No one said that. They just said MoP will be earlieast they'll choose because older would need redesign + SL dungeon are too recent for launch.
It's not even that, in theory Alpha could drop this month and expac release in December. But we will have whole Season 4 that reuse content, but still have typical stuff for season like rewards and 26 item level jump.
There are just 8 months between launch of season 3 (1st March) and deadline for pre-patch (1st November). Not only each season would have to last ~4 months, but also 8 months would be reasonable for final tier, so Blizzard wouldn't bother with s4 at all.
Last edited by Dracullus; 2022-05-05 at 05:03 PM.
Sure he did.
Mythic+ is just about my favorite feature out there, but no matter what we do with affixes, running the same dungeon for 18 months straight wears a little thin before the end, and people aren't necessarily that keen on refarming the same item 26 item levels higher each tier. We also have this wealth of awesome old content that is still super fun, as we've seen with things like Legion timewalking. So what we'd like to do for Dragonflight is launch with 8 dungeons, but have season 1 of Mythic+ be comprised of four of those new Dragonflight plus a mix of four dungeons picked from older expansions that never had Mythic+ before, whether it was a Mists challenge mode, Warlords dungeon, etc. Probably not Shadowlands stuff, because that's too recent. Have that flesh out the season one pool, then have season 2 be the other four Dragonflight dungeons plus four other old ones, and basically have complete turnover from season to season in terms of what the pool looks like, and really freshen up the experience.
Oh yeah, didn't catch that line. Strange that just sentence later only SL was singled out. So for sure it need clarification. Especially since in SL season 4 use dungeons that had M+ before.
They could also, instead picking few dungeons from every expac, do more thematic seasons, S1 - MoP, S2 - WoD etc.
You're definitely right, it could use some clarification. The only reason why I don't think they won't use BfA and Legion yet is because BfA TW will likely be added around S2 and that will add 6 TW M+ dungeons to the mix as well when the event is up. I do like your idea about seasons having themes. That would pretty cool.
Well, speculation obviously is not evidence (or fact). Blizzard has not initiated an alpha yet, let alone a private or public beta. And, of course, the subsequent PTR hasn't been released either. It is a very long time from the first event to the last. And, of course, Blizzard is not going to release Dragonflight in December during the holidays. At best, we would see mid-late January (and that's not even likely based on lack of current progress in the aforementioned stages) 2023.
I would suggest looking at 2023's calendar to see what major competitor game will either release, launch, or have a major content patch. That will increase the odds of landing on that date as Blizzard tends to do exactly that. They'll launch Dragonflight ready or not on whatever date is on that type of event for their biggest competitor.
They're not going to launch it when it is ready. They're going to do it on whatever date has the biggest chance to punch their competition in the groin. It's an established pattern at this point.
Sure it all pure speculation but if we look back at previous expacs : always Q3 or Q4 + 10.0 is already on CDN while 9.0 was on CDN after 2-3 months after the reveal, it means they are running.
9.2.5/S4 is already on PTR mostly and we are mid S3, even if we dont know about any major release in 2022 Fall, we know that FF and Lost Ark keep pumping patches/content each 2/3 months so Blizzard cant really wait 10+ months, plus there is literally nothing to test for Dragonflight.
There's literally nothing to test because it literally hasn't been released to any testing environment available to the public (including closed alpha and closed beta). I'm not entirely sure I understand your position here. You're either contradicting yourself and/or not making yourself clear. Either way, the end result is the same.
Blizzard can afford to wait as long as the competition doesn't release a major content release (e.g. new expansion, new game launch, etc). Minor 2/3 month patches are insignificant to them as demonstrated by literally every expansion launch or major content release (e.g. a x.[1-3] version) after BC.
JUST DAY 1 STUFF so no neck powers or 8.3 corruption or 9.2 tiers
Legion : Artifacts Traits + Legendaries + Tier Sets + Talents + Mythic Plus + World Quests + World Bosses
BFA : Azerite Powers + Warfronts + Island + Talents -> M+ WQ WB already tested in Legion
Shadowlands : Covenants (4x12) + Conduits + Soulbind + Talents + Torgast + Legendaries -> M+ WQ WB already tested in Legion and BFA
Dragonflight : New Class + Talents + Professions? + Dragonflying?
Literally nothing to test due to insane RNG LAYER ULTRA BORROWED POWERS
So yes Dragonflight has way less testing required.
Not testing borrowed power systems does not mean, as your previous post stated, no testing. I'm glad you ammended this response to say "way less". But, this too is subjective. We don't know what is on the alpha/beta to test as yet because it hasn't been released to do so (even private invites for MMOC/Wowhead). Speculation is not well served for the obvious reason: lack of information.