PrePatch date - soon?

[Phurox]

Why is this thread dead? Is everyone now sold on the 19th?

Is there more to discuss? :-P

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

Jaylock already confirmed it for August 2nd. Bit too long in my book but that's fine I suppose.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Is there more to discuss? :-P

I think 19th is pretty sold at that point. Really, everything leads to that - Blizzard way of saying things beign the primary lead here.

[Mefistophelis]

Jaylock already confirmed it for August 2nd. Bit too long in my book but that's fine I suppose.

Not sure if serious or sarcasm. Anyway Jaylock's posts/threads should always be taken with a pinch of salt.

[TS26]

we'll probably know by saturday

[Auxora]

With patch 6.02, Blizz didn't announce the patch was coming until the Thursday before (announced Thursday 10/9 for patch on Tuesday 10/14). So going off that and assuming they follow the same pattern (not that they necessarily have to), if it is the 19th for 7.0 we should hear a formal announcement around Thursday this week.

[schwarzkopf]

So going off that and assuming they follow the same pattern

They have already broken nearly every pattern established in the last 10 years - all for Legion. Anything goes at this point

[Nize]

I don't understand the reason for ending a season unless your intention is to release the patch the same day.

However, that could merely be an intention and that even Blizz still doesn't know when they should release the patch, at least as of season ending notice. I think it really comes down to one thing and that's Hellfire Citadel feedback and honestly, the way that's looking, it's not looking very good. There's also things that Blizz didn't think of at first such as Mythic dungeons and their difficulty post-patch.

I can say this much with certainty. It will not be released in the first week of August. Blizzard doesn't stack patch releases of their RPGs. While Diablo 3 isn't really the biggest concern for Blizzard right now, they're not very likely to drop the prepatch on the same week as the new season of Diablo.

[schwarzkopf]

I don't understand the reason for ending a season unless your intention is to release the patch the same day.

Who knows, they didn't give 2 weeks notice of PvP season end this time around, so anything goes.

[Avikur]

With patch 6.02, Blizz didn't announce the patch was coming until the Thursday before (announced Thursday 10/9 for patch on Tuesday 10/14). So going off that and assuming they follow the same pattern (not that they necessarily have to), if it is the 19th for 7.0 we should hear a formal announcement around Thursday this week.

Which just happens to be the devs live q&a about the pre patch so announcing it then makes perfect sense

[Drekmar]

Still no Release candidate on PTR so. Pre-patch might not happen on 19th.

[Brohoof]

Gotta wonder who's gonna be eating crow next week, the 19th'ers or the 26th'ers?

[Niwes]

hmmm, its wednesday and no anouncement. hmmm....

[Tyron]

Someone in wowhead posted this the other day:

Season 4 (End of BC) Season End - Oct 14th 2008 ---- WotLK Pre Patch - Oct 15th 2008
Season 8 (End of WotLK) Season End - Oct 12th 2010 ---- Cata Pre Patch - Oct 12th 2010
Season 11 (End of Cata) Season End - Aug 28th 2012 ---- MoP Pre Patch - Aug 28th 2012
Season 14 (End of MoP) Season End - Oct 14th 2014 ---- WoD Pre Patch - Oct 14th 2014

So, 19th seems likely taking into account blizzards posts.

[mitbrandir]

I wouldn't necessarily expect a build thats flagged for release as the beta and PTR run on the same build, tbh.

[Deleted]

hmmm, its wednesday and no anouncement. hmmm....

Why do you care? You are already quiting the game anyway:

i already would use the new models, if their run animations had not been that ugly. First, i dont care how my chars face looks like, when i look at my char from behind, 98% of the time. Second, i could customize my face, style etc. In short: There you have options. But if you hate the new run animations, you have zero options.

Like one above said: The only option is to quit the game. And thats just sad.

[deffusse]

pre-patch most likely 01./02. 08.2016

[Zakaryy]

Ugh, Guys didn't you know already, it's on August 2nd. Duh.

Jaylock even confirmed it!
*coughs* ..and then got banned, again

/sarcasm

[TS26]

pre-patch most likely 01./02. 08.2016

No way. It's either the 19th or the 26th.

[schwarzkopf]

No way. It's either the 19th or the 26th.

No hurry here.... my garrison is feeding me gold until the pre-patch