Classic Race to World First, Day 1 Recap

Clássico Criado 27/8/2019 em 17:34 por Rokman

Day 1 Highlights

Absolutely insane queue times at launch, "The Queue Boss" at it's being called. 25,000 people, all waiting in queue. Half of the participants of the Classic Race to World First ended up throwing in the towel and started streaming Battle for Azeroth on Twitch.tv because of their absurdly long queue times. Roughly five hours after the launch, Eastern Kingdoms on the Faerlina realm crashed, causing a lot of participants that were playing in the event to get kicked out of the game and thrown back into a 20,000+ queue. This gave an opportunity to the other half of players that were behind and it ended up evening out in the end.

NA #WoWClassic Queue Times
- Average Queue 10,607 players / 245 minute queue.
- The newest PvP servers have a queue.
- Stalagg and Whitemane have over 1,000 minute estimated queues (just under 17 hours). https://t.co/9R1lIwmmjc pic.twitter.com/k3paRdmS8I

— Wowhead (@Wowhead) August 27, 2019

As of right now, there seem to be two primary strategies. Some players are grinding in dungeons as a group of five, spamming the same dungeon over and over. KennyMarsh and TipsOut, both of which are in the top three for level leaderboards are using this trategy. KennyMarsh is in a mostly Spellcasting group, consisting of mostly Magos, attempting to AoE packs down. TipsOut is in the opposite, a mostly Melee focused group, with Guerreiros and a single Xamã. Eventually, the Shaman will get Totem de Fúria dos Ventos and the Melee group will be particularly nasty.

If you're interested in learning more about the Dungeon running strategy, Wowhead offers Guides for the following Dungeons. Ragefire Chasm, Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, and Shadowfang Keep, each of which are written by TipsOut.

Guzu is actually second in the level leaderboard and is one of the few participants going through the leveling experience completely solo, primarily through questing. At the end of day one, he was last spotted in Cordilheira das Torres de Pedra, grinding on mobs near Stonetalon Peak.