Warcraft

Today's WoW maintenance is a little longer than usual, with two hours of maintenance for all Warcraft servers.

With the announcement of World of Warcraft patch 12.1.

We'll be headed off the coast of Zul'Aman to The Coiled Isle for Midnight's patch 12.1, and one of the tweaks to perennial content is how we will interact with World Bosses.

The next WoW patch is already on the horizon: patch 12.1, the Curse of Ula'tek, features a new zone with new activities including public events, dungeons, delves, and a new raid launches on August 11, 2026, matching our original guess.

World of Warcraft Midnight Season 2 begins on August 18, 2026, one week after patch 12.1's August 11, 2026 launch.

While sports fans of Earth are cheering on their home nations in the ongoing World Cup (go sportsball!), players of World of Warcraft have a chance to practice some footie and earn some unique cosmetic rewards.

The latest World of Warcraft patch is now live: WoW patch 12.0.7 launched on June 16, 2026.

This week's World of Warcraft maintenance is a quick one for many players, but a patch is rolling out for Midnight servers that will keep the realms offline all day.

There's been plenty of big-picture content in Midnight so far: major plot developments, new game modes, more types of Elves than you can shake a Void-Touched Battle Baton at -- but sometimes it's nice to slow way down and appreciate the tiny little details that give Azeroth its flavor and make it seem like a bustling, living world.

It's a glorious Tuesday, because all World of Warcraft servers are scheduled for a simple one-hour maintenance today, and I'm just hoping I didn't jinx it by typing that.