WoW's LONGEST content drought incoming

[Toppy]

Again, I‘m repeating myself, but look at the corresponding timeframes and not solely on the patch numbers.

By the time we’ll get 9.1 we already had 7.2 in Legion. So compare Legion‘s 7.2 state to what we will have in Shadowlands with 9.1. In BfA this works until the state of 8.1.5 (8.2 was 10 months after BfA‘s launch).

It doesn’t make much sense to compare Legion 7.1 to Shadowlands 9.1 when 7.1 launched after 2 months and 9.1 after ~ 7.

Yeah like, putting aside mindless bitching. this is a very clear case of Blizzard being open for very real and very much deserved criticism.

Even ignoring how long its taking to get their new patch out, said new patch isn't big enough to warrent the time its taking. Hell, from what we know, they arent even bothering with a raid set which is a first. Its, again from what we know so far, a patch low in content compared to major patches in the past. It'll likley be just under the time it took BfA to do two patches, which included two new zones, a mega dungeon, new side content (warfronts and islands), three raids, and multiple gearsets, and a surprisingly large amount of new storylines, including many that were race specific.

Putting it side by side again:

9.1, 5 months so far, likely 2-3 more to go. So hopefully 7-8 months total.

• One new dungeon (recolored gear).
• One new raid (recolored gear).
• One new zone
• No new old world content.
• Story content based on: covenants, the raid, and the brokers.
• Two new cosmetic gear sets per covenant.
• New mounts.

BfA: 8.1, 8.1.5, 8.2: 10 months.

• One new dungeon (recolor gear)
• Three new raids (two new gearsets)
• Two new zones (one having its own gearset)
• Darkshore revisited (with its own gear)
• Warfront updates
• Major island updates in all three patches
• New story content: war campaign, azshara, mechagon, four heritage quests with gear, unlocking two new allied races, with gear.
• Brawl Guild
• PvP: new arena and updated old battlegrounds
• Pet dungeon
• New time walking with associated rewards

[Soon-TM]

No, TBC is coming in June, so it won't be the longest drought at all.

How is that exactly relevant to retail players?

[Nyel]

How is that exactly relevant to retail players?

For Classic / TBC enthusiasts this is pretty great. For retail-only players it’s tragic.

[Toppy]

How is that exactly relevant to retail players?

For Classic / TBC enthusiasts this is pretty great. For retail-only players it’s tragic.

Not to mention its a different team too, so entirely irrelevent from any stance.

[Nyel]

Not to mention its a different team too, so entirely irrelevent from any stance.

Personally I am super excited for TBC. It’s the best expansion in my opinion and I already played Classic way more than BfA. So it will be exactly the same with TBC vs. Shadowlands. There’s nothing in Shadowlands that excites me, but everything in TBC excites me. I’m so looking forward to the TBC release.

[Toppy]

Personally I am super excited for TBC. It’s the best expansion in my opinion and I already played Classic way more than BfA. So it will be exactly the same with TBC vs. Shadowlands. There’s nothing in Shadowlands that excites me, but everything in TBC excites me. I’m so looking forward to the TBC release.

WotLK and MoP were the gold ones for me. Glad we'll likely get least one of the two.

[niztheundead87]

its funny how bellular talks like he is in deep aaa game developing and all he has to show for his own game is a picture omegalaul

[Ealyssa]

So could all of the cool Bellular haters please enlighten us poor, misguided idiots who occasionally visit his channel for WoW news and discussion? Prey tell, which youtuber should we be giving our attention to oh geniuses of the internet? Seriously, I'd love to know instead of a "LOL bellular bad derp" response

None ?

You are totally free to love McDonalds and eat it every day. But that won't ever make it great cuisine.

[razorpax]

None ?

You are totally free to love McDonalds and eat it every day. But that won't ever make it great cuisine.

But everyone must eat McDonald’s and if you don’t then you are wrong

[Chriisto]

Seems like the drought is set to continue even longer than we all thought