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This week: the Midnight: Eclipse reveal — the Mantle Vault, the Worldcore raid, and the saga's first Legendary; what Season 3 looks like, from the dungeon pool to spec-based Mythic+ rewards and a new…

• Midnight: Eclipse — Into the Worldcore

  Episode Topic 1 · Midnight — Patch 12.2

  Patch 12.2 is Eclipse, the last major patch of Midnight, and it takes us beneath Azeroth to finally confront Xal'atath in an eight-boss raid.

  • Blizzard opening the show with the Eclipse reveal cinematic, "Threshold," and calling 12.2 the final major content update of Midnight
  • the whole patch cranking the Light-versus-Void fight "to an 11" — our own Light-wielding forces going down against Xal'atath and her Devouring Host
  • the Mantle Vault as the new zone — a Titan vault hidden eons ago, with stone- and azerite-based wildlife like stone worms and crystalline elementals
  • the Thraegar, an ancient race of crystalline, dwarf-like creatures, joining us as allies — and the Deepskar Empire of kobolds, troggs, drogbar, and niffen hostile to everyone
  • The Worldcore as the eight-boss raid to close the expansion — Void enemies, Titan constructs, living Azerite, and Xal'atath with her motivations finally laid bare
  • Midnight's Edge, the first Legendary of the whole Worldsoul Saga — a caster dagger with a questline that starts when you finish the raid, and not the Blade of the Black Empire
  • Thraegar's Stand as the new three-boss dungeon, ending on a titan construct called Stenvarg the Inevitable, straight into the Season 3 pool
  • The Gearhold as the second raid lair — Noctinaxx, an enormous azerite bat, on World, Normal, Heroic, and flexible MythicPaul Kubit telling Wowhead the lair is tuned like an early Mythic boss — aimed at AOTC guilds without a 20-man roster
  • Radiant Screams as the new outdoor feature tied to the Worldsoul's cries, and Prey getting new hunts, new Torments, and Agony Mode as its final difficulty

  Blizzard — Midnight What's Next Panel Recap · Source — Midnight: Eclipse Announced as Patch 12.2 (Wowhead) · Source — The Final Raid of Midnight: The Worldcore (Wowhead) · Source — New Legendary Caster Dagger Coming in Patch 12.2 (Wowhead) · Source — Noctinaxx Is the Lair World Boss for Patch 12.2 (Wowhead)

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• Season 3: Dungeons, Delves, and Spec-Based Rewards

  Episode Topic 2 · Midnight — Season 3

  Season 3 kicks off shortly after Eclipse, with a dungeon pool that mixes legacy dungeons with two Midnight returns, and a rewards change a lot of off-meta players are going to like.

  • the Season 3 Mythic+ pool: Thraegar's Stand, Magisters' Terrace, Maisara Cavern, Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr, Sanguine Depths, The Underrot, Iron Docks, and The StonecoreThe Underrot on its third rotation, and three of the eight carry a mount — Underrot, Magisters' Terrace, and Stonecore
  • Blizzard already publishing planned changes — Uldaman dropping the Lost Dwarves to go four bosses, and Emberon's intermission moving to health thresholds instead of a timer
  • Iron Docks getting all four bosses modernized and fewer archers up front, while keeping the Iron Stars — "you'll still get to bowl for orcs"
  • The Stonecore getting a full visual and mechanical revamp with new creature models, and Sanguine Depths thinning out the caster packs
  • The Underrot's Elder Leaxa becoming less kick-dependent and Cragmaw using more of the arena, with new routes through the final section
  • a new top 5% seasonal reward joining the top 1%, and both now ranked against your own spec instead of the whole populationpush as a Protection Warrior, you're measured against Protection Warriors — the 0.1% title wasn't mentioned, so that one likely stays global
  • Astalor Bloodsworn as the Season 3 Delve Nemesis — the guy who introduced us to Prey, now consumed by the anguish he was draining out of his enemies
  • Valeera's journey continuing with the Delve companion cap raised to 100 and new Curios to find
  • new opt-in Delve challenges styled after Prey Torments, still early in design, plus new variations across the existing Delves

  Source — Season 3 Mythic+ Dungeon Rotation Revealed (Wowhead) · Source — Season 3 Mythic+ Dungeon Rotation Upcoming Changes (Wowhead) · Source — New Top 5% and Spec-Based Mythic+ Achievements (Wowhead) · Source — Astalor Bloodsworn Is Season 3's Delve Nemesis (Wowhead) · Blizzard — Midnight What's Next Panel Recap

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• Three New Paladin Races

  Episode Topic 3 · Midnight — Patch 12.2

  Night Elf, Forsaken, and Darkspear Troll Paladins arrive in Eclipse, each with its own charger — and the Forsaken ones are coming to Forever too.

  • Forsaken, Night Elf, and Troll characters all able to become Paladins in 12.2, framed as new races answering the Light's call in the Light-versus-Void story
  • Forsaken Paladins being the long-requested one, landing in both Midnight and World of Warcraft: Forever
  • all three getting their own charger — a glowing horse, a raptor, and a cat, per the MMORPG interviewthe Forever version of the Forsaken Charger got its first look in the Found Photographs panel; the Eclipse one is likely similar but not confirmed
  • Blizzard saying quests will tell the backstory of how specific characters of each race discovered they could wield the Light
  • the Q&A pointing back at the Void Elf Demon Hunter faction-imbalance mess as the reason they held off, and promising more combos in the future
  • Libram of the Matriarch, a toy off Mythic Kith'ix in 12.1.5, giving Paladins a glyph that swaps Avenging Wrath's wings for Lady Liadrin's sleek versionthe Libram is collectable by any class and hands out glyph pages to as many Paladin alts as you like
  • datamined items like the Blade of the Blood Knight Matriarch being written in the past tense, and Wowhead reading that as a bad sign for Liadrin's survival
  • the Q&A also closing the door on another new playable race for the rest of the Worldsoul Saga

  Source — Three New Race-Class Combos for Paladins in 12.2 (Wowhead) · Source — MMORPG Interview: Paladin Chargers & Legendary (Wowhead) · Source — First Look at Forsaken Charger for Undead Paladins (Wowhead) · Source — Libram of the Matriarch Grants Liadrin's Wings (Wowhead) · Source — Live Q&A Liveblog: Midnight and Forever (Wowhead)

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• Eclipse Quality of Life: Transmog, Housing, and the Calibration Chamber

  Episode Topic 4 · Midnight — Patch 12.2

  Underneath the raid headlines, Eclipse carries a pile of quality-of-life changes — and the transmog one in 12.2.5 is the kind of thing people have asked about for a decade.

  • all armor-type transmog restrictions being lifted in content update 12.2.5 — plate wearers in cloth looks and everything in betweenweapons weren't clarified, and the Q&A said class-specific sets like tier stay class-locked
  • Housing Showcase as a new mode — browse featured homes from the dashboard, submit your own as a snapshot, and earn exclusive décor from selected Showcase events
  • mannequins for your house, dressed in any gear and weapon appearance you've unlocked
  • copy-paste and multi-select for décor, plus buying more copies of décor you already own without leaving the house
  • four new Housing Endeavors, including the Stormriders of the Isle of Dorn
  • the Calibration Chamber — a group testing ground where your party or raid can test rotations against varied dummies, with cooldown resets and full raid buffs
  • PvP progression getting a refreshed Journey with new rewards, and that being the only PvP announcement of the whole show
  • the BlizzCon 2026 Housing Door Mat as a Feat of Strength for anyone who logs in between September 12 and 27

  Source — Transmog Restrictions Removed in Patch 12.2.5 (Wowhead) · Blizzard — Midnight What's Next Panel Recap · Source — Midnight What's Next Liveblog (Wowhead) · Source — Live Q&A Liveblog: Midnight and Forever (Wowhead)

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• Talebound: A Rogue-Like ARPG Inside WoW

  Episode Topic 5 · Midnight — Patch 12.1.7

  The standalone game mode Blizzard teased turns out to be Talebound — a rogue-like action RPG inside WoW, with its own classes, coming in 12.1.7.

  • Talebound arriving with the Echoes of the Worldcore content update, 12.1.7, with an early PTR preview sometime in October
  • a PvE action RPG where a mysterious Storyteller pulls you into macabre tales — themed levels with enemies, bosses, puzzles, treasure, relics, and rewards, solo or with friends
  • three new classes, none of them your WoW class — the Slayer with sword and gun, the Inquisitor burning evil with zeal, and the Witch with lightning, poison, spiders, and ravensevery class can double jump, dodge, and guard — positioning is the whole game
  • four tales at launch — Darkhaven, Greenthistle Wood, Greywake's Expedition, and the Grove of the Night Court — with witches, giants, a Blood Bishop, deep-sea horrors, and a Nightmare King
  • Quillgrave as the hub between runs, with an Arcanist, Scribe, Outfitter, and Antiquarian to improve your odds before the next attempt
  • the Q&A describing it like Torghast — you level inside a run and pick a power each level, die and you're back to level 1, but the town upgrades persist
  • new difficulties unlocking as you succeed, and cosmetic rewards flowing back to your Midnight account

  Blizzard — Tales Take a Dark Turn in Midnight's Talebound · Blizzard — Midnight What's Next Panel Recap · Source — Talebound: A New Game Mode in Patch 12.1.7 (Wowhead) · Source — Live Q&A Liveblog: Midnight and Forever (Wowhead)

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• The Roadmap: The Last Titan, Wrath Remix, and What Comes Between

  Episode Topic 6 · Midnight — Roadmap

  We got a roadmap running through 2027 — Talebound in 12.1.7, Eclipse, 12.2.5 and 12.2.7, a Wrath Remix next summer, and a first look at The Last Titan.

  • The Last Titan teased in the opening ceremony with a cinematic called "Colossal" — a Northrend blizzard, Wyrmrest Temple, and a colossal figure attacking itBlizzard saying they can't talk about it yet because it's all Midnight spoilers — more early next year, after Eclipse
  • the modern roadmap laying out the rest of Midnight: 12.1.5 and the Unbinding of Kith'ix on the PTR now, Talebound in 12.1.7, Eclipse, then 12.2.5 and 12.2.7
  • Wrath of the Lich King Remix as the third Remix, coming summer 2027 after 12.2.7
  • the Q&A adding Outbreaks in the world and dungeons, Runeforging for every class, unreleased rewards, and a look at "a modern take on Invincible"the stated reason for Northrend — a lot of players have never been there, and The Last Titan is headed there next
  • Ion telling But Why Tho? that after level 100 in The Last Titan they're "probably going to look at another level squish," and a stat squish whenever the digits get unwieldy
  • the new-player path for Midnight being Exile's Reach and then Dragonflight, with an improved War Within recap planned
  • the Warcraft Tavern interview flagging interrupt trackers as the addon category most likely to get restricted further, while auditory callouts stay supported
  • the modern team already looking at what to bring back from Forever — server infrastructure, the lighting work, surnames — but "it's not as easy as flipping a switch"

  Source — Midnight and The Last Titan Roadmap Revealed (Wowhead) · Source — The Last Titan Expansion Teaser (Wowhead) · Source — The Next Remix Event is Wrath of the Lich King (Wowhead) · Source — Live Q&A Liveblog: Midnight and Forever (Wowhead) · Source — But Why Tho? Interview: Stat Squish & Spookier Duskwood (Wowhead) · Source — TechRaptor Interview on Midnight: Eclipse (Wowhead) · Source — Warcraft Tavern Interview: Interrupt Trackers (Wowhead)

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• World of Warcraft: Forever — Classic+ Has a Name and a Date

  Episode Topic 7 · World of Warcraft: Forever

  Classic+ is real. It's called World of Warcraft: Forever, it launches November 4, the beta is already live, and level 60 is where it stays.

  • Blizzard announcing Forever as a permanent third home alongside modern and Classic — level 60 forever, new content added horizontally instead of expansions
  • launching globally November 4 at 3:00 p.m. PST, included with your regular subscription, with the beta running September 17 through October 21
  • the timeline set right after the new Warcraft III campaign, Forsaken Kingdom, and before Molten Core — "year one" of WoW, diverging on day one
  • Ion tracing the idea from the "we want to stay here" crowd at Classic launch, through Season of Discovery as the experiment, to being certain by mid-2024
  • Tim Jones laying down the rules: no flying, no level scaling, Azeroth stays dangerous, and "the catch-up system is simple — play the game"
  • the Skyborne race gated behind the $29.99 Skyborne Heroic Pack — the first time a race has been paywalled outside an expansionHeroic gets the race, Zephras Isle, early name reservation October 27–November 3, and a ground mount; Epic adds beta access and 30 days of game time
  • the limited-time Warcraft Forever Collection adding Warcraft III: Reforged and Forsaken Kingdom, available through January 11, 2027
  • a physical Collector's Edition with a 13-inch Dwarf and Bear statue from the original cinematic
  • Clay Stone telling Destin there are no plans for anything like a WoW Token or a boost — "the journey is the game"

  Source — Classic+ Announced at BlizzCon: Warcraft Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Everything We Know About WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Blizzard — World of Warcraft at BlizzCon 2026 News Round-Up · Source — WoW: Forever What's Next Liveblog (Wowhead) · Source — Skyborne Race Costs $29.99 to Unlock (Wowhead) · Source — Pre-Purchase WoW: Forever Collector's Edition (Wowhead) · Source — Destin Interview: No WoW Token or Boosts (Wowhead) · Source — Sportskeeda Interview: Controller & Mount Costs (Wowhead)

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• Forever's Azeroth: Four New Zones and a Lighting Pass

  Episode Topic 8 · World of Warcraft: Forever

  Forever's map isn't the map you remember — Mount Hyjal, Shen'dralas, the Riverglades, and Zephras Isle are new, and the whole world got a hand-done lighting pass.

  • Mount Hyjal as the new endgame zone — the aftermath of Archimonde's defeat, Darkwhisper Gorge, Archimonde's skeleton still by Nordrassil, and two raids on the mountain
  • Shen'dralas between Mulgore and Desolace — the Shen'dralar, Eldre'Thalas, Dire Maul, and the Magram and Gelkis centaur war, with new reasons to run Maraudon and Razorfen Downs
  • the Riverglades as the mid-30s to mid-40s frontier — rivers, trade routes, humans, orcs, ogres, Twilight's Hammer, a neutral goblin port, and 150+ questsbuilt to fix the level 30–45 drought — "something other than spam Scarlet Monastery" — with a Warcraft I nod in a ruined town called Sunnyglade
  • Zephras Isle as the Skyborne's level 1–12 starting experience — a floating isle in Skywall, with architecture inspired by the elemental plane
  • 1000+ new quests across 1–60, with Wetlands, Azshara, and Desolace called out as the empty zones that got filled in
  • three new ship routes — Stormwind Harbor to Auberdine, Menethil to Southshore to Auberdine, and Steamwheedle Port to the Riverglades
  • the "Evolving a Timeless World" panel's one rule, "everything must be authentic" — new fog in Dustwallow and the Wetlands, real day-night shadows in the Badlands, rivers that actually flow in AshenvaleIon saying the lighting isn't an engine switch — environment artists did it by hand — and modern WoW may get some of it down the line
  • HD and SD toggles for characters, models, and the world, so the Classic purists and the new players both get their version on the same skeletons
  • Duskwood being "much spookier," with real-time light from a carried torch or lantern

  Source — New Zones Coming with Forever (Wowhead) · Source — What We Know About the Open World in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — The Sun Interview: Chase Items on Every Raid Boss (Wowhead) · Source — Three New Ship Routes Debuting in Forever (Wowhead) · Source — WoW: Forever Introduces Huge Graphics Upgrades (Wowhead) · Source — But Why Tho? Interview: Stat Squish & Spookier Duskwood (Wowhead)

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• Skyborne, New Combos, and the Paladin Rework

  Episode Topic 9 · World of Warcraft: Forever

  Forever's first new race is an elf that lives in the sky, and its class work is a full rethink — six new race-class combos, reworked racials, and a Paladin that can finally tank.

  • the Skyborne as elves who escaped Dire Maul with help from Al'Akir's air elementals and settled in Skywall — no Sunwell, so they ran on elemental magic instead
  • picking a faction at creation — Horde Skyborne get Shaman, Alliance Skyborne get Mage, both get Warrior, Hunter, Rogue, and Druidbrand-new sky-blue Druid forms for Bear, Cat, Travel, and Boomkin — the first elf Druids that aren't Night Elves
  • Skyborne racials: Walk on Air to glide for 10 seconds, 1% haste, 5% damage to Elementals, plus Read Ley Line for Alliance or a 10% run-speed blessing for Horde
  • six new race-class combos: Gnome Priest, Human Hunter, Dwarf Shaman, Orc Mage, Troll Warlock, and Undead Paladin, with more planned
  • every race getting two actives and two passives — Will of the Forsaken losing its immunity, Cannibalize returning mana, Touch of the Grave as a new life-drain
  • talent trees keeping the seven-row shape with a new one-point milestone at 16 points, and buffs like Blessing of Kings going baseline
  • the Paladin rework: Holy Strike at level 6, Judgment no longer eating your Seal, and Consecration baseline at 20
  • Seal of Fury as a real tanking seal — damage on every swing, a small absorb, and Judgment of Fury as a 10-yard tauntTwist of Light making Ret seal twisting work without a swing-timer addon — or skip it for a Shockadin build out of the Holy tree
  • Paladins still having no interrupt and no slow — Blizzard preserving the gaps on purpose so the class stays distinct

  Source — Skyborne First Look: New Race in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — What We Know About the Open World in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Live Q&A Liveblog: Midnight and Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Racials for Skyborne & Changes to Existing Races (Wowhead) · Blizzard — WoW: Forever Deep Dive Panel Recap · Source — Paladins Now Have a Taunt in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — WoW: Forever Deep Dive Liveblog (Wowhead)

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• Forever's Dungeons and Raids: Ten, Twenty, Forty

  Episode Topic 10 · World of Warcraft: Forever

  Nine new dungeons, a 10-man and a 20-man raid every tier, single difficulty, no flex, no Dungeon Journal — and every boss carrying a chase item.

  • nine new dungeons: Dalaran at 20–35, Lordaeron for the Horde at 15–20, the Hall of Thanes for the Alliance at 13–18, a Wetlands Excavation Site, The Drowned City off Stranglethornplus Alcaz Island Prison, The Shaper's Terrace, Krol'Dok Stronghold in the Riverglades at 40–60, and the furbolg city of Blackmaw Hold
  • Barrow Deeps as the first 10-player raid — three entrances around the world, one in Hyjal, and "one particularly infamous character" locked up inside
  • Hyjal Summit as the 20-player raid, with both raids landing in December per the roadmap
  • every tier getting a 10 and a 20, some tiers a 40 — Onyxia's Lair as the first 40, launching alongside Hyjal Summit
  • one difficulty for everything, no flex raiding, no attunements for the launch raids, and the difficulty never scaling to you — you can out-gear it
  • chase items on every boss' loot table — low drop chance, "very, very strong," so old raids stay relevant instead of going obsolete
  • all items obfuscated until they drop — no stats in the database, no Dungeon Journal — "the first week of the raid will be the Wild West"
  • dungeon experience rebalanced — mob XP way down, dungeon quest XP "much, much, much higher," so the first run is the payday and the tenth isn't
  • biome and creature-type effects on gear — speed in a desert, bonus damage to dragons — so a dragon-slaying set becomes a real thing

  Source — WoW: Forever What's Next Liveblog (Wowhead) · Source — New Dungeons and Raids Coming in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Live Q&A Liveblog: Midnight and Forever (Wowhead) · Source — But Why Tho? Interview: No Raid Attunements (Wowhead) · Source — The Sun Interview: Chase Items on Every Raid Boss (Wowhead) · Source — MMORPG Interview: Bank Space & Hidden Raid Items (Wowhead) · Source — Dungeon Experience Changes in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — IGN Nordic Interview: New Biome Buff Gear (Wowhead)

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• Realmless, Two Names, and the Legacy System

  Episode Topic 11 · World of Warcraft: Forever

  Forever has no realms — you pick a ruleset, you get a first and last name, and a Legacy System pays you for leveling alts.

  • no realm list at character creation — you pick a ruleset: Normal, PvP, Roleplay, or Hardcore, each running as its own big ecosystemrealmless but not regionless — Oceanic players sit on OCE hardware sharing the US-wide auction house
  • no cross-ruleset grouping and no cross-faction anything — "the Horde and Alliance hate each other" — but Battlegrounds are shared
  • no summoning stones — meeting stones open a new LFG listing instead, and if you don't have a Warlock, you walk
  • every character getting a main name and a secondary name, unique per region and across rulesets — early name reservation opening October 27
  • Hardcore arriving after launch as a closed ecosystem, and a dead Hardcore character able to transfer to any other ruleset, PvP included
  • the Legacy System: complete challenges — leveling classes, tradeskills to 150, 225, and 300, PvP ranks, reputations, dungeons — to earn Legacy Points
  • the Legacy System: complete challenges — leveling classes, tradeskills to 150/225/300, PvP ranks, reputations, dungeons — to earn Legacy Points
  • a Legacy Reward Track on total points — Spectral Bear Cub, Spectral Bear mount and tabard, and a Replica Ironforge Air Rifle that stuns other players
  • mount costs moving into riding training, TBC-style — 100 or 1,000 gold for the skill, then your first mount comes free

  Source — No More Realms in WoW Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Live Q&A Liveblog: Midnight and Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Kotaku Interview: No Summoning Stones & Mount Costs (Wowhead) · Source — Main and Secondary Names in Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Hardcore Players Can Transfer Modes on Death (Wowhead) · Source — Hardcore Will Not Be Available at Forever's Launch (Wowhead) · Source — Warcraft: Forever Legacy System Explained (Wowhead) · Blizzard — WoW: Forever Deep Dive Panel Recap · Source — Sportskeeda Interview: Controller & Mount Costs (Wowhead)

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• Camping, 600 Recipes, and Optional Transmog

  Episode Topic 12 · World of Warcraft: Forever

  Forever wants you to slow down: your cooking fire is now a campsite, professions got 600 new recipes, and transmog exists only if you turn it on.

  • Camping turning the cooking fire into a Basic Campfire — a campsite with vendors, repairs, profession workspaces, and one-hour buffs you sit down and get rested to collect
  • three crafted objects per campfire, one per player — a Blacksmith's Sharpening Wheel, a Tailor's Faction Banner, an Herbalist's Incense Candle, even a fish bowlthe buffs are variants of class buffs and don't stack with them — the buff high-five for a group with no Mage in it
  • upgraded campfires from Cooking holding five or ten objects, and advanced Blueprint recipes dropping from dungeon bosses
  • campfires lasting 10 minutes on an hour cooldown, nowhere in cities — and an internal tester put one on the Duskwood road and Stitches killed them
  • over 600 new recipes across every profession and level range, crafted food granting an XP bonus, and a level 3 quest handing out a free gathering profession
  • transmog fully opt-in — a mode selector at first login, an NPC to flip it later, and "Classic Mode" turning it off automaticallysame armor type only, no high-level looks before 60, and you still see everyone's hidden helm and cloak either way
  • BoP uncommons and rares in dungeons granting their appearance to the whole group — nobody rolling against your upgrade just for the look
  • raid epics staying personal — appearance only for whoever it binds to — "up to the raid leader"
  • the addon situation: modern client API, computational addons restricted, built-in damage meter in, Cooldown Manager coming later

  Blizzard — WoW: Forever Deep Dive Panel Recap · Source — What We Know About the Open World in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — MMORPG Interview: Bank Space & Hidden Raid Items (Wowhead) · Source — Over 600 New Recipes in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Changes & Additions to Professions in Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Transmog is Optional in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Dungeon Drops Unlock Appearance for Whole Group (Wowhead)

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• Forever's Rulebook: No GDKP, No Token, a PvP Track, and a Rough Beta Night

  Episode Topic 13 · World of Warcraft: Forever

  Blizzard drew hard lines around Forever's economy and PvP, then launched the beta into a wall — and a producer explained exactly what broke.

  • GDKP not allowed in Forever — Blizzard saying it reaches a ubiquity that overtakes the guild structure, and that it's a laundering channel for bought goldthey also admitted they've been too lenient on gold buyers in the past and plan to be "very punishing" this time
  • no WoW Token and no boosts planned, and no rated PvP — instead a 14-rank Honor track that resets each patch cycle, with cosmetics and PvP armor that has stats
  • Darkspear Islands as a new 15v15 battleground — Eye of the Storm layout, Arathi Basin capture points, its own reputation — and Tim Jones saying "battlegrounds," plural
  • full controller support — Xbox pads on every demo station, officially supported rather than retail's "technically possible"
  • the beta going live right after the September 17 Q&A, then disconnects, queues, and loot lag for hours
  • Senior Game Producer Tom Ellis posting the postmortem on X: the beta runs on the PTR stack, and one regional realm's two connections tripped Battle.net's rate limiter — "we scaled that 2 to an 8"then database tables needing a manual analyze, then world servers eating memory because empty maps weren't shutting down — "20 years, always something new"
  • the beta capped at level 20, moving to 30 later and staying there — everyone starts at level 1 on November 4

  Source — GDKP Will Not Be Allowed in WoW: Forever (Wowhead) · Source — Destin Interview: No WoW Token or Boosts (Wowhead) · Source — 14-Rank Honor Track and Darkspear Islands BG (Wowhead) · Source — Live Q&A Liveblog: Midnight and Forever (Wowhead) · Source — WoW: Forever Will Have Full Controller Support (Wowhead) · Source — WoW: Forever Beta Now Live! (Wowhead) · Source — Tom Ellis Explains the Forever Beta Issues on X (Wowhead)

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho. Liquid closes out a grueling 17-day Race to World First on Mythic Ula'tek, the final…

• Ula'tek Falls to Liquid

  Episode Topic 1

  The Venomous Abyss Race to World First is over — Liquid are World Champions of the Venomous Abyss.

  • Liquid killing Mythic Ula'tek after 17 days and 306 pulls
  • this landing as a stunning upset, with Echo sitting on several sub-10% wipes while Liquid were still in the 30% range that same morningLiquid went from 22% to 11% to a clean kill in barely 10 pulls
  • the win making it five consecutive Race to World First titles for the North American guild
  • the tier finishing as one of the longest races in history — seventeen days and three resets
  • back-to-back 300-pull bosses, both of which needed multiple hotfixes before they were even killable
  • the guild engineering a strategy of parking most of the raid in the acid to buy a little more time and space at the very end of the fight
  • Blizzard hotfixing the strat mid-race to stop players swimming under the waves to ignore mechanics and tunnel the bossLiquid talked about that hotfix on their kill pull itself
  • the killing comp being 2 tanks, 4 healers, 6 melee and 9 ranged — both tanks Blood Death Knights, two Preservation Evokers in the healing core

  Source — Ula'tek Falls to Liquid: World Champions of the Venomous Abyss (Wowhead)

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• Charity Pets and the Roofus Number

  Episode Topic 2

  The Roofus Pack's final total is in, and it's the answer to something we speculated about months ago.

  • the Roofus Pack closing out at more than $1.3 million for Habitat for Humanity, with Blizzard donating 100% of the purchase price
  • this being the one we called back when the digital shop pricing controversy was everywherethe cherry blossom trees were the flashpoint — that whole argument about what Blizzard thinks a digital item is worth
  • our speculation at the time being that the goodwill problem might follow them into the charity promotion
  • the two closest comparisons both being $20 promotions — Sunny and Flurky pulling $1.5 million in 2023, Reven pulling over $2 million in 2024
  • so the honest answer being yes, but barely — a slight decline, not the collapse the discourse would have predicted
  • Every charity pet since 2009:

  Source — BlizzCon 2026, Midnight 12.1.5, and More in This Week's WoW Weekly (Wowhead)

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• Moleman's Delve Compendium

  Episode Topic 3

  A community resource built by a delve speedrunner that doubles as the fastest way for the rest of us to get delves over with.

  • the Moleman's Delve Compendium collecting the best curios, the fastest variants and the unsolved bugs in one place
  • specific guides in there detailing routes for the fastest delves
  • the practical angle being that so many quests and rewards send you into Delves anyway, so knowing which ones are quickest is worth having
  • the Corrosive Codex in Midnight Season 2 being a real source of questions, since it takes quite a while to unlock more than the first few
  • the compendium giving a straight answer to "what should I give Valeera"Moleman's picks are Bursting Toad Toxin for the poison, Corrosive Bilespear for the combat curio, Dundun's Favor for utility, and Ouroboric Cycle out of the Corrosive Codex
  • the caveat Wowhead put on it themselves — these are a speedrunner's recommendations, so treat it as a starting point rather than gospel
  • the compendium itself living in a public Google Doc, with the video breakdowns over on Moleman's YouTube channel

  Source — Speed Run Delves with Moleman's Delve Compendium (Wowhead) · Google Docs — Moleman's Delve Compendium · YouTube — Moleman WoW (@moleman-official)

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• BlizzCon 2026 Is Nearly Here

  Episode Topic 4

  BlizzCon opens at the Anaheim Convention Center next weekend and the full two-day schedule is out.

  • select programming streaming live for everyone, with what airs varying by channel
  • Day One opening with the Opening Ceremony at 10:30 a.m. PDT, then World of Warcraft: What's Next at noon
  • a second What's Next panel later that same day, plus Building Cutscenes in World of Warcraft and a Developers x Creators Showcase
  • Day Two leading with the World of Warcraft: Deep Dive at 10:00 a.m. PDT
  • Day Two also carrying World Building, Art Design, a Design Deep Dive, and Crafting Coziness and Creative Freedom for the housing crowd
  • World of Warcraft Hardcore: What's Next getting its own slot on Day Two
  • Classic Cup Warcraft III legacy and entertainment matches on the schedule
  • the show closing out with a live Le Sserafim performance and the Trophy Ceremonymusical performances aren't part of the livestream — those are in-person only
  • the BlizzCon Bundle sitting on the Battle.net Shop through September 28 with the Rabbit'ath Void mount, the Garb of the Dawnfire Phoenix ensemble, and the Perch of the Dawnfire Phoenix for your house

  Blizzard — BlizzCon 2026 Is Nearly Here: Watch Live, Earn Rewards, and More

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• AWC, MDI, and Rewards for Watching

  Episode Topic 5

  The Grand Finals are back on the BlizzCon stage for the first time since 2019, and Blizzard is paying you in Trader's Tender to watch.

  • the Arena World Championship and Mythic Dungeon International Grand Finals running live from the BlizzCon Stage on September 12 and 13
  • a combined $600,000 prize pool across the two events
  • the MDI running four teams in single-elimination best-of-3 with a best-of-5 Grand Final, on the new Season 2 dungeon maps
  • the AWC running six teams in best-of-5, Grand Final best-of-7, with cross-region matches between Europe, North America and China back on the table
  • community costreams being allowed for the first time, live from inside the BlizzCon hallsMaximum, Megasett and Hopeful on MDI day; Pikaboo, Absterge and Xaryu on AWC day, plus Kimuh in German and Zerator in French
  • watch rewards tiered by hours — 200 Trader's Tender at 2 hours, the Cuddly Blue Grrgle at 4, the Fluffy Comfy Flying Quilt mount at 8, and the Venomous Champion's Illustrious Banner at 12
  • the Twitch window running September 12 through September 27, but the YouTube window only running September 12 to September 13you have to link the account first, either at account.battle.net/connections or through YouTube's Connected Apps page
  • in-person attendees still getting the rewards by linking their BlizzCon Pass to Battle.net no later than September 18

  Source — Watch the AWC and MDI Grand Finals at BlizzCon 2026 (Wowhead) · Source — Obtain Trader's Tender, a Flying Quilt Mount and Other Rewards (Wowhead)

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• This Week's WoW Weekly

  Episode Topic 6

  Blizzard's weekly roundup, and the pieces of it we haven't already covered.

  • Raid Finder Wing 3 of Curse of Ula'tek: The Venomous Abyss now being livethat's the last wing of the eight-boss raid, so LFR players can finally finish the story themselves
  • Blizzard framing 12.1.5 as the dramatic finale of the saga — we delve beneath Ula'tek's chamber and into Kith'ix's prison
  • the five headline features of 12.1.5 as Blizzard themselves list themthe new story campaign "The Promise of Tomorrow", the single-boss raid The Unbinding of Kith'ix, the expanded delve-like Labyrinths, the Aqir Invasion outdoor event, and Ascendant Venomstones as the mid-season refresh

  Source — BlizzCon 2026, Midnight 12.1.5, and More in This Week's WoW Weekly (Wowhead)

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• The Coiled Isle, One Month On

  Episode Topic 7

  A retrospective on Follow the Snakes to the Coiled Isle — everything the patch shipped with, now that we have had a month to actually go through it.

  • the Coiled Isle itself being pitched as an island steeped in ancient Amani history, with Zul'jarra chasing her brother Zul'jan across it
  • the Vaults of Atal'Utek, Tokka's Landing and the Amani Foothold as the landmarks the zone actually hangs off of
  • Zul'jarra's Forces renown running a full twenty ranksworth asking the room where everybody actually landed on that track a month in
  • the Altar of Corrosion showing up as its own talent tree rather than a plain renown reward list
  • the Corrosive Codex and its Corrosive Powers being the borrowed-power layer sitting under all of it
  • Captain Tokka's Crew being a second, shorter five-rank renown running alongside the main one
  • Temple Patrols, Strikes and Incursions as the repeatable outdoor loop, plus Curse Surges as the public events across five locations
  • the Altar of Fangs coming in as a three-boss dungeon with a Follower difficulty on it
  • the Venomous Abyss as the eight-boss raid this all built toward — the one Liquid just closed out in News Item 1
  • Ravi, the Writhing Coil and Zul'jan as the bosses along the way, with Nymrissa Wavecaller out in the lair
  • a whole venom fishing track with the Coiled Huntress rod on the end of it
  • the mount list running deep — Caustic Venomfang for 10,000 Corrosive Coins, Snek'zali at Renown 12, Indigo Coiled Horror at 17, Violet-Backed Skyfang at 19
  • the Hash'ura of Zul'jarra title parked at Renown 20 as the completionist carrot
  • the housing decor haul being enormous — the Egg of Ula'tek, the Soulcoiler pieces, even an Altar of Corrosion for your own house

  Blizzard — Follow the Snakes to the Coiled Isle for New Adventures

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• Patch 12.1.5: The Unbinding of Kith'ix

  Episode Topic 8

  The 12.1.5 raid is a single-boss fight against Kith'ix with Lady Liadrin at your side, and it drops gear above the normal cap.

  • The Unbinding of Kith'ix being a one-boss raid, the same shape Sporefall took with Rotmire
  • the setup being that Ula'tek had Kith'ix bound in his lair, and with Ula'tek dead he is back
  • Lady Liadrin fighting alongside players as a continuation of the Midnight story
  • the Mythic loot dropping at Myth 9 out of 6 — item level 344, well past where the track normally stopsthe other difficulties drop at 3 out of 6: LFR 285, Normal 298, Heroic 311
  • four new Cantrip Armor pieces, all on tier slots so they can be catalyzed and keep the cantrip effect
  • those cantrip effects getting stronger if you are wearing a Venomcursed piece off Ula'tek — a direct bridge from the old raid to the new one
  • new trinkets and a new Hearthstone on the loot table as well
  • the fight running on an energy bar — at 100 energy Kith'ix casts Suffocating Darkness and Liadrin holds it back while charging Divine Radiance
  • stage two starting at 25% with Stygian Howl stunning the raid and Liadrin rescuing everyone with Last LightLast Light gives 100% increased damage and healing, so the whole ending is a burn race against his Eightfold Eclipse
  • Eightfold Eclipse being a hard wipe — the final eclipse converges on Liadrin, snuffs out her Light and kills the raid instantly
  • the raid map already being datamined, alongside the loading screen art

  Source — The Unbinding of Kith'ix Raid Loading Screen Datamined (Wowhead) · Source — Unique Cantrip Items from Kith'ix Boss Encounter: Loot and Boss Abilities (Wowhead) · Source — New Datamined Labyrinth and Raid Maps in Patch 12.1.5 (Wowhead)

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• Patch 12.1.5: Labyrinths and Kindo'jan

  Episode Topic 9

  Labyrinths are the new mega-dungeon-sized version of a Delve, and the first one already has a solo Hall of Fame achievement attached.

  • Labyrinths landing as a mega-dungeon-like system built on top of Delves
  • the format letting you run it in one session or spread it across multiple sessions
  • them working like Delves in that you can go solo or take a group
  • the Labyrinth of Kindo'jan being the first one, with Kindo'jan as its villain
  • the datamined maps showing sprawling pathways and a lot of separate segments — this is a big one
  • a new Delve Hall of Fame achievement, Fabled Let Me Solo Him: Kindo'jandefeat him on Tier 11, solo, before the first reset after he goes live — the reward is the title Fabled Vanquisher of Kindo'jan
  • it being unclear whether Kindo'jan is a hard Nemesis-style boss or whether the achievement is really about just finishing the Labyrinth inside week one
  • the datamined creature model looking an awful lot like a certain Loa we have seen before

  Source — New Solo Delve Hall of Fame Achievement in Patch 12.1.5 (Wowhead) · Source — New Datamined Labyrinth and Raid Maps in Patch 12.1.5 (Wowhead)

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• Patch 12.1.5: Gearing and Catch-Up

  Episode Topic 10

  The mid-season refresh is mostly about letting people who fell behind get caught back up.

  • Ascendant Voidcores returning as Ascendant Venomstones, and this time necklaces are included alongside weapons and trinkets
  • the necklace part being brand new — Season 1 never had it
  • Orin Straylight as the new steward of the Voidforge, standing near the Catalyst in Silvermoon City
  • the unlock starting with a quest called "Ancient Depths, Ancient Venom"the wording "once Orin has had time to do his research" reads like another multi-week chain, not something available on patch day
  • the stones dropping from every Heroic or Mythic raid boss, Mythic+ 10 and above, Tier 11 Bountiful Delves, and Nightmare Prey Hunt Champion gear chests
  • 10 Venomstones boosting one fully upgraded Season 2 Hero, Mythic or top-quality Tidal Crafted weapon, trinket or necklace
  • Wowhead reading that as another 3 upgrade levels, which would put Myth track at 344 — matching Mythic Coiled Altar and Ula'tek lootthat is a read, not a confirmation, and the end-of-raid pieces keep their extra socket and cantrip effects either way
  • Legion and Battle for Azeroth reputations going warband-widefirst reputation batch made shared since Shadowlands went account-wide back in 11.1.5 — that is a full expansion cycle
  • that covering all nine main Legion factions plus Talon's Vengeance and the six fishing reps, and the whole BFA neutral, Alliance and Horde lists
  • Prey renown getting catch-up brackets — under rank 3 you get a full rank per hunt, ranks 3 through 8 get 2,000 progress on each of your first four hunts a weeknormally it is 1,000 per hunt for the first four and 50 after that, so this halves the grind to rank 8
  • Blizzard saying outright this is for players who did not invest in Prey during Season 2 and felt they could never catch up

  Source — Ascendant Venomstones Will Also Upgrade Necklaces (Wowhead) · Source — BFA and Legion Reputations Warband-Wide in Patch 12.1.5 (Wowhead) · Source — Catch Up on Prey Renown Levels Quickly in Patch 12.1.5 (Wowhead)

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• Patch 12.1.5: A Seven Million Gold Mount and a Datamined Hint

  Episode Topic 11

  The two 12.1.5 stories that aren't about new content — the biggest gold sink since the Brutosaur, and a keybinding file that may have leaked BlizzCon.

  • the Sporebearer Fungal Strider going on sale in Harandar for 5 million gold
  • it only being purchasable until the end of Midnight, exactly like the Brutosaur was in Battle for Azeroth
  • the mount coming with a mailbox and a repair vendor by default, in two swappable vendor slots
  • the new part being that you can customize which NPCs ride along with you
  • the extra vendors costing on top — 1.5 million for the auctioneer and 500k for the transmogrifierthat is where the 7 million total comes from, and access to the NPCs stays available even after the mount leaves
  • Blizzard saying they are considering adding more mount NPCs in future patches
  • separately, a new Game Key Bindings file getting datamined off the 12.1.5 PTR
  • the Achievement panel's default Y bind being replaced by something called TOGGLELEGACYSYSTEM
  • a batch of Classic-style combat binds in there — G to target last hostile, F to assist, T to attack
  • the actual headline being a string buried in the file that just reads "Forever"a Reddit thread claiming to leak BlizzCon announcements used the same word, and Wowhead's read is that new binding profiles would be strange unless a new game mode were coming
  • the honest caveat that it could just as easily be the 12.1.7 game mode, or something that never ships at all

  Source — New Limited-Time Vendor Mount Costs 7 Million Gold for Everything (Wowhead) · Source — New Game Key Bindings Datamined on 12.1.5 PTR (Wowhead)

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho, back on the panel after a week away. We open on week one of the Venomous Abyss closing…

• Race to World First: Venomous Abyss & Mythic Nerfs

  Episode Topic 1

  Week one of the Venomous Abyss Race to World First ended as the slowest opening progression tier since Liberation of Undermine, packed with extensive splits, Mythic Coiled Altar nerfs, and a lair kill by Liquid.

  • Progression through the nine-boss tier started at a crawl, with Method finishing week one in the lead at 5/9 Mythic while Liquid and Echo spent the majority of their time running Heroic and Normal splits. Overtuned bosses and bugs made early heroic clears much longer than expected, delaying Liquid from entering Mythic until day five. Outside the main raid, Liquid managed to defeat the lair boss Nymrissa Wavecaller on Mythic with a 25-player roster running 3 tanks and 12 ranged DPS to secure Myth-track upgrades.
  • Key developments in the race:
  • Mythic Coiled Altar nerfs: Blizzard stepped in with hotfixes, cutting Malacrass's phase 3 bonus health down to 19% from 35% and reducing Veil of Twilight shields by 20%.
  • Slowest pace in tiers: with only 5 of 9 Mythic bosses defeated by week one's end, this tier matches Liberation of Undermine as one of the tightest progression walls in recent expansions.
  • Sszorak roadblock: non-RWF guilds face a tough road on Mythic Sszorak, as its tight DPS check hasn't received traditional post-RWF nerfs while top guilds remain stuck on later bosses.

  Source — World First Nymrissa Wavecaller Defeated by Liquid (Wowhead) · Source — Race to World First Analysis: Slowest Week 1 Progression since Liberation of Undermine (Wowhead) · Source — Mythic Coiled Altar Nerfed - Race to World First (Wowhead)

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• Weekly Reset Class Tuning & Raid Hotfixes

  Episode Topic 2

  Blizzard has rolled out a sweeping round of weekly reset tuning targeting underperforming raid specs, alongside dungeon density adjustments and LFR raid nerfs.

  • Class tuning across the board focuses on lifting specs that struggled during week one of Season 2, with Balance Druid, Feral Druid, and Frost Death Knight seeing baseline damage buffs across primary rotational abilities. Mistweaver Monks received a 5% overall healing increase alongside a boost to their 4-piece set bonus trigger rate, while Vengeance Demon Hunters got defensive buffs to Demonic Wards and Fel Devastation healing. On the dungeon side, Blizzard adjusted mob density and pathing in Altar of Fangs, Den of Nalorakk, and Ruby Life Pools to smooth out Mythic+ routes.
  • Additional tuning and hotfixes:
  • Vashnik LFR nerfs: Siphoning Infection and Siphon Blood damage on Raid Finder difficulty were cut by 33% to prevent raid wipes in casual groups.
  • Coiled Altar and Ula'tek fixes: tether skips and sac'ing soaks were fixed on Heroic Ula'tek, while Zul'jan shield health and trash packs in The Venomous Abyss were reduced.
  • PvP defensiveness reduction: PvP tuning continues to trim barrier absorbs for Mages and defensives for Devourer and Havoc Demon Hunters to speed up arena match pacing.

  Source — Coiled Altar, Ula'tek and Nymrissa Tuning with Weekly Reset - Nerfs and Cheese Fixes (Wowhead) · Source — Vashnik LFR Nerf - Patch 12.1 Hotfixes for August 27th (Wowhead) · Source — Boomkin, Feral Druid, Mistweaver Monk Buffs - Class Tuning Coming with Weekly Reset (Wowhead)

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• Delve Milestones & Crafting Order Bugs

  Episode Topic 3

  Over 110,000 players cleared the Season 2 solo Delve challenge in week one, but a persistent crafting bug is leaving some players without their hard-earned Crests and Sparks.

  • The Hall of Fame for the ?? Azta'rec solo Delve closed out week one with 113,411 players earning the Fabled Vanquisher title across NA and EU servers. Nearly 50,000 NA players completed the challenge before maintenance, with twelve players clutching out kills in the final three minutes before shutdown. The achievement awards a custom rank title on the Corrosive Victory toy, making it one of the most widely completed high-difficulty solo milestones in recent expansion history.
  • On the crafting side, players across forums and Discord are reporting a bug where submitted Work Orders glitch out and disappear without completing. Affected players are losing their Sparks, Mythic Crests, and crafting materials without receiving items or refunds. Customer support confirmed the behavior is unintended and being investigated by developers, but CS currently has no way to restore missing materials, leading players to advise holding off on high-value crafts until a hotfix lands.

  Source — Over 110,000 Players Defeated ?? Azta'rec Solo During First Week of Season 2 (Wowhead) · Source — Failed Crafting Orders Resulting in Lost Crests and Sparks for Some Players (Wowhead)

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• Campaign Finale, Northrend Cup & Coiled Isle Activities

  Episode Topic 4

  The final chapter of the Patch 12.1 campaign is now live with weapon transmogs, while Northrend Skyriding races and rock climbing return for outdoor players.

  • Chapter 6 of the Patch 12.1 campaign unlocks from Lor'themar Theron in Silvermoon City, taking players through Zul'Aman to wrap up the narrative arc. Completing the quest chain awards The Curse of Ula'tek achievement alongside the Dawn's Radiance sword transmog and Twilight Brazier. Meanwhile, This Week in WoW highlighted the opening of Black Temple in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition and Raid Finder Wing 2 in The Venomous Abyss.
  • World activities and events:
  • Northrend Cup Skyriding: running through September 8th across iconic Northrend courses, offering Riders of Azeroth Badges for the Frosted Tabard and Skymaster's Blood cosmetics.
  • Rock climbing returns: a new World Quest called Slithering Heights brings rock climbing minigames back on the Coiled Isle.
  • September Trading Post preview: celebrates friendship with the Crested Ember Leafmimic mount for completing Traveler's Log activities across capital cities.

  Publication — Carve, Climb, and Cruise Through the Skies of Northrend · Source — Earn the Dawn's Radiance Sword for Completing the Final Chapter of Patch 12.1 Campaign (Wowhead) · Source — Black Temple and the Venomous Abyss Raids - This Week in WoW (Wowhead) · Source — Rock Climbing World Quests Return in Patch 12.1 on Coiled Isle (Wowhead)

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• Coiled Altar Intermission Bug & Early Bonus Roll Changes

  Episode Topic 5

  High-DPS raid groups encountered an unkillable boss bug during Coiled Altar intermissions, while Blizzard's planned restrictions on Bonus Rolls went live days ahead of schedule.

  • Raid groups pushing high damage during the intermission of Coiled Altar ran into an issue where reducing Zul'jan to 1 HP rendered him completely unkillable in Phase 3. Because Malacrass heals both bosses during the intermission, overgeared groups dealing double damage to Zul'jan caused his HP to cap out at 1, bricking the encounter until the raid wiped. A hotfix has since resolved the 1 HP bug, but groups are still advised to manage DPS timing during phase transitions.
  • Bonus Roll changes and timeline update:
  • Bonus roll lockouts: Blizzard announced that starting with weekly reset, Bonus Rolls can only be used on bosses where players are still eligible for loot, preventing double-coining locked bosses.
  • Unannounced early hotfix: despite the announced Tuesday timeline, players and content creators reported the restriction went live immediately over the weekend.
  • Impact on gearing strategy: players can no longer stockpile coins to dump multiple rolls on Heroic Ula'tek in a single lockout, extending character progression timelines.

  Source — Too Much DPS in the Coiled Altar Intermission Might Bug the Boss (Wowhead) · Source — Bonus Rolls Cannot Be Used on Loot-Locked Bosses Next Week (Wowhead) · Source — Bonus Roll Hotfix Applied Early: No More Loot from Locked Bosses (Wowhead)

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• Community Spotlights: J'imothy Pet & Housing Blueprint Challenge

  Episode Topic 6

  Community creators and secret finders are taking center stage this week with the discovery of the J'imothy raccoon pet in Silvermoon and a player housing blueprint contest.

  • The WoW Secret Finding Discord solved the puzzle for J'imothy, bringing Seattle's famous raccoon into World of Warcraft as a battle pet. Players can track down an Ensorcelled Cryptid across three locations in Silvermoon City and channel to drain 100 stacks of Barrier Integrity while dodging swirly telegraphs. Once the channel completes, clicking J'imothy awards the Stubby Whistle item to unlock the pet for your warband collection.
  • On the player housing front, content creator SoulSoBreezy announced the Welcome Home Blueprint Challenge, inviting NA and EU players to submit starter home designs through September 14th. To keep blueprints accessible for all players, entries are restricted to neighborhood decor bought with gold rather than expansion currencies. Submissions are judged on creativity, with top prizes including game time and decor bundles like the Treehouse Retreat.

  Source — How to Get J'imothy Pet in World of Warcraft (Wowhead) · Source — Enter SoulSoBreezy's Player Housing Blueprint Challenge: Show Off Your Designs! (Wowhead)

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• Shop Mailbox Mount, McDonald's Bakery & Xbox Warcraft Series Pitch

  Episode Topic 7

  New utility mounts and regional transmogs hit the Blizzard store, while reports surface that Xbox is pitching a World of Warcraft television series to Hollywood studios.

  • According to industry reporting from Puck News, Xbox is shopping a bulk adaptation deal with Hollywood studios for several major gaming properties, including a potential World of Warcraft series. Following the success of recent gaming adaptations like Fallout, Microsoft is exploring film and television projects for flagship franchises. While nothing is greenlit yet, fans are speculating whether Warcraft's rich lore could see a serialized live-action or animated treatment.
  • In-game shop and promo updates:
  • Hearthkeeper's Wandering Caravan mount: listed for $25 on the store, providing built-in repair and portable mailbox access alongside an interactive caravan interior seat.
  • Vibrant Petalweave Collection: four floral transmog sets available in a $40 bundle or $20 individually with reactive glow effects on crowns and cloaks.
  • McDonald's Red Hot Bakery transmog: backpiece transmog now available in Ireland and the UK via 1,500 McDonald's app points, with Blizzard confirming promotional items will hit the Trading Post in future updates.

  Source — New Mount and Ensembles in In-Game Shop: $25 Mailbox Mount (Wowhead) · Source — McDonald's Red Hot Portable Bakery Transmog Now Available in Ireland & the UK (Wowhead) · Source — Xbox Might be Pitching a World of Warcraft Series (Wowhead)

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Last Attempt Guildcast — Method WORLD FIRST + Coiled Altar GUTTED + Evokers BROKEN + WoW News — 029 Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is flying solo — Templrivanho…

• The Venomous Abyss Race to World First

  Episode Topic 1

  The race for Venomous Abyss is underway and it has been a strange one — a brutal opening, server problems across the board, and the longest-lived first boss in recent race history.

  • Dratnos and Tettles are back with the daily recap videos, recorded after Liquid finishes raiding and going up around 2am Pacific. The usual crowd is out in force — Liquid running an eight-caster event, Echo with twelve raiders and seven casters raising for Games for Love, Method with twelve casters of their own. On the Chinese side, the ¥2.2 million prize planned for this race went unclaimed and is being reallocated to the wider player community, though the first fifty Chinese guilds to clear it on Mythic still get physical trophies.
  • How the week actually went:
  • Day 0 — comp predictions and the Liquid dynasty: the setup video, mostly about how guilds were going to handle what everybody was already calling the wildest gearing in a Race to World First so far.
  • Day 1 — a tough start: raid tuning on Normal and Heroic, massive lag for the NA teams, and a pile of bugs. Liquid was fighting the raid and the splits at the same time, and progress was slower than usual across the board.
  • Day 2 — still no Mythic bosses down: Heroic Ula'tek hadn't fallen either, and Coiled Altar was hard enough that barely a handful of guilds had the penultimate boss. Server stability was the loudest complaint of the day, with login issues across regions.
  • Day 4 — Heroic Ula'tek dies and Mythic starts: killed first by 清水 once the nerfs landed, which opened the door to more splits. Mythic bosses are finally dropping now, but it's unlikely the race ends this week.
  • The first two Mythic kills: Consequence took Nek'zali the Soulcoiler in a single pull while most of the top guilds were still gearing in Heroic, then xD leapfrogged them on The Lost Explorers in 28 pulls, finishing with two Blood Death Knight tanks as the only survivors.

  Source — The Venomous Abyss Race to World First: Livestreams and Coverage (Wowhead) · Source — Race to World First Day 0 Recap: Comp Predictions and Gearing (Wowhead) · Source — Race to World First Day 1 Recap: A Tough Start (Wowhead) · Source — Race to World First Day 2 Recap: No Mythic Bosses Down Yet (Wowhead) · Source — Race to World First Day 4 Recap: Mythic Begins, Ula'tek Killed (Wowhead) · Source — World First Nek'zali the Soulcoiler by Consequence (Wowhead) · Source — World First Mythic Lost Explorers by xD (Wowhead)

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• Coiled Altar Massively Nerfed

  Episode Topic 2

  The Coiled Altar was badly out of line — a harder fight on Normal than Normal Ula'tek — and a hotfix has cut its hidden health buffs down by more than half.

  • The problem is a pair of hidden modifiers called [DNT] Increase Max Health that kick in when the encounter reaches the Intermission at the end of Phase 2 and hand the bosses a big pile of extra health. The hotfix pulls roughly ninety-five to a hundred percentage points off each of them on every difficulty. That matters more than the raw health number makes it look, because Ghastly Regeneration heals off a percentage of max health — smaller pools mean less healing, so the final phase should move a lot faster now.
  • The actual numbers:
  • Malacrass health bonus: Normal is now 38% (was 133%), Heroic is now 87% (was 180%), Mythic is now 35% (was 135%).
  • Zul'jan health bonus: Normal is now 120% (was 220%), Heroic is now 155% (was 246%), Mythic is now 160% (was 260%).
  • What that means for you: if you bounced off this one in a pug earlier in the week, it's a genuinely different fight now and it's worth going back in.

  Source — Coiled Altar Massively Nerfed: Venomous Abyss Raid Tuning Hotfixes (Wowhead)

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• Week One Gearing: Rings, Crests, Sparks, and a PvP Chain

  Episode Topic 3

  There's a real pile of easy gear sitting in the first week of Season 2, and one Spark bug that might be quietly eating yours.

  • Worth doing this week:
  • A Champion-track ring from the campaign: Chapter 5 of The Curse of Ula'tek sends you into the raid on any difficulty, and turning it in gets you a choice between Ula'tek's Bind and Gore Rattler Coil at item level 292, plus 10 Champion Mistcrests and 1500 Zul'jarra's Forces reputation. Story Mode isn't up until the week of August 25th on NA — Seh'ka the Sturdy is the NPC who'll queue you in, standing outside the raid entrance near the summoning stone.
  • 20 Hero and 20 Myth Mistcrests that don't count against your cap: loot the Cracked Keystone from the end chests of a Tier 11 Delve, then complete any Mythic+ dungeon at +2 or higher. That's the whole quest. If you don't have a keystone, Lindormi in Silvermoon City will hand you one.
  • Hero-track jewelry from a three-week PvP chain: Week 1 of 3: Gladiator's Distinction has to be done in training grounds matches with PvP trinkets equipped, and the quest gives you the trinkets to do it with. Three weeks in you pick a Hero-track neck or ring. It stacks with A Call to Battle for extra conquest, and training ground matches are pretty hard to lose.
  • Start the bonus roll questline now: bonus rolls aren't available outside the Great Vault until Week 8, but In the Catalyst's Shadow from Decimus in the Voidstorm starts the chain, and the follow-up Prismatic Potential wants 10 quest items off Season 2 content. Pick it up before you grind, not after.
  • The one to watch out for is Sparks. After last week's mess, Blizzard's fix was to let everybody get four this week — and now there are reports across the forums and Discord that the fix itself is bugged. Affected characters get two Spark of Tides, and then the Tidal Spark Dust currency that tracks your count jumps straight to four and cuts you off. So if you're planning a craft around having four of them, check your actual Spark count before you commit to anything.

  Source — Earn a Champion-Track Ring from The Venomous Abyss Campaign Quest (Wowhead) · Source — Cracked Keystone Quest Rewards 20 Uncapped Myth and Hero Mistcrests (Wowhead) · Source — Earn Hero-Track Jewelry from Three Week PvP Quest Chain (Wowhead) · Source — Start the Season 2 Bonus Roll Questline This Week (Wowhead) · Source — Players Reporting Being Unable to Get 4 Sparks This Week (Wowhead)

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• Nightmare Prey, and a Permanent Portal to the Coiled Isle

  Episode Topic 4

  The Prey intro questline hands you a permanent portal to the Coiled Isle, and it sits right on top of a guaranteed piece of Hero-track Delve loot.

  • It's a long flight out to the Coiled Isle, so this one is worth knocking out early. Prey: A Slithering Threat asks you to kill any of the new Prey targets on Nightmare — and it does not have to be on the Coiled Isle, so you can knock it out alongside A Nightmarish Task. From there the main chain starts with Prey: Anguish Island, introduces you to Ral'kala, and unlocks a portal inside Astalor's Sanctum in Silvermoon.
  • While you're in there:
  • A Nightmarish Task, from Astalor Bloodsworn in Silvermoon City: three Prey Hunts on Nightmare, which is open to everybody immediately. Pays out 20 Remnant of Anguish, 500 Voidlight Marl, 20 Hero Mistcrest, and a Scalebound Herald's Flute.
  • The flute is the good part: take it into a Delve, get down to the Empowered Restoration Stone — you can't use it before that — and it summons Azta'rec. Killing him drops a guaranteed Trovehunter's Bounty, which turns your next Tier 8 Delve into Hero-track loot.
  • Nightmare hunts also drop Coffer Key Shards: more keys means more Tier 8 Bountiful Delves, which is the cheapest Champion-track gear going at the start of a season.

  Source — Prey Questline Provides Permanent Portal to the Coiled Isle (Wowhead) · Source — Nightmare Prey Now Available: Earn a Guaranteed Trovehunter's Bounty Map (Wowhead)

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• Corrosive Souls Across Your Alts, and a Toy That Keeps Score

  Episode Topic 5

  Corrosive Souls are earnable per character, and that's the difference between filling out the Corrosive Codex this season and grinding at it for eleven weeks on one character.

  • The Corrosive Codex sits at the Altar of Corrosion inside the Vaults of Atal'Utek, and it trades Corrosive Souls for Corrosive Gifts — passive power boosts for open-world content and Delves. A Gift costs eight Souls, and there are six guaranteed Souls per level 90 character: two from the Purging the Vaults weekly, three from the first weekly kill of the lair boss Nymrissa Wavecaller, and one from the first weekly kill of the Ancient Foe in the Vaults. Rares on the Coiled Isle can drop them too, but at around a 5% chance you don't want to be planning around that. The number that matters is eight different Gifts, because that's when you can equip two at once — and eight Gifts is 64 Souls, which is roughly eleven weeks if you're only running one character.
  • Separately, the Corrosive Victory toy has a hidden perk that last season's version didn't have. Anyone can get the toy — it's the reward at the end of the seasonal nemesis questline, the quest is Fangs for the Memories, and it's available at any point in the season. But if you earn Fabled Let Me Solo Him: Azta'rec during this first week of Season 2, the toy records your Hall of Fame rank and displays it to everyone, every single time you use it. It's not a power thing at all, just a permanent receipt for having done it before the weekly reset closed the window.

  Source — Get 6 Extra Corrosive Souls Per 90 Character (Wowhead) · Source — Corrosive Victory Toy Displays Delve Hall of Fame Rank for Everyone (Wowhead)

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• A Rough Week for Evokers, and a World Quest That Slowed Your Camera

  Episode Topic 6

  Evokers are disconnecting every few minutes and Blizzard has pinned it on Battle Visage, and a Coiled Isle world quest has been quietly wrecking people's turn speed.

  • The disconnects are the serious one — players reporting getting dropped to the login screen every five to ten minutes on an Evoker and not at all on their other characters. Blizzard has confirmed through private channels that it's Battle Visage related, and the pattern is pretty specific: Visage is active, and you disconnect on Hover, on Deep Breath or its landing, occasionally on glide, and sometimes when casting Hover during Disintegrate. It isn't addons and it isn't your CVars, so you don't need to reset your UI. The Evoker Discord's advice until there's a fix is to disable Battle Visage in your spell book and live in dragon form. There's also a second, funnier one where Disintegrate beams just persist — two, three, or more of them hanging off you until the target despawns or you get about 500 yards away.
  • The other one is sneaky enough to be worth explaining. The Swift of Foot world quest on the Coiled Isle puts you into a vehicle version of your character and sets your TurnSpeed CVar to 65, and it doesn't set it back when you leave. It doesn't even take effect until you fully restart the client, so you log in some other day and your character just feels sluggish for no reason you can trace. Blizzard hotfixed the quest, but at least one player reports still being stuck with it, which suggests the fix stopped it happening without restoring anybody's setting. If that's you, run /run SetCVar("TurnSpeed", 180), or edit the Turn Speed value in Config.WTF from 65.0 back to 180.0.

  Source — Evokers Are Having Disconnect and Disintegrate Bugs (Wowhead) · Source — Coiled Isle World Quest Causing Reduced Turning Speed Hotfixed (Wowhead)

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• Jimothy Isn't Actually in the Game

  Episode Topic 7

  The secret finders spent a week hunting for Jimothy, and Blizzard has now confirmed he isn't in the game at all.

  • Jimothy got datamined on the Patch 12.1 PTR and was teased as a secret in an interview with Paul Kubit and Rachel Vought, where they couldn't say much about him. The Pet Journal entry for J'imothy says he got into a spot of trouble digging through magical garbage in Silvermoon, which was enough of a breadcrumb that the Secret Finding Discord went looking. A week of searching turned up nothing, and then one of the mods pinned a message saying they'd received private confirmation from Blizzard that Jimothy is not currently available in the game. No word on when he will be — the guess is either with the launch of Season 2 or sometime later on.

  Source — Jimothy Not Currently Available in Game According to Secret Finding Discord (Wowhead)

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• BlizzCon Legends, and a McDonald's Portable Bakery

  Episode Topic 8

  Blizzard has named the "Legends" coming to BlizzCon 2026, and IGN says a McDonald's promotion with Xbox is handing out a World of Warcraft reward.

  • BlizzCon 2026 — Anaheim, September 12th and 13th:
  • Announced in a tweet: Simu Liu, T-Pain, YOASOBI, LE SSERAFIM, deadmau5, Duke Dennis, and Khleo Thomas.
  • What "Legends" actually means: Blizzard hasn't spelled that out beyond the names, so we're reading the same list you are.
  • The other one is a promo. IGN reported that McDonald's is partnering with Xbox on in-game rewards for a handful of their games — Halo, Fallout, and World of Warcraft — and the WoW reward is the Red Hot Portable Bakery. How you actually get it hasn't been announced yet, so file this one under "know it's coming" rather than anything you can go do.

  Source — Blizzard Reveals "Legends" for BlizzCon 2026: Simu Liu, deadmau5 and More (Wowhead) · Source — World of Warcraft Reward from McDonalds x Xbox Promotion According to IGN (Wowhead)

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho. We dig into the community case that content Blizzard cut from Vanilla is turning up in…

• Content Blizzard Cut From Vanilla Is Coming to Classic Plus

  Episode Topic 1

  There's a video making the rounds arguing that content Blizzard cut from Vanilla is turning up in Classic Plus, and the community is reading it as a tell for what the whole thing is going to be.

  • The pitch is that this isn't a fresh sandbox, it's the 1–60 world we already know with the stuff that never made it in getting put back. And the read a lot of people are landing on is that Classic Plus keeps the friction on purpose — the slow mounts, the long walks, the attunements, all the things that made getting anywhere feel like an actual trip. That friction is the whole reason Classic plays the way it does, and the expectation here is that they're not sanding it off.
  • The precedent everybody points at is Season of Discovery, where they took dungeons and rebuilt them as raids — Blackfathom Deeps with the murloc boss doing March of the Murlocs, the Scarlet Monastery raid — and it worked. So the theory is they keep stacking content on top of the Classic base without touching the systems underneath it. No retail power creep, no dynamic flying, none of the modern quality-of-life stuff bolted on. Worth saying clearly: this is community reading of evidence, not an announcement.

  YouTube — Content Blizzard Cut From Vanilla Is Coming to Classic +

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• Tettles Interview With the Encounter Designers

  Episode Topic 2

  Tettles sat down with encounter designers Taylor Sanders and Andrew De Sousa on Friday to talk Venomous Abyss and Mythic+ Season 2 — and the honest answer on splits is that they've never liked them.

  • They said outright that they've always viewed splits as somewhat problematic and that it's not really how they want you playing the game, but they also acknowledged it's been part of the high-end community for a long time now. What they're actually tracking is how far down the ladder it goes — how much of it is guilds genuinely needing to split versus a trickle-down psychological thing from watching the top teams do it. Season 1's split raids put more focus on that. On Resilient Keystones, same posture: they're watching how they function, no plans to change anything today.
  • Other things worth pulling out:
  • Flex Mythic isn't replacing Mythic: they still see real value in a fixed raid size because they know exactly what you've got and can design around it. Flex has a place, they're figuring out how much.
  • The 12.1.5 raid is not a side raid: no spoilers given, but they made a point of saying Tidebound Grotto is a side raid and that one isn't.
  • Why Season 1 Mythic+ popped: accessibility is their number one reason, plus the caster and interrupt changes, a solid dungeon pool — Pit of Saron was popular — and the class updates landing well.
  • On reworking old dungeons: the goal is keeping the theme and soul of the original while everything else gets modernized, and batching PTR testing weeks has made feedback and changelogs a lot cleaner.
  • Nerfs are planned for: they design expecting the post-RWF and post-Hall of Fame nerfs, and they don't expect that to change.

  Source — Tettles Interview with Blizzard Encounter Designers (Wowhead)

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• Week Zero Gearing: Sparks, Renown, and Hero Gear

  Episode Topic 3

  The gap week turned into a mess over who could get how many Sparks, and Blizzard's fix is to hand everybody four next week.

  • Spark of Tides is the new Season 2 Spark, and it's supposed to be one a week — most crafted items take two, two-handers take four. Every character could get two this week, but players found a third on some characters, because Midnight: World Tour is a one-time quest from the start of the expansion, so only characters that never did it back then could still turn it in. That's clearly not intended, and rather than claw anything back, Blizzard is raising the max to four Sparks next week at the August 18 reset so everyone lands on even ground. Practical upshot: a two-handed weapon is on the table next week, which may change what you were planning to craft.
  • What's actually worth doing right now:
  • Renown quest rewards reset and are now item level 279: Silvermoon Court at Rank 9 for the helm, Amani Tribe at Rank 9 for the neck, Hara'ti at Rank 8 for the belt, and The Singularity at Rank 7 for the trinket. Free head start on gearing. Worth noting the Crucible of Erratic Energies trinket from that last one just took a 15% critical strike cut in Friday's hotfixes.
  • One piece of Hero track gear, item level 305, from Delves: the Vaults of Atal'Utek quest "A Toxic Tour" rewards a Trovehunter's Bounty. Do not use it early — it triggers on your first completed Delve, so hold it until you've unlocked Tier 8 and are about to run a Tier 8.
  • The one we're not recommending: @xerwo pointed out that the last expansion's World Soul quest is still sitting in Dornogal and still pays out a Season 2 Spark of Tides. That's a leftover nobody was meant to still be pulling from, and it's a different thing from the World Tour oversight Blizzard is already evening out. We're mentioning it because it's out there, not because you should go do it.

  Source — Three Sparks Available This Week for Some Characters (Wowhead) · Source — Blizzard Allowing All Players to Acquire 4 Sparks Next Week (Wowhead) · Source — Renown Quest Rewards Reset and Now Item Level 279 (Wowhead) · Source — How to Acquire One Piece of Hero Gear This Week (Wowhead) · @xerwo on X — "Blizzard forgot to remove the last expacs World Soul quest if you need another spark"

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• Bonus Rolls Reshuffled, Then Trimmed

  Episode Topic 4

  Bonus rolls don't even unlock until August 25, and they've already had their loot tables changed once and some extras quietly removed.

  • A hotfix changed who's eligible for a couple of Venomous Abyss drops, and both of them come off the second-to-last boss at Myth 344 on Mythic. Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique, the trinket, was DPS-only and has now been added to the loot table for all six tank specs — it looks strong for Protection Warriors and Protection Paladins specifically, less so for the others. And Maze-roa, Warlord's Fury, the two-handed axe, has been added for Survival Hunters. If you've been building a bonus roll priority list, or your guild has been sorting out loot rules around one, those odds have moved and it's worth another look before the 25th.
  • Separately, and less fun: Friday's hotfixes removed extra bonus rolls people were sitting on. Void-Twisted Sporbits no longer grant Nebulous Voidcores, and any Voidcores obtained that way after the end of Season 1 have been taken back out for Season 2. So if you'd banked a stack expecting to open the season with a pile of rolls, that's gone.

  Source — Bonus Roll Loot Table Changes in The Venomous Abyss Raid (Wowhead) · Source — Extra Bonus Rolls Removed, August 14th Hotfixes (Wowhead)

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• Season 2 Tier Lists, and the Hotfixes Underneath Them

  Episode Topic 5

  The Season 2 tier lists are up for every role in both raid and Mythic+, and two rounds of hotfixes just moved a lot of the trinkets sitting underneath them.

  • The lists rank specs on survivability, utility, and performance, S down through F, with the caveat that raid and Mythic+ are genuinely different problems — a raid group has all the buffs covered, a five-man doesn't, so a spec's value swings depending on who else is in the group. That's the interesting part this season: Bloodlust is called the most contested piece of utility in Mythic+, full stop, and Arcane Intellect is the second buff likely to shape comps, so there's real potential for meta groups to form around who's bringing what. Arcane Mage lands right at the top alongside Arms Warrior.
  • Hotfix highlights that matter to those rankings:
  • Trinket tuning went out Friday and it's a long list. Kyrakka's Searing Embers got healing up 80% and damage up 50%; Gebbo's Bottomless Bag lost 29% of its secondary stat effects; Gaze of the Alnseer lost 20% primary stat; Knot of Writhing Serpents gained 15% damage and no longer drops for healing specs at all.
  • Warrior fix worth knowing: Slayer's Executioner was doing double its intended effect and has been corrected.
  • Thursday's hotfixes opened up dungeon access: players who haven't finished the precursor campaign quests can now be summoned into the Vaults of Atal'Utek by Altar of Fangs groups.
  • But they also locked something down: the Curse of Ula'tek campaign now properly requires finishing the main Midnight campaign on one character per account first. If you'd already started it, you're fine and can carry on.

  Source — DPS, Healer, and Tank Tier Lists for Midnight Season 2 (Wowhead) · Source — Patch 12.1 Hotfixes for August 13th (Wowhead) · Source — August 14th Hotfixes: Bugs and Trinket Tuning (Wowhead)

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• Altar of Corrosion: Hidden Quests In, Ula'tek's Gift Nerfed

  Episode Topic 6

  Four of the talents on the Altar of Corrosion are locked behind hidden quests you have to go find, and one of the powers has already been nerfed.

  • Most of the Altar works the way you'd expect — you donate Corrosive Coins to Er'inye for Spirit Corrosion points and spend those on powers. But four nodes stay locked until you've solved a short mystery each. You find a key item, take it to Er'inye for a hint, and then the actual solution is bringing it to a specific spot in the world where you can loot a container holding the real quest item. Turn that in and the talent opens up. The Excising Knife is the easy one, you get it automatically from a Temple Incursion, and the comments section has already worked all four of them out if you'd rather skip the guesswork.
  • While you're down there:
  • Ula'tek's Gift got hit: damage down 30%, with an additional 60% reduction in PvP, and Gift Expunction down another 60% in PvP. Friday's notes also specifically called out that it was dealing more damage to players than expected — so this was a PvP problem.
  • Still worth unlocking powers: if you're optimizing Delves and going after the "??" Delve boss next week, you want at least one power, ideally the ability to equip two.
  • Snake Stompin' has an AFK route: the achievement wants you to step on 1,000 Insidious Snakes. Stand in the corner at 50.11, 67.02 and auto-run into the wall. Even with the trick it's two to three hours, so park there while you pick up Incursions and Ancient Foes for Corrosive Coins.

  Source — Find Treasures to Unlock New Powers in the Altar of Corrosion (Wowhead) · Source — Corrosive Codex Power Nerfed: Ula'tek's Gift (Wowhead) · Source — Easiest Way to Stomp on 1,000 Snakes for Snake Stompin' (Wowhead)

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• Coiled Isle Cosmetics: Tokka's Crew and Two Transformations

  Episode Topic 7

  Captain Tokka's new friendship reputation hides a real mount grind behind a fishing pole, and there are two transformation toys out there worth going out of your way for.

  • The Tokka's Crew storyline opens up after you finish the Original Sin campaign, and running dailies, the Open Sea Fishing world event, and killing Master Grenadier Birdie when he spawns fills out the reputation. Max it and you can buy The Coiled Huntress fishing pole from Second Mate Sluggs. That rod is the actual key to the mount — equipped on the Coiled Isle it gives you Coiled Blessing, which turns you into a Water Moccasin with underwater breathing and 150% swim speed, and it builds Venom stacks as you fish. Seasage Polo on Tokka's Folly cleanses those for one Coiled Filament per stack. You need 2,500 Coiled Filament for the Sea-Dwelling Isle Serpent, so this is a long one.
  • Two toys, both of which stick through combat:
  • Cursed Badge of the Soulcoilers: find every Lore Object on the Coiled Isle for the Student of Hissstory achievement and the toy comes with it. Turns you into a Child of Ula'tek in one of four colors, lasts an hour on a 10-minute cooldown, and does not break in combat — so you can run dungeons and raids as a snake.
  • Saptor Salve is back: The Blinding Vale is in the seasonal rotation again, and the toy drops from the last boss, Ziekket, on Mythic. It persists through death, mounting, shapeshift and combat, and with a 10-minute cooldown on a one-hour buff you can basically stay a Saptor permanently.
  • Timing note on that one: Mythic 0 is on a weekly lockout during launch week, so it's one attempt per character this week. Once Season 2 starts it moves to a daily lockout and you can actually farm it.

  Source — The New Captain Tokka Friendship Reputation on the Coiled Isle (Wowhead) · Source — Turn into a Child of Ula'tek With This Transformation Toy (Wowhead) · Source — Saptor Salve Transformation Toy Now Available Again (Wowhead)

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• Mounts and Pets: Two Found, One Taken Back

  Episode Topic 8

  The secret finders cracked the first secret of Patch 12.1, a new mount got datamined with no source attached, and some players are having a mount pulled off their account entirely.

  • The WoW Secret Finding & Collections Discord found Slitherfang inside the Altar of Fangs, and it takes a full group of five on Mythic to get it. After you clear to the first boss, one player picks up a Ritual Reagent from the interactables near the poison waterfalls by Rav'i and the other four take Reversal Charms. Then after the second boss there's an Ascendent Serpent surrounded by four poisonous totems — clear the trash but don't touch the totems, put your four charm players on them, put the reagent player at the serpent, and everybody gets a special action button. Reagent goes first, then the four charms. Credit to Bellzzar for working it out. One catch: the cleansed Slitherfang despawns after five people have clicked it, so nobody can hot-swap in for extras.
  • The other two:
  • Hearthkeeper's Wandering Caravan got datamined on live with its source listed as "In-Game Shop" — except it isn't on the shop, so we don't actually know how you get it yet.
  • Mythic L'ura mounts are being removed. Players are reporting the mount pulled from their account with a mail saying rewards were connected to activity that violates in-game policy. Nobody knows the exact trigger — the suspicion is boosting communities or RMT, and notably some of the affected players say they paid in gold, not real money.
  • For context: Blizzard banned boosting communities back in January 2022. Individuals and guilds trading gold for runs were always fine; organizations advertising across realms weren't. This looks like it could be going after buyers instead of sellers.

  Source — Hidden Slitherfang Pet Found by WoW Secret Finders (Wowhead) · Source — New Hearthkeeper's Wandering Caravan Datamined (Wowhead) · Source — Blizzard Removing Mythic L'ura Mount from Players (Wowhead)

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• Player Housing: Four New Endeavors and a Blueprints Forum

  Episode Topic 9

  Four new Endeavors bring visitors into your neighborhood with their own vendors and decor, and one of them happens to solve the worst travel problem in the patch.

  • The four, each with their own vendor and Community Coupon decor list:
  • Amani Trolls — Knock-off Amani: Griftah and his traders turn up selling "traditional Amani goods" that are very obviously not. Available immediately with Curse of Ula'tek.
  • Ohn'ahran Centaurs — Every Bakar Has Its Day: Roshai Lightstep, and the neighborhood pets get training tips.
  • Kobolds — Candle Culture: Timicky. While it's active you get a portal straight to the Ringing Deeps.
  • Tortollans — Vacation Season: Taifa. They've apparently been vacationing in your neighborhood since before you moved in.
  • Most of the good stuff on each vendor is gated behind endeavor milestones, so it's a progressive unlock rather than a shopping trip.
  • The one to actually pay attention to is Knock-off Amani, because it gives you a portal to the Coiled Isle right from your neighborhood. It's a long flight out there otherwise, and with Teleport to Plot on a fifteen-minute cooldown from the housing dashboard, that's a genuine travel shortcut this early in the patch. If your plot is way out from the neighborhood center you're better off using the neighborhood portal from your capital instead. There's supposed to be a second portal in Astalor's Sanctum after the Prey Season 2 intro, but that questline looks unavailable right now. And separately, the Housing Blueprints forum is live — its own forum, split off from the regular Housing one, for sharing layouts. Worth remembering exteriors and full builds are faction-specific while interiors are universal.

  Blizzard News — Undertake Four New Endeavors in Your Neighborhood! · Source — Amani Housing Endeavor Provides Portal to the Coiled Isle (Wowhead) · Source — Player Housing Blueprints Forum Now Live (Wowhead)

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• Lady Liadrin's Weekly Went Missing, and Came Back Friday

  Episode Topic 10

  The Lady Liadrin weekly never showed up on NA when 12.1 launched, then got pulled from EU too, and it wasn't fixed until Friday night.

  • This one matters more than a missing quest usually would, because it's the gate on a four-week chain. The "Silvermoon City" warband campsite needs four Silvermoon Citizen's Emblems and you can only earn one a week from Liadrin's Unity Against the Void. Miss a week, the whole unlock slides a week. It also cost people one of their options for a Spark of Tides in a week where Sparks were already a sore subject. EU actually had the quest for a couple of days before it got disabled there as well.
  • It's back on NA as of Friday night, but not quite the same — where players were getting four quest options to choose from, there's now just the one, the Vaults of Atal'Utek. It still grants the emblem and it still counts as a Spark option. So the chain is moving again, and it's a minimum of four weeks from here.

  Source — Lady Liadrin Weekly Quest Missing on NA Servers (and Now EU) (Wowhead) · Source — Lady Liadrin Quest Now Available on NA Servers (Wowhead)

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• Blizzard Named Xbox's Top-Performing Studio, Plus a Sale

  Episode Topic 11

  An internal email from Blizzard's president says the studio finished FY26 as the top performer in Xbox's studios division — which lands differently a month after the layoffs.

  • Jez Corden at Windows Central got hold of an email sent to Blizzard employees from president Johanna Faries, saying Blizzard ended the year as the top-performing studio in Xbox's studios division and that it was the third-highest fiscal year for top-line revenue in Blizzard's history. The part worth sitting with: FY25 and FY26 are the first back-to-back growth years since FY17. Faries credited Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred and Overwatch, with Overwatch putting up its strongest quarter since 2022. Context for the timing — this comes about a month after Xbox announced 1,600 role eliminations, where Blizzard saw minimal reductions. The email also talks up BlizzCon on September 12th and 13th in Anaheim.
  • And the Battle.net sale, if you need any of it:
  • 40% off Midnight — Base, Heroic and Epic Editions, through September 13th.
  • Up to 33% off game services — character transfers, faction changes, race changes, name changes, and the Enhanced Level 80 boost, through August 24th.
  • 50% off Warcraft II: Remastered, 25% off Diablo II: Resurrected and the Diablo 4: Age of Hatred Collection, also through August 24th.

  Source — Windows Central Reports that Blizzard is Top Performing Xbox Studio (Wowhead) · Source — Get Up to 33% Off In-Game Services and 40% Off Midnight (Wowhead)

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug isjoined again by guildmate Templrivanho. We dig into Patch 12.1 stripping add-ons of direct access to Aura information —…

• Realm Instability — Recurring Outages Hit NA Servers

  Episode Topic 1

  WoW's realms went down three separate times this week, and Blizzard says the recurring culprit is hardware trouble at a third-party partner facility.

  • After the first round of downtime left players guessing with no ETA, Blizzard eventually confirmed on the forums that this wasn't a one-off: a partner facility that hosts many of the region's realms has had a recurring hardware issue, knocking Midnight, Classic Era, and Mists of Pandaria realms offline three times in under a week. Blizzard says helping their service partner resolve it has been a top priority, but stopped short of giving a timeline for a permanent fix.
  • The three outage windows:
  • Sunday, Aug 2: 3:00 PM ET, ~3 hours
  • Wednesday, Aug 5: 3:30 AM ET, ~3.5 hours
  • Thursday, Aug 6: 4:30 PM ET, ~45 minutes

  Wowhead — Update: Servers Are Now Back Online · Blizzard Forums — "Did servers go down?" (official response) · Icy Veins — Realm Outages Due to Recurring Hardware Issues at a Partner Facility

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• Resurfaced Metzen Quote Reignites Worldsoul Saga Speculation

  Episode Topic 2

  A years-old BlizzCon clip of Chris Metzen is making the rounds again, and it's got the community reading tea leaves about where the Worldsoul Saga's third act is headed.

  • WoW leaker MrGM reposted the old BlizzCon footage as a reminder of what Metzen already told fans to expect: a return to Northrend, a pilgrimage to Ulduar to witness the Titans' return, and a "vast conspiracy" that challenges everything players think they know about the Titans and Azeroth itself. The timing isn't random; a batch of recent accidental leaks about future story content have been making the rounds on social media sites.

  MrGM on X — BlizzCon Metzen clip repost

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• China's 21st WoW Anniversary — BlizzCon Shanghai & Exclusive Rewards

  Episode Topic 3

  China is throwing its own BlizzCon to mark 21 years of WoW, complete with an RTX 5080 giveaway — and redirecting a long-unclaimed prize pool back into the community.

  • Starting October 16th, the "X Party" convention in Shanghai is being billed as the largest offline WoW event in Chinese server history, with sales, giveaways, and a shot at a rare Thunder-Ridged Elekk through an online quiz. Total prizes across the celebration add up to roughly ¥6 million RMB (about $888,500 USD), including ten mounts and that RTX 5080.
  • Also part of the celebration:
  • RWF prize redirected: the ¥2.2 million RMB planned for the Patch 12.1 Race to World First is instead going to the wider community — top-50 finisher rewards, guide-writing incentives, and international broadcast funding, since no Chinese guild has claimed the world-first prize since it started at ¥1 million in Nerub-ar Palace.
  • New exclusive: a datamined Azure Dragon Varian Wrynn transmog and throne toy, built on a Hearthstone hero skin design, bundled with the region's annual subscription package for about $131 USD.

  Wowhead — China Celebrates 21 Years of WoW with BlizzCon in Shanghai · Wowhead — China Redistributes RWF Cash Prize to Community Incentives · Wowhead — Chinese-Exclusive Azure Dragon Varian Wrynn Transmog and Toy

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• Patch 12.1 Raid Preview — Curse of Ula'tek

  Episode Topic 4

  Lead encounter designers confirmed Season 2's raid is a two-instance tier again — an eight-boss Venomous Abyss plus a one-boss Tidebound Grotto — with a familiar weekly power ramp for progression.

  • In a joint interview with Wowhead, Raider.io, and Icy Veins, designers Andrew De Sousa and Taylor Sanders said the split-tier structure returns because Season 1's Dreamrift proved pugs and shorter play sessions could still get real raid progress in a bite-sized instance. Expect more of the "non-standard gameplay" callbacks too — deliberate homages to classics like the Naxxramas Frogger hallway and the Blackwing Lair trap room — alongside a raid arena built around a giant snake creature's brood, which is driving more two-target cleave than usual without it being a broader design pivot.
  • Tuning highlights:
  • Weekly ramp: a system similar to Voidspire, Dreamrift, and March on Quel'Danas returns, gradually buffing players (not nerfing bosses) so competitive guilds feel real week-to-week progress through Race to World First and Hall of Fame.
  • Buff-over-nerf default: the team says it prefers giving players new power over nerfing encounters, reserving straight nerfs for reaction-time/mechanical checks — the L'ura glaive changes were called out as that exception.

  Icy Veins — Blizzard Interview: Add-ons, Raid Design, and Mythic+ in Patch 12.1

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• Mythic+ & the End of Computational Add-Ons

  Episode Topic 5

  Starting in 12.1, add-ons lose direct access to Aura information — and a hotfix already broke the fully-automated Delve boss add-ons ahead of the patch.

  • Blizzard's stated goal is putting computational add-ons fully to rest so new and returning players don't feel like they need a huge add-on package just to function. It's already happening in practice: the Azta'rec Delve Boss memory game got hotfixed this week specifically to stop add-ons like Azta'rec Helper and Snake Says from tracking safe-spot coordinates and playing the mechanic back automatically. Designers say the payoff is more room for hidden-information mechanics like the Entombed Sentinels' debuff-matching fight, which would've previously just gotten offloaded to an add-on.
  • Mythic+ highlights:
  • Record participation: Season 1 saw the highest Mythic+ participation in the game's history, which the team credits to accessibility and a strong dungeon pool rather than any single change.
  • Keystone Master's mount: added specifically because of loud, sustained community demand heading into Midnight Season 1.
  • No routing tool planned: Lindormi's Guidance stays targeted at brand-new tanks; an in-game mapping/routing tool for pushing keys isn't in the works, with the team pointing to existing community tools instead — though they didn't rule it out forever.

  Icy Veins — Blizzard Interview: Add-ons, Raid Design, and Mythic+ in Patch 12.1 · Wowhead — Completely Automated Add-ons for Memory Game No Longer Work on Azta'rec

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• Player Housing — Decor Duel's Last Call

  Episode Topic 6

  Decor Duel disappears the moment Patch 12.1 goes live, and Blizzard's only confirmed a safety net for some of its rewards — so this is your last chance to grab the rest.

  • Blizzard confirmed Decor items themselves will remain purchasable from vendors in Silvermoon City using Voidlight Marl after the minigame is gone, but has stayed quiet on the fate of the mounts, transmog, and toys — Wowhead's advice is simple: get them now while you still can. Separately, datamining on the Patch 12.1 PTR turned up two new player housing exteriors landing with the update.
  • Worth grabbing before the doors close:
  • Magister's Spell Bee Comb: mount, 500 coins
  • Weapon transmog sets (Spellbreaker's, Mage Guard's, Nullbeacon Rift, Arcane Ranger's): 150 coins each
  • New PTR exteriors: Autumnal and Springtime Westfall Barn Facades

  Wowhead — Reminder: Decor Duel Ending Soon, Buy Rewards · Blizzard News — Join the Final Surge for Decor Duels · Wowhead — Two New Housing Exteriors Added on Patch 12.1 PTR

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• New Twitch Drop Coincides with 12.1 Launch

  Episode Topic 7

  The Ensemble: Sorcerer's Grassy Garb hat-and-cape set goes live as a Twitch Drop the same day Patch 12.1 launches.

  • The drop runs August 11th through September 8th — just watch four hours of eligible WoW content on Twitch across any channel in the category, no need to stick to one stream. It does require your Battle.net and Twitch accounts to already be linked through account.battle.net, and a fresh relink comes with a 7-day cooldown, so this is worth sorting out before launch day rather than during it.

  Wowhead — Sorcerer's Grassy Garb: New Twitch Drop on Patch 12.1 Launch

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• Xbox's Q4 Earnings — The First Report Card Since the Layoffs

  Episode Topic 8

  Microsoft's Q4 FY26 results landed July 30th — the first real financial checkpoint since July's Xbox restructuring — and both Satya Nadella and new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma went public with a "return to growth by FY27" promise.

  • Xbox content and services revenue fell 10% year-over-year and hardware fell 13%, putting total Xbox revenue at $4.983 billion for the quarter — the lowest since Q1 2024. The quarter absorbed roughly $500 million in severance tied to July's cuts, and for the full fiscal year Xbox revenue finished down about $1.66–1.7 billion, roughly 7%. It's the fourth straight quarter of decline this fiscal year, and the trend is worth seeing laid out rather than just read as a headline number.
  • What they said:
  • Asha Sharma (Xbox CEO): posted on X that Xbox brought in 200 million new players across FY26, but revenue didn't grow with that audience — and pledged to close that gap by investing in what players actually value, targeting a return to growth by the end of FY27.
  • Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO): told investors Microsoft is making the necessary portfolio, platform, and operations decisions to restructure Xbox for sustainable long-term growth, pointing to the talent and titles already in-house and reiterating the same FY27 return-to-growth timeline.
  • One stat worth having in your pocket if this comes up: U.S. subscription video-game spending — a category that specifically includes MMOs — was actually up 16% year-over-year in the first half of 2026, even as Xbox's own numbers slid. The sub model isn't the problem here.

  Windows Central — Xbox and Microsoft CEOs Promise a Return to Growth by End of FY27 · CNBC — Microsoft's Xbox Chief Lays Out Plan to Pass Rivals on Margin by 2030 · Gaming Amigos — Xbox Revenue Falls Again, CEO Promises Return to Growth by FY27 · 2025 U.S. Consumer Spending on Video Games Nears Pandemic-Level Peak at $60.7 Billion, Second-Highest on Record

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho. We break down Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek arriving August 11th, including how Great…

• Season 2 Great Vault & Mythic 0 Changes

  Episode Topic 1

  Blizzard has locked in exactly how loot works during Season 2's pre-season week — and the old "skip the vault for a bonus roll" trick is dead.

  • Patch 12.1 launches August 11 with a pre-season week before Season 2 formally begins August 18, and Blizzard has confirmed exactly how loot works during that gap. The first Great Vault won't offer Bonus Rolls, closing the loophole where players skipped a low-item-level vault slot for another shot at loot — the World row caps at Champion 3/6 that week. Bonus Rolls return the following week (August 25) once you've unlocked at least three panes.
  • Unlock Timeline:
  • Week of Aug 11 (pre-season): Heroic & Mythic 0 dungeons live, Mythic 0 on a weekly lockout dropping Champion 1/6 (292 ilvl) gear; Delves 1–11 plus "?" Nemesis difficulty open (no Bountiful Delves yet); Great Vault credit starts accruing.
  • Week of Aug 18 (Season 2 begins): Mythic 0 flips to a daily lockout, Mythic+ keystones unlock, Bountiful Delves and Coffer Keys return, and the raid and rated PvP go live.
  • Week of Aug 25: First real Bonus Roll opportunity in the Great Vault.

  Source — No Bonus Rolls from First Season 2 Great Vault (Wowhead) · Source — Mythic 0 and Great Vault Clarifications (Wowhead)

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• The Venomous Abyss Raid Preview

  Episode Topic 2

  The Venomous Abyss, Midnight's next raid, opens August 18 with eight bosses across five difficulties — but Story Mode won't be available until the following week.

  • Blizzard confirmed the full unlock schedule: Normal, Heroic, Mythic, and Raid Finder Wing 1 go live August 18, with Story Mode and RF Wing 2 following August 25, and the remaining RF wings staggering out through September 8. The raid picks up right where the patch's story leaves off — Zul'jan has freed Ula'tek's broods from their ancient prison, and it's on players to stop her before she's fully unleashed. Raid Finder requires a minimum item level of 273 to queue.
  • Bosses & Highlights:
  • Eight bosses: Nek'zali the Soulcoiler, Entombed Sentinels, Vashnik the Malignant, The Lost Explorers, Sszorak, The Twin Fangs, The Coiled Altar, and Ula'tek herself.
  • Race achievements: Cutting Edge for the first Mythic Ula'tek kill, plus Hall of Fame for the first 200 guilds worldwide.
  • Tier sets are up: full class armor previews are live — Resto Druid's is Bark of the Enigmatic Dreamwatcher.

  Source — The Venomous Abyss Raid Preview and Schedule (Wowhead) · Source — Curse of Ula'tek: The Venomous Abyss Raid Goes Live August 18 (Blizzard)

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• New Lairs Feature: Tidebound Grotto

  Episode Topic 3

  Lairs — Blizzard's new spin on world bosses — debut with the Tidebound Grotto, but Blizzard had to walk back an early Mythic-loot exploit before it even launched.

  • Lairs are instanced, scalable world boss fights: solo players can queue into World difficulty and get folded into a group of 5–40, while premade groups can tackle Normal, Heroic, or a flexible 15–25 player Mythic. The first one, Tidebound Grotto, has players swim beneath the Coiled Isle to fight the naga sorceress Nymrissa Wavecaller. Blizzard originally listed all difficulties as available August 11 — which would have let split-raid guilds grab Mythic-quality loot a full week before Season 2 began — but that's now been corrected so only World difficulty unlocks August 11, with Normal through Mythic following August 18.
  • Loot & Difficulty Scaling:
  • World (ilvl 230 req): drops Veteran 1/6 gear, scaling up through Normal (Champion 1/6), Heroic (Hero 1/6), and Mythic (Myth 1/6, ilvl 318).
  • Guild Run variant: clearing it as a guild group unlocks a separate achievement track.
  • Second of its kind: Lairs launched with Rotmire in Sporefall back in Patch 12.0.7.

  Source — Lairs Preview in Patch 12.1 (Wowhead) · Source — [Updated] Flexible Mythic Raid Lair NOT Available Before Season 2 Begins (Wowhead)

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• Housing Blueprints & New Campsites

  Episode Topic 4

  Patch 12.1 makes housing more shareable with a new Blueprints system, and adds two more Silvermoon campsites to unlock through weekly quests.

  • Blueprints let players save and import full housing layouts through a dedicated UI button, with up to 50 saved per account and automatic backups whenever you import something new. Exterior and full-build blueprints stay faction-specific, but interiors are universal and can be shared across the divide. The catch: blueprint codes aren't permanent — they're just a server-side reference, so if the original creator deletes their blueprint, everyone else's copy of that code stops working.
  • Separately, two new Warband campsites are unlockable in Silvermoon City through weekly quests already familiar to most players. The bright version comes from repeating Lady Liadrin's "Unity Against the Void" quest for Silvermoon Citizen's Emblems, while the void-tinged version comes from Vareesa Windrunner's new "Trailing Xal'atath" collection quest — each needs four turn-ins to unlock.

  Source — Using Blueprints to Save and Share Housing Layouts (Wowhead) · Source — Unlock New Warband Campsites from Weekly Quests (Wowhead)

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• Faction Spotlight: Zul'jarra's Forces

  Episode Topic 5

  The only new renown track in Patch 12.1 belongs to Zul'jarra's Forces, and it's almost entirely a cosmetic reward chase.

  • 20 renown levels, sold by Jan'sari the Watchful at Tokka's Landing. Highlights:
  • Mounts: Violet-Backed Skyfang, Indigo Coiled Horror, and Spirit of Tok'jara (unlocked through a questline in the Vaults of Atal'Utek).
  • Player power: a handful of profession recipes and a couple of points for the Altar of Corrosion's outdoor talent system — basically the only non-cosmetic gain on the whole track.
  • Renown 20: unlocks the title "[Name], Hash'ura of Zul'jarra."

  Source — Patch 12.1 Faction Spotlight: Zul'Jarra's Forces (Wowhead)

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• New Comic: Legacy of Rage

  Episode Topic 6

  Blizzard dropped a new Midnight comic, Legacy of Rage, digging into the young troll Zul'jan's slide toward the power that unleashes this raid tier's villain.

  • The comic follows Zul'jan, a young Amani troll torn between his people's fading legacy and the temptation of ancient power, as he's guided down a dangerous path by a mysterious mentor. It leans into his grandfather's legacy and fractured loyalties, setting up exactly why he ends up freeing Ula'tek's broods in The Venomous Abyss.

  Source — Legacy of Rage: New World of Warcraft: Midnight Comic (Wowhead)

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• Project Camelot Moves to Vendor Server

  Episode Topic 7

  The mysterious Project Camelot build — widely believed to be a new take on WoW Classic — just moved from Blizzard's internal dev servers to a vendor server, a step usually reserved for external compatibility testing.

  • Dataminers have tracked this "1.60 build" since October 2025, and the move to a vendor server suggests Blizzard may be preparing to let outside partners test hardware and software compatibility — often a late-stage production signal. It's fueling speculation that a playable version could show up at BlizzCon 2026, similar to how Season of Discovery was showcased there in 2023.

  Source — Project Camelot Moves From Dev Server to Vendor Server (Wowhead)

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho, and we’re happy to welcome guest-host Vel. We dig into one of the wildest WoW stories…

• Blizzard Employee Fired for Cheating in Mythic+ Key

  Episode Topic 1

  A Blizzard employee was confirmed to have used GM-only development tools to help a group of friends complete a +23 Nexus-Point Xenas key — and has been terminated. The complicit players are also facing account action.

  • It started with a Reddit post flagging suspicious spell activity in a logged Mythic+ run, where insta-kill effects appeared on enemies including a boss. Community sleuthing matched the log to a real Raider.io run, and a player in the group later confirmed on stream that the group had asked their GM friend to help them complete the key. Blizzard initially responded that they were reviewing the situation, then confirmed the full story within days: every use of developer tools on live servers is logged and reviewed by their Platform Security team, which is how the violation was caught quickly.
  • What happened and what's being done:
  • The violation: Developer-only spells were used on a live realm to assist a Mythic+ group — against company policy.
  • The employee: Terminated immediately after Blizzard confirmed the incident.
  • The players: Account action is being taken against those complicit in the run.
  • The records: Blizzard thanked community sites (Raider.io, Warcraftlogs) for also removing the results from their systems.

  Wowhead — Alleged Cheating in +23 Nexus Point Xe'nas Log · Wowhead — Blizzard Responds to Accusations About Cheated +23 Nexus Point Xe'nas · Wowhead — Blizzard Confirms GM Tools Used to Cheat, Employee Fired

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• BlizzCon 2026 Digital Bundles Now Live

  Episode Topic 2

  BlizzCon 2026 digital bundles are now available on the Battle.net shop, with WoW-specific items including a new mount, transmog set, and housing decor. Physical attendees can also link their BlizzCon Pass to claim the Ultimate Collection for free.

  • What's in the WoW bundle ($29.99):
  • Rabbit'ath: A void rabbit flying mount described as a harbinger of doom — lore says you can see the end of all things in its eyes.
  • Ensemble: Garb of the Dawnfire Phoenix: Partial transmog set (head, shoulder, cloak).
  • Perch of the Dawnfire Phoenix: Housing decor item that cycles through a phoenix rebirth animation.
  • Ultimate Collection ($50): Adds the WoW pet Murk'atath plus bonus items for Overwatch, Diablo IV, Diablo Immortal, and Hearthstone. If you're attending BlizzCon in person, link your Tixr pass serial on the Battle.net link page to receive the Ultimate Collection automatically — items appear in-game.

  Wowhead — BlizzCon Bundles Now Available · Wowhead — Link Your BlizzCon Pass to Receive the Ultimate BlizzCon Pack

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• Patch 12.1 PTR Dev Notes: Class Bug Fixes

  Episode Topic 3

  Blizzard dropped a round of 12.1 PTR development notes covering bug fixes for Restoration Druid, Preservation Evoker, Beast Mastery and Marksmanship Hunter, Brewmaster and Mistweaver Monk, and more — plus a balance tweak to the Holy Paladin Season 2 tier set and a PvP Conquest change.

  • The Resto Druid changes fix two Abundance bugs — the talent's bonus crit chance to Regrowth wasn't working correctly, and Flourish wasn't properly extending the Abundance effect. Both are fixed, but Regrowth healing is being reduced by 20% alongside them, so it's likely a give-and-take correction rather than a straight buff. On the Holy Paladin side, the Season 2 Venomous Abyss 4-set is being adjusted to add a 60% mana cost increase to Holy Light (the set was making Holy Pally too mana-efficient), but that's offset by a 5% across-the-board healing increase. Mistweaver also takes a 60% reduction to Morning Breeze, which Blizzard notes is intended to offset Mastery buffs coming in the patch so the talent lands at roughly the same effective value.

  Wowhead — Patch 12.1 PTR Development Notes: Class Bug Fixes

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• 12.1 PTR Datamined Class Tuning

  Episode Topic 4

  Dataminers have found additional spell tuning on the 12.1 PTR, with notable changes to the Subtlety Rogue Season 1 2-piece tier set and further adjustments to the Holy Paladin tier bonus on top of the dev notes already released this week.

  • Highlights from the datamined tuning:
  • Subtlety Rogue 2pc (Season 1): Finishing move damage bonus per combo point reduced — the multiplier is being tuned down, likely a late-season correction heading into the Season 2 transition.
  • Holy Paladin 4pc (Season 2): Confirms the Holy Light mana cost increase from the dev notes; the set now has Holy Light granting Infusion of Light at 100% proc rate but at that increased mana cost.
  • Windwalker Monk: Spinning Crane Kick damage modifier tuned up, and both Jade Ignition and Whirling Dragon Punch are seeing damage increases — looks like a notable buff for the spec.
  • Devourer Demon Hunter: Reap and Eradicate spell power coefficients adjusted downward slightly; Collapsing Star getting a small bump up.

  Wowhead — Patch 12.1 PTR Datamined Class Tuning and Tier Set Changes

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• 12.0.7 Naigtal Story Sets Up Possible Draenei Zone

  Episode Topic 5

  The Naigtal storyline from patch 12.0.7 wrapped up this week, and it ends with a cliffhanger that heavily implies the next piece of draenei content — and possibly an entirely new draenei zone — is on the way, centered around a lost colony world called Nashabor.

  • The story follows the Hal'hadar, a group of ethereals trying to place their souls into ancient Lightforged draenei Warframes using a device called a Soul Lattice. Players stop the immediate threat in the Naigtal zone, but the ethereal researcher escapes with the remaining Vigilant bodies — and worse, acquires a hologem map of every planet the draenei visited during their exodus from Argus. That map leads directly to Nashabor, a draenei colony world that players met refugees from during the Voidstorm questline. The zone wraps with Tula'mar, a leader of those Nashabor draenei, reluctantly agreeing to meet Velen to coordinate a response.
  • The article speculates this is most likely setting up a sub-patch zone in the style of Naigtal and Val rather than a major new zone on the scale of Undermine or the Coiled Isle — but the more exciting possibility is that it could tie into a full draenei zone, especially since the draenei heritage quests ended with Velen promising to build a new capital city on Azeroth. Midnight has already leaned hard into Burning Crusade nostalgia with the return to Quel'thalas and Zul'Aman, and a Draenei-side counterpart to the revamped Silvermoon would fit that pattern well.

  Wowhead — Are We Getting a New Draenei Zone Soon? 12.0.7 Naigtal Story Summary

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• Midnight Season 1 Is Ending Soon

  Episode Topic 6

  Blizzard has officially announced that Midnight Season 1 is coming to an end — no specific date was given, but a wide range of achievements, mounts, titles, and rewards will be gone or significantly harder to obtain once Season 2 launches.

  • The big categories to be aware of: Ahead of the Curve and Cutting Edge achievements for all three Season 1 raids (The Dreamrift, The Voidspire, and March on Quel'Danas) are going away along with their housing trophy drops. All Mythic+ seasonal achievements from Keystone Explorer through Umbral Champion (Top 1%) are also expiring, as are Keystone Hero teleports for timing a +10 in each dungeon. On the PvP side, ranked titles, gladiator mounts, and seasonal feat achievements all have their end-of-season clocks ticking. Additionally, some Temple of Sethraliss-specific achievements will be removed when that dungeon leaves the pool for Season 2.
  • Time-sensitive rewards to flag before the deadline:
  • Cutting Edge: Crown of the Cosmos — requires Mythic The Voidspire final boss clear during Season 1.
  • Calamitous Carrion / Convalescent Carrion mounts — require Keystone Master (2000 rating) and Keystone Legend (3000 rating) respectively, both expiring at season end.
  • Umbral Champion mount — top 1% Mythic+ rating at end of season; this one is a hard cutoff.
  • Galactic Gladiator's Goredrake mount — 50 wins at 2300+ rating in 3v3 before the season closes.
  • Dungeon teleports — timing a +10 in each Season 1 dungeon; these do not carry over to Season 2.

  Wowhead — Midnight Season 1 Officially Ending Soon

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• Patch 12.1 Release Date Pointing to August 11th

  Episode Topic 7

  Multiple data points are converging on August 11th as the Patch 12.1 release date, with the new single-boss raid lair Tidebound Grotto showing an August 18th unlock date on the PTR — which would align with Season 2 launching the following week.

  • The evidence stacking up for August 11th includes the Turbulent Timeways event ending on that date (historically one of the most reliable patch timing indicators), the standard 8-week cadence after patch 12.0.7 landing on that same date, and a now-edited LinkedIn post from Method that appeared to confirm the date. The PTR discovery of Tidebound Grotto — a flex 15-25 Mythic single-boss raid lair featuring Nymrissa Wavecaller, similar in format to Sporefall — scheduled for August 18th adds another piece to the puzzle. None of this has been officially confirmed by Blizzard, but the community consensus is landing firmly on August 11th for the patch and August 18th for Season 2.

  Wowhead — Tidebound Grotto Noted to Release on August 18th on the 12.1 PTR

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• Jimothy the Raccoon Is Coming to Azeroth

  Episode Topic 8

  Warcraft's official social media account has teased that Jimothy — the viral Seattle raccoon with a spinal deformity who became an internet celebrity for being a weird-looking little goblin-creature that's still cute — is coming to the game as an earnable in-game reward.

  • Jimothy is a real raccoon spotted by Seattle locals who went viral because of his distinctive look caused by a spinal deformity — somebody dubbed him Jimothy because, quote, "he looked like a Jimothy," and the internet ran with it. Warcraft teased his arrival late Thursday night on social media, and a Reddit post confirmed he'll be earnable in-game rather than a cash shop item. No further details on what type of reward he'll be — pet, mount, or something else — but the fact that a real-life neighborhood raccoon is apparently crossing over into Azeroth is absolutely unhinged in the best possible way.

  Wowhead — Warcraft Teases Viral Sensation "Jimothy" Coming to Azeroth

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho. We break down Ion Hazzikostas' Portal Room Q&A on the eight-week cadence, guild tools…

• Mythic+ Tooltips Now Show Enemy Forces Contribution on PTR

  Episode Topic 1

  The Patch 12.1 PTR adds enemy forces percentage directly to enemy tooltips in Mythic+ dungeons — a native quality-of-life upgrade that chips away at addon dependency for route planning.

  • Each enemy now shows its individual contribution to the dungeon's total count, displayed to a tenth of a percent — precise enough to cross-check third-party route planners. The feature benefits everyone from newer players trying to understand pulls on the fly to experienced groups who occasionally miscount mid-run. It won't replace dedicated route addons for pre-planned pushes, but it does mean you're no longer flying blind without one, and unlike addons it won't break mid-pull during a patch transition. Blizzard has framed this as part of a broader effort to raise the quality of the base UI so that addons feel like enhancements rather than requirements.

  Wowhead — Mythic+ Tooltips Include Mob Count on Patch 12.1 PTR

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• Ion Hazzikostas Portal Room Q&A

  Episode Topic 2

  Senior Game Director Ion Hazzikostas held a public Q&A on the WoW Community Discord, covering the eight-week patch cadence, guild tools, housing, PvP, professions, and the road ahead to BlizzCon.

  • The Q&A ran roughly an hour and fielded over 350 submitted questions. On the eight-week cadence, Ion says surveys show 50% of players find it just right, with 25% wanting it faster and 25% wanting it slower — so the pacing is staying put for now. The Discord guild integration arriving in 12.1 is explicitly a starting point rather than a finished product, and Ion said they're interested in hearing what other community features players would want to see built on top of it.
  • Other highlights from the Q&A:
  • Housing showcase: A browsing and search feature for player homes is in the works; mounts and transmog mannequins are planned for the future.
  • PvP: MMR inconsistencies are acknowledged; PvP talent updates are on the horizon but won't land in Season 2.
  • Professions: Secondary professions are overdue for a look; Archaeology's gameplay loop is being reconsidered entirely for The Last Titan.
  • BlizzCon: Ion teased there's more to the current story thread than it appears, and said to expect big reveals at BlizzCon.

  Wowhead — Portal Room Q&A with Senior Game Director Ion Hazzikostas

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• Addon Trials Community Contest: Winners Announced

  Episode Topic 3

  The CurseForge Addon Trials community contest has wrapped up with community voting complete — ten addons took the top spots across categories ranging from UI overhauls to housing catalogues.

  • Top finishers from the community vote:
  • EllesmereUI — Fully modular UI suite for players who want complete interface control.
  • Danders Frames — Custom party and raid frames with total control over group frame layout.
  • Coolinator — A more customizable cooldown manager.
  • EasyFind — Fast command bar that lets you search anything in WoW.
  • Housing Decor Guide — A full housing catalogue covering every decoration in the game.
  • RetroRuns — Solo legacy raid navigator with routing, directions, and tracking.
  • W2UI — Full UI overhaul inspired by the visual aesthetic of Bastion.

  Wowhead — The Addon Trials Community Contest Winners

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• Unhalted Raid Frames Shuts Down After Developer Harassment

  Episode Topic 4

  The Unhalted Raid Frames addon — one of the most downloaded addons of the Midnight cycle with over a million downloads — has ceased development after its solo developer was subjected to sustained harassment following a buggy update.

  • The developer pushed a large update that added party and raid frames, ready-check indicators, and threat display, but the update also broke core functionality. What followed was a wave of abusive comments across the addon's CurseForge page, Discord server, and direct messages. A few hours later, the developer announced they were done — not just with the update, but with the project entirely.
  • In their parting message, the developer reminded the community that addon authors do this work for free, in their personal time, as a passion project — and that no one should be subjected to abuse for it, broken release or not. The Wowhead article echoed that sentiment, noting that Midnight's rapid patch cadence makes addon breakage more likely and patience more important than ever. This is a good reminder that the people maintaining these tools are real people, and how the community responds to bugs matters.

  Wowhead — Unhalted Raid Frames Halts Development Updates Due to Abuse and Harassment

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• BlizzCon 2026 Will Have Live Captioning After All

  Episode Topic 5

  After an initial response from the BlizzCon team indicated no live captioning would be provided, Blizzard has reversed course — CART-style real-time captioning will be available at BlizzCon 2026.

  • The story came to light when Liane from Undaunted — WoW's largest deaf guild — shared a BlizzCon team response stating captioning wouldn't be offered, despite the event website previously suggesting it would be. She also pointed out that ASL isn't a universal solution, particularly for European deaf and hard-of-hearing attendees, and that CART captioning — where a trained professional provides real-time speech-to-text — had been available at BlizzCon 2023. Community attention on the issue appears to have pushed Blizzard toward a correction. It's not yet clear exactly which stages and panels will be covered, but at minimum the Main and Legends stages are expected to have the service.

  Wowhead — Blizzard to Offer Live Captioning at BlizzCon 2026

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• Raider.IO Break the Meta Event + Daily Bounties

  Episode Topic 6

  Raider.IO's Break the Meta event for Midnight Season 1 is running now through next week, with a new daily Bounty system layering comp-specific challenges — and real prizes — on top of the usual off-meta key push.

  • The core event works by restricting the most-played specs in each role, pushing players toward combinations that don't normally see competitive play. Over 6,100 qualifying runs were completed in the first few days. The Bounty system is a new wrinkle this year: each day has a specific composition challenge where only one team wins — the group with the highest scoring keystone in a 24-hour window across NA, EU, and KR/TW combined.
  • Remaining bounties this week:
  • Kitty Committee (July 19–20) — Highest key with 3+ Feral Druids. Prize: Sandbox Storm Gryphon.
  • It's a Miracle! (July 20–21) — Highest key with only Healer specs. Prize: 500 Hearthsteel.
  • All Gas No Brakes (July 20–21) — Highest key with only DPS specs. Prize: 14 Days Gametime.

  Wowhead — Claim Daily Bounties and Break the Meta with Raider.IO

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• Xbox Restructure: 3,200 Cuts, Studio Spin-offs, and ZeniMax Leadership Gone

  Episode Topic 7

  Xbox head Asha Bhatt announced what she called "the most significant restructure in Xbox history" — approximately 3,200 job cuts across FY27, four studios leaving Xbox management, and a sweeping internal reset. ZeniMax Online Studios, developer of Elder Scrolls Online, lost its entire senior leadership team in the process.

  • The restructure memo, sent to all Xbox employees on July 6, was unusually blunt: Asha stated directly that "our business today is not healthy," citing margins 3–10x below comparable platform and publishing businesses, a smaller Gen 9 install base, and Game Pass growth that didn't hit targets. Compulsion Games and Double Fine are being spun off as independent studios with their IP. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms with new ownership to finish Senua's Saga and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane Lyon — currently working on a Marvel Blade game — entered a works council consultation process that could end in sale, shutdown, or divestment. A new COO role, filled by Helen Chiang, is being created to unify P&L across content, hardware, platform, and services for the first time.
  • For ZeniMax Online specifically, Game File reported that over 200 of the 379 Maryland ZeniMax jobs cut last week came from ZOS — and a WARN letter filed with the state confirmed the studio head role was among them. Studio head Joe Burba, ESO executive producer Susan Kath, game director Rich Lambert, and production director Ala Diaz are all departing. ZOS will now be led by Josh Henderson and newly promoted game director Nick Giacomini. The outgoing leadership framed it as a handoff to promoted veterans, with ESO content development expected to continue through Update 51 and beyond — though with 200+ cuts and the entire creative leadership gone, questions about ESO's long-term viability are very much on the table. This is worth watching closely as a bellwether for how deeply this restructure reaches into studios Microsoft acquired.

  Xbox News — Resetting Xbox (Full Announcement) · Game File — ZeniMax Online Studio Head Out

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho. We dig into the 12.1 PTR datamine that cracked open Player Housing — two new earnable…

• Patch 12.1 PTR: New Housing Exteriors & Artisanal Room Interiors

  Episode Topic 1

  This week's 12.1 PTR datamine turned up two mystery house exteriors and sixteen premade "artisanal" room interiors for Player Housing — and full visual previews of the rooms are now out.

  • Two new exterior options appear in the housing editor, though selecting either one currently swallows your entire plot in a giant pink cube. Blizzard confirmed these will be earnable in-game, not shop items. Notably, they're listed under house type alongside the racial options — separate from the large houses unlocking at Housing Level 12 — which points to entirely new exterior designs.
  • The artisanal rooms:
  • Sixteen rooms, four styles: Bel'ameth, Orgrimmar, Silvermoon, and Stormwind themes — bedrooms, armories, theaters, a grand hall, even a Stormwind kitchen
  • What they are: premade room templates, empty of decor but ornamented to match their theme — less manual wall-and-floor work to get a style going
  • How to get them: sold by the neighborhood General Contractors and smuggler "Fen" Rucket for ~50 Community Coupons each; contractors sell their own faction's styles, the smuggler sells the opposite faction's
  • Not testable yet: everything here is datamined — none of it is live on the PTR

  Wowhead — New Housing Exteriors and Artisanal Room Interiors Discovered on the Patch 12.1 PTR · Wowhead — Patch 12.1 Datamined Artisanal Interior Room Previews for Player Housing

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• Vote in the Addon Trials Finals by CurseForge

  Episode Topic 2

  CurseForge's Addon Trials contest is down to ten finalists, and the community vote decides the final standings — winners are announced July 15, so voting closes fast.

  • A panel of CurseForge judges picked the ten based on originality, user experience, and design. The community now ranks them via a drag-and-drop form, and that ranking determines who takes first through tenth place prizes. Notably, the contest rules explicitly allowed AI-assisted "vibecoded" addons, and the comment section is at war over it.
  • Finalist highlights:
  • Coolinator: a far more customizable Cooldown Manager with drag-and-drop layouts
  • Danders Frames: fully custom party/raid frames with an Aura Designer and built-in click casting
  • EasyFind: a command bar that searches everything — settings, mounts, transmog, housing decor
  • Housing Decor Guide: full housing catalogue with 3D previews and a blueprint canvas for room planning
  • W2UI / EllesmereUI: two full UI overhauls, one styled after Bastion

  Wowhead — Vote in The Addon Trials Community Contest Finals by Curseforge

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• WoW Portal Room Q&A with Ion Hazzikostas Next Friday

  Episode Topic 3

  Blizzard is hosting a Q&A with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas next Friday, July 17, at 11:00 AM Pacific in the WoW Portal Room Discord.

  • Questions won't be collected in the Portal Room itself — they have to come through Blizzard's partnered community Discords, each using its own submission format. As a Portal Room Ambassador, Wowhead is gathering questions in the #ion-interview-questions channel of its Discord and will submit the best of them.
  • Blizzard's own disclaimer: with questions pouring in from many communities, the vast majority won't be answered. This lands mid-12.1 PTR cycle, with class changes, Midnight Season 2 loot, and housing all live topics — so there's plenty on the table if the right questions get through.

  Wowhead — WoW Portal Room Q&A with Ion Hazzikostas Next Friday

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• Physics Support Comes to Wowhead's Model Viewer

  Episode Topic 4

  Wowhead's Model Viewer now simulates in-game physics — the first site ever to pull it off — so Lor'themar's ponytail finally obeys gravity.

  • The upgrade is live across the site's database pages via the View in 3D button, covering cloth and hair physics on NPCs, items, and armor. A Wowhead dev in the comments says the simulation costs about 1% of a single CPU core, with a WebGPU refactor of the whole viewer planned in the next 6–12 months. The team also teased that more site features are on the way.

  Wowhead — Physics Support Now Enabled in Wowhead's Model Viewer

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined by co-hosts Shakatan and Templrivanho. We break down Game Director Ion Hazzikostas' wide-ranging PsybearTV interview —…

• Player Housing: New Decor + Upcoming Exterior

  Episode Topic 1

  Housing got a small decor win this patch and a bigger tease for the next — Bartender Bob now sells a "No Weapons Allowed" rack, and Blizzard has confirmed a new house exterior coming in Patch 12.1 that won't be a Shop purchase.

  • Now live in Patch 12.0.7: earn the Highly Decorated achievement by bringing relics of the past to the Arcantina, then buy Bartender Bob's "No Weapons Allowed" Rack for free from decor vendor Morta Gage. It has two dye slots (metal border and wood base), works both indoors and outdoors, and grants the same "weapon stowed" interaction as the Arcantina's own rack — though your weapon won't visually display once racked.
  • Coming in the Patch 12.1 PTR: datamining turned up two new House Exterior file entries that looked Shop-bound, sparking speculation about a real-money exterior. Blizzard clarified that assumption was wrong — this exterior (and likely more down the line) will be earnable in-game, with more details to come as it nears testing.

  Wowhead — "No Weapons Allowed" Decor Available in Patch 12.0.7 · Wowhead — New Exterior for Player Housing Is Coming

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• Naigtal & Val World Tier Rewards Buffed

  Episode Topic 2

  Blizzard buffed Naigtal & Val World Tier rewards, with some changes already live via hotfix and more landing on weekly reset, aimed at smoothing the climb from Normal into Heroic World Tier.

  • What changed (live now):
  • Warbound caches: Void-Touched Heroic Caches from Maren Silversong in Silvermoon City are now Warbound.
  • Crests: Rare enemies now drop twice as many crests, and Warp Riders / Blasktar Legion enemies can drop Heroic Crests in the Heroic World Tier.
  • Currency: Dark Particles now drop in both Val and Naigtal and stack to 1000.
  • Rare spawns: Increased spawn frequency, plus a chance for Warbound-until-equipped Heroic items.
  • Weekly reset: World Bosses now drop Warbound Heroic gear (1/6 Normal, 4/6 Heroic), and every character gets a guaranteed Soulbound piece on both difficulties.

  Wowhead — Buffs to Naigtal and Val Rewards

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• July Trading Post Goes Blue

  Episode Topic 3

  The July Trading Post is live with a blue-and-fireworks theme, headlined by the Blackwater X-TREME Firework Rocket mount and the first Trading Post appearance for the promotional Chillbot/Thrillbot pets.

  • Pick up items with Trader's Tender from T&W in Stormwind, the Zen'shiri Trading Post in Orgrimmar, or the capital-city vendors in Dornogal and Silvermoon. Filling the Traveler's Log this month unlocks the Bilgewater X-TREME mount as a bonus reward on top of anything purchased directly.
  • Highlights:
  • Blackwater X-TREME Firework Rocket: mount, 700 Tender.
  • Wailing Banshee's Charger: mount, 575 Tender.
  • Chillbot 9000 / Thrillbot 9000: pets, 250 Tender each — first time off promo-exclusive status.
  • Ensemble: Villager's Seaside Collection: full 6-slot transmog set, 440 Tender.

  Wowhead — July's Trading Post Ignites a True-Blue Celebration

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• BlizzCon 2026: Blizzard Classic Cup Legacy Matches Revealed

  Episode Topic 4

  Blizzard revealed the Legacy Match lineups for its new Blizzard Classic Cup at BlizzCon 2026, pairing legendary rivals across StarCraft, Heroes of the Storm, and Warcraft III, alongside word on WoW's own esports Grand Finals.

  • Team captains Tasteless and Artosis will draft from a pool of returning legends for a cross-title celebration of Blizzard esports history at BlizzCon. The reveal comes alongside news that WoW's Arena World Championship and Mythic Dungeon International will hold their 2026 Grand Finals at the same show, splitting a combined $600,000 prize pool between six qualified AWC teams and four MDI teams.
  • Legacy Matches confirmed so far:
  • StarCraft: Remastered: BoxeR vs. Nal_rA.
  • StarCraft II: IdrA vs. MC.
  • Heroes of the Storm: Dignitas vs. Gen.G, a rematch of the 2018 Global Championship Finals.
  • Warcraft III: ToD vs. TeD.

  Wowhead — Blizzard Classic Cup Players Revealed at BlizzCon 2026

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• New Short Story: "The Bitter Truth"

  Episode Topic 5

  Blizzard released a new three-part short story pairing old rivals Lor'themar Theron and Torundo the Grizzled for a tense, drink-fueled reckoning, written by Robert Brooks and narrated in video form on YouTube.

  • What was meant as a diplomatic sit-down turns personal fast, with polite exchanges giving way to a long shared history of bloodshed and blame. Gideon Emery returns as Lor'themar opposite Keston John's Torundo, with all three parts — starting with "To the Brim" — now available.

  Wowhead — Blizzard Releases New Short Story: The Bitter Truth

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• Curse of Ula'tek (12.1 PTR): Quality-of-Life Pass

  Episode Topic 6

  Patch 12.1's PTR brings another round of quality-of-life work, headlined by a one-time profession knowledge reset and the long-requested option to display map coordinates in the UI.

  • Already live via 12.0.5 hotfixes:
  • Silvermoon City: raised concurrent-player thresholds for better performance during busy times.
  • Looting: fixed a bug causing area-loot and auto-loot to occasionally fail.
  • Repair costs: combat actions like swinging or blocking no longer cause "wear and tear" durability loss.
  • Coming in 12.1:
  • Professions: a one-time knowledge point reset per profession.
  • Housing: reduced cost on most Midnight crafted decor.
  • UI: map coordinates, account-wide auto-loot settings, and persistent Auction House filters.
  • Bug fixes: targeting the open-world "stuck in combat" issue and a transmog display bug on the character select screen.

  Wowhead — Quality-of-Life Improvements Coming in Curse of Ula'tek

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• Stoneforged Sentinel: $30 Shop Mount

  Episode Topic 7

  A new fully customizable mount, the Stoneforged Sentinel, is now available on the Shop for $30 USD, with adjustable wings, claws, tail, saddle, and coloring.

  • Blizzard is pitching it as a build-your-own flying guardian, chiseled from stone and built around a wide customization matrix rather than a single fixed look.
  • Customization options:
  • Wing Style: 6 options.
  • Claw Style: 6 options.
  • Tail Style: 6 options.
  • Head: 6 options.
  • Gem Color: 5 options.
  • Stone Color / Metal Color: 4 options each.
  • Saddle: 3 options.

  Wowhead — Introducing the Stoneforged Sentinel

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• Ion Hazzikostas on Addons, Raid Design & Patch Cadence

  Episode Topic 8

  In a wide-ranging PsybearTV interview, Ion Hazzikostas addressed the ongoing arms race between raid mechanics and addons, defended the 8-week patch cadence, and traced the 12.0.5 housing bug back to a last-minute elevator fix.

  • Ion frames addons that simplify mechanics as a natural arms race rather than a problem to eliminate outright — early hotfixes targeting tools like interrupt tracking on Mythic L'ura were rolled back because they hurt average players more than top guilds. Without those workarounds existing at all, he says some of that fight's tuning would have been nerfed much harder. He also confirmed the last few bosses in a tier are deliberately tuned at a "superhuman" level early on for the top 3-5 guilds, then eased down as the season progresses. On the 8-week cadence, he called it a target rather than a hard deadline — content slips a patch if testing or feedback says it isn't ready, which he says is what should have happened with some of 12.0.5's last-minute fixes.
  • Also addressed:
  • Gear checks: with parallel dungeon/raid gearing, players now vet pugs by M+ rating or raid achievements instead of pure item level — Ion doesn't consider that inherently toxic if people are polite about it.
  • Raid lockouts: Sporefall's reception has Blizzard looking toward more flexible Mythic-style lockouts down the line, but a fully flexible raid size isn't coming soon due to tuning and social-experience concerns.
  • Itemization: Season 2 pulls back slightly on how much high-item-level Myth-track gear is available, balancing skill-chasers against players who gear up as a means to other goals.

  Wowhead — PsybearTV Interview with Ion Hazzikostas

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• Super Spreader Debuff Turns Moon Guard Into Corrupted Blood 2.0

  Episode Topic 9

  A Brackenhide Hollow debuff escaped the dungeon and spread across the Moon Guard realm for several hours in a spontaneous plague event before Blizzard hotfixed it.

  • Vile Rothexer's Withering Contagion — a stacking, spreading nature DoT meant to stay inside the dungeon — somehow leaked onto the open server, jumping player-to-player through Silvermoon, Stormwind, and even the Goldshire Inn. Low-level players caught in the blast radius died almost instantly, and screenshots spread across Reddit and social media before the bug was hotfixed around 3:51 PM Pacific. Anyone who remembers the original 2005 Corrupted Blood Incident — or its 2024 repeat during Season of Discovery — immediately clocked the parallel.

  Wowhead — Super Spreader Debuff from Brackenhide Hollow Now Hotfixed

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined by co-host Templrivanho. We dive into Patch 12.0.7 "Midnight" going live with the new Sporefall raid, the Omnium Folio…

• Patch 12.0.7 "Midnight" Is Live

  Episode Topic 1

  Patch 12.0.7 has landed, opening a counter-invasion of two void-occupied worlds, a new single-boss raid, and a fresh power system that sticks with you for the rest of Midnight.

  • The headline content is the counter-invasion of Naigtal and Val — two expanded open-world zones packed with rares, world quests, events, and a unique world boss apiece, plus a new Heroic World Tier recommending item level 274. Around them, Ritual Sites gain a sixth difficulty tier awarding Myth Dawncrests, Loa Lorewalking adds four new Zandalari, Drakkari, Gurubashi, and Darkspear stories, and Dragonflight Timewalking returns alongside Turbulent Timeways.
  • Also dropping with the patch:
  • Omnium Folio: A five-week power system — pick a Core Rune (Unleashed Fire or Void-Touched Orbs) and customize the proc with self-healing, shields, or buffs. Unlock it via The Sunstrider Omnium quest line near the Ritual Site vendors; the power stays active for the rest of Midnight.
  • World Cup decor (live now in 12.0.7): Grab a Tabard of Participation and a Kickable Practice Ball from Richmond in Silvermoon, score three goals, and earn three housing decor pieces. A ~5-minute current-patch activity — separate from the 12.1 housing overhaul covered later.
  • New mounts & cosmetics: A deterministic Sporefall mount, Timewalking rewards, and even a void surfboard among the fresh collectibles.

  Source — Midnight Patch 12.0.7 Guide Compendium (Wowhead) · Source — Omnium Folio Now Available, How to Unlock (Wowhead) · Source — Earn a World Cup Housing Item by Scoring Goals (Wowhead)

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• Sporefall: First Mythic Kills, Catalyzing & Lockout Quirks

  Episode Topic 2

  The new single-boss Sporefall raid is already drawing world-class guilds, generous loot rules, and a lockout that lets you farm it more than once a week.

  • Liquid cleared Mythic Rotmire roughly 15 minutes after servers came up, fielding 22 players thanks to the new 15–25 Flexible Mythic difficulty — and nearly wiped at 1% when a Bursting Shroom detonated and killed close to a third of the raid. The encounter is tuned softer than the later Voidspire bosses, positioning it as a bridge into Mythic raiding rather than a wall.
  • Loot details worth knowing:
  • Sporefused gear: Drops at the top of its upgrade track including Ascendant Voidforging bonuses — item level 298 on Mythic, nine ilvls above Myth 6/6.
  • Catalyzable: Each armor class has two Sporefused pieces that can be run through the Catalyst, though catalyzed armor may not count toward your tier set.
  • Repeatable rolls: Blizzard confirmed Mythic Sporefall has no traditional lockout — you can re-clear and bonus roll Rotmire multiple times a week, with no loot-rule changes planned.

  Source — Liquid Defeats Mythic Rotmire (Wowhead) · Source — Sporefused Gear from Rotmire Can Be Catalyzed (Wowhead) · Source — Blizzard Confirms Multiple Sporefall Bonus Rolls (Wowhead)

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• Another L'ura Nerf Defuses the Phase 1 Wipe Factory

  Episode Topic 3

  Blizzard slipped another round of L'ura nerfs into the 12.0.7 notes, and one new line quietly removes two of Phase 1's most common raid-ending mistakes.

  • The standout change is that Resonance no longer triggers Tears of L'ura. In practice that means raids never have to drop the crystal during Phase 1 — eliminating both the "crystal clipped by Resonance or a Glaive" instant wipe and the awkward crystal-drop timing around the Memory game, and even letting Phase 3 clear over crystal carriers without summoning extra soaks.
  • Other tuning in the same pass:
  • Damage cuts: Glimmering down 20% on Mythic; Radiance down 50% on Heroic, with Dawn Crystals pulsing Radiance one second later on Heroic and Mythic.
  • Crystal spread: Reduced spread of Midnight and Dusk Crystals; Dark Constellations now spawn farther from Light Siphons.
  • Cast times: Criticality up to 4 seconds; Dark Constellation up to 3 seconds on Mythic; Starsplinter can no longer hit the same player twice.

  Source — Another Large L'ura Nerf Added to 12.0.7 Patch Notes (Wowhead)

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• China Celebrates Midsummer with a Flying Panda Mount

  Episode Topic 4

  A new China-exclusive Lucky Bamboo Tile event has gone live with a flying panda mount, a Faerie Dragon pet, and a pack of housing decor.

  • Launched with the June 18 reset across Retail, Titan Reforged, and Mists of Pandaria Classic servers, the event uses the now-familiar paid loot-box format, themed around Sen Sen's bamboo-forest tribe. The marquee reward is Sensen the Bamboo Dweller, a flying panda that carries a sleeping baby panda on its back.
  • What's in the event:
  • Mount: Sensen the Bamboo Dweller (flying panda).
  • Pet: Yaoyao Faerie Dragon, plus a Classic-only Blooming Ancient.
  • Transmog & decor: Floral Pauldrons, a Classic Crown of Endless Prosperity, and the Blessings Furniture Pack (Chinese fish bowl, mortise-and-tenon box, woven basket).

  Source — China Celebrates Midsummer with Exclusive Flying Panda Mount (Wowhead)

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• The Addon Trials Push Their Deadline Back

  Episode Topic 5

  CurseForge has extended eligibility for its Addon Trials competition back to the start of Midnight Beta, opening the $8,100 prize pool to far more existing mods.

  • The contest runs through July 5 and rewards 20 winners from a field of any Midnight addon, judged on originality, user experience, and design rather than sheer scope. The eligibility cutoff moved from March 2 to November 11 (Midnight Beta launch) so more pre-existing projects can enter, and ten mid-contest winners will each take $100. CurseForge also revealed its judging panel — content creators TomCat, Tex, and MrRoguery, plus the teams behind the r/wow, r/wowaddons, and r/WowUI subreddits — though final rankings go to a community vote.

  Source — The Addon Trials Community Competition Extended Eligibility (Wowhead)

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• Patch 12.1 "Curse of Ula'tek" First Look

  Episode Topic 6

  Blizzard's WoWCast unveiled the next major update, Curse of Ula'tek, sending players to the snake-infested Coiled Isle and kicking off Midnight Season 2.

  • The campaign follows Zul'jan to the Coiled Isle, a corrupted zone of poisonous waters and venomous foes where players get a custom zone talent tree, Curse Surges that spawn rotating rare elites, and Cursed Fishing with a tortollan captain named Tokka. Season 2 begins one week after the content update goes live, bringing a new dungeon rotation, raid, PvP season, Prey targets, and Bountiful Delves — and a chaotic "Dummy Dome" test zone is landing on the PTR for practicing against Season 2–tuned dummies. The hunt for Xal'atath also continues with Arator amid the Twilight's Blade resurgence.
  • Headline systems from the reveal:
  • Discord ↔ guild chat: Link your Battle.net and Discord accounts to message your guild from either side — coordinate raids or chat from your phone. Testable soon on the PTR.
  • Season 2 M+ rotation: Eight dungeons confirmed — five Midnight (including the brand-new Altar of Fangs) plus three returning: Ruby Life Pools, Temple of Sethraliss, and Kings' Rest, all of which drew complaints for harsh tuning the first time around.
  • New Delves & Prey: Three new Delves including a Nemesis Delve (Venomfall Deeps), plus new Prey affixes and hunts on the Coiled Isle.

  Source — Full Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek PTR Development Notes (Wowhead) · Source — Connect Your Guild Discord and In-Game Chats in Patch 12.1 (Wowhead) · Source — Mythic+ Season 2 Dungeon Rotation Revealed (Wowhead)

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• Patch 12.1's New Raid, Lairs & a Loot Overhaul

  Episode Topic 7

  Season 2 centers on the eight-boss Venomous Abyss raid and a new "Lair" system, alongside sweeping changes to how endgame gear is earned.

  • The Venomous Abyss is the new raid, ending with the serpent god Ula'tek herself across eight encounters. Joining it are Lairs — an evolution of world bosses moved into instanced encounters with summoning stones, found at fixed locations like Delves and scaling all the way up to 15–25 Flexible Mythic, so guilds can pick their difficulty and summon friends straight in.
  • The gearing changes coming with it:
  • Raid Vault buffed: LFR/Normal/Heroic vault rewards jump to the first step of the next track (Heroic → Myth 1/6); Mythic vault gives Myth 6/6, with Very Rare items and the final two bosses at the equivalent of Myth 9.
  • Bonus rolls stay: Available in the Vault immediately, only 1 coin per raid roll, plus one weekly roll from a new NPC (Orin Straylight) starting in Week 8.
  • Catalyst upgrade: Class set armor now inherits the original item's secondary stats and certain special cantrip effects.
  • Ascendant Venomstones: The new Voidcore equivalent, arriving later in Season 2 and now able to upgrade necklaces in addition to weapons and trinkets.

  Source — Full Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek PTR Development Notes (Wowhead) · Source — Massive Changes to End-Game Gearing in Patch 12.1 (Wowhead)

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• Patch 12.1 Class Changes & Season 2 Tier Sets

  Episode Topic 8

  The 12.1 PTR notes carry a massive class pass built around a 25% health-and-damage bump and a deliberate shift of power out of burst cooldowns into steady-state damage.

  • Blizzard is raising max-level player health and creature damage by 25% so healing feels less twitchy and more deliberate, while lowering throughput on major DPS cooldowns and raising baseline damage so combat outside cooldown windows feels less sluggish. Interrupts now show a "missed" visual and sound when used on a non-casting target — a small but welcome readability win. Every class also gets new Season 2 tier set bonuses to test on the PTR.
  • A few notable callouts:
  • Resto Druid: Big quality-of-life pass — Innervate redesigned to restore 25% mana over 8s, Abundance reworked around a 5-Rejuv threshold, Tranquility now roots and absorbs, and Swiftmend regains punch as a single-target heal.
  • Unholy DK: Summon density reined in — non-DK players now see at most 3 Lesser Ghouls, with Army of the Dead and a new "Lord of the Dead" reworked around it.
  • Demon Hunter: Can now equip daggers (helping Devourer find Intellect weapons), with Havoc and Vengeance gaining new talents.
  • Hunter: Ranged auto-shot damage up 600% and Hunter's Mark now applies to up to 5 targets for multi-boss fights.
  • Elemental Shaman: Ascendance burst spread back into baseline spells via big Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, and Chain Lightning buffs.

  Source — Full Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek PTR Development Notes (Wowhead)

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• Patch 12.1 Housing, Pets & Datamined Cosmetics

  Episode Topic 9

  12.1 gives player housing a major glow-up — shareable Blueprints, pet beds, and level-12 houses — while dataminers have already pulled new cosmetic cloaks from the PTR.

  • The big housing addition is Blueprints, which let players save up to 50 layouts and share them cross-region via codes that show exactly which rooms, decor, and budget an import needs. Pet Beds let you display up to 10 pets indoors and 5 outdoors, houses can now reach level 12 with larger exteriors and a movable entry room (basement dreams included), dye crafting is streamlined with new colors, and four new Endeavors arrive led by "Knock-off Amani."
  • On the cosmetics front, dataminers found a vicious shark cloak and three sets of demonic wings — the Ophidian, Corroded, and Apophic Patagia. The first two look like general Delve rewards, while the red Apophic version is tied to defeating the new Season 2 Delve Nemesis.

  Source — Full Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek PTR Development Notes (Wowhead) · Source — Cosmetic Shark and Wing Cloak Appearances Datamined in Patch 12.1 (Wowhead)

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined by co-host Templrivanho again. We break down the massive Patch 12.0.7 "Revelations" set landing June 16 — the new…

• MDI Season 1 Finals Happening Now

  Episode Topic 1

  The Mythic Dungeon International Season 1 Finals are live this weekend, June 12–14, with eight teams competing for $100,000 and four spots at BlizzCon 2026.

  • The Finals bring together the top six teams from the global region plus two from China in a single elimination bracket to close out Season 1 of Midnight. Only the top four finishers — including at least one Chinese team — punch their ticket to the Global Finals at BlizzCon 2026, where a separate $300,000 prize pool will be on the line. Matches are streaming live on the official Warcraft Twitch and YouTube channels.

  Wowhead — Mythic Dungeon International 2026 Finals Begins Today

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• Patch 12.0.7 "Revelations" Drops June 16

  Episode Topic 2

  Patch 12.0.7 "Revelations" arrives June 16, bringing two new Void zones, the Sporefall single-boss raid, the Omnium Folio system, and a mountain of quality-of-life updates.

  • The headlining content is the new Sporefall raid against fungal giant Rotmire, available in all four difficulties including Mythic Flex for 15–25 players. Rotmire drops Sporefused gear — sitting 9 item levels above normal upgrade tracks — and the Luminous Sporeglider mount, earned by collecting four Sporesnacks (one per account per week). On the zone side, Val and Naigtal are two rotating weekly Void worlds accessed through a portal in Voidstorm, each with world quests, rares, and a world boss showdown. The Omnium Folio is a new rune-based power system unlocked through weekly activities that persists for the rest of the Midnight expansion.
  • Other notable patch changes:
  • Ritual Sites: New Tier 6 difficulty (6 challenges, ilvl 274 recommended) with Mythic Dawncrest rewards
  • Housing: Outdoor lighting now available; exterior decor limits raised to 300–350 depending on house level
  • Durability: Weapons and armor no longer take damage from combat — only from dying
  • Turbulent Timeways: Starts June 30, runs through August 11 — Dragonflight dungeons with upgraded cache rewards
  • Darkspear Dash: Micro-holiday June 27 — a troll race from Echo Isles to Silvermoon

  Wowhead — Official Patch 12.0.7 "Revelations" Patch Notes · Wowhead — New Sporefall Raid Rewards in Patch 12.0.7

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• X Practice Addon Updated for Mythic L'ura Phase 4

  Episode Topic 3

  The X Practice addon has been updated to simulate Mythic L'ura Phase 4, letting players rehearse the fight's one-shot mechanics outside of a live raid environment.

  • Phase 4 of Mythic L'ura is deceptively simple — stack, handle Starsplinters, dodge animals, and run from the Heaven & Hell beam — but every mechanic is a one-shot, and passive crystal damage means dead players tank the DPS check hard. The addon mirrors real Phase 4 movement, pauses when you would have killed yourself or a teammate, and tells you exactly what went wrong. It's the same team behind the Xanesh soccer simulator from Ny'olatha, and it's free to download from CurseForge.

  Wowhead — Practice L'ura Phase 4 with X Practice Addon

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• NVIDIA Hotfix Driver 610.52 Addresses WoW Crashes

  Episode Topic 4

  NVIDIA has released GeForce Hotfix Driver 610.52, which includes a targeted stability fix for World of Warcraft, particularly helping older cards running DirectX 12.

  • What else is in the hotfix:
  • G-SYNC frame pacing: Fixed a frame pacing issue on certain monitors with G-SYNC enabled
  • Multi-monitor stability: Improved V-SYNC + DLSS Frame Generation behavior in multi-monitor setups
  • Smooth Motion fixes: Addressed jitter, ghosting, and crashes in DX11 games when Smooth Motion is active
  • Sleep/wake fix: Resolved certain monitors failing to wake from sleep mode
  • Install note: This is a beta hotfix on top of the standard 610.47 Game Ready Driver — grab it directly from NVIDIA's support site if you're hitting issues

  Wowhead — NVIDIA Graphics Card Driver Hotfix Addresses Instability in WoW

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• CurseForge Addon Trials Contest (Through July 5)

  Episode Topic 5

  CurseForge has launched the Addon Trials, a community contest for WoW: Midnight addons running now through July 5, with 20 winners splitting $8,100 in prizes.

  • Any kind of addon is eligible — big or small, new or existing (as long as it was created after March 2, 2026). Multiple submissions are allowed, and judging is split equally between originality, user experience, and design. On June 23, ten mid-contest winners will each receive a $100 bonus, then after July 5 a panel of judges picks the top 10 finalists. Community voting runs July 9–13, and final winners are announced July 15.
  • Key rules to know:
  • Eligibility cutoff: Addon must have been created after March 2, 2026 — older addons are not eligible
  • AI art ban: AI-generated project avatars are not permitted
  • Moderation delay: All CurseForge submissions go through moderation, so submit early
  • No duplicates: Multiple submissions allowed, but submitting the same addon twice is not

  Wowhead — The Addon Trials: A WoW Addon Contest by CurseForge

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• Microsoft Gaming Enters "Reset," Layoffs Incoming

  Episode Topic 6

  A public memo from Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma acknowledged the division is deeply unprofitable, setting the stage for major July layoffs and a strategic pullback — while the Activision Blizzard segment was notably carved out as a separate, healthier piece of the portfolio.

  • Sharma's memo, posted June 10, put the gaming division's "accountability margin" at roughly 3%, while revealing that excluding Activision Blizzard King, Xbox spent over $20 billion in five years as annual revenue fell by nearly half a billion dollars over the same period. Hardware costs are spiraling — storage alone has more than doubled since February and is projected to hit five times its 2024 level by the 2027 holiday season — and a more affordable console option is reportedly being explored. The June 7 Xbox Games Showcase also signaled a strategy shift, with Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution announced as Xbox console exclusives, reversing the recent multiplatform approach; a previously in-development PS5 version of Gears was reportedly canceled.
  • On the Blizzard and Activision side, two stories stood out. When asked directly whether the $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition is paying off, Sharma declined to give an affirmative answer. Separately, Microsoft agreed to pay $250 million to settle a lawsuit tied to the acquisition, with the settlement noting no court or investigation had substantiated claims of systemic harassment at the company. A securities class action related to Activision stock sold between January 2022 and October 2023 remains active, with a June 30 deadline for shareholders to file lead plaintiff applications.

  GeekWire — Microsoft Gaming CEO Memo: Division in "Reset"

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined by co-host Templrivanho, and we are happy to welcome back our returning guest host Vel. We dive into the massive 12.0.7…

• Patch 12.0.7 "Revelations" Releases June 16

  Episode Topic 1

  Midnight's first major content patch, 12.0.7 "Revelations," goes live June 16 for NA (June 17 for EU) — and it leads with Mythic Flex Raiding, the first time Mythic has ever supported flexible group sizes.

  • Alongside that headline change, the patch stacks on a pile of new content: the single-boss Sporefall raid against the fungal giant Rotmire (playable Raid Finder through Mythic, with Mythic now in flexible 15–25 groups, dropping the Luminous Sporeglider mount), a new player-power system in the Omnium Folio — a runic ledger you imbue and customize through weekly activities — and the next story chapter with Zul'jan beginning the week of July 7. Rounding it out are Loa lorewalking sessions with Li Li, the two new Void zones and the return of Turbulent Timeways (both covered below), and another round of UI quality-of-life passes on raid frames and damage meters.

  Wowhead — Midnight Patch 12.0.7 "Revelations" Releases on June 16

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• Xbox 25th-Anniversary Games Showcase

  Episode Topic 2

  Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase airs Sunday, June 7 — pitched as a 25th-anniversary celebration loaded with world premieres, with a Gears of War: E-Day Direct running back-to-back right after. The June Game Pass wave is dropping the same week, so it's a big seven days for the green machine.

  • The show streams at 10 AM Pacific and is being framed as Xbox's marquee event of the Summer Game Fest season — and as a reset moment for a brand that's spent a couple of rough years on the back foot under new leadership. The thread that matters for us is Blizzard. Microsoft owns it now, BlizzCon returns this September, and there's been years of low-grade speculation about WoW eventually landing on Xbox console. A 25th-anniversary stage is exactly the kind of spotlight where a "WoW comes to console" tease would make sense — the open question is whether a 20-plus-year-old, keyboard-and-mouse-married MMO could ever truly translate to a controller.
  • The week at a glance:
  • When & where: Sunday, June 7, 10 AM PT — on Xbox's YouTube, Twitch, and Steam channels, plus (new this year) Amazon Live and Prime Video on Fire TV in the US
  • The headliner: a dedicated Gears of War: E-Day Direct from The Coalition immediately follows the main show; State of Decay 3 is rumored to appear (reported in private alpha)
  • Game Pass June: nine titles rolling out June 3–16, led by Final Fantasy VI and Persona 5 Royal; June 11 alone brings three day-one drops, one of which becomes the 100th Game Pass addition of 2026
  • Leaving soon: departures include Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

  Xbox Wire — How to Watch the Xbox Games Showcase and Gears of War: E-Day Direct · Xbox Wire — Coming to Xbox Game Pass (June 2026, Wave 1) · TechTimes — Xbox Games Showcase 2026: Gears of War: E-Day Direct Anchors 25th-Anniversary Show

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• Travel to Val and Naigtal

  Episode Topic 3

  12.0.7's counter-invasion sends you through a portal in Voidstorm into two new open-world zones — the icy world of Val and the mana-rich bogs of Naigtal — to hunt down the Void leaders behind the assaults on Azeroth.

  • You kick it off by speaking with Riftblade Maella in Silvermoon, then step through the Voidstorm portal in Howling Reach — and the destination rotates weekly, so only one world is open at a time. Each zone has Normal and Heroic world tiers (Heroic recommends 274 item level and adds roving elites for better rewards), a full slate of World Quests, rares, events, secrets, and a unique world boss — Imperator Pertinax in Val, Nexus-Captain Leth'ir in Naigtal. You earn Field Accolades to spend at the Umbral Base Camp vendors on catch-up gear, transmog, Housing Decor, mounts, pets, and toys, and the "Showdown" quests reward a Riftstalker's Cache that feeds your Great Vault world row.

  Wowhead — Travel to Val and Naigtal to Quell Leaders of the Void

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• Darkspear Dash Microholiday

  Episode Topic 4

  WoW's first official Darkspear Dash microholiday runs June 27–29 — Blizzard's take on the long-running community "Running of the Trolls" charity event.

  • The Running of the Trolls is in its 12th year as an annual celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community raising support for The Trevor Project, and Blizzard is now making it an official in-game event. Datamined assets point to a Pride-themed parade: a beach party in the Echo Isles that runs across Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms all the way to Silvermoon — notably the first such run since the Midnight revamps folded Quel'Thalas into a unified Eastern Kingdoms. Rewards and toys include the Darkspear Dasher title, a Darkspear Dash Tabard, the Troll Scroll of Rainbow Roll toy, and Pocket Rainbow / Rainbow Runners / Pocket Sand consumables for the route. The original community event still runs concurrently on Feathermoon-US and Argent Dawn-EU.

  Wowhead — New Models for Darkspear Dash Microholiday on Patch 12.0.7

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• Turbulent Timeways Returns (Mastery Buff Walkback)

  Episode Topic 5

  Turbulent Timeways returns June 30–August 11 with six weeks of Timewalking and a new mount — and Blizzard just walked back a key detail: the "Mastery of the Timeways" XP buff is NOT account-wide.

  • The event cycles a different expansion's Timewalking dungeons each week, opening and closing on Dragonflight, with a Dragonflight vendor (Xydan) in Valdrakken's Bronze Enclave and a boosted weekly-quest reward — a Heroic Cache of Quel'Thalas Treasures at item level 259–276. Running dungeons stacks the "Knowledge of the Timeways" XP buff, which becomes "Mastery of the Timeways" (30% XP, persists through death) after four applications. The correction matters for alt plans: an earlier blog said that buff was account-wide, and Blizzard updated it June 4 to clarify it is not — it only persists through death. Maintain Mastery for any four weeks to earn the Spawn of Vyranoth flying mount, and the Covenant restrictions on the returning Shadowlands Bronze mounts have been lifted.

  Wowhead — Blizzard Clarifies Mastery of the Timeways Buff is Not Account-Wide

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• Brian Holinka Joins Riot Games' MMO

  Episode Topic 6

  Former WoW Lead Combat Designer Brian Holinka has joined Riot Games as a principal designer on their still-untitled Runeterra (League of Legends) MMO.

  • Holinka's a name longtime players will know — he was WoW's highly visible Lead PvP Designer starting in 2012, then returned in 2018 as Lead Combat Designer over the entire class and combat team, overseeing things like Dragonflight's expanded talent trees. He left Blizzard in 2023 for Greg Street's studio Fantastic Pixel Castle to work on the MMO Project Ghost, which shut down late last year — one of many new-MMO startups to fold in a rough market. Now he lands at Riot, whose Runeterra MMO has already been through a full development reset (Greg Street originally led it before stepping down) and is loosely targeting a release before 2030, despite no gameplay, screenshots, or game-specific art shown to date.

  Wowhead — Brian Holinka Joins Riot Games' MMORPG Team

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho. We dive into the most efficient ways to farm Myth Dawncrests now that the weekly cap is…

• The Best Ways to Farm Myth Dawncrests

  Episode Topic 1

  With the weekly crest cap now removed, players can fully upgrade all of their gear — here's the fastest path to stacking Myth Dawncrests.

  • Mythic+ dungeons remain the top earner at 10–16 crests per run, with Pit of Saron and Nexus Point Xenas flagged as the best speed choices. Running in a premade five-man cuts queue time and lets you reroll keys toward those preferred dungeons, making organized play significantly more efficient than pugging. You can also trade up 30 Hero Dawncrests into 10 Myth ones — not efficient on its own, but a useful sink for overflow Hero crests before raid night.
  • Patch 12.0.7 adds a third option worth knowing:
  • Tier 6 Ritual Sites: Award 5 Myth Dawncrests per run with no lockout or weekly limit — faster than a Mythic+ dungeon and the only meaningful Myth crest source for solo players.
  • T11 Delves: Also give 5 crests on reaching Rank 4 renown, but capped at four clears per week, making Ritual Sites the better long-term grind once 12.0.7 drops.
  • Trade-Up: 30 Hero Dawncrests → 10 Myth Dawncrests at the upgrade vendor — best used when you have excess Heros and nothing left to spend them on.

  Wowhead — The Best Ways to Farm for Mythic Upgrade Crests

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• Blizzard Previews the Omnium Folio

  Episode Topic 2

  Patch 12.0.7 introduces the Omnium Folio, a new permanent power system tied to the ancient Sunstrider Omnium relic — and the buffs you earn carry through the rest of the Midnight expansion.

  • You unlock it by helping Magister Umbric and Grand Magister Rommath on the Isle of Quel'Danas, after which the Folio appears as a minimap icon you can click to manage your runes. Each week you complete the Seeking Knowledge quest, you earn a Mote of Omnial Inquiry to unlock the next row — five weeks to fully unlock the whole thing. The rune system is layered across five rows, with one core rune and one pick per row, and you can swap freely outside of combat.
  • Rune structure at a glance:
  • Row 1 (Core): Choose between Void-Touched Orbs (collect and launch at enemies/allies) or Unleashed Fire (proc-based damage or healing on spells/abilities).
  • Rows 2–4: Defensive and stat-boosting enhancements — self-healing below 75%, a damage-absorb shield on big hits, speed on taking damage, and secondary stat bonuses (crit, haste, mastery, or versatility) that stack on core rune procs.
  • Row 5: Power multipliers — double your core rune damage/healing, double your Rune of Lingering, or build up an echoing curse that detonates accumulated damage or healing after 10 seconds.
  • Completion reward: Finish all five Seeking Knowledge quests and you unlock the Sunstrider Omnium Simulacrum housing decor item.

  Wowhead — Blizzard Previews the Omnium Folio

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• Patch 12.0.7 Is a Release Candidate + Turbulent Timeways Updates

  Episode Topic 3

  The 12.0.7 PTR has been flagged as a release candidate, pointing to a June 16th launch — and the Turbulent Timeways event that comes with it just got a player-friendly tweak to its mount achievement.

  • A release candidate build means 12.0.7 is effectively feature-complete and likely only a couple weeks out, with hotfixes the only expected additions before and after launch. The in-game calendar already has Turbulent Timeways, Midsummer Festival, and the new Darkspear Dash micro-holiday populated — and all three point to June 16th as the go-live date, exactly eight weeks after Patch 12.0.5 dropped on April 21st.
  • Turbulent Timeways V details:
  • Event window: June 30th through August 11th — five weeks total.
  • Spawn of Vyranoth mount: The Master of the Turbulent Timeways V achievement now requires earning Mastery of Timeways in only 4 weeks (down from 5), meaning you can miss one week and still get the mount.
  • How it stacks: Complete a Timewalking dungeon to start gaining Knowledge of Timeways stacks; hit 4 runs and you earn Mastery of Timeways for that week.
  • Also in 12.0.7: New Zul'Jan campaign chapter, single-boss Sporefall raid (flexible 15–25 Mythic), two new Void Assault invasion zones, and Tier 6 Ritual Sites.

  Wowhead — Midnight Patch 12.0.7 PTR Now a Release Candidate Build · Wowhead — Spawn of Vyranoth Mount Requires One Less Week of Timewalking

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• 12.0.7 PTR QoL Bundle: Alts, Repairs, and Dundun

  Episode Topic 4

  Three separate PTR changes this week add up to a meaningful quality-of-life pass: cheaper gear for alts, cheaper repair bills for everyone, and a long-overdue fix to the Dundun grind.

  • The biggest structural change is to durability — starting in 12.0.7, weapons and shields will no longer take durability damage from combat, only from death or spirit rez. Testing on the PTR showed this roughly cuts repair costs in half for most classes, and essentially eliminates the infamous Protection Warrior "block tax," where shields degraded so fast from blocking that it added up to a disproportionate gold sink every session. For alt players, a new Warbound Champion-track cache costing only 100 Field Accolades lets you send gear directly to characters who need it, filling a gap left by the bind-on-pickup Hero caches already in the game.
  • The Dundun change specifically:
  • Old system: 1 Shard of Dundun per run — up to 8 runs per week to maximize Unalloyed Abundance. Major time sink, especially on multiple characters.
  • New system: Offer 1, 2, 4, or 8 Shards simultaneously. The abundance payout is multiplied by the number of shards used — so 8 shards in one run equals what 8 separate runs used to give.
  • Field Accolade cache costs for reference: Slot-specific Champion (Warbound) = 100 accolades; Random Champion = 75; Slot-specific Heroic (BoP) = 750; Random Heroic = 500.

  Wowhead — Get Champion Gear for Alts Using Field Accolades in Patch 12.0.7 · Wowhead — Save Gold on Repairs with Weapon Durability Changes in Patch 12.0.7 · Wowhead — Earn Unalloyed Abundance Faster by Using Multiple Shards of Dundun

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• Lorewalking: The History of the Loa in 12.0.7

  Episode Topic 5

  Patch 12.0.7's Lorewalking segment, hosted by Li Li Stormstout, takes players through the full history of the Loa — and it's almost certainly setting up major story beats for patch 12.1.

  • Li Li reframes loa as the troll cultural term for Wild Gods, connected to the Emerald Dream — a slight retcon from the older definition where "loa" covered any troll deity, including ascended trolls and minor spirits. The Lorewalking covers benevolent loa like Rezan, the Loa of Kings who empowered Zandalari royalty; corrupted cases like Hakkar the Blood God, who has never truly been slain; and tragic ones like the Drakkari who sacrificed their own loa to fight the Scourge during Wrath. It also introduces the concept of hash'ey — loa-blessed mortal avatars — and reveals that Bwonsamdi himself was once a hash'ey of Mueh'zala before ascending to godhood through absorbing the power of other loa.
  • The story framing almost certainly points toward Vol'jin, who is still dormant in Ardenweald and absorbed Rezan's power during Shadowlands — the parallels drawn here suggest his awakening as a true loa could be a 12.1 storyline. The patch also introduces a mysterious entity called Ula'tek, connected to the Amani and originating from the Rift of Aln in Harandar, whose status as a loa or something more sinister is left deliberately unresolved going into 12.1. Li Li gives out a Tome of Kings housing item as the Lorewalking reward, swapping the usual toy for décor.

  Wowhead — The Story of Lorewalking: Loa in Patch 12.0.7

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug isjoined by returning guest Pathran and is happy to welcome our newest guest Kyressa, Second Attempt's resident Feral Druid. We…

• Patch 12.0.7 PTR Roundup & Release Delay

  Episode Topic 1

  Patch 12.0.7 is shaping up on the PTR with a huge content slate, but Turbulent Timeways’ date just slipped from June 16 to June 30 — possibly Blizzard taking extra time to avoid another 12.0.5-style launch.

  • The 12.0.7 release date hasn’t been officially announced, but the community had been pegging it around June 16 based on the original Turbulent Timeways start date on the PTR. The latest PTR build pushed that event back two full weeks to June 30. Paired with Blizzard’s public apology for the 12.0.5 launch, this looks like a deliberate decision to slow the 8-week content cadence in favor of quality. The patch itself is genuinely big — first-ever flexible mythic raid difficulty, Heroic-difficulty world content, and a new player power system in the Omnium Folio.
  • What’s in the box:
  • Sporefall Raid: First-ever flexible mythic difficulty boss. Raid gear now drops with fixed stats instead of randomized, and Sporefused pieces sit 9 item levels above their regular upgrade tracks — likely BiS or near-BiS for most slots in Season 1.
  • Omnium Folio: New player power feature with Runes, available to everyone regardless of content type.
  • Invasion Zones: Two new zones — Naigtal and Val — with a new Heroic World Tier and two new world bosses.
  • Heroic World Tier Quest: “Knocking Off the Top” from Decimus asks for 4 Void Commander’s Emblems from the new world bosses on Heroic. Reward is a choice of Myth 1/6 cloak, belt, or bracers — first time Myth-track gear is available from open world content.
  • Jan’alai Egg Hatching: Short story-rich quest chain following the Loa of Fire’s return, ending with a baby dragonhawk named Emberlyn tagging along on your future adventures.
  • Turbulent Timeways: Returns June 30 with Dragonflight Timewalking dungeons and a new mount reward.

  Wowhead — 12.0.7 Splash Screen: Sporefall, Omnium Folio, and Invasion Zones · Wowhead — Sporefall Raid Gear Has New Stats in 12.0.7 · Wowhead — Heroic World Tier Quest Awards Myth Track Gear in 12.0.7 · Wowhead — Help Hatch Jan’alai’s New Eggs on the 12.0.7 PTR · Wowhead — Turbulent Timeways Dates Changed on PTR

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• Crest Caps Removed

  Episode Topic 2

  Blizzard removed the weekly Hero Dawncrest and Myth Dawncrest caps with this week’s reset — no more 1,000-per-week ceiling on either.

  • The cap removal coincides with the Voidforge dropping Myth gear into the loot pool, so the idea is to let people upgrade more freely as the season tail begins. There’s no crest acquisition buff yet, though, so actually accumulating Myth Crests in volume is still going to take real time — the upgrade itself is just no longer gated. This rolls out alongside the rest of the weekly Hotfixes Update.

  Wowhead — Crest Caps Removed Starting This Week

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• Juvenile Frostwyrm & WotLK Anniversary Speculation

  Episode Topic 3

  Datamining from the MoP Classic PTR turned up a new mount called Juvenile Frostwyrm on the Challenge Mode vendor, fueling speculation that Wrath of the Lich King Anniversary is the next step for Classic.

  • The same PTR build also surfaced Warlords of Draenor Challenge Mode weapon models, which has the community split on whether WoD Classic might also be in the cards. Blizzard has continued teasing WotLK externally with merch and references, but this is the first in-game data point pointing back toward Northrend. Cross-promotional rewards between Classic versions have happened before, so a Frostwyrm on a MoP vendor as a WotLK promo isn’t out of the question.

  Wowhead — Could This New Mount Be Another Hint That WotLK is Coming to Anniversary Servers?

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• Hero Talent Tuning Pass With Weekly Reset

  Episode Topic 4

  A wide-ranging Hero Talent tuning pass lands at weekly reset — Feral Druid all damage up 4%, Holy Priest and Resto Shaman get mana relief, Deathstalker Rogue gets a heavy buff to close the gap on alternatives.

  • The PvE side is mostly targeted at underperforming Hero Talents, with a separate batch of PvP-only changes layered on top. The notable absence from the healer mana relief list is Resto Druid — both Holy Priest and Resto Shaman get explicit mana cost cuts on their core casts, but no Resto Druid changes appear in the patch notes. Whether that means the spec is in a fine spot or just being overlooked is a worthwhile question for the show.
  • Notable highlights:
  • Feral Druid: All damage dealt increased by 4% across the board, not gated to a specific Hero Talent.
  • Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver): Warblade’s Hunger +55%, Reaver’s Glaive +15% Havoc / +30% Vengeance. Havoc Death Sweep also gets +10% to fix a base-damage scaling bug.
  • Rogue Assassination (Deathstalker): Deathstalker’s Mark +30%, Clear the Witnesses Fan of Knives bonus up to 60%, Corrupt the Blood Rupture bonus up to 20%, Darkest Night Envenom bonus up to 35%.
  • Mage Frost (Frostfire): Big push — Duality Pyroblast +25%, Dualcasting Adept Shatter bonus up to 40%, Heat Sink Flurry bonus up to 25%, Blast Radius Comet Storm bonus up to 50%.
  • Holy Priest (PvE): Flash Heal, Benediction, Prayer of Mending, and Prayer of Healing all down 8% mana cost.
  • Restoration Shaman (PvE): Chain Heal, Healing Wave, and Riptide all down 5% mana cost.
  • Warrior: Colossus Practiced Strikes up to +25% for Mortal Strike / Slam / Shield Slam. Mountain Thane Thunder Blast +30%.

  Wowhead — Many Hero Talent Buffs Coming: Upcoming Class Tuning

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• 12.0.5 Hotfixes: Flourish + Tranquility Toned Down

  Episode Topic 5

  This week’s 12.0.5 hotfix reduces the sound and visual overload from Resto Druid’s Flourish + Tranquility combo, plus fixes for Unholy DK, Disc Priest, and Prot Paladin — and the Bloody Tokens cap is gone.

  • The Flourish + Tranquility interaction had been a sensory wall — overlapping sound files stacked with the full Tranquility VFX on top of whatever else was firing in the raid. Blizzard reduced the number of sounds and visuals that play in that combination. Elsewhere: Unholy DK no longer has Forbidden Ritual aura stuck on permanently, Discipline Priest’s Master the Darkness can now be tracked in the cooldown manager, and Prot Paladin’s Guardian of the Forgotten Queen can be interrupted by CC effects as originally intended. The total Bloody Tokens cap was also removed.

  Wowhead — DK, Druid & Priest Issues Resolved: 12.0.5 Hotfixes

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug isjoined again by co-hostTemplrivanho and we are happy to welcome our guest Syles, one of our DPS players over in Second Attempt.…

• Patch 12.0.7 Development Notes (May 13)

  Episode Topic 1

  Blizzard pushed a new 12.0.7 PTR build today with Mythic Sporefall raid testing, Dragonflight Timewalking on the menu, and a small bump to PvP gear item levels.

  • What's in the build:
  • Sporefall test window: Mythic Sporefall PTR test, 1:00–2:00 PM PDT the day after the notes dropped.
  • Dragonflight Timewalking dungeons: Algeth'ar Academy, Halls of Infusion, Neltharus, Ruby Life Pools, The Azure Vault, Brackenhide Hollow — all six DF dungeons now available for testing.
  • PvP gear bump: Galactic Gladiator, Aspirant, Warmonger, and crafted PvP equipment had their PvP item levels increased by 9.

  Wowhead — Patch 12.0.7 Development Notes for May 13th

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• Heroic Sporefall Raid Testing on May 21st

  Episode Topic 2

  Blizzard has scheduled a one-hour Heroic Sporefall test on the 12.0.7 PTR, running 1–2 PM PDT on Thursday, May 21st.

  • This follows the Mythic Sporefall test from earlier in the week and lets PTR participants experience the full raid on Heroic difficulty. It's a short window, so anyone planning to drop in will want their PTR characters ready and the raid finder open at the top of the hour.

  Wowhead — Heroic Sporefall Raid Testing on May 21st

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• Heroic Invasions Add Roaming Elites and Creature Affixes

  Episode Topic 3

  Defeating the invasion point bosses in 12.0.7 unlocks a Heroic version of the invasion zones — recommended 274 item level, with creature affixes, elite overseers, and named patrolling mercenaries that actively hunt you down as you rack up kills.

  • The Heroic version layers a big ilvl jump over the Normal 217 recommendation and adds rotating weekly modifiers — current rotation is Creature Affixes, Elite Overseers, and Elite Presence. Creatures get random ability buffs (everything from Slumber Spores to Glacial Spike to Mushroomancy), defeating them sometimes drops a temporary 5-minute power buff like Astral Acceleration or Shatterstrike, and four named elite Warp Riders patrol Naigtal looking for trouble. The wrinkle: kill enough zone mobs and you accumulate a Stalked debuff, then Hunted, and one of the Warp Riders pulls into your current fight whether you like it or not. Val gets the same treatment from the Blackstar Legion.
  • The named Warp Riders to watch for on Naigtal:
  • Guardian Halazir: drops void zones; the real threat is Salvo Protocol firing arcane spheres in cardinal directions.
  • Renegade Kulivero: the most annoying of the bunch — chains Slice and Dice, Gouge, and Backstab.
  • Spellslinger Rem'lazar: chain-casts Frostfire Bolt with the occasional Pyroblast, will Polymorph if outnumbered and Ice Block before dying.
  • Techno-Medic Alazj: currently no notable abilities datamined.

  Wowhead — Heroic Invasions Introduce Roaming Elites and Creature Affixes

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• New Mounts from Void Assault Meta Achievements

  Episode Topic 4

  Two new 12.0.7 mounts are tied to Void Assault Invasion meta achievements — a void surfboard from Val and a void-infused mechsuit from Naigtal — and notably, neither meta requires Heroic difficulty to complete.

  • The two mounts:
  • Voidmancer's Starcarver (Val): a void surfboard unlocked by A Trip Around the Stars, which chains questlines, world quests, and rare kills on Val. Still costs 4,500 Voidlight Marl to actually buy after unlocking.
  • Starmech Cosmic-Collapser (Naigtal): a void-infused take on Legion's Lightforged Warframe, unlocked by A Trip Through the Stars — same achievement shape but in Naigtal.
  • The catch: the two metas share crossover criteria (questlines from both worlds), so neither will be a one-week unlock — but there are no "do 50 of these" grinds in the criteria either.

  Wowhead — Earn New Mounts from Void Assault Invasion Meta Achievements

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• Patch 12.0.5 Hotfixes: Voidspire Skip Teleport + Crafted Weapons Round Two

  Episode Topic 5

  Two hotfix posts worth flagging this week — Blizzard added a teleport pad to fix the Voidspire skip locking groups out of remaining bosses, and they're deploying a second hotfix for the crafted weapons that the first hotfix missed.

  • From the May 15 hotfix notes:
  • Voidspire teleport: a teleport pad now appears on the Isle of Quel'Danas for raid groups that used the raid shortcut and still have bosses to defeat — fixes the long-running issue of skip groups getting locked out.
  • Fallen-King Salhadaar: the Broken Oath warning is no longer unmovable in Edit Mode.
  • Delves: Nemesis Squads should no longer spawn under the world in Parhelion Plaza.
  • Decor Duel: Hiders can no longer swap with Enchanted Decoys.
  • Achievements: Reservation for One now correctly grants on repeat Mythic-tier fish meat collection in the same run; Champion of Pahk in Abyss Anglers no longer disappears before players can catch it.
  • BM Hunter: Bestial Wrath now displays as important on enemy nameplates in PvP.
  • Crafted weapons — second hotfix: the original hotfix for crafted weapons that couldn't be upgraded with Ascendant Voidcores missed any weapons that were mid-recraft or sitting in a mailbox when the fix went out. Blizzard confirmed a second hotfix without that limitation is currently being deployed, so affected items should be upgradable shortly if they aren't already.

  Wowhead — Patch 12.0.5 Hotfixes for May 15th (Voidspire teleport) · Wowhead — Second Hotfix for Bugged Crafted Weapons Coming Soon

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• Mythic L'ura Bugs That May Affect Your Progression

  Episode Topic 6

  Squishei put together a writeup of three rare-but-known Mythic L'ura bugs — all of which can wipe a fully prepared raid through no fault of the players — for guilds pushing through what averages out to a 300+ pull boss.

  • The three bugs:
  • Phase 2 Galvanize jerk: the standard strat is four cores hit by Galvanize in an X pattern to pull the raid centerward before an AoE spread. The bug causes the pull effect to stutter, yanking players to off-center positions and making them drop cosmic-damage crystals in the wrong spot — usually a wipe.
  • Phase 3 stuck crystal: when players are knocked out of the Darkwell at the start of Phase 3, a crystal will occasionally not fly the full distance and stays inside the well. No recovery — guaranteed wipe.
  • Phase 3 Light Aura: a bug that was "fixed" earlier in 12.0.5 but can still occur. Light Aura fails to apply to the target, leaving them massively slowed. They need a snare break (Freedom, etc.) and to re-enter the light to maybe get it to trigger correctly.

  Wowhead — Mythic L'ura Bugs that May Affect Your Progression

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• Tier 5 Ritual Sites Are the Best Heroic Crest Farm

  Episode Topic 7

  Tier 5 Ritual Sites award 20 Hero Dawncrests per run — averaging under a minute per crest — and have officially dethroned Delves as the most efficient Heroic crest farm in 12.0.5.

  • Ritual Sites have quietly become the swiss-army-knife activity of the patch — they're already a strong source of Voidlight Marl and Field Accolades, they award the highest-rank Great Vault gear for non-raiders, and now they're the fastest crest farm too. They also award 4-of-6 Hero from the Vault, three upgrades higher than what Nightmare Prey hunts or Delves give you.
  • Why they win over Delves:
  • Shorter and simpler: one objective, no collecting, no minigames.
  • Less linear: stronger groups can split up and finish faster.
  • Open and outdoors: you can actually mount up and move quickly between objectives.
  • No lockout: unlike Delves with Restored Coffer Keys and a Bountiful daily cap, Ritual Sites just keep paying out. In 12.0.7, Tier 6 Ritual Sites will also award Myth Crests with no lockout — versus four Gilded Stashes per week capping out at 20 Myth Dawncrests from Delves.

  Wowhead — The Most Efficient Farm for Heroic Upgrade Crests

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• Valeera Will Solo Nullaeus For You

  Episode Topic 8

  The Delve companion Valeera turns out to be a stealth-mode answer to the Nullaeus Nemesis fight — capable of kicking, handling intermission adds, face-tanking with support, and even auto-Assassinating the boss at 5% HP.

  • She doesn't even need to be especially high level for the strat to work, although a few levels make the fight noticeably easier. She nails every kick with Dagger to the Throat, handles the intermission adds solo, and acts as a competent DPS or off-tank depending on the player's role.
  • The strat by role:
  • Healers: easiest mode. Sit at range, let Valeera DPS and tank, stay under 130% threat. If Nullaeus does turn on you, just kite until he loses interest.
  • Ranged DPS: follow the same kite pattern. Most of his damage is auto-attacks, so if he can't catch you, he can't hit you. Hunters can use their pet to tank for a near-free clear.
  • Melee and tanks: the hardest spec to run this strat — you can't just kite. Strong self-sustain specs can keep Valeera on DPS to burn the boss faster; otherwise, switch her to Healer (she'll auto-dispel Devouring Essence) and you handle the Emptiness of the Void kicks yourself.
  • What she's not good at: actually tanking — she holds less threat than her DPS spec and still needs you to keep her alive.

  Wowhead — Take Advantage of Valeera In Order to Defeat Nullaeus

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• BlizzardCS on Cursing: One F-Bomb, A Report, and a Walk-Back

  Episode Topic 9

  The official @BlizzardCS account told an X user this week that dropping an "F bomb" plus a report was enough to get a player suspended — sparking immediate backlash about reporting-system abuse — and then walked the messaging back the next day, saying context actually does matter.

  • The original exchange had the BlizzardCS account replying that "you aren't allowed to curse in our games. Do so, get reported, there are consequences." That kicked off the predictable conversation about WoW's automated reporting system, which players have long suspected can be weaponized — there's a years-deep trail of Reddit posts from players claiming accounts have been actioned (chat bans, forced name changes, suspensions) over Mythic+ runs, guild names, and Crafting Cartel-style coordinated reports. The original in-game Code of Conduct never specifically calls out swear words; it talks about offensive, vulgar, or obscene language, which BlizzardCS appeared to be interpreting very broadly.
  • The walk-back came from "KAL" on the BlizzardCS team, acknowledging that the engagement on the original post wasn't the quality Blizzard expects of itself. The clarification: cursing is not blanket-punished, context matters, and in this specific case the action was upheld because the context warranted it. They committed to communicating with more clarity going forward — but didn't actually publish what the contextual thresholds are, which leaves the underlying reporting-abuse concern basically untouched.

  Wowhead — Blizzard Confirms Swearing One Time Can Get You Suspended (with update)

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmates Templrivanho and Shakatan. We cover some news announced for Blizzcon community night event, ritual…

• BlizzCon 2026 Community Night Lineup Revealed

  Episode Topic 1

  Blizzard has unveiled the host and judging panel for BlizzCon 2026 Community Night, with voice actor Darin De Paul returning as Master of Ceremonies and five master cosplayers tapped as Cosplay Contest judges. Submissions close May 15, and BlizzCon itself returns physically September 12–13 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

  • The lineup:
  • Darin De Paul: Master of Ceremonies — voice of Reinhardt, N'Zoth, Blackhand, Tyr, and Gallywix.
  • Tiffany Gordon Cosplay: Won BlizzCon 2023's Best in Show with her Lilith cosplay; works in leather, foam, and fabric and teaches others.
  • SameerTikkaMasala: India-based cosplayer with 40+ awards; works in film and TV designing costumes, props, and sets.
  • Kamui Cosplay: Internationally renowned cosplay duo known for elaborate DIY content on social media.
  • Cinderys: Won BlizzCon 2019 Grand Prize and Outstanding Creation for her Prime Evil Leah cosplay; concept and 3D artist.
  • Cestlasara: Sewn-armor specialist, cosplaying since 2002; current Blizzard IT Support Engineer and BlizzCon Ambassador.

  Wowhead — Presenting the BlizzCon 2026 Community Night Host and Contest Judges

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• Tier 6 Ritual Sites Drop Myth Crests in 12.0.7

  Episode Topic 2

  Patch 12.0.7 unlocks a sixth tier of Ritual Sites that awards Mythic Dawncrests, plus a new multi-stage quest chain that walks players through every challenge variation.

  • Tier 6 is recommended for item level 270, but anyone who's been using their weekly Bonus Rolls should be at or near that threshold already, and groups can still tackle it under-geared. On top of normal rewards, completion now grants a small amount of Myth Dawncrest. There's also a new "Ritual Site Studies: Week 1 of 3" quest tied to an Advanced Ritual Site Studies achievement, which appears to funnel players through trying every challenge type. Follow-up quests haven't been datamined yet, but the Ritual Breaker title can still be earned through Pinnacle Ritual Work before Midnight wraps.

  Wowhead — Tier 6 Ritual Sites Award Myth Crests in Patch 12.0.7

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• Reserve the Arcantina for Your Own Private Party

  Episode Topic 3

  As of Patch 12.0.5, players can pay Bartender Bob 5 gold to phase the Arcantina into a fully private version of the tavern — no other players, no NPCs, no quest givers — perfect for roleplay or small guild gatherings.

  • The private phase clears everyone from the tavern except Bob himself, who keeps serving food and drink. Group and raid members can opt into the same private instance by speaking to Bob individually, letting the tavern function as a real private meeting space. Consumables like Savory Deviate Delight and interactables like the Undermine Electrician's Practice Board still work, and rejoining the public phase is free — just talk to Bob again, or step out and back in. It's a small QoL feature, but as Wowhead points out, WoW has surprisingly few genuinely private gathering spaces outside of player housing, so this fills a niche for RP communities and small events.

  Wowhead — Reserve the Arcantina for Your Own Private Party

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• Two Hotfix Rounds Plus Tank Tuning Coming May 12

  Episode Topic 4

  Two waves of class and dungeon hotfixes hit on May 6 and May 8, and Blizzard has previewed a major tank tuning pass deploying with weekly maintenance on May 12 — buffing every tank except Brewmaster, with the stated goal of bridging the gap to the dominant Brew meta.

  • Hotfix highlights, May 6 and May 8: The May 6 round addressed a Restoration Druid bug where Tree of Life's duration wasn't tracked in the cooldown manager when talented into Reforestation, fixed Brewmaster threat generation for Flurry Strikes, patched several Affliction and Destruction Warlock issues including Wither failing to replace Corruption, and added clearer telegraphing for Latch's Heaving Yank in Windrunner Spire's Derelict Duo encounter. The May 8 follow-up fixed Mistweaver's Rushing Wind Kick heal failing intermittently, resolved the Voidspire raid skip teleport bug, and patched a Magisters' Terrace issue where Gemellus could stop using abilities mid-fight if a player died during Astral Grasp. Decor Duel groups can also now queue through the Group Finder.
  • The May 12 tank pass — passive mitigation and cooldown uptime:
  • Blood Death Knight: Improved Death Strike healing 5% → 15%; Dance of Midnight grants Dancing Rune Weapon 6s → 8s, proc rate 10% → 12.5%.
  • Vengeance Demon Hunter: Demonic Wards damage reduction 8% → 12%; Thick Skin stamina 50% → 55%; Mastery: Fel Blood +20% effective; Void Reaver Frailty DR 4% → 5%.
  • Protection Paladin: Sanctified Plates stamina 5/10% → 7/15%; Ardent Defender duration 8s → 12s and DR 20% → 30%; Sentinel duration 16s → 20s.
  • Protection Warrior: Fight Through Flames magic DR 4% → 6%; Phalanx 5% → 8%; Ignore Pain effectiveness +8%.
  • Brewmaster Monk: Notably absent — already considered overtuned in the current Mythic+ meta.
  • Stated goal: Blizzard says tanking has fallen behind their intentions for keeping up with incoming damage in Mythic+, and they want to "bridge the gap between tank specs."

  Wowhead — Restoration Druid, Brewmaster Monk, and Warlock Updates: May 6 Hotfixes · Wowhead — May 8th Hotfixes: Rushing Wind Kick, Depth Grease, Voidspire Raid Skip · Blizzard Forums — Tank Adjustments Incoming, May 12 · Icy Veins — Tank Changes Incoming: Passive Mitigation and Cooldown Buffs

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• Team Liquid Drops Midnight Season 1 RWF Documentary

  Episode Topic 5

  Following their Midnight Season 1 World First, Team Liquid has released a behind-the-scenes documentary covering their players, community casters, and production staff through one of the more unusual races in recent memory.

  • Midnight Season 1 was a unique RWF for being split across three separate raids — The Voidspire, The Dreamrift, and March on Quel'Danas — and the race itself was a roller coaster. It started off oddly easy, dragged competitors through long, mind-numbing splits, then snapped into the genuine challenges, and capped off with a secret Mythic phase that surprised the guild and their competitors alike. The documentary leans into the humor and chemistry between teammates, which makes it a more engaging watch than the usual progression highlight reel — even if you watched the race live or already know the outcome.

  Wowhead — Liquid Guild vs Midnight Season 1 Race to World First Documentary

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• Microsoft's Record Quarter and First-Ever Buyout Program

  Episode Topic 6

  Microsoft posted a record-breaking Q3 FY26 — $82.9 billion in revenue, up 18 percent — but the stock fell on a $190 billion capex guide for calendar 2026, and on April 23 the company opened its first voluntary retirement program in 51 years, targeting roughly 8,750 US employees.

  • The headline numbers and the capex problem: Operating income hit $38.4 billion (+20%), Azure grew 40% in constant currency, and the AI business surpassed a $37 billion annual run rate. But Xbox hardware revenue fell 33% year over year, total gaming revenue dropped $380 million or 7%, and CFO Amy Hood guided to roughly $190 billion in 2026 capex against a Wall Street consensus of $154.6 billion — about two-thirds of that going to short-lived assets, primarily GPUs and CPUs. Analyst Ben Reitzes had already downgraded Microsoft to Hold in February, telling CNBC he was "floored" that Copilot only had 15 million paid users after three years of promotion. Mizuho is now modeling negative free cash flow for 2027 and 2028.
  • The "Rule of 70" voluntary retirement program:
  • Eligibility: US employees at Level 67 or below, not on a sales incentive plan, whose age plus years of service equals 70 or more.
  • Scale: Roughly 8,750 people qualify — about 7% of Microsoft's US workforce.
  • Cost to Microsoft: Approximately $900 million one-time charge.
  • Timing: Notifications went out May 7 with a 30-day decision window.
  • Carve-outs: AI and Copilot teams reportedly exempt; gaming, including Activision Blizzard, was not exempted as a division.
  • Context: Same day, April 23, Meta announced 8,000 layoffs (10% of workforce) — making Microsoft's "voluntary" framing look more strategic than generous.

  CNBC — Microsoft Q3 Earnings Report 2026 · Microsoft Investor Relations — FY26 Q3 Earnings Press Release

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• GitHub Reliability Crisis Meets Xbox Leadership Shakeup

  Episode Topic 7

  GitHub logged 257 incidents in 12 months and lost a high-profile veteran user who declared the platform "no longer for serious work." A week later, on May 5, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma imported four CoreAI and GitHub leaders into the gaming org and confirmed Xbox is winding down its Copilot for Gaming initiative.

  • The GitHub side: GitHub's reliability has cratered as the platform absorbs explosive AI agent traffic. CTO Vlad Fedorov posted on April 29 that the company started a 10x capacity expansion plan in October 2025, then realized by February 2026 that it needed to design for 30x today's scale. Mitchell Hashimoto — GitHub user 1299, HashiCorp co-founder, and creator of the Ghostty terminal — pulled Ghostty off GitHub on April 28, writing that the platform "blocks you out for hours per day, every day." His post hit Hacker News at 3,000+ points. SemiAnalysis projects that Claude Code alone will author 20%+ of all daily GitHub commits by year-end.
  • The Xbox side: Asha Sharma — who took over Microsoft Gaming from Phil Spencer in February — restructured Xbox leadership on May 5, bringing in Jared Palmer (former CoreAI VP and senior VP at GitHub) as VP of engineering and technical advisor; Tim Allen (CoreAI/GitHub design VP) as head of design; Jonathan McKay (former head of growth for ChatGPT at OpenAI) as Xbox head of growth; and Evan Chaki and David Schloss in supporting roles. Veteran Xbox VPs Kevin Gammill and Roanne Sones are out or stepping back. Sharma also confirmed Xbox is winding down Copilot on console and mobile, publicly reversing one of Microsoft's loudest AI-in-gaming pitches of the past year.

  Mitchell Hashimoto — Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub · The Register — Hashimoto Says GitHub "No Longer for Serious Work" · CNBC — Microsoft's New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Overhauls Leadership Team · Tom's Hardware — Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Kills Copilot for Gaming

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho and Pathran joins us for the first time. Our guilds Key Runner aka Key Boss. We have a…

• Patch 12.0.7: The Omnium Folio Is Borrowed Power Without the Gear Slot

  Episode Topic 1

  Patch 12.0.7 is introducing a new source of borrowed power called the Omnium Folio, and the big headline is that it has no gear slot attached to it — a deliberate design shift after players criticized systems like the War Within's Durable Information Securing Container belt for overstaying their welcome. Once you complete a short unlock questline, it lives as a button on your minimap and gives you access to a five-node talent tree of passive runes.

  • The nodes are likely weekly time-gated and come in two flavors: a core rune that deals damage or heals, and a series of modifier nodes that add stat bonuses, periodic effects, or amplifiers on top of it. The final node choice goes big — either doubling your core rune output, doubling your lingering effect, or creating an echo that repeats all rune damage and healing at 50% after a 10-second delay. Because it's not tied to gear, Blizzard can tune it independently and, importantly, just turn it off heading into Season 2.

  Wowhead — New Power from the Omnium Folio Does Not Take a Gear Slot

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• WoW Tier 2 Sets Are Coming to Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred

  Episode Topic 2

  Blizzard dropped a surprise crossover to coincide with the Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred expansion, bringing iconic World of Warcraft Tier 2 armor sets into Sanctuary as cosmetics for every Diablo 4 class. The lineup covers all the classics: Judgment for Paladin, Bloodfang for Rogue, Stormrage for Druid, Netherwind for Mage, Nemesis Raiment for Warlock, Battle Gear of Wrath for Barbarian, Ten Storms for Spiritborn, and a Death Knight-inspired set for Necromancer. Two mount rewards also make an appearance — a Sindragosa basilisk and a Raven Lord basilisk, both recognizable to longtime WoW players. Each class bundle runs $24.99 per class or $49.99 for the full collection.

  Wowhead — World of Warcraft Collab Brings Tier 2 Sets to Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred

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• Sporefall Raid Is Bringing Two Big Alt-Friendly Features in Patch 12.0.7

  Episode Topic 3

  The Sporefall one-boss raid coming in Patch 12.0.7 is shaping up to be the most alt-friendly raid content Blizzard has released in a long time — two distinct features are working together to make that happen. First, all gear from the raid, including Myth track loot at item level 276 from Mythic difficulty, drops as Warbound Until Equipped. This is the first time Myth track gear has been tradeable to alts at all, and with Mythic Sporefall supporting flex groups of 15–25, it could meaningfully accelerate late-season alt gearing headed into Season 2. As a PTR note, this is subject to change.

  • Second, defeating Rotmire completes a quest that rewards a Void-Twisted Sporbit, convertible into a Nebulous Voidcore for a bonus loot roll. The catch: rolling requires two Voidcores, so you'll still need a second from the Great Vault to spend it in the raid — or you can use the single core for a bonus roll in dungeons, Delves, or Nightmare Prey content instead.

  Wowhead — Earn An Additional Bonus Loot Roll From Sporefall Raid in Patch 12.0.7 · Wowhead — Warbound Equipped Gear Drops from Patch 12.0.7 Sporefall Raid

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• Patch 12.0.7 Datamining: Mounts, a Deathwing Onesie, and Badlands Fashion

  Episode Topic 4

  Patch 12.0.7 datamining has turned up a solid cosmetic haul across mounts, transmog, and the Trading Post. On the mount side there's a Spawn of Vyranoth tied to the upcoming Dragonflight Timewalking event, alongside rocket mounts, a Void Surfboard, a Void-Forged Mechsuit, a Stormcrow, and — yes — a Sporebat. The transmog highlight is a Deathwing Onesie, possibly also a Dragonflight Timewalking reward, with a plainer Black Dragon Onesie variant for those who want the cozy energy without the Worldbreaker branding. Rounding things out, a Western-styled Badlands armor set in five color variants has been datamined as a likely future Trading Post reward — nothing officially confirmed yet.

  Wowhead — New Rocket Mount and Void Surfbound Mounts in Patch 12.0.7 · Wowhead — New Deathwing Onesie Transmog in Patch 12.0.7 · Wowhead — New Badlands Armor Models Datamined in Patch 12.0.7

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• KeystoneLoot AddOn: One Menu for All Your Gearing Decisions

  Episode Topic 5

  KeystoneLoot is an addon that consolidates all available loot for your spec from current Mythic+ dungeons and raids into a single filterable icon grid — filterable by class, spec, armor slot, and item level. It also displays what difficulty of content you need to complete to hit a given item level, so you're not doing mental math mid-session. The standout feature for this season is its integration with the Nebulous Voidcore bonus roll system: you can mark items as Best in Slot, Must Have, or Nice to Have, giving you a live priority list so you always know exactly where to spend your rolls without opening a sim tool.

  Wowhead — Simplify Your End-Game Gearing Efforts with the KeystoneLoot AddOn

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho and Shakatan making a late appearance. This time we are joined by two of our guildmates…

• Patch 12.0.5 Launch: Bug Wave & Hotfix Sprint

  Episode Topic 1

  Patch 12.0.5 — Lingering Shadows — went live on Tuesday, April 21st on a faster cadence than anticipated for Midnight, and the launch shipped with an unusually heavy bug load. Blizzard has spent the last four days hotfixing in waves, raising the question of whether the tighter patch schedule is outrunning the quality bar Blizzard had been holding to.

  • Pre-launch / disabled at the gate:
  • Player Housing was temporarily disabled in the Americas and Oceanic regions during launch maintenance after Blizzard found a critical bug; learning new decor was disabled along with it. Blizzard opened realms with Housing and Neighborhoods turned off and committed to a follow-up maintenance to bring it back.
  • Midnight Keystone Myth — Season One achievement (3,400 rating) was disabled at launch in the Americas and Oceanic for a bug; it came online with the April 24 hotfixes and qualifying players are receiving the achievement retroactively.
  • Raid & encounter bugs:
  • L'ura on March of Quel'Danas bugged on all difficulties — Phase 3 Dawn Crystal safety auras sometimes failing to protect players from the DoT; the Eclipsed intermission debuff persisting after the healing absorb is removed and stacking up to 4 times for the rest of the fight, also reported on Paladins and Dragons in Voidspire. No fix posted yet.
  • Alleria received a 12.0.5 "fix" that closed an immunity strategy and was effectively a buff with only a 10% Gravity Collapse damage reduction; on April 23 a follow-up hotfix nerfed Gravity Collapse another 10%, bringing damage from 234k to 189k per snap.
  • Magisters' Terrace — Degentrius's Devouring Entropy could damage players who were immune to it. Fixed April 23.
  • Windrunner Spire — Commander Kroluk could melee after finishing his Bladestorm cast. Fixed April 23.
  • Voidcore Bonus Rolls duplicates:
  • Nebulous Voidcore bonus rolls were not removing won items from the loot table, allowing duplicate drops. Blizzard acknowledged it, told players to hold off using bonus rolls, and hotfixed it on Wednesday April 22 around 8:05 PM PDT.
  • Blizzard explained the cause as a database difference between internal test environments (single database) and live realms (multiple databases) — the system worked as intended internally but not on live.
  • Every Nebulous Voidcore spent before the fix is being refunded to affected characters, and Blizzard noted that re-rolling on the same boss after the fix may still produce duplicates of items already received pre-fix.
  • Class bugs — specs that were broken or off-tune:
  • Unholy Death Knight dropped to the bottom of the WarcraftLogs Overall DPS chart due to multiple bugs: Commander of the Dead not applying to pets on spawn (especially during Army of the Dead), Dread Plague and Virulent Plague not ticking correctly when extended, Disease Cloud sourcing damage from the player instead of the Abomination so it didn't scale with pet modifiers, Unholy Devotion granting unintended haste in addition to attack speed and energy regen, Magus of the Dead AFK on spawn for ~1–1.5s, and Forbidden Knowledge Rank 4 under-procing. Fixed April 23–24, including a rework of Festering Scythe to a player aura instead of a target debuff.
  • Preservation Evoker — Stasis stopped capturing and duplicating Dream Breath, breaking a core part of the spec's healing toolkit. No fix posted yet.
  • Holy Paladin — Holy Armaments causing major FPS drops (workaround: spec swap and back); a missing 12.0.1 damage hotfix reportedly making the spec underperform. Holy Armaments framerate issue fixed April 24.
  • Mistweaver Monk — Refreshment, Uplifted Spirits, Unity Within, and Chrysalis randomly being disabled in raid; unclear trigger and unclear if it affects Mythic+. No fix posted yet.
  • Devourer Demon Hunter — the Sweet Suffering nerf intended for 12.0.5 didn't apply, and Devour was generating ~18 Fury instead of 10; spec dominated post-launch charts before tuning landed. Sweet Suffering issue addressed; April 24 also fixed Single-Button Assistant range recommendations on Collapsing Star.
  • Vengeance Demon Hunter — Metamorphosis going on cooldown when Last Resort triggered. Fixed April 24.
  • Windwalker Monk — Zenith Stomp benefits from Mastery but doesn't act as a unique spell to keep it going (X > Stomp > X drops Mastery / Hit Combo); double Zenith with Drinking Horn Cover overwriting; CDM buffs disappearing without a profile reset. No fix posted yet.
  • Restoration Shaman — the patch notes promised a 30% damage increase but the spec only received 15%. No fix posted yet.
  • Marksmanship Hunter — Pathfinding/Endurance Training double-applying with Unbreakable Bond plus Cunning or Tenacity, and Cunning/Tenacity pets sometimes losing their pet passives; also a separate bug where Unbreakable Bond's damage reduction went to the hunter instead of the pet. All fixed April 23–24. A second wave of PvP-only nerfs landed April 24 (Black Arrow damage −30%, all damage −10% in PvP) due to MM overperforming.
  • Affliction Warlock — Blight of Weakness and Tongues missing from the Cooldown Manager; Frequent Traveler not working through other Warlocks' Demonic Gateways; Jinx not functioning without Foul Mouth talented. Fixed across April 23–24.
  • Destruction Warlock — leftover spells from removed talents still appearing in the Cooldown Manager. Fixed April 23.
  • Demonology Warlock — Demonic Gateway unintentionally benefiting Hellbent Commander; Diabolist's Abyssal Dominion not matching Demonic Tyrant duration with Reign of Tyranny. Fixed April 23–24.
  • Frost Mage — Hand of Frost Rank 2 not providing the correct per-stack Shatter chance increase. Fixed April 24.
  • Shadow Priest — Voidweaver's Overwhelming Shadows incorrectly buffing Mind Blast. Fixed April 24.
  • Trickster Rogue — Cloud Cover costing 30 Energy to activate, and the visual being shown to the entire party instead of just the caster. Fixed April 24.
  • Other clean-ups in the April 24 hotfix wave:
  • Pandaren characters who boosted during the intro sequence can now port to their houses; Valeera no longer refuses to attack Poison Dart Frog or Giant Cursed Bullfrog in Delves; Atal'Aman Sanctified Banner placement adjusted; The Darkway's Corrupted Leyline no longer keeps casting Detected! out of range; Maisara Caverns players no longer stuck in combat after Vordaza; multiple quest fixes including the Nebulous Voidcore turn-in for "Artifice of Aggression."

  Wowhead — Player Housing Temporarily Disabled in America & Oceanic Regions · Wowhead — Keystone Myth Achievement for Season 1 Coming Soon · Wowhead — Keystone Myth Achievement and Mounts Now Available in Patch 12.0.5 · Wowhead — L'ura Bugged on All Difficulties with Patch 12.0.5 · Wowhead — Alleria Nerfed in Latest Hotfixes · Wowhead — Class Bugs with Patch 12.0.5 — Unholy DK, Preservation Evoker · Wowhead — (Fixed) Unholy Death Knight Dealing Less Damage Than Intended Due to Bugs · Wowhead — Unholy Death Knight's Festering Scythe Bug Fixed · Wowhead — Blizzard Investigating Issue With Bonus Rolls Duplicates · Wowhead — Blizzard Confirms Bonus Rolls Safe to Use Again · Wowhead — Blizzard Will Refund Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls in the Coming Days · Wowhead — Marksmanship Hunter & Warlock Fixes — Midnight Patch 12.0.5 Hotfixes · Wowhead — Unholy Death Knight Fixed in Latest Midnight Hotfixes (April 24 hotfixes)

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• Blizzard's Public Apology for the 12.0.5 Launch

  Episode Topic 2

  Following four days of escalating bug reports, Blizzard posted a community-facing message acknowledging that the 12.0.5 launch fell short of their standards and committing to better communication on future patches — the kind of statement they don't usually issue mid-patch.

  • The post, signed by The World of Warcraft Team, opens by saying the 12.0.5 patch launch was "not up to our standards" and that the disruption caused "justified frustration."
  • Blizzard says the team has been "working around the clock since launch" to stabilize the game and fix the highest-impact issues, linking to the running hotfixes thread and the two Bonus Roll posts (the investigation announcement and the refund commitment).
  • They commit to taking lessons from this launch to prevent it from happening again, and specifically to "communicate openly, early, and often when a launch doesn't go as expected" — including known issues, fixes as they roll out, and any other useful information for the community while problems are being worked.
  • The post closes with: "We care deeply about this game, and we play it right alongside you. We will do better."

  Wowhead — Blizzard Shares a Message With Players Regarding the 12.0.5 Launch

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• Decor Duels: Wowhead Interview & Track Humanoids Exploit

  Episode Topic 3

  Blizzard sat down with Wowhead for an exclusive interview about the design of Decor Duels, the new prop-hunt-style mode in Silvermoon — but in the same week, players found ways to break it open with class abilities and food buffs the developers forgot to disable.

  • Interview — design intent and origins:
  • Game Producer Jerry Li and Senior Quality Analyst Patrick Horaczek say Decor Duels came out of a brainstorm aimed at building something fun regardless of how much in-game support already existed. The first playtest was at Sentinel Hill in Westfall (lots of houses to hide in), but they ended up settling on Silvermoon for its lore relevance and its magical theming — hiders use illusions, seekers dispel them.
  • Class kits are intentional. Spellbreaker fits the Silvermoon city guards and has a leap as a gap closer; Arcane Ranger has ranged abilities and stealth. The team specifically wanted to avoid a single dominant kit so players don't all settle on the same pick.
  • Matches are quick — about 3 minutes per round, no role queue, no comp requirement, matchmade with one premade team allowed. Winners earn slightly more currency but it's not heavily weighted; participation alone is meant to be enough to acquire all the desired rewards. There's no penalty for losing.
  • No end date has been set yet. The live team is taking a "wait and see" approach based on player response. They like the idea of letting players build custom maps inside their own houses down the line, and frame this as the first of "many future kooky game modes."
  • Favorite story from the interview: an early playtest had no cap on the bee and fly swarms that spawn around hiders who stand still too long — one developer came back from lunch to find his character entirely engulfed, with the servers straining under the load.
  • The exploits side of the same week:
  • Track Humanoids exploit: Hunter's Track Humanoids ability and the Blackened Worg Steak food buff both stay active inside Decor Duels, letting Seekers locate Hiders trivially. Wowhead frames this as a clear oversight — gaining a tracker in a hide-and-seek mode defeats the purpose of the mode.
  • Penalized for hiding too well: Players reported receiving no rewards at the end of a Decor Duel because they remained inactive in their hiding spot — if accurate, this punishes hiders for actually winning.
  • Out-of-bounds hiding: Players also reported being able to go fully out of bounds as a hider.
  • Trap-stacking at the Seeker spawn: Hiders were stacking traps near the Seekers' waiting room to prevent them from leaving. Blizzard patched this April 23 — Hiders can no longer go near the Seeker waiting room. Developer note flagged it as an "emergent tactic."
  • Side note: April 24 hotfixes added Decorative Dornogal Opals (small, medium, and large) to the Decor Duel vendor in Silvermoon as new housing decor purchases.

  Wowhead — Blizzard Discusses Decor Duels in 12.0.5 (Exclusive Interview) · Wowhead — Decor Duels Marred By Track Humanoids Exploit · Wowhead — April 23 Hotfixes (includes Decor Duels Seeker spawn fix)

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• Chinese Exclusive: The Crimson Tide Treasure Hunt

  Episode Topic 4

  Thunderfire Games revealed a new Chinese-exclusive promotional event called The Crimson Tide Treasure Hunt, in which players purchase mystery boxes containing previously datamined Sha and Venthyr-themed cosmetics — available for both Classic (Titan Reforged) and Midnight servers in China.

  • What's in the box:
  • Mounts: The Count's Crimson Carriage (a flying lying-down luxury vehicle), The Scarlet Duchess (a flying pink pony surrounded by hearts), and the Miasma-Footed Snail (fluorescent green shell). A separate-but-bundled Sha promotion adds Sha Wolf, Owl, and Hippogryph mounts.
  • Transmog: Nathria Noble Attire, themed as a Shadow Realm nobleman.
  • Pets: Lil' Staropod (a baby thunder dragon) and Miasma Bat.
  • Housing decor: The Crimson Sire's Throne (Denathrius's throne), the Countess's Crimson Crystal Ball, and the Fallen Castle Pipe Organ.
  • Classic / Titan Reforged exclusives: Droplet of the Crimson Tide (transforms a Mage's water elemental appearance, including spell effects, into a Crimson Tide), and the Grizzly Hills Packmaster mount — a Northrend beast equipped with built-in repair and transmogrification, marketed as a travel must-have.
  • How the promotion works:
  • Players buy Treasure Points with real currency: 1 RMB (~$0.15 USD) = 1 Treasure Point = 1 Treasure Coin. 6 Treasure Coins = 1 random draw. 54 Treasure Coins = 10 random draws.
  • Wowhead notes the framing doesn't really tie to Venthyr, Revendreth, or the Shadowlands thematically — the bundle is a mix — but the Sha pieces still fit cleanly with that side of the promotion.

  Wowhead — The Crimson Tide Treasure Hunt (Chinese Exclusive Venthyr Mystery Box Promotion)

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• New Capybara Pet (Ka'bubb) from Abyss Anglers

  Episode Topic 5

  Patch 12.0.5 added a new spear-fishing activity off the coast of Zul'Aman called Abyss Anglers, with a capybara-in-a-bubble companion named Ka'bubb as the headline reward.

  • Speak with Depthdiver Jeju to dive in. Players use the Fire Harpoon ability to spearfish until their dive suit's Oxygen runs out — there is no daily or weekly cap on how many dives can be done.
  • The activity's currency is Angler Pearls, used both to upgrade the dive suit (longer dives) and to unlock additional activities that earn more currency.
  • Players can also earn a limited weekly amount of Fused Vitality, plus transmog and housing decor.
  • Reward highlights — housing decor: Windmark Tribal Charm, Amani Dreamer's Charm, Barebone Rope Charm, Simple Bone-Tied Charm, Depthdiver's Cooking Spit, and Zul'Aman Forest Hammock.
  • Reward highlights — transmog: the Fangfin Flailer weapon, Ensemble: Depthdiver Vestments, and Ensemble: Abyss Angler.
  • Reward highlights — pet: Ka'bubb, a capybara floating inside a bubble.

  Wowhead — Earn a New Capybara Pet From Abyss Anglers in Patch 12.0.5

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmate Templrivanho with a special guest appearance by one of our raid healers Straam. In this episode we…

• Post-Race Interview & Sporefall Mythic Flex

  Episode Topic 1

  Liquid's Maximum hosted a post-race interview with Lead Encounter Designer Taylor Sanders and Senior Game Designer Anthony Trejo, discussing raid design philosophy across the Midnight Season 1 tier.

  • Belo'ren was originally designed with a fourth wave of echoes and a possible third wave of birds, but internal QA testing found it was too much. The fight was intended to be killed on the 3rd egg, with a berserk trigger after. The two-phase skip strategy was not expected to be feasible without the long-range Augmentation Evoker tech.
  • L'ura had an expected strategy using extra crystal time that Liquid's damage output ended up making unnecessary. Devs expected players would have about 10 more seconds than they did. Phase 1 was a point where the team considered mid-race nerfs because they weren't sure it was manageable.
  • Encounter Journal — The team has been intentionally making higher-difficulty journal details more ambiguous. They've found Mythic players enjoy learning as they go and have a higher tolerance for discovery wipes. Secret phases like L'ura's work better when they're not spoiled in the journal.
  • Healing design shifted in Midnight toward more steady rot damage, triage moments, and healing debuffs rather than planning long lists of raid cooldowns. The goal is more texture from encounter to encounter rather than every fight feeling the same.
  • Mid-race tuning — The team doesn't like to adjust things too much once they're live. Bug fixes take priority. L'ura tuning was considered safer because it improved consistency without risking a quick kill. They're careful not to give either region a distinct advantage.
  • The upcoming Sporefall one-boss raid in Harandar will offer flexible 15–25 player Mythic difficulty — a first for World of Warcraft. The goal is to help groups who have completed AOTC bridge the gap into Mythic raiding.
  • Taylor Sanders: the intent is to make the Heroic-to-Mythic transition more accessible. If your Heroic group has finished the season, this is designed to let you bite off a bigger challenge without needing to recruit to a fixed 20-man roster.
  • The team considers this an experiment — not a guarantee they'll repeat it in future tiers, but they're eager for player feedback.

  Wowhead — Liquid Maximum Post-Race Encounter Design Interview Liveblog · Wowhead — Sporefall Boss in Patch 12.0.7 Will Have a Mythic Flex Difficulty

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• L'ura Nerfs & April 17 Hotfixes

  Episode Topic 2

  Major nerfs to the L'ura encounter in March on Quel'Danas are coming with the weekly reset, targeting glaives and several other mechanics across Heroic and Mythic.

  • Heaven's Glaives — Blades per cast reduced to 5 (was 6) on Heroic and Mythic. Max duration reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes). This means at the end of Phase 1, there will be 10 glaives in the arena instead of the previous 18.
  • L'ura's health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Termination Matrix — Terminate applications reduced to 4 (was 5) and cast time increased to 2 seconds (was 1.5 seconds).
  • Grim Symphony — Melody can no longer repeat the same Dark Rune twice. Second cast now spins clockwise (was counter-clockwise).
  • Eclipsed heal absorb reduced by 10% on Mythic. Overkill Current damage reduced by 20% on Heroic.
  • Criticality — Final cast now triggers 2 Tears of L'ura per Dawn Crystal (was 3). Dark Constellation precast time increased to 2.5 seconds on Mythic (was 2 seconds).
  • Delves — Midnight Season 1 Delver's Journey Rank 10 now properly rewards the Void Breacher title.
  • Maisara Caverns — Rak'tul: Spectral Residue duration increased to 40 seconds. Additional applications no longer refresh the duration. (Fixes the tech of pulling the boss into the intermission realm to extend the buff.)
  • Seat of the Triumvirate — Fixed an issue where Merciless Subjugator's Chains of Subjugation could be interrupted unintentionally.
  • The Voidspire — Fallen-King Salhadaar: Fixed Void Infusion overriding the berserk phase. Lightblinded Vanguard: Fixed the raid skip failing to spawn all three paladins.

  Wowhead — Glaives Nerfed on Midnight Falls — Large Nerfs to Heroic and Mythic · Wowhead — Raid and Dungeon Hotfixes — Midnight Hotfixes for April 17th

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• Patch 12.0.5 Preview — Drops April 21

  Episode Topic 3

  Patch 12.0.5 lands this coming Monday with Void Assaults, Ritual Sites, the Voidforge gear system, Decor Duels, and a pile of quality-of-life upgrades. Here are two highlights worth discussing.

  • New optional feature for tanks: Lindormi's Glow highlights select enemy forces in Mythic+ dungeons at any keystone level. Defeating all highlighted enemies completes the enemy forces requirement for the key.
  • Any player whose class supports a tank spec can toggle the feature on by speaking with Lindormi near The Timeways portal or at the end of a keystone dungeon. The glow activates for the party if the tank has it enabled.
  • Unlike Lindormi's Guidance (active in +2–5 keys, includes -5% HP/damage on targets), the Glow is routing help only — no combat advantages, just a visual highlight showing a viable route through the dungeon.
  • The system is not dynamic. It won't recalculate mid-dungeon if you pull extra packs, but it gives newer tanks a baseline route without requiring third-party tools like MDT.
  • Weapon sheathing options — Players can now choose whether weapons sheath at the hip, on the back, or are hidden entirely. One-handed weapons get all three options. Two-handed weapons can only sheath on back or be hidden. Dual wielders can set each hand independently.
  • New Situations — Two new categories: Weather (clear, rain, snow, sandstorm) and Time of Day (morning, midday, evening, night). Your outfit can now automatically change based on in-game conditions.
  • Outfit macros — New /outfit X command lets you swap transmog sets via macro, where X is the outfit's order number. Using it with no number or with the currently-equipped outfit clears all transmogs. Trial of Style outfit uses /outfit 0.
  • Set tooltips now show detailed collection status breakdowns for each appearance in a set.

  Wowhead — Lindormi's Glow in Patch 12.0.5 · Wowhead — All Transmog Changes in Patch 12.0.5

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• Lil' Staropod Pet — Blizzard Gear Store

  Episode Topic 4

  A new Lil' Staropod in-game pet is available exclusively through the Blizzard Gear Store, bundled with the purchase of select products now through May 15th — while supplies last.

  • Nearly 100 eligible store items qualify, ranging from apparel to plushies, backpacks, and tankards. Cheapest option is around $17, most expensive around $137. Look for the "In-Game Content" tag on eligible items.
  • Codes are not instant — they'll be delivered via email up to five days after purchase. Codes are not replaceable if lost or stolen. Check spam folders.
  • Both the offer and the pet codes appear to have a limited supply, though it's unclear whether the cap is on codes or store inventory. If you want it, don't wait.

  Wowhead — Limited Quantity Lil' Staropod Pet Available From the Blizzard Gear Store

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• Business Briefing — Microsoft, Xbox & Blizzard

  Episode Topic 5

  This is the big-picture segment. We're zooming all the way out to talk about the company that owns Blizzard: what they're spending, who's running Xbox now, and why the business decisions being made in Redmond echo all the way to Azeroth.

  • Microsoft spent $37.5 billion in capital expenditures in a single quarter earlier this year, up 66% year-over-year. Full fiscal year 2026 capex is projected around $146 billion, almost entirely on AI infrastructure — GPUs, CPUs, data centers. They just bought 3,200 acres in Cheyenne, Wyoming for another expansion.
  • The stock is down roughly 22% year-to-date, its worst quarterly decline since the 2008 financial crisis. Valuation has compressed below 20x forward earnings for the first time since 2016. Investors want to see AI spending translate to revenue. Copilot adoption has lagged expectations, and Azure growth decelerated for the first time in years.
  • Why WoW players should care: When the stock is getting hammered and the AI bet hasn't paid off yet, every division faces scrutiny. Gaming is now a significantly larger portion of Microsoft's revenue post-Activision acquisition. WoW subscriptions and Blizzard store revenue become a lifeline, not an afterthought.
  • Phil Spencer retired after 38 years at Microsoft. His replacement is Asha Sharma, a 36-year-old executive whose career is defined by scaling platforms — not by AI, despite the headlines.
  • Career arc: COO at Porch Group (helped take it to a $1B public debut) → VP of Product and Engineering at Meta (ran Messenger and Instagram Direct, billions of users) → COO at Instacart (architected the path to profitability and IPO of a $30B+ GMV operation) → President of CoreAI Product at Microsoft → Xbox CEO.
  • Her first memo to Xbox staff went viral: she explicitly stated Microsoft would "not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop." She called games art, crafted by humans.
  • Early moves: Killed the "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign. Oversaw overhauls to Quick Resume and Xbox Achievements. Assembled a player-feedback team. Replied "Hear you" to a fan asking about console exclusives, sending the community into a frenzy.
  • Game Pass Ultimate hit $29.99/month in October 2025 — a 50% increase. PC Game Pass went up ~37% to $16.49. Player reaction was overwhelmingly negative.
  • Leaked internal memo (The Verge, this week): Sharma told employees Game Pass has become "too expensive for players" and that "the current model isn't the final one." She's exploring a better value equation in the short term and a more flexible system long-term.
  • Reports of a potential ad-supported tier at a lower price, following the Netflix/Hulu model. Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters has publicly said he and Sharma have "kicked around ideas" for Xbox–Netflix subscription bundles.
  • WoW angle: If Game Pass evolves into a flexible, tiered system under a CEO whose entire career has been about growing user bases, the question of whether WoW gets integrated into the broader Microsoft gaming ecosystem is going to come up. Maybe not soon, but that conversation is inevitable under this kind of leadership.
  • Exclusivity debate is back. According to Jez Corden at Windows Central, "very very very big discussions" are happening internally. Live-service/multiplayer games like Call of Duty almost certainly stay multiplatform. Single-player titles could potentially be locked to Xbox. For Blizzard: WoW is likely always in the "everywhere" category, but what about a future Diablo or single-player Blizzard IP?
  • Project Helix is the next-gen Xbox, described as essentially a PC in a console form factor running Windows under the hood. If that's accurate, WoW could potentially run natively on next-gen Xbox without any porting. Price speculation: $1,000+.
  • Layoff shadow: Microsoft reportedly cut ~15,000 jobs across 2025. Rumors in January 2026 of another 11,000–22,000 targeting Azure, Xbox, and global sales (Microsoft called it "100 percent made up"). The WoW team has a strong revenue argument in its favor with Midnight Season 1 active and 12.0.5 dropping Monday, but no division is truly safe when AI spending is this enormous.
  • Microsoft's FY2026 Q3 earnings drop April 29. Gaming revenue numbers in the More Personal Computing segment will tell us whether the Activision Blizzard acquisition is delivering returns. Strong numbers protect Blizzard. Soft numbers put pressure on every part of the gaming division.
  • Sources: Yahoo Finance, ERP Today, Futurum Group, FinancialContent, GameSpot, Pure Xbox, Windows Central, NME, Gamereactor, Lords of Gaming, The Verge, Microsoft/Xbox Wire

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmates — Shakatan & Templrivanho — We go into a bit of a tangent on game systems and the e-commerce duties…

• The 12.0.5 Content Update Goes Live April 21

  Episode Topic 1

  Patch 12.0.5 launches April 21 with a large slate of new outdoor and group content for Midnight.

  • Void Assaults — Void Strikes rotate weekly through Eversong Woods and Zul'Aman. Completing enough Strikes triggers larger Void Incursion scenarios requiring many players.
  • Ritual Sites — Small 1–5 player instances where you disrupt naga and Twilight's Blade cultists. Tiered difficulty with scaling rewards, and they count toward the Great Vault World row alongside Delves and Prey.
  • Voidforge — Help domanaar Decimus build a Voidforge to transmute Nebulous Voidcores (from raids, M+, Delves, and Nightmare Prey) into powerful gear. Unlocking the Ascendant Nilhammer lets you upgrade weapons and trinkets further with Ascendant Voidcores.
  • Decor Duels — A hide-and-seek PvP mini-game in Silvermoon City via Group Finder. One team hides as housing decor items, the other seeks. Rewards include a mount, toys, and decor.
  • Abyss Anglers — Repeatable underwater fishing event off the coast of Zul'Aman. Spear fish, rack up points, earn dive equipment upgrades and cosmetics.
  • Field Accolades — New currency earned from Void Assaults and Ritual Sites, spent on Champion and Heroic quality gear.

  Source — Blizzard: The 12.0.5 Content Update Goes Live April 21

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• Midnight Hotfixes — April 9

  Episode Topic 2

  Blizzard pushed a significant round of class tuning and bug fixes on April 9.

  • Monk — Brewmaster nerfs: Vital Flame self-healing reduced from 50% to 40%. Shado-Pan Predictive Training damage reduction dropped from 10% to 8%. Devs note Brewmaster self-healing was too strong relative to other tanks.
  • Monk — Windwalker buff: Fists of Fury cleave damage increased from 54% to 60%.
  • Rogue — Assassination buffs: Garrote and Rupture damage up 5%. Fan of Knives and Crimson Tempest up 10%. Caustic Spatter up from 18% to 20%.
  • Rogue — Outlaw adjustment: Overall damage up 4%, but Blade Flurry cleave reduced from 30% to 28%.
  • Hunter — BM fix: Wild Instincts was doing more single-target damage than intended; now corrected.
  • Priest fixes: Discipline Oracle Blaze of Light slow now applies correctly. Holy Oracle Preemptive Care now properly extends Lasting Words Renews by 40% (was incorrectly 25%).
  • Raids: Chimaerus and Crown of the Cosmos trophy decor drops fixed. Belo'ren rewards in March on Quel'Danas buffed.
  • PvP: Mercenary Contract vendors added to Silvermoon. Tracker's Net re-root on Vanish fixed. Fire Blast now damages stealthed players.
  • Professions: Green Thumb now correctly doubles Midnight herbalism nodes.

  Source — Blizzard: Hotfixes April 9, 2026

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• Devour Affix Now Includes Snare Effects

  Episode Topic 3

  The Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour affix now applies a 10% slow, meaning any snare-removal ability can break the shield.

  • Previously the Devouring Rift shield on all 5 players could only be removed by healing it off or dispelling. The added snare opens up class-specific removal options.
  • Notable removals by class: Druid shapeshifting, DH Vengeful Retreat, Hunter Disengage (with Posthaste), Mage barriers (with Energized Barriers) or Ice Block, Monk Tiger's Lust, Paladin Blessing of Freedom, Priest Fade (with Phantasm), Rogue Vanish, Shaman Spirit Walk, Warlock Demonic Circle with Soulburn, Warrior Berserker Rage (with Fearless).
  • Removing the shield grants the party a stacking buff providing bonus HP and Critical Strike.

  Source — Wowhead: Devour Affix Now Includes Snare Effects Allowing For Easier Removal

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• Hero Track Gear from Delves at Journey Rank 9

  Episode Topic 4

  Reaching Rank 9 in the Delver's Journey unlocks Hero (1/6) ilvl 259 gear from Tier 11 Bountiful Coffers and a new Delve vendor.

  • Tier 11 Bountiful Coffers now have a chance to drop Hero gear. If no Hero gear drops, you receive Untainted Mana-Crystals instead. Tiers 8–10 only drop crystals at lower quantities.
  • Vendor Zah'ran appears at the end of every Tier 11 Delve selling Hero gear. His inventory rotates each Delve completion, so run multiple to cycle his stock. Hero gear costs 1/20th the Untainted Mana-Crystal equivalent of Champion gear in Undercoins (e.g., 200 crystals vs. 4000 Undercoins for a trinket).
  • Currency caps: 250 Untainted Mana-Crystals per week, 1000 total. No catch-up mechanism. Currency is character-specific, not Warband.
  • Delver's Journey progress is Warband-bound, making this an excellent alt-gearing path. Transmog collectors can catalyze Hero gear to (6/6) for Mythic tier set appearances.

  Source — Wowhead: Get Hero Track Gear from Delves from Journey Rank 9

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• L'ura Memory Game Addon via Northern Sky Raid Tools

  Episode Topic 5

  The Northern Sky Raid Tools addon by Reloe now includes a L'ura Rune display module, bringing Race to World First–level tech to everyday raid groups.

  • During the Race to World First, top guilds built custom addons to handle L'ura's rune memory mechanic. Previously, guilds relied on typing, World Markers, or verbal callouts. This module makes that solution publicly available.
  • Setup: Download icon files from the addon's GitHub, place them in your Retail WoW installation at \Interface\ICONS (replace existing files if needed, restart game). One player on Heroic clicks "Create Rune-Macros" and pastes number strings in raid chat to display the correct symbols.
  • Works for the entire raid as long as everyone has NSRT installed and the module configured. Works on all difficulties and in pugs.

  Source — Wowhead: Bring Race to World First Tech to Raid Night with L'ura Memory Game Addon

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• Make Easy Gold from Mythic BoEs in March on Quel'Danas

  Episode Topic 6

  Voidbreaker Throggar, a lieutenant just before Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas, can be farmed for Myth-track BoE drops on Mythic without killing any bosses.

  • Reaching Throggar requires splitting the raid to defeat Void and Light versions of Belo'ren on the entry bridges, then dropping down and clearing trash. Coordinated groups reach him in 5–10 minutes.
  • Loot: Myth-track BoE armor across all armor types — cloth, leather, mail, and plate pieces including head, chest, shoulders, legs, waist, and feet slots.
  • Mythic BoEs are Bind-on-Equip and currently selling for roughly 2–4 million gold on the AH depending on stat rolls. Likely farmable once per character per week, though not officially confirmed.

  Source — Wowhead: Make Easy Gold From Mythic BoEs in March on Quel'Danas

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• Darkwell-Style Weapons Datamined on Patch 12.0.5 PTR

  Episode Topic 7

  A wave of new weapon models was datamined on the 12.0.5 PTR, including void-themed redesigns inspired by Sunwell Plateau weapons from Burning Crusade.

  • Sunwalker Weapons — Tauren Paladin-inspired designs including 1H axes, 1H swords, and 2H swords.
  • Gilneas Loyalist Weapons — Fist weapons, bows, and 1H maces planned for a future Trading Post month.
  • Voidwell Weapons — Sunwell Plateau raid weapons recolored with a Void aesthetic.
  • Bonus: A new model matching the Valarjar Champion's Greatsword was datamined — the infamously oversized 2H sword from Legion.

  Source — Wowhead: Darkwell-Style Weapons Datamined on Patch 12.0.5 PTR

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• Over 300 New Decor Items Added in Patch 12.0.5

  Episode Topic 8

  The 12.0.5 PTR added over 300 new housing decor items, including Sin'dorei appliances, outdoor decorations, and more.

  • Notable pieces include the Sin'dorei Garden Swing, Hay-Filled Sturdy Feeding Trough, and Razorwind Shores Canoe.
  • Some items were previously datamined but are now being officially added to the game. All new pieces are viewable on Wowhead's Housing Decor Gallery.

  Source — Wowhead: Over 300 New Decor Items Added in Patch 12.0.5

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• New Endeavor Cycle Available Now

  Episode Topic 9

  A new 5-week Endeavor cycle started with this week's reset. Neighborhood Managers can select from six Endeavors; public neighborhoods have theirs auto-assigned.

  • Available Endeavors: Artistic Aid (Blood Elf decor), Consortium Consternation (Ethereal), Friend of the Grummles (Grummle), Moderate Mechanization (Mechagnome), Reaching Beyond the Possible (Draconic), Smell Sensation (Niffen). No new Endeavors were added this cycle.
  • Completing tasks earns Neighborhood Favor, House XP (up to 2,500 per cycle), and Community Coupons to spend at Endeavor vendors for themed decor. You can buy from any neighborhood's vendor even if you're not a member.
  • House XP is not Warband-wide — Horde and Alliance houses earn separately based on which Endeavor is active.

  Source — Wowhead: New Endeavor Cycle Available Now — House XP, Community Coupons & New Decor

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• Holly Longdale Asks Community About Controller Support

  Episode Topic 10

  During a recent fireside chat, WoW Executive Producer Holly Longdale directly asked attendees how much they would engage with WoW on a controller.

  • The response was described as overwhelmingly positive, though with plenty of hesitant "maybe" answers and some outright declines. Longdale acknowledged full native controller support would be a "big job."
  • With Blizzard under Microsoft, bringing WoW to Xbox would align with broader corporate goals. The recent Midnight UI and addon changes combined with this direct community poll suggest the team is considering this more seriously than ever.
  • The accessibility angle is significant — many players already use controllers via community workarounds, and built-in support would lower the barrier for those who need it.

  Source — Blizzard Watch: How much would you engage with World of Warcraft on a controller?

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• China's Titan Reforged Realms Add QoL Upgrades Western Players Won't See

  Episode Topic 11

  China's exclusive Titan Reforged "Chronos" server launched with sweeping economy and progression changes that streamline the Classic experience.

  • New currencies: Titan Shards (from quests and Dungeon Finder) replace gathering needs for profession leveling. Titan Embers replace all legacy emblem currencies (Valor, Heroism, Conquest, Triumph, Frost) into one flexible token for PvP and PvE gear.
  • Reputation simplified: Head and shoulder enchant reputation requirements removed entirely. Reputation tokens purchasable from Titan Ember vendors to fast-track faction standing.
  • Professions overhauled: Engineering items like bombs and Nitro Boosts no longer require specific Engineering skill. Gathering professions can yield Titan Shards directly. Some recipe-locked raid drops now drop as completed items.
  • Dynamic world boss loot: Drop quantity scales based on how many eligible level 80 players haven't killed the boss that week. Too few eligible players means no loot and no lockout.

  Source — Icy Veins: China's Titan Reforged Realms Add Huge QoL Upgrades Western WoW Players Won't See

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmates — Shakatan & Templrivanho — We cover a new collector's item from Infinity Studio who have made…

• Sally Whitemane 1/3 Scale Statue

  Episode Topic 1

  Blizzard and Infinity Studio have partnered again for a hyper-detailed 1/3 scale statue of Sally Whitemane, now available for early bird pre-order.

  • The statue stands over 3.5 feet tall (108cm) and features rooted hair, silicone skin, intricate fabric attire, and LED effects lighting up the Holy Fire and base candles.
  • Early bird price: $2,620.00 — early bird pricing ends April 26, 2026.
  • Materials: Silicone, polystone, fabric, LEDs.
  • Shipping: Free to US, Canada, Australia, Europe, Singapore & Malaysia. UK TBD.
  • Infinity Studio has also produced a Garrosh Hellscream 1/3 Scale, King Varian Wrynn Life-Size Bust, and King Varian Wrynn 1/3 Scale.

  Wowhead — Richly Detailed Sally Whitemane 1/3 Scale Statue Now Available for Pre-Order

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• Delve Journey Uncapped

  Episode Topic 2

  The Seasonal Delve Journey cap has been lifted — players can now reach Rank 5, unlocking a Champion-track equipment vendor.

  • Last week Blizzard confirmed the Journey was temporarily capped at Rank 4. That cap is now removed.
  • Reaching Rank 5 unlocks access to Zah'ran, an ethereal vendor who sells Champion-track equipment for Undercoins after completing Tier 6+ Delves.
  • Zah'ran appears near the end-of-Delve chests and offers a different daily selection of Champion-track gear at varying Undercoin prices.
  • Originally introduced in The War Within Season 3, Zah'ran no longer sells only trinkets — the vendor now offers a rotating daily selection of gear slots, making it a solid catch-up source for alts.

  Wowhead — Delve Journey Uncapped - Champion Equipment Vendor Available At Rank 5

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• Promo Rewards Coming to Trading Post in 12.0.5

  Episode Topic 3

  Datamined from the 12.0.5 PTR — several previously promotional-exclusive items are being added to the Trading Post.

  • Items found in the PTR build:
  • Lil' Flameo (Pet, 250 Tender) — originally from the SteelSeries × WoW collab (required ~$160 USD purchase)
  • Hateforged Blazecycle (Mount, 500 Tender) — Mountain Dew × WoW collab
  • Parrlok (Pet, 250 Tender) — Discord Cross Link promotion
  • Classic Sunny Tabard (Transmog, 100 Tender) — Kroger Rewards promotion
  • Sand Scarab (Pet, 250 Tender) — WoW TCG & Twitch Drop promotion
  • Blizzard previously confirmed that promotional items like these will continue to rotate onto the Trading Post over time. Many of these items were heavily targeted by scalpers due to FOMO, especially Lil' Flameo.
  • Community is hopeful that items like Thunder-Ridged Elekk and Gummi the Glow Wyrm may follow in future months.

  Wowhead — Previous Promotional Rewards Might Make Their Way to the Trading Post in 12.0.5

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• The Felcycle Secret Has Concluded

  Episode Topic 4

  The Secret Finding Discord has cracked the final two orbs of the Felcycle clock puzzle — all 12 orbs are now lit, and new transmog + a Feat of Strength are available.

  • 11th Orb (Radiant Singer): Requires a full 40-man raid group. Players perform coordinated emote sequences at the Divine Flame of Beledar in Hallowfall. 25 Measures of emotes must be completed with fewer than 15 mistakes. The Beledar Orchestra Add On is strongly recommended.
  • 12th Orb: Can be completed without the 11th. Requires 2–3 players. Players find an invisible ghost on a lonely island in southeastern Suramar using the Torch of Pyrreth, then escort an Orb of Shadows to Golk the Rumble in Azsuna.
  • Escort rules: Carrying the orb darkens your vision, spawns adds, and the carrier cannot take damage, jump, or swim. Water-walking buffs recommended.
  • Rewards: Spare Key, the Ensemble: Fashion of the Fanatic Felcyclist transmog set (from a Weathered Lockbox), and the Radiant Singer achievement.
  • Using both the Oddsight Focus and Starry-Eyed Goggles buffs reveals a Hidden Footlocker behind the 12th Orb pillar in Ratt's Lair, containing Page 317 from Ratts' Journal.

  Wowhead — The Felcycle Secret Has Concluded: Earn New Transmog and Feat of Strength

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• Bluepost Roundup: Hotfixes Through April 3

  Episode Topic 5

  Blizzard has been pushing hotfixes at a rapid pace since launch — here are the highlights from the running hotfix post through April 3, 2026.

  • Resto Druid (PvP): All healing +8%, Regrowth +40%, Swiftmend +25%, Barkskin now 30% DR (was 20%). Also +5% all healing, Reactive Resin +50%. Substantial buffs.
  • Resto Druid (PvE): Rejuv/Germination +10%, Tranq +10%, Wild Growth +10%, Embrace of the Dream +35%. Reforestation no longer stacks out of combat in raids (exploit fix).
  • Shadow Priest: SW:Death +80%, Mind Blast/Void Blast −10%, Shadow Apparition +35%. Big execute rework.
  • Guardian Druid: Heavy nerfs — Maul/Raze/Ravage −20%, Moonfire −10%, 4pc nerfed to 50% (was 100%), Heart of the Wild damage −20%.
  • Balance Druid: All damage +20%, but Starfall −14% and tier set adjustments (Shooting Stars/Orbit Breaker tuning).
  • Unholy DK: Launch-week all damage −20%, then later all +8%. Wild swing.
  • Frost DK: +4% all damage twice (PvE). Also +8% in PvP.
  • Arms Warrior: Mortal Strike +12%, Execute +15% (PvE); +20% Execute in PvP; Battle Stance mobility buff in PvP.
  • Mistweaver Monk (PvP): −4% all healing, Heart of Jade Serpent nerfed to 30% (was 75%), Celestial Conduit −50%. Repeat nerfs.
  • March on Quel'Danas — Belo'ren: Fixed Eternal Burns, Dive Bomb on dead targets, Void Patch size mismatch, same-color tank feathers.
  • The Voidspire: Vorasius Shadowclaw Slam visibility improved and can no longer be dodged/parried. Crown of the Cosmos — Void Expulsion and Ranger Captain's Mark fixes. Lightblinded Vanguard — Avenger's Shield targets reduced to 4 (was 8) on Mythic, Tyr's Wrath −17%, Sacred Toll −15%.
  • Magisters' Terrace: Spellwoven Familiar health −20%, now counts for Enemy Forces. Gemellus clone cleanup fix.
  • Skyreach — Rukhran: Screech trigger fix; stuck-in-combat fix.
  • Algeth'ar Academy — Echo of Doragosa: Arcane Rift duration reduced to 90s (was 2min), 3s spawn delay added, Energy Bomb now targets 2 (was 1).
  • Pit of Saron: Arcanist Cadaver now marked as elite with mana bar and better visuals. Gargoyle grab rotation fix.
  • Dreamrift Hall of Fame is now full and no longer available.
  • Belo'ren rewards increased — gear from the boss in March on Quel'Danas has been buffed.
  • Trinket fixes: Crucible of Erratic Energies Leech −50%. Several healing trinkets buffed +35% (Light of the Cosmic Crescendo, Whisper of the Duskwraith, Echo of L'ura, Radiant Sunstone).
  • Professions: Rare profession tools/accessories are now BoE (was BoP). Double Knowledge granted during first full week (March 3–10). Midnight ring enchant stats increased. Gems found more regularly when prospecting Midnight ore.
  • Prey: Completing hunts beyond weekly 4 now awards 1000 Journey progress until Rank 4. Prey quest XP increased.
  • Housing: Harvesting lumber now gives XP. Fungal Pergola can be placed inside houses.
  • Macro restrictions tightened during active encounters: macros can no longer send chat to non-group channels (guild, communities, custom), group chat is rate-limited and requires all members be in the instance, whispers must target someone in the instance. Target markers limited to 3 units in a short window.
  • Major quest-blocking fixes: "The Crimson Rogue" questline (Valeera not appearing after abandon), "Champions of Quel'Danas" progression fix, "Legends of the Haranir" / "Legendary Prosperity" auto-complete, and Renown progression past rank 11 fixed.

  Blizzard — Hotfixes: April 3, 2026 (Running Post)

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• The War on Addons Continues on Mythic L'ura

  Episode Topic 6

  The push-and-pull between top guilds and Blizzard over addon usage on Mythic L'ura has become one of the most compelling side stories of this Race to World First.

  • On Mythic difficulty, Terminate is a 1.5-second cast that must be interrupted 5 times sequentially across 3 rotating adds (Termination Matrices). Missing a single cast is nearly always a wipe.
  • Liquid initially debuted an addon that attached unique identifiers (like "Theta A" or "Theta B") to Matrix nameplates, making it easier to track which add was which as they rotated.
  • Blizzard's first hotfix broke the GUID-based identification method — but in doing so, added the Termination Matrix adds to the boss frames. This opened up a new method: players can now use @boss2, @boss3, @boss4 macros to target specific matrices without needing to visually identify them.
  • The community then revived Interrupt Anchor WeakAuras — these track kick counts and play audio alerts (like an air horn) when it's your turn to kick.
  • The visual portion of the addon was later removed from Liquid's stream, but the audio-only version persists — players hear a sound cue and press their interrupt without needing visual confirmation.
  • Messages in the WoWUI Discord confirmed that UnitIsUnit restrictions from 12.0.5 are being surprise-hotfixed in. This would break interrupt anchors on nameplates entirely.
  • Speculation: Blizzard is okay with audio-based alerts but does not want visual nameplate-attached helpers. No public statement has been made.
  • Other affected addons: Glows for Light/Void Dive on Belo'ren will also break with UnitIsUnit changes.
  • On Mythic, the Memory mechanic splits players into 3 phases — each phase can only see a portion of the notes. Players must communicate their notes to form the complete pattern.
  • Liquid debuted an addon that auto-fills the pattern for all players as notes are revealed, eliminating the need for voice comms to relay note positions.
  • Echo has since developed a similar addon. Blizzard has not acted against this addon, despite an interview with PoddyC where devs said they designed a mechanic specifically to resist computational addon solving.
  • Liquid added audio counters so players can track note cadence even when their own phase has gaps in the pattern.
  • The article raises the core tension: Blizzard designed a mechanic with extremely tight execution requirements (1.5s cast, rotating adds, deadly glaives, top DPS needed simultaneously), but the affordance on the mechanic seems off — and when affordance is off, players will always find ways to offload cognitive load.
  • If Blizzard wants players to solve Terminate without addons, the mechanic would need longer casts, colored/unique matrices, or reduced simultaneous pressure from other abilities.

  Wowhead — The War on Addons Continues on Mythic L'ura

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• Race to World First: March on Quel'Danas

  Episode Topic 7

  The Race to World First has entered its most intense phase — Liquid has claimed World First Mythic Belo'ren after a grueling progression, and the top guilds are now deep into Mythic L'ura (Midnight Falls), the final boss of the season. Phase 3 has been seen, hotfixes are flying, and the finish line is in sight.

  • When March on Quel'Danas opened on March 31, all three top guilds went back to gear farming instead of immediately pulling Mythic bosses — the Heroic versions of Belo'ren and L'ura made it clear these were not pushovers.
  • Liquid ran Mythic re-clears of Voidspire and Dreamrift as split runs during this lockout, funneling gear to their mains. They completed 5× Mythic kills of Imperator Averzian, Vorasius, Fallen-King Salhadaar, and Vaelgor & Ezzorak before starting Mythic Quel'Danas progression.
  • Echo opted to skip some splits and jump into Belo'ren earlier than expected, prioritizing pull time over gear advantage.
  • Method and Echo both ran extensive Heroic and Mythic splits throughout, with Echo racking up 10 Mythic Chimaerus kills total.
  • Liquid claimed World First Mythic Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar after more pulls than the previous seven bosses combined. Belo'ren was originally intended to be the "Smolderon" of the tier, but after Crown of the Cosmos (Alleria) fell quickly, Blizzard substantially buffed Belo'ren and increased rewards to re-establish it as a true penultimate wall.
  • Kill comp: 2 Tanks (Prot Warrior, Guardian Druid) · 3 Healers (2 Disc Priest, Mistweaver Monk) · 3 Melee (Ret Paladin, Unholy DK, Windwalker Monk) · 12 Ranged (3 Aug Evokers, 3 MM Hunters, 2 Frost Mages, 2 Ele Shamans, Devourer DH, Demo Warlock).
  • Belo'ren is a tight damage check requiring constant light/void swapping, orb intercepts, and soaks matched to player affinity. It took significantly more pulls than all of Voidspire and Dreamrift combined.
  • Liquid is the furthest progressed — they have seen Phase 3 and are actively optimizing. As of recent updates, they were around pull 267 with a best of 50.5% in Phase 3.
  • Echo had reached ~55.5% in Phase 3 on pull 227 before going dark (turning off logs and streams to hide tech). They are running close behind Liquid.
  • Method is in the race on Midnight Falls, with a best of ~60% in Phase 2. They are making steady progress.
  • This is a genuine three-way race between Liquid, Echo, and Method on the final boss.
  • Phase 1: Features the deadly Heaven's Glaives (which Blizzard nerfed — now 20% slower with improved visuals), the Memory Game (3-phase note communication puzzle), Terminate (1.5s interrupt chain on rotating adds), and laser beams. Phase 1 consistency has been the biggest barrier.
  • Intermission: Similar to Heroic, but all players receive the star pattern at the end.
  • Phase 2: Described as "a dance" — players aim Galvanize at Void Cores, spread before cores get pulled in. Ends with a spread + knockback that spawns 18 soaks.
  • Phase 3: Raid splits into two teams in different phases — touching a player from the opposing phase kills you instantly. Memory game returns with each group executing at different times. Players must "Star Augur collapse" symbols in correct order. L'ura channels The Dark Archangel and crystals must be destroyed.
  • Based on hotfix analysis: Dark Archangels have a 53-second cooldown. Estimated hard enrage at ~9:15 with four Dark Archangel cycles.
  • Heaven's Glaives now move 20% slower with new visuals — both Liquid and Echo were struggling with consistent Phase 1s due to glaives hitting crystals causing instant wipes.
  • Phase 3 Dimension Link hotfix: Damage dealt to one copy of L'ura is supposed to transfer to the other. After the hotfix, Liquid went from 3.2% raid damage to 6% in the same 30-second window — suggesting a bug was preventing proper damage sharing.
  • Instant Dollars (NA, #2 in region) — on Belo'ren progression, best of ~44.2% at pull 101.
  • Identity — on Belo'ren, best of ~52.8% at pull 84. Making competitive progress.
  • Advance — entered Belo'ren late but jumped to 35.8% after only 29 pulls.
  • Chinese guilds (Huoguo Hero, Jitianhong, 静思网游UUG): They face a structural disadvantage — their raid reset comes 2 days after NA. Huoguo Hero was World 4th last tier and remains the strongest Asian contender. 静思网游UUG achieved World 10th on Crown of the Cosmos (149 pulls). With L'ura proving to be a multi-day wall, Chinese guilds have time to close the gap — and reportedly NetEase has a bounty nearing $200,000 for any Chinese guild that claims a Race to World First.

  Wowhead — World First Mythic Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar by Liquid · Wowhead — RWF Day 9 Recap: Battle for the Bird · Wowhead — Positioning Addons Make L'ura's Memory Game Much Easier in the RWF · Wowhead — Mythic L'ura Nerfed for Race to World First · Wowhead — First Look at Phase 3 of Mythic L'ura · Wowhead — Additional Mythic L'ura Hotfix Targeting Phase 3

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmates — Shakatan & Templrivanho — as well as a first time guest Vel! My friend from another server. We…

• AURORA × Blizzard: "A Place to Call Home"

  Episode Topic 1

  Blizzard partnered with Norwegian art-pop star AURORA and multiple external collaborators to produce an original song and anime-style animated music video for WoW: Midnight — here's who was involved and what it took.

  • • The Song: "A Place to Call Home" — co-written by Brendon Williams (freelance game composer, ex-Riot Games senior composer, credits include League of Legends, Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2), AURORA (Fontana Records / Universal Music Group, 2.6B+ streams, toured 50+ countries), and Laura Intravia (renowned video game vocalist/composer known as "Flute Link," credits include Destiny, Mortal Kombat 11, Video Games Live concert tour)
  • • The Music Production: Created in collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment's internal music team. Williams and Intravia handled the composition side while AURORA provided vocals and co-writing. Blizzard's in-house team guided the cinematic, fantasy-driven production to fit WoW's legacy sound
  • • The Animation: Music video produced by Brunch Studio, a Paris-based CG/2D animation studio founded in 2015. Brunch specializes in game trailers and cinematics — they've done work for Riot Games (Valorant), Ubisoft (Just Dance), and NACON. Art direction supervised by Jean-Charles Kerninon (co-owner), lead creative director Clement Lauricella
  • • The Business Chain: Blizzard (owned by Microsoft via Activision Blizzard) funds and directs the project → contracts AURORA through Fontana/Universal for vocals and songwriting → brings in freelance game composers Williams and Intravia → outsources animation to Brunch Studio in Paris. This is the same outsourced animation pipeline Blizzard used for the Midnight launch shorts (Xal'atath, Arator, Liadrin)
  • • The Bigger Picture: Holly Longdale (Blizzard president/EP) has said the Warcraft IP is "underutilized," and Johanna Faries has said "exciting conversations" are happening about adaptations of Blizzard properties. Community response is overwhelmingly asking for a full WoW animated series in this style

  Wowhead — "A Place to Call Home" New Music Video and Animation · GameSpot — Official World of Warcraft Music Video Is a Walk Down Memory Lane · NME — Listen to AURORA's Ethereal New WoW: Midnight Song

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• Neuralink Patient Plays WoW With His Mind

  Episode Topic 2

  British Army veteran Jon Noble (Patient #18) posted a 100-day update on his Neuralink N1 brain-computer interface implant — and he's now raiding in World of Warcraft completely hands-free using only thought control.

  • • Noble is a former paratrooper paralyzed from the shoulders down after a driving accident in 2016. He received the N1 implant in London in December 2025 as part of Neuralink's clinical trials
  • • The implant uses 1,024 ultra-thin threads inserted into the motor cortex by a robotic system. Surgery took place under general anaesthetic with minimal recovery — Noble went home the next day and the scar was fading by Day 7
  • • By Week 2 he was controlling a MacBook cursor with thought. By Week 3, scrolling, clicking, and typing were all mind-controlled. By Day 80, he fired up WoW for the first time with pure thought control
  • • Noble's X post includes video of him playing WoW — PC Gamer noted you'd be hard-pressed to tell the game was being controlled by thought. He's now raiding and exploring Azeroth at full speed with no mouse or keyboard
  • • This follows previous Neuralink patients playing Counter-Strike 2 and Mario Kart, but WoW's control complexity (keybinds, macros, mouse movement, targeting) represents a significant step up in BCI capability

  Jon Noble on X — 100 Days With Neuralink N1 · PC Gamer — Neuralink Patient Raiding in WoW Calls It "Pure Magic" · Tom's Hardware — Paralyzed Army Vet Plays WoW Using Neuralink Brain Implant

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• Liquid Claims World First Crown of the Cosmos

  Episode Topic 3

  Team Liquid took World First on Mythic Crown of the Cosmos in just 35 pulls, making it their fifth consecutive World First Hall of Fame — but the Race to World First isn't over yet with March on Quel'Danas opening March 31.

  • • Liquid cleared The Voidspire and claimed first place in the standalone Crown of the Cosmos Hall of Fame. Their comp: 2 tanks (Guardian Druid, Prot Warrior), 4 healers (Pres Evoker, Disc Priest, 2 MW Monks), 3 melee, 11 ranged including 2 Aug Evokers and 2 MM Hunters
  • • The Voidspire fell faster than expected at only 35 pulls on the final boss, but Midnight Season 1 features separate Hall of Fame leaderboards for each of the three launch raids — the race continues
  • • Chinese guilds Huoguo Hero and Jitianhong (JTH) claimed World 2nd and 3rd on Chimaerus in The Dreamrift, each earning ¥500,000 RMB (~$72,367 USD) from Thunderfire Games. The World First bounty for Chinese guilds has now accumulated to ¥1.6 million RMB (~$231k USD)
  • • March on Quel'Danas opens March 31 with bosses designed to be harder to compensate for gear already acquired. This could upset the current standings
  • • Story Mode for The Voidspire is now available for players who want to see the raid narrative without grouping — solo queue through Venzilion the Reality Cracker for a simplified Crown of the Cosmos encounter

  Wowhead — World First Mythic Crown of the Cosmos by Liquid · Wowhead — Huoguo Hero and JTH Win ¥500,000 RMB for World Second & Third · Wowhead — The Race to World First Is Upon Us

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• WoW: 20 Years of Music Concert Tour Announced

  Episode Topic 4

  Swiss production company Helvepic announced a global "World of Warcraft: 20 Years of Music" concert tour in partnership with Blizzard — full symphonic orchestra and choir touring North America, Europe, and Asia starting May 2026.

  • • Produced by Helvepic (Switzerland) with international distribution through SOHO Live and ESK. Features music spanning Classic WoW through Dragonflight, performed by a full symphonic orchestra and choir with visual projections from the game
  • • North America dates: LA Intuit Dome (Sep 10), Dallas (Sep 16-17), Las Vegas (Sep 19-20), Chicago (Sep 22-23), Denver (Sep 27), Newark (Sep 30)
  • • Europe dates: Paris Zénith (May 8), Lyon (May 9), Luzern KKL (Oct 2-3), London Royal Albert Hall (Oct 25), Birmingham (Oct 31)
  • • Asia dates: Singapore (Nov 19), Kaohsiung (Dec 12), Bangkok and Shanghai TBA
  • • The LA date on September 10 lines up perfectly with BlizzCon returning in September 2026 — the first BlizzCon since the Microsoft acquisition. Johanna Faries has been framing 2026 as the biggest year in Blizzard's history

  Wowhead — Official WoW Concert Series in North America, Europe and Asia · Helvepic — World of Warcraft: 20 Years of Music (Official Ticket Page)

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• Microsoft Gaming Leadership Shakeup

  Episode Topic 5

  Phil Spencer retired after 38 years at Microsoft, Sarah Bond departed, and Satya Nadella picked Asha Sharma from the Core AI division to run Xbox — a leader with zero gaming industry experience now sits above Blizzard in the org chart.

  • • Spencer ran Xbox since 2014 and was the face of the brand through the Activision Blizzard acquisition. Bond was widely expected to replace him. Instead, Nadella chose Sharma, who previously held roles at Instacart and Meta
  • • Matt Booty was promoted to Chief Content Officer overseeing ~40 studios including Activision Blizzard, reporting to Sharma. Johanna Faries at Blizzard reports up through that chain
  • • Sharma has promised to "not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop" — but Xbox founder Seamus Blackley publicly said he believes her real job may be to act as "a palliative care doctor" for Xbox, arguing Nadella sees everything through an AI lens
  • • Sharma has already retired the controversial "This Is An Xbox" marketing campaign and is personally leading a brand reset. Additional senior Xbox staff have departed in recent weeks
  • • For Blizzard specifically: Faries has been talking about the biggest year ever, but the person above her is brand new, comes from AI, and is openly questioning how Xbox operates. This could mean more investment in reliable revenue drivers like WoW, or restructuring pressure if the numbers don't justify headcount

  CNBC — Microsoft Xbox Chief Phil Spencer Retires, Replaced by AI Executive · Windows Central — Exclusive: Talking to New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty · Insider Gaming — Reason Asha Sharma Retired "This Is An Xbox" Campaign Revealed

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmates — Shakatan & Templrivanho — we cover even more secrets discovered by the Secret Finding Discord…

• Patch 12.0.5

  Episode Topic 1

  Next patch demon hunters will get new eye customizations

  • Along with next patch we will get the bonus loot system
  • Building the Voidforge with Decimus
  • Progress weekly through assembling a forge with the guidance of Dominaar Decimus
  • Scaffolding of system in 12.0, will initiate in 12.0.5
  • Purchase up to 2 voidcores each week
  • Get guaranteed drop from boss as players may choose to spend their Nebulous Voidcores to receive a random item appropriate for their Loot Specialization from that activity
  • 1 voidcore per roll in mythic+
  • 2 voidcores per roll in raids
  • Armor always relevant to your class/spec

  Wowhead — Demon Hunters Embrace the Void with New Eye Customizations in Patch 12.0.5 · Blizzard Forums — 12.0.5 PTR Development Notes

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• Practice Midnight Season 1 Raid Encounters with Vellum: Raid Night Study Hall

  Episode Topic 2

  Free on Steam

  • Amusing raid names like Starch for Quail-Ganache or Gleamdrift
  • Includes dynamic tips and a raid codex for identifying mechanics mid-fight

  Wowhead — Practice Midnight Season 1 Raid Encounters with Vellum: Raid Night Study Hall

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• The Secret of the Felcycle Continues - 10th Orb Discovered

  Episode Topic 3

  As part of their work behind discovering how to join the Mind-Seekers, the Secret Finding Discord had leads on an item called Oddsight Focus, believing it was a continuation of a previously discovered secret. They were right!

  • Obtaining the Oddsight Focus unlocks the 10th orb on the Felcycle clock puzzle in the Kharazan Catacombs
  • Head over to the Secret Finding discord to join the hunt

  Wowhead — The Secret of the Felcycle Continues - 10th Orb Discovered

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• Players Report Bans Associated With Recent Knowledge Point Exploit

  Episode Topic 4

  Before Season 1 of Midnight, some players noticed that as long as they kept the vendor window open, they could continuously purchase the Knowledge Point books from Renown vendors

  • However, it is now being reported that players who took part in this exploit have been banned, beginning with the release of Season 1.

  Wowhead — Players Report Bans Associated With Recent Knowledge Point Exploit

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• Raid Buffs Can No Longer Be Removed Mid Combat - Midnight Hotfixes for March 18th

  Episode Topic 5

  Player-cast long term raid buffs can no longer be canceled while the player is in combat.

  • - Mark of the Wild
  • - Arcane Intellect
  • - Battle Shout
  • - Power Word: Fortitude
  • - Skyfury
  • - Source of Magic
  • - Symbiotic Relationship
  • - Blessing of the Bronze
  • Canceling the buff then reapplying triggers a state update mid-fight
  • This exploit allowed players to read state from the encounter for things they should not have been able to see and this allowed addons to track enough values to infer mechanics

  Wowhead — Raid Buffs Can No Longer Be Removed Mid Combat - Midnight Hotfixes for March 18th

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• New Twitch Drop Starting on March 26th - Cuddly Void Grrgle Housing Decor

  Episode Topic 6

  Watch any eligible World of Warcraft stream on Twitch.tv from March 26 at 3:00 pm PDT until April 23 at 3:00 pm PDT to claim the Cuddly Void Grrgle Housing decor item.

  • Watch 4 hours of eligible World of Warcraft content while these Twitch Drops are active on any channel to earn the Cuddly Void Grrgle Housing decor item.

  Blizzard — New Twitch Drop Starting on March 26th

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• WoW Ambassador Q&A with Holly Longdale on March 30th

  Episode Topic 7

  Blizzard's new official World of Warcraft community Discord, The Portal Room, will be hosting an exclusive Q&A with Executive Producer Holly Longdale at 10 AM on Monday, March 30th!

  • The community discords connected to The Portal Room are allowed to submit questions for Holly to answer.
  • The blue post calls for players to submit questions via their own communities for those leaders to subsequently ask in the Q&A

  Wowhead — WoW Ambassador Q&A with Holly Longdale on March 30th

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• Bound Into Cuddly Adventures with the Spring Bloom Pet Pack

  Episode Topic 8

  A curios approach to sales on the wow shop

  • A 65% discounts to 23 pets from the WoW shop
  • Sale is time-limited and named "Spring Bloom Pet Pack" indicating a short run
  • Players who have bought none of the pets will be asked to pay a whopping $80.50 for all 23
  • The discount is hefty but may lead players to purchase a pack when they realistically would not have paid anywhere near $80 for all the pets they want.
  • Still a great discount for pet lovers

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• Get Guaranteed Hero Track Gear from Trovehunter's Bounty

  Episode Topic 9

  Unlock Nightmare difficulty with the Prey system

  • Once unlocked from a short questline players will need to pick up the quest A Nightmarish Task
  • One of the rewards for this quest is Beacon of Hope
  • Use the Beacon of Hope to lure the latest delve seasonal boss Nullaeus
  • Defeating the boss this way awards a Trovehunter's Bounty
  • The bounty will have a 1/6 Hero track item

  Wowhead — Get Guaranteed Hero Track Gear from Trovehunter's Bounty

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmates — Shakatan & Templrivanho — we cover secrets discovered by the Secret Finding Discord, the new Bonus…

• Midnight Secrets & Hidden Collectibles

  Episode Topic 1

  The Secret Finding Discord discovered how to unlock Gortham, a secret capybara battle pet hidden in the Nexus-Point Xenas dungeon. All five party members must stand on the Corespark Conduits simultaneously in the wing leading to Chief Corewright Kasreth, which spawns a Netherstorm Structural Cage containing the pet and grants the You Conduit! Feat of Strength. Gortham also unlocks a new Mind-Seeker data record in the Seat of Knowledge, and the Secret Finding community believes it connects to a larger chain involving the Oddsight Focus — players are racing to complete 17 secrets for a clue from Anakron.

  • A new Ancestral War Bear mount is available from the Honored Warrior's Cache treasure in Zul'Aman. Instead of the classic timed dungeon run, players interact with the cache, then locate four Honored Warrior Urns across the main Amani Loa temples, defeat each Loa's Chosen to collect their token (Bear Tooth, Lynx Claw, Dragonhawk Feather, Eagle Feather), and return to the cache where spirits of the Chosen gather to witness the unlock. The mount is an HD update of the original with orange and light blue armor and an emerald Amani crest. A second War Bear, the Amani Blessed Bear, is available at Rank 17 with the Amani Tribe for 6,000 Voidlight Marl.
  • Blizzard's Zillow partnership for player housing hid a second freebie beyond the Naturally Elegant Doormat. Players can find a Simply Adorned Vase and Flowers decor item by clicking "explore homes" on the Zillow promotion, toggling between Alliance and Horde neighborhoods, and refreshing listings until a Greener's Plant Nursery ad appears with a "free sample" button. No in-game pop-up confirms the unlock — it simply appears in the Housing Dashboard. Duplicates can then be purchased from vendors Gabbi or Tuuran near the Trading Posts in Orgrimmar and Stormwind.
  • Wowhead — Gortham Battle Pet & You Conduit! Achievement
  • Wowhead — Ancestral War Bear Mount & Honored Warrior's Cache
  • Wowhead — Secret Zillow Decor: Simply Adorned Vase and Flowers

  Wowhead — iMX3, Jaydaa, Archimtiros

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• Mounts, Rares & the Missing Lynx Pet Cafe

  Episode Topic 2

  Harandar rares drop two mounts (Rootstalker Grimlynx and Vibrant Petalwing), unique weapon transmogs including an oversized mushroom hammer, and the Trials of the Florafaun Hunter item that lets Hunters tame Harandar's native florafaun species — Devilsaptors, Saptors, Cloroceroses, Potatoads, Thornmaws, Petalwings, and Grovecrawlers. The taming unlock is account-wide. Separately, Wowhead compiled a list of 8 easy Midnight mounts including the Reins of the Insatiable Shredclaw (a short puzzle in Voidstorm), Cobalt Dragonhawk (Eversong rare drops), Escaped Witherbark Pango (Zul'Aman rare drops), the Elder Glowmite and Vivid Chloroceros two-for-one from moth collecting in Harandar, Echo of Aln'sharan (a cloud serpent from collecting 500 Mysterious Skyshards), and Silvermoon's Arcane Defender plus Elven Arcane Guardian at 10,000 delve currency each.

  • On the lighter side, Wowhead spotlighted The Missing Lynx, a dachshund pet cafe on the upper tier of Murder Row in Silvermoon City. The cafe is packed with Dachshunds (called elfhounds in-game), Corgis, Chihuahuas, cats, birds, fish, and even a crab — along with elaborate decor including dog houses, collars, treats, chew toys, plushies, espresso station, and pastries. There are no vendors or activities inside; it's pure atmosphere. The article notes it's one of the best examples of Silvermoon feeling like a living, organic city.
  • Players can get their own Dachshund pets in Midnight: Luma is earned through a short questline in Eversong Woods starting with Second Time's a Choice and ending with Thief at Bark (starts at Instructor Antheol in Fairbreeze Village). Willie is earned by collecting the Half-Digested Viscera treasure in Voidstorm inside a cave south of the Ingress.
  • Wowhead — Farm Harandar Rares for Mounts & Unique Transmog
  • Wowhead — 8 Easy Midnight Mounts to Add to Your Collection
  • Wowhead — The Missing Lynx Dachshund Pet Cafe in Silvermoon

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• Abundance Nerfed & March 13 Hotfixes

  Episode Topic 3

  The Abundance world event has been quietly nerfed with no mention in official hotfix notes. Players on Reddit and social media report that Abundance orbs now appear to be shared among players rather than individual, and orbs despawn faster. Previously, players could reliably hit the 900 Unalloyed Abundance cap per empowered run (activated with a Shard of Dundun, limited to 8 per week) by grouping in raids, where bonus bars triggered more often. The raid group strategy was so effective it caused server lag in the empowered zone. Now, hitting the 900 cap is no longer guaranteed, and there is zero catch-up for missed Shards of Dundun or missed Unalloyed Abundance — meaning crafters who fall behind on earning currency for Epic Profession tools fall behind permanently.

  • The March 13 hotfixes include: significant reduction in Voidlight Marl costs for Housing decor, class bugfixes for Death Knight (Unholy Gargoyle scaling), Demon Hunter (Reaper's Toll fix for Devourer), Guardian Druid (Dream Guide, Dream of Cenarius, Fury of Nature, and Memory of Ysera fixes), Restoration Druid (Symbiotic Blooms now visible on raid frames), and Preservation Evoker (Dream Flight healing calculation). Dungeon fixes hit Den of Nalorakk (Volatile Totem count) and Magisters' Terrace (Polymorph school corrected to Arcane). Rare creatures in Midnight zones now respawn faster, and Crate of Battlefield Goods now gives disenchant-relevant materials by level bracket.
  • The Marl cost reduction for decor is notable for players who felt Housing was too expensive to engage with, and the faster rare respawns in Midnight zones should help with mount and transmog farming in areas like Harandar and Zul'Aman discussed earlier.
  • Wowhead — Abundance Is No Longer Abundant
  • Wowhead — Midnight Hotfixes for March 13th

  Wowhead — Squishei, Jaydaa

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• Voidforge Bonus Rolls in 12.0.5 & Roofus Charity Pack

  Episode Topic 4

  Patch 12.0.5 introduces the Voidforge, a new warband-wide loot system built around bonus rolls. Players will help the domanaar Decimus construct the Voidforge, then earn Nebulous Voidcores (2 per week, purchased with gold, Voidlight Marl, or Veteran Dawncrests) that function as targeted bonus rolls when defeating raid bosses or completing M+ dungeons, Bountiful Delves, or Nightmare Prey Hunts. Items use a knockout list per difficulty — once you receive an item, it's removed from the pool until all eligible items are obtained. Raid bosses cost 2 Voidcores, M+ costs 1. M+ reward item level matches Great Vault rewards (Myth track at +10 and above).

  • A second phase unlocks Ascendant Voidcores after completing the Ascendant Nilhammer questline. These can infuse fully upgraded Hero, Myth, and max-quality Radiance Crafted weapons and trinkets with additional item level, pushing gear beyond its normal upgrade cap.
  • Separately, the Roofus Pack charity bundle goes on sale March 17 and runs through May 12, 2026. 100% of the purchase price goes to Habitat for Humanity (less chargebacks, refunds, fees, and VAT). The pack includes the Roofus companion pet — a builder pup with idle construction animations — available in both Retail and Classic WoW. Retail players also get dog-themed Housing decor: a dog house, a dog bed, and a dog bowl.
  • Wowhead — Bonus Rolls Returning in 12.0.5: Voidforge System Explained
  • Wowhead — Roofus Charity Pack Available March 17th

  Wowhead — Squishei

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• Jeff Kaplan on the Lex Fridman Podcast

  Episode Topic 5

  Jeff Kaplan, legendary designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, sat down with Lex Fridman for a 5-hour interview covering his entire career. Kaplan was hired by Allen Adham as one of the original WoW quest designers — he and Pat Nagle built the quest system that became the blueprint for quest-driven leveling in MMOs. He described working with Chris Metzen as translating Metzen's creative vision into gameplay, recounting how Metzen would riff for an hour about zones like Grizzly Hills and Silvermoon City with such conviction that junior devs took every word literally (they once tried to measure every structure in WoW to make sure the Silvermoon tower was the tallest). The Horde vs. Alliance faction split was championed by Allen Adham (inspired by Dark Age of Camelot) against pushback from Kaplan and Rob Pardo, who came from EverQuest's mixed-race model.

  • On Overwatch, Kaplan discussed how the Overwatch League became a destabilizing force — the concept was sound (regional teams, player salary protections), but it was over-marketed to investors who were told it would rival the NFL. The resulting financial pressure and commitments (Twitch deal, team skins, technical integrations) diverted the dev team from both live events and Overwatch 2 development. Kaplan left Blizzard in April 2021 after 19 years, describing the departure as emotionally devastating — he had believed he would retire there.
  • After leaving, Kaplan founded Kintsugiyama with Tim Ford (former associate tech director on Overwatch) and is building The Legend of California — an open-world multiplayer action game set during a mythical version of the 1800s California Gold Rush. The world is handcrafted but uses voxel terrain with map seeds that randomize difficulty tiers and points of interest per server. The game is on Steam and an alpha is expected soon. Kaplan also shared his take on AI in game development: useful for tedious tasks (he used ChatGPT to batch-resize 2,000 images), but currently "overconfident" and unreliable for creative work, and he stressed that using artists' or voice actors' work without permission is wrong.
  • YouTube — Lex Fridman Podcast: Jeff Kaplan Interview (5+ hours)

  Lex Fridman Podcast — YouTube (5+ hours)

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmates — Shakatan & Templrivanho — we cover some news about a controversial pricing mistake by Blizzard…

• Midnight Season 1 Begins March 17 — But M+ Waits Until March 24

  Episode Topic 1

  Midnight Season 1 officially kicks off on March 17th, bringing the new raid, PvP season start, Season 1 delves, and Mythic 0 dungeons all at once.

  • Despite billing this as the full Season 1 launch, Mythic+ keystones are delayed a full week to March 24th — after the raid opens. The stated reasoning is to prevent raiders from pre-gearing via keys before the Race to World First.
  • Community reaction has been split — some appreciate the intent, others argue the season doesn't meaningfully "start" until M+ is live, calling the stagger frustrating and unnecessary.

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• Hearthsteel Housing & Shop Controversy: Squirrels, Kobolds, and $125+ in Decor Bundles

  Episode Topic 2

  Blizzard dropped several new paid collections: the Scurrywind Groveglider Collection (four flying squirrel mounts) and the Cozy Kobold Collection (four kobold romper transmogs), along with four new Player Housing Decor Packs — totaling over $125 in Hearthsteel purchases if bought à la carte.

  • The Springblossom Tree — a housing decor item — launched so overpriced that Blizzard later issued refunds and added two extra trees to affected orders after widespread community backlash. Blizzard called it an "incorrect price"; many players called it deliberate limit-testing.
  • A recurring complaint: shop mounts have noticeably higher visual polish than earnable in-game rewards — custom summon animations, unique particle effects, and special footprints — which many players feel is an intentional imbalance designed to drive purchases.

  Wowhead — PopularTopular

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• New Content Live: World Events, M0 Mounts & the Arcantina Key Nerf

  Episode Topic 3

  Two world events are now live: Legends of the Haranir — a weekly story quest series about the new allied race — and the Abundance event, where players harvest materials to honor Dundun the Loa for crafting reagents including Fused Vitality. Completing the Haranir achievement requires a minimum of 7 weeks with no missed lockouts.

  • Two new Hawkstrider mounts — including a variant with spectral in it's name but the current wowhead model only shows an added spell effect on a otherwise identical mount— are now farmable from Magisters' Terrace and Windrunner Spire on Mythic 0 difficulty.
  • The Key to the Arcantina was hotfixed to a 15-minute cooldown Silvermoon Hearthstone after players discovered it could teleport directly into any Midnight dungeon, bypassing the normal portal system.

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Welcome to the Last Attempt Guildcast. In this episode, Squirrelthug is joined again by guildmates — Shakatan & Templrivanho — we cover World of Warcraft's latest expansion Midnight and the features…

• Midnight — Big Picture

  Episode Topic 1

  11th expansion — launches Mar 2, 2026. Season 1 starts Mar 17, M+ keystones Mar 24

  • Second chapter of the Worldsoul Saga (TWW → Midnight → Last Titan)
  • First teased BlizzCon 2023. Full reveal Gamescom Aug 19, 2025
  • Pre-patch (12.0.0) Jan 20, 2026 — pre-expansion event "Twilight Ascension" Jan 27
  • Epic Edition early access Feb 26 at 3:00 PM PST
  • GameSpot called it "arguably the most transformative expansion since Cataclysm"
  • Ion: "the fastest expansion we've ever made" — ~18 months from TWW
  • Ion: "Midnight really has the potential to be our best expansion ever… my high-water mark is probably Legion. I think this one can top it"

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• Systems & Progression Changes

  Episode Topic 2

  Level cap 80 → 90. 10 new talent points: 3 class, 3 hero, 4 spec tree

  • Apex Talents — every spec gets a unique three-tier package at bottom of spec tree. Major power boost + new gameplay element
  • Hero talent tree gains a new column — at max level, entire hero tree is filled for the first time
  • Class pruning — abilities removed across the board. Some specs hit hard (Holy Priest lost ~half its abilities), others barely touched (Prot Warrior)
  • Blizzard says Apex Talents at 90 will restore missing complexity
  • Paladin pruning reverted during beta after backlash. Kubit: player feedback was "passionate," they "heard loud and clear"
  • Pre-patch also brought: stat/ilvl squish, complete transmog overhaul (slot-based appearances + outfits system), built-in damage meters, native boss alerts, cooldown manager, simplified skyriding (6 shared charges, no Vigor bar), PvP training grounds
  • Assisted Highlight & One-Button Rotation — new accessibility tools, controversial

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• Quel'Thalas — Four Zones & Silvermoon

  Episode Topic 3

  Setting: fully revamped Quel'Thalas, split into 4 zones with branching progression

  • Eversong Woods — starting zone. Merges old Eversong + healed Ghostlands. Radiant autumnal forest. Void forces, Lightbloom magical overgrowth, Amani troll conflict
  • Zul'Aman (player choice) — Forest Troll homeland. Expanded from TBC raid into temperate rainforest with hidden crypts and ziggurats
  • Harandar (player choice) — primordial bioluminescent fungal jungle built around World Tree roots. Haranir homeland
  • Voidstorm — final zone, unlocks last. Void invasion epicenter above Quel'Thalas. Xal'atath's Voidspire stronghold. Contains Slayer's Rise PvP area
  • Silvermoon City — completely rebuilt from scratch. Full flying support. Expansion hub for both factions
  • ~2/3 is sanctuary zone (both factions). ~1/3 reserved for Horde
  • Contains profession hubs, PvP vendors, Timeways portal system for dungeon access, all major NPCs

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• Devourer Demon Hunter

  Episode Topic 4

  First new spec added to an existing class since DH launched with only 2 specs in Legion

  • Mid-range DPS caster (~25 yards). Intellect leather. Glaive-wielding soul-harvesting spellcaster channeling Void and cosmic energies (not Fel)
  • Dual resource: Fury + Soul Fragments. Consume filler generates Souls → collect 50 Souls (35 with Soul Glutton talent) → enter Void Metamorphosis → spend burst window as Fury drains
  • Key abilities: Collapsing Star (massive damage), Void Ray, Voidblade, Shift (3-charge Fel Rush equivalent)
  • Entropy talent solves slow ramp-up — starts encounters with 25 Soul Fragments
  • Apex Talent: "Midnight" — Collapsing Star always crits, increased Cosmic damage, 5 Souls + instant Collapsing Star on entering Void Meta
  • Shares Void-Scarred hero tree with Havoc and new Annihilator tree with Vengeance
  • Void Elf Demon Hunters are now a new race/class combo
  • Icy Veins: "incredibly powerful for Season 1" but "might have difficulties with execution requirements" — struggles in M+ when pulls end too quickly

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• Haranir Allied Race

  Episode Topic 5

  Haranir — bioluminescent fungal race descended from ancient dark trolls. Both factions

  • Unlocked by completing the Harandar questline — no reputation grind
  • 10 classes available. Excludes Death Knight, Demon Hunter, Evoker, and Paladin
  • Visual identity bridges Troll and Night Elf aesthetics
  • Racials: Rootwalking (network-based teleport), Thorn Bloom (AoE damage/heal), Lash Out (+1% crit damage/healing)
  • Druid forms: Bear = pangolin-like "Quillbear," flight = massive bat, aquatic = axolotl with leafy gills

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• Player Housing

  Episode Topic 6

  Tentpole feature — most universally praised addition. 21 years of player requests

  • Designed as evergreen system, not expansion-specific. Early access launched Dec 2, 2025 for pre-purchasers
  • Philosophy: "If you want a house, you can have a house" — no lottery (pointed contrast with FFXIV), no exorbitant costs, no upkeep
  • Land costs 1,000 gold (first plot free). Housing is warband-wide across all characters
  • Plots in Founder's Point (Alliance) or Razorwind Shores (Horde) — ~50 plots per neighborhood
  • Up to 2 houses per account (one per faction). Horde can live in Alliance neighborhoods and vice versa
  • Neighborhoods: public (auto-created, unlimited) or private (guild/charter-based, invite-only)
  • Freeform or grid-based 3D placement. Dyeable furniture, swappable towers/windows/facades
  • Decor from quests, achievements, professions, AH, vendors, adventuring
  • House Level progression system. Monthly Endeavors = neighborhood-wide themed activities with exclusive decor
  • Early access surprises: players focused more on exteriors than interiors — building walking fortresses and floating airships
  • Lead Designer Ragaini surprised players were "literally reusing assets in a way we never intended to create 2D art"
  • Blizzard increased outdoor decor budgets in response. Acknowledged storage caps too low — promised 50% increase
  • Soft-lock bugs and confusing decor deletion were noted issues
  • 4+ million players engaged with housing in its first two weeks
  • Community wishlist: copy/paste tools, import/export, placeable pets/mounts, mannequins — confirmed for future patches

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• Season 1 — Dungeons & Mythic+

  Episode Topic 7

  8 new dungeons at launch — split between 4 leveling and 4 max-level

  • Season 1 M+ pool (4 new):
  • Magister's Terrace — reimagined TBC classic
  • Maisara Caverns — fungal underground in Harandar
  • Nexus Point Xenas — Void-themed in Voidstorm
  • Windrunner Spire — explores Windrunner family history
  • Season 1 M+ pool (4 legacy):
  • Algeth'ar Academy (Dragonflight)
  • Seat of the Triumvirate (Legion)
  • Skyreach (WoD)
  • Pit of Saron (WotLK) — first Wrath dungeon ever in M+ rotation
  • Reserved for future seasons: Murder Row, Den of Nalorakk, The Blinding Vale, Voidscar Arena

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• Season 1 — Raids

  Episode Topic 8

  Unprecedented structure: 3 raids at Season 1 launch — 9 total bosses

  • The Voidspire (6 bosses) — primary raid. Set in Xal'atath's fortress
  • The Dreamrift (1 boss) — experimental single-boss raid where primordial dreams meet reality
  • March on Quel'Danas (2 bosses) — delayed opening Mar 31. Bosses: Belo'ren (void-corrupted phoenix from Al'ar's last clutch), L'ura (Light creature corrupted by Void)
  • 4 world bosses rotate weekly with Season 1
  • Blizzard committed to 2 additional one-boss raids in patches 12.0.7 and 12.1.5 — signaling a shift toward more frequent, smaller raid releases
  • Dylan Barker (Lead Encounter Designer) confirmed raids designed for the post-addon world: "mechanics possible in Midnight that might not have been possible in the recent past... harder on a communication axis, on a coordination axis"

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• Delves, Outdoor Content & PvP

  Episode Topic 9

  10 delves + 1 nemesis delve at launch

  • Prey — new outdoor hunting system
  • Labyrinths (mega-delves with saveable progress) coming in patch 12.1.5
  • 5 major post-launch updates announced
  • Slayer's Rise — new 40v40 Epic Battleground in Voidstorm. Inspired by Alterac Valley + Isle of Conquest
  • Outdoor PvP zone with War Mode activities, world quests, Slayer's Duellum reputation faction
  • CC changes: diminishing returns grant immunity after 2 applications (was 3), reset timer 18 → 16 seconds
  • Gladiator cutoff drops from 2400 → 2300 rating

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• Season 1 — Meta Predictions

  Episode Topic 10

  Icy Veins rates Arcane Mage as potentially "broken tier"

  • Brewmaster Monk rated S-tier tank for Season 1
  • Devourer DH rated "incredibly powerful" but execution-dependent and potentially weak in short M+ pulls
  • Method's top-50 raider Hype publishing extensive Devourer guides
  • Bellular: average spec lost ~2 buttons from pruning. Made a free keybinding planner tool to help players adapt

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• The Addon Disarmament — Deep Dive

  Episode Topic 11

  Ion called it "the single largest systemic change in WoW expansion history"

  • Blizzard introduced "secret values" — combat state info addons can display but cannot process or trigger logic against
  • Ion's metaphor: "Combat events are in a black box; addons can change the size or shape of the box and paint it a different color, but they can't look inside"
  • CAN: customize nameplate appearances, buff/debuff frame locations, cast bars, similar UI elements
  • CANNOT: parse combat events in real time, trigger automated responses, make decisions based on combat state
  • Casualties — Top 25 addons, 7 NOT updated at launch:
  • RareScanner, Raider.IO, WeakAuras, Mythic Dungeon Tools, GTFO, World Quest Tracker, Healbot
  • WeakAuras — discontinued retail support entirely. Patreon statement criticized "poorly communicated changes" and "fundamental incompatibility"
  • ElvUI — halted development
  • Survived: Deadly Boss Mods, BigWigs, Details!, Plater — all adapted to Blizzard's new container system
  • Blizzard's native replacements: built-in damage meters (DPS, healing, interrupts, dispels, avoidable damage — up to 3 windows), boss warning/alert timers, cooldown manager with sound alerts + TTS
  • Dylan Barker: Midnight raids designed specifically for post-addon play — "harder on a communication axis, on a coordination axis," not just "we shoot more bullets at you"

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• Class Pruning Fallout

  Episode Topic 12

  Pruning generated immediate backlash — Paladin changes reverted during beta

  • Associate Game Director Paul Kubit: feedback was "passionate," they "heard loud and clear"
  • Some specs devastated (Holy Priest lost ~half abilities), others barely changed (Prot Warrior)
  • Blizzard's position: Apex Talents at 90 restore missing complexity
  • Bellular's viral video "Midnight's Ability Prune Is BRUTAL*" — actually clickbait, most specs lost ~2 buttons average
  • Devs admitted they had been designing encounters around addon use for years — pruning is part of the reset

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• Community Division — The Split

  Episode Topic 13

  Addon removal splits community roughly 50/50

  • Supporters: addons had become "mandatory competitive advantage" not optional customization. Encounters designed for human communication is better
  • Critics: 20-year veterans with deeply customized UIs feel their playstyle was invalidated
  • Sara Hanson (Blizzard Watch): "the biggest thing to hit World of Warcraft in a while"
  • PC Gamer post-pre-patch: "Not having combat UI mods in WoW hurts way less than I expected"
  • But forum posts from 20-year veterans declare it the least interested they've been in an expansion
  • Consensus "mature take" per community analysis: "wait and see" — most serious players adapting, vocal minority considers it a dealbreaker

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• Pre-Launch Story — Cinematic & Shorts

  Episode Topic 14

  Blizzard's deepest pre-launch narrative investment ever — novel, 3 short stories with audiobooks, 3 animated shorts, cinematic trailer

  • Cinematic: "Intercession" (Aug 19, 2025, Gamescom)
  • Liadrin prays at the Sunwell. Lor'themar summons her to defend Silvermoon from Xal'atath's Void assault
  • Spellbreakers charge the Devouring Host. Xal'atath teleports in. Lor'themar overwhelmed, snaps: "You couldn't even break one elf" (referencing Alleria)
  • Xal'atath retaliates with psychic devastation. Liadrin drops her weapon and prays: "I know that I am unworthy… but I know my people do [deserve your help]"
  • A gauntleted hand rises from the Sunwell — Liadrin returns leading an army of mysterious Light-empowered paladins
  • "Supremacy" (Feb 9, 2026) — Xal'atath (Claudia Christian) bends Nexus-King Salhadaar to her will by revealing her mortal origins — a young girl consumed by the Void who lost her world, like the Ethereals lost K'aresh
  • Fan debate: is Xal'atath telling the truth? Child wore symbol similar to Hallowfall Arathi
  • "All That is Sacred" (Feb 18, 2026) — Lady Liadrin's full arc from priestess to Scourge survivor, through Blood Knights siphoning Light from nauru M'uru, to Sunwell protector
  • "Son of Two Worlds" (Feb 23, 2026) — Arator the Redeemer's upbringing. Half-elf raised by aunt Vereesa while parents Alleria and Turalyon were beyond the Dark Portal. Grew up visiting their statues in Valley of Heroes

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• Pre-Launch Story — Written Content

  Episode Topic 15

  Three short stories with full audiobook recordings (YouTube) — "hour-long narration videos"

  • "The Void Between" (Jan 23, 2026) by Alex Acks. Narrated by Kirk Thornton as Grand Magister Rommath (~1+ hr)
  • Follows Rommath and Magister Umbric's fractured relationship — shared history as young magisters through blood elf tragedies. Can they ally before Xal'atath's invasion?
  • "Legacy of the Amani" (Feb 2026) by Graham Roswell. Narrated by Mela Lee as Chieftain Zul'jarra
  • Zul'jarra, granddaughter of Zul'jin, must prove her right to lead fractured Amani tribes after centuries of war, lost loa connection, and a rival's challenge
  • "The Quiet at the End of Us" (late Feb 2026) by Hugo Award-winner Catherynne M. Valente. Narrated by Ike Amadi as Amarakk
  • Literary, reflective story about two Haranir whose discovery of a forbidden rootway to Azeroth's surface transforms their friendship
  • Community praised Blizzard for hiring real literary talent
  • Novel: "Blood Ties" by Christie Golden (Nov 18, 2025) — Arator investigating Burning Legion remnant alongside Alleria & Turalyon. Family dynamics of heroes who experienced 1,000 years of war while their son aged decades

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• Story — Where We Are Going

  Episode Topic 16

  Continues directly from TWW: Xal'atath killed Locus-Walker, seized the Dark Heart containing Dimensius the All-Devouring, channeled its energy to create the Voidstorm over Quel'Thalas

  • Devouring Host — unified Void army: Ethereals, void creatures, corrupted beings — assaulting the Sunwell
  • Key characters: Alleria (hunting Xal'atath), Lor'themar, Lady Liadrin, Arator, Rommath, Umbric, Vereesa, Zul'jarra, Zul'jan
  • Xal'atath remains primary antagonist through Midnight and into The Last Titan
  • Design Director Maria Hamilton: "there will be important characters that do not survive the trilogy… a lot of death"
  • Leeroy Jenkins confirmed appearing to help defend the Sunwell
  • Dev Jake Shillan: team "had to play historians/archaeologists" going deep into all Warcraft history for the Zul'Aman expansion
  • Windows Central noted WoW writing "has been under a microscope" — characters sometimes forget events, behave out of character, let old hatreds die too easily

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• Asha Sharma & Microsoft Gaming

  Episode Topic 17

  Asha Sharma — EVP and CEO of Microsoft Gaming as of Feb 23, 2026

  • Replaces Phil Spencer after 38 years at Microsoft. Sarah Bond also resigned
  • Born 1989. Came from leading Microsoft's CoreAI division (Azure AI Studio, Copilot developer tools)
  • No prior gaming leadership experience — described as a "surprise pick"
  • Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley warned the appointment reflects Microsoft viewing "everything as a gen AI problem"
  • Sharma pushed back directly: "We will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop"
  • Committed to "great games," "the return of Xbox," and "the future of play" — games need "deep emotional resonance" and "a distinct point of view"

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• Microsoft Gaming Finances

  Episode Topic 18

  Q2 FY2026 (Oct–Dec 2025): gaming revenue declined $623M, or 9% YoY, to ~$5.96B

  • Xbox content and services fell 5%, hardware revenue plunged 32%
  • Management called results "well below expectations" — unspecified impairment charge recorded
  • Xbox hardware in steady multi-year decline: -42% FY24Q4, -29% FY25Q1, -32% FY26Q2
  • Division faces daunting 30% profit margin target — significantly above industry averages
  • Analysts project gaming revenue growth of just 2.1% FY2026, accelerating to 15% FY2027
  • WoW is NOT on Game Pass — no announced plans. Erroneous Jan 2025 marketing email quickly corrected
  • WoW subscription (~$15/month) generates significant standalone revenue Microsoft appears unwilling to cannibalize
  • Windows Central's Jez Corden has speculated about potential Game Pass Ultimate bundling

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• Layoffs & Unionization

  Episode Topic 19

  ~3,600 Activision Blizzard employees laid off between 2019–2025

  • Most recent: Jul 2025 — ~100 Blizzard positions cut. Project Odyssey cancelled. Warcraft Rumble moved to maintenance mode
  • In response: 3,500+ Blizzard developers unionized across WoW, Overwatch 2, and Diablo teams
  • Ion: Midnight was made "without crunch" and with "no sacrifices to quality"
  • The Last Titan is "well underway" — planning extends through a 13th expansion and beyond

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• WoW's Health & Blizzard 2026

  Episode Topic 20

  Player population at multi-year highs:

  • Jul 2025 — French concert promo tie-in cited 9M players
  • Third-party trackers: ~9.7M monthly after Jan 2026 pre-patch. ActivePlayer.io: ~11M MAU heading into launch
  • WoW remains dominant subscription MMO: FFXIV ~3.3M, ESO ~2.8M monthly actives
  • Johanna Faries: 2026 is potentially "the biggest year yet for Blizzard"
  • Midnight + Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred (Apr 28) + Overwatch 10th anniversary + Blizzard 35th anniversary
  • BlizzCon returns Sep 12–13, 2026 — first since 2023, first under Microsoft ownership. Early bird tickets ($249) sold out Nov 2025

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• Content Creator Temperature Check

  Episode Topic 21

  Bellular: "Midnight's Ability Prune Is BRUTAL*" video — somewhat clickbait (most specs ~2 buttons lost). Built free keybinding planner tool. Sees addon changes as genuine adjustment

  • Preach Gaming: maintained testing-focused approach rather than speculating
  • Taliesin & Evitel: offered measured analysis
  • Method / Hype: top-50 raider publishing extensive Devourer guides. Competitive community taking the spec seriously
  • General creator sentiment: cautious optimism

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• The Big Gamble — What Blizzard Is Betting

  Episode Topic 22

  Blizzard's strategy: reset WoW's foundations to be more accessible, less addon-dependent, more sustainable long-term

  • Addon disarmament alone would define any expansion — layering on housing, a new spec, class pruning, stat squish, and transmog overhaul creates a launch unlike anything in WoW's 21 years
  • Housing gives casual players a reason to log in daily
  • Addon changes force hardcore players to rediscover human coordination
  • Apex Talents promise to restore complexity that pruning removed
  • "Swing the pendulum to one end and then creep it back" — the explicit strategy
  • The central narrative tension: Midnight either reinvents WoW for its third decade or is the expansion where Blizzard changed too much, too fast

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• The Last Titan — Theories & Predictions

  Episode Topic 23

  Ion: The Last Titan is "well underway," teams are "thinking beyond" expansion 13

  • Blizzard confirmed planning through patch 13.2 and brainstorming through a potential 16th expansion
  • Most popular theory: "The Last Titan" refers to Azeroth herself — the world-soul at the center of the Worldsoul Saga
  • Sargeras theory: returning either as antagonist or redeemed figure. Metzen confirmed the Sword of Sargeras plotline resolves only in The Last Titan — told fans they're "not prepared for that moment"
  • Northrend rework confirmed for The Last Titan. Community expects Ulduar and Storm Peaks as endgame hubs
  • Provocative theory: Titans reframed as morally ambiguous — questionable creators who imprisoned Azeroth's world-soul rather than nurtured it. Datamined hints suggest Old Gods could return as allies against the Titans
  • New class predictions: Bard has strongest support (connected to "Radiant Song" mechanic). Tinker is perennial runner-up
  • Hamilton's confirmation of major deaths — community speculation: Lor'themar, Alleria, even Sylvanas (still doing penance in Shadowlands) as candidates

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