An Update as 12.0.0 Goes Live

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#1 - Jan. 21, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
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Hello!

It’s been a long day of testing and fixing and we’re finally going live with the 12.0.0 Midnight Pre-Expansion Content Update.

During our final internal testing, we discovered an issue that could frequently cause saved transmog loadouts to be cleared, resulting in the loss of saved outfits and the gold spent on them. This issue resulted from a quirk of our live database configuration and never appeared in Beta, PTR, or other test environments, but it was an example of an issue that we have to keep realms offline for, and investigate and fix, before we could open the realms to the public.

We have a couple of other issues that we’re going live with, and working to fix as soon as possible:

  • Charter Neighborhoods weren’t able to start Endeavors properly, so Charter Neighborhoods will remain disabled until we can resolve this. Endeavors should work as expected for other kinds of neighborhoods.
  • Due to an unforseen issue with the item-level squish, some commodities in the Auction House (e.g. some profession materials) aren’t purchasable. We’ve got the issue identified and a fix on the way in the next day or so.
  • We’re aware of and working on a fix for a bug where applying a Faction Change to a character can result in broken transmog.

We thank you for your patience, and are excited to welcome you into the Midnight pre-expansion update!

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#114 - Jan. 21, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
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Added one and removed one item from the OP in this thread, as the AH issue was fixed up about an hour ago.

  • Due to an unforseen issue with the item-level squish, some commodities in the Auction House (e.g. some profession materials) aren’t purchasable. We’ve got the issue identified and a fix on the way in the next day or so.
  • We’re aware of and working on a fix for a bug where applying a Faction Change to a character can result in broken transmog.