Blizzard announced today that raid testing was to start on the Warlords beta – a sign that development is moving on with Warlords and we’ll hopefully we’ll see it soon.
Question is, how soon?
Unfortunately I could only find dates for the start of raid testing in Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria – if anyone has the dates for Wrath or TBC I’d love to know them!
| Expansion | Raid testing started… | Raid testing to expansion release |
|---|---|---|
| Cataclysm | 17th October 2010 | Around 2 months |
| Mists of Pandaria | 22nd June 2012 | Around 3½ months |
The mean is ~2½ months testing. Given this, what could we infer as to the release date of Warlords?
| If raid testing from expansion | Warlords release date |
|---|---|
| Cataclysm | 10th September 2014 |
| Mists of Pandaria | 24th October 2014 |
| Mean of above | 2nd October 2014 |
One date which has been noted of late is the 23rd September – coming from a reseller whose release dates have been rather close to reality for all of the WoW expansions – and that’s also a date in the middle of the range above.
Amusingly, this is also the date I predicted back in November last year on theGodmother’s guess expansion release date post. I based that on looking at prior release dates.
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