World of Warcraft: Race to the World Firsts - Remastered 2004-2023

[@aitor2516]

What a legend, you updated after all these years ❤

[@Halikarz31]

Always a pleasure watching the older kill videos and seeing names I used to funny enough look up to in a weird way as a child back in Vanilla. I will always remember names like Kungen, Buzzkill, Seijta and more. Legends of the game simply because they were the best

[@rank1132]

Paragon era was truly awesome. Their kill vids were always top quality. Nef kill with all the feral druids was epic

[@rodrigoa4506]

Fun facts: 1. Kil'Jaeden had the longest progress since Nefarian in Blackwing Descent (Cataclysm) in 2010, so it broke a 7 year record. That boss was monstrously difficult. Its completion, even outside of world-first race, required multiple faction and race-swaps from a few classes for the goblin rockets movement ability to deal with the platform explosion knockbacks. 2. Liquid and Echo took part in the closest WoW race ever (so far) on Fyrakk, the last boss of Amirdrassil (Dragonflight). Liquid wiped at 1.73% and Echo at 1.82%. Echo was behind for most of the race, and even on Fyrakk, they where behind on several % for most of the boss' progression. They turned it around on the last few days and came to a victory. Awesome video by the way

[@Shyneur]

"Hello, and welcome to Did You Know Gaming..." Thanks for those cool facts, I'll make sure to add them up for the next update!

[@madflander2]

I think the term „Echo was behind“ is kind of anaccurate, since Echo had on average 80+ pulls less than liquid. In the end, they ended up 120 pulls (25%) ahead of Liquid, which is a huge skill gap actually. Blizz should Release raids worldwide at the same time, to Not give advantages to certain regions. In the end it was close and fun to Watch, bc of the time difference, which made them end up at the same results of their pulls

[@simonsrensen4515]

Saying Echo was behind on Fyrakk is innacurate

[@rodrigoa4506]

@@simonsrensen4515 They were behind on % and kill count, and Limit got close to killing the last boss first, which is what the race is about. If you want to argue about efficiency or pulls per %, that's a different story.

[@simonsrensen4515]

@@rodrigoa4506 You dont even know that they arent called "Limit" anymore but go by Liquid. And no Liquid was not the first to get close to a kill, Echo got to sub 2% before Liquid did

[@extremegaming9045]

Please keep this remastered alive ... we love to see the classic world first

[@R.Konksson]

Nihilum ❤

[@nilsp9426]

The Paragon nostalgia hits hard in this video. Usso taunta!

[@nimnu6560]

Best boss kill in history

[@kingmunny9358]

Yes!!!!!!!! You updated it!!!!!

[@yakumile]

Paragon FOREVER

[@ronono23]

this is really brought me back to 20years ago, tears down now. thank you

[@Tainadaine]

Shoutout to those real fellas who keep updating this video!

[@raphaelsartori]

26:21 The clinking sound of silverware on plate. Dinner was had by the PC.

[@MrBobthebuilder97]

So excited to see this updated! =)

[@kat8506]

Thank you for the compilation 🎉 was so cool to watch how the game developed into something modern while still staying the same ❤

[@Misterbazzuka]

Paragon just dominated 2009 to 2011. Impressive

[@heyyopancake8531]

They dominated for way longer than that. Paragon = Nihilum = Ensidia prety much, mostly the same guild just with different names.

[@NikPPa]

you are wrong. Paragon was a merge and had many players from my previous guild Beyond redemption in vanilla. Such as seijta, Jharzun and few others which i cant remember. Plus they merged with another finnish guild sauna or something. @@heyyopancake8531

[@Rupture31591]

@@heyyopancake8531 paragon has no relation to nihilum/sk/ensidia aside from competing against them for world firsts.

[@Tarquillentte]

@@heyyopancake8531 Hell no. Ensidia and Nihilum were english-speaking guilds with members from different countries and Paragon was a completely Finnish guild and was formed, if I remember correctly, out of the members of Sauna and Taikametsän asukit.

[@EternallyGod]

Almost every other guild had so much drama that they struggled to even raid. Even the top 100 guilds werent doing ok....the game itself took a big ole steaming dump on the players.

[@quinlantravis]

You updated it ! Awesome

[@dominict.2841]

this video gave me chills man what a journey

[@fsgjafgja]

Keeper of History, Shyneur

[@Domoguy13]

Love the video. Hate the people who make these while calling the players degenerate, loser, no life trash cans. These people dedicate themselves and over time made a living off of being insanely good at something they love. Respect.

[@masonmcconnell9375]

thanks for the update hope you never let this die my friend

[@C.3Blum6]

Masterpiece, on the next 20 Years 👍🏼

[@Zynnlol]

As a Ex DnT Raider, this video give me chill !

[@YannickKühner-b4x]

God damn Kungen your insane dude play world first wow crazy in every kill almost respect

[@Raliator]

10/10 Video! I'd love to see number of attempts, and possibly second/third places finishers as well (just stats) so that we can see how close the races were! Love the idea though!

[@Markybow1971]

WOW this takes me back. Ill make it clear i went from original WOW ( right at the beginning ) and stopped bout a month into CATA. Was in a server second guild, 1st was topping out world 100 ish, we were topping out bout world 300, the races we had, they beat us mostly but we got alot of server firsts, probably bout 30%. my favorite was same night progress on WOTLK naxx, we were on Kel same time, we beat them by bout 2 minutes, happy HAPPY times 😁

[@Cabelius]

really nice video

[@ZetsubouZolo]

Damn I remember the days I saw members of Nihilum run around my server. I was very much not in the raid game but everyone knew these guys were beasts and there was a certain vibe whenever one of them was standing near you in SW

[@voodoo123x]

Yeah, there was something special about it in those days. In Vanilla and TBC I was playing on a small server that had a small Horde population that was nowhere near world first, but everyone knew the top raiding guild on the server and it was always a special sense of awe seeing these people running around Orgrimmar. Especially since that was before transmogs and seeing the gear that they were wearing that I knew I was never going to be able to get.

[@mark7493]

updated the video What a legend

[@simon502ad]

The tauren kills Ragna and goes to mana regen fore res instead of checking loot. MVP

[@Kosic333]

@Shyneur Missing one boss from WotLK. What with Sartharion +3 drakes - who won world first and when? 🤔

[@ewanjacksonmusic]

You mean 2? Halion isn't in there either

[@Daniel-pc1zb]

nice video bro

[@freddew]

I achieved world 50 or so in Ulduar and i dedicated my entire life to the game so i cant even imagine what theese guys do for world first, incredible.

[@jeromepark5646]

nice video

[@enkimerlin3209]

That was a ton of Druids on that Nelfarion returns kill omg

[@ariex0a]

As hype as it has been watching the RWF lately, the sudden it highlights an issue with boss design since BfA Ever since Azshara, the kills all have every player alive, maybe 1 or 2 dead, because every single mechanic that can cause you to lose a player is just an instant wipe. Maybe it's technically harder this way, but we are missing out on experiences like Lei Shen, Blackhand and the ridiculous Garrosh kill where there is the posibility to make a miracle happen, to push your raid to it's very last hair and just barely get across the finish line. Progressing a boss feels binary, either you do it all right and you kill it or you don't and you wipe. There's no margin of error, and as such it's hard to have those moments where we shine.

[@bmo14lax]

not the case at all. Many bosses recently had to have everyone alive to meet the dps checks

[@EternallyGod]

All the top raiders quit and the guys left over cry very loud in streams. They claim it is harder....but what is hard is the fact that they need to have multiple of a class cause of stacking and random drops....it isnt skill based....it is did you get your drop? Nope, well we cant kill it this week cause our class cant hit the numbers needed to kill the boss yet....fun!

[@bmo14lax]

@@EternallyGod its just very streamlined now for the sake of the top guild. The amount of skill necessary to be in the top 1% hasnt really changed

[@EternallyGod]

@@bmo14lax I was the top shaman in the world for all the ulduar hard modes....i wasnt in the top 1%....i was the number one shaman dps in the world....I know how it all works and the top players are rarely in the top guilds....the top guilds have really good players who will take weeks off work and real life to raid...most normal people wouldnt consider that option. Take a look at the liquid players, most are single and stream for a living....imagine having a wife and a good playing job....

[@bmo14lax]

@EternallyGod The game and raiding More fundamentally different at the time where you were " The best shaman in the world" The game has much more nuance to it Now is what I'm saying basically. Knowing how to play one class in one expansion isn't enough. You need to be skilled at a few to be valued as a top team member. And then this isn't even starting to talk about race the world first in the couple most recent expansions. That's on a whole different level than "ulduar"

[@RykaruBlast]

The Lich King Kill is by far the best World First Ever! Paragon ❤ still Goosebumps on it

[@GrosserBoeserVoodo]

I disagree. Until Fyrakk I think Sylvanas was the most insane race and world first kill ever. Echo still on the "first" reset, barely making it to 50% only to realize they have to push her 5% further. Finding that Damage under pressure, while Liquid was reclearing the raid and having that extra gear would've made the fight soo much easier. That fight was just a masterclass of min-maxing an encounter for a world first kill.

[@marcelkunz_finanzen]

Anything after WOTLK was far to professional to be "insane". @@GrosserBoeserVoodo

[@sinnis4993]

@@marcelkunz_finanzen and anything before cata was a cakewalk, barely worth mentioning.

[@darkduprey4079]

@@marcelkunz_finanzen Nah. Lets be serious for a second, when it was not "profesionnal" we didn't even get to watch them actually do the bosses, only a video released after the facts while all we had during the progress was F5 on wowprogress to see if it was dead yet or not.

[@paulclarkson2583]

EUPHORIA is the only word to describe these once in a lifetime special moments. Its a nice feeling to have been there to witness a handful of them.

[@ChrisRossUK]

Awesome update. I still think Sylvanas was the best one, with Echo somehow squeezing out an extra 5% to cover the Mythic phase, even when it seemed impossible.

[@EternallyGod]

At that point in raiding, the race was mostly bought.....buying boes and everything got to be insane....if you werent ready to drop 1k dollars per raid char, you got your kill 2 lockouts after.

[@KajoTTV]

You legend!

[@vafanskamanheta]

26:20 😂😂😂😂 Never gets old!

[@Blaizeria]

One thing is clear no headset is safe during an echo rtwf contest

[@blackpotato6148]

Absolute legends, when I see their fps, how long did it all take.

[@PejtuJoker]

I cry every time i watch this video This video brings back so many of my memories that i cant even describe it i do not regter playing wow since 2007 since i was 13 years old to 2015 untill i was 21 All the people that i met , all the bosses that i killed all the happiness that i shared All the rage All the love All the hate GAMES UNITE NOT DIVIDE!!!!!!

[@davidk5990]

To See all that Raids brings back so many Memorys =(

[@H4LLA]

A good thing for the video would be adding number of wipes on the 3 hardest bosses in the raid or something next to the amount of days they progressed the raid. There should be data on pulls atleast from MOP to current.

[@Shyneur]

I was wondering what kind of simple data could be added and this would be relevant. The only thing is that I'd prefer data that can be tracked all the way back to Vanilla, but apart from the number of days of progress, these informations are sometimes hard to find. But I'll maybe keep this idea for the next iteration ;)

[@edgardocruz4480]

​@@Shyneur that data is i'm a KZbin video ,later search the name of that video.

[@andrewechevarria507]

Roger brown has been In the most worlds first runs , that dude is a legend. Also what ever happened to nihilum ?

[@martinprokes6877]

Epic video bro! Love i! Btw how do you calculate the progress time? Like for example you have Sylvanas for 7 days and then Jailer for 5 days, but Sepulcher was the longest RWF ever (like 18-20 days). Is it time spend just on the last boss? Then I don think Echo spent 7 days on Sylvanas with 160 pulls :)

[@Shyneur]

I indeed shot myself in the foot with this one. I worked on multiple occasions on this video on the span of several years (wether it's this version, or my first iteration) and so the way I calculated this may have shifted in my mind without even realizing it. But you're not the first to point out that discrepancy. I'll make sure to fix it for the next version! Thanks :)

[@Zantetsuken94]

Nobody cares how long sylvannas or the jailor took because SL is the soulless loser expansion

[@benl5251]

10 mins - i'm singing the lyrics to pendulum! love that song!

[@LeGamerduNordOuest]

Kil jeaden in Legion is a Real MONSTER! :D

[@forsetylord]

legend

[@Collected1]

Goosebumps (again),

[@moviearticka]

seeing methodjosh in this made me chuckle

[@eternalnullity]

sorry but what does "only defeated after new content was released" means next to Kael'Thas? as far as i remember the content after was Mount Hyjal? and the only way you could get there was to defeat Vashj and Kael'Thas?

[@bambae7669]

KT was defeated after the massive nerfs that came with the release of BT.

[@honzatoman3602]

Garrosh with pala tank as last man standing is f*cking epic

[@checho483]

best video

[@Giourchan]

The song 6:08 ??

[@mrphstar]

Is just me or is it weird that the progress duration is counted from the first pull of the actual endboss, apparently? Would make more sense to count the release date, to reflect the difficulty of previous bosses in that raid, wouldn't it?

[@terenceh1986]

Thanks for all the good memories...I played this since 2004 :)

[@rezabagheri7087]

gj . thank u

[@easteregg2898]

I feel like race to world first has gotten so far from being a community event, it used to just take some dedicated dudes in a basement, anyone could achieve it, now it's just organizations with tons of money and headquarters with players that play the game 24/7 as their job because they're paid to, it feels soulless

[@Halikarz31]

Weird take. It's still the best players in the world by far, it's just now they can actually do it for a living which to me is a good thing. Sure there's some fondess of the idea that it used to be people with regular jobs grinding with 0 recognition, but now we have the highest level of play we have ever seen. It's also not been just some dudes for a very long time now, and not "anyone" could achieve a world first. The social and guild dynamics, scouting and stealing players, all still existed.

[@KnightFel]

@@Halikarz31it’s actually way more epic when it’s just a group of regular old dudes doing it, not a sponsored team. 🥱

[@wowwt]

You need to understand that 'gamers' as a whole got 100x better as time went on (and I don't mean on just WoW) and so eventually fights like the ones on retail might take less days/weeks to kill a boss or raid compared to back then but you also need to keep in mind that these guys are doing pulls on these bosses over and over and over for 10hrs a day and wiping over 600 times while playing with some of the best players and having coaches and INSANE raid leading during these world first attempts. It is actually much harder nowadays to world first these bosses compared to back then.

[@Toucansam46]

It’s definitely gotten better. We can watch progression live now as opposed to waiting for a KZbin video to drop

[@arcticzzshadow8421]

Also remember the reason classic raids took so long to clear was because back then blizzard had it so raid trash would respawn on you MID clear. If you wiped on rag after like 2-3 hours of MC? Congrats, all the trash is back up. And level 58 elites with aoe pulses back then were LETHAL to players not fully geared and still dangerous to those that were.

[@arnaucastellvi2185]

"Progress: 154 days" THIS is EPIC.

[@darkduprey4079]

It sounds epic on paper but the reality of it was that for the most part they just concluded "we still don't have enough gear yet, let's try again in a month" several times. It's not 154 days of actively fighting the boss lol

[@fjer123]

Didn’t Method have World first on Lady Vashj?

[@Myriadid]

Technically they did but they don’t count it for some odd reason and they had another in tbc but it was also not counted then one in wrath then in cata they were the favorites since everyone have been talking about this one guild rising and taking over as #1 worldly but shockingly they didn’t get one they should’ve got at least 3 in that expansion, I was shocked tbh, then mop till bfa they dominated no one was better than them, they had a stacked roster. But yeee if you count the one they should’ve gotten in tbc plus another then the one in wrath it would be 15 world firsts technically for method in the 14-15 expansions then in shadowlands they weren’t really a good team anymore since well yea know, they should’ve terminated joshes contract maybe after the first tier in bfa like uldir since he was brought in by then, but nope he had to ruin the image of the best guild in wow history, it goes from the best vids/strats/kills etc guild to well the bottom of the barrel so method would be #1, then paragon #2, ensidia #3, blood legion #4, limit #5, exorsus #6, echo #7, then the rest would just filter in obviously covering the top hundreds or so guilds around the world competing

[@Myriadid]

But ya wish sco would’ve built a successful and know how to win and what it takes to win roster heading into shadowlands to revive the organization and to bring back the team in its own image, since it was tainted. Then method would be still on top, I mean they will always go down being the #1 guild in wow history since they have the most achieved world firsts and world first kills in wow history, but now echo has taken over for the past 2 xpacs which is basically method 2.0 bc you include all the echo members as apart of method since most of their time being tg has been in method now carrying that synergy and same mindset and criteria etc doesn’t really take long or surprise anyone that they got world firsts in sl and df

[@junius9170]

Good video, but you need to make some research of the latest kills. For example, progress on Jailer was closer to 3 weeks than 5 days; progress on Fyrakk lasted about 2 weeks.

[@anthonytgameaddict]

Still get tingles with these. Still the reason i play wow. For me the rush from killing a boss after a 100 plus wipes just isnt matched by any other game.

[@pixxies9158]

Imagine the first aq40 clear and u get death sting and edge of insanity. Some great loot

[@forsetylord]

I BELIVE IN THE FIVE PERCENT

[@Alijamaru]

Watching this as another world first race is going on at the moment (Nerub-ar Palace)

[@avarg812]

awsome video! I wonder how many headset broke tho lmaoo

[@FredxForce]

Time to update this for The Walmart Within Raid.

[@kedmnc895mna]

It is so weird to see Joshpriest in all those kill videos after what happened.

[@brianshaw3903]

Love that most got hyjal and some BT down before KT Lol😅

[@behrad8860]

kungen

[@mehdifazzli705]

very good nice

[@ericdiezortega582]

What happened with Prot Paladin damage on Pandaria? Look at these Treckie numbers in Lei Shen and Garrosh

[@bobvduyn]

Tank Vengeance absolutely soared in MoP, given them things like 300k extra AP. Every tank was able to achieve this but prot paladin was able to convert this to healing from Seal of Insight (glyphed)

[@zsomborderek9835]

what happened with Sartarion, it is not included, any infos?

[@Shyneur]

If it's not in the video, it's probably because it wasn't a part of the original videos, so I thought there must have been a reason for it, and it was probably because this was considered a minor boss that wasn't really a part of the whole "progress race". But I could see it being added in the future, why not.

[@zsomborderek9835]

@@Shyneur I would be pleased, also i appreciate your work, its a really good and informative video well done

[@Unasham3d]

The disrespect not including Premonition's only World First kill, Halion in Ruby Sanctum, is uncalled for. Yes, it's considered the worst raid ever. That doesn't dismiss their World First kill. Put some respect on their name.

[@Shyneur]

Just seen that comment while reviewing some of them. In the original video, Halion wasn't included in the list of bosses showcased, so I really wasn't sure if I was missing some or not. But, his name having been brought up multiple times alongside "Sartarion", I'll make sure to add them for the next update :]

[@denisbot95]

Why the Fyrakk progress is 4 days, if he was killed only on 11s day?

[@denisbot95]

saw the answer below, not atual

[@massiveentropy5725]

Great video man! Only thing is it's "Sire Denathrius", missing an e :)

[@Shyneur]

Welp, also missed an "h" so... hahaha Will be corrected in next version thanks 😅

[@ewanjacksonmusic]

Ruby Sanctum Halion?

[@cavalbertollari]

G'huun missing?

[@zerojay7]

Anyone know why Nefarian raid had like 10 druids in the group?

[@khat_diveprivate2518]

I don’t remember exactly but it was mostly feral druids because of a slow they could do on the adds there.

[@bambae7669]

Two reasons: 1) Pre nerf electrocute hits so hard, that the only non tank spec that can survive it without a CD is a druid in bear form. Also barkskin is incredibly valuable in this fight. 2) With the original snapshot rules, you could snapshot the portal buff with your DoT effects. Feral was the best at abusing this. A good feral druid could do 100k + dps with good RNG, about 2-3x the dps the actual top dps classes could pull. The original pre fix/nerf version of the fight was generally considered impossible without stacking druids.

[@philippedreyer8300]

Usso still taunting xD

[@erickjavier1175]

Y halion?

[@Bihdo91]

epic moments

[@Myskully14]

I haven't watched the whole thing but if you are looking for any opinions... it would be nice to include optional boses that may or may not actually be the end boss but may be considered harder. The first that comes to mind is Nightbane. I didn't get that far but maybe Lei Shen vs Ra Den. Algalon. There may not be too many more examples. I quit in early BFA so I know nothing of the game since too.

[@ethancaine1]

Is there a version of this without the cinematic score drowning out all the players' voices?

[@Shyneur]

There isn't unfortunately, cause this probably would take away half of the epicness of the whole video. But I could consider including one in the description of the next update :)

[@kentusch_kek433]

Ахахаха, только наш тип умудрился заорать "Изи, блять" после 16 дней потных дней траев гулдана на вф.

[@EternallyGod]

You should make a video of how many guilds got the kill that same day as the world first kill. Alot of these kills took 6 hours and it was killed before other guilds even logged on that night after work to raid....these other guilds only took 3 hours for there kill....so who is better?

[@jorge9207]

Yea idk Jailer was 18 days , not 5 days. liquid litteraly gave up because the race was so crazy long

[@juliusvanbergen927]

still feel bad for Nickspriest. They would’ve had Fyrakk killed first. Poor guy.

[@mjavor]

Nerds! Just kidding, I loved this video. =p

[@Vhendri]

I've been playing WoW since 2005 and I still get as excited as the first day.

[@drfuzzydonut]

Where's Sarth 3D!?

[@j0niis]

While i agree that spine of deathwing was the true endboss of dragon soul, you label it as madness of deathwing which is the actual endboss, but show a killvideo of spine of deathwing which is the second to last boss.

[@MarkCan-gy4rx]

Usso still taunta 😄

[@johnniehouston1816]

When are you going to add 2024?

[@romainviroulaud9719]

enfin une update :D

[@mrivarv17]

Updated but still got the wrong Lady Vashj guild..

[@Chireiya]

Really cool idea for a vid! Just hits different, seeing the evolution of the game, the players, and even UIs xD If I may offer some constructive critique; Number of days in progress alone is not the best indicator for difficulty, to be honest. Number of attempts + days would be good when possible, to get a better idea of how hard the progress was. Also, if you're gonna credit the music and do a disclaimer, please try to do the same for the artwork you used.

[@Shadowfex]

1) He's not trying to show any form of "difficulty". He's simply giving data. 2) Artwork by Blizzard. Literally the in-game and company artworks. There.

[@mustafsbilge]

I think you forgot to add Ruby Sanctum