2026-09-29

[Shilo]

• Allowed mix faction queueing for battlegrounds

Hope this is not for PvP server either way it ruins the very idea of pvp server

This is not applicable to the PvP server as the PvP server does not have cross faction BG queues.

Doesn't this rule out the possibility of creating cross-realm battlegrounds in the future? What about maintaining a cross-faction queue and a cross-realm queue with a ban on cross-faction play on a PvP server?

[Heards1]

is there gonna be any updates to the launcher addons? most of them are outdated

[Eemo]

• re-size box added to scholo to patch growth elixir exploit
• Fixed issue where warlocks pets would not re-summon when they die before the warlock in a battleground
• Allowed mix faction queueing for battlegrounds
• Those on the Traveling Craftmaster challenge can now wear tabards
• Garr's Firesworn now scale evenly with raid size
• War mode now stays on when you hit level 60 (until dissabled), the 20% honor gain is replaced with a 20% boost to BG reputation gain once you reach level 60
• Fixed bug preventing shaman physical abilities from procing Earthen Bulwark
• Frostmane Hollow quests are now shareable
• Adjusted some respawn timers in Northwind and Lpidis Isle
• Added Grim Totem skin back to the shop
• Networking updates

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Thanks for the update as always.

Just wondering, for those players that already dinged 60 and got their Warmode automatically turned-off by the system, can we have a way to re-enable it so we can benefit from the change? (extra 20% rep)

[Bluewhale]

I could've sworn we already had xfaction queues for BGs already. I leveled my main 50 to 60 via AB spam before it got nerfed and I'm positiive I was swaping factions every few queues.

[Fatsea]

When will there be a simple way to donate? Chinese Mainland can't open the Bitcoin QR code

[Eraanthe]

I could've sworn we already had xfaction queues for BGs already. I leveled my main 50 to 60 via AB spam before it got nerfed and I'm positiive I was swaping factions every few queues.

They made it so you can party queue with horde/ally now. Not what you're talking about.

[Darkology]

if mixed faction queing is for pvp server the pvp server gonna die we dont wanna fight paladin shaman combos

Bro it's not a choice. Servers are shrinking and queues are not popping. It's not the time to discuss that lore sht. If you wanna continue not to play along side a paladin then please go find hundreds of players to join us and then talk.

[Eraanthe]

if mixed faction queing is for pvp server the pvp server gonna die we dont wanna fight paladin shaman combos

Bro it's not a choice. Servers are shrinking and queues are not popping. It's not the time to discuss that lore sht. If you wanna continue not to play along side a paladin then please go find hundreds of players to join us and then talk.

I agree, the more people we can have in BG queues the more fun and diverse the matches are. Who cares about mixing shamans and pallies at this point if there's no one on your server to play with.

[Kestrel]

Doesn't this rule out the possibility of creating cross-realm battlegrounds in the future? What about maintaining a cross-faction queue and a cross-realm queue with a ban on cross-faction play on a PvP server?

This change does not affect that decision at all one way or another as the situation remains the same. If we do enable cross realm battlegrounds then we will have to either remove cross faction battlegrounds from the PvE realm, or allow it for the PvP realm.

More information will come out SOONtm in regards to what we will be doing with that.

[Kestrel]

is there gonna be any updates to the launcher addons? most of them are outdated

Addons are maintained by the developers who wrote them right now rather than the OctoWoW development team. We encourage anyone who wants to update them to do so using our open source gitea instance on octowow.st/git to avoid legal issues with gitlab.