" Early November 2023: Patch 10.2 and Season 3 January 2024: Patch 10.2.5 March 2024: Patch 10.2.7 May 2024: Patch 10.3 and Season 4 July 2024: Patch 10.3.5 September 2024: Patch 11.0 November 2024: Next Expansion Releases "Kinda curious where this 10.3 are coming from.Dragonflight's gear catch-up events has always been 10.x.7I do believe that peoples and the one who posted this article are way to used to the Old Patch circle where most expansions have a x.3.0 patch.Shadowlands had 9.2.7 up til Dragonflight's Release (Where Fated raids where introduced and ment for a catch up mechanic for alts)There was no 9.3 in Shadowlands with Season 4.So 10.2.7 could introduce Fated til the next expansion's release.Season 4 is ment as a shorter Season most likely as it was in Shadowlands.So expect next Expansion to be released in Summer 2024. Peoples will not be happy at all with Amirdrassil being the current raid tier for a Year.
Logical decision from Blizzard. Players are getting older and less and less motivated to block their evenings from setting up raids, there is no point in developing 4-5 raids per expansion in these conditions. Blizzard will probably put more emphasis on single player/small instance content
If Amirdrassil ends up being the last raid added in Dragonflight, Dragonflight will be the expansion with the lowest number of raid encounters added to the game at 26, less than Cataclysm's 27, less than Shadowlands 31 (and over a dozen less than any other expansion). And that is with Cata being cut short due to also supporting an entire world revamp and Shadowlands being the COVID and Scandal expansion. And if I may, Dragonflight also lacks so far a standout raid. Vault and Aberrus are perfectly fine but neither is a memorable raid and when in the future we are talking about which potential DF raid should go TW, people will draw a blank. Ofc we can hope Amirdrassil gets that spot. I cannot say I am visually impressed and I find the theme to be damn tired though.It will also tie with Shadowlands as the expansion with the least number of dungeons added since the introduction of the M+ system with Legion having 12 Dungeons (one was a revamp) and a Megadungeon (half of it was also a revamp) and BfA had 10 dungeons and a Megadungeon.Dragonflight will have two large zones added post launch and will have made far more extensive use of the zones it did add. But that doesn't compare with Legion's multitude of scenario-specific areas or BfA's Island Expeditions and updated areas or heck, even Torghast's size of instanced contentWhat Dragonflight has done is deliver the illusion of content by simply spacing its content out much better. In volume of content offered it is barely an upgrade over Shadowlands and a significant downgrade over BfA and Legion at every point.
With every expansion since BfA having had a 2-3 week pre patch, the 2 month gap between 11.0 and the expansion launch seems improbable to me as does a 6 month fated style S4 (SL S4 was only 4 months). It would also make S3 the longest season of Dragonflight.If the team maintained the current pace of release delivery I'd expect 10.3.0 in April, and a new expansion in late September (Aug/Sep was their preferred release timing during Legion and BfA, the last times they were not visibly struggling to release content).Hopefully if they do decide to make S4 a fated style season (which IMO would be a mistake of the long term health of the game) they do remember world content players this time and we do see a 10.3.0. A 9-12 month content drought would only make it harder to convince players to pre order or commit to 6/12 month subs, which would then make it harder to both retain players and regain lapsed players into the next expansion.The drought at the end of SL was somewhat understandable given their obvious struggles to release content in SL, but now they are able to release content at a reasonable pace a sudden slowdown would leave affected players feeling forgotten and make it hard to justify sub and expansion fees (let alone the other monetization opportunities).
Every dragonflight (Blue, Black, Bronze, Green) has had a significant story arc in Dragonflight, told either through a lengthy questline, megadungeon, raid, or a combination of these. A red dragonflight arc is still left to be explored, which gives me a feeling of "something is missing" in this expansion.My personal opinion is that Dragonflight is a great expansion in so many regards, and with so much potential for interesting storytelling left to be done, which could lay groundwork for more great game content. I feel it would be a shame to let that go to waste by cutting it short after Amirdrassil. It would feel super unresolved, at least to me.
You guys do know that the Blizzard roadmap for WoW doesn't have a 10.3 on it...Have they stopped teaching reading comprehension in schools now?
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if 11.0 launches in early August. Established DF cadence plus a 3 month season 4 would pull your timetable ahead a month.
Blizzard could add world event content for S4 of Dragonflight, about rebuilding capitals, for the Night Elves in the Amirdrassil open world area and for the Forsaken in Lordaeron. The reconstruction should be in phases, so people see progress in these cities, when they contribute to the efforts.That would give people something to do outside of dungeons and raids before moving on to 11.0.
I absolutely hate the three raid formula. Of all the lessons they could have learned from shadowlands they decided it's a good idea to do another castrated expansion with las many total raids as early expansions had on launch... Lazy and pathetic is what this is
Lets hope so, i did not like dragonflight and dragonflying at all.
Well I think there will be still a new raid in 10.3. It feels really weird to finish the expansion with Fyrakk and turning Iridikron into a Garrosh to lead into the next expansion. There must be something more or we can't really say the story of Dragonflight wraps up.The rune? They can easily make it dynamic or just believe that version is good enough for the end raid.The reward? Not really seeing it as a definitive sign of being the last raid. I mean, we got that other thing to make our dragonriding mount look like that other stormy incarnate (forgot her name).I'll be very disappointed if, once again, there is no 10.3. And it's not just because I want it, it's because the story feels too compressed again, just like in Shadowlands.
Why is 11.0 launch in september and the "Next expansion launch" in november considered as 2 different things?