Surely less than 1% will be able to do gate 6 on Normal the first week, why would you order hard at the same time? 
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I think it’s safer to assume Brel in Dec/January. That’s my expectation at least going off of koreas release schedule which they deviated from a little bit with kuku but I feel they might stick to 3 months for brel.
For context Valtan was the first legion raid then Vykas came a month after Kuku 2 months after Vykas and Brel 3 months after Kuku.
Ya I don’t know many F2P/Light Spender that are gonna be close at that point, but I’m not even going to consider HM tbh, no reason to FOMO and it’s so expensive there is no point for me to try.
It’s better to get an alts to 1490 and sell mats to whales on Day 1 of release. In 3 months I’m guessing most people will be +21 all at 1505 (a lot of us will be higher for sure) which is plenty for Normal Gates 3-4 to get rolling on your Upper Relic pieces. I’d be pretty happy with that to be honest.
Anywhere past +21 the cost starts to add up very quickly, if you want to enter Gate 1-2 Hard you’ll need to bring those +21 to +23 and then two additional pieces to +24, at the low low price of 4.8 million gold.
They will. After doing it with Akkan and seeing how players wanted to do Hard Day 1, they will do it global.
You can see the change made to Esther weapons too, that they capped the material limit to 30 screwing F2P.
We saw how they pushed Scouter release with the raid on September, leaving 3 months of no content, and with no powerpass for the “most hyped class”. Whole purpose is pushing players to swipe.
Who is left anyway of the 1.3m playerbase? 50k, most of which are whales, so they will cater to who is left playing the game not who left the game.
Afaik on all regions prior to ours Hard Mode was released 1 or 2 months after Normal Mode.
Would be very unwise to change that for us, where we are already stressed about the release speed.
Yes yes, the vocal majority of bored people on the forums want releases faster. Let’s ignore that this time, that’s not the topic after all.
One month inbetween Normal and Hard Mode should be fine. As you have 4 weeks to get the new relic gear, which will roll your honing level back (like the switch from Argos to Legion Raud gear). Effectively making the push to 1560 for Gate 5+6 Hard Mode easier/cheaper.
Side Note: on recent topic regarding the korean servers, it is quite strange to me, that Akkan HM was released at the same time as Akkan NM. The same situation again, new gear to make the progression slightly easier/cheaper. Especially since the push from 1580 (Akkan NM) to 1600 (Akkan HM) is massive. 500k gold per upgrade, 5 item lvl per upgrade after +20 (so 3x the amount of upgrades we in the west require right now)
3 weeks between normal and hard.
they won’t release them same time.
they need to drag out the months to release it as content later.
trust me i kno
We have the elgacia patch between anyways with new abyss dungeon
i don’t think they will release at the same time, so far we have gotten content while at different rates in a similar order and timeframe.
on kr valtan and vykas both released with their normal and hm at the same time then clown released like 2 months after vykas with no hm, then a bit after that normal brelshaza released by its self with hardmode releasing a bit later.
so far we’ve been on a similar path to that, tho i think we’re getting clown slower than kr did.
these posts always crack me up because theyre so disconnected from reality its actually quite hilarious.
Weve already seen what happens if you dont do the raid week 1: week 2(im not being literal) and beyond youre being gatekept out of the content for not being a pro having done it on all 12 alts all week or having done it on the korean servers where youve been playing for 5 years with your fake korean social security account. Youre gatekept for not overgearing the content by 1000 fold. You cant find parties because noone is doing the content outside of guild runs anymore(or theyre doing alt runs with minimum ilvl and shit gear and need someone to carry them). The only parties listed all day everyday are some douchebag charging 1500 gold to run you through the content, which is basically bypassing literally the only content this game has to offer, defeating the entire point of playing the game altogether
It literally took me 2 days to find a simple valtan normal run for my bard because every party was either a bus run or a low ilvl guild alt run full of their alt sups they powerpassed. Hardly anyone runs old content anymore, which is absolutely pathetic because this content hasnt even been out that long 
do u know we have new gears to transfer and increase the item level right?
i hope they release brelzhaza hard in december
it would be a surprise if they will not release hardmode at the same time why? thats money opportunity
this is disconnected from reality lmao, you can still find groups after week one
i wish SG just pull out newest Akkan raid already , never played a game where f2p struggle because whale stop paying
it is not indeed
but i have a very controversial idea
play normal finsih normal
and you are ready for hard
wild idea i know i know
but normal is your fast track towards hard
you don’t have to clear hard day 1
hard has always been whale territory
the fact that we were vykas hard ready means that they gave us way too many resources
i’d like them to release hard day one so i don’t brute force normal with the whales
reminder that you are the one on copium now.