Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post
Right, that's sort of my point—I don't think it was really development time at all.
Even though they seem to imply it is the case when you're looking at steps 1 and 2, there can't be any good reason to delay that except for developmental time.

And well, their idea of catch up seems to be misplaced throughout the expansion; crafted recipes, diadem, or even making the first step lower Ilvl than what was already available on 3.0s release.