Here’s the rough timeline for Dragonflight and Shadowlands:

Dragonflight

• Encrypted Dragonflight Build: April 22nd, 2022
• Alpha Starts: July 14th, 2022
• Release Date: November 28th, 2022 – 220 days after first encrypted build

Shadowlands

• Encrypted Shadowlands Build: February 19th, 2020
• Alpha Starts: April 9th, 2020
• Original Release Date: October 26th, 2020 – 250 days after first encrypted build
• New Release Date: November 23rd, 2020

Using both estimations, it would put The War Within release date between July 19th 2024 and August 18th 2024. Could we be in for a summer release?

Note that previously mentioned that Alpha testing for The War Within would be starting during spring, so maybe the launch will be later, around fall.

Quote: Wowhead