wow Castle Nathria RWF Day 2: 7 Bosses Down, EU Catches Up, Asia Gets a LOT of Loot

[Starym 3,800]

 

Day 2 of the Castle Nathria race is probably the most hectic, as the EU guilds wake up to many bosses dead and start catching up, with all the routes and a good feel for the easier and more difficult bosses. And yesterday was no different, except it started off with a big Word First. We also had a bit of a crazy situation for Asia guilds, as some players were receiving up to 9 items from the Great Vault!

We left off at 6/10, with Complexity Limit leading the way. After Limit had called it a night and went to do a few off-stream tries on Council of Blood, just to see how the fight was, some 30 minutes later it turned out they actually killed the boss! A very unexpected development, both for us following the race and for Limit themselves! They did then actually go to bed but, as the boss was downed off-stream, there was no kill footage to be had.

we were just gonna not show strat in the last hour of our raid and we killed it on accident, will release recording tomorrow

— max (@maximum) December 16, 2020

Enter the EU guilds, as they rushed in to preparations, with the majority doing the usual 4 dungeons for the quest, World Boss and Vault, and then headed in to Nathria. But, Casual Raiders went straight in with no prep, and so became the first EU guild to down a boss in Mythic Nathria! The catch-up went pretty quickly, as Echo and Pieces lead the way, getting up to 4/10 pretty fast, using the weaker boss routes of Shriekwing > Huntsman > Hungering Destroyer > Artificer Xy'mox. Echo then pulled ahead with the Sun King's Salvation World 2nd, EU 1st, and while Pieces got the same boss only 40ish minutes later, they were still 1 boss down, as they had skipped the Artificer.

Around 3 PM Echo had completed their 6/10 by downing Lady Inerva Darkvein, and at that point they had progressed in almost the same exact speed as Complexity Limit had, taking around 8 hours to get to 6. This is where things changed, however, as the Council of Blood, the boss Limit had dispatched with incredible ease off-stream, proved to be quite a problem for Echo. As other guilds kept getting closer and closer to the EU leader, Echo kept wiping on the Council for 8 more hours before finally downing it. Limit then released their World First kill video, some 15 minutes after Echo's kill, showcasing the importance of actually seeing your competitor's strategy.

While Echo struggled with the Council, Limit had returned but didn't have a lot more luck themselves, as they now faced Slugefist who, as it turns out, was pretty bugged. His Chain Slam ability was triggering twice on some players, and so Limit decided to not push the boss as it was pointless and went to do Heroic splits instead.

Chain slam is double hitting every cast @WarcraftDevs

— max (@maximum) December 16, 2020

When Echo finally managed to down Council, they also poked around Sludgefist but saw there was no point, and went to do a little farming before sleep. Meanwhile, the other EU guilds had caught up solidly, as by the end of the day we had Pieces in third place on 6/10, 1 away from the top two, BDGG had caught up very latem but also finished their day on 6/10, and we had a relatively surprising showing from Method, with their entirely new roster, ending the day in 5th place on 5/10!

The Asia servers had their own little drama, as they had to be shut down for emergency maintenance because some players were getting up to 9 items from the Great Vault and could complete the weekly dungeon quest (which rewards Heroic Nathria gear) 4 times. Presumably the maintenance fixed all that and removed any excess loot, but all we know is that there are now 4 Chinese guilds at 3/10, with Chao Jie, Skyline, Jitianhong and Alpha getting the bat, huntsman and Destroyer down.

Today's hotfixes also fixed the Sludgefist issue and Complexity Limit went to try him for about an hour, and concluded that he was definitely doable, even without Heroic splits, so Echo might be heading for the lead today.

Head on over to Raider.IO's live coverage if you're interested in seeing what happens today, and you can check out all the event streams there as well.

[Aernath 173]

Oops, World First! 😛