Chris Metzen explained that each expansion in the world soul saga will be shorter than normal expansions, so why did blizzard change myth track to be 6/6 so that gearing would be slower?
If anything, gearing should be faster in a shorter expansion, right?
are they maybe not taking the Max Ilvl up as high over the expansion this time so not as much time required to get to cap?
Don’t worry my alt army will be slow as ever
Probably because even with the extended gearing time there was still time that could be shaved off between major content patches. We will have to see, but I doubt it will be an issue. Most people I know get bored of gearing before hitting max anyways and take breaks so making it longer doesnt affect those people anyways. Making the content patches shorter helps bring those people back sooner. Win win to me.
What if blizzard made gearing faster so that people didn’t get bored with it?
Then people wouldn’t have left in the first place
Citation, because I recall him saying the releases would be faster, which is not the same thing.
It’s already been leaked that the expansion will have at least 2 major patches which makes it the same size as DF.
As for the time span TWW will take up, that’s up for speculation atm.
If releases are faster then the lifespan of the expansion would be shorter (unless they plan to release midnight while war within is still active).
Dragonflight had three major patches.
Chris metzen expressly stated publicly at blizzcon that blizzard’s official position would be that expansions within the world soul saga would be released faster than older expansions (so we know for a fact it’s shorter than dragonflight)
If we’re counting launch .0 Then yes, it’s three for both of them.
There is no way The War Within lasts for 1year only… I highly doubt that.
If we’re counting launch then dragonflight had four
Counting fated too? Dragonflight had five
Metz said the Trilogy was expected to end around 2030. Thats 5yrs and 4months. That puts the 3 expansions at around 1yr and 11 months-ish long ea.
So not really all that shorter
For context -
TBC released Jan 16, 2007
Wrath on Nov 13, 2008
Cata on Dec 7, 2010
MoP on Sept 25th, 2012
Its goes on and on. All three would actually be regular length expansions.
I will give you the secret of how to earn great gear and keep it longer without having to regear.
First max level all the toons you can stomach to max level.
Second. Quit fro about1.5 to 2 years. (don’t forget to leave a why I am leaving postgood or bad)
3rd return quietly and let everyone else carry you through the dungeons and raids. all done.
You save money and time. and your the best geared you can be until the next expansions greens come out.
Isn’t this the opposite of what would actually happen?
I don’t think people actually enjoy grinding the same raid boss for 6 months because it never dropped their trinket before the season ended.
Dragonflight had four seasons, not four major patches.
From what I understood is that they want to continue the cadence of Dragonflight into TWW/Midnight/TLT and beyond
Blizzard expressly stated officially and publicly, through Chris Metzen, that every expansion in the world soul saga would be shorter than all previous expansions.
I think it’s still going to have an 11.1 and 11.2 patch with the similar in between .25 and .5 patches and release schedule that Dtagonflight had.
You can also argue that people aren’t going to keep playing if they get their bis in the first month.
Exactly, that would mean TWW isn’t shorter than every other expansion. That’s all I was trying to say.