Patch 12.1

The search is on for the world's most famous spinally-deformed raccoon...

Blizzard is continuing to refine and add to the cooldown manager's functionality in World of Warcraft when patch 12.1, the Curse of Ula'tek, goes live on August 11, 2026.

The latest WoW patch is now live: 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, and the servers are expected to come back online at 3pm pacific (6pm eastern).

It's just about time to turn the pages of World of Warcraft once again with the Curse of Ula'tek update going live Tuesday.

The World of Warcraft content train shows no sign of slowing down as we start to head into the end of the first set of patches for Midnight.

Introduced with patch 12.0.5, Decor Duels brought the idea of "prop hunt" gameplay to World of Warcraft -- the game, ostensibly an old training exercise revived by the newly-united elves, had players split into teams of hiders and seekers; the hiders would assume the form of ordinary inanimate objects, while the seekers would have to find the disguised players.

When Pepe was originally introduced in Warlords of Draenor, this adorable orange avian companion was an interactable object in your Garrison, who got easier to reach as your Garrison was upgraded, so it make perfect sense that he's coming to visit our Player Housing house, too.

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.

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