Well then if this thread didn't turn out to be a force five fecal storm.

Betelgeuzah, Can defiantly see where your coming from and I wonder about it my self from time to time. The thing that i do keep coming back to with it is that they said up front. That this patch was going to take a long time to get out the front door. So long in fact they were not willing to give a firm ballpark figure (har har oxymoron). When mid June came they were upfront about it again, "Hey guys were sorry about this but we need more time to make sure the dungeons are balanced and running smoothly".

Now personally i was not exactly thrilled when this was said in the letter, but i could understand Dming a weekly group of good old d&d put me through the crucible of good encounter design more then once. And that was with a limited set of variables. Creating the kind of encounters we as players want with this game must be nuts, but I digress.

Earlier in the thread some one posed the changing the tires on a race car question. This is incorrect. The better question in this situation would be how long do you expect them to take changing the treads on a Tank that's In combat, While spinning plates and dancing.