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Sepulcher of the First Ones Mythic RWF Summary, Day 4: Halondrus Day

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We're back with another summary of the Sepulcher race, having skipped a few days due illness-related issues (I didn't die so that's a plus), but I'm back and ready to summarize! Today was a pretty big day, with a brand new World First, and the first truly difficult boss of the raid. The new Painsmith has arrived and is called Halondrus, and after over a full day of attempts, over 150, he is currently at 41%.

A quick summary of the previous days, all top guilds took it real slow entering the Mythic raid and gathered up all the tier they could muster, each taking about a day and a half to start progressing seriously. As these things usually go, the US guild takes the lead and then the EU catches up, and that's exactly what we had in the Sepulcher as well. Liquid are still the only ones with World Firsts aside from the very first boss and that legendary Early Shift early kill, but Echo have well and truly caught up, and even took the lead for a while today. Here's a small highlight from the previous days, as we had another door boss as a Sepulcher door just would not open on the way to Lihuvim, and after Blizzard manually opened it, a brand new bridge boss appeared as well! Luckily the acrobatics of a DH saved the day, but only after some serious theorycrafting and strategizing:

As for today, it all started with Echo catching up to Liquid's 6/11, suffering a power outage at their venue (similar to Liquid's from day 1), and finally getting even after around 6 hours, and getting quite a bit of time on the current unkilled boss, Halondrus. We've already taken a look at Liquid's Lihuvim kill, so let's see a clip of Echo's:

This started a wonderful day of side-by-side progress by both top guilds, as they bested each other's best percentages over and over. Echo called it a night on a high, after their best pull of the day at almost exactly 50%, and Liquid proceeded to push the rest of the night. The boss is truly the Painsmith of the raid (unless the next 3 bosses each are the Painsmith of the raid?), as Echo stopped their day at pull 109, while Liquid made it all the way up to 187! Their best pull was significantly lower, perhaps not in terms of percentages, since it's "only" a 41.41% try, but they aaalmost managed to make it into phase 3:

The boss is really very hard as you can imagine, but as no one has seen phase 3 yet, there's a lot of debate on if Blizzard have already pre-nerfed it, having seen the very top guilds struggle to push through to that phase, so this may be a matter of just making it into p3 relatively ok and then just coasting to the end. If not, this boss is going to take a LOT more pulls! One of the reasons the boss may be a little overtuned for his spot in the raid is that he had a VERY uneven/strange go of it on the PTR, basically just going crazy and getting some significant changes since then (losing an entire mechanic with the pillars). The good news is that the fight is working well, no bugs or anything similar, it's just very very tightly  tuned, but again, unless phase 3 is significantly easier than the other two... we may be seeing a 300-pull boss here in spot no.7 of 11...

Here's a look at the pull comparisons on Halondrus for the two top guilds:

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Meanwhile as the top 2 went at it, SK Pieces, Method and BDGG fought over 3rd place, with Method taking it at first on Pantheon, and SK Pieces then moving out in front on Lihuvim. We now have 4 guilds progressing on Halondrus, with BDGG joining SK Pieces, Echo and Liquid, as Method suffered a pretty tragic wipe right at the end of the raid day, which just has to be seen to be believed:

Oof indeed. Aster also pushed hard on the Asia side of things, ending the day with 5/11 and progressing on Lihuvim, actually very close to the very top. We also finally saw the Jailer go down on Heroic, as Alpha had the "well, if no one else can do it, we will!" attitude and getting us a video!

Here are the current top 10 standings:

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We'll be back tomorrow with another summary, and hopefully with some Anduin action as well! Meanwhile you can check out Raider.IO's live coverage for a lot more details, clips, and everything related to the RWF.

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