Already the alpha of WoW: Dragonflight played like an advanced beta and with the Launch of the endgame server Valdrakken the test phase of WoW: Dragonflight seems to be heading for the home stretch. According to the Blizzard leak. the upcoming WoW expansion is scheduled for release in Europe on November 30.

However, there is no official release date from Blizzard yet and the developers still have to work on some construction sites. Dungeons are currently being put through their paces, and nothing is known yet about a Mythic-Plus affix for Dragonflights – Season 1. At the very end of the beta phase, there are still the raid tests for the first – Season . Raid Vault of Incarnation from. In the community, as usual, numbers are already being used.

WoW: Dragonflight release on track? The numbers game around length of alpha and beta

Redditor Disargeria once listed the testing phases of past expansions in the Reddit WoW forum and created an older scenario of his speculations about the Dragonflight testing phases. Exact times like the announcement of the addon, start of the alpha phase and start of the beta phase are hard to track for very old WoW addons.

WoW: Dragonflight on schedule for November release? The number comparisons (2)

Source: r/wow Disargeria

There are also some factors that play a role in the duration of the test phases. For example, if the expansion lacks a patch, such as WoD or most recently Shadowlands. Then the developers usually have more time for the following expansion and test phases run faster. Shadowlands, as we know, lacked a major content patch and was also delayed again after the announcement and beta phase. So the testing phases of Dragonflight can be better compared to those of the BfA expansion, which was preceded by a successful WoW expansion without time issues and a lot of preparation time like Dragonflight.

There were only 49 days between the launch of Dragonflight alpha and the start of the beta. Compared to BfA with 76 days this looks quite short. However, the alpha phases of past WoW addons like WoD (22 days) and MoP (31days) were even shorter. Dragonflight has been in beta for 16 days as of today (September 16, 2022) and will remain in beta for 90 days until its possible release on November 30, 2022. Compared to BfA (112 days) and Legion (110) days, this is also quite little.