2026-10-31 Patch Notes

[Duraluminium]

• Level 60 players on N'Zoth and Y'Shaarj can now queue Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin as First Available, Cross-Faction, or Factioned

I'm from the PVP server on alliance.
The fact that I now have to either:
1. Pick 'faction-locked' option and wait forever for proc
OR
2. Pick 'first available' option to have an instant proc with a chance to play on horde team
kills the whole idea of factions, and it kills the PVP spirit of WoW.

The previous design was fine, the new one is garbage. Sorry, I have no other words to describe it..

[Knifewrench]

• Level 60 players on N'Zoth and Y'Shaarj can now queue Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin as First Available, Cross-Faction, or Factioned

I'm from the PVP server on alliance.
The fact that I now have to either:
1. Pick 'faction-locked' option and wait forever for proc
OR
2. Pick 'first available' option to have an instant proc with a chance to play on horde team
kills the whole idea of factions, and it kills the PVP spirit of WoW.

The previous design was fine, the new one is garbage. Sorry, I have no other words to describe it..

The implementation before last change was far better for pvp people then new one. I second that this new one is poop.

[Brwcht]

• The Arenas are now open, read more here
• Level 60 players on N'Zoth and Y'Shaarj can now queue Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin as First Available, Cross-Faction, or Factioned
• Gurubashi Arena OctoToken chest is now a weekly event on Y'Shaarj
• Marks of Honor mailed to you because your bags were full now expire at the next weekly honor reset
• Unleashed Potential now increases your demon's SP from both your Fire and Shadow spell power
• Fixed two Storwmind Cathedrals showing when in Stormwind Harbor
• Fixed Shadowform visual effect being removed when mounting, flying, or dismounting
• Fixed group loot rolls on chests ending early when the player who opened the chest closed it
• Fixed master loot and round robin no longer applying to a chest after it was closed and reopened
• Master looters can now hand out chest items above the loot threshold through the master loot menu
• Fixed items looted from chests in raids not being tradeable to other raid members
• Find Herbs and Treasure no longer show quest objects such as Gloom Weed and Hyjalroot unless on the quest
• Fixed find herbs tracking beached sea creatures in Darkshore
• Fixed gun projectiles firing from goblins feet
• Added missing icon for Kodo Horn Fragment and Dry Salt Lick
• Added missing models for Tattered Crimson Shabrack and Leafcovered Spaulders
• Fixed some custom twow chests with too high of a level for the area
• Fixed some mobs having no knockdown cooldown
• Fixed Curgle Cranklehop's Gordunni ogres option replying with the hardcore guild bank message
• Fixed dying in Gnomeregan sending you to Coldridge Valley instead of Kharanos
• Fixed dying in Windhorn Caverns not sending you to the Windhorn Canyon graveyard
• Horde players no longer resurrect at Aerie Peak in the Hinterlands
• Fixed 741 custom twow items disenchanting into the wrong materials for their level
• Fixed Cleric's Bent Staff being upside down when sheathed
• Fixed run speed buffs sometimes staying active after being removed while feared
• Hand of Freedom now removes the Mirefin Fungus slow
• Fixed a band of empty sky showing between nearby terrain and the horizon at high view distances
• Fixed transmogs reverting to the original look after repairing or dying when using the transmogFix mod
• Improved FPS around transmogged players when they repair, die, or take durability damage
• Baked the transmogFix mod into the wow.exe so everyone has it by default
• Call Anathema and Call Benediction now keep your transmog
• Fixed transmogs sometimes showing the wrong look after a server restart
• Fixed destroying an item sometimes removing another player's transmog
• Fixed transmogged items losing their look after a realm transfer or the hardcore portal
• Dwarf priests who are missing their Avatar racial now get it back when they log in
• Fixed the Roost Hatchling companion AI spazzing out on your player

We had cross‑faction BG sorting for NZ players and didn’t have it for players from the PvP server when launching cross‑realm BGs. This is a great option. But someone (racists of Azeroth) didn’t like the fact that orcs are on the Alliance team. Then the administration went along with this small group of whiners, but they couldn’t ignore the fact that there would be huge queues for BGs. As a result, the whiners are now unhappy that they’re not getting invitations to BGs, because no one wants to play BGs once a week without cross‑faction participation, and everyone plays “first available.” Now I’m joining the Horde team, which is something I never wanted — I was fine with the NZ orcs on my Alliance team. And those whiners who were unhappy with the original cross‑realm BG option, as it turns out, aren’t even planning to play on octowow. I ask the administration to restore the original version of the cross‑realm BG(one queue), when NZ players played cross‑faction, and players from the PvP server joined them only for their own factions.

[Brwcht]

The reason why Alliance players from a PvP server do not want to be on the same team as Horde players from a PvP server lies in the faction conflict inherent to such servers. It is necessary to improve team coordination in mass-PvP scenarios alongside players of one's own faction, rather than against them.

[Cutt]

I agree with everyone else you should remove this:
• Level 60 players on N'Zoth and Y'Shaarj can now queue Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin as First Available, Cross-Faction, or Factioned

It destroys the PvP server culture and makes the queues longer by splitting them which goes against the original cross-server BGs reasoning.

[Rootatouillefrm]

RIP Alliance vs Horde in yshaarj. Thanks for ruining it :,D