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Heather Newman

World of Warcraft: Midnight has some of Blizzard's most controversial changes yet, but playing the alpha still has me hopeful it'll figure them out in the next few months

A screencap of the World of Warcraft: Midnight Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live cinematic trailer. A dark-haired elf looks toward the viewer, her face covered in a violet hue.

World of Warcraft's upcoming Midnight expansion recently went into its first alpha phases of testing, and Blizzard has chosen to give an unprecedented number of players access to a dramatically early phase of development.

That's not surprising, as the company is enacting one of the most significant shakedowns of the player experience ever implemented in the venerable MMO: the proposed pruning of nearly all popular player mods used during combat.

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