The latest raid in World of Warcraft was mastered within minutes. Long before European players had a chance at all.
World of Warcraft is currently doing a few unusual things. This includes the innovation of bringing a fresh raid into the game during an ongoing season. This has now happened with the launch of Patch 12.0.7. But anyone who believed there would be another “World First” race has been sorely mistaken. The first professionals mastered the raid just a few minutes after it started and defeated the lone boss in Rotmoor.
Team Liquid defeated the boss before Europe had a chance.
What happened? The professional guild of Team Liquid made quick work of the boss Rotmoor and secured the kill just minutes after the servers went back online.
Other guilds followed almost immediately. Almost 700 guilds have already completed the new raid, defeated Rotmoor on mythic difficulty, and collected the new loot.
Why was Europe hopeless? Due to the different maintenance work and the time difference, the new raid was not yet available in Europe while the US guilds were already sending Rotmoor to the ground. So there was no fair chance.
Why was the raid so easy? This has several reasons. On one hand, Blizzard designed this 1-boss raid to be playable with a flexible group size, between 15 and 25 characters – normally, mythic raids have a fixed size of 20 people. Thus, many abilities are a bit softer to avoid being devastating with varying group sizes.
Additionally, most characters have already reached the optimum in equipment. After all, the current season has been running for several months and everyone had enough time to prepare accordingly. Therefore, the professionals are already long “overgeared” and could more or less stroll through the raid.
A proper “World First” race was not the raid – it neither had the scope nor was the difficulty designed for it to be defeated over several weeks. It is mostly content meant to bring a bit of fresh wind into the season.
Have you checked out the new raid? What do you think of Blizzard’s idea of a 1-boss raid to refresh the end of the season a bit? A good thing to shorten the waiting times between the real raids? Or does it bother you that there is more and more content and you don’t have any breaks to breathe?
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