On the 46th of Nevermber.
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The Legion 7.1 patch had about the same amount of content (Karazhan mega dungeon, ToV raid, addtions to Suramar, etc.) and it was released a whooping 2 months after release.
We are now looking at 8-9 months of content drought, at the very beginning of the expansion.
And yes, COVID is obviously a factor here, but the, frankly poor, content coming in 9.1 can’t use COVID as an excuse.
next xpac might be 2025 lol
There’s a 50/50 chance you’re right.
But there’s only a 10 percent chance of that.
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According to me, 99% of the time, I’m always right. 
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My advice to you, is to drink heavily.
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July or August is my best guess. They probably will Give TBC Classic 6-8 weeks until the hype dies down before pushing 9.1 out. It’s a business strategy at this point for WoW, you space out the releases as you have players that dip into both retail and classic. Want to avoid overlap so they pay to try the other form when they get bored of one or there is a lack of content for one.
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I personally don’t think that Covid is as much of a valid excuse as people make it out to be, because I think they were developing this expansion far before the pandemic. I know it’s a hot take and it may very well be wrong, but that’s how I feel.
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4-6 weeks after TBC launch. The whole idea is to catch players returning for TBC who lose interest, but might try out 9.1 before sub runs out.
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August, lol
I’m more aware of the local liquor stores around me than I am anything else in this city lol.
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Leaks point to the 29th, and their strong push to get raid testing done hints at that.
They haven’t tested 4 bosses AND lfr in one week for a long time.
Imagine subscribing to a service and getting the product “sometime” and being ok with that.
I know that MMOs are traditionally handled like this… but I think in 2021 we should probably expect a better standard of service and transparency from the industry than “just keep paying us and we’ll get it out eventually”.
The industry’s been around for 20 years and we still just expect so very little for our money.
I fully expect to be flamed for this, so TY in advance community.
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I agree, but I’m speaking from a position of little to no knowledge of how things work behind the scenes. But something just ain’t right. Imagine any other kind of industry doing what Blizz is doing… I don’t know that it would fly.
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My guess is they move heaven and earth to prevent the patch slipping into August since that’s what naysayers have been predicting for a while.
But there’s a ton of work left to do. They haven’t even tested the mythic affix and that’ll surely take at least a few weeks.
I am going to say something controversial. Delay the patch and release flying with a mini patch while 9.1 is worked upon further. This patch has so much wrong with it.
I’ve been away for 2 months (quit because of the loot drop rate changes…made raid progression stupidly slow). Are they upping the loot drop rate in 9.1 (i.e. we are at 3 loots drops for 20 man raid)? If not, it will be more of the same bs.
I’m glad to see you have your priorities straight. More people should follow your example.
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Blizzard always releases patches to try and compete with other games.
FFXIV has a new expansion launching November 19 or 23 depending on if you preorder.
I am 100% certain Blizzard is doing everything they can to line up 9.2 release date with FFXIV Endwalker launch.
So if 9.1 released on Tuesday, July 20th, that would give 4 months until the release of 9.2.
If they actually think there is enough content for 5 months of 9.1, then you could see Tuesday, June 22nd as a patch day but honestly they haven’t even announced raid testing for the Sylvanas fight in the new raid so I just don’t really see 9.1 coming until July or even August.
No clue how they are going to handle timegating 40 renown levels at 2 levels a week if they want to compete with Endwalker’s launch though.
And personally, this expansion looks worse every week and I’m just slowly drifting towards switching over to FFXIV because that game is way more on top of things and doesn’t have nearly as many issues as WoW does these days.
edit: I just refreshed my memory on 9.0 renown and it was indeed 16 weeks to get all 40 levels of renown. That means we would literally be just hitting our renown cap by the time FFXIV Endwalker releases if 9.1 came out on July 20th and then they would have to release 9.2 without us even getting a chance to play with the max level renown, which seems a bit dumb to timegate it for 4 months and then immediately push us into the next patch.