The NCSoft Korean team is actually really fast at putting out content patches. Usually a major chronicle happens every 6 months in Lineage II and they generally have a large amount of changes.

From what I heard it's on the test servers currently, so I would imagine that they want to get it out fast so that they don't lose too many people. I wouldn't see why they would hold out on a content upgrade, they would just lose more people as time went on.


Granted I'm not resubbing until the patch is live as well, but they have no reason to not release it when it gets finished.