WoW Race To World First Thrown Into Chaos After Secret Boss Phase Reveal

The best World of Warcraft players in the world are locked in a neck-and-neck race to bring down Midnight Season 1's final boss on Mythic difficulty, and just when it looked like one guild had done it, a secret boss phase flipped the script.

Team Liquid and Team Echo have been locked in a tight race to bring down L'ura, the final boss of the March on Quel'Danas raid, with each guild just a few health percentage points away from bringing the dark naaru down. Liquid looked to have secured the win on April 4, bringing L'ura down to 0 HP, only for the naaru to secretly have a fourth phase. In an Easter surprise, the boss healed to her full 1 billion health and began overwhelming the arena in darkness, quickly killing the last remaining raiders.

Getting back to that phase has been tricky for both teams, with each having only done it a handful of times. However, each time a team has reached the secret phase, they've been able to glean more information about it. The good news is that with more intel, it looks like the phase itself is relatively simple (though still extremely challenging). Players need to stick close together in a light bubble while avoiding L'ura's lasers and voidlings, as well as be able to heal through massive damage from a raid-wide attack. The even better news is that L'ura takes significant extra damage during this phase. If each team can get to the final phase with most of the raid alive, the boss should go down relatively quickly.