Latest PvE news from World of Warcraft.
Midnight Season 1’s projected Mythic+ cutoffs are 3915 for Umbral Champion’s top 1% and 4183 for Umbral Hero’s top 0.1% in North America, though both may change before the season ends.
Patch 12.1 PTR datamined hotfixes adjust Mythic+ dungeon abilities, add AoE flags in Venomous Abyss, and stop the ?? Delve boss's Void Toxin from being Spell Reflected.
Azra'tec's Patch 12.1 PTR changes extend the Simon Says sequences to 5, 6, and 7 spots, while failed cones apply a 500% Nature-damage debuff that makes ignoring the mechanic a one-shot gamble.
Midnight Season 2 starts with a pre-season week, while the first Great Vault offers no Voidcore bonus rolls. Mythic+, rated PvP, Bountiful Delves, and the Venomous Abyss open August 18.
Season 2 Mythic+ dungeon tuning adds routing options in Ruby Life Pools and adjusts enemy locations, abilities, damage, health, and timers across several dungeons.
Patch 12.1 PTR class tuning buffs Rogue, Havoc, Guardian, Mage, Warlock, and others while nerfing several overperforming specs, with Delves and Ritual Site reward updates.
Patch 12.1 PTR tuning nerfs Freightrunner's Flask scaling, cuts Evoker's Twin Flame and Consume Flame, and boosts Shaman's Ride the Lightning damage by 59%.
Patch 12.1: Curse of Ula’tek sends champions to the Coiled Isle with a new zone, eight-boss Venomous Abyss raid, Altar of Fangs dungeon, Delves, Lairs, housing updates, and Midnight Season 2.
Patch 12.1 introduces Delve Season 2 with a 10-level renown track, offering cosmetics, toys, the Corroded Soul Crusher mount, and Champion/Hero gear from Zah'ran and Telemancer Astrandis in Silvermoon City.
Patch 12.1 introduces Lairs, instanced world boss encounters with solo queue for World difficulty and flexible 15–25 player Mythic mode dropping up to item level 318 gear in Tidebound Grotto.
Blizzard updated the Season 2 schedule for Delve Nemesis boss Azta'rec, setting ? difficulty for August 11 and ?? difficulty for August 18. Players targeting the solo achievement have until the August 25 reset.
Restoration Shaman gets major Midnight Season 2 buffs to Riptide, Unleash Life, Healing Rain, talents, and Farseer Ancestors, addressing longstanding gameplay issues while leaving mana and stat concerns intact.
Patch 12.0.7 hotfixes for July 28 fix a Blood Death Knight Dance of Midnight talent bug, a PvP trinket cooldown display error with Will of the Forsaken, and world boss loot issues for alts.
Blizzard clarified Mythic 0 dungeons will drop 292 item level gear on a weekly lockout during Week 0 of Midnight Season 2, switching to daily resets at launch. Week 0 activities will also award Great Vault progress.
Patch 12.1 PTR dungeon testing brings extensive Mythic+ tuning to Temple of Sethraliss, Ruby Life Pools, and Altar of Fangs, reworking encounter mechanics, cast times, and enemy health.
The Venomous Abyss 8-boss raid unlocks starting August 18 for Normal, Heroic, Mythic, and LFR Wing 1, with Story Mode opening August 25. Defeating Mythic Ula’tek grants the Venom's End title and the Primeval Skyfriend mount.
Patch 12.1 unlocks the Tidebound Grotto raid lair on all difficulties—including Mythic—on August 11, a week before Season 2 begins.
Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek launches August 11, with Midnight Season 2 following on August 18. Season 2 introduces The Venomous Abyss raid, a fresh Mythic+ dungeon rotation, PvP Season 2, Delves, and the Altar of Fangs dungeon.
Patch 12.1 PTR Build 68914 recaps recent class tuning, tier set adjustments, Mythic+ Season 2 mob health changes, new mounts, in-game map coordinates, and guide editorials for Midnight.
Blood Death Knights received a live hotfix resolving a bug with the Dance of Midnight apex talent, which was mistakenly increasing damage taken at ranks 2 and 3 instead of reducing it as intended.
