Constant maintenances must be special frame work patches for the secretive 10.2.6?
Very high chances it might be the fated season or something else entirely, I don’t think it’s the “squishmegedon” as it is too soon.
I surmise in a month or so they will announce what’s in 10.2.6. 
I think it would be too early for the fated season wouldn’t it?
Yeah, Fated won’t be until Spring, which is late March at best. 10.2.6 will probably be late Feb/early March based on the roadmap.
The fated season will be in 10.3. We should see 10.2.6 on the PTR fairly soon with whatever pirate feature they’re being secretive about.
What constant maintenance? Maintenance has not been in any way out of the ordinary any time recently.
It definitely seems pirate-y. I was hoping for some more gnoll stuff that Mon-ark eludes to at the end of the storyline with Amirdrassil.
Given the complete lack of any features listed on the roadmap for it, I would not be shocked if there are no announcements about it and it one day just drops out of the blue.
Also, 10.2.5 had a lot of lots bit that seemed aimed at me, so I’m going to speculate that whatever 10.2.6 contains, it’s not aimed at me.
(However, the timing will likely align closely with the Hearthstone 10th anniversary event, won’t it?)
I don’t think they would have put anything up on the roadmap unless they were positive they would release something.
Also Holly has been hyping it up on social media
That’s just it, isn’t it? Everyone’s so fixated on it being a pirate flag, and nobody stopped to realize that the international symbol for poison is a skull and crossbones.
The skull even looks like it’s disintegrating with those hatch marks on it and the bones are crumbling.
It would be weird enough to have an entire storyline and dungeon based around this poison and rot villain to just forget them and end the storyline unfinished.
But to then bring it back up at the finale of the story to remind people that she’s still out there and then abandon it would just be plain dumb.
My bet is that it’s not pirate, but poison and it’ll be that Gnoll boss from Brackenhide.
I’ll pee my pants in excitement if it’s a gnoll mega dungeon. The voice acting in Brackenhide hollow was top notch, more please!
There is no 10.3, the last patch of the expansion is 10.2.7 according to the roadmap.
I think we have a slight misunderstanding here - by “drop” I mean “release” not “get cancelled”.
(The longer we go without a 10.2.6 PTR opening, the more suspicious I feel about this)
Ooooooh,
Yea that makes more sense
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I have a feeling they are going to expand on the group of pirates that is out in"the forbidden reach". Probably will regurgitate some sort of vault to go with it.
They’ve also made a secret about the Gilneas stuff. If it’s going to be a similar “surprise”, then I can very well do without the patch.
There is almost a 0% chance that 10.2.6 will be the fated season because they are listed separately on the road map timeline.
Ion said they are not doing a stat squish for TWW…and they definitely wouldn’t do it mid-tier so that’s also out of the question.
How were they secretive about the retaking of Gilneas, it was on the roadmap for weeks.
Don’t pull my heart strings like that.
They portrayed it as bigger than it ended up being. Why do you think there were so many threads complaining about this 10 minute questline?