Top 10 RWF (Race to World First) Moments

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The Race to World First is undoubtedly WoW’s largest event with every coming raid tier. It grabs the attention of players of all skill levels across the globe to see the top players of Warcraft do what they do best. It wasn’t until BFA these races actually started to be streamed to the world for even non-WoW players to begin investing into but the race has been a thing since WoW released, always dating to see who could be the very best for the eternal boastfulness. In this list we’re going to be going over the top Race to World First moments to date
Script and Setup by Lotthbrook
Video edited by Splitrift
├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10. Emerald Nightmare Cleared in 18 Hours: (0:28)
9. Young Dip hit that skip : (3:16)
8. 20 Minute Sha of Fear Fight: (5:18)
7. Amidrassil was the Closest Race yet: (7:13)
6. Mathematically Impossible C’thun: (10:04)
5. SoFO in General: (14:35)
4. U.S. RWF Wins: (18:27)
3. Pieces Wins CoS: (20:55)
2. Method Nearly Disbanding: (24:02)
1. Saronite Bomb Strat in ICC : (25:47)
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@curlyhead360 Ай бұрын

For me it will always be Scott soloing Anduin on Liquids kill, it was such a hype moment to watch live

@TheConfusedFerret Ай бұрын

Surprised this wasn't mentioned, that was the craziest thing I've seen on a WoW stream ever.

@anthonytgameaddict Ай бұрын

Except it was bugged and the hit box on the projectiles were bugged and basically non existent.

@TheConfusedFerret Ай бұрын

@anthonytgameaddict and? It was bugged for every other team as well, doesn't decrease how incredible of a moment that was if everyone was on the same playing field

@billymays9296 Ай бұрын

I mean sure it was cool and all, but he was last alive as a BDK for like 200k hp on the boss (0% according to health bars). It was mostly just hype because it was world first + because the boss was so hard, not because of the actual clutch itself.

@Miichalek Ай бұрын

@@billymays9296 but it was still the most drama a drama kill could be

@Fred_Lifts Ай бұрын

I could listen to this guy read a dictionary from end to end and still find it interesting

@BasicMaffs Ай бұрын

No you couldn’t

@1Kapuchu100 Ай бұрын

@@BasicMaffs You must be fun at parties.

@BasicMaffs Ай бұрын

@@1Kapuchu100No I’m not

@channingtaintum Ай бұрын

@@BasicMaffsare you autistic

@JohanHultin Ай бұрын

You typo’d the cure for insomniac.

@Kenji-117 Ай бұрын

There is no way you didnt include Treckie's last second Bubble on Garrosh 25 man heroic. Truly an iconic moment and once again a paladin meme

@Kriple123 29 күн бұрын

Just left comment regarding Treckie and now I see your comment! One of the best RWF moments

@ZolidarPwns Ай бұрын

Legend has it, Youngdip is still out there, hitting that skip.

@beerfoot Ай бұрын

No doubt

@kylechermak7092 25 күн бұрын

For me, the photo finish for amirdrassil will always be my favorite. Both echo and liquid were ripping sub 1% pulls at the same time for like four hours before echo finally killed it. Absolutely insane finish

@ManDoggy Ай бұрын

Excellent list video idea!

@dog_knight Ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it. I would like to make a suggestion. When you're putting text over a full screen video, depending on the video content it can quite difficult to read, especially if there is a lot of motion like screen rotation occurring (e.g. around the 17 min 40 mark). Maybe putting a semi-opaque background (like the wow chat box) behind the text, could help improve its clarity. Generally I haven't had any issues reading text in your videos before, but this one example really stood out to me. Keep up the good work.

@MattSinz Ай бұрын

The time when that random Chinese guild released footage for the secret final phase for Argus mythic.

@blankwavemessiah Ай бұрын

Dude this channel gets insta-views late at night after OT shifts. I miss WoW but I realize I can never get it back because its a totally different game from when I quit post-mists and into WLoD infancy. Might have to pop a long video while I sleep to wake back up and do it again. Cheers, man.

@_agx Ай бұрын

how is the liquids tank soloing the last % of anduin not included here, bruh

@Testifiable Ай бұрын

Or liquids original world first, marking the end of an era for EU win streaks, Or Tindral in general. There's a lot that can be improved on this list.

@_agx Ай бұрын

@@Testifiable yeah, lots missing from this list. what a shame

@tiredpanda5808 Ай бұрын

Dude mythic SoO Garrodh world first by Method with one alive? In the first ever Mythic raid? God damn this list is total dogshit lol

@_agx Ай бұрын

@@tiredpanda5808 facts

@robertkovacs426 Ай бұрын

@@Testifiable Nyalotha was mentioned

@TheDeathslaw 28 күн бұрын

One of my favourite moments was in highmaul when everyone got stuck on butcher and then paragon just skipped butcher, steamrolled the rest of the raid and then came back cleaning up butcher with all the gear. It was glorious.

@kraxzuscreations Ай бұрын

Slow timed at work is the best time for uploads.

@Lazydino59 Ай бұрын

This would be really cool to do for classic race to world first as well. The valk glitch wiping a group on putricide, beef bar (or whoever) skipping like half of SSC, etc.

@jesalbov 22 күн бұрын

Enjoyed the video ty

@dracotoy Ай бұрын

No world first anduin is crazy. And raz was nearly 15 minutes

@barsondor Ай бұрын

Paragon 10m SoO I'd say would be worth at least an honorable mention. 1 healed the last boss.

@Sinnicall Күн бұрын

Yo! Important thing about 21st man, the strategy was created during the raid before, due to the boss before azshara needing only 1 tank, so max just watched instead and shot called. Scripe RL for echo, who always had "poor" performances as a player while leading (like every RL tends to have at that level, its impossible to do both at the same time as well), believed it wouldnt give them the advantage since they did win that race. However this decision was arguably what made them lose nyalotha, as the difference between having 20 high performance players and an outside RL started to show

@darkphase7799 Ай бұрын

There are plenty of raid bosses that have been exploited, such as Atramedes. You could pull him into the hallway of the doors and he couldn't hit you with the sound disks and so you could ignore his sound mechanics all together.

@Necrodoge Ай бұрын

ngl its cool hearing about how hard sepulcher was as i do have aotc on it not cutting edge i dont really do mythic that much but still feels nice

@Necrodoge Ай бұрын

i def felt the difficulty with bosses towards the end taking multiple raid nights to beat we basically had got the jailer down and then he got nerfed on our next raid night which solidified it and we got the kill pretty quickly

@Neomagam Ай бұрын

depending on when you killed it, but pre-nerf Anduin was probably the hardest heroic boss of all time. Also, for a short amount of time near the start of that tier (3 weeks? I dont recall exactly) one of the mythic mechanics was active during the last phase of the fight. So yes, getting AotC in Sepulcher -especially if you did it near the start of the tier- really was quite an accomplishment.

@Boxkar24 Ай бұрын

To add, for the number 10 entry. Legion was also the first expansion to have the mythic plus system, which also accounted for some of blizzard's mishandling of the balance in Emerald Nightmare. Together with the artifacts, legendaries and a great many class changes that happened for legion, the had no real idea just how crazy and out of hand things were going to get that tier. So if you've ever wondered why at the start of dragonflight (and apparently also the war withing) the tier bonuses look so dull it's because blizzard is being cautious of player power due to situations like this happening in the past.

@neatbug Ай бұрын

hello max

@Lionelhutz-attorney-at-law Ай бұрын

@hirumardx I was a bit shocked to see the Deathwing RWF in cata not be on here. Regarding the LFR bug.

@adamturcsany8598 Ай бұрын

Method extending the raid before reset on Ghuun was legendary!

@kattatonik2356 Ай бұрын

get stickbugged, max

@kswiss89 Ай бұрын

The original AQ war effort was such a cool time to be playing wow, I wish they could recreate that magic in retail

@Rodri_Santos_Music 19 күн бұрын

I'd add in Legion Kil Jaeden's outsmart by Method i think it was, they used the archmage vargoth toy to track the position of the adds , also abusing the goblin rocket racial to avoid the knockout mechanic.

@richardjones7003 Ай бұрын

I remember there was a BIG thing that happened in Antorus. Someone was part of a big guild trash clear or something, and REFUSED to leave the instance. I think it was someone in a Method group? They were unable to prog because dude wouldn't leave, and they didn't want to 19 man prog. That is for sure some MAJOR drama that set them back an hour for the instance to reset

@shurkien2 Ай бұрын

This happened to Serenity in Nighthold.

@Becko21 9 күн бұрын

Great Video, but Liquid was never close on claiming world first on Jailer.

@darkphase7799 Ай бұрын

My legion legendary luck sucked. I was playing mage and my first one was the stand still for 3 seconds to then be allowed to cast one spell moving, then the blink heal one, then the shield belt, then finally a dps one, but not a great one - gave you either free blizzards when using frozen orb? Or increased damage on it? I can't remember which one, but it was an aoe and single target dps boost.

@Caseman984 29 күн бұрын

I'll never forget watching liquid kill Halondrus, one of the most incredible bosses Blizzard has ever made

@LichtdesMorgens Ай бұрын

Honestly, World Second by For The Horde Lich King 25 HC will always be my favorite, everytime I watch it my adrenaline spikes as if I was there

@xerxesZinc 10 күн бұрын

I guess you missed LFR first introduction in Drago Soul and it issues which resulted in so many top guilds getting banned. A Korean guild got WF which is super rare.

@jparker923 Ай бұрын

I did not expect to hear "young dip hit that skip" in this video. Well done hiruma 🤣

@sybastianjohners8770 Ай бұрын

Not the most family friendly but how can we forget the bricked up moment in amidrassil

@darkphase7799 Ай бұрын

I still think they should create a tournament realm for race to world first where the bosses are purposely tuned hard. Give the guilds that want to complete free access to as many consumables and bis gear from M+/previous raids.

@zoeykitty9641 13 күн бұрын

The reason the guilds don’t want this is cause 1) they would then have to regear and reprocess on the normal servers. They need to be able to practice, trial new raiders and not have a huge down period between races. 2) it cuts the community out of the event. As someone who has worked the RWF, the community gets really excited about being part of the effort with splits or crafting. 3) It would change the race greatly if at the snap of your fingers your entire raid could reroll to whatever was better. Say hunters aren’t as good as they expected? Well just have those players make a new class and be ready in 20 mins. It takes a lot of prep work for the race and tournament realms would trivialize a part of the effort they put in. The RWF has been a community event ever since the start. It’s not blizzards event, it’s ours. They host and created the AWS and MDI. But the community created and supported the RWF. If the issue is the raids are tuned to 13 so raids aren’t plowed through in a week with the RWF, and the rest of the raiding community is frustrated when content is crazy overturned (or even the RWF teams when they overtune things like Sepulcher or Amirdrassil); the solution isn’t make separate servers for the RWF and have that content be harder then the normal servers. The solution is blizzard shouldn’t tune content around .1% of the raiding community and tune it for the majority of the raiding community that can’t/doesn’t treat raiding like a job and won’t have 4p for 2-4 weeks and ilvl is maybe 10ilvl lower then the RWF teams that did splits.

@warijor1 Ай бұрын

You forgot to mention that during release of crucible of storms MDI prep / start of MDI was happening during that time and 5 or more players from the best guilds in the world were participating in the event so were not really able to commit to the raid at the time.

@souillon6904 Ай бұрын

To add a little bit more about the first entry, it was also widly accepted that there was a soft cap to the number of legendary your character could get early on, so it was actually pointless to play your character once he already got his 2 legendary. As for the raid, not only did they fumbled the difficulty, but they also made the last boss, Xavius, easier than the one before, Cenarius, who was the actual "wall" of this raid, which is pretty lame when you're talking about a last boss raid.

@billymays9296 Ай бұрын

Nah this is wrong. There was a bug where if you got 2 early it increased your chance to get more, the cap was like 4 leggos early on, not 2. Plenty of people who got lucky early on had 4 leggos.

@souillon6904 Ай бұрын

@@billymays9296 No there was several softcap during the expansion and the early one was 2

@Iceburg2355 Ай бұрын

SoFO is also because it was 2 raids smashed together and half the bosses were late tier tuned from the separate raids.

@digitalskill Ай бұрын

Such a recognizable voice

@wellandy 14 күн бұрын

YUNG DIP HIT THAT SKIP

@CriticalMassGuild 5 күн бұрын

The disconnects whilst Ensidia were raiding were real i was there many years ago on Tarren mill, a player at the Dalaran fishing well had cast macroed to the mouse wheel and for some reason there wasnt a gcd on it at the time and when it got spammed it would disconnect server.

@Chimeraiam Ай бұрын

Max is gonna die when he hears hiru rip a “young dip hitting that skip”

@Orangez0630 Ай бұрын

what about deathwing and the guild starx or something from TW/CN

@ramieldefrawy9796 Ай бұрын

Pretty egregious exclusion: Method Myrhic G’huun It was a super tight race with Limit who decided to extend the lockout on G’huun instead of opting for a reclear. Method recleared and killed G’huun. It was the first streamed WF race because of Method so if they had lost who knows if such an event would have become the norm. They might have just gone back to not streaming and blame their loss on the advantage other guilds got by watching them. We wouldn’t have the race we have today!

@billymays9296 Ай бұрын

Liquid decided to extend because of Fetid being such a massive wall, and then Fetid was nerfed after they extended, so Method basically got the win handed to them by getting an extra reclear over Liquid. Races that are decided by Blizzard are never hype ngl (same goes for Vault).

@fleks8041 Ай бұрын

@@billymays9296 Fetid was not nerfed after reset and fetid being a wall was also not the reason for extending.

@dasdrifter12 Ай бұрын

@@billymays9296simply untrue

@CHRSS111 Ай бұрын

I still watch SK Gaming vs Kil’Jaeden to this day.

@Hwarming Ай бұрын

Wasn't there a guild that went into their game files and deleted a file so they could just skip to C'thun?

@tylersmith3713 Ай бұрын

Yes but it wasn't World First. Was for farm reasons.

@joshuadoubleday5120 Ай бұрын

A guild did that however it was not for a world first. It was to shorten the amount of time they had to put into farming cthun while naxx40 was out

@sybot. 23 күн бұрын

I MISS LEGION

@AvelineMelena Ай бұрын

I honestly still believe them when they say they didn't cheat with the bombs. Blizzard has banned people for WTF reasons numerous times and they already did back then; i remember them banning arcane mages using spell steal to steal shields from Death Knight trash mobs and using them to beat the bosses. It was hard to do, very few people did it, and limited to the knight quarter only. There was no bug involved, just good use of game mechanics.

@Lionelhutz-attorney-at-law Ай бұрын

I think Max aka Arthur correctly guesses 7/10 of this list.

@itstoxicqt 20 күн бұрын

YOUNG DIP HIT THAT SKIP

@moowu7260 25 күн бұрын

dont forget skylines 1000+ pulls on tindral

@DrDeen1828 28 күн бұрын

I'm surprised you didn't include KT Naxx from vanilla. That's when Blizzard showed their real preference for EU guilds giving them that on a silver platter. Death and Taxes was on KT days before nihilum and magically the boss just stopped spawning for them??

@FlipityGibett Ай бұрын

We hated SL and how dark the storyline was. So when we came back for Zerth Mortis(sweet a beautiful zone and good vibes) getting wrecked on Sepulcher was insane. A lot of people came back for that raid and it was impossible on normal without having played all expansion.

@gvelazquez94 Ай бұрын

Do a list on rarest hunter pets

@johnp-wx4yw Ай бұрын

young dip hit that skip!!

@IanStrain23328 29 күн бұрын

Unironically, its a disadvantage having NA get all the stuff first, our servers are the ones with all the bugs and shit. EU never has the downtime NA does because NA is the tester server to make sure everything is working properly. Also Sepulcher was meant to end at Anduin, and we were gonna get another raid with The Jailer being the end boss, but since they wanted to just get us out of Shadowlands, they put in 3 more bosses including Jailer so that we would be out quicker. We werent supposed to have fated, there was gonna be another full tier of WoW.

@m.l.8235 Ай бұрын

With crucible it's not that no one was taking it seriously, it's that it was released around the same time as either a TGP or MDI, where method were also reigning champions, so some of their best players (meeres, zaelia, ginji, naowh) needed to go do practise for that and so they couldn't necessarily put out their best roster

@billymays9296 Ай бұрын

So in other words, they weren't taking it seriously. If these things released during a normal raid tier, they wouldn't have participated in the dungeon aspects rather than not participating in the raid aspect.

@itzchocotime4690 Ай бұрын

@@billymays9296 this has happened with awc and the race, trill would do the awc and come back to the race when awc was done for the day

@wspencerwatkins Ай бұрын

For the regional differences discussed in #7, why not just start the timer at different times. World first would be the quickest to down a boss after it’s released in that region

@boopsii Ай бұрын

He explained it during. It evens as as N.A. typically hits bugs that need to be addressed and are always addressed before EU gets there. EU also gets to see the strats (what does and doesn’t work)

@wspencerwatkins Ай бұрын

@@boopsii hmm that makes sense. Might have missed that, I jump around a little, thanks bud

@boopsii Ай бұрын

@@wspencerwatkins course man. Both echo and liquid have commented on it too. The consensus is that it’s fine. They wouldn’t want to have their sleep schedule ruined by say a 11pm launch as well anyways. Might as well wait a few hours (since their Wednesday occurs half a day before N.A. does)

@enrikosuave5704 Ай бұрын

Here before Max reacts to this

@Kriple123 29 күн бұрын

For me is Treckie vs Garrosh in SoO 25HC

@takco2596 20 күн бұрын

Whats the point of an acronym if you have you spell it out (Race to World First)?

@Moonwired Ай бұрын

C’thun wasn’t tuned too “hard”. It was broken, you might want to go back and read what was actually wrong with it. Once they fixed the bugs it was killed almost instantly.

@danross1038 Ай бұрын

Sepulcher, not Seplicker...

@spark9100 Ай бұрын

I really hope they pull a dark souls on us at the actual end of wow. you beat phase 3 then the true battle begins.

@kooljay814 Ай бұрын

why is bro saying ion when referring to ian lmfao🤣

@Rodri_Santos_Music 19 күн бұрын

also there was a chinese guild that got the yogg 0 world first abusing aff warlocks staring at the wall to prevent insanity, "clever use of in game mechanics" as said by ghostcrawler back then

@jorge9207 Ай бұрын

ok 17:20 is a lie. liquid was never even close to claim world first on the jailer. in fact the last 3 days of their raid the did 0 progression while echo was miles ahead of them. liquid was playing so bad because of many reasons that it was not even safe for them to beat method for the 2nd place. since they both stream the race it was never seen before or after that echo outperformed liquid this hard. dont get me wrong, i love max and i love liquid but liquid got smashed on jailer.

@wimgeuens8433 28 күн бұрын

Some members leaving Method to make Echo, was pure hypocrisy. Most of those who left, were actually the ones who kept the issue with player X under the rug. To leave Method and have others clean up the mess showed their true colors.

@AngoDecay 14 күн бұрын

I dont think c'thun was actually mathematically impossible. Players were worse than today

@adriangar95 Ай бұрын

I miss old Method guys

@mobius4247 Ай бұрын

Since when was M Raz sub 10 mins, homie?

@whiskysin453 Ай бұрын

Always lol at "worlds first" like no beta tester had that boss on farm at best your world first on live but I think they should make that distinction

@tien5tri Ай бұрын

Paragon alikir has to be 1 of the top

@mihaitha Ай бұрын

In the Ensidia matter, Blizzard was a complete scumbag. First and foremost, the guild didn't *learn* that saronite bombs rebuild the platform, they just noticed that the platform was being rebuilt randomly (the bombs had a chance, due to a bug, to rebuild it, so it didn't happen every time Kungen was using them). So they indeed had no idea what was rebuilding it. Secondly, there were GMs watching the world first try, they had all the opportunity to close the encounter when they noticed it wasn't behaving as it should have. Instead they let it happen just to issue a ban afterwards.

@Samyyb03 Ай бұрын

E- ON, not I- ON

@mattalan6618 Ай бұрын

Ok Karen

@SargSpooot Ай бұрын

@@mattalan6618 tbf it is fucking annoying

@channingtaintum Ай бұрын

@@mattalan6618shut up, Matt Allen

@Lionelhutz-attorney-at-law Ай бұрын

I know Ion.. it pronounced Eye-on. He loves that shit.

@Jesus-warrior Ай бұрын

@mattalan6618 the dudes name is not I-ON its E-IN I mean crap it's an English name.... and it's said during All interviews... I believe this is all AI written and he is just reading it, also YOUR A KAREN 😂

@darkphase7799 Ай бұрын

You said Ion a heap then Ian. Guessing you purposely trolled.

@VividVoid Ай бұрын

Hi Max.

@DEML91 Ай бұрын

I still think raids shouldn't have open betas for guilds to prepare and train on them , Blizz should have a few payed guilds to test this on closed beta and this guilds should be allowed to participate on the race, then we would see truly how long this would take to complete.

@billymays9296 Ай бұрын

No Guilds are as good as Liquid and Echo, so it would never be testable enough.

@DEML91 Ай бұрын

@@billymays9296 as seen by this video it never is , you can never test for everything so there is no necessity to make it open beta, and even the guides can be made after the raids reach live as well as other creators that already don't play in betas to make their guides.

@Outwardpd Ай бұрын

The EN one isn't really true, yes a couple of players did the degenerate strategy but even among the world first guilds only a few did that extreme strat. EN was poorly tuned because of Blizzard failing to account for tons of general changes Legion brought with M+, artifact weapons, legiondaries, and tons of class reworks, also the fact that they didn't want a Highmaul 2.0 so they wanted it to be easier like most first tiers, they just swung too far. This is why the raid was so short for everyone in EN, not just world first guilds.

@danielgadalla1280 8 күн бұрын

usso taunta usso taunta usso taunta

@christophermoody8672 Ай бұрын

"eye-on" HIRU PLS

@bouquetofroses3416 Ай бұрын

WTF !? Is his name Ion or Eon ? You sound like you had a stroke saying his name back there

@one_eyeddd473 Ай бұрын

IOn? 😂

@embraceembrayzie8188 Ай бұрын

12:23 12:27 12:31 12:57 13:07 13:15 13:19

@jothi6202 23 күн бұрын

Usso taunta?

@noahvance7344 Ай бұрын

Liquid going back to back was worthy of this list

@1859ddd Ай бұрын

Ion is pronounced “Ee-on”

@Crumbdumpster27 Ай бұрын

*pseudo

@Shuffmeister Ай бұрын

Absolutely horrendous list

@Digitaldreamer7 Ай бұрын

Now you have to pay for the privilege of trying to attain world first

@orangecrushprod7607 Ай бұрын

Rest in peace Joana❤(haven’t watched the vid yet but I assume he’ll be here maybe?)

@JoeyPeeters Ай бұрын

Altho RWF is a cool concept I still think it's bad for the game as a whole. Having to nerf raids at all (in this case multiple times) for the general playerbase to even have a chance at clearing it is bad design. They shouldn't design raids for the less than 1% period. Either give those players a tournament realm with crazy overtuned bosses to bash their heads against or make them easier. Simple. Progressing mythic only for it to be nerfed into the ground later as a mythic raider doesn't feel good either. It should not be like this at all.

@OM-qi9rl Ай бұрын

Sha of Fear fight last 20 minutes and it was bad? Every Ultimate boss in FFXIV is 18-20min long fight and have alot like alot more mechanics to learn. Personally I find it very enjoyable.

@stunsisacul Ай бұрын

Sepulcher was outstanding. I feel like every boss on mythic should be nearly mathematically impossible. Wanna be world first? Show us how degenerate you can get with your dirge for it.

@Sebastian198910 16 күн бұрын

About #5 SoFO: Liquid did give up as they knew Echo will win anyway because they were so much ahead.

@yortax5879 Ай бұрын

Trial of valor and all top guild ban

@toreador10000 Ай бұрын

feyerak

@hawkman8706 Ай бұрын

How is the Lich King bomb thing number one? It was only for world first normal mode lmfao. Nobody gave a shit about it

@TheVincident. Ай бұрын

Jesus of course it’s a huge advantage for NA it’s just that NA is historically one of the worst video game scenes since they’re actually very small and more comparable to a minor region

@Izzyduude 18 күн бұрын

Crucible was pointless. Maybe 1 piece of gear was good per character. Besides a guild trying to be the 1st to beat the last boss it was better to do pvp or heroic dungeons or anything was better than this.