The race for the World First Kill in World of Warcraft is over. Once again, Echo secures the victory – and it was a really hard fight.
For almost 3 weeks, tens of thousands of WoW fans have been watching on Twitch as the best guilds in the world battle through the current raid – on mythic difficulty. Now the Jailer has fallen, and one guild can claim the overall victory: The successful guild Echo claims the World First Kill of the Jailer and thus completes the cleansing of the Sepulcher of the First.
How long did it take? Overall, the race lasted for 18 days since the opening of the mythic difficulty. The Jailer himself required a staggering 277 pulls before he finally breathed his last, and the dream of the “reimagined cosmos” was over.
What was so difficult? Above all, the sheer difficulty of the bosses was probably underestimated at first. It became clear early on that the gear simply wasn’t enough to get through the raid quickly. Therefore, almost all raid guilds initially conducted extensive “split raids” to equip their characters with better gear. Added to this were particularly tough bosses like Anduin or Halondrus, which often required hundreds of pulls.
One last point was that the final 3 bosses – Rygelon, Lords of Dread, and the Jailer – were not playable on the PTR. Therefore, there was significantly less time to prepare in advance for these bosses. Especially since the Jailer also had an additional phase in mythic mode that made everything much more strenuous.
In this bonus phase, the boss heals himself by about 15% of his health points and even creates a shield. Echo was clever and deployed a weapon warrior who used “mortal strike” on the Jailer – which reduced the healing received by 50% and thus made the phase much easier. However, whether it is really intended for this healing to be reduced is questionable. Usually, such healing cannot be mitigated.
The race lasted longer than expected: That the race for the “World First Kill” took nearly 18 days was probably not anticipated by any of the professional guilds. Most expected a duration of a maximum of 2 weeks – which also led to complications. The professional guild Team Liquid ran into problems because they had to break up their camp. They had rented a hotel for the event and presumably the booking simply expired here. Some players had to return to their home country.
With this, Echo secured their second victory in a row. They were already the fastest in the Sanctum of Domination. Thus, 2 of the 3 raids from Shadowlands go to Echo.
Congratulations!
Did you follow the race? Or is it all indifferent to you? What do you think of the players’ performance?
