Rebalance time estimate?
Clearly this will not be "soon" in any sense of the word. The more we have dug into the old AO systems the more "interesting" things we discover we really feel needs to be examined. It is also important to mention that if we assign 5 minutes/nano that needs to be changed this alone runs up to a total of 3 months of dedicated work by one individual. With the release of the engine and new player experience coming first unfortunately we won't be seeing this live and open soon...regardless it will need some time to simmer on a Beta type dimension as it will be impossible to really gauge the state of the changes without large-scale player participation. I wouldn't expect to see this hit Live servers before April 2012. That being said there will likely be some non-system-wide smaller adjustments in the interim between then and now.