Race to World First: Antorus, the Burning Throne

It took a while, but Exorsus' World 2nd kill video is finally here and was worth waiting for!

And here's the top 20 image! Congratulations to all the guilds that put in the effort and ended Legion on a high note!

Four more kill have come in over the Christmas break, bringing us very close to a top 20! Ding Xin, Chao Jie and KeaHoarl  grab the Asia 5th-7th and Libertad the Eu 9th on Argus, finishing up Antorus in 15th-18 spots! Congrats to all.

We have an US/OC 2nd! Easy claim the World 12th and finish up Antorus as well.

Sco also released his tanking commentary video for the Argus WF:

And here's the Top 10 image, all fancy!

We now have 8 guilds who've managed to unmake the unmaker! JTH jitianhong (Stylewar) have gone ahead and grabbed World #8, Asian Second on this, the most likely final boss of the expansion!

The Unmaker is down for a 7th time as ScrubBusters get the EU 5th!

Argus goes down again! Another EU kill as Pieces down the final boss of Antorus and probably Legion World 6th, EU 4th! Congrats on the 11/11!

Memento have come out with their video of their World Third kill: 

Here's Alpha's World 4th, Asia first Argus kill video:

And here comes Limit's World 5th, Us/OC first Argus the Unmaker video as well!

Edit: Updated the image with Memento's guild logo. Apologies for not finding it before.

And here's the top 5, in fancy image form! We couldn't seem to find Memento's logo so we went with a Horde icon instead.

It's just not Argus' day it seems, as we have our 5th kill! We now have all three regions with Antorus cleared, as Limit grab the US/OC first and World 5th! 

More big news today as we have a World 4th! Alpha have come out ahead in the Asia race and grabbed the top spot, 11/11 and done with Antorus! Congrats!

And the Method Argus WF video is here!

We have ourselves a World Third, and it's from the Finns of Memento! 

Argus the Unmaker Mythic World 3rd by Memento

It seems the World third is taking a bit too long for Method's taste and so they'll be releasing their Argus the Unmaker World First video today! Just under an hour and a half from now you can watch the probably final boss of Legion get killed and the currently best guild in World of Warcraft claim yet another World First!

Finally some news on the upcoming World 3rd as Memento seem to be the closes to the kill, seeing as how they wiped on 0.3%, according to a screenshot. Limit might be as close to the kill as far as we know, but no specific info there, as the Asia guilds are a bit further behind with Alpha reached 10% and Style War are sub-20%, while Right are around 30%.

Aside from the bronze that's still hanging in the air, the third place finisher also ushers in Method's World First video, which will then probably speed up the following kills as their strategy is revealed. It shouldn't be long now!

And we have ourselves a World Second kill on Argus the Unmaker! Exorsus are the ones to take the #2 spot, and have yet again show just what a powerhouse they are. They've consistently shown themselves to be one of the best guilds in the world!

Argus the Unmaker Mythic World 2nd by Exorsus

So, with Legion presumably done with raids, it's a good time to take a look at how the endbosses compare. That's right, it's stats time, but don't forget the wipe count isn't always the best indicator, so we added actual kill times as well, although again we can never be sure just how much of that time each guild spent actually playing the encounter in question. The time to kill is also a tricky one due to the US/EU reset shenanigans so we added both times, adding 16 hours to the EU time to figure the time the boss was technically alive. Also we can't be sure/find exact info on whether some of the raids had extended maintenance for either the US or EU resets, so there might be a 1-2 hour time discrepancy on the overall time to kill.

Raid / Boss	WF Guild	Wipe Count	Time to kill (from region reset)	Time to kill (from previous boss)
The Emerald Nightmare Xavius	Exorsus	19	17h40min +16h from US launch	2h43min
Trial of Valor Helya	Method	223	2 days 7h +16h from US launch	2 days 1h
The Nighthold Gul'dan	Exorsus	247	11 days 6h +16h from US launch	4 days 22h
The Tomb of Sargeras Kil'jaeden	Method	654	19 days 5h +16h from US launch	11 days 19h
Antorus: the Burning Throne Argus the Unmaker	Method	320	7 days 8h +16h from US launch	6 days 14h

And the nerdscreams for Method's Mythic Argus the Unmaker World First:

And here's the kill roster, with a bunch of additional info, courtesy of Raider.io:

In all the Argus WF commotion we missed Exorsus posting their World 2nd Aggramar video:

We've also found out that there weren't many hotfixes done during the Argus encounter, as @Justw8 shares there were only a few mior bug fixes and these:

December 8:

• Increased Berserk to 11:00 from 10:30
• Increased the check on Sargeras Rage debuffs from 0.5s to 0.75s

December 11:

• The boss will heal up to 60% after the transition, instead of 66%.
• Motes of Titanic Power will persist slightly longer, which should help a bit with the Titanforging mechanic.

And so the Antorus: the Burning Throne No.1 is crowned, and just as the first 10 bosses died on the first EU day of the first reset, so did Argus on the second. It took 320 wipes for Method to down the probably final boss of Legion, compared to Kil'jadeden's 654.

And we have a kill! METHOD TAKE WORLD FIRST ARGUS!

The EU reset has arrived, which means, barring some magic from the four Asia guilds that are still progressing on Argus, that the final boss of Antorus and probably Legion will at the very least be a two-reset one! Given the extra amount of time Method had on Argus over the Asia guilds it seems almost certain that the Unmaker will indeed make it to week 2, so now all that remains to be seen is if the influx of more mythic gear from the re-clear will be enough to nudge the world soul into its grave.

With the new reset we have some hotfixes to fix some tactics that Blizzard didn't intend to be used.

[WITH SERVER RESTARTS IN EACH REGION] Varimathras' health lowered by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
[WITH SERVER RESTARTS IN EACH REGION] Necrotic Embrace will no longer miss players who are under the effects of Aspect of the Turtle or Cloak of Shadows.

The most used strat for him was to bring a ton of hunters and rogues to mostly nullify that entire mechanic, which is why it died so very quickly for most guild who reach him. This change is a lot like the change we saw Mistress get last tier, where blood DK soaks were nerfed, so let's see if this nerf is equally big, or if the top guilds can get back to Argus as fast as they've done this week.

While the top guilds are keeping what changes have happened on Argus the Unmaker since they got to him to themselves to preserve any potential advantage, we did get some info on a recent change to the Mythic phase from @CoBeTDH, one of our sources for Asia progress. It seems that the health reset at the start of the Mythic phase, that went from 40% to 66% has been reduced to 60%, which makes it a full 6% less health to deal with.

Limit have also released their World 3rd Aggramar kill video:

Here's Method's World First Aggramar kill video, which will also be coming to youtube tomorow!

In case you didn't alreday find it, you can check out Style War's live progress on Argus the Unmaker here: