Any word on pre-patch?

[Malix Farwin]

29th September or 6th October. probably the latter

If we are using previous history i would say the former, there has never been a 3 week pre patch.

[Konthos]

If you check the latest blue-posts, they added some more information.

"Battle for Azeroth PvP Season 4 Ends and the Post-Season Begins
The gates will soon close on Battle for Azeroth PvP Season 4 with the release of the Shadowlands pre-expansion patch. Don’t worry though, you’ll still be able to take part in competitive PvP in a special post-season, which will end with the launch of the expansion. The new Shadowlands Season 1 will then go live shortly after the launch of Shadowlands.

If you participated in Season 4, to ensure you receive the rewards that you’re due, please keep the following in mind:

Refrain from transferring your character(s) to another realm or faction until after Battle for Azeroth Season 4 has ended.
Battle for Azeroth Season 4 titles and mounts will be awarded approximately two weeks after the season ends."

I'd say they just gave us the heads-up.. 6th most likely then.

Its really up in the air with 29th and 6th, honestly at this point there is hardly any basis to say one is more likely than the other.

[MrLachyG]

If we are using previous history i would say the former, there has never been a 3 week pre patch.

Whichever it is, we are gonna find out in the next 24-48

[Malefic]

Nothing is up in the air, this is the exact same announcement schedule as last expansion lol.

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...he-post-season - 2 Weeks before Pre Patch hit

[Malix Farwin]

it'll be the 6th of oct

we've already been told (datamined, rather) its a 3 phase prepatch event, meaning 3 weeks. that would take us from the 6th to the 13th to the 20th into shadowlands launch on the 26th.

they aren't going to drop a prepatch in the middle of an event going on either - at least i sure as shit wouldn't

this is literally the most logical conclusion

Well thats the thing, dropping the pre patch and starting the phase is 2 different things, its very well possible that pre patch will drop on the 29 BUT the event won't start till the 6th.

[ssambakd]

I mean, you're going to find out which day (between 29th and 6th) tomorrow..

[Konthos]

Nothing is up in the air, this is the exact same announcement schedule as last expansion lol.

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...he-post-season - 2 Weeks before Pre Patch hit

12 days before BfA prepatch went live, so 2 weekly resets, which would land the Shadowlands prepatch on the 29th (8 days from now but still 2 weekly resets).

I mean, you're going to find out which day (between 29th and 6th) tomorrow..

How are we finding out tomorrow?

[Konthos]

Oct 6 is much more likely.

First and as you noted, they normally give the pvp base 2 weeks - and I see no reason they'd forget that all of a sudden. But more telling is that we are in the middle of brewfest and it is very unlikely blizz would drop a patch in the middle of an event like this. And finally, several people have noted that the pre-patch appears to have 3 weeks of content, which would line up perfectly with a pre-patch date of Oct 6.

Cheers.

People keep saying "they normally give 2 weeks heads up" when thats not true at all, you can find plenty of cases, and i think probably most of them actually, where it was 8-12 days heads up.

[Garybear]

One week of pre-patch is more than enough. Why would you need more time?

My raiding group is planning on running heroic full clears throughout the prepatch so people can test what spec/class they want to play after the changes are made.

[Malefic]

It's worth noting the current Corruption Vendor rotation ends ready for October 6th.

This would give us a 15 day heads up on the end of Season - something they've historically tried to always give (2 weeks notice). Furthermore this follows the trend of BfA where they announced the upcoming pre patch 12 days before the pre patch and then about a week later gave an official date.

[vulfrika]

One week of pre-patch is more than enough. Why would you need more time?

Because we have four different covernants to try out before Slands, which each needs at least a weeks worth of testing, before one can make anything resembling an informed and thus "meaningful" choice.
Because a choice is not meaningful if it is not informed.

[dcc626]

Because we have four different covernants to try out before Slands, which each needs at least a weeks worth of testing, before one can make anything resembling an informed and thus "meaningful" choice.
Because a choice is not meaningful if it is not informed.

you dont get to test covenants during prepatch.

you get to try them all as you level. and then you need to pick one immediately after you hit 60 or you dont get to progress your toon any further.

[sys01]

Well, the cultists from the Legion Broken Shore started a cast counting down 1311920 seconds. Seems to coincidentally end approximately on the 6th of October. It could mean the pre-patch date or it could mean an entirely different thing or it could mean nothing.

[bloodwulf]

Because we have four different covernants to try out before Slands, which each needs at least a weeks worth of testing, before one can make anything resembling an informed and thus "meaningful" choice.
Because a choice is not meaningful if it is not informed.

I am hoping this is sarcasm, because you are going to be sorely disappointed if you expect to try the covenants during prepatch....

[Konthos]

It's worth noting the current Corruption Vendor rotation ends ready for October 6th.

This would give us a 15 day heads up on the end of Season - something they've historically tried to always give (2 weeks notice). Furthermore this follows the trend of BfA where they announced the upcoming pre patch 12 days before the pre patch and then about a week later gave an official date.

None of those things ever happened...
The End of Season announcement is usually 2 resets, not 2 weeks. (8-12 days is the usual).
End of Season for Legion was announced on the 5th, BFA prepatch date was announced on the 7th, and launched on the 17th.
End of the story is that people keep trying to justify their guesses when thats all they are, guesses.
Lets just wait, not much else can be done.

[Aurosh]

The 29th did seem like the obvious date since it would give us 4 weeks of pre patch but they haven't put out the end of season warning for pvp yet. If they did that today would give an 8 day warning tomorrow would be 7.

those have generally been in the 10 day+ range so its possible it could now be the 6th, which would mean a 3 week prepatch. But Blizz has never done less than 4 weeks for a prepatch.

so TLR. who the fuck knows.

Well the end of season announcement was never later than 11 days to prepatch and latest was friday nearly 2 weeks ahead of prepatch.

If they wanted to do prepatch on 29th, they would've announced it by now. Why would anyone think they would "ignore" PVPers and give them less time? Copy&Pasting an end of season announcement is like 5 minutes work and they surely don't "forget" that.

On another sidenote, beta/ptr is still buggy and very unbalanced. Classes still need some work. Even 2 weeks isn't much time anymore.

And prepatch event was datamined to be 2 weeks. So

Prepatch 6th
Event Week 1 13th
Event Week 2 20th
Shadownlands 27th

seems to be the plan.

[Wrathblood]

None of those things ever happened...
The End of Season announcement is usually 2 resets, not 2 weeks. (8-12 days is the usual).
End of Season for Legion was announced on the 5th, BFA prepatch date was announced on the 7th, and launched on the 17th.
End of the story is that people keep trying to justify their guesses when thats all they are, guesses.
Lets just wait, not much else can be done.

End of Legion was 11 days notice, end of WoD was 10 days notice. When did Blizz give 8 days notice?

[Aurosh]

End of Legion was 11 days notice, end of WoD was 10 days notice. When did Blizz give 8 days notice?

They never did. It's just when i did some digging and found a huge reddit post giving us an Shadowlands prepatch date in may and Shadowlands release in june. The same people will now argue that prepatch could be tomorrow or yesterday or whenever, but not 2 weeks from now.

With Brewfest going up to 6th and days going by, there is like zero chance they will release it next week.

And the pvp end of season announcement will be "soon". They just annouced that they will soon announce the end of season. So end of season announcement is at least 2 weekends before prepatch (there were always 2 weekends between announcement and prepatch release).

[Konthos]

End of Legion was 11 days notice, end of WoD was 10 days notice. When did Blizz give 8 days notice?

End of Season announcement bud. Not End of Expansion Announcement.
BfA Season 3 End was announced 8 days before it happened.

[Garybear]

Because we have four different covernants to try out before Slands, which each needs at least a weeks worth of testing, before one can make anything resembling an informed and thus "meaningful" choice.
Because a choice is not meaningful if it is not informed.

You do know that we don't get the covenant stuff until the xpac launches right? Can't really test them ourselves even with the prepatch.