Originally Posted by
Dracullus
You won't have any info if there will be 3 or 4 regular seasons. Or at least it isn't expected. We can only tell from experience, if patches will drag too long, there won't be 10.3. But that's stuff post launch.
My perfect (within reason) expac would be that:
0) Pre-patch, 1 week changes + 2 week event = 3 weeks
1) Launch = 2 weeks
2) Season 1, 10 boss raid, DF dungeons 1-4 + 4 MoP dungeons = 10 weeks
3) 10.1 - Evoker zone turned into max level stuff, in general content typical to X.1 patches, big catch ups for S1 = 10 weeks (it's still S1)
4) 10.1.5 - BfA timewalking, brawler's guild, Troll/Draenei heritage, Season 2 - 9 boss raid, DF dungeons 5-8 + 4 WoD dungeons = 10 weeks
5) 10.2 - new big zone like ZM (season 2 catch up), new 8 boss megadungeon = 10 weeks
6) 10.2.5 - Timewalking raid, some evergreen content, Orc/Human heritage, Season 3 - 9 boss raid, DF dungeons 1-2 + DF 9-10 (megadungeon) + 4 Legion dungeons = 10 weeks
7) 10.3 - Revamped Azeroth zone (Dragonblight?), solo challenge for every spec = 10 weeks
8) 10.3.2 - Undead/Nelf heritage, Season 4 - 12 boss raid, DF dungeons 3-6 + 4 BfA dungeons = 10 weeks
9) 10.3.5 - Epilogue questline, Pandaren heritage, new battleground, 2 new (allied or not) races = 10 weeks
10) Season 5 (implemented in 10.3.5, it's already during 11.0 Alpha/Beta) - 'fated raids', DF dungeons 7-10 + 4 SL dungeons = 20 weeks.
Total: 105 weeks = 2 full years. Looks busy, but this is exact amount of content we saw in BfA and Legion. Not to mention they don't have to invent new system every patch, at least during this expansion. Also they could make HD version of some old set for 1-2 seasons like they did in 7.2.