It’s at least 2 weeks. The schedule looks like:
Dec 15: Raid day. Yay
Dec 22: Of your raid, the chances that a few of them are traveling this day is quite high. Christmas is the Friday, so it’s super likely that at least enough to stop progression are out this whole week
Dec 29: On the other end, lots of people travel or spend the time between Christmas and New Years with family. Again, even if it’s just a few people, it can prevent you from doing real progression.
January 5: Raid day.
Two weeks out of 16 week raid tier is a lot.
Remember that raid drops are being reduced in Shadowlands, so we’re already trying to make up lost ground.
I mean to me and most of the player base I’m sure it doesn’t matter if raids open two weeks later or earlier so I hope they change them for your sake.
If not then I’m sorry if you lose your raid spot
Perfect timing for me can’t wait!
Spent like 30 posts to arrive at what was the reasonable reaction in the first place. If it doesnt impact you, and others are telling you it does, the right reaction is to say “oh that sucks but doesnt impact me” instead of arguing why their experience is wrong for an hour.
It’s not just 1 to 3 days. Traditionally, alot of Mythic guilds would be on break for the weeks of Christmas and New Years Eve. So basically Mythic will open on the 15th and everyone will be raiding for the first week, then most guilds will be off for the next two weeks. That significantly disrupts the goals of numerous players and has a huge impact on progression. There’s also regional traditions and differences to think about. It has more weight than it seems.
Also, if you’re not affected, your other guildies with families and commitments would be. So there’s still implications, and what’s the point of raiding without friends/guildies?
I mean I still stand by what I said originally but there is no point to arguing about it anymore lol. It’s all good
Every Christmas holiday happens during a raid tier, either the beginning/middle/end.
And only one of those times it matters critically for several aspects of it. Its been explained already why the first few weeks matter more than the middle of a tier, but you clearly are just hear to tell people why their experience is wrong.
And that would be fine if Nathria was a 6-month raid tier. If Blizzard would promise that the next raid doesn’t launch until June/July, it would set a lot of minds at ease.
But they’re stuck in this 4/5-month foolishness lately and then a huge content drought at the end of the expansion.
They need to learn how to pace the raid releases.
Push the raid to January 5th you literally delayed nyalotha to not drop it during the middle of the holidays. Please you can keep the release date just push the raid. Your employees would also thank you since they wouldn’t have to work over xmas fixing the bugs that I’m sure will be present.
Are you getting paid to mythic raid? If not, it’s still just a game. It shouldn’t be ruining your life to step away from it for a few days. Or even a few weeks. You don’t need mythic raiding experience to know that.
BfA was one of, if not the best, paced expansion ever.
BFA is the longest expansion ever in terms of total time spent in it, and yet the final tier drought of 10 months from 8.3 release to SL released is fairly “short” relative to many other expansions.
Uldir was a 4-month raid that straddled Christmas. I don’t consider that well-paced at all.
And I certainly do NOT want to do that again in Castle Nathria.
The first tier seems to be shorter, so I guess we shall see.
I meant overall for the entire expansion.
We have the longest expansion ever simultaneously having one of the shorter final tier droughts.
And if they had shaved a month off of Nyalotha and extended Uldir by a month, it would have been fine.
I would agree. 5-6 months seems ideal for each raid tier.
Just make sure you’re active on the forums when 4 months after Castle Narthia is out it’s flooded with cries to release the next raid already we are bored to help show some people want it released slower.
Copy paste easy
While not one myself, I can absolutely understand “hardcore” raiders being upset about the timing. A week of lost progression can mean the difference between getting those AoTC achievements or not for a lot of guilds.
What is this Christmas you speak of? Is that the day were people gorge themselves on food or the one where you give gifts for no reason?