They haven't touched PvE number balance yet, but they have made changes to mechanics of classes.
First week of march. The people who return and sub for a month will be calculated in the Q1 numbers.
The reason DS came early was to make sure players would return to WoW instead of switch to SWTOR.
So actually they just told us that they are releasing 5.2 in the end of February, right?
That's their plan - here's the official statement from Bashiok:
"Of course we don’t tend to give out patch release dates ahead of time, because things can slip, but right now we’re targeting the last week of February."
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/860...King-2_11_2013
Technically, they said they were targeting that date, meaning it might not happen, but that is about as close to an advanced official announcement as you can expect from Blizzard.
Kinda seems too soon to me. They'll have to rush heroic raid testing kinda hard, since they have not even started 25N yet.
I found I enjoyed the game significantly more when I stopped paying attention to all the people on the forums telling me how much I am supposed to hate itAll this complaining is simply further proof that Blizzard could send each and every player a real-life wish-granting flying unicorn carrying a solid gold plate of chocolate chip cookies wrapped in hundred dollar bills, and someone would whine that Blizzard sucks for not letting them choose oatmeal raisin.
In your face, naysayers!LFR will, as usual, be broken up into sub-sections and those will be releasing over time, likely with the first section opening with Heroic in the second week, and a new section each week afterward. Of course we don’t tend to give out patch release dates ahead of time, because things can slip, but right now we’re targeting the last week of February.
'I've jotted down a few notes on how to best spend these last two weeks preparing for the 5.2 patch: http://bit.ly/WEOWIc '
bashiok tweet 10 mins ago
https://twitter.com/Bashiok/status/301013346717663232
Good. I knew I was close. I was guessing the 19th or 26th. Gonna say it cant take that freaking long to raid test 1 raid. lol.
Bashiok also just tweeted http://i.imgur.com/7wlxEzK.jpg xD
lol at the people who predicted late march or even april. joke is on you.
HAhahahhahaha not to sound rude or anything but LOL I WAS RIGHT! In your face @ people saying mid march/april!!!
Looks like the first part of 5.2 LFR won't open until March 5th, same time as Heroics.
Feb 26th feels a bit too soon, they still have all of 25man normal/heroic testing and 10 man heroic testing to do still, unless they do A LOT of cramming in the next few weeks, I don't see this being met
Bashiok
"I've jotted down a few notes on how to best spend these last two weeks preparing for the 5.2 patch:[Can't post links yet]
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On twitter, yup looks like a 26th release!