wow Ny'alotha Mythic Race Day 4: 2 WFs, Bugs, 1 Boss Left

[Starym 3,801]

 

Day 4 turned out to be the most eventful day ever, with 2 World Firsts for Complexity Limit and only one boss left! Method caught up on for a short while but Limit pulled ahead early in the day and then got their second World First later on, taking down the penultimate boss of the raid. Now it will all depend on N'Zoth himself and we'll see just how long the raid will last

The day started out explosively for Limit, with their Il'gynoth World First coming in early and pushing them to 10/12 and once more one boss ahead of Method. The fight itself is really intense, as it could go wrong at any time due to a single player error:

Il'gynoth is also the first non-penultimate or final boss in quite a while that survived for a full day and took Limit 101 pulls to get down. We also have the players' reactions to the kill:

? @LimitGuild reaction to Il’gynoth World First kill.

? https://t.co/ofOjbHTjjP#LimitRaids #RWF #WeAreCOL pic.twitter.com/ZgutsR6ZeV

— Complexity Gaming (@Complexity) January 31, 2020

And so it was on to Carapace of N'Zoth for the US guild, with it being the final obstacle on their road to the final boss of Battle for Azeroth and their big chance to claim an endboss World First. Carapace was a very different boss, with very consistent phases, and even a relatively easy P1, so progress on it was actually quite a bit faster. However, once the guild got down into the 20% range, they started noticing some bugs with the sanity mechanics, which we already talked about in the WF announcement post. After the hotfixes it was smooth sailing, with Limit's 8th World First in Ny'alotha arriving and them moving to 11/12 and N'Zoth!

It took them only 69 pulls (no, seriously) and they decided not to pull N'Zoth at all and instead go to sleep early, both to get some additional rest before the big push the next day and to deny any and all info about the fight for other guilds. Limit are now a huge two bosses ahead of Method and Pieces, which is a huge advantage, especially since neither of them are crazy close to downing Il'gynoth.

This extra sleep tonight is well deserved tonight after the last few days, see you all in the morning =]

— max (@maximumwow) February 1, 2020

And, since Limit won't let us see N'Zoth with his Mythic face on, let's take a look at the Heroic version of the fight instead!

In the meantime, Method was hard pushing Il'gynoth, from before Limit's kill on the same boss, but they didn't manage to finish him off, getting a 29% final phase wipe (aka somewhere around 3% of the overall fight). They didn't get that many close tries after that, and called it a night after their 74th attempt. The news here is that Method also used Limit's "1 extra player" setup for Il'gynoth, with their strategy mastermind Roger Brown sitting behind raid leader Scripe and calling the shots instead of actually playing. Method will have to pull some really amazing progress today to catch up, with Carapace being a good target for a fast clear, but they will still have to get past Il'gynoth first, and that might actually be quite a bit harder.

We also had 3 more Drest'agath kills, but only Pieces' World 3rd took them to 9/12 and Il'gynoth, as Aversion and Exorsus opted to go for the tentacle spam boss first instead of Ra-den, and are still on 8/12, but with a World 4th and 5th in their pocket. There were also a whole lot more Vexiona and 7/12 kills, with JiTianHong, Skyline, Банхаммер, Unwealthy Homeless Men, Chao Jie, Future, Memento, PMA, FatSharkYes (who only needed an incredible 6 pulls to down her), Impact, Halcyon and Vision getting the purple dragon down, bringing the grand total of 7/12ers to 18.

The race is looking more and more one-sided, with Limit very firmly in the lead since it started. Usually at this point in a raid Method would have caught up to Limit and even surpassed them, getting a WF in the process, or at the very least being on the same general % on the same boss. Whether it's Method that's struggling this time around or Limit that's playing amazingly, the race is heading for it's final phase. Only N'Zoth is left, and despite him having an additional secret  phase, due to him not being available for testing on Mythic, it doesn't mean he'll be that hard. Namely, Carapace was also not on the PTR and ended up being pretty solidly undertuned (aside from the unkillable bug) compared to Il'gynoth, as the penultimate boss should really live for more than just 12 hours.

As always, head on over to Method's site progress coverage for live updates, or just follow Complexity Limit or Method's 24/7 streaming events on their twitch channels.

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[durdyenglish 298]

Is this going a little fast?

[Starym 3,801]

13 hours ago, durdyenglish said:

Is this going a little fast?

I'd say so yea, but as usual it's always just about the final boss, so we'll know what's up in the next day or two now that we're on him. It's cetainly less exciting and entertaining once more having ONLY 1 boss to progress on after 4 days.

[durdyenglish 298]

On 2/2/2020 at 2:28 AM, Starym said:

I'd say so yea, but as usual it's always just about the final boss, so we'll know what's up in the next day or two now that we're on him. It's cetainly less exciting and entertaining once more having ONLY 1 boss to progress on after 4 days.

N'zoth looks like a real treat - should slow it down a bit.