Yeah 5.4 is Siege of Orgrimmar (GC have said about priests or some class that they don't want to add something mid expansion (5.2) :/. But the sooner we get Nazgrim on the throne the better . Though I'd be surprised if Taylor survived.
Yeah 5.4 is Siege of Orgrimmar (GC have said about priests or some class that they don't want to add something mid expansion (5.2) :/. But the sooner we get Nazgrim on the throne the better . Though I'd be surprised if Taylor survived.
It is very likely that 5.4 will be Siege, since there's nothing left to deal with after ToT.
Questing Experienced established 2 Enemies, Sha and the Mogu.
The Sha obviously played the main enemy during questing so they were dealt first in 5mans and Raids.
5.1 brought Garrosh and his evil plans on the table with abusing the Sha.
5.2 you will now deal with the Mogu threat that was established during questing after that, there's nothing left to deal with aside from Garrosh, since they do not implemented a new "threat" or possible raid content with 5.2.
In Wotlk for example, they brought the Argent Tournament with 3.1 already into the game, which was turned into a Raid with 3.2.
5.3 will set up the Siege, 5.3 will probably end up in an epic battle for Pandaria where Garrosh unleashes something (7th Sha?) which then turns the majority of the Horde against him and Alliance and Horde Rebellion work to together to contain the thing Garrosh unleashed.
Garrosh will have no choice but to retreat to Org with his loyalists and hole up in the city.
Only a patch (5.3) to build up the Rebellion and the Alliance managing to get to Durotar? Way too soon. 5.2 barely touches on Garrosh's doing.
Is it at all possible that ToT heroic modes will take 1-2 weeks in some cases to down a single boss ? If so maybe it can last 8 months. If Blizzard would just tune their raids to the point that you HAVE TO gear up to meet dps checks and such it would be doable. I know top guilds will class stack to get around the item level but maybe blizzard can plan for it and make you gear up, I know its not likely but not an unreasonable thought.
If I'm not mistaken (I probably am) isn't 5.2 suppose to be late Feb/early March?
So I guess we can see 5.3 sometime around mid April/late May since it will be a lore patch.
MoP came out at the start of Sept.
5.1 came out start of Dec.
With this in mind, it seems that we're on a 3-month trend.
We'll start the summer off with 5.3 in June and see 5.4 at the end of summer.
If they follow Cataclysm that had only 3 tiers, then we can assume that 5.4 will be delayed until Blizzcon and it will be Siege.
If they don't follow Cataclysm, then 5.4 will touch down at the end of summer and Blizzcon might announce 5.5 as the Siege w/o a lore patch between the two.
That time span between 5.2 and 5.3 is a bit too tight. We're probably looking at March for 5.2, and June/July for 5.3. Then you'll see 5.4 in Q3 at some point with 5.5 hitting early next year.
So in short, here's the cycle (IMO);
Q3 2012: 5.0
Q4 2012: 5.1
Q1 2013: 5.2
Q2 2013: 5.3
Q3 2013: 5.4 (next expansion announced)
Q1 2014: 5.5
If 5.5 is released in February 2014, they could conceivably release 6.0 in August 2014. That would be 6 months. The trick is the timing of 5.5 and the start of beta-testing of the next expansion.
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I expect 5.4 to be a Hozen/Jinyu inspired raid, to be perfectly honest.
Putting an end to the century long battle. Maybe the 7th Sha will be the final boss of that patch.
There's nothing insinuating the 7th Sha will be dealt with in the Siege, but Blizzard made it clear there are 7 Sha. We've only seen 6.
But then MoP will have less raids than Wrath...
5.0 = 3.0 - Starter Raids.
5.1
5.2 = 3.1 - Ulduar.
5.3
5.4 = 3.2 - ToC
5.5
5.6 = 3.3 - ICC.
Get what I'm saying?
My guess is 5.4 will be the last patch with the SoO. The devs have stated, and so far have delivered upon much more rapid content patches. I also think there is going to be a lot of pressure from mgmt on them to get the next expansion out without a 9month delay.
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That is exactly what I am thinking also. They have already told us the whole 2 month-4 month thing. My biggest fear about 6.0 is that because they have been putting out 5.1 and 5.2 so fast, they are actually not putting as much resources into the next expansion now as they did in previous expansions. But I think overall, you have it exactly correct with their plans.
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People have said the same thing about every beta and every PTR since WOW began. The internal dev testing is far ahead of what we have on PTR and as it gets close to release time, they will dump a ton of very polished stuff on the PTR the last 2 weeks. Every beta is the same way.. 6 weeks before launch, there are a ton of people saying everythign is broken, then with 3 weeks left, most everything is fixed.
Pretty certain we'll see 4 tiers this expansion, which gives the next expansion a fall 2014 release date.