Clear Water Takes World First Heroic Ula'tek — Still No Mythic Bosses
Chinese guild Clear Water downs Heroic Ula’tek first; Liquid and Collapse follow. RWF day two still has zero Mythic Venomous Abyss kills amid lag and a brutal Heroic curve.
The Race to World First for Mythic Venomous Abyss is still in split hell — but Heroic finally cracked on the end boss.
World First Heroic Ula’tek
Clear Water claimed World First Heroic Ula’tek with a purpose-built Heroic roster (avg ~303.9 ilvl, top at 310). Composition leaned into heavy ranged (multiple Arcane Mages / Destro Locks) plus a six-healer setup.
Liquid took World 2nd shortly after on a split group (kill roster under ~300 ilvl average, with some higher-ilvl players reused). Collapse Gaming ground out World 3rd after a long wipe series that included sub-1% attempts.
Why the race feels slow
Day-two recaps still showed no Mythic Venomous Abyss boss kills — an unusually long wait for a first Mythic boss in recent RWF history. Guilds remain buried in Normal/Heroic splits, Tidebound Grotto Lair farming, and hotfix whiplash (Coiled Altar health nerfs, Heroic Ula’tek tuning). Login lag and stability complaints didn’t help.
Top orgs (Liquid, Echo, Method, Instant Dollars, and others) are expected to pivot harder into Mythic once Heroic farming and gear stabilize.
Related: RWF overview · Coiled Altar nerf · Aug 20 Ula’tek hotfixes.