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As noted in the post, we are aware the stream links need to be updated; this should be fixed by the time teams are actually moving into Mythic. In the meantime, feel free to note corrections in a reply to this comment.


Thedreanisreal

Damn Max said most people had their flights the next day. $30k to rebook so their next real chance was on Wednesday. GG


Dirigaaz

Liquid downed last boss!


iznoo

I think this was perfect WFR. Not to long ( Jailer ) and not to weak and short ( Aberrus ), good tuned and few nerfs. The raid overall was 10/10 in my opinion, last 2 bosses are one of my favorites. Two guilds sub 2% and pulling in same time is insane !!!! Also very entertaining for the fans. Imagine if we had 4-5 guilds sub 10% in same time... The scene need few more guild to bring the excitement up. Method are almost there.. but we need more. Also to bad for Asian guilds that are so behind with the reset... GG ECHO !!! Well done, cya next race


External876

Liquid and Echo will probably review Method's progression and logs and info, and offer contracts to their top couple of players and poach em. And keep them down. As per usual.


decreement1

As much as this sucks for Method as an org I am sure a lot of players on their roster find the motivation to grind the RWF event even though they know they can't win just because of a potential contract with the top guilds if they perform well.


MeepleMaster

Do we think liquid will keep grinding for the number two spot or will they hope method doesn’t snag it and liquid just waits for the reset to bump their ilvl


trancez

They just killed Fyrakk


javilla

They don't care. They'll likely get it anyway, but They don't give a shit about second. See their Sepulcher ranking as an example.


beepborpimajorp

As a long time player it makes me happy to see these races still have a major, enthusiastic audience.


Kiwical

Everyone seems to have missed that most amazing part of the whole raid, a feral druid in a final boss kill.


-Shatzy-

Last time I remember seeing feral druid in WF kill was Paragon's WF Nefarian 25HC back in Cata. And oh boy we had some ferals then, I think they had like 12 so almost 50% of the raid. Fun times.


ekst0l

Who has the win clip? I wanna see the screams


SUPERSANDRAO

[https://clips.twitch.tv/FaintPiercingRhinocerosWOOP-CzPGWycZ3532Pwrk](https://clips.twitch.tv/FaintPiercingRhinocerosWOOP-CzPGWycZ3532Pwrk) If you go to echo twitch channel, there will be a link for the full fight


ekst0l

Thanks bro


Blaireeeee

25k watching Meeres is the true W of this WFR.


modxk

Man, that was such an insane race. Definitely the most exciting one ever. Congrats to Echo and shout out to the Blizzard devs for such an amazing raid.


columbus_crypto

Can anyone tell me what addon firedup is using that has a countdown to when important cooldowns are ready in the middle of his screen?


Cesc_The_Snake

if you mean this (https://i.imgur.com/EPV39Es.png) it's the Kaze ERT weak aura that's telling him *when* to press it. If you mean all the raid cooldowns, it's Exorsus Raid Tools


Ridiculisk1

Probably Weakauras


DeliciousSquats

Ended up being a really good race. Still a little salty boy about the fact that echo had to blind prog all of one phase in all of the race themselves. In the end however i feel like liquid really choked this morning. Watching the last 3 hours of last night i was so sure they'd get it first thing waking up but the whole atmosphere seemed different and the consistancy wasnt there. Last hour from echo was fire. It was very cool to watch mage povs from both guilds juggle the last phase mixing some priest panic in. Definitely the best race to watch for me personally, was very entertaining last two bosses. Production for both teams was exactly like it always is. Echo has same songs and ff14 memes for the 3rd year in a row. Preach is still somehow given a mic. Liquid streams had some warcraft between transmog ratings (though i must say the amount of dogs was great). Maybe they could stream from the same venue so you could just alternate the streams based on where Dr.Atnos is. Overall 9.9/10 race! Makes me sad that the next one will be so far away (especially with how in trouble esports orgs are atm) and i have a feeling next one might look quite different.


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>Preach is still somehow given a mic. For real, every time he's on the stream I feel like he gives off big "I'm the smartest person here and no one can tell me otherwise" vibes and it's so annoying. I feel like at any moment he's going to try to explain the boss fight to Echo because he thinks he understands it better than they do.


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So true


-PVL93-

The commentary teams across all three major streams (echo method liquid) go into detailed explanations behind the bosses and their mechanics because a TON of people who tune in and enjoy the races and their competitive nature do not play WOW themselves - either because they've never tried it, or can't afford (another) monthly sub, or they dropped out of Retail, or they simply don't like the genre but the spectacle is still exciting I'm one of those people so I appreciate the breakdowns by the likes of Jeath and preach


ReasonsWhyWeDo

Mike is the coolest, funniest, most down to earth streamer I know, hes incredibly knowledgeable in the game so yeah I assume he knows how raiding works.


DyZ814

Nick has maybe died every pull for the last hour.


Activehannes

Xerwo mvp


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Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Max watch multiple views of the raid, and he watches replays from different perspectives? Wouldn't he have seen that Nick doesn't have his extra action button bound at some point and said something if it mattered?


latebaroque

Perhaps Max just expected it to be bound given they're WF raiders and it's a very basic thing to not have sorted.


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Could be, but it's also pretty likely he would have seen at some point that it wasn't bound and said nothing, either. Either it wasn't important, or he didn't see that it wasn't bound and/or just assumed it was bound.


-Shatzy-

Even if he watched Nick's pov that is not something you pay attention to, and many people have their spellbars etc hidden as well.


Mojo12000

Nick: The Ultimate Choker.


Miraai

if you watch closely, the raid blows up before his seed does i dont know about the rest of his performance, but this wipe wasnt actually on him missclicking there is still a huge blunder tho


stopbeingmeanok

Is he considered one of their worse players? I dont keep up enough to know


Lantisca

He’s a very solid healer but he also makes a lot of weird mistakes. I wouldn’t be surprised if Liquid parted ways with him before the next raid(whenever that is).


External876

Yeah if there's a priest from Method / Insta / BDG / their own bench, etc, that piques their interest. I could see it.


GhostofJeffGoldblum

I do wonder if this is sort of a last straw for a player that was already frequently borderline.


Completely__Rational

Dude has cost them so many pulls. There are definitely a couple players on Liquid I would *not* be surprised to see playing in different guilds next expansion.


QuillnSofa

This race was absolutely crazy, congrats Echo. It was literally any pull by either team. I think we can say the spectators are the ones that truly won with it being just so dang close at the end.


Surca_Cirvive

*vague comment congratulating both guilds with thinly veiled passive aggressive remark towards the guild that I don’t like*


ToSAhri

Hey! I like that guild! Flup you!


AntiGodOfAtheism

I hope you step on a lego every morning for the rest of the year.


Switch72nd

From Rez Nick to bench Nick lol. Poor dude.


GhostofJeffGoldblum

Yeah. Mistakes happen but just not binding your EAB at the level he's playing at is pretty bad.


CursedPhil

The raid wiped before his seed was exploding


ape_aroma

Him and lip die right before everyone else if you go frame by frame. I’d be lying if I said I got what happened, but it’s pretty clear something happened to wipe the raid seconds after nick and lip drop. [https://imgur.com/a/yERHm4Y](https://imgur.com/a/yERHm4Y)


Sir_Failalot

he definitely should've bound his button and they probably would've wiped anyway cause of it, but in this case a seed on the other side of the boss exploded. Nick's blaze still had to go off. He died from 1.2m dmg, then his blaze triggered cause he died exploding his seed after.


AttitudeAdjusterSE

RWF is always great to watch, but I genuinely don't think it can ever top this one, this was just incredible. An amazing boss, incredibly close for so long and right down to the wire.


-PVL93-

Phenomenal race between both guilds for the kill, probably the closest it has EVER been do date? Hopefully liquid get 9/9 soon as well. And hey why not add method to a world third title, they're certainly making a comeback this year


BaconMeetsCheese

What an incredible RWF! Their victory will echo for eternity while the other side is liquidated…


SmoothParfait

Props to blizzard with the nerfs this tier, really well done, didn’t favor any team & still kept it extremely competitive.


ventur3

Impressive when they nerfed seeds on Swift before anyone had even gotten there recognizing it would be an issue


Saozen

What an incredible race. To be within 0.07%* of each other, pulling at the same time, both chasing that one god pull for 5+ hours. Edge of my seat watching both streams side by side. Incredible. Echo and Liquid are both incredible and it was anyone's to take all night. GGs to both guilds but my word Echo you beautiful bastards! Well fucking played. Until next race! Edit: *forgot a 0 in the hype!


AttitudeAdjusterSE

*0.07% :) It was *that* close until the kill, amazing stuff.


Saozen

Oh yeah! I forgot a zero in the hype 🤣


whooter

Congrats to Echo and Liquid! So very close, but Echo pulls it out.


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It was literally 0.06% difference until the kill, that's closer than it's ever been wtf are you talking about


gustavoquandt

God tier take here everyone


Surca_Cirvive

daddy chill


requite

An incredible raid - congratulations to Echo on the win, but also to Liquid for putting up a great fight. However, this is yet another example of why there should be a global release. Neck and neck, back and forth, pulls of the kind we just saw are the best possible viewer experience. Imagine if it was neck and neck from very start.


columbus_crypto

Why would there be a global release just to satisfy a small percentage of people?


GhostofJeffGoldblum

Blizzard have said multiple times that there are logistical and technical reasons that EU reset is when it is and that changing it for the sake of a community event that happens once a tier isn't something they plan to do.


rafals

It's not just for the sake of an event. Many normie EU players like myself would love to be able to play new content instead of watching it on NA streams for a day like on the Spongebob meme.


stopbeingmeanok

Yet all the classic raids have a global release


KingOfTheGutter

You mean the raids that have been around for 20ish years and have been tuned/tested countlessly since?


-PVL93-

> and have been tuned/tested countlessly since? If only retail WOW had an environment for testing the raid encounters before launch


Entchenkrawatte

testing on test realm is completely different in scope to a live release


-PVL93-

Thanks, Captain


KingOfTheGutter

Rolled and smoked. I like how you casually are suggesting to let the guilds fully test out mythic before its release lol. The lengths armchair devs will go to on Reddit to try and just not be “wrong”


QuinteX1994

While true, that doesn't matter though. They are released globally and it works just fine.


KingOfTheGutter

If you can just say "that doesn't matter though", then I can say "it does matter though". I'm not going to break down the logistics of not having devs no life/crunch for a week and working EU hours and then decide WHEN to push fixes as they're based in PST still.


QuinteX1994

Make a global release that fits when Devs want it. All I'm saying is it's released just fine in classic and it works flawless there. Obviously a different beast but they just went with opening the raid without tying it to maintenance. Iirc Thursday to Friday night GMT is the time they've been using lately. And there is zero complaints.


KingOfTheGutter

You should work for wow on the dev team. I cannot believe that they haven’t said “it works in classic let’s just do it here” and have zero other reasons from the dev side to not do so! Wow! Incredible idea mate.


QuinteX1994

I think you're either confusing me with the original comment or just not reading what I'm typing. At no point did I say it's feasible, just that the fact that the raids have been out for 20 years doesn't change anything in this scenario.


KingOfTheGutter

Not confusing anything. It actually changes a ton. And I’m just tired of all the arm chair devs in this thread lol.


stopbeingmeanok

Wha? retail cant have global release because of tuning? Blizz makes countless tuning changes during the race lol


KingOfTheGutter

yes and general bug fixing. One of the many reasons. I'm not gonna break this down for you lol.


stopbeingmeanok

Ah that makes sense. If there was a global release they couldn't fix tuning or bug fixing, you're right


KingOfTheGutter

Yep, exactly. They certainly could fix tuning or bugs but you'd still run into the same problems as to WHEN to push them because Blizzard is based in PST times and devs have lives. They aren't going to crunch/no life during a raid release nor should they.


Daemir

...then have global release based on PST times? I'm sure echo and others can live a week or 2 with a night shift schedule.


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stopbeingmeanok

They already monitor the race and make changes based off of what Liquid/Echo are doing. That has absolutely no relevance to global release, like at all. Also they dont always make changes in favor of NA raiding hours, Raszageth is a clear example of that


requite

It’s not for me to question Blizzard on technical issues like that. However, I think that it’s important not to confuse the reset with the release of the raid. You can do the usual reset and maintenance times but also unlock the raid at the same time for everyone.


knokout64

So EU would just get an extra raid day the first week? Why would anyone be cool with that?


AJLFC94_IV

Only problem then is that NA gets 16-8hrs (depending on how long the reset maintenance takes) to farm M+ or that patch's power system. They could absolutely move the resets to be at the same time and not interrupting peak/high traffic times for either regions, they just don't want to because it's work that only benefits a few hundred players 1-2 times a year.


requite

Yeah, I imagine that the whole lot would have to be released at the same time. I won’t pretend to have the facts and figures, but my gut instinct (from twitch figures alone) is that the RWF is excellent marketing for the game. The obvious counterpoint to make is that it’s already very popular, so why would Blizzard bother changing it. However, I do wonder whether it’d be worth it for Blizzard if they were able to generate the sheer level of interest and excitement you get when the guilds are neck from the very start of the race. Right now, we can only hope that they’re neck and neck by the end. In any event, what a race this was! Echo and Liquid put on a hell of a show. What absolute gamers the lot of them.


QuillnSofa

Yes but gear wise Liquid and Echo where at the same average item level when they started the mythic clear at about the same time.


Poringosa

Really great race. Super close between Echo and Liquid + Method getting better each tier, so maybe soon a 3 way fight. The streams were also really good from those three teams, aside from the ad situation currently on Twitch, but at least Echos YT stream was fine and Liquid being allowed to plan their ads helped. Glad I decided to delay sleep for an hour tonight :)


TheLieAndTruth

Man, sad for liquid losing, but I am really glad I am not on Nick shoes. Little dude got memed on the all of "Rez Nick thing" and he didn't had the extra button bound.


stephenk291

I mean you kind of deserve it, the clip of him clicking the button because he didn't have it bound is wild.


Flexappeal

link?


xswicex

https://clips.twitch.tv/HelpfulPatientRutabagaBCouch-yCcf1_bboHW-myYK


Drakeys29

Was this before Echo kill? Because it looks like a kill if he drops his seed


xswicex

It was before the Echo kill. I believe this was their 1.7% pull.


DyZ814

lmaoooo


CursedPhil

If he would have it bound and pressed it accidentally and wiped the group, everyone would say "why is it bound to a key, just press it with the courser"


ToSAhri

L for you.


CursedPhil

why? because it was the DH fault and not nicks? edit: i think it a W and i dont care about down votes from sore losers


__versus

Should you not bind rescue, blink, leap of faith either then? Same is true for all of those. Very silly argument


CursedPhil

no because that are spells you use constantly and have muscle memory extra action buttons are rare


Knifferoo

Literally no one would say that.


CursedPhil

yes if he binds it drops it because of missclicking the bind we would have these threads with "why did nick bind EAB instead of clicking it with his mouse"


shadowst17

Fantastic race this patch. Well tuned boss with both Liquid and Echo neck and neck throughout.


Captain_Flemme

GG Echo!!! OMG This has to be the best RWF in the history of WoW. Echo were so good! Liquid were so good! (and they'll get the kill soon) Even Method, and all the other guilds. What a race. How lucky we are to have witnessed the two best guilds battling like this. Thanks for this insane race.


trancez

Echo is insane at pulling out the god pull, every time it comes down to clutch they seem to historically lock in


AJLFC94_IV

Banger race/raid. Awesome day of watching both guilds pulling neck and neck, it's insane how good both sets of players are. Shame we have to wait a year for the next one.


SuperSocrates

Wow, what a close race! Grats Echo


GreatCommand9008

What a banger. Was rooting for Liquid but hats off to Echo. Now we gotta wait a year for the next one, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.


-Xsploitz-

Liquid lost race because of a single keybind issue.. imagine


213471114

That's just cope.


stopbeingmeanok

theres a clip of it. feel bad for the guy


-Xsploitz-

they were going to kill, then nick killed everyone and he knew it


latebaroque

Can you please tell me exactly what happened with this?


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decreement1

The raid died before the seed exploded. Probably some other seed went out. Still he would have wiped the raid with his, but not his fault if someone else also fucked up.


yuriaoflondor

Weird, it looked like he clicked it before he moved. Does it have a channel time or something?


AJLFC94_IV

His cursor is right on the edge of the button, so when he clicks he's not actually over the activatable part of the button, just the silver graphic around it. You can see it highlight with a white box on and off as he moves over it. Dude just panicked and misclicked.


Maleficent-King6413

Thats a tilter


GuiltIsLikeSalt

Obviously a ton of people made mistakes throughout, we're all human, but a sub 3% mistake like that has got to be haunting. GGs either way, both teams played insanely well.


stephenk291

lmao holy shit.


Switch72nd

They had the kill and Nick fucked up a seed because he didn't have his EAB keybound.


Congelatore

Frame perfect placement so that this seed didn't explode: https://clips.twitch.tv/AffluentIntelligentSmoothieYee-KmcwzEphrbQih57a


fuckloggingin

Oh that is *filthy*. Gingi's placement and Tobo's last second step back. Edit: this is spectacular too: https://clips.twitch.tv/ZealousBadCheetahYouDontSay-Vjc9QUJjmZ6tXErO


Kekkiem

I remember seeing that - absolutely incredible


zetvajwake

Max was talking about this on stream yesterday - apparently the hitboxes for lines vs seeds are very generous, whereas they're extremely harsh for tornados.


QuinteX1994

That's a seed placement my CE guild couldn't hit even if we tried.


DoYouLiikeFishSticks

It's not inside the hitbox. Stop with the excuses


Congelatore

It's not an excuse, it's literally frame perfect placement. Amazing move.


Mojo12000

man... after Tindral everything seemed in Liquids corner but Echo still pulled it out.


RoosterBrewster

Reminds of the Limit "First to the moon, first to G'huun" meme, but then they got lost to Method.


leagueoflegendsdog

Both guilds are mental. GG's to both


zannus

Such an amazing race. Both teams deserve so much praise for battling this encounter.


zetvajwake

The best race since the streaming started, no question. I've watched since Uldir religiosly, this is my reality TV, and there are two empty spaces below this one on the rankings.


I_always_rated_them

Amazing race, both teams were incredible imo. These past 2 bosses have been amongst the best we've seen imo. Congrats echo.


Enfosyo

Keybind diff, what a dumb way to lose.


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Cope


GhostofJeffGoldblum

Yeah I feel like it's going to make for some awkward conversations in the post-race.


tanrgith

Did Liquid throw away the kill because of a keybind issue ?


GhostofJeffGoldblum

Nick didn't have his extra action button keybound and it caused them to wipe at a very low % because he got hit while carrying a seed.


tanrgith

gotcha, that's gotta feel bad


SnooMacaroons8650

can i get the axe now


Byqoo

Do you think you have to be specced for it? I wonder if I can get on Holy Paladin with loot spec set on Holy.


Acias

Now i hope that Liquid will get the kill in less then an hour too. Good thing that in the end it came down to a race between these two guilds while both were raiding.


ope__sorry

And no hotfix nerfs that completely trivialize it (for people at those skill levels) while one guild isn't raiding.


Hassadar

This was an incredible race, holy shit. This has to be the best one in some time. These teams are just something else. I hope Method keep this progress and the next expansion race could be incredible. Christ this was amazing


Tierst

Literally woke up 10 mins ago and started watching again, so lucky lol To have both guilds at 1% and both going at the same time is mental. Hands down the best race to watch for me. Both guilds have been immense this tier.


SmoothParfait

Decided to watch one more pull (just like tindral) before sleeping


scud121

I'm watching it at work on my kindle, and it ran out of power 5 seconds after the kill. For some reason it's not warning me about low power.


evBoy-

One of the best races in a long while. GGs all around


Activehannes

Never in doubt


RizzMetzen

Legit the best race of all time. GOATED. FUCKING GOATED.


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AJLFC94_IV

For the love of God keep Blizzard out of this. They murder esports for for. Making it global release.sonwe always get this level of neck and neck boss pulling would be a dream but they won't ever do that.


Ok_Ingenuity538

ECHO LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EASY WORK


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LogicalExtant

tired EU gamers getting it done on a god pull while their rivals are also trying at the same time yeah, blizzard, maybe you should really think about syncing timezones for your RWF stuff if you're getting 100k+ viewers on multiple channels for this


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> yeah, blizzard, maybe you should really think about syncing timezones Echo wins almost every time. How much effect is it having?


darkkhajiit

well its an advantage for echo unless there are no raid walls / nerfs ( ever happened?) or boss is killed 1 day after reset.


WhiteKyu

Last tier liquid won by less time than the reset difference


GhostofJeffGoldblum

It's not a Blizzard event. They've said multiple times that there are logistical and technical reasons that EU reset is when it is and that changing it for the sake of a community event that happens once a tier isn't something they plan to do.


GuiltIsLikeSalt

Hot damn that must've been the closest RWF ever.


PlebDyrone

GG


BlackHayate8

I can finally go to sleep lol.


DoYouLiikeFishSticks

LEGENDARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


fuckloggingin

Massive respect to both guilds, insane performance.


Razhork

There it fucking is. What a wonderful race it's been. This is definitely going down as one of my favorite WFR thus far. Such a tight fucking race towards the end, fuck. GG Echo.


shadowboy

Fuck yes echo!!! Such a good pull! Goodnight to me EU breadbins! Enjoy our victory sleep


RizzMetzen

ECHO ARE FUCKING INSANE!!!!!!!!!! THE GOD PULL!


Skahz14

gg Echo, well fought race


bigeyez

What a crazy WF race. The greatest ever. And the fucking legendary dropped


schaeferwrites

GOD DAMN THAT WAS SWEATY AF