The problem with Tripling Down on Shadowbringers Job Design

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Yeah, it didn't sit very well with me knowing that they do have plans to revitalize job's identities but that'll probably be somewhere around 2026 with 8.0.

Me either. I don't know how they let that slip when trying to build excitement for THIS expansion. It also makes you wonder if they only just learned of this feedback that has been going around the community for years about job identity.

what's the point of AST and DRG rework?

AST needed something. DRG on the other hand didn't and they actually said it isn't changing much like they previously suggested it would.

2026? That's highly optimistic, I would say it will take them until 2028. Dawntrail's mid 2024, they usually don't count release year as that expansion's year. 2025 will be the first year, 2026 and 27 are filler years, with 2028 release.

It used to take about 2 years. Endwalker changed things by extending the expansion lull to 8 months. Dawntrail has continued this, which makes it a trend now.

Endwalker released on December 7th, 2021 and Dawntrail releases on July 2nd, 2024. Based on that, we could assume 8.0 will release on December 10th, 2026 (which will be a consistent 2 and a half years).

If they try really hard to make it like other expansions and reduce the patch lull from 8-9 months to 5 like in the past, then they might manage July, but so far things have only got longer.