wow Castle Nathria RWF Day 6: Limit's 9/10, Singing, Bugs, 200+ Million Gold Spent and More

[Starym 3,800]

 

We had another uneventful/extremely eventful day in the Nathria RWF today, as there was a whole lot of nothing, not even progress, until the very last hour of the day or so! Complexity-Limit has pushed some insane pull numbers, started to sing to relieve tension, encountered some really crazy new bugs, spent over 200 million gold on the race so far... and gotten the World First on one of THE hardest penultimate raid bosses of all time.

Starting off in the EU morning as usual, Echo and Pieces went at the Legion hard and had plenty of progress, as Blizzard actually hotfixed a few issues on the fight, but none of the major ones, so there wasn't a big effect on the progression at all. Perhaps more interestingly, the same stealth hotfixes actually buffed Sire Denathrius! During the day Echo and Pieces got to 169 and 105 pulls, respectively, with Echo managing to push through to Phase 3, the final phase of the fight and had the bosses down to an average of 49% approximately. Both guilds called it a night at their regular times, between 11 and midnight CET, and from then on it was the Complexity Limit show.

Limit has been progressing for a crazy amount of time on the boss, and during the night they actually pushed way past any BfA penultimate boss, and even got to more pulls than their Mythic N'Zoth World first, who was downed after 274 attempts! All of these pulls were definitely having an effect on the guild, as they've started randomly singing:

We also got some more serious insight into what exactly almost 300 pulls on a 8-10 minute boss fight looks like in practice, as this attempt perfectly shows off the flow of the guild, starting with constant joking and light banter during the first part of the encounter, slowly getting more serious and raid call focused, and moving into full concentration by the end of it:

And then there were the bugs! While the Wicked Blade weirdness and bad spell timing overlaps are all still happening, even at pull 285, as the gargoyles had also had enough of the insane duration of progress and just decided to bail:

By the end of the day Limit actually managed to get their best pull of the fight only a few tries before they were going to go clear Torghast and similar, with a massive 10+% jump to 21.9% on one boss and and 25.8% on the other! We'll take a look at the final few minutes of the fight now that we saw the entirety of it above, as this was the pull that pushed Limit to continue on and eventually got them the World First.

Which finally lead to the World First itself, this time from GM Max's perspective (which includes the nerdscreams), after 292 pulls:

And here's the first (and only so far) pull of Mythic Sire Denathrius, clocking in at 39.6 million HP:

The raid composition from Raider.IO:

And a final message of the day from Limit GM Max:

Also for whatever it’s worth it’s awesome to be able to compete against @EchoGuild and @PiecesGuild every raid. Guilds are absolutely insane, regardless of result we have so much respect for them. Sucks the community surrounding all this is so toxic and brain dead

— max (@maximum) December 21, 2020

Meanwhile in the rest of the pack we saw many more 7/10s, as Sludgefist is the other wall, as we still only have the 3 guilds getting past him and 19 guilds progressing on the Sinstone carrying giant. Around 1400 guilds have gotten at least 1 kill in Mythic Nathria, with 659 having downed Shriekwing and 473 with the bat and Huntsman Altimor down.

The day was a truly crazy one, from a long slog of a night to the crazy excitement of that 1 key pull that revitalized Limit and made them push further, only to get the kill a few pulls later! Echo and Pieces will have their work cut out for them today trying to catch up, but they will most likely make it, knowing the strategy now, and the race is still very much on.

[Prophet001 598]

This is so much more fun to watch with comms.