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looking at article above they have varied lengths of 4 to 8 weeks, will today's players tolerate a 8 week or longer prepatch? i believe...no, making me think the prepatch may need delayed also
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2020-10-04, 02:12 AM #1Dreadlord
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shadowlands prepatch event could hit new record unless delayed also
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2020-10-04, 02:18 AM #2Titan
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Of course they would tolerate it.
Originally Posted by pinkz
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2020-10-04, 02:20 AM #3High Overlord
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Delaying prepatch would be worse. At absolute least we have new levelling and new talents/specs to play with in current dungeons/raids. It's kinda like an 8.3.5 patch. Originally Posted by pinkz
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2020-10-04, 02:22 AM #4Elemental Lord
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the prepatch won't be delayed. if it was they wouldn't have given that date. I know you could say "oh but they did the same with the expansion release date" however they announced the expansion release on August 28 - 2 months before it was meant to come out. big difference between that and announcing a prepatch release date 2 weeks in advance so they are definitely ready for that at least
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2020-10-04, 02:26 AM #5Warchief
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the fun part will be classes that could change every week in some way. interesting tgimes. Originally Posted by MatPandaZ
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2020-10-04, 02:26 AM #6Titan
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Both returning and current players would rather prepatch with new talents and pre-expansion content than literally the same thing they have had for all of 2020. Worst case scenario you play pre-patch, let the sub drop and then resub when the expansion launches.. That is what I will do. Originally Posted by pinkz
Probably running on a Pentium 4
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2020-10-04, 02:40 AM #7Dreadlord
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what new talents would a level 120 have squished to 50? you can't level past 50 to access SL talents
classes have severe balancing issues, bugs, etc may have those on prepatch
on BFA prepatch, after blizz ganked art wpn, classes were gimped, it affected running Legion raids, the nerf even affected running previous content, 110 hunter i had that could clear WOD HFC raid solo on normal could no longer get past first part due to lack of damage, and could not even get past first part on LFR. cannons were getting destroyed. i did not die, but failed the first event with out a second player, once blizz did a slight buff, i could do LFR but still not normal.
prepatch proved how severe the squish was, and how much power was robbed on rental power removal. a excessively long prepatch capped at 50 will do nothing in practicing for SL when the rental systems return
prepatch for SL removes corruption power, deactivates BFA systemsLast edited by pinkz; 2020-10-04 at 02:42 AM.
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2020-10-04, 02:51 AM #8Merely a Setback
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Lol, players might whine, but not like they're going to not be playing the expansion depending on the prepatch length...
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2020-10-04, 02:53 AM #9The Lightbringer
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No, it won’t be delayed - they clearly know the time scale they’re working with now. It’s coming in two parts anyway - 9.0.1 and then 9.0.2. Originally Posted by pinkz
There’s enough system changes and pre-launch stuff going on to keep people occupied anyway.
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2020-10-04, 02:54 AM #10Legendary!
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this must be your first prepatch or something....the prepatch will be filled with craziness and players always deal with it for as long as needed
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2020-10-04, 03:07 AM #11Banned
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1. most prepatches were 4 weeks yeah Originally Posted by pinkz
2. "Will todays players tolerate an 8 week or longer prepatch"
Yeah? Prepatch is fine, its better then 8 weeks of BFA, cause we get new stuff to work torwards, new systems, etc.
I doubt it will be 8 weeks, or even more.
Likely will be mid to late novemeber prepatch.
For it to be 8 weeks it would need to be december.
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there is new talents.. you realize a lot of old talents are become baseline and new talents in their place right? Originally Posted by pinkz
Also it literally only deactivates corruption... thats it.
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2020-10-04, 03:28 AM #12Dreadlord
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players did not want to deal with WOTLK prepatch scourge invasion, the tears rolled, players did not want to deal with and bent blizzard at the knee to shorten/cut it Originally Posted by zantheus1993
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wow, baffled how i would play my outlaw rogue with poisons and other few items that i lost in WOD, Legion, and BFA Originally Posted by FelPlague
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2020-10-04, 03:35 AM #13Titan
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Well I've been Unsubbed since I got the alpaca. I'll come back when we get a new release date, probably a week before the actual release to do all the pre-patch stuff, which I hear isn't much, rarely is anyways.
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2020-10-04, 03:44 AM #14Mechagnome
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I don't think it will be delayed.The reason for this is this,There is nothing to do in the prepatch to he honest .You get a couple a quests that take you to ice crown and a hand full of dailies .A new world boss and rares out in ice crown and that is about it.Oh and the stupidly nerfed scourge invasion. Originally Posted by pinkz
If they have to delay that we have problems lol
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2020-10-04, 03:47 AM #15Herald of the Titans
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Pretty much Originally Posted by Bigcountry11782
If you're not interested in levelling or trying out the new class changes, there's really not much to the prepatch, and certainly not a lot that can go wrong, riiiiight?
I'm looking forward to 1 or 2 raids max of clearing Nya'lotha again just to try the new class changes out, followed by another X weeks of chilling & not playing the game at all besides logging on daily to check the BMAH. Fun times ahead. Still, a longer wait definitely beats having a shit expansion launch.
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2020-10-04, 03:50 AM #16Mechagnome
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Oh no doubt. Originally Posted by Toybox
Pretty much If you're not interested in levelling or trying out the new class changes, there's really not much to the prepatch, and certainly not a lot that can go wrong, riiiiight?
I'm looking forward to 1 or 2 raids max of clearing Nya'lotha again just to try the new class changes out, followed by another X weeks of chilling & not playing the game at all besides logging on daily to check the BMAH. Fun times ahead. Still, a longer wait definitely beats having a shit expansion launch.
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2020-10-04, 03:58 AM #17The Unstoppable Force
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I believe we are going to see a 5-9 week prepatch. 5 would be ideal if the game is ready, but they may end up delaying it all the way till the middle of December.
Shadowlands launches
November 17th- Mythic raid opens December 8th. Plenty of time for bug fixes and the raid to start before holidays.
November 24th- Mythic raid opens December 15th. This is the most unlikely to me. I dont think they want to start season 1 with only 10 days till Christmas. Devs stop working around the 19th or the 20th of December too.
December 1st- Mythic raid opens January 12th. This is more likely than November 24th to me, but will players be okay waiting 6 weeks for Season 1 to start. I doubt it.
December 8th- Mythic raid opens January 12th. This is my best bet on the actual release date. 8 weeks of prepatch and 5 weeks of no Season 1 or raid.
December 15th- Last possible date for SL in 2020. Cutting it close to the wire. Leaves at most a week to bug fix before employees go on Christmas break. 4 weeks no raid.
The most ideal for me would be December 8th. Guessing they would announce the new date at the beginning of November. I managed to get my vacation time refunded, but they need to announce the new date at least a month out or I wont get it.
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2020-10-04, 04:12 AM #18Legendary!
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november 24th Originally Posted by Chickat
they are more likely to delay the raid release
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2020-10-04, 04:35 AM #19Herald of the Titans
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You think they're going to release the expansion 2 days before a major American holiday? Really? Originally Posted by zantheus1993
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2020-10-04, 04:45 AM #20Bloodsail Admiral
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You do realize the game in general released on Nov 23rd, 2004. Right before Thanksgiving. Not unheard of that they do it again. Originally Posted by Amsden
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