It's so blindingly obvious that 5.4 is going to be siege just because of ilvl inflation.
Yeah.
If they do make the Legendary Questline even longer, specifically if there's going to be 4 Tiers this expansion, the questline would really be labelled "Legendary".
More-so due to the fact that 5 patches down the road, while certain people might still be stuck on the 5.2 or 5.3 questline for the Legendary (or even 5.0 or 5.1's), it'd really stretch out the pack and not give everyone the mentallity that "HEY, ERRYBODY'S GONNA BE RUNNING AROUND WITH A LEGENDARY".
My guess is we will have it finished to take on Garrosh. Either the patch before it will give us the item or we get items needed to finish it from early SoO drops. Money is on it is finished before the SoO patch and that it will be slightly better than SoO drops.
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Not really. They have already tweaked the values each stat point gives in terms of our power so it won't get that too out of hand. And moving forward that can continue to require even more of a stat to make a difference.
So far Blizzard has been delivering on what they stated. Fast patches. There wont be 5.5,5.6,5.7...where you guys come up with this stuff?
5.2 - ToT - should last about 6mnths (est. guess, March - Sept)
5.3 - no raid - will have new 5 mans(Sept-Nov)
5.4 - SoO(Dec- May)
6.0 - New Expansion (May-July)
This is my estaimated guess, based on their "promise" of faster content.
So i look at Mop lasting about 1.5 yrs - No more 2yr waits for new expansions.
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Yes I am.
I said if SoO comes out in December, the next Expansion might be out next October.
That's just my thoughts on it. Maybe your'e right!
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While they test the phases over the next few weeks they'll probably do 25 man and Heroic testing too.
Seriously, what is your problem just because I don't agree with you? It's just my idea.
And what aspect is half baked? I actually made factual predictions.
I could be wrong, you could be right, or vice versa.
No need to be hostile. We're just making speculation here as to the Patch Cycle.
6 month raid patch cycles and guess what they wanted a expansion launched sooner then every 2 years. 1.5 years between expansions looks ideal. And you cant force players through massive 16/13 boss tiers in just 4 months. That is why the mini patches exist. Get over it. It's a 3 tier expansion.
Says who?
What if they announce 5.4 next week and state it's not Siege, it's an Old God raid.
Or a Burning Legion raid.
Or we're going to another planet to fight monkeys riding unicorns and dragons on dragons on dragons.
Your predictions are as much predictions as ours. They're not facts.
If 5.3 doesn't bring any raids it BETTER bring some new dungeons. Please...
Man, I've got bags under my eyes... BAGS OF MONEY!
See ya later, peasants.
Praise The Sun!
This seems like a good estimate, 1 problem though. 5.3 will come out while 5.2 is in progress similar to how 5.1 came out exacly 2 months after release. So, that would put 5.3 even closer to your estimate. Thats the whole idea of this new model, to break the staleness of Tier patches after a while. Good guess though.
or the more likely scenario.
5.2 ~ Early April/mid March
5.3 Mini patch june/july
5.4 org raid Sept/ Oct
5.5 Jan mini patch leading into new expansion with story/ maybe 1 boss or even just a world boss. I heard Doom lord kazzak is still alive and will Herald the legions return when we go to Argus.
6.0 ~ may/June.
I mean what can 5.3 have that is even compelling? 5.1 was the bulk of the armies arriving that and the rift between garrosh and his horde growing.
5.3 will be Garrosh finding the big bad relic / old god corpse that will make the entire world want him dead in 5.4. Self explanatory.
Also let's be honest for a minute here. There was no sub drought in LK ICC because that raid was enjoyable even after 12 months. Dragon soul sucked because the raid itself was god fucking awful. The fights the scenery the debuff. It was the most pathetic raid launch ever and the reward was prolly the most pathetic uninspired heroic only mount in existence.
If Raid of Org is 12+ bosses and atleast on Par with T14 / T15 / anything but fucking Dragon soul I doubt they have any issues if it sits for 7-8 months. But I don't expect it to sit anyway with the 1.5 Year expansion 3 tier timeline.
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Can you confirm that with a blue post, then? Or some credible evidence?
I'm serious. Sorry if I'm coming off as rude. I don't really care if it's a 3 or 4 tier expansion but I at least want some evidence as to how this wont' be a 4 tier expansion.
If Mists is short, that's fine. I'm kinda looking forward to next Expansion anyways.
If Mists is 4 tiers, that's fine too.
Just give me some evidence as to why it's 3 tiers instead of yelling at me "NOPE YOU'RE WRONG".
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What do you mean?
Hmm, I agree 100% with you (I cheated, I've checked Wrathion chapters :P). I think 5.2 is the expansion's jewel (if they finish testing all missing modes and fights slow and easy) and 5.4 will be 'the end' of the expansion with SoO, there might be some unexpected stuff on the way but Blizzard had the life cycle planned since long ago, something they didn't do properly with other expansions. MoP up to 5.2 looks better and more solid than whole Cataclysm. Old Gods, Burning Legion... probably, but once war is (somehow) over
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