Patch 10.0

The World of Warcraft servers were taken down for extended maintenance to roll out the second phase of patch 10.0 content, but now the servers are back up!

Yesterday was the release of the first World of Warcraft Dragonflight pre-patch, so there was an extended downtime, which has once again returned, like a monster of prophecy, and has been defeated once more.

With the Dragonflight pre-patch launching on October 25, you may be wondering what will happening to your carefully collected gear, particularly the tier set bonuses and Shadowlands Legendaries that are currently providing a lot of your power.

The World of Warcraft team announced yesterday that the pre-expansion activities for Dragonflight will be broken up into two patches: one arriving next week that’ll bring new talent trees and HUD changes, and one arriving with new activities the week of November 15 -- less than two weeks before the release of the expansion.

The announcement of the forthcoming end of Shadowlands Season 4 made us pretty confident that the Dragonflight pre-patch (aka patch 10.0) would arrive simultaneously on October 25, and today official word was published confirming its arrival next week with the weekly reset.

We'll be journeying to the Dragon Isles, rolling a new Dracthyr Evoker, and enjoying a taste of flight with Dragonriding when the Dragonflight expansion releases on November 28.

They probably won't be here anytime soon — we know for a fact that some of Blizzard's biggest titles that are still in development, like Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2, won't be released in 2022.