Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
I understand the new Ultimate has been delayed and probably for good reasons.
If I had to guess, the Ultimate design team and the Savage Raid design team likely have a lot of overlap in personnel, in which case if they'd kept working on tuning the Dragonsong War ultimate to finish it by 5.5, they probably would've risked not having 6.0's savage raid tier ready by the time 6.0 launches. (And the savage raid tier is probably one that a much higher percentage of the playerbase engages with than the ultimate fights.)

(And then I guess you pretty much have to push it to 6.1, because if you released an ultimate and a savage raid tier at the same time, I suspect that would be a mess.)