When is The War Within patch 11.1 release date — and what’s in it?

The War Within‘s first major patch will be patch 11.1 and it has always been expected to release in early 2025. With the recent announcement that patch 11.0.7 will be arriving on December 17 and the information and roadmap provided at the 30th Anniversary Warcraft Direct, it looks like it may be arriving earlier than initially expected. We forecast the arrival of The War Within patch 11.1 to occur the week of February 11, 2025 with Season 2 starting the following week of February 18, 2025.

Patches have consistently arrived on average 8-9 weeks since the start of Dragonflight and while initial indications were that this schedule would continue in The War Within, the aggressive patching schedule shown on the 2025 roadmap seems to indicate an acceleration closer to every 7-8 weeks. The gap between patch 11.0.5 and patch 11.0.7 is eight weeks, and despite the holiday season we expect the same interval before patch 11.1 . As this patch will include The War Within Season 2 and the second raid tier of the expansion it is expected to be tested a little longer than its immediate predecessors; whether that means an earlier arrival on the PTR or an additional week before its release is not known. It’s more than possible it may arrive the week of February 18, 2025 instead (and thus Season 2 starts the week of February 25); we’ll have a better sense of the timings, however, when the patch arrives on the PTR.

What’s in patch 11.1?

Patch 11.1 is sending us to Undermine the Goblin home city where we’ll race cars and fight Gallywix in the new 8-boss raid. There will also be a new dungeon named Operation: Floodgate in patch 11.1, however unlike previous X.1 patches it will not be a “mega-dungeon” a la Return to Karazhan. There will also be two new Delves, four Goblin Cartels to gain Renown with (in a process similar to the Severed Threads faction in Azj-Kahet), and your standard new Campaign chapters and features updates (including a vague reference to Warbands UI updates on the roadmap).

A return to Plunderstorm is also forthcoming but by all appearances it will open up before patch 11.1 and overlap it for some time.

Originally published June 13, 2024. Updated November 19, 2024.