If prepatch is on September 29, we should have the season's ending warning tomorrow, right ?
It will be announced tomorrow or wednesday for sure.
If not, Shadowlands isnt ready yet.
I don't see a reason for the prepatch to be "delayed" from the 29th. They have a separate branch going for expansion launch so hopefully they have a good enough build for the prepatch branch.
Technical it would be possible, yes, but yeah have to agree thats not really probable as this would make bugfixing for the developer even more hell than it might be in a 4-5 pre patch. Otherwise them splitting on 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 might be the other hint that we will have a regular pre patch as if they we were in a shorter pre patch it wont be needed.
That's the only reason I could even see it happening, just because they are splitting it up into two patches, but that would still be hell for the devs since they have less staffing for each part of the patch. It's less work sure but it's also less people with less time.
I really don't think they'll only have a 2 week prepatch though.
I guess the Maw isn't going to change huh? Looks like we really only have 4 zones at launch then.
Their stated intention was to create a grindathon zone that was deadly, hostile and in which getting the resources you wanted would be the sole challenge. It is just that without the Torghast keys the point of the Maw was removed.
Mindlessly grinding was the entire idea of the Maw, so hopefully the socket farming becomes something to do there at least, otherwise it is indeed wholly pointless.
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They are bigger than the BfA zones. Which of course comes on top of the BfA zones not really having much of anything except World Quests for the opposite faction, so it should be at least a tiny upgrade overall.
The world revamp dream will never die!
when they first announced that the undead invasion would happen they said it would start a week after the prepatch.
not sure if the implication that it would be out for 3 weeks is something made up. probably is
Romance doesnt detract from a story. Its a Genre, like horror or comedy or adventure. The game was ruined when we got Horror in drustvar or nazmir. It wasnt ruined when we had funny quests. So if you think a little man on man love ruins the game, then yes you are either a homophobe or just a spoil sport that goes "ewww kissing is yucky" like a baby. Furthermore, if a character has never expressed interest in any gender, then its not proof they are straight. straight people are not the default
I might have dreamt it , but I can swear it is one week for changes and then the prepatch events begin... not sure