Here’s a recap of everything Blizzard announced at gamescom 2025 today!
We’re still adding full assets to the individual articles, but this post is your quick recap. A fast way to catch up on everything Midnight.
Midnight Pre-Orders
The Midnight expansion is now available for pre-order. You can choose between 3 game editions that offer different tiers of rewards, including 
Trader’s Tender! Check out the mounts and pets you can get!
Midnight Expansion Cinematic and Gameplay Trailer
Blizzard dropped the epic Midnight Expansion Cinematic cinematic which shows what Xal’atath’s been up to! Midnight is all about contrasts. On one hand, we’re facing the rise of Xal’atath and the encroaching Void contrasting with the forces of Light and their willingness to do whatever it takes.
Devourer Demon Hunter Spec & Void Elf Demon Hunters
At Gamescom, Blizzard revealed a third mid-range Void-themed spec for Demon Hunters called Devourer! They’ve also opened up the Demon Hunters to the Void Elf race!
Haranir Allied Race
While we’ve encountered this race during The War Within, players will be able to play the Haranir after completing the main campaign in Midnight. Check out the classes available to Haranir!
Silvermoon City Rebuilt
Blizzard has rebuilt Silvermoon City in Midnight, but it’s still primarily a Horde city! We’ll also visit updated Eversong Woods, Zul’Aman, Harandar, and Voidstorm itself!
Early Access to Player Housing
Players will get early access to player housing upon pre-purchasing the Midnight expansion! Early access starts in Patch 11.2.7.
Blizzard also offers a virtual tour of player housing before pre-ordering the new expansion, which is a really cool feature! Go check it out!
New “Prey” System
Prey is a new system that adds an extra layer of outdoor world gameplay for players seeking more thrill and challenge as they adventure across Midnight’s zones.
Midnight Dungeons and Delves
The new expansion introduces several new dungeons and delves!
Midnight Raids
The Midnight expansion will launch with 3 raids. One of them is full of juicy spoilers.
New & Returning Player Updates
Blizzard has made many quality-of-life improvements to the new and returning player experience in WoW.
- Exile’s Reach tutorial flows into Dragonflight zones with the overall campaign seeing updates.
- Story Mode raids now exist for Raszageth, Sarkareth, and Fyrakk.
- Skyriding has been simplified: we now have six shared charges for
Surge Forward and 
Skyward Ascent. Vigor has been removed. - bar.
- For returning players, an optional Arathi Highlands tour with Jaina or Thrall has been implemented.
- New Lorewalking stories have been added.
- A shortened questing experience to play through the key story points of The War Within expansion before jumping into Midnight has been added.
Transmogrification Updates
Slot-based, gold-free outfit swapping is coming in the Midnight expansion along with other improvements.
