# Changelog ## October 5, 2026
# Changelog
## October 5, 2026
### Character Services
- The gold badge on the character screen levels up the selected character to 80 if the account already has at least one character at level 80 or higher. No in-game purchase is required for this. A character that is already level 80, or that has already been boosted, remains unchanged.
- Deleting a character no longer causes the world server to crash. A stale database statement is regenerated from its original query, so the character list no longer gets stuck on "Retrieving character list...".
### Exile's Reach
- After the storm cutscene, 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.
- Duplicate beach survivors have been removed. The lying survivors and one Lady Jaina Proudmoore remain. Standing copies of the survivors appear only after that person has been bandaged. Private Cole and Richter are lying down. A second Jaina and stacked copies of nearby creatures have been removed.
- Zone-wide phases for the Isle of Exile have been restored, so quest NPCs in the parent zone now appear again. The departure camp after Darkmaul Citadel is visible to both the Alliance and the Horde.
- Kalecgos now stands at the departure camp. Speaking to him completes the exit quest and sends the character to the Dragon Isles.
- The Horde hunter quest “Taming the Wilds” is once again offered by Mithdran.
### Hero's Call board
- The old bulletin board in the capital cities no longer opens the long list of low-level quests.
- Alliance boards and the Hero’s Herald open the current warboard (“The King Needs You!”). Horde boards and the Warchief’s Herald open the corresponding Horde board. Selecting 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 remains empty until a guild posts a recruitment notice. 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 take effect.