wow Castle Nathria RWF Day 7: The Secret Wars Escalate, Denathrius Mythic Phase and More

[Starym 3,800]

 

Well, this was perhaps to be expected. Usually in these summaries we brings you a ton of Twitch VoDs from the high-points of the day, but we won't be able to do that this time around. We've already covered the biggest news of the day, namely that Echo decided not to stream Denathrius progress (at least for a while), and now we have Complexity-Limit deleting the VoDs for their entire day of progress on the endboss!

But let's start at the beginning, as Echo downed the Stone Legion Generals some 5 hours after starting their raid day. After that came the bombshell cut to black on Denathrius (which you can read about more here) and that was all we heard from the current No.2 for the rest of the day. Here's their World 2nd Stone Legion kill, done after 199 pulls:

The other big news of the day was that we had another 2 contenders for World 3rd, as both BDGG and FatSharkYes took down Sludgefist and moved to 8/10!

The rest of the day was spent with Complexity-Limit and their progress on Sire Denathrius, which eventually brought with it the secret Mythic only phase! Unfortunately it wasn't quite as exciting as some expected, there was no Garrosh showing up, no Jailer or Maw visits. We knew players were going to have to go into a secret room via the mirrors, but unfortunately it's just the same room, but in a different phase! The new mechanic brings a LOT to the fight however, as the raid now has to be split across the two rooms, seeing one another as shadowy figures, and if they overlap/touch a player in the other "realm/phase" it's instant death. The rest of the mechanics get ramped up as well, as Limit hadn't quite figured out how to handle everything by the time they called it a night, but they did managed to get Denathrius down to 44.4%. We also found out that there would be several Limit players switching Covenants on the reset, to pick ones better specifically for the Denathrius fight. Limit even discussed a potential lockout extension, as the loot rates aren't that great this time around, but it seems they remembered what happened with G'huun and will most likely be resetting after all.

We also heard some potentially bad news for all of us, as Limit GM Max talked about Echo's decision, explaining that this wasn't that unheard of and that he can understand them not wanting to show their strategy, but if they were really not going to stream the next day either, Limit would have to rethink their own streaming plans as well. So we might end up with 0 views at Sire Denathrius today, barring Pieces pushing through the Generals.

And, since we don't have any other video material to share, here's Limit's Stone Legion Generals multi-PoV WF kill:

At the end of the day Complexity-Limit went to finish up their chores for the week as their reset is coming up, cleaning up any M+ needed for the Great Vault, Torghasts and similar.

There are now 26 guilds on 7/10, as yet unable to get passed Sludgefist, as three guilds push the Stone Legion Generals and the top two get to see the Sire in all his glory. Make sure to follow the race live over at Raider.IO, as you'll be much more likely to get a glimpse of the VoDs before they are deleted - that is if we even get to see ANY more Denathrius streams before the kill in this particular race.

[Chud 8]

While I understand the reasoning behind it, this is still a major smack in the face for those of us who have followed the RWF from day one and now cannot even watch the whole point of the race in the first place. They want to build excitement for the race and get the community involved, but then prevent us from viewing it on the actual boss we were tuning in for. This is like watching a Formula 1 race for the championship and then they decide to cut to TV ads for the last few laps of the race, very anticlimactic.

I certainly won't be tuning in for the next one if this is how it's going to be from now on.

[Starseed 113]

1 hour ago, Chud said:

While I understand the reasoning behind it, this is still a major smack in the face for those of us who have followed the RWF from day one and now cannot even watch the whole point of the race in the first place. They want to build excitement for the race and get the community involved, but then prevent us from viewing it on the actual boss we were tuning in for. This is like watching a Formula 1 race for the championship and then they decide to cut to TV ads for the last few laps of the race, very anticlimactic.

I certainly won't be tuning in for the next one if this is how it's going to be from now on.

but you will see it but not life and to be fair if there were secret shortcuts in a F1 race the racers would make sure to be the only one to know about them once they discover them same goes for the right tactic to defeat the endboss