Can you confirm raid opening time?

[Aryxymaraki-earthen-ring (Aryxymaraki)]

It will not be open day 1.

This blue post about heirlooms tells us that ‘day 1’ and ‘day that raids open’ are intended to be different days, and generally that they want us to have time to level to 85 before raids open.

Heirloom head and cape

Specifically, this will happen with the first raid release. In original Cataclysm, level 85 heirlooms were tied to guild perks. To obtain those heirlooms, players were required to join a guild and boost it to guild level 10, which was meant to be a significant barrier to obtaining them. In Cataclysm Classic, we chose to make heirloom rewards much more available to players, and since our intention is not to have level 85 heirlooms available during the initial 80-85 leveling, we’ve capped heirl…