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Enhance Your RWF Viewer Experience with Raider.IO
Over the years, the Race to World First (RWF) has evolved into the largest community-driven esport event throughout all of Warcraft. With numerous guilds, organizations, and production teams coming together to net tens of millions of hours watched, it can be tough to keep up with all the highlights. So where should you start? Is there a way to see all the latest information in one place? Raider.IO has you covered!
Thanks to the contributions and feedback of our amazing WoW community, we are proud to deliver the premier RWF viewing experience through our extensive Live Coverage, proprietary features, data, and more.
If you’re a fan of the RWF, read on to learn how Raider.IO can help you make the most of the event!
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RWF Live Coverage
You never have to worry about missing an update – our RWF Coverage page refreshes automatically! The RWF Coverage Team at Raider.IO is geared up and ready to bring you all of the updates, highlights, and data from Vault of the Incarnates around the clock, monitoring the progression from guilds all over the world. You will get updates and coverage when it happens, LIVE. Be the first of your friends to know the state of the RWF!
Our RWF Live Coverage goes well beyond updates on kills and progression. We provide analysis on boss fights, how guilds are adapting, raid strategies, and so much more. We are your best source of clips and highlights as soon as they happen, and we keep tabs on what the players are saying.
Raider.IO’s Live Coverage is the best way to stay informed on all things RWF!
NEW: Raider.IO Daily Recap Videos
We are introducing a new element to our RWF Coverage for Vault of the Incarnates: the Raider.IO Daily Recap! This is something we have seen asked for extensively from the community, and we are excited to be able to bring it to you for the inaugural RWF of Dragonflight. Every morning at 10am PST, we will release a Daily Recap video on the Raider.IO YouTube channel. This will include RWF clips, highlights, and news, from each region. Our Live Coverage will continue to provide regular updates and analysis, but if you are looking for a quick Recap of the day’s events, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and keep your eye out for the Raider.IO Daily Recap!
Raider.IO Front Page
There is a wealth of information available on the Raider.IO Front Page during each and every RWF.
STREAM EMBED
At the top of the page is our Stream Embed widget, which will rotate regularly through all of the RWF events taking place on Twitch. You can easily go to an embedded stream by clicking on the video. We will also have links to other broadcasts on the other side of the widget, so you can easily navigate through many RWF events!
STREAMING NOW!
Our Stream Embed widget will include links to the main event streams for each guild/organization, but most guilds will also have a large number of their players streaming from their individual channels. If you’re looking for a specific POV, click on the “Streaming Now” link at the very top of the page. (Note: If the top of your page has a “Refresh your Battle.net” button, the Streaming Now button will be hidden. You can get to that page by clicking here.) You can also filter this to only show players with progress in Mythic Vault of the Incarnates!
To get your own stream on this list, be sure to sync your Twitch account to your Raider.IO Profile by clicking on the Social & Contact page in your Account Settings. If your Twitch is properly synced to your Raider.IO Profile, it will be visible on your character page, and your stream will be in the Streaming Now list whenever you are live under the World of Warcraft category!
LEADERBOARDS
The Raid Leaderboard will also continue to be available on the Front Page, and is just a gateway to even more data and information. By clicking on a Guild name, you will be taken to their Guild page, where you can sort through the various dropdown menus to find pull and kill information for various bosses.
The Leaderboards themselves will be “adaptive” – meaning that they will default to showing current ranks based on which guild is the furthest progressed at any given time. This is a departure from the long-used standard which ranked guilds by who killed the prior boss first.
Additional information will be available on the Leaderboards at a quick glance, giving you a great visual snapshot of the current state of the RWF at any time. You will be able to see how many bosses each guild has killed, the boss they are currently progressing on, their best pull % on the current boss, and their total number of pulls so far. For even more information, such the order in which bosses have been attempted, check out the Vault of the Incarnates Raid Rankings Page.
Guild and Encounter Pages
When you go to a Guild Profile page, you will be able to see that guild’s raid data. You can access data from previous raids via the dropdown menu, but it will default to show the most recent (or current) raid. Ranking information is readily available, and if you click the arrow next to a boss, you can access extensive information!
If the guild has killed that boss, it will default to bringing up the Encounter Information for the kill. The top section of the Encounter Page will show you high-level information, such as the average item level of the raid group, how many of each role they used, and how many tier set bonuses they had equipped.
The Raid Roster tab will show you a detailed breakdown of the raid group used to kill the boss. Here you can see each player’s role, spec, talent build, trinkets, and item level. Mouseover the icons for tooltips, or click the player’s name to see the full talent loadout used. Better yet, click on the icon at the end of the row to copy the talent loadout and input it directly into your own game!
The Encounter Graphs tab enables you to see a detailed graph of a guild’s progression on that specific boss. You can sort this graph by pull count, pull date, or time spent. This graph is also available as a stand-alone widget! Check out the widget section below to learn more.
The Recent Pulls tab shows a table of recent pulls on a given boss. Click on the dropdown arrow on the left to get the full Encounter Information on any of the pulls listed. If a pull is highlighted in yellow, that was a kill – everything else was a wipe. You can see what percentage the guild got on each pull, the pull number, the duration of the pull, and the raid’s average item level. The neatest part of this table is you can see a quick visual snapshot of the raid roster – and if you see a highlighted icon, that indicates a change in raid composition from the previous pull! Watch how a guild progresses and adapts as they work through a boss and how they change their roster accordingly.
Much of the above data is powered by the Live Tracking function of the Raider.IO Desktop Client, and is something not limited to the RWF guilds! If you want to see this detailed information on your own guild’s progression, enable the Live Tracking feature and watch the data flow!
For Streamers: Widgets!
If you are a streamer, and planning to stream your own progression through Vault of the Incarnates, we have a number of user-friendly widgets that you can add to your stream. Our widgets will enhance your viewers’ experience and keep them updated on the RWF!
To check out our widgets, click here. You can customize them directly on our site and you will be given a URL to add as a browser source via your preferred streaming software.
Available widgets include:
- Character cards that show individual character info and stats, including talent builds and gear.
- Boss progression which shows a guild’s current progression, indicating pull count and best percentage on their most recent boss. You can input any guild into this widget, so if you want to keep track of reigning champs Echo, for example, you can! As long as the guild you choose has someone with the Live Tracking feature enabled, the information should update automatically.
- Gear composition widget that will provide a breakdown of your guild’s gear status, including ilvl and tier set bonuses, on any given pull or kill.
- Raid events which is a widget that creates a pop-up alert on your stream when a condition set by your chosen parameters is met. There’s lots of options with this one, but you can pick which guilds will alert, and can choose between kills, a new best percent, or more.
- Boss Progression Graph will allow you to pick one or multiple guilds and show their progression on the same graph. The options here are the same as the Encounter Information page, and is a great way to compare how two or more guilds are doing on a boss.
Social Media
If you prefer to keep tabs on the RWF via Twitter, be sure to follow the Raider.IO Twitter account, as our Social Media team will update you on the big moments. We look forward to bringing you boss kills, clips, and some of the finest RWF Memes throughout Vault of the Incarnates!
RWF Content
Raider.IO offers unique and original content for each and every RWF, focusing on all aspects of the Race. If you haven’t already, feel free to peruse our wide variety of recent RWF content such as our Inside Look at the Pros and Cons of Borrower Power, a Fireside Tale of Vault of the Incarnates lore, a Guild Spotlight featuring the raid leaders of top 2-day raiding guilds, a detailed overview on how to get the most out of Raider.IO in Dragonflight, and more to come!
