Midnight

Midnight is the eleventh expansion and the second chapter of the Worldsoul Saga, coming after The War Within. It was first announced with the saga at BlizzCon 2023 and shown in detail at gamescom in August 2025. Early Access opened on 26 February 2026 and the expansion launched on 2 March 2026. It raised the level cap to 90; at the time of writing the live patch is 12.1.5.

After the heroes allied with Xal'atath to stop Dimensius in The War Within, she turns on them. Her Void forces invade Quel'Thalas, home of the blood elves, to seize the Sunwell and drown the world in darkness. Players help bring the scattered elven peoples back together and fight beside the forces of the Light.

A rebuilt Quel'Thalas is the main setting. You start in Eversong Woods, then pick Zul'Aman or Harandar in any order; the Voidstorm unlocks last. The Coiled Isle was added in a later patch.

Silvermoon City, rebuilt for the first time since The Burning Crusade, is the player hub and is open to both factions to fight the Void. About two thirds of the city is a sanctuary, and the rest stays Horde-only.

Housing gives every player a home with no lottery, no cost and no upkeep. The home is shared across your Warband, you decorate it with items earned in play, and friends from either faction can visit. Plots sit in public or private Neighborhoods with monthly group events. Patch 11.2.7 opened early access to housing for players who owned Midnight, and patch 12.0.0 released the full system. Buying a house needs Midnight, but anyone can already add decor to the Decor Catalog.

• Haranir: an ancient, reclusive people older than many of Azeroth's races. Earn their trust in Harandar to unlock them as an allied race.
• Devourer: a third Demon Hunter specialization that fights at range with Void powers and a summoned Void Scythe. Void elves can now be demon hunters too.
• Prey: a new open-world activity where you hunt dangerous targets and can be hunted in return.
• Transmogrification moved to a slot-based system: changing one slot is free, while changing a whole outfit costs gold.
• A reworked start for new and returning players (Exile's Reach and an Arathi Highlands intro), a roughly 2-hour catch-up questline for The War Within, and Story Mode for the final bosses of Dragonflight raids.

The first raid tier has nine encounters split into three parts:

Eight Dungeons and Instances: Windrunner Spire, Magisters' Terrace, Murder Row, Den of Nalorakk, Maisara Caverns, Blinding Vale, Nexus-Point Xenas and Voidscar Arena. Ten Delves plus one challenge Delve, Torment's Rise (a Nemesis Delve), launched with the expansion, along with a new companion, Valeera Sanguinar.

Critics were mostly positive: Metacritic shows a score of 82 and OpenCritic an 83% recommendation rate. Reviewers praised the zones, housing, Prey and endgame, but criticized the story and the bugs in later updates; after patch 12.0.5 in April 2026, Blizzard issued a formal apology.