What earlier years of closed doors takes place for years is for several years to the big event mutated : The Race To World First. When the top guilds of Wow open to tackle the new RAID on the highest level of difficulty, today hundreds of thousands switch on to Twitch to be live. But since Method had the first of the absolute top guilds decided to share the viewers at the race, has changed a lot. Much of simple streams have become tremendous events in which the local players are and hosts at commentators 24/7 keep up to date – right espport events.
- A perfect starting position
- The hype was here!
- The mythical week starts…
- Always the same boss
- Who is actually this cheater master?
But the current World First Race has to struggle with some problems that not only push the audience numbers down, but also taughture the fun of watching. And not only the WOW developers, but at least partly also the guilds themselves are to blame.
A perfect starting position
The signs for the current World First Race stood as good as long as long and everything was prepared for a spectacular event. The two top favorites Liquid and Echo were well prepared and also the guilds directly behind, such as SK Pieces or Method, had upgraded vigorously to make a major fight again.
In addition, the WOW players loch after many months of patch 9.1 according to new content and not only were to play themselves, but also to see the top players at the new bosses. Especially because patch 9.2, maybe apart from the story, was well received by players. The many changes that Blizzard had made in the course of the PTR due to player feedback, left a positive impression.
Above all, but that the final three bosses were not tested on the PTR , made a certain hype for the RWF. How would the guilds beat at bosses that they play for the first time – without they could prepare for extensively? How fast would you be able to adapt strategies and tactics and who would come to the corner with the great spiritual flashing? Spoiler: We will never know it – because the guilds are with these mythical bosses, they have already fought them several dozen times in heroic mode and weeks were pulled into the country .
The hype was here!
Due to this almost perfect starting position, the hype was also huge at the beginning of the race. Already in the first RAID ID in which the mythical mode remained still closed, thousands switched on and watched the top players in their steps through the mausoleum of the first and looked at the preparations and trying different tactics.
The good design of many bosses, which were still adapted by Blizzard in part in the last minute, also contributed to his part. The raiders had fun and that exaggerated on the spectators. One could have believed the Race To World First becomes a great success.
The mythical week starts…
… and no one goes! The first disillusionment already set in the first few days. Instead of breaking into the mythical version of the mausoleum, the guilds started with different split runs, a few mythical-plus dungeons here and there, a few arena struggles in between or even with the completion of the world quests.
Already at Skolex, the second boss of the mausoleum, the EU guilds had caught up – too, because the US guilds prefer to do split runs first. Source: Blizzard a run through the first few bosses, as we can experience it otherwise, there was only with a belonging time delay. To classify – Already at the second boss of the Raid, Skolex, was the European Guild Echo, which starts more than 12 hours later than the US guilds, in place 3. Most guilds did not really try how far they come before You look like other alternatives for better equipment – and that’s exactly what you have a lot of spectators for yawning boredom!
Always the same boss
Because already on the first day the so-called trade runs began. The top guilds invite so many “foreign” players as possible in their group, kill a boss and try to get as many good items as possible to get a single player. The group then consists for example from the warrior XY, 14 other raiders of the top guild and 15 so-called traders. These have no Loot ID on the boss, a sufficiently high itemlevel to act the important parts and are paid by the guilds for their services.
In practice, this turned down as follows: The top guilds played one and the same boss Zigmal in a piece, until all relevant players had their items and then moved to the next boss, which was also wrestled countless times in a piece. Partly in the streams of the top guilds, for days, nothing else was other than Trade Run here, Trade-run there – of course always with the call to the community: Help us and trades us your things!
If self-professional Caster almost start crying because they need to comment on hours for hours of trade runs. Source: Twitch / Echo_esport How boring that is, you sometimes looked at the conversations of commentators. Actually, they should report to what’s going on. But drill the drunk in a row, which happens at Lihuvim just so, then himself was the professionals too much and so was talked about fish rolls in Hamburg, why Crocs are comfortable shoes for Caster and why you sit in front of the couch as on the couch. And not about only in between, but partly for hours. Even more tension and the viewers would have fallen with heart attacks from the chair.
Who is actually this cheater master?
The Chairman is irrelevant to the top guilds – he has no good loot in their luggage. Source: Blizzard Actually, the Chairman is the big end boss of Shadowlands. Nevertheless, do not touch him the top guilds. Instead, the bosses were now milled dozenfach. Some top players have almost two dozen kills on individual bosses – all trading runs to equip colleagues.
Anyone who wanted to see the fight against the outside boss of the mausoleum had to wait either long or watch “smaller” guilds with their tryses. But why did nobody touch Zovaal? The reason is as simple as annoying: The Chairman has no relevant lot. Continue on the next page!
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