# Changelog ## 2026-10-05
# Changelog
## 2026-10-05
### Character services
- The gold badge on the character screen levels the selected character to 80 when the account already has at least one character at level 80 or higher. No shop purchase is required for that. A character that is already 80, or that has already been boosted, is left unchanged.
- Deleting a character no longer crashes the world server. A stale database statement is prepared again from its original query, so the character list no longer hangs on "Retrieving character list...".
### Exile's Reach
- After the storm movie, Alliance and Horde characters are sent to the beach on the Isle of Exile instead of being left inside the ship. Logging in while stuck in that state sends them to the beach as well.
- Doubled beach survivors were cleaned up. The lying survivors and one Lady Jaina Proudmoore stay. Standing copies of the survivors appear only after that person has been bandaged. Private Cole and Richter lie down. A second Jaina and stacked copies of nearby creatures were removed.
- Zone-wide phases for the Isle of Exile were restored, so quest NPCs in the parent zone show up again. The departure camp after Darkmaul Citadel is visible for Alliance and Horde.
- Kalecgos now stands at the departure camp. Speaking to him finishes the exit quest and sends the character to the Dragon Isles.
- The Horde hunter quest "Taming the Wilds" is offered by Mithdran again.
### Hero's Call board
- The old bulletin board in the capital cities no longer opens the long low-level quest list.
- Alliance boards and the Hero's Herald open the current warboard ("The King needs you!"). Horde boards and the Warchief's Herald open the matching Horde board. Choosing a zone accepts that zone's breadcrumb quest.
### Group and guild finder
- The dungeon finder is enabled, including the Midnight dungeon list and "Find Group".
- The guild and communities browser uses the current finder. It stays empty until a guild publishes a recruitment post. There are no guilds on the realm yet, so a search still returns no results.
### Accounts
- Account `1#1` has administrator security level 3 on every realm. Log out and back in once for the commands to apply.