God, please let 10.0 be a return to more grounded threats on Azeroth... I can stomach no revamp of EK/Kalimdor if we just stop going into space and planes or whatever the fuck...
According to everything we know, pretty much yes. From what I understand he wanted the veil to be broken to reunite with Sylvanas and capture Anduin and friends for the sake of acquiring the sigils. It appears that taking Azeroth is only a secondary goal to him, and the Sepulcher is his main objective (unless the Sepulcher ends up being on Azeroth).
But... but.... we've killed a Titan, we've excised the Old Gods, we're gonna kill a Cosmic God.....
No, we need to go bigger. We need to go to war with an entire Cosmic Force....
We need to try and be as popular as Shadowbringers.
It's time... to fight ALL OF THE LIGHT ITSELF!!!!1!!!!!
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I would love an expansion that brings us to EK/Kal and we just see how things have been going for the locals. Back to collecting bear asses, foiling bandit organizations, helping small farms/towns, small HvA squabbles over land disputes. Instead of focusing on some sort of Sylvanas tv drama like the story has been for years, they could tell non convoluted smaller stories throughout the world.
I understand people wouldn't like the less serious world ending big baddie story, but that doesn't mean we can't have raids or a big bad that could be foreshadowed. Give us reasons to care about the world again and the people in it, so that way at the last patch when some unforseen evil levels a town and destroys the inhabitants we actually want to go kick some ass.
To be fair, and since I've read it from someone else here before, the beginning of BfA was grounded. From the Nazjatar patch onwards we've been jumping sharks on rocket skates again. I mean we defeated an eldritch horror by practically re-originating it with a bunch of titan machines and the world soul channeling a kamehame through us/our necklaces. We went from a faction war that simmered down into a proxy war to a world and effectively universe emding (void lords getting entry into reality) threat. Practically it was only ever grounded on a superficial surface level since the overarching world saving azerite plot was always bubbling below the surface of a simple faction war.
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You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
So 10.0 in late Q3-early Q4 2024? Even for doomsayers that seems excessive.
If we assume 2 months delay on every single major patch starting from when SL launched that still leaves us with at worst an August/September 2023 launch. And that is assuming Blizzard is not going to cut the fat in later patches to try to get 10.0 out sooner rather than later.
9.1 is already far meatier than any previous X.1 patch that I have seen at least. So if we then assume a 9.2 more in vein of 7.2, and a 9.3 more like 8.3 then the amount of content needed for later patches is already cut drastically, possibly even enough to launch said patches earlier.
The world revamp dream will never die!
Unless 10.0 is not some big revamp expansion that will take longer (and Blizzard would warn us that WoW goes on hiatus like post WoD), I could imagine timeline like this:
- 9.1.5 absolutely minimal on September (Legion timewalking, heirlooms, small quality of life changes) or even scrapped
- 9.2 reveal & PTR on September
- 9.2 launch on 16th, 23th or 30th November (depend if Thanksgiving would be more important than direct clash with FF14 for them, and if it is, how would they prefer position themselves - week before or after)
- Season 3 either on 30th November or 7th December
- 9.2.5 definitely scrapped (9.3.5 of course too)
- on February reveal and PTR of 9.3 (smaller patch than 9.2, more story, Icecrown geting Uldum/Vale treat, final raid and season, some patch gimmick similar to visions)
- late February/early March Blizzconline - reveal of 10.0 expac AND Wrath Classic
- late April 9.3 launch (they like to release patches on late March, but it would be impossible this time)
- early Summer 10.0 Alpha, late Summer Wrath Beta
- on Gamescom reveal of Wrath date - November 2022 after Thanksgiving
- Blizzcon 2022 - Beta 10.0 starting next week (people with virtual ticket invited), panels about max level content, making some Wrath hype
- 10.0 launching on second half of March 2023, making SL longest expansion, beating BfA record by 2-3 weeks.
Of course there is huge disclaimer - it's possible IF Blizzard is back to speed and is able to deliver raid every 5 months. I'm aware pessimistic people here are sure there is 0% chance for that.
That's quite possible. I don't think 10.0 will see a very long drought, either, at least as long as we can keep Delta from messing with things to much.
Though i question the benefit of scrapping the x.x.5 patches, collating those with the .n patches won't really save them much.
People still expect some content or system changes from patches like these. In general I don't see a point for them after devs abandoned Legion way. 8.1.5 was last mini patch with some content, 8.2.5 was a joke and 9.0.5 was just hotfix that pretend to be a patch cause end of Q1 was coming and they had to lure some people in.
how do you get 2024??
next year is 2022 so it would be 2023
delays happened we cant get around that
patches and 10.0 are effected just by the fact they work on the next expansion at the same time they launch the current one
feb of 2022 will be the latest 9.2 hits
"well they dont need as much content because of the 9.1 content"
theres no predetermined amount of content they have for an expansions patch cycle and kneecapping the later patches especially the one that normally lasts about a year is a terrible business strategy
lets say 9.3 hits in september of 2022
this means that if we get blizzcon we can get all the super fun stuff for the next expansion shown and hype us up
you figure the 10-12 month cycle we will get it no later than september 2023
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Uhm... 8.2 to 8.3 took them almost the same amount of time then as 9.1 to 9.2 (8.2 end of June, 8.3 mid January; 9.1 end of June, 9.2 January / February). With the only exception 9.1 was already 3 months late. I think 9.2 in February is totally reasonable, but only if we're getting the next expansion in Q4/22 (which will be the case).
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Y'all are delusional if you think they're delaying the next expansion until Q3/23 or later, lol.
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I'm a simple man. I detest Shadowlands as a setting, so I truly do hope Shadowlands will end with patch 9.2. Nothing of value will be lost.
Expansion Storylines ranking:
Legion > Cataclysm > MoP > BfA up to 8.2.5 > Wrath > TBC > WoD > Dragonflight > BfA 8.3 > Shadowlands
Nah we dont.. please god no.
Its already all over the place.. its obvious people lose interest except for a few people here who are hyped for that shit.
I rather see a setting on azeroth where we visit the races and what they are up to.. maybe take gilneas back, look for a place forthe forsaken, wrap stories there and visit places on Azeroth we still need to visit. Anything, but that stupid light vs voidbulshit.
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