~2 week warning minimum so for all your clamoring the 22nd. Stop whining. Also this expansion should have been delayed to December.
My guess is 5 weeks of pre-patch, so 9/22. It follows the final Afterlives short, and the additional week will be useful for Blizz as they continue tuning and tweaking the Shadowlands patch (which will be an additional patch after the prepatch). Since they won't want to do that on launch day, if they can help it, my guess is prepatch on 9/22, and 10/20 for the final preparatory patch so that 10/27 is free and clear of patches (in fact, this would *have* to be the case if they stick to Tuesday maintenance, since normal maintenance on Tuesday the 27th will occur after the global launch times they have set)
Coulda sworn in one of their interviews, Ion confirmed that there would be 4 weeks of the prepatch. Pretty sure that, also in that case, it will be Sept. 29th when the prepatch hits as that is the only thing that actually makes sense.
I'd like to believe they haven't given a date just incase they decide to delay.... But that's very wishful thinking.It 110% needs a delay but I can't see Activision allowing that... Which is a rather big annoyance of mine!
I've been betting on the 29th since the date was revealed.
Mists Theramore event was the worst... I'm still sore about that. There was barely anything to it! :-(
I can't wait until corruption is no longer a thing. Give me my stupid 9.0 already.
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It's most likely the tuesday after the next afterlives, that would make the most sense
This is an even better break down of the historical information that was already posted about. However, I really don't see it being likely that this would push back so far into October. The 22nd is still the most likely to me, but the 29th is possible.Does anyone have any links confirming that we actually get notice everytime before the end of a PVP season? I never paid that much attention and a lot of PVPers who stream have acted like notice isn't always given.
Ppl that want SL to be delayed until december...kappa
The 26th and 27th are the end of the current PVP tournament that is going so the prepatch will be the week following that or 2 weeks after that. Plus what we have had data mined about the prepatch events, we know they are a 3 week event.My bet is Oct.6-7
Well, the last corruption vendor rotation date is Tuesday, October 6th. Unless they release the prepatch at the end of that week, I'd assume it would happen the following Tueday.
I don't think it'll matter with the reputation buff overlapping. I'd still personally stand by a Sept 29th prepatch date with the official announcement after the last Revendreth short video next week.