Server Update - October 21, 2026: raid bots, battlegrounds and Auction House
A big update went live today. Here is everything that changed:
Raid bots
- Talk to Claude (Bots for hire), standing right outside the entrance of every Wrath raid, to hire a full 10 or 25 man team. The team is built around your role (tank, healer or DPS, detected from your talents) and joins your raid group, so you can enter the instance right away.
- Hiring is paid per raid tier: gold for normal and lower heroic raids, Donation Points for ICC and Ruby Sanctum heroic (10H: 10 DP, 25H: 20 DP for the whole team).
- Hired bots get gear matching the raid tier. Use "Dismiss all my bots" to release them. They leave automatically if you leave the group inside the instance, or if you stay outside the instance for more than 15 minutes.
- Bots now handle many boss mechanics in ToC, ICC, Naxxramas, Ulduar, Obsidian Sanctum, Eye of Eternity, Onyxia, Vault of Archavon and Ruby Sanctum: they leave fire and void zones, switch to priority adds and move away from the raid with dangerous debuffs.
- New boss mechanics: bot healers heal Valithria Dreamwalker, bots kill the Gunship Battle boarders and battle-mages first, stay away from Flame Leviathan unless they are in a vehicle, step out on too many Four Horsemen marks, leave Razuvious' Death Knight Understudies alone, refill sanity at Sanity Wells and look away from Lunatic Gaze (Yogg-Saron), dodge Mimiron's Shock Blast and Laser Barrage and avoid Halion's Twilight Cutter.
- In Trial of the Crusader tanks keep the bosses in the middle of the arena, Anub'arak's Pursuing Spikes can pick bots too (they lead it onto permafrost) and healers focus players with Penetrating Cold.
- Bots are now only real WoW classes.
Battlegrounds and dungeons
- Bots now fill the Random Battleground queue, so you can play a battleground at any time.
- Battlegrounds are filled to their real size: Alterac Valley is now 40 vs 40 (it was only 10 vs 10 before).
- Bots start at the battleground start point (they no longer run off into the void).
- The Dungeon Finder can fill your group with bots.
Auction House
- Much bigger stock: level 80 BoE gear for every slot (including raid-level items), every glyph, consumables, trade goods, gems and level 10-80 world drops.
Transmogrification and NPCs
- The Transmogrifier and Teleporter NPCs were removed. Transmogrification is now done with the Scroll of Transmogrification (summons a personal transmogrifier for 3 minutes), available in the website shop.
Server
- Daily server restart at 16:00, announced in chat 15 minutes before, with a countdown.
- Realm First! achievements were reset, the race is open again.
- Short tips about the website, voting and the shop now appear in chat every few minutes.