It's actually 33 with the new reset timer at 09:00 cest.
I'd look more at the "incredibly unfun" standpoint. To miss an extra lockout of bonus rolls, mythic dungeons and world bosses due to not being able to level starting at midnight would just feel bad for many even if they aren't in any world first race. Optimizing gearing up for raids is fun for many but there is a limit to that fun when you miss a ton of stuff like this would cause.
First of all, its 16h between the two.
Second, it would give them 1 extra shot at all mythics (4 compared to 3). So having a 33% more chance to get a item drop/proc titanforged is an advantage
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He also randomly announced 7.1 in a random interview with Ion and signed a random NDA with Blizz. So why couldn't he randomly ask the devs about that while they were hanging out at the random Legion Cafe.
- It's not for advantage on world first race, all those top guilds are doing multiple split runs on heroic the first week of Emerald nightmare, since it's 20 item levels higher than mythic dungeons, it's pretty much guaranteed all that gear will be replaced by the time mythic opens up and world race starts.
- The main reason why it's fixed or will be fixed is too much QQ from NA players and not forcing players to level main and alt and do mythic on launch night.
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Either way it's better like this, means I can start my alt right after my main and leave gearing for the second day.
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Gear is capped at 850 until Emerald nightmare launches, so no, you won't be getting any titanforged.
Noob question. For those in the UK - is it Monday 29th midnight going on to Tuesday 30th ? or Tuesday 30th midnight going on to Wednesday 31st ?
and dont say "mythic 0", becouse first mythic is mythic 1, the first key to next lvl in mythic + when it open will be +2 key, so "normal" mythic is mythic 1