Based on the lamination is staying the way it is attitude, PTR is the 12th.
I’m still waiting to see what happens today: Tuesday, November 12th. If Patch 2.6.7 hasn’t been deployed by 6:00 PM PST, then you may be right. 
Come on Blizzard. Please give is a Start Date. This cant be too hard for ya.
Hey try it. Give us the feeling of beeing heard and that D3 is still something you care for.
Ok so… Where is my start day / official patch notes?
Waiting for California to wake up
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It’s Tuesday morning here in the US. And it’s 2:06 AM PST. As Pouns said, they’re not even awake yet, much less in the “office”.
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I told ya’ll the patch was canceled. 
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/t/from-the-barb-community-do-not-nerf-rend/5766/1768
Nevalistis
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Okay, time for me to be unpopular. All part of the job, though. Hang tight, this is gonna be wordy.
We did, indeed, remove the Lamentation bonus in the release client build for Patch 2.6.7, which was the build that streamers and BlizzCon attendees were shown on the show floor. In an ideal world, I would have had a chance to contextualize this change before the convention. Unfortunately, I did not have that opportunity between my other job duties for the show and titles I support (including Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal , both which had presence at the show).
Normally, when a change like this happens, I find it when I’m updating patch notes for release. This process didn’t occur until last Thursday, after I got back from the show and being home sick from a chest cold I’m still fighting off. My next step is to go to the developers, have some back and forth, and find out insights and intention behind the change. I add that to the patch notes, get it reviewed for accuracy, then come and make a post as soon as I can. That’s where we are right now.
That’s all just background. Here’s what you came to read, and is what you’ll find in the patch notes once 2.6.7 launches:
While we were very happy with how much better Barbarians are performing, we are concerned we may have overshot it. By removing just one silo’d addition, we can observe how the class performance goes for Season 19 and consider re-adding this change in the future. Remember we still have a patch coming up where Barb will be one of the focused classes, so there will be plenty of time to revisit if necessary!
We’re trying to set up Barbarian to be in a better place with more individual knobs to turn so we can tune it better once we get to their new class set and balance pass. We actually want to maintain this process for all classes, too, so if you continue to have feedback on Monk and Crusader, keep it coming! There will always be opportunities to revisit any of these changes.
It’s okay if you don’t like this answer. It’s awesome if you have feedback on it. And it’s the absolute best when you can present that feedback respectfully and constructively. I’ve seen a lot of that, and I’m grateful for it—I only wish I could reply to all of it!
It’s taken a long time to get to this point. We’ve gone through many phases of balance for every class, and there have been ups and downs for everyone. Balance is nearly never a perfect process with a perfect end, and sometimes, no end at all. I’ve said it often before, and I will say it again: we’re not done yet. There’s more Diablo III left to come, and we’re going to continue to read your feedback, play the game, and bring updates to keep you sated in Sanctuary for as long as possible.
RE: Communication being limited - I’ve kind of already touched on this, but I’m being as present as I can be. BlizzCon and Diablo III ’s production schedule lined up in an unfortunate way (and getting sick didn’t help matters), but you have my personal commitment to being as communicative as I can be around patches and PTRs specifically. I wish I could have fulfilled this better around 2.6.7—it just wasn’t possible with the other priorities I had to fulfill.
I won’t make excuses, but I will continue to do my best, and I’m grateful for an understanding, passionate community that I saw the best of just a little over a week ago. It was wonderful to see so many of you in person, to finally share my excitement for the future in an honest and open way, and I hope you enjoy the other things we have in store in Diablo III and beyond.
Now, back to work for me.
This was posted last night in Free’s Barb Thread
See link above for actual post.
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Although Season 19 start on Nov 15 is a very likely possibility, doesn’t Blizzard normally put the advertising for next season start on BN launcher and D3 site on maintenance day (TODAY (Tues))? I think we should know by the end of the day Tues Nov 12.
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It’s in the realm of possibility that patch drops today and news of S19 start too.
But I certainly don’t count on it.
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Given Nev’s post mentioned above (basically confirming the barb nerf), my feeling is that they will go ahead with the patch today and S19 start this Friday 15 November
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Problem is: Nerv is full, comunication isn’t working. No official patch notes until now. No post about season ending (just a reply to forums), and no post about season 19 start or new patch going on live today…
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It’s now 7:00am in Irvine.
Nev is slowly waking up.
The amount of demands made of Brandy on these forums is nothing short of appalling. Blizzard employees famously put in insane amounts of work for Blizzcon, and she is the SOLE community voice for a major new title they announced a week ago. Diablo III’s 2.6.7 changes to some Barbarian items probably hasn’t been the focus of attention. And do people imagine she is the one deciding when this gets released?? And people think working in retail is bad. I can’t imagine a more infuriating job than trying to please infantile gamers 24/7 who have been whining about this game non-stop for half a decade.
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From my own experience, I find that when I completely go HAM at the start of a season I get bored much, much quicker.
Not so with me.
I, along with my clan play whole season long.
“I spent $60 seven years ago, so I’m entitled to a lifetime of constant updates”.
That’s basically what this boils down to. Blizzard actually has zero financial incentive to make any changes to this game AT ALL, and hasn’t for at least 2-3 years. The amount of playtime value most people have gotten for what they actually paid for it is astronomical. And they are still adding new sets going forward in a game that by all rights they have absolutely no obligation to continue to actively suppprt.
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Up to near 25k views. Hey Blizz, people are kinda interested in this.
Since they have come out and stated that they will do better with communication, and that they are supporting D3, then we should expect a bit more communication than what we are getting.
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Venossa let us yell if we wish to. If I do not unleash my agressive impatience for Season 19 here, where will I throw it ?! Would you rather I beat up a random child in the street instead ?!
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Who even cares about S19 anymore. I’ve lost all respect for blizzard. They can’t do better. As much as they say it. This is the best we can expect. Unbalanced game with bad mechanics and a few “we’re sorry” posts a year.
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