Dawntrail Benchmark

[Jade_Tyrant]

We don't acknowledge Endwalker because it broke all precedents, releasing all of this material 5 months in advance and then announcing a delay.

That's not quite true. I mentioned it earlier in the thread:

[...]their previous pattern for all the past expansions puts the benchmark as releasing within two weeks (before or after) the last normal patch (hotfixes not included)[...]

Endwalker followed this pattern as well. The Benchmark released on 7/11/2021, as you said, and the final patch of Shadowbringers was 7/19/2021, 8 days afterward.

For all the dates:

• HW: Benchmark = 4/27/15, 2.57 = 5/11/15. 2 week gap exactly (Benchmark before final patch)
• SB: Benchmark = 4/30/17, 3.57 = 4/17/15. 13 day gap (Benchmark after final patch)
• ShB: Benchmark = 5/23/19, 4.58 = 5/14/19. 9 day gap (Benchmark after final patch)
• EW: Benchmark = 7/11/21, 5.58 = 7/19/21. 8 day gap (Benchmark before final patch)

EDIT: Had some wrong math somehow, whoops. Fixed that (had "1 week" instead of "9 days" on ShB). Also, even using your dates instead of the ones I had found, not much changes; SB gap becomes 2 weeks exactly with 5/1/17 instead of 4/30/17, ShB gap becomes 10 days instead of 9 with 5/24/19 instead of 5/23/19. Both still within the 2 week timing.