Expected Content Patch Timeline

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Just wanted to get people on the same page about Classic content release patches.

Major Patch Release Date Since Last Patch From Launch Content
1.1 Nov 7, 2004 0 days 0 days Launch
1.2 Dec 18, 2004 41 days (5.08%) 41 days (5.08%) Marudon
1.3 Mar 7, 2005 79 days (10.42%) 120 days (15.83%) Dire Maul
1.4 April 19, 2005 43 days (5.67%) 163 days (21.5%) PVP Honor System
1.5 June 7, 2005 49 days (6.46%) 212 days (27.96%) Battle Grounds
1.6 July 12, 2005 35 days (4.61%) 247 days (32.58%) Blackwing Lair
1.7 Sept 13, 2005 63 days (8.31%) 310 days (40.89%) Zul Gurub/Arathi Basin
1.8 Oct 10, 2005 27 days (3.56%) 337 days (44.45%) Green Dragons/Silithus
1.9 Jan 3, 2006 85 days (11.21%) 422 days (55.67%) Ahn’Qiraj
1.10 Mar 28, 2006 84 days (11.08%) 506 days (66.75%) Armor Sets/Weather
1.11 June 19, 2006 83 days (10.94%) 589 days (77.7%) Naxxramas
1.12 Aug 22, 2006 64 days (8.44%) 653 days (86.14%) CRZ Battlegrounds
2.01 Dec 5, 2006 105 days (13.85%) 758 days (100%) The Burning Crusade

Content Patches work in pairs of Vanilla patches. So assuming the same number of days for each content patch:

Content Patch Days Content
Content Patch 1 120 days (15.83%) Launch and Marudon
Content Patch 2 122 days (16.09%) Dire Maul and PVP Honor System
Content Patch 3 84 days (11.08%) Battle Grounds and Blackwing Lair
Content Patch 4 90 days (11.87%) Zul’Gurub, Green Dragons and Silithus
Content Patch 5 169 days (22.29%) Ahn’Qiraj
Content Patch 6 252 days (33.24%) Naxxramas and Cross Realm Battlegrounds

As most people can see, its relatively front loaded, all content released by 66% of the authentic window. What it does mean too though, is that to be an ‘authentic’ server, that PVP system has to wait for 3 months from launch, and battle grounds another 3 months from that (6 months after launch). On the PVE side of things, the first 6 months of the game will be purely farming Molten Core and Onyxia, so hopefully everyone will get their cloaks ready.

Beyond the end of the 758 Vanilla days, Blizzard has the option to create new servers (gutting old ones) or simply let it remain as is.

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Ayyy, nice work. :slight_smile:

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Hey, this is cool.

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This is pretty awesome

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I’m not sure what “Make Wiki” does, but it’d be great to have this pinned somewhere. I bookmarked it because I’ll be referencing it as people complain about Content Patch sequencing :slight_smile:

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I hope they only keep MC/Ony as the only raids for 5 months max.

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Its a trade off though. If they rush patches, then the “complete all content” people will want a new fresh server faster. If they slow it down, people will complain that there’s nothing to do (even though this is Classic, deal with it). I’d still say their best plan is to roughly meet the timelines of a 2 year game, and then decide what to do after that.

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Didn´t Silithus got revamped in 1.8 and the world PvP goals added in 1.12? Would match with the phase 6 Silithus plans…

This is a visual representation, how the original release schedule with initial release on 08/27/2019 would look like:
https://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/9c8d03-1562144252.png

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Thanks mom. This is interesting indeed.

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They did, but it was pretty minor. Silithus went from a barren wasteland only used for Thunderfury, to actually having quests and a hub, in 1.8.

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Sure, but I doubt that thats the Phase 6 content patch. I guess that will be IG from Launch. Only PvP will be added later. Thus 1.8 Silithus is irrelevant for classics release schedule.

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Good thread, El.

So 326 days until BGs/ BWL launch by your estimates.

That’s July 18th, 2020 =(

Guess I REALLY don’t need to be in such a rush to cap my main and alts in anticipation of bgs, lol…

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There’s just no way. I expect

to be out 6-8 months after Classic release.

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It would be nice to have an accelerated raid progression server so that we wouldn’t have to wait so long to rip through the content but time is money and here we finally are.

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In a hypothetical universe, the earliest you can expect bwl is 40 weeks past launch (which would be enough for 40 people to kill Onyxia 40x and craft 40 cloaks)… They’d have to up Onyxias drop rates to move bwl up timeline wise

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If it takes 84 days for battlegrounds I’m canceling my subscription. Dumbest thing ever. This crap is worse than layering.

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I’d be shocked if people didn’t start doing 20 man onyxias within the first two months.

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It wouldn’t be 84 days for battlegrounds. It would be 180 days from launch until battlegrounds.

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Imagine wanting to play capture the flag over killing people in blackrock mountain.

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Thanks for sharing