Latest PvE news from World of Warcraft.
Season 3 Mythic+ refreshes its dungeon pool with revamped routes, encounters, visuals, and enemy abilities; Uldaman drops from five bosses to four, while Iron Docks and Stonecore get substantial overhauls.
Noctinaxx, a giant Azerite bat, is the one-boss Gearhold raid lair and World Boss for Patch 12.2, with World, Normal, Heroic, and flexible Mythic difficulties aimed at early Mythic raiders.
Libram of the Matriarch grants Paladins Liadrin’s sleek wing effect through a Glyph of the Matriarch’s Wings, earned from Mythic Kith’ix in Patch 12.1.5; Liadrin’s fate remains speculation.
Patch 12.1 hotfixes restore missing Sparks of Tides and nerf Venomous Abyss encounters across Raid Finder, Heroic, and Mythic, alongside class and quest fixes.
Patch 12.1.5 PTR notes add class tuning for Devourer Demon Hunters, Mages, Priests, Rogues and more, while opening testing for the single-boss Unbinding of Kith'ix raid.
Umbral Ashes is now being awarded to players who reached the top 1% of Midnight Season 1 Mythic+ scores, following Blizzard’s review for paid carries.
Venomous Abyss now grants Fury of the Dead, a 1% damage and healing raid buff that increases weekly up to a possible 15% after completing Strongblood Jak’mo’s quest.
Midnight Season 2 trinkets get a final tuning pass on September 22, buffing several healing effects while nerfing lingering Season 1 favorites like Gaze of the Alnseer, Vaelgor’s Final Stare, and Algeth’ar Puzzle Box.
Venomous Abyss receives post-Race to World First nerfs, reducing damage, adds, and intermission spawns across Sszorak, Twin Fangs, the Coiled Altar, and Ula’tek, with major Mythic adjustments to the final encounters.
Astalor Bloodsworn becomes Midnight: Season 3’s Delve Nemesis boss, with new opt-in challenges planned to channel anguish like Prey Torments.
Patch 12.2 adds a top 5% Mythic+ achievement, while the existing top 1% and new top 5% achievements become spec-based; the top 0.1% title apparently remains overall.
The Worldcore is Midnight’s final raid, sending players through 8 bosses and the worldsoul’s defenses for a final confrontation with Xal’atath.
Midnight Season 3’s Mythic+ rotation arrives with Patch 12.2, Eclipse, bringing back Sanguine Depths, The Underrot, and six other dungeons, including new Thraegar’s Stand.
Midnight's Edge, the first legendary weapon of Midnight, is a caster dagger arriving in Patch 12.2 with a questline unlocked after completing the Worldcore raid.
Lordaeron's Loss is a secret Delve gravestone unlocked by dying in present-day Lordaeron or Undercity, then selecting it from Nelthius Shadestone in the Delver's Headquarters.
Class bugfixes in September 10 hotfixes fix Wildfire Bomb, Glory of the Vanguard, Thistle Tea tracking, and several Delve, dungeon, Prey, and PvP issues.
Hotfixes fix class bugs, make Soft Underbelly account-wide, improve Prey farming, restore Delves reputation rewards, and smooth Venomous Abyss encounters on September 9, 2026.
Wildfire Bomb’s center-based hitboxes make Survival Hunter AoE unreliable on large or stationary bosses and adds, a problem amplified by the 12.1 raid tier, tier set, and Hero talents.
Kith'ix awakens in Patch 12.1.5 as Midnight's newest one-boss raid, tied to ancient C'thraxxi, the Aqir, Ula'tek, and Xal'atath's schemes.
The Unbinding of Kith’ix gets one-boss raid testing on the Patch 12.1.5 PTR, with Heroic and Mythic sessions on September 16. Players are scaled to level 90 with appropriate item levels.
