WoW

WoW patch 11.2 arrives on August 5, sending us off to the ruined world of K'aresh — which we just got a fresh lore dump on in a new short story about Locus-Walker — and eventually into Manaforge Omega to confront Dimensius.

The Ethereals (and their erstwhile cousins the Brokers) have a huge role to play in WoW patch 11.2 -- which makes sense, since we're off to their broken homeworld of K'aresh to save what's left of it (plus, you know, the known universe) from the Void Lord Dimensius.

If you're a transmog fiend, it's okay, you're among friends here -- there's no shame in wanting pretty outfits.

In patch 11.1, we got our first look at Blizzard's new plan for progressively rewarding continued raiding as well as making raids easier over time in the form of our first raid Renown track -- the Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club.

Have I cursed us by suggesting we'll have a short maintenance?

The Collector's Bounty buff is currently active in World of Warcraft until July 29 at 8AM pacific time that boosts the drop rates of rare mounts and transmogs from all raids and dungeons in legacy WoW content, aka, everything before Dragonflight. Mount drop rates have been increased by up to 10 times, and in one specific (yet unknown) case, 25 times, and the transmog drop rates have been doubled.

The War Within patch 11.2 Ghosts of K'aresh will release August 5, 2025, with season 3 beginning one week later on August 12.

This year's Greedy Emissary crossover features hourly Treasure Goblins being pummeled into submission in order to acquire their loot -- "hellish" recolors of WoW's beloved Tier 2 armor sets.

Modern WoW was suffering from an unusually high number of crashes and disconnects Thursday night, and even though BlizzardCS reported the issue was resolved I wonder if the problem led to today's extra maintenance.

It won't be that before patch 11.2 of The War Within is upon us, which means a new Mythic+ season, and Ghosts of K'aresh is coming with an interesting set of dungeons -- a few old returning favorites we haven't seen in a while, one brand new dungeon that comes with the patch, and then a small pool of The War Within's dungeons that the community voted on.