Amirdrassil Race to World First Day 3 Recap - Six Mythic Bosses Down, WeakAuras
The Amirdrassil Race to World First has officially begun! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on the official swap to Mythic by the top guilds, Private Auras and its interactions with WeakAuras, the speed of the first six bosses falling, and more.
Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies.
The Race to World First has moved to Mythic difficulty, with both Liquid and Echo entering the raid after several days of splits! Following in the footsteps of <Instant Dollars>, Liquid made very short work of the first 6 bosses before reaching the enrage on Smolderon at 30% and breaking for Mythic Plus due to a bug on the encounter that would hinder further progress.
Smolderon's Mythic mechanic also features the Private Auras technology, which in theory prevents guilds from using WeakAuras to automatically assign the four targets an order to soak their orbs. Unfortunately, in practice, the guilds are instead using a macro which then communicates with a WeakAura to accomplish the same thing with slightly more annoyance.
Future guilds to fight this boss will almost all do the same, with varying speed of getting all 20 players to be properly set up, in a similar way to Mythic Echo of Neltharion. Dratnos and Tettles aren't thrilled with this state of affairs and hope that Blizzard will either find a way to combat this workaround or instead back off of turning mechanics like this into Private Auras.
Finally, Dratnos and Tettles highlight some takes from Jet and Tagzz, urging people to remember the past a little more and
