many factors play a role in this and i can only hope Chero takes all factors into consideration. so i think it's good having an open discussion about it so that Chero can make the best out of it.
In my opinion, releasing BWL now (within the next weeks) would not be the right move.
This is for several reasons:
- Shortly after BWL comes out, it will also be cleared again and at some point people will again ask for the next Tier of content (i don't count ZG here, cause it's just a small piece of content and not the "Next Tier"). So people will ask for the War Effort + Nightmare Dragons and eventually AQ. We can't rush through the content too fast cause otherwise Naxxramas would have to get released within 1 year, which wouldn't make the server last pretty long in terms of PvE content. And also it would overwhelm Chero and Team if he had to script/fix all that content within this year.
- The Molten Core gear is NOT SO MUCH overpowered, so if guilds keep clearing MC for a while still, their Gear doesn't improve that much. However, if people get to clear BWL for a long time before AQ comes out, BWL will push the player's gear so much that it might trivialize AQ aswell.
- i would give a few more guilds the chance to establish themselves on the server as we still see quite a lot of low level characters.
so yeah, it is for these reasons why i also think the BWL release shouldn't be rushed now.
give it a little more time.
also, almost above everything else, i would suggest chero to buff BWL up! You saw what people thought about the Molten Core difficulty and since BWL is not the hardest piece of content either, i would expect most guilds to clear BWL within the first lockout aswell. And you should atleast give it a try to make it harder and perhaps make it last longer!
I think it wouldn't be good if people get disappointed of BWL also, even though it might be scripted nearly flawless, if it feels too easy (which it will if it's not buffed) the disappointment will become even bigger.
If Chero agrees to this idea of buffing BWL up, i'd gladly help to gather ideas how it could look like without turning the content into something the people don't remember as BWL anymore. (like HP buffs of Bosses + Boss adds, make Boss abilities hit harder or tick more frequently (Vaelastrasz fire pulse) and buff the melee ATP of Bosses, so that Tanks get into danger again and it would drain the healer's mana faster)
just my 2 cents.
let's have an actual constructive discussion here and let's not have it turn into a flamefest!