Latest Community news from World of Warcraft.
NA servers face four hours of scheduled maintenance on August 18th ahead of Midnight Season 2, which brings Mythic+ dungeons, the Venomous Abyss raid, a delve nemesis boss, and new gear upgrades.
Stoneforged Sentinel mount giveaway lets readers enter by commenting their current mount count, with four winners selected worldwide on August 18.
Curse of Ula’tek is live with a new raid, dungeon, Housing blueprints, four Endeavors, a Twitch transmog drop, and discounts on Midnight and services.
Wowhead’s newsletter giveaway offers two Stoneforged Sentinel mounts to subscribers who enter through the August 14–17, 2026 sweepstakes.
Blizzard is allegedly removing Mythic L'ura mounts from players who bought kills through boosting communities, though reports leave unclear whether the action targets RMT, community sellers, or both.
Housing Blueprints now have their own Blizzard forum, where players can share layouts and discuss the Patch 12.1 system’s faction-specific exteriors and universal interiors.
Blizzard will restore missing Aureate, Argent, and Gleaming raid trophies to players affected by a bug during the final hours of Season 1, with grants expected within the next week.
Blizzard’s apparent RMT ban wave hit several Russian and Eastern European guilds, with one Rotmire pickup group losing roughly 80% of its players mid-pull; reports suggest six-month bans.
Tettles interviews Blizzard encounter designers Taylor Sanders and Andrew De Sousa about resilient keys, dungeon splits, Mythic+ updates, and the upcoming Venomous Abyss raid.
Blizzard reportedly topped Xbox’s studios in FY26, marking its third-highest fiscal year for revenue and first back-to-back growth since FY17, with Diablo 4 and Overwatch leading performance.
Mage experts Preheat, Porom, Forgy, Khaelt, and Azuna roundtable the class’s rocky Midnight launch, Patch 12.1 defensives, Arcane’s rework, and each spec’s Mythic+ prospects.
Blizzard’s interview with Wowhead, Icy Veins, and Raider.io covers 12.1’s computational addon restrictions, visual clarity, raid and Mythic+ design, and the future of information-asymmetry mechanics.
Raider.IO offers personalized Midnight Season 1 recaps showing your raid bosses defeated, Mythic+ history, favorite groupmates, class choices, item-level growth, and more.
Chinese-exclusive Azure Dragon Varian Wrynn transmog and throne toy models were decrypted from WoW’s ¥888 annual subscription bundle, drawing on Hearthstone’s Lion’s Landing Varian design.
Thunderfire Games will redirect the ¥2.2 million Patch 12.1 Race to World First prize into Chinese community rewards, guide-writing and reporting incentives, broadcasts, and events instead of a guild payout.
Adam Burgess is leaving Blizzard Entertainment after 11 years, following soundtrack work on World of Warcraft: Midnight, Overwatch 2, and Diablo. He plans to "try something new" next month.
Emergency maintenance has taken all WoW servers offline, and Blizzard has provided no estimate for when service will return while it investigates.
Devourer Demon Hunter creators Jedith, Voodoo, Nintern, and Jom roundtable the spec’s Season 2 outlook, covering Havoc, Patch 12.1, Collapsing Star, sims, and tips.
China marks WoW's 21st anniversary with the X Party in Shanghai this October, offering Blizzard previews, 10 mounts, an RTX 5080, 6 million RMB in prizes, and exclusive subscription rewards.
Area-52 crafting orders appear to be down, with public, private, and guild orders failing while Zul'jin remains unaffected.
