Race to World First Recap: Heroic Week

Dratnos and Tettles are back with another series of Race to World First Daily Recap videos!
These videos will be recorded daily after Liquid finishes raiding, meaning they should be released around 2am Pacific Time, near the start of the European guilds' day.
This video recaps what's happened during Heroic Week, including a wave of bans that affected the guilds to a greater or lesser extent. There's also been a great deal of splits run by every guild, with an absolutely absurd amount of runs leading to a huge amount of extra chances at the tier's powerful Very Rare items.
Dratnos and Tettles also made some predictions about which bosses will be hard, which specs will be good, and how much time will need to be spent farming gear versus raiding Mythic over the next few days.

[@chrisettia895]

“Sleep is really OP” is an underrated line.

[@chasexchaos9392]

Says a really tired Method member in every comment section ever under a diff name, just hoping raid lead will see it. Haha

[@nathanmanchester1967]

Hopefully they banked enough naps last week so it didn’t affect them at all :/

[@si13ntype]

Ilvl 606 slvl 1000

[@Alex-Shulman]

The scuffed handheld recording quality is impeccable. Change nothing about the setup

[@brandonhall9816]

Agreed feels very old school

[@bepis4056]

I need someone who looks at me like Tettles looks at Dratnos while imitating him

[@Jet2094]

I need a love this titanforged

[@countryc0unt]

he really is looking for approval at all times like a good boomkin would

[@Naeinsengimnida]

"Huh, GAyYyYy"

[@chasexchaos9392]

Dratnos grows beard-->Tettles grows beard-->Dratnos shaves beard-->Tettles falls in love.

[@Naeinsengimnida]

@@chasexchaos9392 Dratnos wears a skirt -->Tettles wears a skirt ...

[@vorsadelta7752]

As much as i love to see the daily race recap return, when is The PoddyC vs Bench live boxing match being held? Settle the score once and for all

[@Khaza01]

The cats are just playing Tekken vs each other 😂

[@ScottMys]

it's actually going to be a chess boxing match

[@nicknic28292490]

"Reluctantly bringing a Warlock for the utility".. Never thought I'd see that day.

[@mksteele99]

Dratnos and Tettles back together again! Truly love never really dies

[@helbovine]

What an epic crossover between two unrelated podcasters

[@voodoopepercorns]

Tettles' Dratnos impression is immaculate

[@PendGaming]

good to see you both together again

[@glennjackson100]

THANK GAWD THEY ARE BACK !!! was worried i'd miss my fix this race

[@zebo3545]

FINALLY! I've been missing content like this. This is content WE NEED when we're following the race. It's impossible to keep up with every cool little thing and strategy that's happening in the race. Unexplored content for the RWF. Please do more! Also Tettles' impression was on point, without video I thought I'm listening to Dratnos 100%

[@Brotherorangee]

The reunion we deserve.

[@Zaeylo]

You two have great back and forth while still listening to each other.

[@MARK0V]

So happy you guys are back together chatting

[@Sivvester]

Any video that has Tettles and Dratnos leaning into the same webcam is going to be great!

[@elvisferraretto7818]

Immaculate video, high quality commentary

[@TylerJBrown192]

Super glad you guys are continuing to do these. I do love the Poddy C and The Bench, but the OG Titanforge vibes are a classic.

[@ВиталийСозонов-ш3ш]

The duo is back, let's go!

[@daanmange13]

Love both of you, thanks for the content

[@39kelevra]

Thank you so much for doing these Recaps! My internet is data-capped so I can only really tune in to 1-2 days live.❤

[@magnius9317]

Love that these videos are back! You two have such a good chemistry glad to see you both presenting RWF again.

[@thatepicwizardguy]

THE BOYS! Tbh I kinda love the lack of production on this haha mic is good though.

[@adamgarrow1]

My boys back together at last

[@psjpocco]

This setup is peak. The best the upper echelon of wow content creators have to offer. state of the art. newcomers take note

[@LATHSPELL70]

100,000 $ in Beijing is like 50 bucks. Housing is ridiculous - split amongst many people, it’s hardly incentive at all.

[@mobius4247]

This vid has 2007 youtube quality vibes and it's amazing

[@Xiloscient7]

omg yes, the best part about a new tier is the week of daily recaps

[@Kurt_Monk]

The way yall talk about quality of player is so interesting. its a great way to break it down

[@Quiet_9]

We need a swapsies where Tettles has a dino pillow and dratnos has "i don't own a hairbrush" hair

[@TheNitram8]

Wtf that impersionation is SO GOOD

[@Drixcie]

Dratnos and Tettles back together, SO HYPE

[@durmiun]

It's really good to see the PoddyC and The Bench come together to collaborate on this

[@Lionelhutz-attorney-at-law]

Nope. Down with the bench Poody c 4ever

[@James_Johnson79]

I feel like this tier is tuned slightly easier so that it doesn’t compete with the anniversary event.

[@oz5150]

Dratty and Tetty? On god this is going to be good!

[@andrewnilson9994]

lmao the "goodnight jack" was so wholesome

[@andmyAlex]

Dratnos, you’re exactly right about multi-boxing. It has always created problems for the game.

[@Chiiyuriii]

Tettles, if you see this...the beard is a good choice, you look great. Also, excited to have this back, W videos.

[@MrM4DD0gg]

Great to see tettles and dratnos together again

[@TheFarGaurd]

RECAPS ARE BACK BABYYYYY

[@scottberry2119]

It's great to see tettles and dratnos ranting together again. ❤

[@arma1218]

Glad to see the boys back together for Liquid cast

[@Snapjaw398]

Been looking forward to this!

[@Sargaxiist2022]

Blizzard needs to keep up pressure. This time it was 4 day suspensions, next tier if there is an exploit they need to hand out 30 day suspensions. Making a team miss a tier would be a giant wake up call and fully cement the fact that Blizzard is standing up against exploiting. As it stands Limit/Liquid are the only guild to have been hit with a ban that truly fucked their tier (Legion) so they are pretty terrified to exploit. As it stands, I don't think a 4 day sent a big enough message.

[@Shimorta]

Nobody is going to exploit again, it would be a true catastrophe for any race guild economically to be banned. They’d be on the hook for all of their sponsor money, while still needing to pay their players. 4 days was fine, there won’t be anything else, ever again.

[@Sargaxiist2022]

@@Shimorta they said the same thing after Limit/Liquid got banned in Legion. Yet here we are.

[@meanseason3056]

The reunion we have wanted/needed 🥰🤓❤️💯

[@bowmancollar3684]

I'm hyped! Can't wait for the race to start!

[@ryanguardiano7830]

These are my favorite videos keep em coming!!!

[@RM-nf5eq]

Make Xalatath bigger than tettles for the next one. More scuff.

[@Carpentry_and_Computers]

Man I have missed the dratnos and tettles duo

[@jamesb3331]

Oof lil harsh on the method team there. I feel like they keep getting better. I agree I hard don't expect them to Win. But I think there is always a chance and I hope they pull the gap closer for sure

[@GooseGuzzy]

the best WoW couple since Tali and Evi

[@Max-9871]

im really excited for the mythic tuning. but since all bosses except court are very easy mechanicwise i expect very hard tuning in terms of DPS/HPS requirement to not see that RWF is over after 2-3 days. So even one of the "easy" first 4 bosses could be a unkillable roadblock on mythic due to tuning

[@Shimorta]

That won’t happen, unless something is severely bugged. It makes the raid unplayable for the rest of the 99.999999% of mythic raiding guilds when an early raid boss is difficult for the race guilds, the race is just the last 2 bosses, and half of the 3rd to last, and that’s okay.

[@Max-9871]

@@Shimorta No. especially with how gearing works in TWW they could actually do it. The highest itemlevel you can reach this week should be around 620 so if they tune the bosses to require the dps of a 625-630 avg dps player its still very hard for RWF players but the average andy will outgear it in 2-3 months cause if you arent shit and do like 1-2 mythic bosses and your +10 key every week you have like 638avg item level in 2 months.

[@hehexd2363]

so excited for these vids again

[@kernel2006]

17:19 New metric just dropped - mains per hour 😂

[@Pastaman314]

Can really hear the Liquid bias in the amidrassil raid part rofl

[@Fourside__]

youre beeing missed overseas :( still hope you guys have a great time and we will see you again on the echo casting couch! :)

[@CrimsinTheShaman]

Where can I watch your cast of Race to World First? On KZbin or Twitch?

[@sophblueberry]

What's the echo private aura 'exploit' discussed?

[@XCeazyX]

the boys are back together again

[@lukaswuppenhorst3873]

Damn Tettles youre beard fits you very well, looking good over there ;)

[@Shadowfex]

It's so wild to have melee doing top damage FIRST THING of an expansion. Typically, we need the scaling that comes with later gear. I wonder if it's all because we have the upgrade system from the jump this time, or just tuning. Still wild.

[@flackaracka1341]

What does gear scaling have to do with melees doing damage, what? In fact, historically melees scale much worse than casters and half of them have had vers as their best stat because of that.

[@Valvad0ss]

Lmao this isn’t classic bud

[@jakuboledzki6499]

Such a plot twist in the opening. Gripping indeed.

[@highgrade9]

Do we think people are getting banned for abusing the WUE bug and doing like 12 boss kills on one char to proc wue Edit: Typo

[@SeanK-]

Filmed in the Drat cave.

[@johnandrews8273]

We’re so back

[@loncho323]

We’re back boys!!!!!

[@CoreyDowning]

this is the content i want

[@fcz34]

isn't 50/50 saying liquid is worse bcs of the headstart?

[@callumstoneman807]

Very sad to not see you on echo stream

[@SuperGtimk5]

what about instant dollars? I think people sleep on that guild

[@Skaface]

Dratnos such a Liquid glazer.

[@davidmeehan1599]

Not figured out how to turn the lights back on in the room yet, I see

[@chaoticpotato6404]

Happy to see both Tettles and Dratnos back in the race but with Liquid now!! Go NA!!!

[@Bluegoespewpewpew]

quality good

[@carlosparra9527]

I give Method 10%. I hope the win.

[@Akeche]

Bans being a slap on the wrist always makes me roll my eyes. Should've been a week+ long ban. They will NEVER stop until you hit them in the pocket book.

[@slightlyinsane_5986]

Fraternizing with bench members I see u dratnos

[@jamesberridge3658]

50% Echo, 49% Liquid, 1% Method

[@justin9744]

F*ck method.

[@highgrade9]

1% for the defending champs I like the breakdown.

[@jamesberridge3658]

@@highgrade9 you are smoking the high grade, when did Method last win?

[@pikouy]

Titanforge! Hey hey hey…

[@trevorcherry9399]

dratnos not casting for echo?

[@wgcdrelliot8989]

sadly no 😢😢😢

[@jakethebarber1]

bro on the left is Anthony'ed tf up lol

[@patrickp9110]

i really like this

[@matheusferreira5203]

I think the longer the raid the better for echo, this raid seems a joke in heroic to the top guilds so i guess this is going for liquid but who knows

[@Quettesh]

Why is everyone ignoring BM hunter? It has the highest ST dmg.

[@alihorda]

Highest? Nah

[@fastydave]

Lol, no

[@Valvad0ss]

Lmaooo it’s not the highest

[@DavidLee-bw5dm]

Poddy c vs yhe bench mutiny!!

[@justin9744]

Thanks for the video guys. Method has no chance of winning and that makes me happy. Screw that organization.

[@karbonMAYne]

Boys, where are we filming from and can we ask people in the background to maybe not talk? Haha

[@Freestyle80]

hopefully Tettles stops being so biased now

[@VanToldsted]

Dratboss was the chosen one. He was our American link in Europe. Big sadge you're not on Echo stream.

[@jacesr7288]

Hot take: queen falls day 3

[@juros1545]

is liquid streaming the race from Maxs basement? They could've given the content creators at least one proper recording booth for videos :D

[@Mwhite18231]

I think groups that get to practice for "testing" should be ineligible to be in the race to world first. What about the rest of the guilds that don't get weeks of practice.

[@Arcticp75]

Any guild is allowed to do ptr testing if they want to and are dedicated enough to put in the time. ptr= PUBLIC test realm

[@augminten]

Re: your request, Audio quality is manageable but definitely not good, and a better microphone would certainly be appreciated

[@blake7587]

Multi boxing is a bannable offense as it should be. This is why World First runs are no longer impressive because these days it’s just a matter of who cheats most.

[@JuiceBox5487]

My favorite WoW couple!

[@JpDeltell]

You guys look like you're 12yo at sleepover party

[@CaughtColdBoxing]

No wayyyy

[@deejkeithanmusic]

Titanforge > Poddy C

[@MrSolarith]

Swapping from Echo to Liquid... 🤢🤮 I'm NA and can't stand Liquid GO ECHO GO

[@Zoniex]

you could just record the video on an iPhone btw, would be pretty good

[@squarednce]

Chinese Team? Do they have a name?

[@christopherneil8265]

He’s referencing all the relevant Chinese teams. Huoguo Hero (火锅英雄), Skyline, End Myth and JiTianHong (佶天鸿).