Patch 4.1/4.2 Content - Firelands raid not in patch 4.1

Glad to see the bit about faster patching is reality. I'm ok with a small delay, like most everyone else I still got content to finish and the line about Ulduar does ring true. If it was a full tier long delay though in the vein of WOTLK ... oh man would I have had a tizzy

So... how long? Any sort of actual ya know time frame here, or should I look forward to staring at Cho'gall's butt and Nef's flank for the next 6 months?

Blizzard learns from their mistakes.

Although that doesn't really stop the complaining.

I agree with their view. It seemed like Ulduar was over in a heartbeat and then we were stuck with ToC for too long

4.1 a month or less away imo, which would mean Firelands would be 3 or less months away.
Just a guess though

I like that blizz, knows that they can step back but I hope this won't disrupt three tiers of raiding

Originally Posted by Merin

Glad to see the bit about faster patching is reality. I'm ok with a small delay, like most everyone else I still got content to finish and the line about Ulduar does ring true. If it was a full tier long delay though in the vein of WOTLK ... oh man would I have had a tizzy

Yeah, i just don't trust it'll be a short break. If Blizz is serious, I'd love them to commit to having 4.1 or whatever this ZA/ZG patch will be called out within 3 weeks, since it is two dungeons and a daily quest hub. If Blizz is serious about giving us smaller bits of content, that's fine, but I want it tested and out the door faster then.

dont understand why they call it 4.1? expansion.teir.patch has always been the theme now 5.3.9 could just mean deathwing is here.

Originally Posted by Fujisaw

dont understand why they call it 4.1? expansion.teir.patch has always been the theme now 5.3.9 could just mean deathwing is here.

So I guess 1.12 was... which tier?

I'm frankly amazed that people complain about this. Like, think back.
Wrath of the Lich King progressed too fast, had too many separate lockouts, some people got geared in a couple of weeks.

Now, Blizzard is trying to mix WotLK with Vanilla. Everything isn't served on a plate, but is more available anyway. The only reason raids lasted so long in vanilla wasn't mainly due to "difficulty", it was because of what was needed of a guild in order to progress. Resistance gear, endless faction grinds, no real items outside of raids. You could get a couple of suitable epics if you spent a couple hundred hours farming mobs. Getting exalted with Argent Dawn, ah what a pleasure. 40 people needed the Onyxia Scale Cloak just for BWL. Attunements everywhere. Even when Naxx had been out for a while, you'd still start in Stratholme and LBRS. Level 57 blues.

If you think Blizzard is stretching out current raids, do consider the guilds who did MC for a year and a half.

Oh, how fun it was.

The 353 gear isn't going to get new people over the hump, though. These raids are more demanding than many players can handle.

Originally Posted by Fujisaw

dont understand why they call it 4.1? expansion.teir.patch has always been the theme now 5.3.9 could just mean deathwing is here.

As stated in an article.. they don't want every X.1 be an expansion tier.

Glad to hear this, Blizzard. Hopefully it'd take a few
months before we see Firelands.

This will give those of us in slower-progressing guilds a chance to experience the current content while not feeling rushed to go into the next tier of things

Originally Posted by Fujisaw

dont understand why they call it 4.1? expansion.teir.patch has always been the theme now 5.3.9 could just mean deathwing is here.

Gonna be at least 4.4 until we see Deathwing, with this more consistant patching it may be 4.5

I hope blizz knows what they are doing. Not to beat a dead horse, but Rift is looking more and more appealing to people each and every day. By no means am i saying Rift will beat wow, but people are migrating there. They believe people are shitting themselves over ZA and ZG commin back, but to what i have seen, most people arent. Even if most people arent ready for Firelands, we would still like the option, right? Its only 2 dungeons to hold us over for god knows how long, may be 1 month, may be 4. But still, i would like to see Firelands be open just to show that they are attempting to put out major content.

Like has been said before, alot of individual raids with different themes would be nice, but i cant see them doing this.

Originally Posted by Fujisaw

dont understand why they call it 4.1? expansion.teir.patch has always been the theme now 5.3.9 could just mean deathwing is here.

That's not how it worked in Vanilla at all though. Maraudon was a 1.X.0 patch, for example. Certainly not a raid, nor remotely important.

While it is nice to see that they made raid content challenging enough to stop to many farming 12/12, 4.1 brings with it 2 5 man dungeons that drop 353 gear, this will open teh door for a lot more people to get into the raids since some of the earlier bosses will be more or less nerfed since those people will now have gear that is 7 item levels higher than what the bosses require.

On the plus side at least now my guild has a chance to maybe try to get some HC kills since we plan on getting al'ikir and nef down in the next 2 weeks. must kinda suck for those people. Well at least they didnt add a icc buff to BoT / BWD to get more people clearing it before fire lands

So happy it's a move back towards Vanilla patches. rather see some new content and balances every 2-3 months or so than 6+ months between content patches

the staggering is good in my opinion, even with the introduction of ruby sanctum, the idea of something different was good, but it was too hard for people to pug, so it wasnt really a success. It still gives the casual raiders a crack at a few hard modes at the same time. just dont leave it toooooooo long.