Content Update Notes

The first Normal difficulty Mists of Pandaria Raid Dungeon is now available: Mogu’shan Vaults.  Raid Finder and Heroic difficulties will be available Tuesday, October 9.

The first PvP season of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is now underway! Prepare yourselves for battle as the bloody struggle between the Horde and the Alliance continues on Pandaria’s shores!

It’s now even easier to share the new World of Warcraft expansion with your friends and family. The digital standard edition of Mists of Pandaria can now be given as a gift via the online Blizzard Store, whether you’re celebrating a special occasion or just feeling like spreading some pandaren spirit.

We’ve updated our Trading Card Game art gallery to feature ten new pieces. Each image is taken directly from the official World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. We've also added a new community comic to the gallery.

Pearl of Pandaria released on September 25 alongside Mists of Pandaria. Pick up this original graphic novel to learn more about the Pandaren, the new playable race in World of Warcraft.

October, 5 - *These free transfers have now ended and are no longer available. We’re providing free transfers off of realms that are currently seeing high queue times. If you’re on one of the below realms and would like to avoid waiting in queues to play, you can take advantage of these free transfers. We’ve done our best to match realm types and time zones for a smooth transfer process.

Get Ready to put your speed and teamwork skills to the test with the new Challenge Mode! And if you want to know how you rank compared to other players from your realm, you can now view your realm's fastest times by accessing the Challenge Mode Leaderboards in the Community Section.

For millennia, the continent of Pandaria has remained hidden, veiled from the rest of Azeroth behind a wall of impenetrable mists. Now the fog is lifting just as warships of the Horde and the Alliance clash off the coast of the lost continent. As heroes from both factions venture onto Pandaria’s shores to explore its ancient forests and cloud-ringed mountaintops, they soon make contact with the mysterious denizens that dwell there… heralding the start of a new era of discovery and conflict for all of Azeroth.

While our developers have been digging in deep to craft the content you'll be seeing beyond the parting of the mists, those of us on supporting teams have been plotting a course to respectably usher in this new age of Warcraft with our community.

We’ve already gone over the new Spirit of Harmony resource and the changes coming to many professions in Mists of Pandaria, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t go over some of the larger profession changes. We sat down with the designers to talk about Archaeology, Cooking, and Inscription to learn more about what’s in store for these trades. Please note that this overview includes many details regarding plot elements or in-game surprises, so look away if that’s not your thing.

On the eve of the release of the biggest expansion in the history of World of Warcraft, I took a few moments to sit down with Blizzard Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton to talk about Pet Battles.

At the Midnight Launch Party in Irvine, California this Monday, a team of five leading members from Blood Legion will be taking part in a duel against Blizzard programmers for the fastest Challenge Mode dungeon time. I recently snagged some members from the guild and asked them to talk about just how scared they are to be facing off against us. Read the interview here.