The discharge of World of Warcraft: The Struggle Inside‘s preliminary raid tier additionally served because the beginning gun for the Race to World First. Now, after 11 days of battle, Group Liquid has come out on high as the primary to overcome the halls of Mythic Nerub’ar Palace.
The journey so far has been lengthy and arduous, with loads of intervening drama conserving viewers glued to livestreams. After the primary 4 bosses had been cleared on the primary pull, it appeared, at first, that the race would show uneventful.
Nonetheless, issues rapidly ramped up from there. The primary main impediment to beat was Broodtwister, an encounter that took Group Liquid a complete of 120 pulls to beat. Issues grew to become much more dicey once they reached Nexus-Princess, the place the group grew to become caught for 304 separate engagements.
171 makes an attempt at The Silken Courtroom served as the ultimate staging publish earlier than they tried to tackle the concluding struggle in opposition to Queen Ansurek. After greater than a day of strife, three guilds had been vying for the crown, with Liquid coming shut as they battled in opposition to Technique and Echo for the win.
Sadly, none of these groups may churn out sufficient DPS to defeat Queen Ansurek earlier than her enrage wiped the social gathering. As such, Blizzard rolled out a number of nerfs designed to make the victory extra achievable, and it was right here that Liquid would declare the win.
On the time of writing, different groups are nonetheless locked in a battle for second place, with extra nerfs to Ansurek possible earlier than the top. Technique, Echo, and Huoguo Hero are all on the ultimate boss, whereas groups like ZboX, Immediate {Dollars}, and Finish Fable are one behind, at The Silken Courtroom.