People here saying November release are out of your mind. Everyone on here constantly complains about buggy unplayable launches and want the game to be releases in 6 months. Alpha->launch is usually in the 8 month range and that hasn't even started yet.
SL was a smooth release for a bunch of stuff as far as launch day. A lot of peoplr on Tich went all the way to Revendreth pretty easily. They phased us from others including the alliance. Torghast and systems like conduit tom foolery were bugged nonstop in beta testing. They also couldn’t tune raids because people wanted to fool around using wrath gear while that scaling buff was up for focused testing and pvp in SL beta . We don’t have any system stuff going on and it is all focused on crafting and. talent revamp. Just sit tight kids and we will find out soon.None of us work at Blizz, so no one knows anything other than locker room gossip. They are done when they are happy with it .Ion - “DF is further along” “ we have been working on it since SL started” When I was on FFXIV years ago, Stormblood was also buggy. It happens man , relax.
New season will be with 9.3, which will most likely contain a lot of the Dragonflight UI changes, AH, etc etc. they will want that all embedded before the new expansion. Season 4 will be somewhere in that although I am sure someone has already worked out the average length of a season and can pro-rata an approximate date so I can start working on my slime cat mount.
So release date is coming this week hopefully and thank god for that. Pugging on the Alliance is getting worse by the day so I can't wait for cross faction.
Hoping that DF alpha starts in a couple of weeks after this release as well!
They haven't officially ended HoF yet (that happens today) which means guilds that require pugs for Mythic should be able to get their month-2months worth of pugging to down some Mythic bosses. I think this slog in Raid Tiers between Denathrius / Sylvanas / Jailer pushes...we are going to see a change in the raiding sphere. I wouldn't be surprised if they look at group sizes and difficulties to compete against FF XIV style.