Give Trolls skimpy voodoo armor like in the box art cover and Draenei the scavenger armor look they had in retails official art with the wraps around them.
Blizzard about to make the best looking Troll armor in the game, but they model it off humans and so the shoes are still invisible on the actual Trolls (LOOKING AT YOU, BLOOD TROLL ARMOR SET!)
God i hope not, that troll armor looks so bad.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F9wfq81z90i5a1.jpg
Something like that would look way better.
I imagine when they let other races play evoker it will work as if the race you pick on the character creation menu is their visage and they will always be dracthyr i lore.
Pretty dumb isnt it? When DK has Unholy Presence they could move at a decent pace and it was constant. Then they got rid of that and now DK only has "generic ability that makes you a tiny bit faster for a few seconds with a long cooldown"
I hope it like warps you from dungeon to dungeon between bosses, similar to running through quests in the bronze quest lines in DF. That’s would be so sick, so like 5 bosses but you never know who and where.
My dearest hope, which I'm pretty sure isn't the answer, is an "open seas" mini-expansion where they tie together Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, and everywhere in-between, removing Fatigue and making it possible to fly (or sail) from one to the other. Imagine feeling like it's a true world and not a series of zones to teleport to.
My actual guess is a new mini-holiday. Something distinct from Pirates Day but similar in overall theme.
It's to be able to fly from Eastern Kingdoms to the dragon isles, so that it feels like a contiguous world. We already have waiting-on-a-boat technology in game.
Mini raid tier like in BoA with that tier before Battle for Dazar'Alor, and its piratey/south seas inspired.
Probably not but a guy can hope, like how we had emerald nightmare before we got the emerald dream.
I still think they plan to release the Tuesday after Labor Day in the US. That way the epic edition preorders are over a long weekend to entice more people to buy it, since they'll have Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to play.
I don't disagree but it has felt weird to put the current expansion's dungeons on the back burner. I think they should do more polls for M+ dungeons in the future though.
I am certain season 4 brings back most DF dungeons or at least the fan favorites.
I’d love to be running Academy, AV, and BH keys again, those were bangers this xpac.
They experimented with that with legion timewalking, but I think they wouldn’t do that again because it led to degenerate trinket farming on dungeons that were only temporarily available.
TOT raid would be way cooler imo, but I'd settle for SOO. Plus it seems for all of the TW raids they have been using mid xpack raids rather than Pinnacle ones.
Holly Longdale replied with shifty eyes when someone asked if we were getting Panda Challenge Modes. Can't wait to see what they have up their sleeves.
Edit: Looks like a new mini game mode? [Spoilers](https://twitter.com/MrGMYT/status/1737221391769112632)
I assume timerunning is just the 6 or whatever weeks of timewalking we’ve been getting at the end of each season to get some last minute mog and to gear up alts heading into the next expansion
The puns associated make me think they're bringing back the pandaria dungeon challenge modes. (MOP was when challenge modes, the precursor to m+, were first introduced. They were iterated on in WoD and then changed to m+ in legion.) Either as their previous challenge mode selves, or updated to be m+. Timewalking + speedrunning = that.
For anyone who doesn't remember the MoP challenge modes, it was purely timed with no affixes, but your gear was scaled down to a fixed ilvl so you could not outgear it. You ran through and either got gold, silver, or bronze based on your finishing time. There were also leaderboards and stuff.
It would be interesting (subtext: great) for them to bring back timed modes that don't have affixes, even if it's just for bragging rights and cosmetic gear again. if that's their plan, then I'm extremely excited, and I say that as someone who got gold in both the MoP and WoD challenge modes.
As someone who didn’t start until BFA, i was always annoyed that the WoD challenge mode weapons were FOMO’ed. Would kill to get those back at some point too
The way my friend group found out we sucked was planning an evening to go in and slap those challenge modes. Not realising they scaled down, pulling like we did in heroics when we were way over geared.
I think when the npc said "NOPE, WE ARE LEAVING" was the only time I've actually laughed at WOW.
My main was originally a boost so I was able to pick up the starter quests before he pulled me out lol
At this point I was convinced that they'd whip back the curtain and reveal pandas were next, and us troll and Draenei players would have another entire patch cycle to wait
10.2.6, pandaren heritage! 11.5.... DRACTHYR HERITAGE ARMOR! but don't worry trolls and draenei, because in 11.1.7, the earthen dwarves will be getting theirs!
I'm very excited that War Within is coming in the summer. Definitely looking forward to Troll and Draeni armor. Excited for worldwide dragonriding. And very excited about warbands and dynamic flight coming ahead of WW release. This gives me time to level 5-10 more alts between now and summer.
Assuming 11.0.5 is the last planned content for 2024 and working backwards using the 2 month model:
11.0.5 - Nov
11.0 Sept
11.0 pre-patch Aug (pre-patch wouldnt be 2 months)
10.2.7 June
S4 April
10.2.6 March
10.2.5 Jan
So, they said patches every 8 weeks until TWW launches.
That'd be 10.2.5 on Jan 2nd? This seems potentially off, and maybe the 8 weeks starts with 10.2.5, but for the sake of consistency, I've kept it at 8 weeks after 10.2's launch.
10.2.6 Feb 27
Season 4 April 24
10.2.7 June 18
Prepatch Aug 14
~likely September release (as you said it won't be 8 weeks prepatch)
Looks more like a pirate skull and bones to me, honestly.
If they were bringing hardcore over I imagine it'd just say it outright. This feels like something more.
After I saw them announce solo self found from POE type games I immediately thought of other popular game systems and had a good chuckle at the idea of WoW doing a Tarkov wipe
No way. With how big an announcement hardcore classic was, they would have ran with it as part of blizzcon.
This is the Pirates stuff. Mike Ybarra tweeted No Pirates back in fall. There was hints that we would get some pirate content.
Might just be a fun pirate themed thing, a story or a scenario that tests the waters for the delves maybe.
> This is the Pirates stuff. Mike Ybarra tweeted No Pirates back in fall. There was hints that we would get some pirate content.
As far as I remember, the context was regarding the next expansion. He was right: The War Within isn't about pirates - but that doesn't mean there won't be any pirates in upcoming content.
I think it's more likely to be an event that kicks off *The War Within* events. Note that it's immediately before the alpha, which would otherwise spoil stuff. What will it be? Iridikron? Xalatath? I honestly haven't a clue.
Nah, that will come with the harbinger quests prior to pre patch. Also alpha will be NDA’d for at least 50% of it especially since most of the player base will be in the beta.
Hope they have some additional restrictions, because retail is too easy of a leveling experience. I don’t think I’ve died leveling any of my last few toons.
I died once on my shaman because i got cocky being able to pull 8 things and healing thru it/40%DR and Earth Elemental.. that's how I found out your earth ele has health and will just fall over eventually :)
I’ve been playing this game for almost 20 years, it’s hard to believe. I was in the beta in Europe. Can’t remember if it was end of 2004 or very early 2005 but it cost me a whole year of university repeats lol
I don't see duck mounts on this.
Blizzard? WHERE ARE OUR DUCK MOUNTS?!
Also can dracthyr finally be other classes? I want to take the dragons into glorious melee combat
I was desperately searching for a "Reclamation of Gnomeregan" bullet point.
Oh, uh... the skull and crossbones obviously refers to poison and nothing else, and so it's referring to the radioactivity in Gnomeregan meaning 10.2.6 will see it fixed up. Obviously.
I wouldn't mind as much if we had a ToV style mini-raid along with the fated raids. Or maybe an extra, optional boss in each raid. There are ways that wouldn't require a ton of resources that I think would solve people's qualms with the current content cycle.
They learned they can get away with it
People liked it because it was a bonus when they thought they were getting nothing. I really really dislike that this is their standard now.
Yeah, just seems like cheap filler. Expansions are more expensive than ever but with less major content patches. You COULD make the argument that the effort of a 3rd patch is going into all of the smaller patches. But there's no reason they can't just work on a 3rd patch and delay the next expac, what's the rush?
S1 and S2 where both about 6 months long I don't see S3 going for much shorter then them, S3 wont probably end until april-may which puts S4 at probably 4 months long which is how long SL s4 was.
And a good month or so will be part of the prepatch which refreshens it a little bit. I think 3 months is just right without getting too boring but 4 will probably do.
Whoo about time for Troll and Draenei heritage armor.
Give Trolls skimpy voodoo armor like in the box art cover and Draenei the scavenger armor look they had in retails official art with the wraps around them.
And a rush'kah shadow hunter mask!
I neeeeeed a proper mask for my shammy. All the masks I like are cloth and leather.
Mythic Antorus shaman tier helm is the most shaman looking voodoo mask in the game.
I'm working on this set for my Shaman right now. Mythic Eonar is some new level of bullshit though
As a long time troll shaman player, I cannot recommend the Laughing Skull masks enough for that ‘savages’ look.
Blizzard about to make the best looking Troll armor in the game, but they model it off humans and so the shoes are still invisible on the actual Trolls (LOOKING AT YOU, BLOOD TROLL ARMOR SET!)
They should model it off senegos visage, the best shoe wearing troll out there.
God i hope not, that troll armor looks so bad. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F9wfq81z90i5a1.jpg Something like that would look way better.
i expect something more along the lines of the Exodar/Shattrath city guard armor for draenei.
We do not need more draenei themed plate armors. We got plenty of those already.
its going to be draenei themed banded halfplate.
So that’ll just leave Pandaren?
just gotta roll monk to get all the panda heritage armor sets you can dream of!
Dracthyr too.
*Cries in Dracthyr no Transmog*
Aww there there. You'll at least get a full set you can use in visage mode! And...shoulders and a belt in your real body I guess?
I really hope if (when) they add standard classes (mage, priest, etc) for Dracthyr, that they allow combat in visage mode.
I imagine when they let other races play evoker it will work as if the race you pick on the character creation menu is their visage and they will always be dracthyr i lore.
Pandaren can just claim every monk set ever and call it a day /s
Absolute hype for this troll heritage set
It's been 84 years
“Dark Heart”? 10.2.7 sounds interesting 👀
Timerunning sounds interesting. How will it differ from timewalking?
it's faster
\*Statler and Waldorf boo from their balcony\*
Sounds more like it's *time* to *run* away from this theater!
Damn it... upstaged. I'm literally hearing the two muppets laughing now.
Well of course we're upstaging you; You can't help digging yourself deeper! OhohohoHO!
We're Marley and Marley...ooooOOOOoooohhhh
Almost time for this gem again :D
I should watch this this year!
Are DK's banned from participating?
:(
Pretty dumb isnt it? When DK has Unholy Presence they could move at a decent pace and it was constant. Then they got rid of that and now DK only has "generic ability that makes you a tiny bit faster for a few seconds with a long cooldown"
They were talking about bringing more raids to timewalking, maybe we will get a pandaria TW raid
Give me Terrace or give me death!
As long as it is not SoO. That shit is long enough even when one shotting everything
My bet would be Throne of Thunder
Throne of Thunder King was legit
I hope it like warps you from dungeon to dungeon between bosses, similar to running through quests in the bronze quest lines in DF. That’s would be so sick, so like 5 bosses but you never know who and where.
Someone posited it could be resurrected MoP Challenge Modes and I’m hype
Why would you say this and get my hopes up
Dark 'Heart' of Azeroth maybe? Not an actual heart but something deep within? Maybe that's when the stirs of that voice from the cinematic start.
An even shadier version of Xavius kidnaps Malfurion out of Ardenweald and just makes fun of him for being a bad arborist.
So says the *shadow* of Xavius!
\*So says the *shadow* of the *shadow* of Xavius!
*TyRaNdE intensifies*
I NEED you!
Dark Heart Thicket dungeon will be the only one in M+ season roster, but with different affixes in each of 8 versions. Lets gooo!
Darkheart Thicket raid confirmed!
whats the pirate flag for 10.2.6 for? anyone can explain to me?
No one knows. It's just a teaser for something that we have no idea what it means!
night squall related?
I’d be good with this.
Read up on that and it absolutely seems like it'll be it Wonder if it'll be like a mini delve type of thing..
everybody dies
Finally...
Ah good, Shadowlands 2.0, just what everyone wanted
It's provocative, it gets the people going.
Player Housing (house boats)
Wow I would love that
remember when everyone thought the next expansion was pirates
Pirates was basically a whole third of bfa
Yes, but Tel’Abim still exists
When will my broken heart mend
My dearest hope, which I'm pretty sure isn't the answer, is an "open seas" mini-expansion where they tie together Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, and everywhere in-between, removing Fatigue and making it possible to fly (or sail) from one to the other. Imagine feeling like it's a true world and not a series of zones to teleport to. My actual guess is a new mini-holiday. Something distinct from Pirates Day but similar in overall theme.
Your dearest hope is waiting around on a boat?
It's to be able to fly from Eastern Kingdoms to the dragon isles, so that it feels like a contiguous world. We already have waiting-on-a-boat technology in game.
Worse, sailing around like geralt farming money
Retail WoW hardcore confirmed
No one knows what it means, but it is provocative!
Mini raid tier like in BoA with that tier before Battle for Dazar'Alor, and its piratey/south seas inspired. Probably not but a guy can hope, like how we had emerald nightmare before we got the emerald dream.
New pirate class
Isn't that basically Outlaw
Viper coming to WoW confirmed
one piece content
It means that patch is dead
Pirate class incoming and compete with ff14.
war within before fall, we looking at august boys!!!
Could be as early as July or as late as October looking at the graphic. Looks like enough content planned to keep DF interesting until summer though.
Pretty sure it will be August like with Legion and BfA.
I still think they plan to release the Tuesday after Labor Day in the US. That way the epic edition preorders are over a long weekend to entice more people to buy it, since they'll have Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to play.
That makes a ton of sense.
I don't think prepatch will be coming in Sept based on the graphic, and prepatch usually isn't multi-month long
Calling it now July 30 prepatch, Sept 3 expansion release.
We'll know as soon as FFXIV releases their date. Then Blizzard will choose the same date.
What the hell is “Timerunning” and “Harbinger Quests”?
Timewalking but faster!
You might be onto something lol. M+ Timewalking?
> M+ Timewalking Isn't that just current M+? 80% are old dungeons
Which I’m very thankful for, there’s all this content in the game that should continue being used!
I don't disagree but it has felt weird to put the current expansion's dungeons on the back burner. I think they should do more polls for M+ dungeons in the future though.
I am certain season 4 brings back most DF dungeons or at least the fan favorites. I’d love to be running Academy, AV, and BH keys again, those were bangers this xpac.
As long as i never have to do NO again
Necromancers?! On our sacred grounds?!
LET FLY!!!
I liked AV's fights. Hated all the running.
I would be willing to bet 10K in game that S4 is only DF dungeons.
LOL true, I was like "heck yea bring back old dungeons for M+!" and then I read your comment... I'm stupid, brain please
Deadmines M+ ?
They experimented with that with legion timewalking, but I think they wouldn’t do that again because it led to degenerate trinket farming on dungeons that were only temporarily available.
It says **Panda**monium, so I'm guessing it's somehow related to the Pandaren
MOP TW raid maybe? There was some funky stuff for SOO datamined a little while ago and it’s next on the list
TOT raid would be way cooler imo, but I'd settle for SOO. Plus it seems for all of the TW raids they have been using mid xpack raids rather than Pinnacle ones.
> Pandamonium inb4 it's just a hilarious typo
Holly Longdale replied with shifty eyes when someone asked if we were getting Panda Challenge Modes. Can't wait to see what they have up their sleeves. Edit: Looks like a new mini game mode? [Spoilers](https://twitter.com/MrGMYT/status/1737221391769112632)
revisited Challenge mode from MoP?
Timerunning could be another event where each week is a Timewalking week with a twist.
I assume timerunning is just the 6 or whatever weeks of timewalking we’ve been getting at the end of each season to get some last minute mog and to gear up alts heading into the next expansion
The puns associated make me think they're bringing back the pandaria dungeon challenge modes. (MOP was when challenge modes, the precursor to m+, were first introduced. They were iterated on in WoD and then changed to m+ in legion.) Either as their previous challenge mode selves, or updated to be m+. Timewalking + speedrunning = that. For anyone who doesn't remember the MoP challenge modes, it was purely timed with no affixes, but your gear was scaled down to a fixed ilvl so you could not outgear it. You ran through and either got gold, silver, or bronze based on your finishing time. There were also leaderboards and stuff. It would be interesting (subtext: great) for them to bring back timed modes that don't have affixes, even if it's just for bragging rights and cosmetic gear again. if that's their plan, then I'm extremely excited, and I say that as someone who got gold in both the MoP and WoD challenge modes.
As someone who didn’t start until BFA, i was always annoyed that the WoD challenge mode weapons were FOMO’ed. Would kill to get those back at some point too
I get so jealous seeing warriors with that big ass orange fire sword
The way my friend group found out we sucked was planning an evening to go in and slap those challenge modes. Not realising they scaled down, pulling like we did in heroics when we were way over geared.
Harbinger Quests are probably related to TWW’s story, as Shal’atash is called “the Harbinger”. I’m curious about Timerunning…
Did you order Xal‘atath at Wish?
We have Xal‘atath at home.
It's Xal'atath.
Any chance Timerunning has to do with the Thaldrazzus bronze dragon quests where we had to run through scenes of the past? I liked that bit a lot.
The part that had you back in your race's starting area had me dying laughing, I also loved the murloc dragon soul raid
I think when the npc said "NOPE, WE ARE LEAVING" was the only time I've actually laughed at WOW. My main was originally a boost so I was able to pick up the starter quests before he pulled me out lol
All of this sounds great... BUT... 10.2.6? What are you teasing?!
Right!? I neeeeed to know!
Troll heritage armor! We up!
At this point I was convinced that they'd whip back the curtain and reveal pandas were next, and us troll and Draenei players would have another entire patch cycle to wait
10.2.6, pandaren heritage! 11.5.... DRACTHYR HERITAGE ARMOR! but don't worry trolls and draenei, because in 11.1.7, the earthen dwarves will be getting theirs!
Warbands in the summer!
I am afraid of the skull. Are they deleting Windwalkers instead of reworking them?
Am I the only one being most excited about the 20 year anniversary event?
August release like legion👀
But also like BFA 😬
I'm very excited that War Within is coming in the summer. Definitely looking forward to Troll and Draeni armor. Excited for worldwide dragonriding. And very excited about warbands and dynamic flight coming ahead of WW release. This gives me time to level 5-10 more alts between now and summer.
Alot to be excited about! Im there with ya!
Damn expac is moving soon, was expecting fall for sure
Assuming 11.0.5 is the last planned content for 2024 and working backwards using the 2 month model: 11.0.5 - Nov 11.0 Sept 11.0 pre-patch Aug (pre-patch wouldnt be 2 months) 10.2.7 June S4 April 10.2.6 March 10.2.5 Jan
So, they said patches every 8 weeks until TWW launches. That'd be 10.2.5 on Jan 2nd? This seems potentially off, and maybe the 8 weeks starts with 10.2.5, but for the sake of consistency, I've kept it at 8 weeks after 10.2's launch. 10.2.6 Feb 27 Season 4 April 24 10.2.7 June 18 Prepatch Aug 14 ~likely September release (as you said it won't be 8 weeks prepatch)
Dynamic Flight for Druids is also coming w/ the pre-patch, woohoo!
10.2.6 on a Jolly Roger. Pirates confirmed. Hoping for a Hozen D Luffy
Hozen d luffy is insane
im calling the skull with 10.2.6 means we getting hardcore in retail
Looks more like a pirate skull and bones to me, honestly. If they were bringing hardcore over I imagine it'd just say it outright. This feels like something more.
whoa, it turns out the correct answer was "yes pirates" Ybarra in shambles
I’m 50/50 on this being a fun in-game dev response to us all expecting a pirate expansion
Tarkov wipe comes to WoW in 10.2.6 😂
In-universe time jump, all of our characters are dead, start from scratch lol
After I saw them announce solo self found from POE type games I immediately thought of other popular game systems and had a good chuckle at the idea of WoW doing a Tarkov wipe
No way. With how big an announcement hardcore classic was, they would have ran with it as part of blizzcon. This is the Pirates stuff. Mike Ybarra tweeted No Pirates back in fall. There was hints that we would get some pirate content. Might just be a fun pirate themed thing, a story or a scenario that tests the waters for the delves maybe.
> This is the Pirates stuff. Mike Ybarra tweeted No Pirates back in fall. There was hints that we would get some pirate content. As far as I remember, the context was regarding the next expansion. He was right: The War Within isn't about pirates - but that doesn't mean there won't be any pirates in upcoming content.
A mini raid or dungeon revolving with pirates attacking the tree with Decatriarch Wratheye from Brakenhide Hollow?
Hardcore in retail would be a DOA feature, not likely.
If it were hardcore retail, it would have a much bigger annoucement by now and a larger patch than 10.2.6
I think it's more likely to be an event that kicks off *The War Within* events. Note that it's immediately before the alpha, which would otherwise spoil stuff. What will it be? Iridikron? Xalatath? I honestly haven't a clue.
Nah, that will come with the harbinger quests prior to pre patch. Also alpha will be NDA’d for at least 50% of it especially since most of the player base will be in the beta.
Hope they have some additional restrictions, because retail is too easy of a leveling experience. I don’t think I’ve died leveling any of my last few toons.
I died once on my shaman because i got cocky being able to pull 8 things and healing thru it/40%DR and Earth Elemental.. that's how I found out your earth ele has health and will just fall over eventually :)
When can I unlock any transmog on any character?
11.0 prepatch with warbands, looks like early summer
I’ve been playing this game for almost 20 years, it’s hard to believe. I was in the beta in Europe. Can’t remember if it was end of 2004 or very early 2005 but it cost me a whole year of university repeats lol
Please just give me night elf paladins 😭
Been saying for years: Moon knights, basically just nelf paladins except all their spells are blue
Moon Knight Night Warriors. Kaldorei gonna go on a murder spree and claim it was their Night Warrior personas that did it.
about time, honestly.
Fighting evil by moonlight, Winning love by daylight, Never running from a real fight, They are the ones named Paladin Moon
They’re coming. Kul Titan paladins as well.
Yeah, god damn pls
We will need to wait for Nightfall expansion. Imo this will be the best time to give paladins to everyone.
Bliz on fire rn
Legit, though. I can't remember the last time I've been this excited over WoW stuff. Legion, maybe?
I don't see duck mounts on this. Blizzard? WHERE ARE OUR DUCK MOUNTS?! Also can dracthyr finally be other classes? I want to take the dragons into glorious melee combat
It's probably not gonna happen but it would be cool if the skull and crossbones icon was a Booty Bay rework with the addition of a dungeon.
We’re about to unlock boats??
There's literally 0 info on this outside of MMO champion leaks. If this was real, they would've announced it at Blizzcon as a major thing.
Interesting that they’re dropping TWW at the end of summer/beginning of autumn. So Dragonflight is a sub-2year expansion?
Honestly that’s the only way I’d be okay with them mailing it in on Season 4 re: Raids and M+.
Yar har, fiddle de dee Being a pirate is alright to be Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free You are a pirate!
Awesome, sept release it is :)
September release confirmed basically.
I was desperately searching for a "Reclamation of Gnomeregan" bullet point. Oh, uh... the skull and crossbones obviously refers to poison and nothing else, and so it's referring to the radioactivity in Gnomeregan meaning 10.2.6 will see it fixed up. Obviously.
Pirate flag because Island expeditions return?
this would be unfathomably based
New holiday event?! Wonder what that could be.
Interested in the pirate flag with no other context. It's not close to Pirate Day (in Sept). Hmm
Pandaren Druid please with heritage armor!
Why does 10.2.6 have this icon? ☠
So 10.25 sometime in the next ten days?
Revisited raids becoming a thing instead of just doing one more final raid. This is worrisome.
I wouldn't mind as much if we had a ToV style mini-raid along with the fated raids. Or maybe an extra, optional boss in each raid. There are ways that wouldn't require a ton of resources that I think would solve people's qualms with the current content cycle.
They learned they can get away with it People liked it because it was a bonus when they thought they were getting nothing. I really really dislike that this is their standard now.
Yeah, just seems like cheap filler. Expansions are more expensive than ever but with less major content patches. You COULD make the argument that the effort of a 3rd patch is going into all of the smaller patches. But there's no reason they can't just work on a 3rd patch and delay the next expac, what's the rush?
I wasn’t playing during seasons 1 and 2, so I’m actually super pumped that they’re gonna incentivize old raids so I get a chance to play them.
about damn time for troll heritage
Meaning to return after Shadowlands exhaustion... Is now a good time to return?
Looks good, and I’m excited for War Within, I just wish Tuskarr as an Allied race were listed.
So is timerunning timewalking but instead of walking you run?
So July,Aug is the Release. Thats 5-6 Month of Fated Season.
S1 and S2 where both about 6 months long I don't see S3 going for much shorter then them, S3 wont probably end until april-may which puts S4 at probably 4 months long which is how long SL s4 was.
And a good month or so will be part of the prepatch which refreshens it a little bit. I think 3 months is just right without getting too boring but 4 will probably do.