Better roadmap

[Tyranny]

To start with I think the current roadmap https://octowow.st/roadmap is alright but it certainly lacks some content/info and has some other issues, mainly these:

1. Which date will T1 epic pvp gear be released? On Ambershire it was released with BWL and it seemed like a decent way to go. It would also be wise to have dates for t2-t3 PVP gear.

2. It's been said that R11 and PVP mounts will be released together with ZG which seems fine, is this correct? What about the other ranks, when will they be available?

3. Now if we look at the current confirmed dates of raid content we got ZG October 1st, BWL November 5th and ES January 28th - with AQ war effort starting March 18th.

If we're being honest ZG is mostly a catch up raid and ES is a Onyxia-style "raid" in and out one shot in 10-20min with BWL gear. So in reality we're stuck doing BWL for 5(!) months until AQ release as per current schedule. We recently saw something similar on Ambershire with 6 months of MC before BWL, the population took a big hit from 8-9k peak down to 6k back then.

Now with Forever releasing in a month, I'd assume a lot of people will be raid logging Octo (if that) when we're stuck with 5 months of BWL. Like the last 2-3 months will be a proper slog and 15-20min ES won't change that.

My suggestion:

- Release ES together with BWL as per schedule November 5th
- Release AQ January 28th
- Continue the rest of the roadmap as intended, Timbermaw April 29th etc.

This will be a more logical roadmap which caters to both the "hardcore" raiders and the "I wanna go slow" andys, with roughly 3 months between each phase.

[Twisted6]

ZG is supposed to be releasing tomorrow but half of the player base still can't reliably play, let alone form and finish a raid

[Jjerrynch67]

+1. Agreed on speeding up the roadmap in general, assuming raids would not be in a buggy state by their release date and all that. 5-6 months of BWL is gonna be so boring, even for more casual guilds probably (could even be longer depending on how long war effort takes especially on pvp server with lower pop).

Especially considering many people are familiar with the content after losing their characters on TWOW and would rather speed up the progression process a bit. Even if content is released faster, really casual guilds can still always go at their own pace if they so choose anyways.