8.3 Delayed and Shadowlands release date...other shoe drops

[Turnberry-illidan (Turnberry)]

@Migolcow-shadowsong

No matter what cutoff you use though, you’re going to be cutting people off from that achievement. I would argue that a clean cutoff mid-december (after Thanksgiving but before Christmas) is much less likely to cause “holiday stress raiding” than 1/07 (which is likely, and would force some people to raid Christmas/New Years

They’ve always given 7ish months to finish a raid tier. Your solution gives less than 6 months. Also the patch often gives some extra power for guilds to get over the hump to get CE. So putting the holidays between the patch and the raid release would most definitely incentivize guilds to raid during that time.

@Migolcow-shadowsong

Or, a much easier solution (which I believe they’ve used before?) is that CE and AOTC are available until the next raid launch, not the 8.3 patch itself.

It’s always worked like this.