Mythic Ny'alotha Race to World First - Mythic Ra-den Hotfix Calls for a New Strategy

Posted 2020/01/29 at 2:14 PM by Squishei

Mythic BasicsEssence of NightmareUnstable Nightmareclosest player

Vita: Unstable Vita which jumps to the farthest target and the raid cannot be between those players.

Nightmare: Unstable Nightmare which jumps to the closest target and no one can be within 15 yards of the debuff.

Void: Unstable Void which is a bouncing orb that must be soaked and can be controlled directionally.

Vita: Chain Lightning which targets a player and chains to the group if they are too close to another player.

Nightmare: Dread Inferno which targets multiple players, summoning a pool of fire that chases them.

Void: Void Collapse which targets a player and forces the group to stack to split the damage, or sacrifice the player.

Nightmare

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Comment by BaneleafBeta for AzerothComment by Natakutdh"Lets use abilities and how mechanics interact with them to our advantage!"
"no"Comment by tidomonkeyDid streaming cost Limit their chance at world first?Comment by LolusMy guess is next hotfix will be nerfing Ra-den after monitoring the wipes.Comment by AzlantIt doesn't surprise me that the strategy was changed, considering how it completely trivializes the mechanic; Blizz has been pushing back on immunity strats for a while now so this is just following that trend.

On the other hand, the delay in patching this is really baffling. They've already patched things like health values on several bosses in this tier extremely fast, sometimes after a single pull, so waiting for several hours to push a hotfix that completely changes the fight just seems like they were sitting on their hands with this.Comment by TackettDid streaming cost Limit their chance at world first?Comment by LolusIt doesn't surprise me that the strategy was changed, considering how it completely trivializes the mechanic; Blizz has been pushing back on immunity strats for a while now so this is just following that trend.

On the other hand, the delay in patching this is really baffling. They've already patched things like health values on several bosses in this tier extremely fast, sometimes after a single pull, so waiting for several hours to push a hotfix that completely changes the fight just seems like they were sitting on their hands with this.Comment by prophet001They've always patched while the raid was going on.

Why would they stop?Comment by lenowell78Love how NA gets to Beta test for EU and other regions.Comment by Hii488It doesn't surprise me that the strategy was changed, considering how it completely trivializes the mechanic; Blizz has been pushing back on immunity strats for a while now so this is just following that trend.

On the other hand, the delay in patching this is really baffling. They've already patched things like health values on several bosses in this tier extremely fast, sometimes after a single pull, so waiting for several hours to push a hotfix that completely changes the fight just seems like they were sitting on their hands with this.ButComment by rinkworksDid streaming cost Limit their chance at world first?Comment by Peredhil

I don't think blizz would deliberately wait to push this, I'm sure most of them want a fair race as much as we do lol, so I guess the delay came in getting together enough people to test that the fix works and doesn't break anything else.Comment by ZachenAbsolutely wrong to hotfix the encounter so drastically after Limit had been working on it for hours and hours based off that strategy and were close to a kill. Bad form, Blizzard.Comment by AmantheilNo. Blizzard closely monitored the world first race and would adjust on the fly even before guilds started streaming.

There are also multiple bosses after Ra-denComment by miloticis a outseason april fools?Comment by jimbowmanMain mythic mechanic not tested at all internally? HahaComment by galinhooRemember when Blizzard fixed the strat from method based in a bug on Jaina and they insta went to Twitter till Blizzard put the bug back?

Yeah, someone at Blizzard just don't like Limit at this point.Comment by jjanchanDid streaming cost Limit their chance at world first?Comment by LolusDead, drama is over :).Comment by JaigarThis like the EXP potion bug, I have no idea how it gets through. This is some QA 101 stuff when its happened before. Sure, I could understand if it was something brand new thought of, but its been something that's been around for a while with one of the more recent examples being immuning chains of Sargeras on Argus.