Quote Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi View Post
People need to read that later again even if they split the patch it would still come in June. Read it carefully people.
1.18 is going to be relatively bigger than previous patches. This means that balancing is going to take more time than usual, and so we’re anticipating a somewhat longer period between patches. Even if we break off some of the content and release it ahead of time in a 1.17b patch (which me might!), 1.18 will still go live sometime in mid-June at the earliest. Sorry for that.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...805-02-2011%29

For quick reference.