Race to World First Recap: Manaforge Omega Preview Edition!

The Race to World First is upon us, and with it are Dratnos and Tettles' Wowhead Daily Recap Videos!

In this first video, we cover the leadup to this tier's Race, the roster changes for the top 3 guilds, and the potential for the race to truly be a three horse race. The preliminary gearing strategy has been interesting though will pale in comparison to the gearing available once the new season goes live, featuring the interesting twist of the Deathless Hardmode Tazavesh bringing extra Myth track loot to those bold enough to overcome it. When and how Race to World First guilds go for this loot will be interesting - we think it's likely to be after Heroic but before Mythic to optimize for time and efficiency.

Class balance has been pretty wildly lopsided in the sims leading up to the race, but some last minute balance adjustments from Blizzard have sought to bring things more in line. Whether or not this has been successful remains to be seen, but Dratnos and Tettles throw together some specs to make a comp prediction while talking about the variables that would change things. A lot of slots appear to be in flux this tier, and many may change on a fight to fight basis.

Looking ahead to the next few days, we're likely in for 3-4 days of splits this tier as the guilds try to become as powerful as possible, but we'll have a lot of interesting information to dissect such as early mythic progression from non-RWF guilds, the heroic raid in general and Dimensius in particular which was not tested on any difficulty. Make sure to stay tuned as we bring you Recap videos every day in the early hours of the morning Pacific time, or around midday in Europe.