5.4 Release date?

[Faroth]

I was guessing late August/early September.

Ideally, I imagine they'd aim for, say, around August 20th or 27th.

Probably August 20th

[Dendin]

That table is wrong. MoP came out in September.

Guessing on a September 10th release date.

Sorry, you're right. I got mixed up between 5.0.4 and 5.0.5. I corrected the table. Point still stands, roughly 3 months per patch, give or take a couple weeks.

[Octavious]

Keep in mind they have a bunch of developers pulled from titan working on WoW now. I'm not saying they are working on the patch but they could pump it out pretty quickly now if they wanted. 2 Months IMO

Nine mothers can't make a baby in a month.

Unfortunately, software development efforts are not generally sped up by piling on more programmers -- particularly a few months before deployment. There is a big learning curve when switching to a new project and your productive people are now spending their time training new team members. Chances are that any programmers transferred off Titan are working on content that is quite a ways off, such as the next expansion.

[Ijoemomma]

It was just released on PTR. There is tons of balancing and trial and error on Blizzard's side that needs to be done. 4 months is a reasonable estimate.

No, not really. There hasn't been 4 months between a patch all expansion. 2-3 months is most likely right.

[Deleted]

September;
Trailer for 5.4 XX TITEL XX will be avaible at Gamecon 21-25 Aug.
5.4 will be prior two weeks after that.

So, the 11th of Sep. Is my guess

[Faroth]

August 20th is 1 week before Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn releases. Personal opinions of Square's relaunch are irrelevant, Blizzard has a strong track record of releasing patches around time to pull the wind from competition sales, regardless of who it is.

That's the only reason I'm ball parking late August.

Early-mid September actually makes more sense.

[jd812]

5.4 in august, 5.5 november or december 6.0 in march or april

[Toby451]

Every raid tier is 6 months (excluding final tiers before new expansions.)


5.2 came out March 7th. 5.4 will be out Early-Mid September.

[brothernads]

Late August or early September seems to be the sweet spot. That would mean a 2.5 to 3 month PTR and would equal about 1 year from MoP launch, which is around the time that the last major patch of the expansions has tended to fall:

Wrath - expansion live Nov. 13, 2008, patch 3.3 (ICC) live Dec. 8, 2009.
Cata - expansion live Dec. 7, 2010, patch 4.3 (Dragon Soul) live Nov. 29, 2011.

[Rexxr]

would they release a major patch so close to sept 11th?

What dose Sept 11th have to do with it?

I have to go to work and i pretty sure, you have to go to work, and so do Blizzard employes. It is not a holiday, you work might observer a moment of silence or something.

[Jacob6875]

Probably late August / Early September. I assume they would want progress for top guilds to be complete by Blizzcon so they can actually go.

[Ealyssa]

5.3 didn't add anything big, Blizzard wants to keep people playing so they will make sure that it's out fast.

Absurd, the sooner 5.3 hit live, the longer their customers will have to farm T15 in wait of next expansion.

And one thing blizzard learnt from 10 months of Dragon Soul is that having a forever lasting tier is BAD.
5.3 In late july, early august would be a good timeframe. With the next Xpac announced @Blizzcon (november) with a release between january and april. It will be allready 6 month of last tier. Releasing it sooner wil drive everybody out before Xpac (or blizzard have some crazy bonus content after T15, sunwell style).

[Terridon]

Sorry, you're right. I got mixed up between 5.0.4 and 5.0.5. I corrected the table. Point still stands, roughly 3 months per patch, give or take a couple weeks.

Liked your table, and hope you're right, since i actually enjoy ToT a lot.
Well. Start of september would be fine with me,

Absurd, the sooner 5.3 hit live, the longer their customers will have to farm T15 in wait of next expansion.

And one thing blizzard learnt from 10 months of Dragon Soul is that having a forever lasting tier is BAD.
5.3 In late july, early august would be a good timeframe. With the next Xpac announced @Blizzcon (november) with a release between january and april. It will be allready 6 month of last tier. Releasing it sooner wil drive everybody out before Xpac (or blizzard have some crazy bonus content after T15, sunwell style).

Think you mean 5.4.
Has blizzard stated that SoO will be the last raid in this expansion? I know people keep saying it, but has they said so?

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

2 months* would be a reasonable estimate.

2-3 I'd say is fine. That'd put us somewhere in August or September.

PTR is going to become longer and longer as we have longer raids and more difficulties. It may reach the point where PTR becomes a constant thing alongside live servers.

[Softbottom]

I'm shooting for September. I'd be shocked if they let it out before the end of summer. They know their numbers are usually down in summer months because people go on holidays and are off school. It's normally downtime for alot of players I find. My guess is second week of September.

[MrExcelion]

2 or 3rd week of september has been my guess.

[Deleted]

Really? Two months is a reasonable time frame to test a new raid with multiple difficulties and a range of new features including Virtual Realms? I'd hate to work for you.

Considering the fact that they didn't have to create a completely new set of artwork for the raid as big as throne of thunder, because we already know what orgrimmar looks like? Considering they don't have to create 13 boss models, because 7 of them are already featured ingame?

And taking into consideration that they cannot test VR on PTR, yes, it is a reasonable time frame.

I'm shooting for September. I'd be shocked if they let it out before the end of summer. They know their numbers are usually down in summer months because people go on holidays and are off school. It's normally downtime for alot of players I find. My guess is second week of September.

July 12 (2005): Blackwing Lair added (t2)
June 20 (2006): Naxxramas added (t3)
August 4 (2009): Crusaders Coliseum added (t9)
June 30 (2010): Ruby Sanctum added (Europe)
June 28 (2011): Firelands added (t12)

[Aventhos]

End august is probably about right that would be 11 weeks of PTR which is more than enough