Upcoming PTR for Chains of Domination

Release might be sooner after all.

Finally some good news!

Originally Posted by Lumy

Upcoming PTR for Chains of Domination

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

With 9.0.5 behind us, we wanted to take a moment to update you on the 9.1 content for Shadowlands.

In about 2 weeks, we will have Chains of Domination available for the community on the PTR. Also, raid testing details will be posted a week or so after the PTR is online.

There will be a wide variety of content to check out for Chains of Domination, so as usual, your testing will play a key role in iterating on this update. We can’t wait to get this in front of you and look forward to your feedback soon.

I see light within the darkness!

so...

May-ish

Originally Posted by SinR

so...

May-ish

Mid April PTR launch means a mid-June patch release.

Everyone, freaking out with literally no reason for it: 9.1 won't be out until October, AT LEAST! I know this because, .. reasons?! YEAH, REASONS! RABBLE RABBLE!
Blizz, a day later:

About goddamn time. Finally some communication. Was this really so hard?

Mid June gotcha

Originally Posted by SinR

so...

May-ish

Sounds like a late june/early july to me tbh.

Ah, fucking thank you...

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So, June/July release then? Ah, I do love proving to these guys that Towelliee ain't the word of god.

B-b-but Bellular said!!!!!

HAHAH
And THIS is why you NEVER EVER listen to streamers and youtubers who live from bad news...

Whenever Taliesen talks about patches blizzard shortly after release patch news, always funny.

Oh some one mentioned bellular, don't, dude is scum.

nice mid june patch, watch hc being scaled around every1 having 220 min because of valor......

Originally Posted by RobertMugabe

Release might be sooner after all.

Sooner than what; a year after the expansion launch?

All this is telling us is that that it'll be mid-April before it's even on the PTR. Seeing as PTR cycles are roughly 2 months, that puts this at a roughly June launch. Even assuming a June 1st launch, that means we'll have been on this patch for 216 days (over 7 months) since the expansion launch or 175 (Almost 6 months) since the raid first dropped.


If there are only going to be 2 patches a year, there needs to be enough content to last that entire time that actually keeps people entertained enough; not slog grinds, not "Just do the same content but slightly harder", actual deep, evolving content.

Originally Posted by Wangming

About goddamn time. Finally some communication. Was this really so hard?

For Blizzard? Yes.

Originally Posted by Wangming

About goddamn time. Finally some communication. Was this really so hard?

thing is this community is toxic af. they are damned if they do damned if they dont. i dont blame them

Originally Posted by Kauko

HAHAH
And THIS is why you NEVER EVER listen to streamers and youtubers who live from bad news...

Even so, the actual release date is not confirmed.

Originally Posted by bloodykiller86

thing is this community is toxic af. they are damned if they do damned if they dont. i dont blame them

Well the community is what they breed. Overall I think the FFXIV community was pretty understanding when Yoshie-P told us that patch 5.3 will be delayed (2-2.5 months).

Anyroad ETA is second half of June. If they get back on schedule that would land us a december release for 9.2. From there the two year mark of the expansion would land us in November, 11 months from 9.2. Sounds about okayish. Plus, end of expansion raids are usually monstrously epic. A pretty good thing considering both FFXIV and GW2 will have a fall release. Likely no 9.3 but oh well.

Originally Posted by RobertMugabe

Release might be sooner after all.

It will be late June, they always aim at June when they release patch around this time. I think they would rather rush it 1-2 weeks and repair something in hotfix than do July release.

Originally Posted by Fiacla

B-b-but Bellular said!!!!!

Actually it was Towellee