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The War WithinThe War Within Season 2
What's New 11.1.0 Season.jpg
Start date (NA) March 4, 2025
End date (NA) August 4, 2025
Duration 22 weeks
PvP Title Prized Gladiator
Simultaneous Raid Liberation of Undermine
Season chronology

Season 38 Season 39 Season 40

The War Within Season 2 (or Season 39) is the second The War Within season for both PvP and PvE that launched alongside the opening of Liberation of Undermine, a new raid from patch 11.1.0 that opened on 4 March 2025.

Opening dates

25 February 2025
4 March 2025
  • Undermine(d) campaign chapters 5–6
  • Heroic, Mythic, Mythic+ dungeons
  • Liberation of Undermine Normal, Heroic, Mythic — All bosses
  • Raid Finder wing 1 — Cauldron of Carnage, Rik Reverb
  • Delves update
  • Runed and Gilded crests
  • The Gobfather world boss
11 March 2025
  • Story Mode — Chrome King Gallywix
  • Raid Finder wing 2 — Stix Bunkjunker, Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
18 March 2025
  • Raid Finder wing 3 — Vexie and the Geargrinders, One-Armed Bandit, Mug'Zee
25 March 2025
  • Raid Finder wing 4 — Chrome King Gallywix
13 May 2025

Weekly tasks

The following weekly tasks are new to Season 2, with Urge to Surge awarding a cache containing materials for upgrading gear, gold, and more.

As in Season 1, the first two weekly caches contain Veteran track gear, and the first four contain a [Restored Coffer Key] for Bountiful delves. All Season 1 tasks and caches are still available:

Caches:

Seasonal reward

The overall feat of strength for this season is  [The War Within Season 2: Master Blaster], which requires one of:

This rewards a  [Crystallized Essence of Kaja'mite] charge for the Catalyst.

The high-end reward is  [Dressed to the Mines], which requires one of:

This rewards the  [Gallagio Highroller's Boomstone] cosmetic appearance for tier.

Raid

Vexie and the Geargrinders in Liberation of Undermine

Liberation of Undermine is the raid associated with this season. The instance line is located at [41.6, 48.8] outside the Incontinental Hotel of Undermine. Unlock Undermine by completing the first chapter of the Undermine(d) campaign, starting from Foundation Hall in Dornogal. Completing the chapter unlocks the Gutterside Rocket Station connection at [77.1, 73.2] in the Ringing Deeps. After that, all other characters warband-wide can use the rocket drill to get to and from Undermine.

Immediately after arriving in Undermine, players unlock a teleporter that connects Gutterside Rocket Station at [27.7, 54.3] with the Forgegrounds at [52.3, 50.7] in Dornogal in the quest N [80] Test Run. This is also a warband-wide unlock.

The standard feats of strength are available:  [Ahead of the Curve: Chrome King Gallywix] (heroic),  [Cutting Edge: Chrome King Gallywix] (mythic), and  [Hall of Fame: Chrome King Gallywix] (first 200 guilds).

Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club is the renown track of the raid, with 20 levels and the raid skip at Renown 5.

Liberation of Undermine item levels
Difficulty 1 2–4 5–6 7–8 Rare
LFR 623 V1 626 V2 629 V3 632 V4 639 V6
Normal 636 C1 639 C2 642 C3 645 C4 652 C6
Heroic 649 H1 652 H2 655 H3 658 H4 665 H6
Mythic 662 M1 665 M2 668 M3 671 M4 678 M6

To queue for Raid Finder wings, an average item level of 606 (Explorer 4) is required. Rare loot drops from bosses 5–8 and will be at rank 6 of the upgrade track. There are eight encounters, which are split into four item level tiers:

Six boss encounters drop tokens for Tier 33 set pieces:

These classes share tokens:

  • Dreadful: Death Knight, Demon Hunter, Warlock
  • Mystic: Druid, Hunter, Mage
  • Venerated: Paladin, Priest, Shaman
  • Zenith: Evoker, Monk, Rogue, Warrior

Player vs Player

Rated PvP
Rank Crests
Combatant 1 Weathered
Combatant 2 Carved
Challenger 1
Challenger 2
Rival 1 Runed
Rival 2
Duelist Gilded
Elite

The  [Vicious Electro Eel] can be obtained by winning rated PvP matches while at Combatant rank (1000 rating) or higher; progress is tracked via the Season Rewards bar in the Rated tab of the PvP interface. The current season's mount is earned by filling the progress bar once. A  [Vicious Saddle] is earned for each additional time the bar is filled within the season.

The standard feats of strength from  [Combatant I: The War Within Season 2] to  [Elite: The War Within Season 2] are present.

Arena

Win 50 rated rated 3v3 Arena games at Elite rank to earn:

Reach the top 0.1% of the ladder at the end of the season to earn  [Prized Gladiator: The War Within Season 2], rewarding the permanent title, <Prized Gladiator>.

Solo Shuffle

Win 100 rated Solo Shuffle matches at Elite rank to earn:

Reach the top 0.1% of the ladder at the end of the season to earn  [Prized Legend: The War Within Season 2], rewarding the permanent title, <Prized Legend>.

Battleground Blitz

Win 25 rated Battleground Blitz matches at Elite rank to earn:

Reach the top 0.1% of the ladder at the end of the season to earn Alliance  [Prized Marshal: The War Within Season 2] or Horde  [Prized Warlord: The War Within Season 2], rewarding those permanent titles.

Transmog

The Elite PvP tier set transmog is unlocked piece by piece by earning the following achievements:

The final three achievements provide the season's weapon illusion, prestige cloak and tabard:

Dungeons

Operation: Floodgate

One dungeon was added, Operation: Floodgate, located at [46, 48] at the north end of the Waterworks in central Ringing Deeps. There are no special requirements to unlock the dungeon, but there is a breadcrumb quest: N [80D] Operation: Floodgate: Disposing of the Garbage from the Incontinental Hotel in Undermine.

Dungeon item levels
Level Loot Vault Crests
Heroic 619 A4 632 V4 Weathered 10
Mythic 636 C1 645 C4 Carved 15
M2 639 C2 649 H1 Runed 10/6
M3 639 C2 649 H1 12/8
M4 642 C3 652 H2 14/10
M5 645 C4 652 H2 16/12
M6 649 H1 655 H3 18/14
M7 649 H1 658 H4 Gilded 10/6
M8 652 H2 658 H4 12/8
M9 652 H2 658 H4 14/10
M10+ 655 H3 662 M1 16/12

Eight dungeons are in the Heroic/Mythic rotation, while all nine War Within dungeons are available in normal mode and Follower Dungeons. Time a Mythic+ 10 dungeon to earn that dungeon's associated Keystone Hero achievement, awarding a teleport to that dungeon:

Season 2 dungeons
Dungeon Achievement
12The War Within Operation: Floodgate  [Keystone Hero: Operation: Floodgate]
12The War Within Cinderbrew Meadery  [Keystone Hero: Cinderbrew Meadery]
12The War Within Darkflame Cleft  [Keystone Hero: Darkflame Cleft]
12The War Within The Rookery  [Keystone Hero: The Rookery]
12The War Within Priory of the Sacred Flame  [Keystone Hero: Priory of the Sacred Flame]
10Shadowlands Theater of Pain  [Keystone Hero: Theater of Pain]
9Battle for Azeroth Operation: Mechagon - Workshop  [Keystone Hero: Operation: Mechagon - Workshop]
9Battle for Azeroth The MOTHERLODE!!  [Keystone Hero: The MOTHERLODE!!]

Mythic+ affixes

As of 6 January 2025, on the patch 11.1.0 PTR[1]

Mythic+ affixes have received some changes:

  •  [Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar] is a new affix, replacing  [Xal'atath's Bargain: Oblivion]. While in combat, Xal'atath summons pulsars that orbit players and must be intercepted within a time limit.
  •  [Xal'atath's Guile] has been redesigned. It now causes keystones above level 12 to increase health and damage of enemies by 12% per level instead of 10% per level.
  •  [Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound] has received a few changes:
    • Dark Prayer is no longer a channel and the Void Emissary no longer grants damage reduction to creatures while active.
    • Dark Prayer now has a 15 seconds cast time, and grants all nearby creatures in combat Xal’atath’s Gift when it finishes casting.
    • The Potency of Xal'atath's Gift granted by Dark Prayer is based on the remaining shield percentage of the Void Emissary.

Achievements and rewards

Players can earn the following feats of strength at specific intervals of the Mythic+ Rating while the first achievement only requires completing a run in time:

Additionally, completing all dungeons in time at Mythic+12 unlocks the resilient keystone system, which stops keys from depleting below that level. Clear all dungeons at higher levels to increase the resilience of the keystone.

Delves

Delve selection interface

Brann Bronzebeard continues to be the companion in delves. Start by picking up N [70-80] Seasonal Refresher from Brann at the Delver's Headquarters in Dornogal. The short quest chain awards the  [Delver's Gob-Trotter] customizable mount, explains what happened to Brann's hat and the Season 1 curios, and introduces the seasonal enemy.

Two delves were added: Excavation Site 9 at [81, 98] at the southeasternmost end of Ringing Deeps, and Sidestreet Sluice at [35, 53] in central Undermine, as well as the Demolition Dome challenge delve for The Underpin.

Bountiful delve item levels
Tier Sug. iLvl Loot Map Vault Crests
1 587 610 A1 n/a 623 V1 Weathered 2
2 590 613 A2 n/a 626 V2 3
3 593 616 A3 n/a 629 V3 4
4 597 E1 619 A4 626 V2 632 V4 5
5 606 E4 623 V1 632 V4 636 C1 6
6 613 A2 626 V2 639 C2 642 C3 Carved 3
7 626 V2 636 C1 645 C4 645 C4 5
8 639 C2 639 C2 649 H1 649 H1 Runed 2 (+2)
9 645 C4 4 (+3)
10 652 H2 6 (+4)
11 658 H4 8 (+5)
Extra crests from Tiers 8+ are from the Nemesis chest.
Tier 11 Bountiful delves award
7 Gilded Crests up to 3x weekly.

There are five feats of strength associated with this season and one achievement that is getting removed with Season 3:

Additionally, completing tiers with at least 1 life available will earn the feats of strength  [War Within Delves: Tier 4 (Season 2)] up to  [War Within Delves: Tier 11 (Season 2)], which awards the <High Explorer> title.

The  [Delver's Bounty] map drops from The Underpin when he invades a delve, or can be found inside a Heavy Chest at the end of a bountiful delve. If players have not gotten their map per week, spend 2,000 [Undercoin] on the  [Wave Scrambler 2000] from Sir Finley Mrrgglton, then use it at the resurrection stone inside a delve to force him to spawn.

During the season, players were able to collect the following curios. Unlike in Season 1, players cannot skip ranks of curios by spamming high-level delves.

Season 2 Curios
Combat Utility
 [Automatic Footbomb Dispenser]  [Biofuel Rocket Gear]
 [Goblomagnetic Bouncing Grenade]  [Comically Large Magnet]
 [Impact Conversion Matrix]  [Kaja'Cola Carrier]
 [Mechasaur EZ-Build Kit]  [L00T RAID-R]
 [Pinged Augment Chip]  [Overdrive Pylon]
 [Pocket Factory]  [Pacifist Rig]
 [Reverse Engineered Goblin Death Bomb]  [Three Dimensional Bioprinter]

Earn [Delver's Journey] throughout the season to complete the progress track and unlock the following rewards:

Season 2 Delver's Journey
Rank Reward Vendor Cost
1  [Delver's Gob-Trotter Schematic: Flamethrower] Reno Jackson 10 Resonance Crystals
2  [Delver's Gob-Trotter Schematic: Pipes] Reno Jackson 10 Resonance Crystals
3  [Delver's Gob-Trotter Schematic: Harpoon] Reno Jackson 10 Resonance Crystals
4  [Delver's Gob-Trotter Schematic: Balloon] Reno Jackson 10 Resonance Crystals
5 2x weekly [Restored Coffer Key] Sir Finley Mrrgglton 2,000 Undercoin
6  [Delver's Gob-Trotter Schematic: Green] Reno Jackson 10 Resonance Crystals
7  [Delve-O-Bot 7001] Reno Jackson 10 Resonance Crystals
8 Veteran 1/8 Warbound equipment Sir Finley Mrrgglton 500-2,500 Undercoin
9 2x weekly [Restored Coffer Key] Sir Finley Mrrgglton 1,000 Undercoin
10  [Nightfall Sanctum Campsite] Reno Jackson 10 Resonance Crystals

After the season, these rewards will be sold by Reno or Sir Finley with no unlock requirement, but a much higher cost in [Resonance Crystals] or [Undercoin].

Delve changes

Delves received significant changes with this season.[2]

  • Brann now has a tank spec.
  • Several map mechanics have been changed, adding more variety to the existing delve variants. Notably the Sporebits in Fungal Folly have been changed.
  • Bountiful Delve rotation changes.
    • Previously, it was one delve per zone chosen as bountiful, which led to what felt like the same delve being bountiful back to back especially in the Ringing Deeps which has two delves.
    • New logic will rotate through delves from the original launch until all of them have been a bountiful delve for sometime before turning on new ones.
  • Almost all existing delves (all but Mycomancer Cavern) have new story variants.
  • Brann's level cap will increase to 80. The experience required to level from 1 to 60 have been significantly reduced.
  •  [Restored Coffer Keys] and [Undercoin] have been reset, both starting at zero for the season.
  • Tier 9+ rewards have been improved. Delves at this tier or higher during season 1 was just meant for the challenge and achievements.
    • Tiers 9, 10, 11 will reward for Runed Crests. Tier 11 bountiful delves will reward Gilded Crests up to three times a week, provided in a separate chest in the bountiful delve, thus not requiring a key to acquire them.
    • Great Vault will remain at Tier 8 as the highest needed for the best rewards.
  •  [Delver's Bounty] had a chance to drop in each run during season 1. However bad and good luck was at play, sometimes players never saw a map and others saw multiple in a single week.
    • Season 2, the map drop chance has been increased and increases more with each run it doesn't drop. Additionally, it has been limited to one a week.
  • New affixes. Season 1 had Zekvir's image empower enemies and another where a spawn group would be replaced with Zekvir's minions. The minions appeared at Tier 9+ but often felt too punishing to encounter.
    • Season 2 affixes will have Underpin's minions occasionally replacing normal enemies in delves and at all tier difficulties. The focus on these replacements not being as difficult as Zekvir's.
  • New vignettes and treasure powers. Season 1's curios can now be found as shards in the treasures.
  • Powers acquired from defeating powerful vignettes will now focus on modifying Brann for your run:
    • Shield Alert: When you fall beneath 50% health, Brann will shield you, reducing your damage by a massive amount for a short period of time.
    • Silencing Potion: Brann will throw out a healing potion that will also trigger an AoE silence to nearby enemies. This means non-healer Brann specs can now have some access to heals, and healer Brann will throw out even more healing.
    • Heroism Cannister: Brann can activate a smaller version of Bloodlust at the start of combat with a cooldown.
  • Only the team leader will be able to modify Brann with these powers. Other players will receive a buff for themselves.
  • The Treasure Wraith encounter is receiving a special wraith-only power that increases the player's maximum health in addition to another existing power. The wraith will remain as a high risk of death.

Turbo Boost

Main article: Turbo Boost

Introduced with patch 11.1.5 and started on 13 May 2025, Turbo Boost introduced the dinar system for the remainder of the season. Each week, characters will earn one  [Puzzling Cartel Chip] by defeating four Liberation of Undermine raid bosses or clearing four Mythic dungeons, with the exception that the first week's quest will award three. Players can acquire nine chips in total per character. Assuming players keep up with the weekly quests, they will be able to purchase items the weeks of:

  • 13 May 2025
  • 3 June 2025
  • 24 June 2025

Chips come from the weekly quests N [80] Ultra Prime Deluxe Turbo-Boost: Powerhouse Challenges or N [80] Turbo-Boost: Powerhouse Challenges. Turn in quests for the chips and exchange them for items from Consultant Wrexxle. Hero track items have no requirements other than the currency cost. Myth track raid items require defeating the item's associated boss encounter on Mythic difficulty. Myth track dungeon trinkets require earning  [The War Within Season 2: Resilient Keystone 12] by timing all Mythic+ dungeons at least Mythic 12. These requirements are per-character and not Warband-wide.

Additionally, Hero and Myth-track items can be upgraded 8 times (up from 6), the cap on Crests has been lifted, and [Valorstones] will be warbound for the rest of the season. Mythic+ drop rates for Warbound until Equipped gear will also be doubled.

Delves also received a boost by providing increased experience gain for Brann Bronzebeard, [Delver's Journey] progress, and improved rewards from the  [Delver's Bounty] (aka the  [Hidden Trove]) which contained 20 [Gilded Undermine Crest], 300 [Valorstones], and a  [Big Wheel of Cheese]. Additionally, players will earn more Crests, Valorstones and Delver's Journey progress from the end-of-delve chests.

Great Vault

The Great Vault of Dornogal

The Great Vault weekly reward system had the following objectives for this season, with no changes from season 1.

Great Vault objectives
Type Objectives
Raids Defeat 2 Liberation of Undermine Bosses
Defeat 4 Liberation of Undermine Bosses
Defeat 6 Liberation of Undermine Bosses
Dungeons Complete 1 Heroic, Mythic, or Timewalking Dungeon
Complete 4 Heroic, Mythic, or Timewalking Dungeons
Complete 8 Heroic, Mythic, or Timewalking Dungeons
World Complete 2 Delves or World Activities
Complete 4 Delves or World Activities
Complete 8 Delves or World Activities

During the season, Ardgaz offers the following for some  [Algari Token of Merit]:

Ardgaz <Token Exchange>
Item Cost Type
 [Chest of Gold] 2 Algari Token of Merit 1,000g
 [Triumphant Satchel of Carved Ethereal Crests] 1 Algari Token of Merit 15 [Carved Ethereal Crest]
 [Celebratory Pack of Runed Ethereal Crests] 2 Algari Token of Merit 15 [Runed Ethereal Crest]
 [Technomancer's Gift] 6 Algari Token of Merit Gem socket

Crafting

Sparks and enchanted Crests continue to be used in Season 2 to craft and recraft gear. Combine 2x  [Fractured Spark of Fortunes] from weekly quests and 250 [Valorstones] to make a  [Spark of Fortunes]. Purchase enchanted crest items from vendors for 30-60 of the matching crests. With the Turbo Boost, players can add a  [Runed Augmentation Matrix] or a  [Gilded Augmentation Matrix] to  [Spark of Fortunes]-crafted gear to add 3 or 6 item levels to the finished craft.

Enchanted crests and augmentation matrices can be purchased from Llande and Syenite in Dornogal for:

The item levels at all possible crafting qualities are shown below, colored to match the nearest standard upgrade track item level.

  • Rare crafted item levels
    Crest Quality Base
    None Tier 1 545
    Tier 2 548
    Tier 3 551
    Tier 4 554
    Tier 5 558
    Weathered Tier 1 616 A3
    Tier 2 619 A4
    Tier 3 622 V1
    Tier 4 625 V2
    Tier 5 629 V3
  • Epic spark crafted item levels
    Crest Quality Base +Runed +Gilded
    None Tier 1 632 V4 635 C1 638 C2
    Tier 2 635 C1 638 C2 641 C3
    Tier 3 638 C2 641 C3 644 C4
    Tier 4 641 C3 644 C4 647 H1
    Tier 5 645 C4 648 H1 651 H2
    Runed Tier 1 645 C4 648 H1 651 H2
    Tier 2 648 H1 651 H2 654 H3
    Tier 3 651 H2 654 H3 657 H4
    Tier 4 654 H3 657 H4 660 M1
    Tier 5 658 H4 661 M1 664 M2
    Gilded Tier 1 662 M1 665 M2 668 M3
    Tier 2 665 M2 668 M3 671 M4
    Tier 3 668 M3 671 M4 674 M5
    Tier 4 671 M4 674 M5 677 M6
    Tier 5 675 M5 678 M6 681 M7

Item upgrade tracks

The universal upgrade system continues with season 2. Trade seasonal [Valorstones] and Undermine Crests to upgrade gear from all PvE sources outside of crafting by speaking with Cuzolth and Vaskarn at Mythic Aspirations in Dornogal. Upgrade tracks are +39 ilvls from season 1.

Normal dungeons and non-bountiful delves drop ilvl 593 gear that is not on the upgrade track. Timewalking dungeons (as of patch 11.1.7) drop adventurer gear. Loot from bountiful delves requires a [Restored Coffer Key] from world content. After earning the associated feat of strength by having all equipment slots above the item level required for that crest, players can trade crests up in a 3-to-1 ratio to the next higher crest. For example, 45 Weathered crests turn in to 15 Carved crests once all equipped items are at least ilvl 632 (Veteran 4).

Starting the week of 13 May 2025, the Turbo Boost event removes the cap on crests, makes [Valorstones] warbound for the rest of the season, and adds two upgrade levels for Hero and Myth track gear.

  • Weathered
    • Repeatable Outdoor Events
    • Raid Finder Liberation of Undermine
    • Heroic Season Dungeons
    • Delves (Tiers 1 to 5)
  • Carved
    • Weekly Outdoor Events
    • Normal Liberation of Undermine
    • Mythic Season Dungeons
    • Delves (Tiers 6 and 7)
    • Delver's Bounty (Tiers 4 and 5)
  • Runed
    • Heroic Liberation of Undermine
    • Mythic Keystone Dungeons from +2 to +6
    • Delves (Tiers 8 to 11)
    • Delver's Bounty (Tiers 6 and 7)
  • Gilded
    • Mythic Liberation of Undermine
    • Mythic Keystone Dungeons from +7 and up
    • Delve's Gilded Stash (Tier 11)
    • Delver's Bounty (Tier 8 and up)
Upgrade tracks
Crest type iLvl Upgrade tracks
n/a 597 Explorer 1
600 Explorer 2
603 Explorer 3
606 Explorer 4
n/a 610 Explorer 5 Adventurer 1
613 Explorer 6 Adventurer 2
616 Explorer 7 Adventurer 3
619 Explorer 8 Adventurer 4
Weathered 623 Adventurer 5 Veteran 1
626 Adventurer 6 Veteran 2
629 Adventurer 7 Veteran 3
632 Adventurer 8 Veteran 4
Carved 636 Veteran 5 Champion 1
639 Veteran 6 Champion 2
642 Veteran 7 Champion 3
645 Veteran 8 Champion 4
Runed 649 Champion 5 Hero 1
652 Champion 6 Hero 2
655 Champion 7 Hero 3
658 Champion 8 Hero 4
Gilded 662 Hero 5 Myth 1
665 Hero 6 Myth 2
668 Hero 7* Myth 3
671 Hero 8* Myth 4
675 Myth 5
678 Myth 6
681 Myth 7*
684 Myth 8*
Upgrade levels marked with a * become available during the Turbo Boost event.

References

 
  1. ^ https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/the-war-within-season-2-dungeon-testing-schedule/2040452
  2. ^ Blizzard Entertainment Kaivax 2025-01-15. Feedback: Delves in Season 2.
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