From the roadmaps of what’s forward for contemporary World of Warcraft and Traditional World of Warcraft, to claiming your personal Darkish Portal Housing decor merchandise to arrange in your personal residence, we’ve rounded up every part you’ll want to know in regards to the State of Azeroth.
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We’re on the cusp of the Midnight enlargement launch and all of the tales that shall be informed as we defend Azeroth from the risk the Void presents. Past Midnight, gamers will be capable of expertise the third and remaining installment of the World Soul Saga with The Final Titan.
Past the looming darkness and perils gamers will face, there may be additionally the decision of residence with Housing, providing a spot to relaxation and categorical themselves creatively. This characteristic is twenty years within the making and we knew we needed to ship one thing that might develop and evolve over time. Gamers with the Midnight enlargement are already delving into this characteristic with Housing Early Entry with the total launch simply across the nook.
Introducing Azeroth Interiors
To shine a light-weight on this new characteristic, we’re bringing in a number of the largest creator names and finest builders alike to go head-to-head in a pleasant inside design competitors! We’re calling up six pairs of distinguished creators from world wide to create an idea, execute on their concepts, and produce exemplary participant homes value coming residence to.
You don’t must be a competitor to get in on the enjoyable. Share your personal Housing creations on social media by utilizing the hashtag #AzerothInteriors.
Be taught extra about what’s in retailer in our beforehand revealed article.
WoW Traditional and Trying Forward
Over the previous six years, Traditional has been an expression of affection for the early years of WoW and bringing it to you in quite a lot of flavors. Between Hardcore, Seasonal, and Development realms the group has proven us the continuing potential of Traditional are limitless. We take that to coronary heart and we’ll proceed to honor that.
Mists of Pandaria Traditional
At present, Mists of Pandaria Traditional continues within the unique Traditional realms with the following main milestone the discharge of the Escalation replace in only a few weeks. It features a new quest marketing campaign, battleground, situations, and extra.
Updates for Mists of Pandaria Traditional will proceed to be launched over time as we have now with earlier expansions—with the Siege of Orgrimmar and the return of Timeless Isle later this yr.
Burning Campaign Traditional Anniversary Version
The launch of Burning Campaign Traditional Anniversary Version is on our doorstep. One other spherical of Illidan taunts and Fel Reaver terror. You’ll play by way of the chess occasion in Karazhan, face Magtheridon, and extra all year long.
Seasonal Titan Reforged Realms Launched in China
We’ve additionally launched Seasonal Titan Reforged Realms in Traditional WoW for gamers in China. Why? Not solely are the audiences between fashionable and Traditional World of Warcraft distinctive, however so are the gamers in China. We made these realms for them primarily based on how they play.
This isn’t all we have now cooking up. We will say with confidence all Traditional gamers throughout the globe have lots to stay up for. We’ll save that for later.
Our Dedication to You
What’s the State of Azeroth? It’s alive in all its kinds and we plan to maintain it that manner along with your assist and steering as we hearken to your suggestions and act on it. We’ll quickly be launching surveys throughout the sport to get your ideas and suggestions. We’re dedicated to listening to you and intention to maintain proving our dedication to this ideally suited. We need to proceed offering you with the house, place, and instruments to play the best way you need to play and reside the way you need to reside in Azeroth. That’s our Northstar.
We would like our humble universe to be go to when you’ve got free time, when you’ll want to recharge alongside your family and friends after a protracted day, or while you want an escape. Let off steam by conquering a boss, roleplaying, now adorning, transmogging, PvPing, exploring, and extra. A fantasy residence in each sense. The place strangers turn into pals and pals turn into neighbors.
Discover Your Individuals
We have now a plan for these of you seeking to discover your folks. These gamers who take pleasure in WoW the identical manner you do. We’re calling it the WoW Ambassador Program. It’s all in regards to the group serving to the group. It’s much less about us and extra about you. It’s a little bit of an experiment to assist join you with gamers and communities which can be full of others who play the way you play—or the way you need to play. These Ambassadors are useful pals inside our personal WoW group.
New Charity Pet Pack for Habitat for Humanity
As you recognize, group is our mainstay and within the period of Housing, we wished to do what we will to assist those that want greater than pixels in terms of having a spot to reside. This yr we’re excited to be partnering with Habitat for Humanity with a charity pet pack that we hope, along with your assist, will assist present security and shelter to households in want of an inexpensive residence. Habitat for Humanity has helped greater than sixty-five million folks globally.
This charity pet pack consists of the cute Roofus who shall be accessible in each fashionable World of Warcraft and Traditional WoW. Roofus likes to construct—one thing you’ll see in motion if he’s left idle for too lengthy. These of you who play fashionable WoW can even get a canine home, a bowl, and a mattress.
We’re extremely excited to be supporting Habitat for Humanity this yr and may have extra info to share about how one can deliver Roofus residence quickly.
A Thank You!
As at all times, you’re our heroes, our heartbeat, and our gratitude is eternal.
Thanks on your continued ardour, for the time you’ve put into this world, and on your boundless creativity. It has been superb seeing so many bounce into Housing during the last couple of months. On behalf of everybody who had any half in bringing Housing to life, we’re in awe of what you’ve already created. We knew you’d make unbelievable properties, however the group response has blown away our expectations. There is no such thing as a World of Warcraft with out you the group.
We’re honored to be part of this world and humbled to be the caretakers of one thing that has remained so particular and necessary to so many individuals for therefore lengthy.
The Present and Future World of Warcraft
We need to share a little bit of what we’re as much as for World of Warcraft when it comes to the fitting now, current content material, the fast-approaching launch of Midnight, and a small peek at a number of the larger issues we have now deliberate for 2026. We aren’t capable of get into all the main points simply but as many of those plans contain story spoilers and we need to maintain on to some surprises to share later. There’s nonetheless lots to stay up for for all residents of Azeroth within the yr forward.
It’s Almost Midnight
We’re nearly a month away from Midnight launch and the event workforce is difficult at work fixing bugs, refining options, and getting the enlargement prepared for gamers to dive into in March. Between now and the launch of the enlargement, there’s nonetheless a lot to see and do in WoW right this moment.
The Midnight Pre-Growth Replace
Twilight Ascension Pre-Growth Occasion
The Twilight Ascension pre-expansion occasion is reside now and runs by way of to the launch of Midnight on March 2. That is the place the stakes begin to crystallize and the risk we face begins to take form. It’s additionally the place the Void makes itself felt in Azeroth. It is a repeatable occasion through which gamers be a part of Umbric and Grand Magister Rommath to maintain the Twilight’s Blade cult at bay.
Gamers take up World Quests and defeat uncommon enemies to disrupt the rituals of the Twilight’s Blade cult in addition to earn occasion foreign money to make use of to buy limited-time rewards similar to armor units, pets, a mount, and extra. Gamers can even be capable of accumulate new Housing decor to assist furnish their residence in Azeroth. Be taught extra in regards to the occasion in our beforehand revealed article.
Demon Hunter Devourer Specialization and Void Elf Demon Hunters
Additionally within the pre-expansion content material replace, gamers can take up a brand new Void-themed ranged Devourer specialization. Void Elf Demon Hunters may be unlocked after a brief questline. Be taught extra in our beforehand revealed article.
Techniques Updates
Among the baseline system enhancements and updates have additionally gone reside together with an up to date transmog system that features situational outfit swapping, an improved person interface (UI), and slot-based transmog so that you simply don’t must re-transmog each time you get an improve.
Coaching Grounds
For gamers new to PvP, you may study the ropes within the coaching grounds in opposition to smarter game-controlled opponents within the Arathi Basin, Silvershard Mines, and Battle for Gilneas battlegrounds.
Winds of Mysterious Fortune
A limited-time occasion, popularity positive factors and expertise positive factors are boosted for gamers beneath stage 80, it’s an effective way to get caught up to the mark earlier than the Midnight launch whether or not you’re leveling an alternate character to hitch the fray or fast-tracking some reputation-based Housing decor objects that you simply’ve been aiming so as to add to your assortment. Be taught extra in our article.
Darkish Portal Housing Decor Merchandise
For a restricted time, we’re granting a Darkish Portal Housing decor merchandise for all gamers with an energetic World of Warcraft subscription or Recreation Time who log in between now and Midnight enlargement launch.
Make Your Stand Through the Welcome Again Weekend
From January 29 by way of February 1, we’re giving all gamers with inactive World of Warcraft® accounts full entry to return to the sport and all of your characters and not using a subscription. Discover the World of Warcraft base sport as much as stage 80 together with all level-up content material, the pre-launch occasions, the latest system updates within the pre-expansion content material replace, the fully overhauled returning participant expertise, and greater than twenty years of Azeroth’s world and story.
We’re excited for the Midnight enlargement and we need to make it straightforward so that you can verify all of it out for your self. Be taught extra in regards to the Welcome Again Weekend in our information article.
Midnight Growth
- Elevated Stage Cap: The extent cap in Midnight is growing to stage 90, and gamers will stage by way of 4 new and reimagined zones full of recent questing content material of each marketing campaign chapters in addition to native tales with extra chapters ready for you at most stage.
- Eight New Dungeons: The enlargement additionally introduces eight new dungeons, eleven new Delves and a brand new Delve companion, Valeera Sanguinar.
- Prey System: The brand new Prey System provides a brand new layer of depth and problem to your gameplay.
- Slayers Rise PvP: A brand new PvP characteristic is arriving in Midnight with the Epic Battleground, Slayer’s Rise, which additionally exists as an outside world house for many who need to participate in world PvP in Battle Mode.
- Arcantina: Spend time within the Arcantina, a mystical tavern the place you may rub elbows with some huge names in WoW lore, study extra about them, and full quests on their behalf.
A few weeks after the launch of the enlargement, Midnight Season One begins, pulling the story ahead by way of a number of recent content material.
- The Voidspire Raid: This six-boss raid is the start of the capstone for the story we’re telling at first of Midnight.
- The Dreamrift Raid: A smaller one boss raid encounter.
- 4 New World Bosses
- Up to date Mythic+ Dungeon Pool: 4 dungeons shall be new Midnight dungeons and 4 shall be 4 up to date legacy dungeons.
- New Delves Season
- New PvP Season
Shortly after the beginning of Season One, we’ll introduce a 3rd raid zone with two bosses in The March on Quel’Danas. This new raid will cap off the preliminary chapter of the Midnight story, bringing us nearer to what’s going to come subsequent.
The addition of Story Mode to World of Warcraft has made it in order that any participant can expertise these moments for themselves. We need to proceed to lean in, supplying you with methods to expertise the story of Azeroth irrespective of the way you select to play. Whether or not you need to bounce in and deal with raids, tackle Delves, or simply hand around in the Arcantina and chat. Our objective is to provide you tons to do and loads of choices to pick from.
We will’t wait to see the way you select to journey throughout the unfolding story of Midnight. Midnight Early entry begins February 26 at 3:00 pm PST worldwide.
Housing Updates
We have now been overwhelmed by your creativity and ingenuity throughout Housing Early Entry, alongside along with your suggestions. We would like you to assist us construct this characteristic collectively. We need to hear extra of what you’re focused on, extra of what’s working, and what’s not working. Your suggestions is straight informing the choices we make. You’ve already seen a number of the quality-of-life enhancements go reside during the last couple of months, however we’re maintaining a detailed eye on Housing to repeatedly enhance the characteristic from each angle. Whether or not we’re speaking about economic system changes, UI updates, or all new functionalities.
We need to hold discovering alternatives to assist the artistic expression that you simply invent, similar to making it simpler to drift your own home for instance. We have already got a few issues in thoughts. We’ve heard from many in the neighborhood that your cozy creation doesn’t really feel full with out the power for a few of your companion pets to wander round your own home. We need to provide this skill to do that together with showcasing extra of your beauty collections typically similar to with the ability to hitch a few your favourite mounts up in your yard outside. We’re engaged on delivering this as properly.
We’ve additionally seen and heard that as you’re expressing your boundless creativity, you need to have the ability to transfer creations of their entirety—similar to a grand piano made of assorted decor objects—to a brand new spot in your house with out having to deconstruct it. We need to make it so as to choose a number of items and transfer all of them collectively together with the power to repeat and paste.
As you’re looking different gamers Housing designs, we’ve heard that you want to a solution to copy and import their appears to be like as a place to begin on your personal creations, or possibly you’ve got created one thing you wish to share with others. To that finish, we’re engaged on import and export codes for simple sharing and exchanging your own home designs.
We’re additionally persevering with to extend indoor and outside decor budgets as we study extra about technical limits of the system together with merely wanting to ensure we’re offering alternatives for development as you stage up your own home.
That is solely a few of what we’re engaged on with an eye fixed on some larger issues for Housing as properly. We’re listening to how Endeavors are working, how they enliven Neighborhoods, and the way gamers work together with them, in order that we will proceed to assist the belongings you need to see from the characteristic.
That is simply the bottom ground for Housing in World of Warcraft. That is the inspiration of a characteristic that we need to be a mirrored image of your life and instances in Azeroth and we’re critical about increasing it and bettering it alongside you, the participant, within the years to come back.
Thanks on your ardour and suggestions to this point. Maintain telling us what you need from Housing and we’ll hold listening and hold it coming.
Past Midnight
We have now a number of issues to share with you past the launch of Midnight starting with a number of particular plans after which getting a bit vaguer as we transfer into the later a part of the yr.
12.0.5
Shortly after the launch of Midnight, patch 12.0.5 will arrive on the Public Check Realm (PTR). This replace finds us within the aftermath of the Season One raids.
Void Assaults
The specter of Xal’atath has but to be resolved, so we’re going to see Void Assaults start to seem throughout the outside world. These will deliver us new enemies to combat, new causes to rally to defend Azeroth, and new rewards alongside the best way.
Prop Hunt
On the lighter aspect, we’ll be including a prop hunt-inspired occasion as a small diversion from the battle between the Gentle and the Void. On this occasion, you’re going to queue as much as be a part of a workforce of 5 to face off in opposition to one other small workforce of 5 in a location similar to Silvermoon Metropolis. One workforce will use phantasm to disguise themselves as innocuous props to cover throughout the atmosphere. The opposite workforce will attempt to search them out. You may not defeat the Void and save Azeroth by participating on this occasion, however it’s an effective way to discover a little bit of enjoyable within the face of the ever current and rising risk the Void presents.
12.0.7
Our subsequent small replace brings an extra escalation of Void Assaults and introduces a one boss raid with Sporefall. We’re excited to maneuver away from the concept raids should be large twice a yr updates. We need to lean extra into the pliability of matching the content material we provide to the continuing narrative and discover alternatives to inform tales of various sizes and shapes.
12.1
This brings us to our first main Midnight content material replace. It should arrive with a brand new zone with most stage content material, new raid, and a brand new season with an up to date Mythic+ dungeon Pool, new PvP and Delves rewards, and continued refinements you’d anticipate from a significant content material replace in World of Warcraft.
The replace can even deliver with it an overhaul of the Associates system, making it simpler to maintain up with pals you’ve got and make new pals alongside the best way.
12.1.5
We’re introducing a brand new content material kind. To assist the passionate group round Delves, we need to add extra flexibility and experimentation. For individuals who love Delve gameplay however need one thing greater than the chew sized experiences which can be at the moment provided, we’re including a brand new characteristic that we’re at the moment calling Labyrinths.
These are impressed by mega-dungeons. They’re massive sprawling experiences you may deal with abruptly or a bit at a time relying by yourself schedule. They may have a distinct type and reward construction than are at the moment accessible in Delves however retain the core components of exploring and besting foes alongside your Delve companion.
In 12.1.5, we’re additionally planning one other small one boss raid encounter. Not like the raid in 12. 0.7, which is extra of a standalone expertise, this raid shall be a continuation of the narrative in Midnight. It should function a bridge and set the stage for the following main replace the next yr.
Later within the yr, we’ll even have a brand new stand-alone occasion from the identical wizards who introduced you sport modes like Plunderstorm or Remix. We’ll share extra about this mode later and it’ll exist alongside the core World of Warcraft sport.
That is all accompanied by the regular circulate of content material that the group is used to seeing similar to vacation updates, occasions like Turbulent Timeways, and far more.
Trying Ahead
There’s far more to come back in Midnight and World of Warcraft as an entire and we will’t wait so that you can see it. BlizzCon is arriving in slightly below eight months and it’s going to be one for the ages. We hope to see you there in order that we will present you extra about what we’re pondering for the following twenty years of every part Warcraft. You gained’t need to miss it.
Thanks for becoming a member of us and thanks for being part of the journey with us. We all know the Void and Xal’atath are darkish threats, the stakes are excessive and the tone of Midnight may be dire. However we additionally by no means need to overlook that Azeroth is, for all of us, residence. It’s a spot of sunshine, group, household, and pals. It is a world that may heat the guts of even the Prince of Darkness.
Journey is looking you residence. We’ll see you at BlizzCon 2026 and, after all, in Azeroth.
