World of Warcraft Midnight Season 1 Race to World First: Early Surprises as Guilds Storm the Voidspire
The World of Warcraft raid scene is once again in full frenzy. On March 24, 2026, Mythic difficulties for the first two raids of Midnight Season 1 — The Voidspire and The Dreamrift — opened, kicking off the Race to World First (RWF) for the expansion’s inaugural tier. With the final two-boss raid, March on Quel’Danas, scheduled to unlock Mythic on March 31, this is shaping up to be one of the most unique and staggered RWF races in recent memory.
Unlike a traditional single-raid tier, Midnight Season 1 spreads nine bosses across three distinct raids, each with its own Hall of Fame:
- The Voidspire (6 bosses): Imperator Averzian, Vorasius, Fallen-King Salhadaar, Vaelgor & Ezzorak, Lightblinded Vanguard, and Crown of the Cosmos.
- The Dreamrift (1 boss): Chimaerus, the Undreamt God.
- March on Quel’Danas (2 bosses): Belo’ren, Child of Al’ar and the tier-ending Midnight Falls (L’ura).
The overall RWF winner will be the first guild worldwide to defeat Midnight Falls on Mythic difficulty — the true “World Champion of Midnight.” But in these opening days, the focus is on clearing the available content as fast as possible for gear, practice, and bragging rights on the early Hall of Fame entries.
Day 1–2 Progress: Nurfed Takes an Early Lead
As of March 25, 2026 (roughly 24–36 hours into Mythic), progress is still in the very early stages — but a surprise contender has already pulled ahead.
- Nurfed (US-Tichondrius) currently leads the global leaderboard with 2/9 Mythic bosses cleared. They secured world-first kills (or among the absolute earliest) on both Imperator Averzian and Vorasius, the first two bosses of The Voidspire. Vorasius went down in just 7 pulls for them.
- Several other guilds have now downed Imperator Averzian (the tier’s very first boss), including EU squad Der er tilbud i Netto (who just claimed their kill on March 25 and immediately pivoted to Vorasius), as well as just sit me, Availed, Wing It, indecent, and others.
- A handful of guilds are already testing the next bosses: Vorasius is seeing pulls in the 10–20% range from groups like Unbalanced, Alpha, and Cope, while some are splitting focus to Chimaerus (the solo Dreamrift boss — currently at 61% by Melee Mechanics) and Fallen-King Salhadaar (54% by another group).
The usual RWF heavyweights — Team Liquid, Echo, and Method — are active and streaming heavily, but they haven’t topped the progress charts yet. Liquid raiders have been overheard planning Chimaerus group comps on stream, suggesting strategic splitting across the two available raids to maximize loot and practice time.
Why This Tier Feels Different
The staggered release of the third raid adds an extra layer of complexity. Guilds have a full week to farm the six Voidspire bosses and single-boss Dreamrift before the final push on Quel’Danas. This means early clears of Crown of the Cosmos (Voidspire’s finale) and Chimaerus will grant significant gear advantages heading into the last two bosses — but no one can “finish” the tier until March 31 at the earliest.
Expect heavy use of player splits (20-player groups farming different wings simultaneously), which has become standard in modern RWF. The community is already buzzing about tuning, hotfixes, and whether the opening bosses are overtuned or perfectly balanced for a marathon race.
Where to Follow the Action Live
The RWF is being broadcast across multiple channels:
- Raider.IO’s live global coverage and race tracker (real-time updates on every kill).
- Warcraft Logs’ race zone page (detailed pull counts and logs).
- Team Liquid, Echo, and Method’s official streams and listen-ins.
- Wowhead’s dedicated RWF hub for recaps, strategies, and Hall of Fame tracking.
As the race enters its second full day, the momentum is building fast. Nurfed’s early double-kill has injected some underdog energy into what many expected to be another Liquid vs. Echo showdown. But with six more bosses in Voidspire/Dreamrift still to clear and the final raid looming, literally anything can happen in the coming days.
Stay tuned — the first true “World First” of Midnight Season 1 is still weeks away, but the chaos has already begun. The Voidspire awaits, and the race for Midnight Falls is officially on.