r/wow 16d ago

Discussion World First Megathread - The Venomous Abyss

59 Upvotes

As always, you're free to post about the race generally, but this will be your one stop shop for discussion and updates.

Friendly US vs EU banter is allowed, but please remain civil and follow our subreddit rules. The personal attack rules are in full effect

If this post needs updating, please shoot a friendly ping to u/worldofwarcraftmods in the comments below or ping /u/YourResidentFeral

Current Progress

Raider.io - Progress and short coverage blurbs. Good for those interested in up to date analysis.

Wowprogress - Simple progress display. Good for a quick glance.

Warcraftlogs - Infographs with Pull count & Best attempt. A more in-depth version of Wowprogress.

Wowhead - Everyone's favorite WoW news aggregator.

Method - Coverage from one of the oldest and most storied guilds in WoW.

BlizzardWatch - Alternative news aggregator to WoWhead without the database.

Watch Live!

WoW Twitch Directory. Find your favorite streamer and just watch their PoV.

Frontrunners

For those of you watching for the first time, there are currently two teams most known for being frontrunners.

  • Team Liquid is a US based guild hosting their attempts on their twitch channel. After a full sweep of the previous expansion, they were able to cement their place at the top at the beginning of Midnight. They have a chance to continue their dominance. roster here

  • Echo is an EU based guild and were the team that took down Fyrakk the Blazing before anyone else in Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope. Can they stop Liquid's streak in its tracks? Check out their roster here.

FAQ

Q: They aren't doing Mythic.

A: Some guilds will go into mythic right away after clearing heroics. The top teams do something called "splits". Each player is preparing multiple characters to take through raid. They reclear lower difficulties multiple times to funnel tier and high impact trinkets into certain characters. M+ will then be used to fill the few gaps.

Based on previous races expect the top teams to start pushing into Mythic closer to the weekend.

Q: What about World First The Tidebound Grotto?

A: Honestly? The boss is expected to fall very quickly and difficultywise will be closer to heroic than Mythic. Expect the Nymrissa to be split similar to how Chimarus was split last tier.

Q: Why isn't X in the FAQ?

A: Maybe it should be. Let us know and we might add it.

Other Coverage

If there's any alternate coverage happening in other languages or any guilds we have mentioned below but not linked to, please reach out to us at u/worldofwarcraftmods or /u/YourResidentFeral. You can also hit us up in modmail and we will add it here.

Teams listed and stream links provided are currently based on coverage of from the previous tier and are subject to change if not applicable to this raid.

US

Guild Link Progress Best Pull
Liquid Twitch Youtube 7/8 15.6%
Instant Dollars Kads PoV - Milli PoV 6/8

Oceanic

Guild Link Progress
Honestly Ashflash Mage PoV 4/8

EU

Guild Link Progress Best Pull
Echo Twitch Youtube 7/8 1.2%
Method Twitch 7/8 35.52%

China

Guild Link Progress
中洲队 (ZhongZhou Team) N/A 6/8

Korea (If anyone in the Korean scene can give us more info here it would be appreciated)

Guild Link Progress
SEEREAL NA 4/8

r/wow 16h ago

Video Congratulations to the Winner of Venomous Abyss RWF

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r/wow 6h ago

Competitive Echo claimed Blizzard favor Liquid and only fix bugs for NA region and not EU. And this is why they lost Race To World First

786 Upvotes

From Scripe, Echo leader / CEO:

"How come liquid never had the bug today that wiped 3 of our kill tries and killed 2 people on our kill pul?

Did the hotfix go live only for US again like on coiled altar?

@WarcraftDevs

In the clip the red circles from set 2 explode 2 minutes later once the circles from set 3 resolve. This should only happen if they help set 3. They never do so they dont expect to explode.

Liquid did not encounter this bug once today. We lost 2 safe maybe 3 kill pulls to it"


r/wow 13h ago

Humor / Meme Every Time They Release One of These Things

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2.5k Upvotes

r/wow 4h ago

Competitive Scripe, Echo Guild Leader and CEO, explained his reason why he doesn’t say “ggs” to Liquid

300 Upvotes

From Scripe personal social media account:

“It is not gg. We play hours behind. Keep progging harder versions. Bugs stop kill pulls. How is this a gg?”

Do we think this take is valid from Scripe? It is true that EU starts later but I am not so sure about progging harder versions


r/wow 15h ago

Humor / Meme There's two kinds of female characters in this world:

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2.1k Upvotes

The duality of Transmog (I'm the Hunter)

I lowkey love the wide range of customisation!


r/wow 15h ago

Humor / Meme I mean… It’s pretty funny

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1.3k Upvotes

r/wow 15h ago

Humor / Meme A meme from a year ago kind of became reality.

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961 Upvotes

r/wow 8h ago

Humor / Meme Azeroth Album art (OC)

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260 Upvotes

A little while ago I decided to try some album art with WoW characters. See what they'd look like in place. Has anyone else ever been curious? Got any good ones you'd like to maybe see one day?

All made purely in Blender. And a little bit of poor Photoshopping by myself.


r/wow 4h ago

Complaint Blizzard - your nameplates are a travesty!

102 Upvotes

This isn't news to anyone who runs M+, so it maybe is for Blizz, but the current nameplates are absolutely terrible! Probably the worst they've been in years. Even the tab to casting target functionality that used to work pretty well is not longer reliable.

A recent post in r/WowUI (not mine) demonstrated this problem, so I'm posting here separately to hopefully get some attention on this.

The gist of it is that the devs made a bunch of nameplate related CVARs secret values in the course of their ever-so-successful and oh-so-smort war on addons. Without these CVARs, addons can no longer prevent WoW nameplates from offering a rage inducing player experience.

So if you've ever thought about busting out a protractor to figure out the optimum 5° camera angle that un-clusterf**ks your nameplates in a big pull or find a nameplate that's jumping around your screen as if it's gained sentience and will die if you successfully click on it, please feel free to upvote this and let Blizzard know that they need to do better.


r/wow 19h ago

Discussion We need more items available at the Trading Post that reflect racial identity and class themes.

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1.5k Upvotes

I know some people enjoy those "quirky" Trading Post themes—like Garden Gnomes or heart-filled Fairy motifs—but I feel like we’re getting so many of these niche themes that it’s starting to get old.

(I could also get into whether these comical items actually see much use—I rarely see them, though that might just be my own limited observation.)

It’s hard not to feel like these things take up slots that could go to items designed to offer more transmog variety for various races. We know certain races struggle with standard transmogs; getting something designed specifically to fit a race's unique physique is always amazing and well-received by the community. Yet, these race-specific thematic sets usually only appear once or twice a year, if we're lucky.

Meanwhile, we get outfits that look like children's party entertainers or low-budget *Lord of the Rings* cosplay.

Would it have been so hard to release a full Tribal Priest set for Orcs?

Or a full Warlock set themed around a dark Loa for Troll Warlocks?

One of the few bright spots of the Warfronts in *Battle for Azeroth* was getting complete armor sets with faction-specific themes that fit the respective races perfectly.

To this day, those sets offer the best Mail and Plate gear an Undead player could ask for, along with incredible sets for Humans and Orcs—plus, Night Elf Warriors finally got race-specific Plate armor out of it. I’d love to see something like that at the Trading Post.


r/wow 6h ago

Discussion I was doing a little bit of Legion content... and realised how bland the Xal´atah invasion feels.

103 Upvotes

Okey, she is a woman of focus and doesnt care about other places across Azeroth... but other foces should at least be a bit present across the zones. On Legion you would get Elementals lords, Earth Ring, Black Harvest, Cenarion Circle, Naaru, Dragonflights, Titan Watchers, etc... many former enemies bonding together because the fucking planet was at stake, but on Midnight you get: Army of Light, Amani/Loa, Silvermoon, and a few Illidari that are mostly chill inside the city.

I know it is hard to include all factions, but it would be nice to see A few dragons flying around, maybe some druids that were sent by Cenarius or Malfurion, a huge elmental outside the city, just something that shows other factions care about Azeroth.


r/wow 14h ago

Humor / Meme And there was much rejoicing (minor 12.1.5 spoilers) Spoiler

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404 Upvotes

Because apparently no other event or enemy type exist and devs are hoping you totally forgot about the BFA grinds


r/wow 12h ago

Discussion First time I've been able to gear my main in over 2 years after having our daughter

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298 Upvotes

r/wow 16h ago

Humor / Meme Lisan al-Gaib!!!

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586 Upvotes

I hope you see this news and you're happy, my friend.


r/wow 15h ago

PTR / Beta Full mount functionality is 7 mil Spoiler

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382 Upvotes

r/wow 7h ago

Discussion WoW Needs More Tank Specs

97 Upvotes

For context I play between 3-6 tank specs every patch. But my main is always guardian druid. While I enjoy dungeon tanking, I greatly prefer ranged DPS in raid.

We need to add at least 2 more tank specs between Mage or Warlock and Hunter or Shaman. This way even tanks are able to armor stack with any group. I have ran several dungeons for loot I cant even use so that I can hand it to my friends of the same armor type, but we cant for half of the classes in the game.

If your problem around these choices is lore based look no further than the abjuration wizard in dnd, and the other specs have pseudo representation within the game already. Warlock could have a spec around the void walker, Hunter could have survival shift into a melee tank spec closer to Rexxar of old, and then everyone already wants an enhance shaman tank.

My ultimate feeling is that every class should have either a healer or tank role to help alleviate the current shortages of both. That way no one has an excuse to not be a part of the solution. But mostly I want a cloth and mail tank.

Edit: Im not trying to solve the lack of tanks. I want tanks that are 1 ranged dps and 2 all armor types. But imo if you give some of the traditionally dps only classes the ability to skip que with a tank spec, some will take it and thats more than none.


r/wow 1h ago

Discussion My pet peeve is people who advertise their twitch stream in LFG, what's yours?

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Almost daily I see someone in LFG with a key telling me where they're streaming it. Nobody cares! What's that one thing you hate?


r/wow 12h ago

PTR / Beta Map and information on Labyrinth of Kindo'Jan Spoiler

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177 Upvotes

Labyrinth Chambers

The Labyrinth of Kindo'jan contains 9 Chambers, with rewards increasing as you progress deeper into the run.

Every 3 chambers completed grants two additional Heavy Trunks, one additional Bountiful Coffer, and Great Vault credit, up to 9 chambers completed.

Heavy Trunk Crest rewards are doubled.

Complete at least 3 chambers to unlock the next difficulty tier.

Kindo'jan

Defeating Kindo'jan within a Tier 8 or above Labyrinth will grant you Vault Credit and a Heroic Soul Fragment once per week per character.

Heroic Soul Fragment

Obtained from a delve's Bountiful Coffer. Combine three fragments to obtain a random Hero 2/6 piece of equipment.

Just starting my testing now, but so far feels like a few delves stitched together.

Update 1: After I beat the first area a bird popped up and prompted me to choose the next area. I only had one choice, so I clicked on it and it automatically flew me to the door. After I cleared that second one the bird appeared again and have me two choices, I chose the central chamber and it flew me to that door.

Update 2: You can also ignore the bird and manually walk to whichever door and open it. There is a progression track like delves and prey, but this one only had 5 tiers. Each tier lets you use a new set of seals / doors within the labyrinth, which are like shortcuts I guess? It says "treasure and power await", so maybe it's more like an extra treasure room you can visit once it's unlocked. Each of the 9 'areas' is basically do some objective, then kill a boss. The same theme can be recycled between rooms it seems - two of them had me click on raptor skeletons to find a troll ghost's pet raptor.

Update 3: Well I finished all 9 rooms. Whenever I clear one it says the treasure area grows richer or something, but I'm not sure where the treasure is supposed to be. I could open treasure in Akil'zon's roost, but now the door to it is sealed. Sidenote: Akil'Zon's Roost is very annoying, a lot of traps and obstacles that knock you back, fear you, etc. while you try to click stuff to fill a progress bar.

Update 4: Ah ha, when I told the bird I was ready to leave, it teleported me back to the entrance, which is the treasure room where everything accumulates. It had six Bountiful Heavy Trunks and three Bountiful Coffers. All three Bountiful Coffers contained a Heroic Soul Fragment, even though I ended up doing it on tier 1. When combined they gave me a Hero 2/6 trinket.


r/wow 14h ago

PTR / Beta Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and BfA bubble Spoiler

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266 Upvotes

r/wow 19h ago

Discussion Midnight 12.1.5 Overview: New Adventures Await

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561 Upvotes

r/wow 17h ago

PTR / Beta The Brutosaur is back - 5M gold, customizable vendors, available through the end of Midnight Spoiler

400 Upvotes

r/wow 34m ago

Humor / Meme Still need help with Azta’rec?

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hone your skills with this bad boy


r/wow 8h ago

Humor / Meme Chinese raid copypastas, Midnight edition?

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57 Upvotes

I remember seeing a bunch of these in TWW and they were great, but I lost my screenshots. I just saw this one the other day and it reminded me of the joy they bring me.

Apparently they've been a thing for years, but I haven't seen a post for them in Midnight yet. Let's make one here! Do you guys have any examples to share? 😋


r/wow 17h ago

PTR / Beta Photo of new customizable mount posted by Blizzard Spoiler

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266 Upvotes