[July’s Trading Post Ignites a True-Blue Celebration] July’s Trading Post is taking on a brilliant blue streak, with fresh finds ready to add a bold splash of color to your collection. Complete activities to earn Trader’s Tender, fill your Traveler’s Log, and rocket away with the Bilgewater X-TREME …

[36.0 Patch Notes] Escape from Violet Hold launches with a new Arena season, new events, free rewards, and more. View Full Article

The Tidebound Grotto We will be opening up The Tidebound Grotto for testing on World difficulty at 8pm Pacific Time for one hour. This is an instance with a single raid boss. Instructions for Entering the Instance You can enter the instance by swimming down to the instance’s entrance near the Wreck…

With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make tuning adjustments that are primarily targeted at specs that are unperforming in group content. In PvP, we’re continuing to improve underperforming specs, address over-performing specs, and adjust burst damage where specs have too much or…

Due to a spawning issue we’ll be testing The Coiled Altar until 2pm Pacific Time. We will resume testing on The Twin Fangs at that time.

With hotfixes that are now live, we’ve made changes in response to feedback from players. In Normal World Tier, our goal is to make it easier for players to more easily gain power and graduate to Heroic World Tier content. For Heroic World Tier, we’re adding more powerful Warbound-until-equipped gea…

Atal’Utek Play with the Blues is today at 3pm PDT! We’ll see you there

June 25, 2026 Season of Discovery Grendag Brightbeard can now be found in Thunder Bluff and in the entrance to the Undercity. Developers’ notes: This is intended as a workaround to issue on some servers causing players in Orgrimmar to not be able to disable or re-enable XP gains. We hope to retu…

June 25, 2026 Delves When tank Valeera is accompanied by a healer, she now takes significantly less damage, scaling from 45% less damage at Tier 1 to 29% less damage at Tier 11. Dungeons and Raids Sporefall Resolved an issue causing players to be able to interact with the door to Funggor Holl…

We have an adjustment to the Ascendant Serpent in Altar of Fangs currently in testing that should be applied shortly: Altar of Fangs Ascendant Serpent Infest Damage reduced by 20%. Now spawns 3 Hatchlings, down from 5. Hatchlings can no longer critically strike. Summoned Hatchling…

The raid testing schedule has been updated with the Normal difficulty weekend test starting July 10 through July 13. Friday, July 10 The Venomous Abyss - Normal Start – 15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 00:00 CEST) End – Monday, July 13 at 10:00 PDT (13:00 EDT, 19:00 CEST)

Hello, Please share any feedback you have about your experience in The Venomous Abyss (Heroic) in this thread. Noting the nature of your group (pre-made vs. guild), the size of your raid, and the class/spec you played can also provide great context for your feedback. Thank you for spending your t…

Midnight Season 2 dungeon testing will begin today at 11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT / 8:00 p.m. CEST, starting with Altar of Fangs. As a reminder, this schedule may be adjusted as testing continues.

The Burning Crusade Classic 2.5.6 Public Test Realm (PTR) is now open for testing. Version 2.5.6 includes only updates to service systems, and has no impact on gameplay systems. If you create or maintain addons, we encourage you to hop onto this PTR and verify that your addons are functioning as e…

We’ve been paying close attention to the discussion around the Midnight Season 2 dungeon pool. Some of that discussion has focused on returning dungeons with pain points from past seasons, and some has focused on the unique mechanics in the Midnight dungeons. That feedback is useful, and it lines up…

Greetings! Midnight Season 2 dungeon testing begins on Thursday, June 25th. Please note that this schedule may be adjusted. 6/25 - 7/1: Altar of Fangs 7/2 - 7/8: Midnight Dungeons The Blinding Vale Den of Nalorakk Murder Row Voidscar Arena 7/9 - 7/15: Legacy Dungeons Templ…

DISCORD [Discord Guild Chat] Discord is now available for testing on the PTR. Details on how to connect Discord to your Battle.net can be found in our article.

June 23, 2026 Mists of Pandaria Classic Challenge Mode Challenge Conqueror: Platinum (Season 3) is now correctly earnable. Developers’ notes: Realm First! Challenge Conqueror: Platinum (Season 3) has been disabled in North America while we work on granting the achievement to the correct winners…

June 23, 2026 Items Rotmire’s Sporeheart once again triggers from Leech healing. Lorewalking During Loa Lorewalking (and Darkspear Heritage), Lukou’s portals will now allow transport while in combat. Midsummer Fire Festival “Reignite the Skies: Orgrimmar” and “Reignite the Skies: Stormwind”…

Hey testers! Here are this week’s notes for the Curse of Ula’tek PTR: VAULTS OF ATAL’UTEK Take part in Play with the Blues this Friday and challenge the Vaults of Atal’Utek activities with development team members. More details found here: Atal’Utek Play with the Blues - June 26 INTRODUCING LAIRS …