Man, I’m so looking forward to this patch dropping. It feels almost pointless to play right now, and I’m finding my attention wandering to other games because the changes to gearing/skills seems so considerable that grinding out gear that will only last 2 weeks seems… pointless?
Firstly, awesome. This alongside the skill balancing pass might open up new builds for me to churn through this patch cycle with.
Secondly, I’m scared. Those empowered Timelines modifiers alongside the defense changes. “Oh boy…” -Dr. Sam Beckett
Except for the 0.8 Patch, that brought the rogue. EHG never did announced any patches in advance.
And i think this is for the better, because alot of people take even estimated release dates for granted.
The usualy patch cycles always was 2 months +/- 1 week. 0.8 got release on Dec 4th.
Now because of the holidays i would expect the patch to be 1 or 2 week later (1 week alter already passed), so i think there are good chance for this week or maybe next week.
Given Sarno’s post yesterday (Sunday) entitled " A New Boss Fight Track Coming Next Week", I’d say it’s a safe bet that it’s dropping this week, subject to any possible last minute changes of course.
That’s the joy and disappointment of every patch announcement. The joy of knowing it’s on the way and the disappointment that it’s not already here.
I have to say, LE is the only ARPG where I feel enthusiastic and eager to play after every set of patch notes.
Patch 0.8 (Rogue Patch) was the first patch (at least since i am part of the LE community), where they did gave a exact release date prior to the patch. (2 weeks before patch launch)
There was also patch 7.6 or 7.7 which ever one increased maximum wolves from 4 to 6 where they gave us a 1 day launch window and even gave us patch notes 4 hours before launch. People flooded streams theorycraftimg for 4 hours. It was a good time. I would love to see patch notes released a few hours before patch release again