From the roadmaps of what’s forward for contemporary World of Warcraft and Basic 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 have to know concerning the State of Azeroth.
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We’re on the cusp of the Midnight growth launch and all of the tales that will probably be informed as we defend Azeroth from the menace 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 specific themselves creatively. This function 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 growth are already delving into this function with Housing Early Entry with the complete launch simply across the nook.
Introducing Azeroth Interiors
To shine a light-weight on this new function, we’re bringing in a number of the greatest creator names and finest builders alike to go head-to-head in a pleasant inside design competitors! We’re calling up six pairs of outstanding 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 through the use of the hashtag #AzerothInteriors.
Study extra about what’s in retailer in our beforehand printed article.
WoW Basic and Trying Forward
Over the previous six years, Basic has been an expression of affection for the early years of WoW and bringing it to you in a wide range of flavors. Between Hardcore, Seasonal, and Development realms the group has proven us the continued potential of Basic are limitless. We take that to coronary heart and we are going to proceed to honor that.
Mists of Pandaria Basic
At the moment, Mists of Pandaria Basic continues within the authentic Basic realms with the following main milestone the discharge of the Escalation replace in just some weeks. It features a new quest marketing campaign, battleground, situations, and extra.
Updates for Mists of Pandaria Basic will proceed to be launched over time as now we have with earlier expansions—with the Siege of Orgrimmar and the return of Timeless Isle later this 12 months.
Burning Campaign Basic Anniversary Version
The launch of Burning Campaign Basic Anniversary Version is on our doorstep. One other spherical of Illidan taunts and Fel Reaver terror. You’ll play by means 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 Basic WoW for gamers in China. Why? Not solely are the audiences between trendy and Basic 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 now we have cooking up. We are able to say with confidence all Basic gamers throughout the globe have rather a lot to look ahead to. We’ll save that for later.
Our Dedication to You
What’s the State of Azeroth? It’s alive in all its types and we plan to maintain it that means together with your assist and steerage as we take heed to your suggestions and act on it. We’ll quickly be launching surveys inside the sport to get your ideas and suggestions. We’re dedicated to listening to you and goal to maintain proving our dedication to this ideally suited. We wish to proceed offering you with the house, place, and instruments to play the way in which you wish to play and reside the way you wish to reside in Azeroth. That’s our Northstar.
We would like our humble universe to be go to when you could have free time, when you have to recharge alongside your family and friends after a protracted day, or whenever 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 associates and associates turn into neighbors.
Discover Your Individuals
Now we have a plan for these of you seeking to discover your individuals. These gamers who get pleasure from WoW the identical means you do. We’re calling it the WoW Ambassador Program. It’s all concerning 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 are stuffed with others who play the way you play—or the way you wish to play. These Ambassadors are useful associates inside our personal WoW group. Study extra about this system in our article.
New Charity Pet Pack for Habitat for Humanity
As you already know, group is our mainstay and within the period of Housing, we needed to do what we will to assist those that want greater than pixels in the case of having a spot to reside. This 12 months we’re excited to be partnering with Habitat for Humanity with a charity pet pack that we hope, together with your assist, will assist present security and shelter to households in want of an reasonably priced residence. Habitat for Humanity has helped greater than sixty-five million individuals globally.
This charity pet pack consists of the lovely Roofus who will probably be accessible in each trendy World of Warcraft and Basic 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 trendy WoW may even get a canine home, a bowl, and a mattress.
We’re extremely excited to be supporting Habitat for Humanity this 12 months and may have extra data to share about how one can carry Roofus residence quickly.
A Thank You!
As at all times, you’re our heroes, our heartbeat, and our gratitude is eternal.
Thanks to your continued ardour, for the time you’ve put into this world, and to your boundless creativity. It has been wonderful seeing so many soar 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 isn’t 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 thus lengthy.
The Present and Future World of Warcraft
We wish to share a little bit of what we’re as much as for World of Warcraft by way of the proper now, current content material, the fast-approaching launch of Midnight, and a small peek at a number of the larger issues now we have deliberate for 2026. We aren’t in a position to get into all the small print simply but as many of those plans contain story spoilers and we wish to maintain on to some surprises to share later. There’s nonetheless rather a lot to look ahead to for all residents of Azeroth within the 12 months forward.
It’s Practically Midnight
We’re nearly a month away from Midnight launch and the event staff is tough at work fixing bugs, refining options, and getting the growth prepared for gamers to dive into in March. Between now and the launch of the growth, there’s nonetheless a lot to see and do in WoW in the present day.
The Midnight Pre-Growth Replace
Twilight Ascension Pre-Growth Occasion
The Twilight Ascension pre-expansion occasion is reside now and runs by means of to the launch of Midnight on March 2. That is the place the stakes begin to crystallize and the menace we face begins to take form. It’s additionally the place the Void makes itself felt in Azeroth. This can be a repeatable occasion during which gamers be 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 akin to armor units, pets, a mount, and extra. Gamers may even be capable of acquire new Housing decor to assist furnish their residence in Azeroth. Study extra concerning the occasion in our beforehand printed 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 will be unlocked after a brief questline. Study extra in our beforehand printed article.
Programs Updates
A few of 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 possibly can study the ropes within the coaching grounds towards smarter game-controlled opponents within the Arathi Basin, Silvershard Mines, and Battle for Gilneas battlegrounds.
Winds of Mysterious Fortune
A limited-time occasion, status good points and expertise good points are boosted for gamers under stage 80, it’s a good way to get caught on top of things earlier than the Midnight launch whether or not you’re leveling an alternate character to affix the fray or fast-tracking some reputation-based Housing decor objects that you simply’ve been aiming so as to add to your assortment. Study 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 Sport Time who log in between now and Midnight growth launch.
Make Your Stand Throughout the Welcome Again Weekend
From January 29 by means 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 with out 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 current 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 growth and we wish to make it straightforward so that you can verify all of it out for your self. Study extra concerning the Welcome Again Weekend in our information article.
Midnight Growth
Elevated Degree Cap: The extent cap in Midnight is rising to stage 90, and gamers will stage by means of 4 new and reimagined zones full of latest 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 growth 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 function is arriving in Midnight with the Epic Battleground, Slayer’s Rise, which additionally exists as an outside world house for individuals who wish to participate in world PvP in Warfare Mode.
Arcantina: Spend time within the Arcantina, a mystical tavern the place you possibly can rub elbows with some large names in WoW lore, study extra about them, and full quests on their behalf.
A few weeks after the launch of the growth, Midnight Season One begins, pulling the story ahead by means of a number of latest content material.
The Voidspire Raid: This six-boss raid is the start of the capstone for the story we’re telling at the beginning of Midnight.
The Dreamrift Raid: A smaller one boss raid encounter.
4 New World Bosses
Up to date Mythic+ Dungeon Pool: 4 dungeons will probably be new Midnight dungeons and 4 will probably 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 wish to proceed to lean in, supplying you with methods to expertise the story of Azeroth regardless of the way you select to play. Whether or not you wish to soar in and sort out raids, tackle Delves, or simply hand around in the Arcantina and chat. Our aim is to present you heaps to do and loads of choices to pick out from.
We are able to’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
Now we have been overwhelmed by your creativity and ingenuity throughout Housing Early Entry, alongside together with your suggestions. We would like you to assist us construct this function collectively. We wish to hear extra of what you’re concerned with, extra of what’s working, and what’s not working. Your suggestions is instantly 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 function from each angle. Whether or not we’re speaking about economic system changes, UI updates, or all new functionalities.
We wish to preserve discovering alternatives to assist the inventive expression that you simply invent, akin to making it simpler to drift your home for instance. We have already got a few issues in thoughts. We’ve heard from many locally that your cozy creation doesn’t really feel full with out the flexibility for a few of your companion pets to wander round your house. We wish to supply this potential to do that together with showcasing extra of your beauty collections on the whole akin to with the ability to hitch a few your favourite mounts up in your yard outdoor. We’re engaged on delivering this as nicely.
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—akin to a grand piano made of assorted decor objects—to a brand new spot in your house with out having to deconstruct it. We wish to make it in an effort to choose a number of items and transfer all of them collectively together with the flexibility to repeat and paste.
As you’re shopping different gamers Housing designs, we’ve heard that you want to a method to copy and import their seems as a place to begin to your personal creations, or possibly you could have created one thing you wish to share with others. To that finish, we’re engaged on import and export codes for straightforward sharing and exchanging your home designs.
We’re additionally persevering with to extend indoor and out of doors 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 home.
That is solely a few of what we’re engaged on with an eye fixed on some larger issues for Housing as nicely. We’re taking note of 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 stuff you wish to see from the function.
That is simply the bottom flooring for Housing in World of Warcraft. That is the muse of a function that we wish to be a mirrored image of your life and occasions in Azeroth and we’re critical about increasing it and enhancing it alongside you, the participant, within the years to return.
Thanks to your ardour and suggestions to this point. Preserve telling us what you need from Housing and we are going to preserve listening and preserve it coming.
Past Midnight
Now we have a couple of issues to share with you past the launch of Midnight starting with a couple of particular plans after which getting a bit vaguer as we transfer into the later a part of the 12 months.
12.0.5
Shortly after the launch of Midnight, patch 12.0.5 will arrive on the Public Take a look at 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 look throughout the out of doors world. These will carry us new enemies to combat, new causes to rally to defend Azeroth, and new rewards alongside the way in which.
Prop Hunt
On the lighter aspect, we’ll be including a prop hunt-inspired occasion as a small diversion from the battle between the Mild and the Void. On this occasion, you’re going to queue as much as be part of a staff of 5 to face off towards one other small staff of 5 in a location akin to Silvermoon Metropolis. One staff will use phantasm to disguise themselves as innocuous props to cover inside the setting. The opposite staff will attempt to search them out. You may not defeat the Void and save Azeroth by collaborating on this occasion, nevertheless it’s a good way to discover a little bit of enjoyable within the face of the ever current and rising menace the Void presents.
12.0.7
Our subsequent small replace brings an additional escalation of Void Assaults and introduces a one boss raid with Sporefall. We’re excited to maneuver away from the concept that raids should be large twice a 12 months updates. We wish to lean extra into the pliability of matching the content material we provide to the continued narrative and discover alternatives to inform tales of various styles and sizes.
12.1
This brings us to our first main Midnight content material replace. It would 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 count on from a significant content material replace in World of Warcraft.
The replace may even carry with it an overhaul of the Buddies system, making it simpler to maintain up with associates you could have and make new associates alongside the way in which.
12.1.5
We’re introducing a brand new content material sort. To assist the passionate group round Delves, we wish to add extra flexibility and experimentation. For many who love Delve gameplay however need one thing greater than the chew sized experiences which are presently supplied, we’re including a brand new function that we’re presently calling Labyrinths.
These are impressed by mega-dungeons. They’re giant sprawling experiences you possibly can sort out suddenly or a bit at a time relying by yourself schedule. They’ll have a distinct kind and reward construction than are presently 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. In contrast to the raid in 12. 0.7, which is extra of a standalone expertise, this raid will probably be a continuation of the narrative in Midnight. It would function a bridge and set the stage for the following main replace the next 12 months.
Later within the 12 months, 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 circulation of content material that the group is used to seeing akin to vacation updates, occasions like Turbulent Timeways, and way more.
Trying Ahead
There’s way more to return 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 considering for the following twenty years of every part Warcraft. You gained’t wish 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 will be dire. However we additionally by no means wish to neglect that Azeroth is, for all of us, residence. It’s a spot of sunshine, group, household, and associates. This can be a world that may heat the guts of even the Prince of Darkness.
Journey is asking you residence. We’ll see you at BlizzCon 2026 and, after all, in Azeroth.
