wow Amirdrassil RWF Day 3: a Big Day, 6/9 and a 160 Million HP Buff

[Starym 3,800]

 

We're heading towards the end of splits season, and day 3 was a big one despite the fact that most top guilds still very much weren't done with the gearing process. We saw some World Firsts and a very sneaky 160 million boss HP buff from pull to pull, so let's dive in!

The EU day was mostly uneventful, with some Gnarlroot Mythic kills, as a top 10 formed around the time the NA guilds came back from their rest. The guilds started pushing deeper into Mythic in the EU evening, and we started getting some World seconds on bosses 2, 3 and 4. During this time we also found out about Blizzard's big change to distance checking addons, as they were no longer working after a hotfix. Soon we had 2 guilds catching up with Instant Dollars' progress from the day before, with even BDG (who finished Aberrus in 4th place) getting into the raid and downing the four bosses. It was Instant Dollars, Honolulu and BDG at 4/9 as the $ came back and started raiding again. They were soon out in front again as Nymue didn't last too long, some 15 pulls, and the 5/9 was complete.

You can check out the full pull and raid composition here.

Meanwhile, Liquid had finally gotten out of their regular Heroic splits and Mythic+ runs! And where did they go next? Why, Fyrakk Heroic, of course! The boss also got some buffs on Heroic specifically in today's hotfix batch, so the splits were going to take a little longer, and there were 17 of them planned!

Instant Dollars now had to face a foe they moved away from once before, as they had to get past Keeper of the Flame Larodar to progress. They had tried him for a few pulls and decided he was a bit much the day before, but now he was the only game in town. This proved to be a pretty challenging fight, as it took the guild around 3 hours and 24 pulls to best him. They did manage to skip the sub-1% drama wipes though! This brought Instant Dollars up to FIVE World Firsts in Amirdrassil, and no matter what happens next, they will definitely be the guild with the most WFs in this tier.

You can check out the full kill pull and raid composition here.

Although they were quite sleepy already, ID did decide to take a stab at Smolderon, and it seems Blizzard took that personally! As the guild reached the boss... you know what? Let's just watch the clip:

Yup. The boss went from 1.28 Billion HP to 1.44B right after the reset pull, as Blizzard seem to have pushed the "oh boy, they're-a comin' " button and buffed the boss health by around 13%! A very hot fix indeed. Now, the fact that the boss got buffed isn't uncommon at all, it's just the hilarity of the timing that was so great here.

At the end of the day we did not see Liquid venture into Mythic, as they did do all their Fyrakk splits but headed to M+ afterwards instead. GM Max did have this to say about tomorrow's raid:

We did however see a lot of guilds push deeper into Mythic, as we have Instant Dollars with the big lead on 5/9, then a really impressive 7 guilds on 4/9: Consequence, xD, Imperative, Honolulu, BDG, Vesper and Vulgar. Another 7 have three bosses down (with the Gnarlroot/Igira/Volcoross combo being the meta), 9 guilds with two down, and 51 that felled the tree at the entrance.

And finally, here's a look at the top guild item levels, all of which are certainly very small compared to what Liquid, Echo and Method have cooking:

And that was it for day 3. If you want to keep up with all the progress live, as both Liquid and Echo WILL be in Amirdrassil Mythic tomorrow, you can always follow Raider.IO's coverage.

[Prophet001 598]

Wonder if smolderon is supposed to be a wall.