2026-07-16 changelog

[Kestrel]

Exciting changelog!

New Challenge - Together Forever - The Together Forever challenge. See details in dedicated announcement post

True Hardcore Vow - For those who wish to tether their soul to the mortal realm, they may now do so. Completing the second quest in the mysterious missive quest line will now disable any future realm transfers. This will reward the player (upon reaching level 60) with the immortal death charger and tabard previously unobtainable. This will also allow you to acquire the Inferno stamina trinket and effectively prevent it from being taken to other realms.

Gnomish Army Knife - A new item has been added to the shop and as a reward for hitting level 20 while doing the craftsman challenge! This nifty item acts as a mining pick, skinning knife, blacksmith hammer, spanner, micro-adjustor, jeweler's kits, flint & tinder, woodcutting axe, and a whittle!

In Game Calendar - Now see game and realm wide events from the comfort of your client! This new Calendar should help you keep all of the DJ sets, fishing tournaments, and RP events organized going forward. Feel free to make your own events and even mail out mass invitations!
Note: You can access it via /calendar or by clicking the sun/moon Icon on your minimap, it may be gaining it's own minimap button in the near future.

Gurubashi OctToken Free For All - This Saturday at 10pm UTC on the PvP realm, Short John Mithril will have an extra cache of 200 OctoTokens in their chest. Who will claim the elusive prize? Be sure to prepare as the battle will likely be a long one.

Some of the more minor changes/bug fixes

Skin tokens should now be toggleable on/off similar to glyphs

Completing the Boaring, Slow and Steady, and Exhaustion challenge simultaneously now rewards the Sword of a Thousand Truths and the title "That Which Has No Life.", befitting the incredible feat that it is.

Traveling Craftmaster challenge now also rewards the Blazing Forge Kit at level 40

Fixed an issue with the guild bank not functioning specifically on the Hardcore server

Fixed an issue with crafted gear loosing/changing the crafted by properties during realm transfer

Fixed corpse despawning issue with Lord Blackwald II

21 mounts previously having issues should now be fixed and working properly

Mildenhall Voucher Vendor should not be fixed

Darkmoon Faire now rottes on Wednesdays

EXP rebalanced to no longer heavily favor Battlegrounds at the higher levels.

[Redhotcc]

nice stuff.

Does "EXP rebalanced to no longer heavily favor Battlegrounds at the higher levels" mean BG exp was nerfed or that other sources of exp were buffed?

[Derektm99]

Any word on fixes to the broken pets/recipes/etc from Moonwhisper Coast? Also, any estimated date for restoring missing faction vendors/gear?

[Scottybizzle]

Awesome!

Is Way of The Samurai going to get some love soon?

[Kestrel]

"Does "EXP rebalanced to no longer heavily favor Battlegrounds at the higher levels" mean BG exp was nerfed or that other sources of exp were buffed?"
- Unfortunately no, we just noticed that BG experience was not scaling down with level as most other types of experience are which caused the 50-60 bracket of PvP to be on average 50% faster than all other forms of leveling.

"Any word on fixes to the broken pets/recipes/etc from Moonwhisper Coast? Also, any estimated date for restoring missing faction vendors/gear?"
- Is there a bug tracker ticket for this? I don't see one other than https://octowow.st/bug-report?id=113 in terms of faction gear vendors/gear that is missing. If not please make one so that we can accurately track and resolve this. We are aware of a few more bugs with the moonwhisper content that will get resolved soon, but if it is not in the bug tracker we are not aware of it.

"Is Way of The Samurai going to get some love soon?"
- I certainly hope so, I have some things I want to add to it but have been too busy with all the other operations to personally get to work on it. I may hand things off to another dev if I don't get free time soon for it.

[Praylorswift]

"Is there a bug tracker ticket for this? I don't see one other than https://octowow.st/bug-report?id=113 in terms of faction gear vendors/gear that is missing"

yes, here: https://octowow.st/bug-report?id=210

npc in question: https://turtledb.cthuly.com/site/npc/62724.html

the alliance charger mount is also missing from the dono store. the one that has the sword on the side and the flag/banner on the back. you can see it on the bottom left here: https://ibb.co/G38Qdty8

there is also a discrepancy between the database and the game for lawbringer item bonus sets. for example the database here: https://octowow.st/db/?item=16858
lists the first tier bonus as: (3) Set: Increases the chance of triggering a Judgement of Light heal by 10%.
this is the old vanilla bonus and is incorrect.
in game however it states that it increases healing power. the in game one is correct. The web database is pulling from a different/wrong source.

[Kestrel]

"Is there a bug tracker ticket for this? I don't see one other than https://octowow.st/bug-report?id=113 in terms of faction gear vendors/gear that is missing"

yes, here: https://octowow.st/bug-report?id=210

npc in question: https://turtledb.cthuly.com/site/npc/62724.html

the alliance charger mount is also missing from the dono store. the one that has the sword on the side and the flag/banner on the back. you can see it on the bottom left here: https://ibb.co/G38Qdty8

there is also a discrepancy between the database and the game for lawbringer item bonus sets. for example the database here: https://octowow.st/db/?item=16858
lists the first tier bonus as: (3) Set: Increases the chance of triggering a Judgement of Light heal by 10%.
this is the old vanilla bonus and is incorrect.
in game however it states that it increases healing power. the in game one is correct. The web database is pulling from a different/wrong source.

Awesome thank you for linking me those! I will do some research to make sure those are not being held for a later phase, and if they are not then we will get those fixed in the next restart. Will also take a look and see why/how the web database is pulling the wrong info there, thank you!

[Holydruid]

Draenai Exiles is also missing their vendor in Swamp of Sorrows. I just made a bug report.

[Praylorswift]

"Awesome thank you for linking me those!"

happy to help
good point on later phase content, some of those do actually look like catchup items. I will say though that if I remember correctly it was available on ambershire (the fresh twow server) before MC was opened. Cause I remember farming it as prebis. But maybe they made a mistake. They released a lot of stuff in phase one (pre MC) they definitely shouldn't have.

as for the missing mount from the dono store, the alliance charger, I managed to get some screenshots

https://ibb.co/qL6yc43K
https://ibb.co/F4KHxW6q

I dont have any screenshots from the left side where you can see the sword
do you want me to like open a ticket for it or something?

[Sheluvsramar2]

Was there a silent nerf making variable/randomized respawn timers on high lvl rare mobs?

For example on TWoW it was common knowledge some have a 24/hr timer, and in light of whatever drama there was recently i have been tracking a rare mob thats uncontested however now im noticing changes in spawn rate where before it was at a firm 24hr or am i crazy?