Achieving World First requires a great deal of time, dedication, and mastery to the game, but another important metric is the extreme sums of gold that go into funding the world race. The NA, EU, and CN guilds competing in the Race to World First routinely spend hundreds of millions of gold in order to compete - buying everything from raid consumables, to BoE gear, Mythic+ and PvP carries, or paying other players to trade their loot drops during split runs.
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