WoW

This week's World of Warcraft maintenance is relatively quick for most realms, with just an hour of downtime scheduled for all servers except Midnight.

Now that we're a few months into Midnight and we've had a chance to hit the new level cap and gear up, many players are looking to take a bit of a break from the constant onslaught of powerful enemies and spend some downtime in less dangerous regions of Azeroth.

The cap on upgrade crests has been removed from Midnight Season 1, earlier than we expected.

We are truly blessed by the enormous variety of mounts in World of Warcraft, from nearly endless dragons to disembodied hands to Goblin-made mech suits to extremely good boys -- but I can't help but pine for even more types of noble steeds to ferry my characters around Azeroth.

If you played WoW during early 2026's Legion Remix, you may remember that one of the many features of that particular remix was Heroic World Tier.

It's maintenance day for World of Warcraft, and it's extended maintenance for everybody.

Today's WoW maintenance isn't too bad, but it is longer than usual: all World of Warcraft servers are scheduled to be offline for two hours of maintenance.

World of Warcraft introduced Player Housing to the community as part of the lead-up to the Midnight expansion, and Blizzard is taking that commitment seriously.

We've got the details for what's coming next in Midnight with patch 12.0.7, and that means it's time to speculate on where we'll be adventuring for the first major content update of the expansion: patch 12.1.

Midnight's patch 12.0.5 offers a wide variety of new things to try, including a hide-and-seek mini-game tied into Player Housing.