patch speculation...

[Sammuel]

this week, next week, week after... I want to try titan's grip.

[Syreenna]

October 14.


(Total wild guess, backed up by absolutely zero official information, other than "mid-October" that I read somewhere.)

[Krinathalasa]

That is what I have read from trolling forums is mid october.  It'll happen soon as Blizz is just putting the finishing touches on the classes.  So I expect the xpac to drop on Nov 13th as well.

[Araun]

Last I heard it was due this week, but who knows anymore.

I think people are expecting a DPS upgrade, and are going to be sorely disappointed when it doesn't happen.  

[Syreenna]

I think people are expecting a DPS upgrade, and are going to be sorely disappointed when it doesn't happen.  

Disappointment degree varying by whether you're a hybrid or a pure-DPS class?

(Ooh yeah, I went there!  )

[Krinathalasa]

Its going to be a huge overhaul of the game in general.  Some specs got nerfed (elemental shaman/Shadow priests) while others got buffed (Retnoobs/mages).  Then toss in mana consumption/battery changes and you have a new game.  I just hope they changes the fights to consider the fact that people will not be quaffing mana potions like they are candy to keep people up.

I suspect we will be hearing "OOM" a lot in the next couple of weeks.

[Araun]

Raiding will be new and bizarre.  Very complicated fights (like Kael) might break and become impossible... or ludicrously easy.  I forsee an entertaining October on that score.

But yeah, what I hear is that DPS is down all over, unless you happen to be a Retribution Paladin.  Then you are giggling happily.  Maybe I just think this because I spend every Saturday afternoon stuck in a car for an hour with a friend who is VERY DISPLEASED by the talent changes.

OTOH, I wish I were a warlock.  Who cares if it's broken, Chaos Bolt just sounds cool.

[Greebo]

I suspect we will be hearing "OOM" a lot in the next couple of weeks.

Yeah, screw sac'ing for +dps, sac'ing for mp5 ftw. And Malstrom will never notice that anything changed.

[Esrythalon]

There are people expecting it tomorrow -- I'm fairly certain that's why my friend paid so much for my bear run, because he thinks that it's gone tomorrow.

[Kaean]

I have faith blizzard wont mess anything up

[Muatah]

There are people expecting it tomorrow -- I'm fairly certain that's why my friend paid so much for my bear run, because he thinks that it's gone tomorrow.

Pardon me? You have a Bear?

[Kharzak]

a shame that elementals were ignored for so long, then nerfed, then ignored, then nerfed, then bc came out, then ignored, then changed, then nerfed.  and now we get a nerf, then wotlk will come out, etc

[Araun]

Random aside:

OK.

Amaurn, Angaroth - one of you gets to be the guy with an icon of Richard.  I don't care how you decide, whether by lot or by ripping out your own tibias and beating each other to death one-legged hobo zombie deathmatch style.

Runner up gets to be No Heart.

[Amaurn]

There is no contest.

[Thalevia]

I don't see it dropping tomorrow.  There are just way to many broken pieces left in some of the classes.  And bugs, in beta and on PTR, some NPCs are blue and white boxes right now.