Quote Originally Posted by Memster View Post
To be fair if you actually try to plan next age off of preliminary changes, you're doing it wrong and wasting a lot of time. While it's enjoyable to theory craft and such, under no circumstances should you expect serious changes to not be made from preliminary to final.

Saying you need preliminary changes to make decisions for next age is just not true
It does help to get a feel of what they plan to do, and it gets people excited for next age, but it's definitely not required.