World of Warcraft: Midnight Expansion Overview - Release Date, New Features

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eleventhWorld of Warcraft: Midnight Expansion Release DateWorld of Warcraft: Midnight is set to release March 2nd, 2026.Midnight Early AccessMore Information

Watch the WoW Midnight Expansion Reveal Live

New Features in World of Warcraft: MidnightWorld of Warcraft: Midnight: Worldsoul Saga Part 2

We will be returning to the Old World, specifically Quel'Thalas, home of the Blood Elves.

As players, we will help reunite the scattered Elven tribes of Azeroth.

We will stand with the forces of the Light to banish the Shadow forever...

...but things don't go to plan and spiral wildly out of control, leading to the final expansion in the Worldsoul Saga, the Last Titan.

Blood TiesPlayer Housing in World of Warcraft: MidnightNew Devourer Demon Hunter Specialization in World of Warcraft: MidnightDevourermid-range DPS specialization

Mietitura - A scythe attack that consumes soul fragments.

Lama del Vuoto & Taglio Famelico - Melee combo with a retreat movement.

Immolazione dell'Anima - A void-based Immolation Aura that deals damage to yourself, generating Fury and Soul Fragments.

Consumo - Filler cast that deals damage to the target and summons Soul Fragments.

Stella Collassante - A powerful finisher that reduces Fury drain while casting.

Raggio del Vuoto - A piercing beam of Void energy.

Metamorfosi del Vuoto - Void-themed transformation sustained by soul harvesting.

New Demon Hunter Hero Talents: AnnihilatorAnnihilatorFel-ScarredScarred

Havoc Demon Hunters: Scarred and Aldrachi Reaver

Vengeance Demon Hunters: Aldrachi Reaver and Annihilator

Devourer Demon Hunters: Annihilator and Scarred

Void Elf Demon Hunters

Alliance Playable DH Races

Horde Playable DH Races

Night Elves

Blood Elves

Void Elves

New Haranir Allied Race in World of Warcraft: MidnightHaranirneutralnine classesMore Information

New Allied Race for Midnight Announced

Zones in World of Warcraft: Midnightlevel to 90Silvermoon CitySilvermoon City

Certain areas of the city will remain accessible by Horde players only.

Eversong Woods

Midnight's story opens with the Defense of the Sunwell against Xal’atath and her forces, following on from the opening cinematic.

Threats in Eversong include the forces of the Void, the Lightbloom (a magical overgrowth), the return of the Amani trolls, and cultists that serve the Void.

Zone Event: Silvermoon Court - Players achieve balance between four reputations, inspired by the Scryers vs. Aldor in Burning Crusade.

3 Zone Delves: Parhelion Plaza, Collegiate Calamity, and The Shadow Enclave

3 Zone Dungeons: Windrunner Spire, Magister's Terrace, and Murder Row

Zul’Aman

Zul'Aman features four Loa temples: Eagle, Lynx, Dragonhawk, and Bear.

Players will meet two new leaders of the Amani: Zul’jarra and Zul’jan, grandchildren of Zul’jin.

At the center of this zone is a fully rebuilt and modernized Atal’Aman, the setting of the original raid against Warlord Zul’jin.

Zone Event: Abundance - harvest materials for the Loa of Abundance. This is a profession-themed treasure room event. Gathering professions are not required to participate. There are Abundance caves in all four zones.

3 Zone Delves: The Darkway, Twilight Crypts, and Atal'Aman

2 Zone Dungeons: Den of Nalorakk, and Maisara Caverns

Harandar

All types of life are derived from the plant matter that spans this zone, including fungal towers, moss bridges, and bioluminescent wildlife.

All life and structures are centered around the roots of the Trees.

Bioluminescent wildlife provides the lighting throughout the zone.

Zone Event: Legends of the Haranir - Step into the forgotten past of the Harati tribe, using magical paintings to complete a scenario and learn lore.

2 Zone Delves: The Grudge Pit, and The Gulf of Memory

One Zone Dungeon: Blinding Vale

Voidstorm

Creatures throughout the zone fight to consume both the heroes of Azeroth and each other.

Players will encounter stormfields, low gravity, and three massive Nexus Points which devour the Void energy of the land.

Zone Event: Stormarion Assault - Protect Void Elves as they activate their Singularity Anchor to purge the citadel of remnant void anomalies. This wave defense event consists of both combat and fortifying defenses.

3 Zone Delves: Shadowguard Point, Sunkiller Sanctum, and Torment's Rise

2 Zone Dungeons: Voidscar Arena, and Nexus-Point Xenas

New Zone Raid: The Voidspire

3 New Raids in World of Warcraft: Midnight

The Voidspire: A 6-boss raid within the spire which serves as Xal’atath’s stronghold in the Voidstorm, culminating in a showdown with Dominus-Lord Averzian and Salhadaar.

The Dreamrift: A single-boss raid where the veil between primordial dreams and brutal reality is thin. Players join the Shul’ka in their hunt for an undreamt god that never should have been. On the way, we fight half-birthed abominations that lash out against existence itself.

March on Quel’Danas: A 2-boss raid where the united armies of the elven tribes march on the Sunwell Plateau and the story reaches its climax.

Midnight Raid Release ScheduleThe VoidspireThe DreamriftMarch on Quel'DanasDungeons in World of Warcraft: Midnightfour level-upfour max-levelLevel-up Dungeons

Windrunner Spire

Magister's Terrace

Murder Row

Den of Nalorakk

Max-level Dungeons

Maisara Caverns

The Blinding Vale

Voidscar Arena

Nexus Point Xenas

Delves in World of Warcraft: Midnight

The Darkway

Twilight Crypts

Atal’Aman

The Grudge Pit

The Gulf of Memory

Parhelion Plaza

Collegiate Calamity

The Shadow Enclave

Den of Echoes

Shadowguard Point

Sunkiller Sanctum

Torment’s Rise

Torment's Rise serves as the Nemesis Delve for the first season of Midnight.New Delve Companion: Valeera SanguinarValeera SanguinarBlood Elf RoguePrey in World of Warcraft: MidnightPreyentirely optional

Normal: Fairly easy introductory hunts, allowing players to familiarize themselves with the system.

Hard: Introduces Torments, which increase the challenge of a hunt. Hard difficulty includes confined final encounters.

Nightmare: Pushes the challenge to the max. WARNING: may include a few corpse runs.

Stat Squishes Returning with MidnightNOT

Player and Creature Health Reduced

Player and Creature Damage and Healing Reduced

Gear Item Levels Reduced to Approximately 150-250

Stat Values on Items and Gear Reduced

Transmog Updates in World of Warcraft: Midnight

Transmog is now slot-based: you can assign a certain transmog to each armor slot instead of specific armor pieces. Whenever a new piece of armor is equipped, it automatically takes on the appearance of your current outfit without costing gold.

Changing the assigned transmog in each armor slot will still cost gold.

You can create outfits that auto-swap based on context. For example, players can create a transmog selection that automatically switches when relaxing in their home versus being in the outdoor world or participating in certain types of content.

Fully collecting a Class Set appearance unlocks all lower difficulty variants.

The transmog UI has been updated.

User Interface Updates in World of Warcraft: Midnight

New Combat Tools: Includes customizable nameplates, damage meters, and boss ability timelines.

New Journeys Tab: A new one-stop shop to keep up with Renown, Delves, and Prey progress. Includes a shortcut to Great Vault progress.

Cooldown Manager: Customizable aura tracking, debuff states, and sound alerts.

Combat Assistant: Smarter logic for Assisted Highlights and Single-Button play.

Personal Resource Bar: Now a HUD element with full Edit Mode customization.

Edit Mode: Expanded to include more User Interface elements.

Accessibility: Includes adjustable text sizes and improved tooltips.

PvP in World of Warcraft: MidnightNew and Returning Player Experience Updates in World of Warcraft: Midnight

Exile's Reach has been re-tailored to funnel beginning players into Dragonflight. Major lore characters like Wrathion, Khadgar, and Alextraza will be included. Chromie Time still exists for players leveling alts, but first-timers will be taken to the Waking Shore and into Dragonflight immediately following Exile's Reach. This beginner player version of Dragonflight includes story-mode versions of the final raid bosses so players can experience the full story. This ends at level 70.

Returning Players will be able to take a tour through Arathi Highlands with Jaina or Thrall to get them up to speed. This is a simplified, directed version of the game tailored for returning players. You can drop in and out at any point. This experience provides tutorials for skyriding, interrupts, and more, and completing the scenario grants level-appropriate gear.

The War Within Catch-up will offer a shortened questing experience, hitting all the story highlights in a few hours for players just joining the Worldsoul Saga. While it is available to everyone, this is how beginners will level from level 70 to 80.

Getting Ready for World of Warcraft: MidnightPortergaugeBlood ElvesVoid ElvesHigh ElvesNightborneNight ElvesNagaNagaNight ElvesHigh ElvesBlood ElvesVoid ElvesNightborne

Commenti

Commento di Bramblepelt

High Elves next playable race?

Naga as next race is the real answer, but Blizz would never... Right?

Commento di anjeliekha

I play WOW using a computer that has the Windows 7 SP2 operating system. I received a notice today that I would not be able to play the next expansion because it would require Win 10 or higher. Will I be able to play up to the War Within current expansion when the Midnight expansion comes out?

Commento di ljgard

where are you getting the info on the raids/dungeons/delves from?

Commento di Cydro

Is the level cap gonna be raised? Are we finally getting a leatherworking racial?

Commento di Iceman3317

Where is the info coming from about Ghostlands being healed? I can see they combined the two, but we are very limited on what we know. Or are you making a guess based on what we are seeing? Because I can't find anywhere where ti says Ghostlands and Eversong are now one and healed. I mean yeah a revamp for sure.

Same with Silvermoon stuff being the hub for all players and some places still being Horde only. Again that is obvious, but where exactly was it said?

Commento di Zulan

They forgot the Spider Elves in the Faldorei from Legion.

Commento di jophur

Next he should do a write up about the scattered tribes of trolls and list "Elves" as one of the tribes.

Edit: Also he ought to include Arathi Empire in this write-up.

Commento di Viktor69420

The new leaders of the Armani

lets gooo

Commento di ohvist

Playable Races we Expected to join:
Kaheti Nerubians/Hallowfall Arathi/Valarjar/Arakkoa

Have a history with fighting against The Void in various forms.
Possesses a massive and experienced army poised to fight against The Void during Renilash.
The Players know and are friends with their faction leaders.

Playable Race we Actually Got:
Harronir:

Barely had any involvement in their introductory Expansion.
Literally another group of Trolls or Elves.
We only are close friends with an Outcast among their people.

Commento di Aureniel

Please, enable buying and repair by using account gold without withdrawing it from warband bank. It would be great to buy items from AH this way.

Commento di xDeemers

But...but... where is the bard class. If I remember correctly they have done a vote or something like that last year

Commento di Virsallo

Please STOP making delves, it is the worst thing this game has ever had.

Commento di Jetstream

Fricking finally, Transmog will be slot based. It should've been slot based from the jump. Sheesh.

Commento di EldritchPhoenix

Honestly hope that Devourer DH will be allowed to use Polearms. With what seem to be scythe styled abilities it's weird that the class can't actually use any of the scythe themed transmogs.

Commento di Aureniel

What is the final version of revamped blood elven zone? Is it Eversong Woods or Quel'thalas? I see both names.

Commento di Jorvalt

What I really want is better character customization options, especially for Dracthyr. And give them ^&*!ing armor already.

Commento di deplorable

Haranir join for the light vs the void but no paladins

Commento di keesz

It really bothers me, that DH-s can be 2 race on ally but only 1 for horde. Is it really hurt anyone to make it 2-2 on both sides? Night Elves + Void Elves for ally and Blood Elves + NIGHTBORN for horde? Nightbornes are so unpoppular and thier racial is so useless.. atleast let them be DH-s for the balance.

Commento di Taurnok

Darkspears will be getting some new hairstyles (acknowledged on a video), was hoping for beards and Amani Green skin though. Zul'Aman should provide some great transmog.

Once you go Troll, you never reroll, bis race.

Commento di Shekon666

I hope one day we will get to fly in silvermoon. All sounds great but much prefer to fly over there than gallop lol

Commento di Zanaski

another stat squish? did they conveniently forget what happened LAST TIME they did that and how long it took to fix?

Commento di Pier

what about tbc classic?

Commento di Neoyoshi

I was initially lukewarm about this expansion and wasn't planning on coming back to WoW....

But then I saw that Silvermoon City is getting a facelift and becoming the next player hub. (I slowly became interested.)

Then I saw this new Prey system (that got me curious).

THEN I saw that Valeera Sanguinar is the new delve companion (I pre-ordered Midnight).

My only reservation is player housing. I know this is a feature many longtime players have been asking for since—forever, but what is this really bringing to the table that the MMORPG community hasn't seen already?

The player housing by itself cannot seriously be the only hook?

EDIT: I hadn't realized at the time that it appears players can actually edit the houses' building structure... so that's really interesting. I haven't seen MMORPG player housing like this since the Dimensions in Rift. (I believe Wildstar also had something similar.)

If Blizzard can expand on the exterior materials and textures we can use, we might have something legitimately special here that MMORPG players haven't seen in a while with a housing system.

Commento di Greatness2402

When will we get the ability to choose a different Visage for Evokers?

Commento di alexjwdubya

Still my waiting for my Undead to visit the chiropractor and fix that old arthritic back of his! We want upright undead with proper posture!

Commento di mhulslan

I'm still waiting on tails for Worgen. Vulpera have tails. Dracthyr in dragon form have tails. Even Pandaren have tails. Worgen need tails.

Commento di bohicatv

Am i alone when i say that the armani bosses were the most fun bosses in the entire game? I hope they are even more fun in midnight

Commento di MikeMJG

Just please stop catering to the players that don't even appreciate the game.

No one is forced to make alt characters. If you want to experience the game on a different character, you can create one. But you will have to earn everything with that new character. No handouts or skips or easy mode just because it is an alt.
It will never make sense or be accepted by the majority of players.

Even now, many who play alts don't want easy mode or things they never earned. This is an MMORPG. Earning things properly is part of the experience. Just giving things away to players just because they did it on one character is so, so wrong.

This causes more players to rush content, skip content, and grind content. Everyone can choose to do most on one character or a bunch of characters, but each is unique and it's own separate experience. If that changes, then that is a huge loss for WoW and the community and the game will continue to decline.

This is why for years and years, many would keep their alts low levels because they didn't want to repeat content yet and that is their choice. But if someone does want to level up a character, then they should know they have to do it right and earn things properly.

We already have so many characters at max level that have barely seen 1/2 of ONE expansion. That have been boosted or carried or given ways to rush rush rush. And with remix game mode making more players max level without earning it, is it any wonder why groups at max level are falling apart because so many have no idea what they are doing?

No more please. Characters matter. Mains should always matter the most. Nothing should be shared. It defeats the purpose of this being an mmorpg and the rpg mattering.

Commento di Tillii

Why on earth ..... Are all my transmogs from yesterday gone ? Like seriously .... Blizz makes a change to the sysytem and also changed all the outfits of my chars?

Commento di LMPMcK

I'm running on a Mac Mini, with 3.2 6-core i7 intel chip, 32 gigs ram (plus a pumped up external ram drive) and Sequoia 15.7.3.
Everything goes fine for the first 10 minutes, then it freezes solid, requiring a full reboot.
WHAT DID THEY DO THIS TIME! So frustrated.
Patch notes are lousy on wether there is a tech upgrade needed for this new 'Midnight' expansion.
Anyone know what is going on? Their people answer the the ticket by referring to the forums.

Commento di LMPMcK

Commento di Tuzam

What's the correct date for the EU release at midnight and the date for early access?

Commento di Sigiloso

10 years offline. What an incredible Elf resume I just read, well executed, pure delight to my eyes and the jewel of the crown:

''and Chris Metzen described Midnight as an expansion that will see us "reunify the scattered elven tribes of Azeroth," and with their various rivalries and connections to Light and Void alike, that journey is certain to be immense in scale.''

I can't wait to see how all elves will be unified that would be an incredible plot twist, legendary, to the Metzen level.

World of Warcraft: Midnight Expansion Overview - Release Date, New Features

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