These videos will be recorded daily after Liquid finishes raiding, meaning they should be released around 2am Pacific Time, near the start of the European guilds' day.
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 guides.
Day 2 - Faster Splits, Few Mythic Kills, and What's Coming Next
Splits are well and truly underway, and in today's Race to World First video we have some Copium to peddle surrounding this tier's splits potentially being over sooner than last tier's - this could be due to a combination of factors: fewer hard bosses that impede splits progression, less need to even split bosses like Nexus King, and fewer very rare items that increase the value of each extra split.
Mythic Plexus Sentinel has fallen, but at time of recording only two guilds have taken it down which is far fewer than average at this point in a tier for the first boss. We think this is another combination of factors: the boss is probably slightly harder relative to the tier's gear than earlier ones like Vexie, but more importantly this tier's gear is a bigger jump from last tier's than usual due to unusually big values on 2- and 4-piece set bonuses which guilds attempting the boss in the first two days have had very limited access to.
We're hopeful for splits to finish in the next 48 hours, maybe even early on Friday, but let's make sure to not get too far ahead of ourselves, there's still a lot of work to do outside of splits, with Mythic Plus and Hardmode Tazavesh both likely to get farmed for several hours between Splits finishing and Mythic starting.
Day 3 - Great Valt, Ulduar Trinket Nerfs, and the Cost of Splits
Blizzard has updated how the Great Vault functions, creating more of an incentive to kill the later bosses as they'll upgrade the loot that you find in your vault even if it comes from earlier bosses! This is a neat change and is worth talking about in the context of the Race to World First, but there's not a huge amount of likely impact to strategy - the main thing it'll serve to do is potentially save some crests for RWF guilds next week, but it's unlikely to change the calculus of which characters play on which bosses.
The helper split meta is also a discussion point today, as splits are nearing their end and Method have raised prices for helpers presumably in response to a need for more helpers.
Two Mythic bosses are now dead to non-RWF guilds, with Soulbinder dying in a couple of pulls for several guilds but Loomithar proving to be a more substantial check - we still expect this to fall easily later in the week to RWF and even potentially HoF guilds as they bring the full power of splits to bear against it.
Manaforge Omega RWF Daily Coverage
Manaforge Omega Race to World First Coverage
Week 1
Day 1 Recap - Normal Dimensius First Look
Day 2 Recap - Few Mythic Kills at the Race's Start
Day 3 Recap - Splits Continue as Timewalking Nerfed
Week 2
Coming Soon!
