They won't fix the paragon system without going 70 -> 80 level. If they wanted to do it, they had plenty of time for that. The paragon system will be fixed (hopefully not upgraded to a bigger mess) in a future expansion. Also, nobody will give a new character or a system like the runewords (which can itself sell as an expansion alone) with a patch. And a big content patch won't save the game in any way, it will just delay the inevitable. That is the reason nobody will waste time to release a big patch for free and put the game on a maintenance mode after that. It just doesn't make any sense if they are not adding microtransations or any other type of regular milking income.
So, the only question remaining is: When is RoE closed beta starting? I guess January/March 2017. And runewords will be in, that is sure. I mean they have to be planned to be added long time ago. No way such a unique feature to be left out.
They won't fix the paragon system without going 70 -> 80 level. If they wanted to do it, they had plenty of time for that. The paragon system will be fixed (hopefully not upgraded to a bigger mess) in a future expansion. Also, nobody will give a new character or a system like the runewords (which can itself sell as an expansion alone) with a patch. And a big content patch won't save the game in any way, it will just delay the inevitable. That is the reason nobody will waste time to release a big patch for free and put the game on a maintenance mode after that. It just doesn't make any sense if they are not adding microtransations or any other type of regular milking income.
TLDR: It has to be an expansion.
So, the only question remaining is: When is RoE closed beta starting? I guess January/March 2017. And runewords will be in, that is sure. I mean they have to be planned to be added long time ago. No way such a unique feature to be left out.
Yeah, will be a long night for us in EU.