The next Race to World First opens August 18, 2026 in The Venomous Abyss, an 8-boss Mythic raid — the next real test for the guilds currently sitting atop the standings. The same day also brings The Tidebound Grotto, a smaller standalone Lair (Nymrissa Wavecaller). PullCount tracks kill data for both, but the Grotto isn't part of the Cutting Edge race — think boss guide, not leaderboard.
What's confirmed
Opens: August 18, 2026
The Venomous Abyss — 8 Mythic bosses, in kill order:
- Nek'zali the Soulcoiler
- Entombed Sentinels
- Vashnik the Malignant
- The Lost Explorers
- Sszorak
- The Twin Fangs
- The Coiled Altar
- Ula'tek
The Tidebound Grotto — 1 Mythic boss: Nymrissa Wavecaller. It's a standalone Lair, not a Cutting Edge target — PullCount still tracks kill order and pull counts here as logs come through, but treat it as a boss guide rather than a race to watch.
Pull counts, kill times, and raid compositions for every boss above go live on PullCount as soon as the tier is pullable and logs start reporting — we're not guessing at difficulty or tuning ahead of time, since that's the kind of thing that only becomes real once guilds are actually attempting it.
Who's expected to contend
The same handful of guilds have defined every recent race: Liquid, Echo, and Method are the perennial front-runners, with the field behind them tightening every tier. Check the current guild rankings to see who's coming into August 18th with momentum.
How to follow along
PullCount tracks pull counts, kill order, and raid composition for every guild in the race, refreshing automatically as new logs come in — no manual refreshing, no digging through Discord threads. Once the tier opens, both raids will have live pages:
New to some of the terminology you'll see in the standings — prog, soft enrage, cutting edge? The glossary covers it in plain English.
Make your picks before it locks
If you want more than a spectator seat, RWF Pick'em opens predictions for both tiers — call the winner, call the first world-first kill, call the pull counts. Picks lock when Mythic opens on the 18th, so get them in before then.