further into the Mythic Ula'Tek fight, reaching a new best of 77.5% P2 on Pull 37. Their next hurdle to overcome is the raid splitting, going to each side of the room and handling the adds, eggs and tether snaps.

Their first damage amp window (Ula'Tek's Venomous Heart) took them from 88% boss health to 77%. This will be one of the areas of the fight that teams will push to optimize, so keep an eye on these.

Echo are making steady progress, with a new best attempt for Ula'tek of 88.6% P2 on Pull 21.

Method reach a new best for The Coiled Altar of 17% P3. Getting into P3 every 3-4 pulls they are pushing to get through the final part of this boss.

Echo are working their way through the chaos of seeing a new fight on Mythic. Reaching a new best for Ula'tek of 90% P1 on Pull 16.

Echo have started to pull Ula'tek. Managing to get to 94% on pull 4 learning all of the new mechanics that have been added into the Mythic difficulty fight.

Method also ready to kill The Coiled Altar reaching P3 within their first 2 pulls of the day.

Echo starting the day really strong getting back to back P3 pulls right at the start of the day.

Method have also woken up and are live getting ready to kill The Coiled Altar.

Echo have woken up ready to kill, getting right into P3 and breaking the first Eternal Nightfall shield even with 2 players dead on their first pull of the day.

it seems Echo are also going to be sending some Vantus Runes in to The Coiled Altar. This likely means that both Echo and Liquid expect the Race to continue into the next reset.

Not long after Liquid take the World First kill on The Coiled Altar Echo have woken up and are starting their day.

Just like that after the kill of Mythic The Coiled Altar Liquid is going dark for the their attempts onto Ula'Tek.

Liquid four pulls later (pull 288) gets another new best of .93% P3, they were almost there but boss reset due to the MCs.

Liquid is getting very consistent in getting into deep of the phase 3 earning them a new best of 1.61% P3, pull 284 with The Coiled Altar , it could be any pull now.

The Coiled Altar Progression:

• Liquid climbs to the top of the leaderboard, at pull 282 they achieved a new best of 2.46% P3
• Identity new best 78.9% P2, pull 75
• Instant Dollars is also climbing the leaderboard as well, they get a new best of 65.5% P2, pull 29 of The Coiled Altar

Liquid lock in and find a new best pull of 4.92% with Zul'jan at 3% and Malacrass at 11%. Liquid seem to be ignoring the mechanics towards the final parts of the fight instead opting to try and burn both of the bosses down before the rot from all of the orbs takes them out.

Mythic The Coiled Altar seems to be the main focus tonight at this time. There are two teams progressing as much as they can to get their best attempts better or to bring this boss finally down:

• Liquid- pull 269, Best still standing at 9.45% P3
• Instant Dollars- pull 10, Best at 98% P2

A new best for Liquid on The Coiled Altar getting Zul'jan to 7.7% and Malacrass to 27.3% in Phase 3. They quickly got through both sets of Eternal Nightfall and Grim Guillotines before everything went wrong.

Method decide to end their night and get some good sleep ready for the next day. At the same time Liquid have taken their Lunch break getting a nice food buff to carry them until dinner.

It seems like Blizzard have decided to revert the nerfs that they posted earlier in the day due to some issues with lockouts. It is currently unknown if they will nerf the boss again later in the day.

Echo have decided to end their night. Method are still pulling but it is unknown for how long they will continue as it is getting late in to the night.

Liquid decide to commit Vantus Runes on The Coiled Altar gaining an extra bit of Versatility to lower some of the damage taken during the fight.

Liquid reach deep in to P3 early in their day breaking past the first Eternal Nightfall shield and dealing with both Grim Guillotines but wipe due to an accidental overlap between a purple orb and a green orb.

Echo have a great pull getting past both Eternal Nightfall shields in P3 and have a new best pull of 3.58%. With Zul'jan at 1% hp and Malacrass at 12% hp.

Liquid have started their day still sticking with the 5 healers post nerf. Method have also opted back to 5 healing the fight after having a few P1 wipes with 4 healers.

Echo getting back to back P3 pulls but still having some difficulty getting past the Eternal Nightfall shield with a few DPS players dead wiping at 34.6%.

With the recent nerf hitting the healing requirement it seems Method have decided to bring out a healer.

Echo are taking a food break. After 4 consecutive pulls reaching under 36% P3, including their best of 9.12% P3, they are ramping up towards a kill!

Echo lock-in a new best for The Coiled Altar of 9.12% P3 (previously 14.8% P3). They had a very solid damage amp window, ending with Zul'jan at 33% health, and they got to see very far into the fight, with Zul'jan almost dead.

The pull broke down with deaths around the 10:20 mark on the timer, Zul'jan at 5% health and Hex Lord Malacrass at 25%. The players communicated they had a less than ideal pull for where they sent some of their font trinkets, so they feel confident there is more damage they can find for Phase 3. It sounds like they intend on taking down Zul'jan before Malacrass, to then push for a kill within the Soulbound berserk enrage window.

Method has a new best attempt for The Coiled Altar of 23.7% P3, with a previous best of 32.5% P3 they are taking big chunks out of the bosses health.

They made it out of the damage amp intermission at 38% health on Zul'jan (around where their previous best attempts have been), dying later around the 9:30 part of the fight where there is significant raid damage going out but the raid is very spread, with large area denial mechanics around them, making it hard to hit the healing check.

After another very clean entry into Phase 3, but a wipe to the Guillotine soak, Method are taking a food break before coming back!

Method reached a new best for The Coiled Altar of 32.5% P3 on pull 254 (previously 41.4% P3). This was a very clean pull for them. They entered the damage amp intermission with everyone alive, ending it at 39% on Zul'jan and everyone alive. They broke the first shields in Phase 3, were handling the ghost kicks, but the pull broke down pretty immediately when the Guillotine soak had too few people inside which triggered huge raid-damage from Grim Guillotine.

Echo are back from their break, and head straight back into pulling the boss.

Echo have had a few lower P3 attempts this morning so far, and have gone for their lunch break to regroup and come back fresh.

Echo have pushed their best attempt for The Coiled Altar even lower, wiping at 14.8% P3 (previous best was 21.3% P3).

Method have a new best attempt for The Coiled Altar of 43.3% P3.

The team composition swapped slightly this morning, so there is a small amount of adjustment needed for some mechanics, such as the interrupts. They changed: Protection Paladin for a Blood Death Knight, a Rogue for a Warrior and a Preservation Evoker for a Discipline Priest.

Echo manage to get into Phase 3 early in the morning but wipe to the first Eternal Nightfall shield after sending all of their damage inside of the damage amp.

Liquid call it a night after making a good amount of progress through the day, at the same time 中 洲 队 have managed to reach Phase 2 of The Coiled Altar but quickly wipe at their new best of 95.9%.

Identity have killed The Twin Fangs taking the World 6th kill. Congratulations!

While the top 3 guilds continue to pull The Coiled Altar there is still progress to be made elsewhere in the raid as Identity are still looking to defeat The Twin Fangs getting multiple sub 10% wipes within the last few pulls.

At the same time Mate is also making great progress on The Twin Fangs getting to 24.2% on pull 26.

Method have woken up and are live getting ready to jump back in to progress with The Coiled Altar.

Morning comes in EU and Echo are awake and live.

Liquid late in to the night find an insane pull sending Bloodlust in to the damage amp with all 20 players alive getting Zul'Jan to 35%, afterwards managing to break the first and second Eternal Nightfall shield becoming the first guild to see past the second Eternal Nightfall shield in Phase 3. They take the number 1 spot on the leaderboard and get a new best of 18.8%.

A race for the World 5th kill on The Twin Fangs as Identity and Instant Dollars are both getting close to a kill with Identity in the lead with a best of 1.35%.

We have some activity with Mythic and not just Liquid, who are now taking their dinner break for a much needed food buff as they still at their best of 34.2% P3, pull 198 of The Coiled Altar , but Instant Dollars are now progressing on The Twin Fangs achieving a new best of 11.9%, pull 21, I see a World 5th in their near future.

After a nice 5min break, and pull 190 Liquid achieves a new best on The Coiled Altar of 34.2%, P3.

A slight silent night on the raid front. Liquid are still pushing to get a new best of The Coiled Altar, they are still standing at 43.5%, P3. Instant Dollars and xD are on now and getting ready to begin their progressions of Mythic tonight.

Liquid are taking a food break before returning to Mythic The Coiled Altar progress. Their previous pull shows that they have started to build up more experience with executing the intermission damage amp phase of The Coiled Altar fight, so expect some new bests from their team very soon.

Echo and Method have both called it for today. With both teams returning tomorrow morning, likely at similar slightly later start time, as they want to ensure the raiders get enough sleep to perform their best on these final two bosses.

Liquid are starting to cook, just in time for EU to go offline.

They pushed the boss into Phase 3 with a full damage burn in the intermission damage amp. The bosses were at 46% for Zul'jan and 69% for Malacrass. They didn't get far into Phase 3, as they exploded and all died, but they did get through intermission very smoothly.

That is enough to push them into 2nd place overall, with a total of 43% left on the boss!

Liquid have just had a really good pull, moving the boss deeper into P3 at 84%.

Interestingly, both of there bosses were at 100%, and they still pushed the boss to about the same timings that the other 2 guilds making P3 progress have as well.

There may be a couple of different ways to skin this snake, but as always there will be an optimal way decided on as they get deeper into the fight!

Method have put in a new best reducing the boss to 52% P3.

This was achieved with a very clean transition into P3, keeping the bosses HP as low as possible by limiting the healing that happens in the transition.

There was not much progress in P3, but because the bosses health was so low going into it, it was essentially a new best. Its a game of inches not miles on this one!

So as a small round up, there are 4 guilds on The Coiled Altar and 3 of them have a couple of days extra experience on them.

This boss takes very good execution and has very little room for error, everyone has to play perfect.

Time will tell who is going to progress faster as we get towards the end of the evening for the EU guilds.

Echo have a significant improvement in their best attempt for The Coiled Altar of 21.3% P3 on Pull 143 (previously 57.4% P3).

They entered the damage amp and executed it incredibly well, starting Phase 3 with Zulj'an at 35% health and Hex Lord Malacrass at 69%.

Liquid are also starting up their streams, with players heading into the raid, ready for their day to just begin. The EU guilds have limited time remaining today, so the next few hours will be vital for them to not fall behind.

Echo continue to improve their intermission damage amp consistency, reaching a new best of 57.4% P3 for The Coiled Altar.

Method reach a new best for The Coiled Altar of 73.4% P3 (previously 78.6% P3), reaching deeper into Phase 3, despite the bosses healing before entering Phase 3.

Method and Echo had paused pulling The Coiled Altar for a food break. With around 1 hour before Liquid usually start their raid day, they will start to feel the pressure to get more progress rising in the final part of their day.

Both guilds are back and getting ready to start pulling the boss again!

Method has a new best attempt for The Coiled Altar of 78.6% P3, notably getting past the first set of P3 ghosts. But still haven't entered the Phase without the bosses being at 100% health.

Method have hit a new best for The Coiled Altar of 88.7% P3 on Pull 171, a slight improvement from their previous best of 93.1% P3.

They didn't get a clean entry into Phase 3, with a couple of ghosts still being alive for the first half of the damage amp; during which, multiple Fragments of Malacrass reached Zul'jan, healing the bosses back up to 100%. When they reach the damage amp with Bloodlust available and ideally no ghosts remaining, they can focus on effective soaking of the Fragments and entering P3 at a much lower boss health than they have so far.

During Phase 3, they wiped at the same point in the fight that Echo did on their best attempt, the first set of ghosts in Phase 3.

Method have achieved a new best of 93% P3 on Pull 163 of The Coiled Altar, moving into 2nd on the leaderboard.

They have had a few pulls since this and the mechanics and numbers checks are tight in P1 and P2 still. They need to execute consistently, as these phases are not straightforward, even with the amount of pulls the teams have had already.

Something important to highlight for why Echo's best moved so much lower, deeper into Phase 3, is because they got the boss HP to stay lower during the damage amp transition.

In Scripes words "Do you want to send it?", was the signal to send blood lust and damage cooldowns into the damage amp portion of the fight. The lust will be moved from Phase 2 into the damage amp window when guilds are ready to push for a kill, to ensure the boss HP is as low as possible to make Phase 3 shorter; so trying that out during this pull allowed them to test out the fragment soaking mechanic and get the boss health much lower.

Now they will work towards getting beyond the first set of ghosts in Phase 3 consistently, which isn't easy when combined with the inclusion of Phase 1 mechanics.

Echo have just had a big increase in damage to the boss. on Pull 105 of The Coiled Altar they have dropped the boss to 59% P3, this is a massive drop in the boss HP of 30% from their previous best (89.7%).

They are now taking a little break to analyse everything on that big pull.

Echo are back at it and pulling the boss into P3. It was a very good pull and the moved the boss to 89% of the maximum health they had at the start of that phase!

The focus at the moment is on the intermission mechanics, more on getting into P3 and seeing what is happening there.

Echo are making consistent pulls onto The Coiled Altar, its a very tight check across all phases on the boss.

Muscle memory is important on this boss as they try to reduce any randomness to make the boss as consistent as possible.

Method have made progress and have moved into P3 with damage on the bosses.

This wasn't a clean transition as fears were going off which caused a couple of deaths, both bosses also healed to full. So it really was worst case scenario for boss HP.

However it was progress and they took a couple of percent off The Coiled Altar. Valuable insight into timings on P3.

Good pull, time for a repose??

A few minutes after I sent that Method dipped their toes into P3, a fear got off and whilst they got through to P3, there was no damage to boss post intermission.

Big progress for Method and now to examine tactics and make progress to get back to P3 regularly.

So the morning time in EU slithers along nicely for the guilds progressing in Mythic.

Echo and Method are getting tactics down nicely as the both pull The Coiled Altar. Echo have reached P3, while Method are pushing towards the end of P2.

As is the case with these sorts of bosses, there will likely be a jump to get the latter into P3 soon. Moving around CDs takes a while to get used to the different DPS / healing checks required to push phases.

Liquid have made it back into Phase 3 of The Coiled Altar, reaching a new best of 94.7% P3.

After nudging their new best down and seeing Phase 3 again, they have to call it a night.

Echo early on in their day have made a crazy push in to Phase 3 on Mythic The Coiled Altar taking the number 1 spot on the leaderboard and getting a new best of 92.2%.

Echo have also locked in during the start of their raid finding a new best of 33.1% in Phase 2 of Mythic The Coiled Altar.

Method on their 2nd pull of the morning find a new best of 23.8% in Phase 2 of Mythic The Coiled Altar.

Liquid find a new best on Mythic The Coiled Altar late in the night managing to reach 95.4% in Phase 3 of the fight

Method are now live and looking to continue on the great progress they made on The Coiled Altar

Morning arrives in the EU and Echo are awake and live arriving to a freshly nerfed Coiled Altar.

Consequence continue pushing deeper in to the raid as they have started to progress Mythic The Twin Fangs and getting a new best of 65.6% on their 5th pull.

At the same time Instant Dollars are also progressing Mythic The Twin Fangs and pick up a new best of 23.5% on pull 10 closing in on the World 4th kill.

Some late night boss killing from NA as both Consequence and gn defeat Mythic Sszorak claiming World 7th and 8th within seconds of each other. Congratulations to both guilds!

A surprise set of nerfs coming to Mythic The Coiled Altar.

• Veil of Twilight shield reduced by 20%
• Malacrass bonus health in phase 3 reduced to 19% (was 35%)
• Zul'jan bonus health in Phase 3 reduced to 156% (was 160%)
• Spiteful Soulcoiler health reduced
• Mass Dreadmarch happens less frequently.

These nerfs are pretty big but do come later in the night for Liquid putting a little bit more pressure on them as Method and Echo are expected to wake up within the next few hours.

Liquid are now back from their dinner break and every eager to get to past P2 into P3 of The Coiled Altar as they are now in pull 108.

Congrats!, to Instant Dollars on getting World 6th against Sszorak.

A World 5th, NA 2nd has been achieved as Infinity defeated Sszorak in 16 pulls. Congrats. Still a few other guilds are not to far behind:

• comma- 63.4%, pull 5
• gn- 45.9%, pull 6

Liquid still holding their best at 18.4% P2, pull 104.

Liquid have a new best pull on Mythic The Coiled Altar, getting Malacrass to 18.43% hp in Phase 2 and breaking the second Eternal Nightfall shield getting to see the enrage for the fight, Malacrass casts a raid wide Dreadmarch which mind controlls all of the raid members and resets the fight.

With this new best Liquid jump to the number 1 spot on the leaderboard.

The evening hours are upon the NA teams, most working their way deeper into the Venomous Abyss of Heroic / Mythic raiding.

• Infinity making their attempts onto Sszorak and achieving a new best of 57.4%, pull 3
• Fierce began their progress and in one pull gets a 78.9% with Sszorak
• Liquid are pushing through their fight against The Coiled Altar still standing at 29.2%, P2, pull 95. They seem to get a little more consistent arriving in P2

Liquid are ramping up, reaching a new best for The Coiled Altar of 29.9% P2 on pull 87, just 1 pull after their previous best of 41.8% P2!

Liquid have grabbed a new best on Mythic The Coiled Altar getting Malacrass down to 41.83% in Phase 2 on Pull 86, that's a big drop from their previous best of 65.5% P2! This moves them ahead of Echo on the leaderboards.

Liquid is taking a 30 minute food break before carrying on with more The Coiled Altar progress.

Method and Echo have both ended their nights with Method taking the lead and hitting the enrage in P2 getting Malacrass down to 27.1%.

After hitting the enrage Method have changed strategy attempting to 4 heal Phase 1 instead of using 5 healers.

Liquid has finished their Nymrissa Wavecaller Mythic splits, and has made some solid progress on The Coiled Altar.

They reached a new best attempt for The Coiled Altar of 65.5% P2 on Pull 61.

Method has a new best attempt for The Coiled Altar of 27.1% P2 on Pull 116!

Echo have hit a new best for The Coiled Altar of 46.4% P2 on Pull 61 (their previous best was 55.8% P2).

Liquid are online and starting their day with some Mythic+.

Both Echo and Method have new best pulls on Mythic The Coiled Altar!

• Echo reach a new best of 55.8% P2 on Pull 55 (Previous was 66.7%)
• Method reach a new best of 57.1% P2 on Pull 87 (Previous was 67.1%)

Echo have a back-to-back new best for The Coiled Altar of 66.7% on Pull 49, this time breaking through the shield and wiping to the raid being feared. This is the next hurdle in the fight that guilds need to overcome to get deeper in the phase.

Echo follow up 3 pulls after their previous best on The Coiled Altar with a new best, wiping at 69.6% on Pull 48. Their progress is starting to ramp up!

Both Method and Echo end their last pull with a new best:

• Method wipe at 67.1% on Pull 77 (previous best was 73.3%)
• Echo wiped at 70.8% on Pull 45 (previous best was 70.9%)

With a couple more hours before Liquid usually come online, it will be interesting to see if the EU guilds can push past this next hurdle.

Echo continue to work through some Heroic splits. Method are grouping back up to return to Mythic progress after completing 6 Mythic splits of Nymrissa Wavecaller.

Both Method and Echo returned from lunch and headed into Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller.

Method killed the Tidebound Grotto Lair Boss (World Boss) World 3rd, and Echo finished up their 7th kill of Nymrissa Wavecaller and have gone back into The Venomous Abyss for a few Heroic bosses before returning to Mythic Progress.

Method and Echo have gone for lunch. Method are going to do Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller after their break.

Echo defeat Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller, World 2nd.

They are now grouping up again to kill it with a different raid group, possibly planning to do it 3-4 more times.

Echo are taking a break from The Coiled Altar and head into Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller.

Echo and Method are making steady progress on Mythic The Coiled Altar.

• Echo has reached a best of 70.9% on Pull 31
• Method has reached a best of 73.3% on Pull 39

Liquid end their night getting some more heroic splits done.

Echo showing the progress they made after going dark and following it up with some great pulls early in the morning getting Mythic The Coiled Altar in to the second phase.

At the same time Method gets a new best of 78.5% on Mythic The Coiled Altar.

Liquid have decided to head towards the Tidebound Grotto looking to kill Nymrissa Wavecaller for the second time tonight.

At the same time DMG decide to call it a night getting a best of 0.41% on Mythic Sszorak.

Method are making some great progress early in the day, getting closer to seeing phase 2 of Mythic The Coiled Altar getting a new best of 80.3%.

DMG with a heartbreaking wipe on Mythic Sszorak, brining the boss down to 0.4% before wiping to the enrage.

Echo have now also started their day and are heading straight to Mythic The Coiled Altar.

Going back to Mythic Sszorak DMG find a new best of 9.08% before hitting the enrage.

Late in the night for Liquid but they are still finding ways to improve, reaching a new best of 69.6% on Mythic The Coiled Altar, making it back to the first Eternal Nightfall shield and getting closer to breaking it.

The morning strikes in the EU and Method are awake and live bright and early looking to head straight to Mythic The Coiled Altar.

Another new best from Liquid on Mythic The Coiled Altar, this time getting to 71.6% and making it to the first Eternal Nightfall shield before wiping.

And more progress from Nurfed getting a new best of 66.1% on Mythic Sszorak.

DMG make some great progress on Mythic Sszorak getting a new best of 38.8% on pull 11.

At the same time Liquid gain a new best on Mythic The Coiled Altar at 72.3%.

Another guild from NA chasing after the World 4th kill on Mythic Sszorak Nurfed getting a new best of 76.4% on their 5th pull.

As Liquid continue progression on Mythic The Coiled Alter, DMG are looking to claim World 4th on Mythic Sszorak as they slowly chip away at Sszorak's health, gaining a best of 57.3% on their 4th pull.

Liquid is back from their dinner break, but still hungry to get back to Phase 2 and new best.

As for the rest of the NA Guilds still progressing in the Heroics and promise from some of hitting back into the Mythic Raid.

Liquid get to see a little more into Phase 2 of Mythic The Coiled Altar. Surviving the first set of mechanics before going on their dinner break.

Liquid make it through the first phase of Mythic The Coiled Altar with all players alive but quickly wipe in the second phase, gaining a new best of 72.4% on pull 22.

The Coiled Altar 80% new best, pull 18 by Liquid where they saw their first look into Phase 2.

Liquid after defeating Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller and a few pulls (pull 17) of The Coiled Altar achieves a new best of 80.3%.

After defeating Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller Liquid have gone back to Mythic The Coiled Altar to make some more progress.

Liquid Have finally beat Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller. Bringing an end to the reign of the World Boss that has tormented many guilds over the past week.

Liquid have decided to and try and kill Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller after getting some pulls in on The Coiled Altar

Liquid has a new best attempt for The Coiled Altar of 82.7% on Pull 6!

Liquid are now queuing up at The Coiled Altar, ready to start pulling

They have now got many many hours left while EU snoozes. Can they stay coil-ected and snake into the lead?

Fang you very much, I will show myself out.

Liquid have downed The Twin Fangs after 55 pulls, they now move on to the The Coiled Altar.

They will be hoping to progress far into this boss while EU sleeps.

Liquid are close to a kill on The Twin Fangs with a new best of 0.53%. They will have a long time to progress this for their raid time as they are not even at lunch time yet.

They will want to get onto the The Coiled Altar as quickly as possible to allow a good solid progress on what looks to be a very tough boss!

Method are now on to the The Coiled Altar and are at about 88% on their best pull after 9 attempts so far.

Liquid have had a really good pull on The Twin Fangs dropping them to 8.37%.

They are doing everything to catch up and push onto the next boss.

Method has an incredibly low wipe on The Twin Fangs, reaching a new best for The Twin Fangs of 0.72%!

Just after that wipe concluded, Echo wiped at 6.28%.

Making sure both heads die at almost the same time is incredibly important, it has been the difference between a wipe and a kill for both guilds.

Echo get very close to a kill, killing one of the snake heads but wiping to the second head at 4.52% on Pull 15!

Liquid have formed their group, and have started pulling The Twin Fangs.

We have Liquid, Echo and Method all working towards a kill on this boss. Liquid have the added benefit that they have just come online and are fresh and have a full raid day ahead of them, whereas the EU guilds are both coming relatively close to the end of their day, having already been online since 5am (or earlier) local time.

Method pull the boss for the first time since the weekly reset and reach a new best for The Twin Fangs of 12.6% on Pull 46. The extra item level from the reset and split runs today have pushed their average item level up from 308 to 316.8 (which includes sending some crests on gear upgrades).

Echo reach a slightly new best attempt for The Twin Fangs of 14% on Pull 7 (was 16.2% on Pull 5).

Echo hit a new best for The Twin Fangs of 16.2% on only Pull 5. With an average item level of 315.3 they are geared and ready to take down the boss!

Method are on a food break, with some players doing a few gear upgrades. They will return to The Twin Fangs progress when the break is finished.

Method have re-cleared up to The Twin Fangs, and Echo return from their break, starting their second pull on The Twin Fangs!

Echo have opted to take a short break after an amazing first pull, taking time to refuel and get some Mythic+ done in the downtime (some actually playing, others being AFK boosted).

Echo has one shot Vashnik the Malignant on their reclear and are now moving on to The Twin Fangs!

Echo is now going back to kill Vashnik the Malignant before they tackle The Twin Fangs, as they opted to go to Sszorak first in the reclear.

Method look to be stepping into Mythic now, with 20 people in the raid and starting to clear the trash! Let's see how long it takes them to catch up with the reclear and face The Twin Fangs!

Echo coming in with a new best yet again, getting Sszorak to 35.5% on pull 4 of today!

Echo has got a new best of 39.1% on their first pull of Sszorak today! We also see the updated ilvl, whoch shows an average of 311.5.

Echo has now finished their reclear and are standing in front of Sszorak! Their best attempt so far is 73.4%, and we will get to see what their ilvl is since it has been stuck on 299.4 ilvl for a few days now.

中 洲 队 has a new best for Sszorak of 81.7% on pull 2!

Echo has now finished their HC/M+ splits and is now standing in front of Nek'zali the Soulcoiler! Mythic raid is go! How ling will it take them to get back to Sszorak?

Over in the CN realms, 静思网游UUG has a heartbreaking wipe on Vashnik the Malignant, getting the boss to just 0.44% on pull 22.

So far, Echo has not headed into Mythic yet, so looks like the players may have forgot to change the message on the screen from the other day! We'll see if they head in soon though. Meanwhile, Method are still in HC splits of the last 2 bosses, with the end in sight! Maybe we'll see some Mythic raid action after that?

Echo are on a 30 mins lunch break and then will be heading into Mythic raid after, per some of the player's screens. Method on the other hand, have some split runs to go before they head into raid on Mythic.

As we head towards the middle of the day for EU both Method and Echo are continuing to run Heroic Splits with both teams currently pulling Heroic Ula'tek.

Liquid have decided to call it a night after gaining a new best of 43.86% on Mythic Twin Fangs.

Liquid are still making some steady progress on Mythic The Twin Fangs finding a new best of 44%. At the same time Method and Echo are both still making their way through all of the Heroic Splits they need to get done before heading back into Mythic.

Liquid make a large amount of progress gaining another new best of 54.4% on pull 7. Could The Twin Fangs die tonight?

Liquid successfully get past the first set of interrupts on Mythic Twin Fangs getting a new best of 73.3% on pull 4.

Liquid very quickly wipe on their first pull of Mythic Twin Fangs after failing to interrupt a cast from one of the new Mythic adds but get the boss down to 84%

After killing Mythic Sszorak Liquid have continued on and are looking to pull Mythic Twin Fangs.

Liquid kill Mythic Sszorak claiming the World 2nd kill and NA 1st. Congrats!!

As Method and Echo start their Heroic Splits Liquid have quickly re-cleared Mythic and are moving on to Mythic Sszorak.

EU reset has come and both Method and Echo are live and starting to get ready for their day, Method have wasted no time and have gone right into Heroic Splits.

Liquid has now stepped into the Mythic Raid and in front of Nek'zali the Soulcoiler for their Mythic Reclear. Now once they get up to where they left off before the reset the question is will they proceed with progression or splits.

The rest of the NA guilds still deep into their Heroic reclears / splits

Still a whole lot of Heroic Reclears / Splits still going on, but we see that there is a little movement in the the Mythic raid as Identity just defeated Vashnik the Malignant after 27 pulls.

Liquid is now taking a much needed dinner break as they have been going on, and on, and on with Heroic Ula'Tek Splits

Most of NA guilds are in Heroic Splits / Reclears. Liquid has mentioned they plan to do about 14 total Heroic Ula'Tek Splits, and at this time they have gone through 4 or 5 of them. There has been no updated pulls for Mythic Raid at this time, but keep an eye out because you never know what the night can bring as it is still pretty early in the evening.

Splits done, time for more splits! As NA evening starts, all guilds remain focused on Heroic Splits before jumping back into Mythic reclears. Will we see any pulls on Sszorak or will Method end the day alone at 5/8?

Liquid continue to work through more Heroic splits.

As both Method and Echo head off for the night, ready for an early EU reset tomorrow, Liquid are in HC Ula'Tek splits, looking for some extra items before they start their Mythic progression once more! We can't be sure what their plans for the day are, but the race is heating up now with resets now happening!

A couple of guilds have been progressing on Vashnik the Malignant:

• Banhammer has a new best of 60.2% on pull 2
• Identity has a new best of 37.3% on pull 16

清水 has killed Vashnik the Malignant after 36 pullls!

清水 has a massive new best on Vashnik the Malignant going from 58% all the way down to 29.1%.

Echo have taken down Vashnik the Malignant for the first time after 2 more pulls. It looks like they are moving onto more splits of Vashnik.

Honestly also have a new best on Sszorak getting the boss down to 44.3%.

Echo had a great best pull on Vashnik the Malignant down to 11.8%.

Honestly has a new best of 47.5% on Sszorak after 17 pulls!

清水 (Clear Water) has a new best on Vashnik the Malignant of 60% on pull 4!

Echo is still chipping away at Vashnik the Malignant, getting a new best of 37.7% on pull 12!

Honestly are looking to make quick work of Sszorak as they get a new best of 69.6% after 3 pulls!

On other bosses, Echo has a new best attempt on Vashnik the Malignant of 51% after 4 pulls, and Honestly has defeated the boss after 13 pulls!

Echo is now standing before Vashnik the Malignant for the first time, on what will undoubtedly be just one of many Mythic splits today. This will also be their first look at the encounter, having previously logged only a single pull on Sszorak, with a best attempt of 73.45%. Will they soon be able to join the ranks of those who have conquered 4 of the 8 bosses?

Echo have defeated Mythic Entombed Sentinels for the first time, and have now logged into a different group of characters to kill the boss again.

中洲队 have appeared on the leaderboards! They killed Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler 19 hours ago, and have killed Vashnik the Malignant just over an hour ago.

They are currently pulling Sszorak Mythic, with a current best of 81.8%, putting them into second place on the leaderboards. Liquid still hold the top spot with a current best of 62.7%.

Checking in on this mornings events over the last couple of hours:

• Liquid have gone offline, ending their day with 6 total kills of Mythic Vashnik the Malignant. They will wake up tomorrow for the NA weekly reset, likely starting with some additional splits before going into a reclear.
• Echo are on group 8 of their Mythic Splits of the first two bosses in The Venomous Abyss (Nek'zali and The Lost Explorers).
• Method have finished 4 kills of Mythic Vashnik the Malignant, and have now gone dark on their streams.

Back to back both Consequence and poptartcorndoG have taken down Entombed Sentinels, seems they are making their way to Vashnik the Malignant. Speaking of the Sentinels two other teams are making big strides. ohno received a new best of 15.3%, pull 21, and xD a 17.1%, pull 18.

Liquid is now back from dinner break and getting ready to do a few more Mythic Vashnik the Malignant. It was mentioned that they want to try to get as much as they can get done involving the Mythic Splits of Vashnik, World Boss Nymrissa Wavecaller, and possible attempts onto Sszorak before server reset.

There seems to be a few guilds progressing more and more on Entombed Sentinels

Instant Dollars took the route of taking a second group into the Mythic Raid.

Looks like Infinity is getting some good progress against Entombed Sentinels with a best of 1.18%, about to have another runner against Vashnik the Malignant soon.

Melee Mechanics are now making their progress of .15% to 0% with the Mythic Raid as they are on Nek'zali the Soulcoiler .

There are a few other NA guilds working Heroic/ Heroic Splits.

Liquid are now on their dinner break.

Instant Dollars with 10 pulls takes World 4th, NA 2nd of Vashnik the Malignant. Now the question is will they make it over to Sszorak?

• Instant Dollars is joining the ranks of Vashnik the Malignant, at pull 3 they achieved a best of 32.2%.

• Liquid is working on their Mythic Splits of @Vashnik the Malignant

• xD is working Ula'Tek Heroic Splits

A quiet night from NA as Liquid continue with their Mythic Splits, opting to go to Vashnik with their 4th split group after killing Entombed Sentinels.

Liquid head back into Mythic, for group 4 of their Mythic The Venomous Abyss splits.

Liquid is itching for the kill on Vashnik the Malignant with a new best after returning from break of 10.11%. Will they be able to take the boss down soon?

Evolve has claimed World 2nd on Vashnik the Malignant after 10 pulls!

Liquid has a new best on Vashnik the Malignant of 13.02%!

The EU face off on Vashnik the Malignant is underway...as both Phoenix and Evolve are pulling the boss neck to neck! Phoenix's first pull saw them get the boss down to an impressive 40.8%, which is only about 6% behind Liquid's best (although Liquid are running with a split group whereas Phoenix are running with full geared mains). Evolve's best is 50.5% after pull one so it is pretty close between the EU teams!

Phoenix has taken down Entombed Sentinels after 11 pulls! Evolve has also bested the gruesome twosome after 12 pulls, meaning that they are both 3/8 Mythic!

Liquid have a new best attempt for Mythic Vashnik the Malignant of 34% on Pull 9!

Liquid are now heading into Vashnik the Malignant for the first time tonight! We'll see if they get the kill likely using the same strat that Method did earlier today.

There are still some EU guilds making progress on Entombed Sentinels, as detailed below:

• Evolve has a best of 1.85% after 7 pulls
• The Next Step has a best of 20.8% after 6 pulls
• Phoenix has a best of 33.6% after 9 pulls
• LAGET has a best of 43.3% after 4 pulls

Liquid are entering Mythic The Venomous Abyss again, this will be their 3rd group.

Liquid are very much online and taking care of some Mythic+, tomorrow is their weekly reset so they are making the most of their time now to ensure they have the best start for week 2.

Echo have finished up 6 kills of the first 2 Mythic bosses, having a couple exploration pulls on Sszorak off-stream before calling it for tonight.

Method are ending their raid day with their 4th kill of Mythic Entombed Sentinels, with a few players doing Mythic+ before going to sleep.

And Method just keep on progging, as they get another new best of 32.66% on Vashnik the Malignant!

Method have shaved a MASSIVE 30% off of their best try with a new best of 41.2% on Vashnik the Malignant!

Method have come in with a couple of good pulls on Vashnik the Malignant, with a 70.9% and a 70.2% back to back!

Method are currently on a dinner break, while Echo are currently in another split group for the first 2 bosses. The word on the street is that Method will go back into M+ at some point, but they may choose to send some more Mythic splits on the first 3 bosses before this.

Echo have been unable to take down Entombed Sentinels in their current Mythic group, getting the boss to a new best of 23.8%. They have now moved to another Mythic group composition to continue with at least the first 2 bosses, with other players doing the Nemesis Delve boss for crests.

Method have re-killed Mythic Entombed Sentinels, and Echo hit a new best of 37.3% on Pull 2.

Echo have taken down Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler and The Lost Explorers, doing some final strategy before pulling Entombed Sentinels.

Method are in their second run of Mythic The Venomous Abyss, currently pulling Entombed Sentinels.

Once the first 3 bosses are done for both teams, we should expect to see more runs of these first few bosses.

Echo are looking to be gathering a team to head into Mythic for the first time! Unfortunately, it looks like they will be doing Mythic splits, rather than progression, but we'll see how the afternoon goes!

After a fair few pulls of bosses offscreen, Method is back to streaming, but they are also farming the Nemesis Delve boss and some M+ for a few more upgrades more they head back into the raid. At this point, it's unclear whether or not they will continue with progress, or do the first 3 bosses in splits.

Change of plans for Echo as they head into the Nemesis Delve boss for crests - as they are uncapped - while they discuss the strategy before heading into some Mythic bosses.

Echo are currently on a lunch break, and it looks like the plan for them after is to head into Mythic! So we should expect some kills from them on the first couple of bosses very soon!

Method player streams have gone offline, going "dark mode" to test things out before doing Mythic Splits.

Echo are working through some Mythic+. It likely won't be long until they also head into Mythic The Venomous Abyss.

Method get close to a kill on Mythic Entombed Sentinels, wiping at a best attempt of 3.39% on Pull 2.

Method are grouped up, and are about to pull the first boss on Mythic!

Although it looks like they have stopped pulling the boss for now, poptart corndoG did have a few pulls of Mythic Sszorak. After 4 pulls they got the boss to 80%.

Echo and Method are online and head into: Mythic+ and the Nemesis Delve Boss for Method, the remaining few Heroic Spits of Ula'Tek for Echo.

Liquid have ended their day with 2 kills on the first 3 bosses of the raid (Nek'zali the Soulcoiler, The Lost Explorers and Entombed Sentinels).

Instant Dollars achieves World 2nd, NA 2nd against Entombed Sentinels, CONGRATULATIONS!!

Looks like the Mythic Entombed Sentinels have a few more guilds knocking at their tombs as Instant Dollars get a new best of 24.2%, pull 7, Humble at 48.9%, pull 5, and Nurfed just defeated The Lost Explorers and making their first attempt. Maybe soon one of these teams will get that World 2nd?

Liquid talks of moving onto Mythic +s after doing about two rounds of the 3 Mythic Bosses, but comms are muted as they inspect gear.

As Liquid settle in to their Mythic Splits Instant Dollars slay Mythic The Lost Explorers on pull 12 claiming NA 4th and World 11th

Mythic Raid:

• Liquid is now back from dinner break and now back to working on more splits on the first 3 mythic bosses.
• Instant Dollars are progressing with The Lost Explorers receiving a best of 2.52%, pull 4

Heroic Raid:

• poptartcorndoG progressing through Ula'Tek

• Melee Mechanics getting ready to begin The Coiled Altar

• The Early Shift is working on Normal/Heroic raiding.

Liquid did one attempt on Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller and after a 64.65% best they moved onto Mythic Raid Splits.

Pull 5 with 2 dead, 1.76% new best for Liquid with the Entombed Sentinels.

Instant Dollars now on their break, xD still working their Heroic Ula'Tek splits

Liquid gets a new best of 6.58%, pull 2 as they hit the enrage of Entombed Sentinels.

Liquid with a 57.9% best on pull 1 of Entombed Sentinels.

Both Instant Dollars and now xD working on Heroic Ula'Tek

Liquid has did another 1 pull boss on The Lost Explorers. They are now heading over to the Entombed Sentinels , could this be another 1 pull as well?

Liquid has begun their journey into the Mythic difficulty of the raid by taking down Nek'zali the Soulcoiler in one pull.

Now Liquid have made there way to The Lost Explorers.** Instant Dollars** is still progressing on their Heroic kill of Ula'Tek

Early evening hours are upon for the NA Teams and at this time seeing just Mythic +s all around including Liquid, but Instant Dollars are working on their Heroic Ula'Tek and looking as if they will getting back into working the Mythic raid. Still pretty early this evening so will sit back and wait to see how this evening plays out.

Echo and Method have been offline for a while now, waking up tomorrow hoping to see Liquid having entered Mythic to determine the difficulty of the raid bosses currently undefeated.

Liquid are taking a break, having done a lot of Mythic+ today, and Maximum (the Liquid Raid Leader) has said on stream that they won't be sending any crests this week. Playing for the reset before deciding which characters they want to send any of their guaranteed power increases on.

Inno, Sabotage and Unluck have all defeated Mythic The Lost Explorers, putting the total kill of the boss to 7.

Liquid is back online, but are currently in splits on Heroic Nymrissa Wavecaller, whilst others are doing Mythic+ keys.

It looks like their plan for today is to continue with M+ runs at first, but we'll see if/when they decide to head into the raid later.

Echo are blasting through their Heroic Ula'Tek splits, on their 7th currently.

Method are working on targeting a few items needed from Mythic+.

It won't be long until Liquid are back online either, at which point we could quite well see some Mythic, or some additional Mythic+ if they feel getting through some more of that in the morning and going into Mythic later when EU is offline.

Method has jebaited us by putting together a group to head into Mythic, with some members already outside the raid, and then changing at the last minute to head into more Mythic+ runs. Maybe though, we will see some Mythic raid action tonight?

Echo have finally claimed their first kill on HC Ula'Tek, so it looks like it will be a long day ahead as they will have around 15 more runs to compete!

Echo didn't spend very long trying Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller before realising the difficulty isn't worth the time investment right now. Instead they sorted out some crests and gearing discussions before now heading into Heroic Ula'Tek!

Echo have jumped into Mythic Nymrissa Wavecaller. The boss definitely still seems to put up a challenge on Mythic difficulty, even after receiving a hotfix nerfing the boss (earlier today):

• Abyssal Rain initial damage reduced by 12.5% on Mythic difficulty
• Abyssal Rain periodic damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty
• Reduced Abyssal Rain damage scaling based on group size for larger groups
• Frost Burst damage reduced by 40%

With this boss dropping a good trinket for casters, Wavecallers Seastone, amongst other high value Mythic items, we should expect to see more of The Tidebound Grotto on Mythic before this RWF is over! Although with how difficult the boss appears to be still, I don't think that will be today.

Humble have had a pull on Mythic Sszorak, but have now ended their raid for the day.

Liquid are still doing Mythic+, the only content they will be doing for the rest of the day. Likely not for too much longer either, as they will be heading offline to rest up before planning on going into Mythic tomorrow.

Echo and Method are pushing onward with their Heroic Split runs.

US Guild Humble have taken down The Lost Explorers, moving them up to 3rd place in the rankings.

As EU wakes up, Method are back in splits and Echo appear to be grouping up to continue the same

Liquid return from their dinner break and are continuing with Mythic+.

Humble are making some steady progress with each pull finding a new best of 47.1% on Mythic The Lost Explorers.

While Liquid are on a dinner break Humble are trying to slay some turtles getting a new best of 53.9% on Mythic The Lost Explorers on their 2nd pull.

Shortly after xD step away from Nymrissa Wavecaller some nerfs have come in, reducing the damage of Abyssal Rain and Frost Burst. This should hopefully allow guilds to progress further into the fight and potentially kill the boss.

Nymrissa Wavecaller is proving to be a difficult boss as xD decide to move over to some Heroic splits after getting a best 77.57% over 11 pulls.

Collapse Gaming have taken the number 1 spot on the leaderboards after bringing Mythic Entombed Sentinels down to 59.8% on their 4th pull.

Some late night EU action. Collapse Gaming have started pulling Mythic Entombed Sentinels, bringing the boss down to 82.1% within 3 pulls.

As Liquid settle into their Mythic+ runs xD have started their evening by pulling the Lair boss Nymrissa Wavecaller on Mythic.

As the EU guilds start getting ready for bed Liquid continue their Heroic Ula'tek splits with some Mythic+ planned after they finish up their 14th kill on Heroic Ula'tek.

Echo have gone offline for today, likely kicking off tomorrow with Heroic Ula'Tek!

Method are finishing the day off with a couple of Mythic+ keys.

Liquid has been online for a couple of hours today, continuing with Heroic The Coiled Altar into Ula'Tek runs.

Collapse Gaming, the guild that killed Heroic Ula'Tek World 2nd are making progress on Mythic The Lost Explorers, with a new best of 10.6% on Pull 13. They appear to be making a few small comp adjustments in the pulls following that new best.

Echo and Method continue to work through their Heroic splits. Its a time consuming part of the Race to World First, very repetitive and not the most exciting to watch, but they are necessary to be able to reach the DPS and Healing checks of the fights on Mythic.

Echo continue to progress through Heroic splits of Sszorak through to, and including, The Coiled Altar. Opting to not yet include Heroic Ula'Tek, as their current split groups include helpers.

Method are doing internal splits (only using Method players) of The Coiled Altar and Ula'Tek on Heroic difficulty.

There hasn't been any further Mythic Progress today since xD got Mythic Entombed Sentinels to a best of 63.8%.

Liquid have called it for today, heading offline to rest up for tomorrow.

In the Liquid streams end of day chat with Max, has said there is a chance of Mythic Splits, not confirming that it will happen, but has noted its a possibility that we could see RWF guilds split the first few Mythic bosses to focus on building a gearing slingshot for the weekly reset.

Echo and Method are online again, pushing forward with another day of splits. We will see a similar pattern to Liquid today, with the focus being on the last 2 Heroic bosses and some partial crafting and crest usage on characters now likely only intended to help the real characters in these splits.

xD are offline having jumped into the lead with their World First kill of Mythic The Lost Explorers earlier today.

As NA Teams hit into the late evening hours xD has moved onto Mythic Entombed Sentinels and in one pull get a best of 81.16%. Liquid are doing a Normal split of Ula'Tek along with Instant Dollars, and poptartcorndoG. There is also another NA Team, Winky Face that had defeated Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler claiming the World 6th, NA 6th rank.

As Liquid go for dinner xD continue to make great progress, earning a new best of 0.12% on their 13th pull. A heartbreaking wipe but we could see The Lost Explorers fall at any moment.

xD wastes no time as they made their way to Mythic The Lost Explorers, on the 6th pull they achieve a new best of 12.6%. Putting in the #1 ranking spot for World 1st.

Liquid is still swapping between normal and heroic splits.

xD quickly showing that they are not messing around. Defeating Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler on their 2nd pull and claiming World 5th along with NA 5th.

Some action from NA as xD have began pulling Nek'zali on Mythic. Achieving 42.4% on their first pull.

Starting to be a quiet evening here on the NA side at the moment.

Liquid has moved onto Heroic Splits at this time.

Method and Echo have concluded their day of normal/heroic splits and have logged for the evening.

Liquid has now switched to doing their normal splits.

At this time for the Mythic standpoint there has been really no movement for the World 5th, but it is still pretty early for the NA, we will have to see what awaits for tonight.

Seems like Heroic Ula'Tek is on the menu at this time, Collapse Gaming defeated this encounter in 60 pulls. Liquid is focusing their heroic splits now onto Ula'Tek.

Both Method and Echo are working their heroic splits onto Sszorak

One pull later after the 1% wipe Liquid takes down Heroic Ula'Tek This now looks like they can now stretch there heroic splits into doing the final two bosses.

Liquid come in strong, with a 0.9% wipe on Ula'Tek HC on their first attempt. 3 players were dead for a good portion of the fight so perfect play will be needed if they want that world 2nd kill!

With Liquid's day just starting, it looks like they have went straight to Ula'Tek HC in the hopes of finally getting that out the way and ticking some more splits off of the RWF checklist!

Over in EU, Method are doing the last of their normal and HC splits before tackling Ula'Tek tomorrow. Echo are still in HC splits as well, but it's yet to be seen if they will battle Ula'Tek today, or wait until they have fresh heads tomorrow.

Collapse Gaming have had two very close attempts on Heroic Ula'Tek, wiping at 0.83% (~30 minutes ago) and 1.84% just now. They just need a little extra boss damage throughout the fight and they will be the second guild to kill Ula'Tek on Heroic!

Into the afternoon of the EU day, Method and Echo are still continuing with normal and HC splits, although neither of them have went to HC Ula'Tek yet to see if they can get the first kill on the last boss.

Over in China and OCE, the guilds there are also deep in splits, both in Venomyss Abyss and Nymrissa Wavecaller in the lair, The Tidebound Grotto.

Liquid are wrapping up for today, with their final Heroic kill of The Coiled Altar marking the end of their Day 3 of The Race to World First.

Echo and Method are back online for another day filled with The Venomous Abyss and Nymrissa Wavecaller Splits.

After 5 pulls Literacy Test claim World 3rd and NA 3rd for defeating Nek'zali the Soulcoiler! Congrats!

After 8 pulls World 2nd, NA 2nd of Nek'zali the Soulcoiler claimed by Mid! Congrats!!

Consequence testing with the Mythic encounters as they did one pull onto The Lost Explorers and hit a best of 33.8%. Mid still working on pull 8 doing their best to get Nek'zali the Soulcoiler down and claim the World 2nd.

Consequence waste no time as they make more progression on Mythic Entombed Sentinels with just 2 pulls and a 77% best.

Mid at pull 5 and a new best of .21% with Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler. Looking like a World 2nd is coming.

Liquid deeply working their Heroic splits.

The Early Shift are not holding back getting another new best and sprinting towards the World First kill earning a new best at 1%.

Along with The Early Shift we also have Mid joining in the race earning a best of 38.2% on their second pull and thats on me not far behind with 47%.

The Early Shift is not holding back at all pull 35 and a new best of 7.96%. Also thats on me progressing along with a new best for themselves of 48.1% pull 5

The Early Shift are inching closer to a World First kill, bringing Nek'zali down to a new best of 12.8% on their 34th pull.

Well hello thats on me coming in on pull 2 and a 48.3% of Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler

• There you have it pull 32 The Early Shift new best of 23.7% on Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler. We are starting to see some progression in Mythic.
• Liquid is still working on normal splits and soon to start up some more heroic splits.
• All other NA guilds are working in a combination of normal or heroic.

The Early Shift have sent their second team into Mythic. Progressing on Nek'zali to beat their best of 31%. We could potentially see a World First kill tonight.

Just posted Blizzard will be doing a hotfix soon or after a schedule realm restarts to nerf Heroic Ula'Tek and a list of other bug fixes within for Vashnik the Malignant and The Coiled Altar . This could mean we could see a Heroic Ula'Tek kill soon.

Everyone within the NA Guilds are deeply focused into all the Normal and Heroics that is going on right now. Heroic Ula'Tek and Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler are still standing just waiting for a good takedown.

The Early Shift have sent their second team in Heroic. Getting some final bits of gear before looking to add on to the progress that the first team has made.

Most EU Guilds are now offline and resting up before starting again bright and early tomorrow, likely for another day of Splits.

Liquid continue to progress through splits, with Max (the Liquid Raid Leader) suggesting that Blizzard are looking into nerfing the difficulty of Heroic Ula'Tek. Which isn't surprising given how few guilds have made progress on the final boss on Heroic, with only 5 guilds having killed Heroic The Coiled Altar, the last 2 bosses of this raid are putting up a bit of a challenge.

The Early Shift have ended their raid and jumped back into some Mythic+, so there will be no more Mythic progress from them today.

The Early Shift keep making progress on Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler, reaching a new best of 31.3% on Pull 22.

The teams continue to progress through the endless wave of splits, Echo and Method are closing in on their final splits of the day, and Liquid have recently come online to start Day 3.

Unfortunately, there is not a lot to report on, as over in EU, Echo and Method are still deep into splits. Interestingly enough, Ula'Tek remains undefeated on HC. The guilds are feeling the pressure, and may look to send in more of their raiders when it comes to the last boss on HC, rather than relying on helpers for splits.

Also unfortunate is with this setback, it's becoming increasingly likely that we won't see some Mythic bosses from the top teams for quite a few days at least.

Echo and Method continue to push forward with Splits for Day 2.

Liquid has recently called it for the day and head offline, ending their RWF Day 2 of Splits.

Unfortunately, based on how challenging the raid is shaping up to be, with no guild defeating Heroic Ula'Tek, there is unlikely to be any meaningful Mythic progress made within The Venomous Abyss today.

Day 2 draws to a close for NA with most guilds still locked into normal splits. 9 guilds have now tested Mythic Soulcoiler, but that world first is still up for grabs!

EU is waking up with Method already back in the raid instance, and we're waiting on word from Asia as their weekly reset hits.

Still more Normal and Heroics going on for the NA Guilds. There were two other guilds that did try a Mythic of Nek'zali the Soulcoiler and still no boss down. Liquid is now back from dinner break and looks to be moving into Heroic Splits.

Heroic Ula'tek remains unbeaten, as Liquid decide to resume Normal splits after a few pulls. Splits remains the name of the game as we approach the end of NA Day 2 and EU Day 1.

As we start the early NA evening hours, just a few guilds are on making their strides of progression of Heroics. We see that Liquid looks to be done with normal splits and are now making attempts on Heroic Ula'Tek with a 49.98% as a best. Vesper is not too far from getting the 7/8H as they are at a best of 13.60% P3 of The Coiled Altar and Instant Dollars tailing them with 79.27% P3.

As for Mythic a few guilds have got their toes wet by touching Nek'zali the Soulcoiler. The Early Shift still holding the #1 spot with a new best of 59.4% and Frost Wolf Clan and a few others trailing them with some 80s%.

As this is just mentioned The Early Shift has logged back in and moved to doing Normal/Heroic.

Liquid are back in the raid and continue to work through their splits whilst the EU guilds sleep.

Liquid can't catch a break when it comes to things they can't control stopping them from doing their splits. After a Day 1 that consisted of a lot of very impactful boss bugs, Day 2 hasn't had a great start with login servers having stability issues and not allowing all of the players to login.

Echo and Method are due to end their first day of the RWF very soon, having started when the realms were first available today, they are both ready to finish up for the day and rest up before starting again tomorrow just as early!

As expected, the majority of Guilds are still inside of Splits or Mythic+.

There have been a couple new guild names that have appeared on the Mythic Leaderboard for The Venomous Abyss, with Frost Wolf Clan nudging the best attempt for Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler to 81.9%. But there have yet to be any guilds making heavy progress into the first boss just yet.

It won't be long now until NA guilds are coming online to start Day 2 of their RWF! With Liquid starting up their streams!

EU guilds are pushing forward with their first day of The Race to World First: The Venomous Abyss, taking minimal downtime between Normal and Heroic Split runs.

EU Guilds continue to work through Splits Raids of Normal and Heroic, with no EU guild even attempting to pull Nek'zali the Soulcoiler on Mythic.

Liquid have also taken a few hits on Heroic Ula'Tek, but have stopped after 2 Pulls and a best attempt of 74.3%. It looks like they have actually gone offline for today and will return tomorrow for more Splits.

EU has entered the race! With servers up Echo & Method both kick off splits as they play catch up. With day 1 bugs and lag issues seemingly resolved, they aren't too far behind.

As the evening NA hours begins to come to a close we are still seeing Liquid now making much strides in their Normal Raid Splits of The Venomous Abyss along with The Tidebound Grotto

xD has joined Instant Dollars in the ranking of 6/8H

Looks as if the EU teams are about to start their 1st Day of RWF really really soon.

A couple of guilds have given Mythic Nek'zali the Soulcoiler a pull or 2, likely to gauge the difficulty of the first Mythic boss, but as it stands there has been no progression on Mythic difficulty beyond a best of 84.5%.

We believe the "Lag" issue for Normal The Coiled Altar has been fixed as Liquid's Split Groups takes it down and able to move onto Normal Ula'Tek in which taking down that encounter as well with very few issues. Seems that they are still working the Normal Splits again.

Still have many teams working Normals and few working the Heroic progression and these teams are pretty familiar ie... xD, Consequence, Vulgar, poptart corndoG, Melee Mechanics, Of course Instant Dollars still holing onto 6/8H

Another hotfix for The Coiled Altar Normal which resulted in a nerf to the Intermission at the end of P2 the health modifers has been greatly reduced by almost 100%. This should now make this boss encounter viable to get through.

Heroic:

Instant Dollars still holding 6/8, Cute anime Boomers 5/8, There is about 3 teams holding the 4/8 position, and looking like 6 teams including Liquid still at 3/8.

Normal:

Guilds are still plowing through the splits. Liquid has taken down Ula'Tek with the 3 to 4 split groups.

A lot of frustration to be had as the lag of The Coiled Altar is still giving some teams issues, even after trying to reset the instance multiple times.

The Hotfix for The Coil of Alter was the RP, which is now fixed.

Liquid has found a work around for the lag issue by resetting the instance and running back to The Coil Alter normal encounter.

Normal/Heroic Splits is the name of the game to start off the early evening hours for NA Teams.

Liquid is still working with 3 different groups for Normal Splits. It seems one or more of their groups is running into a few to many bugs/lag with some of the boss encounters, and also running into the issue of getting normal helpers for the splits.

Hotfix incoming for The Coil Alter for all difficulties.

Instant Dollars are back, and after few more attempts on The Coiled Altar Heroic, they seem to have stopped attempts on that boss and decided to start a new Heroic Split.

AxTxS and Cute anime Boomers have now jumped ahead of Liquid with 4/8 on Heroic. Instant Dollars are still on a dinner break. Liquid seem to have stopped doing Heroic splits and are now focusing on Normal splits.

Instant Dollars have finished taking a break, and have headed back into Heroic The Coiled Altar.

Liquid are taking a food break before heading back into more splits.

Instant Dollars have taken a break from The Coiled Altar fight on Heroic and have headed into Heroic Nymrissa Wavecaller (the Lair boss, inside the The Tidebound Grotto).

They took the single boss raid down with ease, and are now taking a short player break.

Instant Dollars continue their clean sweep of Heroic World Firsts, defeating The Twin Fangs and moving onto The Coiled Altar!

Liquid have completed 4 runs of the The Venomous Abyss Raid on Normal, and have now entered Heroic, already taking down the first boss, Nek'zali the Soulcoiler, with 2 groups!

The guild Erudite have taken the World First kill of Ula'Tek on Normal Difficulty. Beating Liquid to the kill by just a few minutes!

I haven't included the cut-scene in the clip, so don't worry about spoilers.

Instant Dollars and The Early Shift both move deeper into The Venomous Abyss Heroic.

Instant Dollars have defeated Heroic Vashnik the Malignant, World First, and have started to pull Heroic The Twin Fangs!

The Early Shift have defeated Heroic Entombed Sentinels and move onto Vashnik the Malignant next.

One of the Liquid split Groups have defeated the Coiled Altar on normal and moved on to Ula'tek.

However, Liquid second normal split group encountered a bug and was unable to defeat The Coiled Altar. They’re resetting and going again.

Instant Dollars have made more progress on Heroic, being the World First to defeat Heroic Entombed Sentinels.

The Early Shift have also joined in on Heroic and have taken down Nek'zali the Soulcoiler, now opting to head straight over to Entombed Sentinels.

Instant Dollars have made it to 3/8 Heroic. Slaying Nek'zali, The Lost Explorers and Sszorak and making their way to the Entombed Sentinels!.

Liquid are continuing with their first set of splits. With the usual guilds that we see on the early NA hours starting their week with Normal raids and Mythic+.

The Early Shift have jumped in the new Lair, The Tidebound Grotto, and have taken the World First kill of Nymrissa Wavecaller on Heroic Difficulty! Proving to be a very easy boss to defeat.

Liquid are wasting no time and start forming the first of many split groups!

Instant Dollars also head straight into the The Venomous Abyss Raid and take down the first boss on Heroic!

The NA realms appear to be coming online, and players are logging which marks the start of Midnight Season 2!