World of Warcraft: Midnight Expansion Release Date Confirmed

World of Warcraft: Midnight volition merchandise globally connected March 2, 2026.

The 2nd portion of the Worldsoul Saga and the 11th wide enlargement for Blizzard's MMORPG, Midnight volition instrumentality you to caller and reimagined zones, fto you effort retired caller abilities, and look "all-new Delves, dungeons, and raids."

Applications for the beta trial are present open, and implicit the people of the test, Blizzard volition beryllium "inviting assemblage veterans, press, fansies, friends, and family" to cheque retired the upcoming expansion.

Players who person bought the Epic Edition volition besides get the accidental to enactment successful the beta, arsenic good arsenic get 3 days' aboriginal access, which means they tin get stuck successful from February 27.

You besides don't person to hold until March to acceptable up location if you've purchased immoderate variation of the Midnight enlargement — don't hide that Housing Early Access volition footwear disconnected adjacent week connected December 2, truthful you'll beryllium capable to prime a neighborhood, take a house, and commencement making it cosy weeks earlier the enlargement drops.

Blizzard provided a roadmap to its expansions plans backmost successful BlizzCon 2023. The 2nd of 3 expansions announced astatine the time, Midnight follows past year's The War Within, and volition instrumentality spot successful Azeroth's "Old World" successful Quel'thalas, wherever Void forces person invaded and are trying to destruct the Sunwell and plunge the satellite into darkness.

We played the archetypal 10 hours past month, penning successful IGN's World of Warcraft: Midnight preview: "There's inactive a batch of the Midnight alpha to see. Try arsenic I might, they wouldn't adjacent fto maine into the mysterious realm of Zul'Aman! But having played it fundamentally each waking hr since I got access, which was astir 10 hours agone arsenic I constitute this, I americium surely impressed with the caller zones and the customization lodging allows, and I'm excited to spot wherever the communicative of the Worldsoul Saga goes next."

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