In World of Warcraft last night, around midnight our time, the EU guild Paragon from the server Lightning Blade succeeded in defeating the instance Highmaul on the highest difficulty level “Mythic”.
For four days, the raid Highmaul was open in Europe at the highest difficulty level “mythic”, then the last boss fell. And it was not the ogre-emperor Mar’Gok who put up resistance at the end, but the Butcher, the nominal second boss of the instance. Mar’Gok fell worldwide first around 6 PM our time, 6 hours later, at midnight the Butcher also had to give in (as the 12th kill worldwide) and Paragon was able to officially raise the “We were the first to finish” flag.
Highmaul is built “modularly”, with only two bosses, the first and the last, being truly mandatory, while players can choose the order for the rest.
Although Highmaul had been open since last week, it has only been available on the difficulty level “mythic” since Tuesday in the USA and Wednesday in Europe.
While the two other difficulty levels “normal” and “heroic” are flexibly designed for ten to thirty players, scaling with the difficulty level, “mythic” is set for twenty players.
Paragon raided in the last WoW expansion Mists of Pandaria with 10 players and achieved the World-First kills. The raid scene in MoP was divided into 10 and 25 player formats, and there was frequent discussion about which was the “greater” achievement, raiding in 10 or 25, and whether there were any true “World-Firsts” at all.
The Finnish guild Paragon is among the most renowned WoW progress guilds. They have been competing at the top for World-First kills for several years now. In the race for the Highmaul World-First, they once again faced old acquaintances in this tier. Currently, Method and Blood Legion are at 6/7, among others.
Paragon has also provided a wipe count for the individual bosses, detailing how often they failed at the mythic version before the kill:
- Kargath Bladefist: 0
- Twin Ogron: 0
- Brackenspore: 13
- Tectus: 18
- Ko’ragh: 38
- Imperator Mar’gok: 122
- The Butcher: 121
