Midnight is now live world-wide! Here’s the full Season 1 release schedule, from launch to all three raids

World of Warcraft’s Midnight expansion is now live for all players, kicking off the second part of the Worldsoul Saga as baddie (in every sense of the word) Xal’atath invades Azeroth with an army of void creatures at her beck and call. It’s time to visit a revamped Silvermoon City, help the Haranir deep down below, and venture into not one but three new raids, all in Season 1. There’ll also be the usual bevy of activities to go with it — delving with our new pal Valeera Sanguinar, hunting down fresh new decor to go with the Elven housing exteriors coming in Midnight, and more.

With the launch, the pre-patch event is gone for good, never to return, so hopefully you picked up any rewards you wanted. But there’s a lot more to come in the next few weeks, so let’s take a look at when exactly you can do now that the game has launched, up through Midnight Season 1.

• Thursday, February 26: If you pre-ordered a version of Midnight that comes with early access, early access starts this Thursday. While aerly access will not let you play a Haranir or jump straight into Mythic dungeons, it will give you access to the following:
  • The leveling campaign of Midnight.
  • Four leveling dungeons and four max-level dungeons, all at Normal and Heroic difficulty. Dungeons work slightly differently; rather than being all available at once, you can unlock each dungeon by either taking its associated quest or reaching a set level threshold, with all of them being available at level 90 whether you picked up a quest or not.
  • Most Delves, capped at difficulty level 7, with the exception of Parhelion Plaza, The Darkway, and Torment’s Rise.
  • World Quests, at max level.
  • Renown tracks, so you can start earning that all-important reputation early.
  • The Normal difficulty of the open-world stalk-and-be-stalked Prey system will also be available!
• Monday, March 2: Midnight launches! You’ll have access to all the same things as the early access folks at this point.
  • Four new zones: Quel’thalas, Zul’aman, Harandar, and the Voidstorm.
  • The revamped Silvermoon City, our hub of operations for Midnight.
  • Four leveling dungeons, now available at Mythic 0:
    • Windrunner Spire
    • Magister’s Terrace
    • Murder Row
    • Den of Nalorakk
  • Four max level dungeons, also now available at Mythic 0:
    • Maisara Caverns
    • The Blinding Vale
    • Voidcsar Arena
    • Nexus-Point Xenas
  • Twelve new Delves, as well as new Delve companion Valeera, as well as a new Delve Nemesis.
  • The Haranir Allied Race will now be available to fully unlock and play.
  • The higher difficulties of open-world Prey system — if you liked Heroic World Tier in Legion Remix, this is sort of akin to it, but you can push it even further as you hunt down your target (and are hunted in return at higher difficulty levels).

• Tuesday, March 17: Midnight Season 1 officially launches! It brings a slew of stuff with it that you’ll no doubt be chomping at the bit to dive into:
  • Heroic and Mythic 0 difficulty Season 1 Dungeons. Note that this does not include Mythic+ yet!  The dungeon pool is, as is tradition at this point, a mix of new and old dungeons:
    • Magister’s Terrace (Midnight)
    • Maisara Caverns (Midnight)
    • Nexus-Point Xenas (Midnight)
    • Windrunner Spire (Midnight)
    • Algeth’ar Academy (Dragonflight)
    • Seat of the Tiumvirate (Legion)
    • Skyreach (Warlords of Draenor)
    • Pit of Saron (Wrath of the Lich King)
  • Normal, Heroic, and Raid Finder (Wing 1) of the Voidspire raid.
  • Normal, Heroic, and Raid Finder of the Dreamrift raid.
  • Bountiful Delves open up with the launch of Season 1.
  • PvP Season 1 starts now, too.
• Tuesday, March 24: More raid difficulties open, as do Mythic+ dungeons.
  • Story Mode, Raid Finder (Wing 2), and Mythic Voidspire
  • Mythic Dreamrift (there is no mention of a Story Mode for Dreamrift, meaning there may not be one)
  • Mythic+ Dungeons, Season 1
• Tuesday, March 31: The final raid opens in several difficulties, and Voidspire is now fully open in LFR difficulty.
  • Raid Finder (Wing 3) Voidspire
  • Normal, Heroic, and Mythic March on Quel’Danas
• Tuesday, April 7: Everything is now finally open in Season 1!
  • Story Mode and Raid Finder March on Quel’Danas