World of Warcraft: The War Within Patch 11.2.5 May Confirm…

October 7 is going to be an exciting day for World of Warcraft, as it marks the arrival of the 11.2.5 content update. This patch brings Legion Remix, a limited-time event where players can blitz through the critically-acclaimed expansion with accelerated leveling, exciting twists, and new and returning rewards. Were that not enough, World of Warcraft is implementing some permanent additions in the update as well, including five additional character slots, improvements to the Cooldown Manager, and the Turbo-Boost for Season 3.

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However, there is something conspicuously absent from this update: a new campaign chapter. While there will be a little Infinite Dragon story in World of Warcraft: Legion Remix, there will be no permanent updates to the main story that deal with the heart-wrenching events of Patch 11.2. While this would be disappointing on its own, it also follows a troubling trend that began with the launch of The War Within.

The Case of World of Warcraft’s Shrinking Story Campaign

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WoW: The War Within's X.X.5 Patches Had No New Story Updates

Ever since the launch of Dragonflight, World of Warcraft has been powering through patches at an accelerated rate. Barring holidays and expansion releases, nearly every single update has come eight weeks after the last. This means more content at a faster pace, and expansion cycles of under two years. The War Within followed this precedent, arriving in World of Warcraft on August 26 of 2024 — three months before its second anniversary.

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Patch 11.0.5 followed suit, releasing exactly eight weeks after the expansion’s full launch. The exciting update corresponded with the World of Warcraft 20th anniversary event, which was a huge hit. However, most of the update’s features were limited-time, and there were no new story chapters until Patch 11.0.7.

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Then, on April 22, 2025, Blizzard released Patch 11.1.5, Nightfall. Though it introduced some popular features like the Cooldown Manager, this heavily-criticized World of Warcraft update primarily consisted of a bunch of temporary events, such as the unpopular Dastardly Duos game mode or the Winds of Mysterious Fortune. The Nightfall scenario — the only permanent gameplay feature that arrived on patch day — was buggy and repetitive, and Horrific Visions Revisited didn’t start until over a month after its release. And, like its predecessor, it had no campaign chapters.

In contrast, while Dragonflight’s 10.0.5 update had no story chapters, both 10.1.5 and 10.2.5 did, with Dawn of the Infinite in the former, and Gilneas Reclamation and the Dragon Isles Epilogue in the latter.

Now, Patch 11.2.5 has been officially announced. WoW players have been looking forward to Legion Remix since Mists of Pandaria Remix, so it is no exaggeration to say fans are hyped. Likewise, extra character slots and improvements to the Cooldown Manager both check boxes players have been asking for. It may be a massive improvement from 11.1.5, but Patch 11.2.5 also doesn’t have any new main story chapters – and while once is happenstance and twice is coincidence, three times is a new pattern.

The New Norm of Storytelling in World of Warcraft

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Unless WoW throws us a curveball before the end of the expansion, The War Within will have had only six chunks of story: the base expansion, 11.1 and 11.2, and each season’s small chapters in their respective X.X.7 updates. There was only one short questline to bridge the gap between each major content update — and there will ostensibly only be one to set up World of Warcraft: Midnight as well. Assuming it continues this trend, the same will be the case during the rest of the Worldsoul Saga and beyond.

The campaign questlines that did arrive in The War Within were also shorter on average than their Dragonflight counterparts.

It is possible Blizzard could surprise fans in Midnight with some story quests in 12.0.5, 12.1.5, or 12.2.5, thereby breaking this unfortunate precedent, but that seems less likely by the day. As exciting and impressive as Blizzard’s breakneck content release cadence is, some sacrifices evidently had to be made — and unfortunately for lore hounds, it appears as if the story was one of the places where this happened.

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