Episodes

  • #364 - For Azeroth!: “Midnight Preview: Enhancement Shaman"

    #364 - For Azeroth!: “Midnight Preview: Enhancement Shaman"
    Dec 22 2025

    Wordup lends shares his insights into the state of Enhancement Shaman on the Midnight Beta.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • #363 - For Azeroth!: “May Sean Brick Your Key"

    #363 - For Azeroth!: “May Sean Brick Your Key"
    Dec 18 2025

    Lex, Sean, and Manny discuss the last Midnight Beta Build of the year, hopes for the 2026, and all the latest Warcraft news.
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    49 mins
  • #362 - For Azeroth!: “Deck the Halls”

    #362 - For Azeroth!: “Deck the Halls”
    Dec 11 2025

    The spirit of player housing has inspired Lex, Manny, and even Sean to decorate. Midnight Raid testing may have broken the crew; but, dungeons give hope to the improvements through Midnight Beta testing.
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    51 mins
  • #361 - For Azeroth!: “WoW Hits Home”

    #361 - For Azeroth!: “WoW Hits Home”
    Dec 4 2025

    Lex is decking the halls. Sean searches for mistletoe. No, wait. That is later in the month. Right now, housing is the talk of the town! Midnight continues to develop with news that is giving Sean reason to cheer. The schedule for season 1 of Midnight is revealed as Sean worries for the poor 0.1%.

    News

    Housing 1st Impressions

    The talk of the town is the town as Warcraft early access opens up to all who have purchased the upcoming Midnight expansion.

    Links

    • Housing Early Access Trailer | World of Warcraft: Midnight
    • What's Next for WoW Housing? Interview with Devs Jay Hwang and Garth DeAngelis

    11.2.7 is Here

    The prologue to the midnight expansion is live in NA and EU.

    • Midnight Prologue Campaign
    • Revamped New and Returning Player Experience
    • Lorewalking: Elves
    • Pandaren Heritage Armor
    • Turbulent Timeways (through to Feb 9th)
    • Brawler’s Guild (Next Week)

    Links

    • https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24244442
    • 11.2.7 The Warning Launch Trailer | World of Warcraft

    Dungeon Philosophy in Action

    Changes to the dungeons begin reflecting the team’s new philosophies.

    • Standardized short cast
    • Important casts with 4 sec or greater cast time
    • Reduced number of casters
    • Bolt-slop reduced damage
    • Anti Focus Fire behavior
    • Cast Audio Notification (player and target)

    Links

    • New Interrupt Philosophy Showcased in Midnight's Mythic+ Testing - Wowhead News

    Seeing Red

    Combat Addons are still allowed to provide a competitive advantage as Blizzard reneges on the entire reason for the addon de-escalation.

    • Through a use of conditionals Platynator was able to color code:
    • Bosses
    • Lieutenants
    • Casters
    • Melee
    • Minor enemies
    • Casters would only change to their colour when they first cast an interruptible spell.
    • Blizzard has said this is okay but has not made any commitment to put this functionality into the default UI.

    Links

    • Color-Coding Enemy Nameplates is Returning in Midnight - Wowhead News

    Midnight Epic Edition Contest is over

    Congratulations to Pandachow, NickBeresford, and Random.ffxiv
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • #360 - For Azeroth!: “The Home Stretch”

    #360 - For Azeroth!: “The Home Stretch”
    Nov 27 2025

    Sean and Manny discuss the developments on the Midnight Beta as the next expansion gets a release date. We enter the home stretch with pre-expansion events and early access on our doorstep.

    Launch Date Revealed

    Mark your Calendars. Midnight launches on the 2nd of March, 2026.

    • World of Warcraft®: Midnight™ Goes Live March 2!
    • Midnight Arrives 3.2.26 | World of Warcraft


    World of Decorcraft: Azeroth’s Next Top Builder

    A Panel of judges are searching the neighbourhoods of Azeroth to find the most beautiful and most creative player houses.

    • Check Out World of Decorcraft December 2-10
    • Apply here


    Damaged Meters

    Over the weekend, Kaivax took to the forums to provide context to the state of the damage meters on the beta.

    • Feedback: Damage Meters - Page 2 - Midnight Beta Test - World of Warcraft Forums.


    Transmog Troubles

    Datamined transmog details created an uproar amongst the community.

    • It Costs Up to 5,700 Gold to Save a Full Set of Transmog to an Outfit Slot in Midnight - Wowhead News
    • Transmog Beta Updates - November 25
    • Warband transmog slots - #2 by Kaivax - Midnight Beta Test - World of Warcraft Forums

    Mythic+ Changes and Impressions

    Changes have come fast and without preamble on the beta. The 2 of the 4 returning dungeons for Midnight season 1 have received adjustments.

    • Feedback: Midnight Season 1 Dungeon Testing November 18 - December 2
    • Nameplates somewhat improved


    Voidspire Last Boss

    • The Last Boss of Midnight's First Tier Shows Off Blizzard's New Encounter Design - Wowhead News
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • #359 - For Azeroth!: “It's Rough”

    #359 - For Azeroth!: “It's Rough”
    Nov 20 2025

    Raid Testing and Dungeon testing have commenced and the current reality of the add-on replacements hits home. Was last week's anxiety justified?
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • #358 - For Azeroth!: “Beta Build Anxiety”

    #358 - For Azeroth!: “Beta Build Anxiety”
    Nov 13 2025
    The Midnight Beta is Live. Raid Testing is Scheduled. As the March on the next Warcraft Expansion moves on the crew questions if we are going too fast, too slow, or both simultaneously. The Warning Overlooked Midnight Prologue: The WarningDec 2nd in NAVereesa Windrunner and Arator investigate visions and prophesiesAs a part of the content update, players who have added Midnight to their account will gain access to Housing Early Access.Updated New Player ExperienceNew Lorewalking: The Elves of Quel'Thalas allows players to learn about the origins of the Blood Elves and the Void Elves.The Lich King’s assault on the SunwellThe tainting of the Sunwell by Alleria Windrunner, and the creation of the Void ElvesPandaren Heritage ArmorTurbulent Timeways returns10 weeks of Timewalking6 new dungeons from the ShadowlandsThe Brawler’s GuildDec 9New bossesRevised encounter orderRewards including Housing Decor Links Midnight Prologue: “The Warning” Content Update Goes Live December 2! Play with the Blues: Midnight Pre-Launch Event Mon Nov 1711:00 PST - 13:00 PSTRealm: Midnight Prelaunch EventThe realm will become available when the event begins and will remain open after the event ends for a short period of time for those who still want to test out the pre-launch event.Requirements: Copy a character from the live servers to participate in the test.The quest “The Cult Within” will begin a chain that will lead players to the Twilight Highlands in the Eastern Kingdoms.The event repeats quickly and can be tracked in the map.The build will be based on Midnight so there will be class changes Links Play with the Blues: Midnight Pre-Launch Event - November 17 Midnight Beta New with the beta: Allied Race: HaranirCOMBAT TUNINGDevelopers’ notes: As Midnight transitions into beta, tuning will quickly start happening at a much more rapid pace. We are working to get things into a better tuned state to ensure quality playtesting and feedback from both internal and external sources. This tuning will come in various stages and won’t all happen at once, but a few notable changes are happening that feel worth discussing slightly more:Several classes will see some generic increases or decreases to their overall throughput amounts. Most of this right now is to coincide with “zeroing out” some passive modifiers attached to the class or spec that was adjusting their throughput. Rather than continue to tweak this number up and down, most of them have been set to zero. In some cases, we adjusted the spec’s tuning up or down to compensate for the change. In other cases, we felt it was ok to not adjust the spec’s throughput and just return the values to zero.Melee classes are starting to see an increase to their auto-attack damage dealt either in this week’s update or in the coming week’s updates. Auto-attacking is a part of melee characters, and we want to make sure that an appropriate amount of damage is being attributed to your auto-attacks while engaged in combat.All healers had a 20% increase to their damage dealt this week. We are monitoring the rate at which they can complete content while solo and felt that a boost to their offensive throughput would be appropriate.NEW ACCESSIBILITY FEATURE: COMBAT AUDIO ALERTSCombat audio alerts have been added for reading your target’s name and announcing when your target dies, when combat starts, and when combat ends.Transmog is disabled for the week.Next Week: Limited Raid TestingUpdated Transmog SystemMythic+ DungeonsMidnight Season 1 DungeonsUpper-tier DelvesHousing - Night Elf and Blood Elf exterior decorAdditional User Interface Updates Links Midnight Beta Test Development Notes - #18 by Linxyhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe26_kqAy4ypSkmpRiO_eJQyvcp0el5PKcUTO0ZrYu4qi3-eQ/viewform Raid Testing Midnight Raid Testing Schedule
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • #357 - For Azeroth!: “Do Addons Think for You”

    #357 - For Azeroth!: “Do Addons Think for You”
    Nov 6 2025

    News

    BlizzCon 2026

    Blizzard announced today that BlizzCon 2026 Passes will go on sale November 7th.

    • Friday, November 7, 2025, at 9 a.m. PST through Sunday, November 9, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PST
    • $249.99 USD each
    • Maximum number of passes a single account can purchase raised from two to four
    • Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 9 a.m. PST at $289.99 USD
    • BlizzCon Charity Night Addon for $499.99 USD
    • Blizzard will donate 100% of the purchase price to Make-A-Wish
    • Darkmoon Faire After Hours for $89.99 USD
    • Three-hour event Saturday evening, September 12
    • 20 Faire Tokens and a collectible credential
    • Rough outline provided for the event
    • Opening Ceremony
    • Show floor playable gameplay for WoW, Diablo IV, Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, and Diablo Immortal.
    • The Blizzard Arcade
    • Dev Stages including a separate Classic Stage
    • Esports return with the AWC, MDI, and competitions from other games (Overwatch World Cup)

    Links

    • BlizzCon 2026 Passes go on sale November 7!


    Unshackled Fury Ion Interview

    • To celebrate their 10th anniversary the Unshackled Fury podcast with hosts Berzerker and Jez sat down with World of Warcraft Game Director, Ion Hazzikostas. During the interview they talk about Ion’s life outside of the game, his early years and how he ended up at Blizzard. It humanized him in a way most interviews never do.

    Links

    • Interview with World of Warcraft Director Ion Hazzikostas! Midnight, Madness, and Mayhem!


    The Conversation Continues

    Ion and Andy Churchill met with the BW/DBM authors to discuss the state of Combat Timeline and find solutions to their biggest pain points. There was a lot of good detail to come from this meeting and I suggest watching Adam’s video where he goes through it in detail.

    • Player Spell Casts are no longer secret values (even in combat)
    • Addons will be able to filter spells in the timeline
    • No ability renaming
    • No ability timers on nameplates
    • Will not allow warnings when a debuff/target of a spell is applied
    • Custom sounds for Cooldown Manager will be permitted

    Links

    • Boss mod addon authors talked to Ion Hazzikostas about Midnight


    Prey

    Midnight unleashes the Prey system as a new endgame activity.

    • Role agnostic
    • Each difficulty presents 4 hunts per week.
    • The same Target can be at a different difficulty and location when encountered in a new week.
    • You can do any activity in the zone that will help your hunt progress
    • 3 Difficulties


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    Thanks to the team at Warcraft we have 3 Epic Edition codes to giveaway!

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    All 3 winners will be drawn on November 10th 2025

    Outro

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    1 hr and 37 mins