When is the Dragonflight patch 10.2.7 release date?

With the release of the 2024 roadmap for World of Warcraft we now have a much better sense of the plans for the wrapup of Dragonflight. Like 2023 the roadmap is an ambitious one, with several patches planned throughout the year. Patch 10.2.6 launched the week of March 19, meaning patch 10.2.7 will likely be released eight or nine weeks after. Patch 10.2.7 brings with it a couple new notable features including the Draenei and Troll Heritage Armor quest chains and the brand new WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria leveling event (expected to launch a week after the patch). While it only just released to the PTR, this content does not seem to require as much testing. If the cadence of Dragonflight patching is maintained — and there’s no reason to think it wouldn’t be — we should expect patch 10.2.7 the week of May 14, 2024.

Dragonflight patches have been consistently arriving every eight-to-ten weeks since release, with the only outlier being patch 10.1 which was released only six weeks after patch 10.0.7. While it seems that ten weeks is the most reliable interval to predict around, all three times there were ten weeks between patches a major holiday likely impacted the release. With no major American holidays falling on a Tuesday the first half of this year there isn’t a reason to expect a similar week delay. As a result eight or nine weeks is the most likely gap between the next few patches. Throw in the fact that The War Within is expected in September at the latest and expectations are high that everything will be done to ensure that it’s not delayed due to issues with minor patches.

Since the gap could be either eight or nine weeks then the best prediction for two patches away is 17 weeks; a look at the calendar shows that 17 weeks after patch 10.2.5 arrives the week of January 16 is the week of May 14 (and patch 10.2.6 arrives on March 19). A mid-May date allows the development team to not have to worry about the Memorial Day holiday at the end of the month while also avoiding the release of Cataclym Classic the week of May 21. It is also possible that the interval between patches will be seven weeks, resulting in a release the week of May 7 but in either case the holiday and Cata Classic are not impacted. It allows for the pace of patch releases to continue throughout the year with the prepatch for The War Within arriving in mid-to-late July for an expansion release in late August or September.

Originally published March 3, 2023. Updated April 18, 2024.