Midnight Dev Interview - Full Housing Neighborhoods System Not Coming in 11.2.7
Gamespot talked to WoW senior game director Ion Hazzikostas, associate design director Maria Hamilton, and associate game director Paul Kubit. The covered Player Housing, Transmog, and more.
Player Housing
- The version of player housing arriving in The War Within's patch 11.2.7 is described as a "preview" that focuses on the house itself and its customization.
- The full neighborhood system, which includes features like neighborhood-wide challenges and events, won't be coming until Midnight's official launch.
- One of the primary reasons for the early release is to give players a head start on collecting decoration items from all over the game, including old dungeons and raids, so they don't feel pressured to do so during the launch of a new expansion.
- Players who do not preorder Midnight will still be able to collect housing decor items when patch 11.2.7 goes live.
Quel'Thalas & Story
- There is no more loading screen for Eversong Woods, Zul'Aman and Silvermoon.
- While Silvermoon will be the main hub for both the Horde and the Alliance, Alliance players will only have access to certain parts of the city.
- Silvermoon will be larger, with some new areas added, including the Sanctum of Light and a Memorial Garden.
- Some of the most iconic areas in Quel'thalas, like Windrunner Spire, Magisters' Terrace, and Murder Row will be dungeons
Player Experience & UI
- Popular add-on features like damage meters and boss timers are being integrated directly into the game's baseline UI.
- Midnight is going to be our first expansion that really puts approachability front and center in all aspects of its encounter and class design
Devourer Demon Hunters
- Devourer players wouldn't be sitting at max-range casting spells, but did say that in a lot of cases, the spec's rotation can be done at range.
- The core loop of the spec is for players to enter Void Metamorphosis and then try to stay in the form for as long as possible to maximize damage
- It won't play like a classic ranged class, you'll be moving in and out of melee range.
Prey System
- Normal Prey difficulty will be similar to existing open-world content.
- Hard and Nightmare Prey difficulty enemies may have Affixes and more mechanics.
MoP Classic PvP Vendor Update - August 19
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
The Honor and Conquest vendors have moved once again and are back on the battlefield.
They can now be found in the courtyard of the Gate of the Setting Sun, conveniently marked on your world map with an icon.
There is no glory to be had in the sanctuary of the Shrines!
Please note: Their original locations were never turned off, so if you’re speaking to them on the wall, you can expect strange results. This should become much less strange with patch 5.5.1, probably.
WoW Hotfixes - August 19, 2025
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Classes
- Death Knight
- Frost
- Fixed an issue causing Legion Artifact appearance transmogrifications to cause some spells to fail to deal damage.
- Fixed an issue causing Frostreaper's tether to fail to sever against large enemies.
- Unholy
- Rider of the Apocalypse: Fixed an issue causing Chains of Ice from King Thoras Trollbane to sometimes fail to apply Chains of Ice to large enemies.
- Frost
- Demon Hunter
- Fel-Scarred: Fixed an issue that prevented demon soul fragments generated by 4-piece tier set from applying their effect when consumed by casting Spirit Bomb.
- Druid
- Balance
- Keeper of the Grove: Fixed an issue with Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece causing damage dealt to absorb shields to not count towards damage dealt while your dryad is active.
- Balance
- Mage
- Fire
- All damage dealt increased by 4%.
- Flamestrike damage increased by 8%.
- Fire
- Paladin
- Retribution
- All damage increased by 5%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
- Retribution
- Priest
- Shadow
- Fixed an issue causing Shadow Crash to not apply Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch to targets not in line of sight of the Priest.
- Fixed an issue preventing the spell visuals for the Idol of C'Thun talent.
- Shadow
- Rogue
- Fatebound: Fixed an issue that could cause the 4-piece class set's skill cooldown reduction effects to apply twice under certain conditions.
- Assassination
- Fixed an issue that allowed Caustic Spatter to directly benefit from effects that provide damage bonus to all Rogue damage abilities.
- Shaman
- Enhancement
- Stormbringer: Fixed an issue causing Static Accumulation to not continue to generate Maelstrom Weapon stacks if Ascendance was cast while Ascendance was already active.
- Enhancement
- Warlock
- Affliction
- All damage dealt reduced by 3%. Does not affect PvP.
- Affliction
- Warrior
- Arms
- All damage dealt increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
- Arms
Delves
- In the Spiral Weave delve variant Down to Size, Web Bombs will no longer disappear upon entering combat.
Dungeons and Raids
- Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
- Avanoxx
- Gossamer Onslaught’s missile damage reduced by 50%.
- Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
- Mythic+ timer increased to 35 minutes (was 34 minutes).
- O.S.T. Master
- Now starts gaining energy after 12 seconds of casting Unstable Goods (was 6 seconds).
- Myza’s Oasis
- Total number of enemy waves reduced to 2 (was 3).
- Commander Zo’far
- Health reduced by 16%.
- Enemy forces value increased by 25%.
- Manaforge Omega
- The Soul Hunters
- The Hunt damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
- Consume healing absorb reduced by 15% in Mythic difficulty.
- Dark Residue damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
- Soulcrush healing absorb reduced by 15% in Mythic difficulty.
- Immolation Aura damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
- Forgeweaver Araz
- Health of Forgeweaver Araz reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
- Photon Blast cast time increased to 2 seconds (was 1 second) in Mythic difficulty.
- Astral and Void Manifestation health reduced by 30% in Mythic difficulty.
- Astral and Void Manifestation movement speed reduced in Mythic difficulty.
- Increased time allowed before Containment Breach to 10 seconds (was 3 seconds).
- Prime Sequence movement speed and number of missiles reduced.
- Fractillus
- Fractillus health reduced by 8% in Mythic difficulty.
- Crystal Lacerations damage reduced by 20%.
- Shockwave Slam now increases Physical damage taken.
- The Soul Hunters
- Avanoxx
Items
- Fixed an issue where K'areshi Voidstone would not grant additional Mage armor appearances.
Player versus Player
- The 2-piece bonus from equipping Gladiator’s Medallion and Gladiator’s Emblem now grants an additional 5% stamina in PvP combat.
- Developers’ note: This is intended to slightly increase the time it takes to kill an enemy in PvP combat, to give players more time to react to incoming burst.
- Death Knight
- Anti-Magic Zone reduces magic damage taken by 30% in PvP combat (was 15%).
- Frost
- Deathbringer: Reaper’s Mark damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
- Unholy
- Death Coil damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
- Druid
- Druids who reached Combatant II during War Within Season 3 should now be granted the Elite legs appearance.
- Balance
- Whirling Stars reduces Celestial Alignment or Incarnation: Chosen of Elune duration by 30% in PvP combat (was 20%).
- Damage of spells and abilities reduced by 4% in PvP combat.
- Mage
- Frostfire: Frostfire Bolt damage reduced by 13% in PvP combat.
- Frostfire: Isothermic Core’s Comet Storm is called down at 150% effectiveness in PvP combat (was 200%).
- Arcane
- Sunfury: Arcane Soul now increases the damage of Arcane Barrage by 5% per stack in PvP (was 15%).
- Fire
- Hyperthermia’s stacking damage bonus to Pyroblast and Flamestrike reduced to 5% per stack in PvP combat (was 15%).
- Rogue
- Fatebound: Fatebound Coin (Tails) and Lucky Coin damage reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
Quests
- “Tranquila-Bee” is now completable again.
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