Not after a brutal race. Not after hundreds of wipes. Not after exhausted raiders stared into the fungal abyss and questioned every life choice that led them to Rotmire.
Nope.
It died in one pull.
According to Icy Veins, Liquid killed Mythic Rotmire, the single boss of Sporefall, on their first attempt. Which means Patch 12.0.7’s shiny new Mythic Flex raid did not exactly arrive as the next Race to World First wall.
But maybe that was never the point.
Sporefall Was Not Built Like a Full Mythic Raid
Sporefall is weird by design.
It is a one-boss raid. It has Mythic Flex. It allows groups between 15 and 25 players on Mythic. It sits in Patch 12.0.7 as a focused bonus encounter rather than a full tier-defining raid campaign.
That makes it very different from a traditional Mythic raid wing, where top guilds expect days of progression, mechanical punishment, roster precision, and the kind of wipe counts that make Discord sound like a therapy waiting room.
Rotmire was never supposed to be that.
It is a fungal loot check. A Mythic Flex test. A mid-patch experiment with serious rewards, not a raid boss designed to stop Liquid from sleeping.
One Pull Still Looks Funny
That said, one pull is still hilarious.
There is something deeply World of Warcraft about a new Mythic raid boss arriving, flexing its giant mushroom body, and then immediately getting flattened by the best guild in the world before most players have even finished reading the dungeon journal.
It is not embarrassing by itself. Top guilds are absurdly prepared. Liquid could probably turn grocery shopping into a timed Mythic achievement if Blizzard gave it a leaderboard.
But it does create the obvious conversation: if Mythic Sporefall is this easy for the top end, what exactly is Mythic Flex supposed to be?
Mythic Flex Might Be a Bridge, Not a Wall
The most interesting answer is that Mythic Flex is not trying to be the same kind of content as traditional Mythic raiding.
Sporefall may be aimed at a different space: guilds that clear Heroic comfortably, groups that want to taste Mythic without the strict 20-player roster wall, and players who want something harder than Heroic without signing up for a full raid-tier lifestyle.
If that is the goal, then Rotmire dying quickly at the very top does not automatically mean the feature failed.
It may mean the boss is tuned as an accessible Mythic stepping stone.
And honestly, WoW could use more stepping stones.
Not Every Mythic Boss Needs to Be a Brick Wall
There is a difference between “too easy” and “not designed for the top 0.1 percent.”
Players often forget that difference because the game’s hardest content is judged through screenshots, world first headlines, logs, and what elite guilds do in the first few hours.
But most guilds are not Liquid.
For a normal Heroic-focused guild, Mythic Rotmire may still be a real challenge. Coordinating fungal minions, intermissions, positioning, and raid damage with a flexible group size is still work, especially for teams new to Mythic-level expectations.
The boss can be trivial for Liquid and still meaningful for the audience Blizzard actually wants Mythic Flex to reach.
The Debate Is the Interesting Part
This is where Sporefall becomes more than a mushroom fight.
If Mythic Flex works, it could give Blizzard a new tool: small Mythic encounters that do not require full roster commitment, do not dominate an entire season, and do not scare away guilds that are curious about harder content.
If it fails, players may dismiss it as fake Mythic, bonus loot content, or a weird experiment that never found its audience.
That debate is worth having.
Because the 20-player Mythic model has always been one of WoW’s biggest barriers. It creates prestige, sure. It also creates recruitment headaches, bench drama, scheduling problems, and guilds that are good enough to try Mythic but not stable enough to maintain the format.
Mythic Flex could help with that.
Even if Rotmire got deleted instantly by the gods of raiding.
Sporefall May Be Doing Exactly What It Needed To Do
So yes, Mythic Sporefall going down in one pull is funny.
It is meme-ready. It is headline-ready. It is exactly the kind of thing players will use to declare the boss either undertuned, pointless, refreshing, or secretly genius depending on how spicy they want the comment section to be.
But the real story is not that Liquid killed Rotmire fast.
The real story is that Blizzard is testing a different kind of Mythic experience.
Smaller. Flexible. More accessible. Still rewarding.
Maybe it needs tuning. Maybe it needs harder versions in the future. Maybe Rotmire should have brought a bigger mushroom bat.
But if Sporefall helps more guilds step into Mythic without the old roster wall, then one pull at the top end may not matter as much as people think.
Rotmire died quickly.
The Mythic Flex experiment is still alive.
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