World of Warcraft: Midnight · Patch 12.1 · Curse of Ula'tek

The Venomous
Abyss

Eight bosses. A sea of venom. A buried hatred unleashed beneath the Coiled Isle. The defining raid of Season 2 descends — and we're tracking every drop of it.

8 Bosses 4 Difficulties Final Boss: Ula'tek

Estimated launch · August 11, 2026

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The Raid

A tomb that should have stayed sealed

Off the eastern coast of Zul'Aman, the fog has finally lifted from the Coiled Isle — and with it, an ancient Amani structure flooded with corruption. When Zul'jan struck a bargain he could not pay, he loosed Ula'tek: a creature of pure hatred, corruption, and venom that the trolls once locked away.

Now Zul'jarra leads the charge into the deep to bring her brother home and end what he began. The Venomous Abyss is the eight-boss endgame raid of Midnight Patch 12.1 — Curse of Ula'tek, opening the gates of Season 2.

  • 8Boss Encounters
  • 4LFR · Normal · Heroic · Mythic
  • S2Launches the Season
  • AugExpected 2026 launch

The Story

What stirs beneath the Coiled Isle

Four chapters of a history the Amani tried to bury — and how one warlord's bargain woke the thing waiting in the deep.

  1. I

    The Bargain

    Desperate and cornered, Zul'jan struck a deal with a power the Amani once sealed away. The price was steeper than any warlord could pay — and it has come due.

  2. II

    The Pursuit

    His sister, Zul'jarra, refuses to write him off. She leads the charge into the drowned vaults to drag her brother — and everyone he doomed — back to the light.

  3. III

    The Buried Hatred

    Ula'tek wakes. An ancient creature of pure hatred, corruption, and venom, it floods the Abyss with poison and bends the tomb's old guardians to its will.

  4. IV

    The Crown

    And in the shadows, Malacrass circles — hungry to harness what Zul'jan has become, and to claim the Bargained Crown for himself.

"Some doors were sealed for a reason. Zul'jan opened one anyway — and the deep has been waiting a long, long time."

The Roster

Eight encounters into the deep

From the soul-binding sentinels of the upper vaults down to Ula'tek itself. Mechanics are still being forged on the PTR — descriptions below are drawn from datamined encounter lore and will sharpen as testing continues.

Rewards

Venom-forged tier sets & loot

Every class earns a brand-new set following the raid's serpent aesthetic — heavy on poison motifs and Amani troll imagery — with Season 2 bonuses tuned to be deeper and more impactful than Season 1.

Gear Tracks

  • VeteranRaid Finder
  • ChampionNormal
  • HeroHeroic
  • MythMythic

Exact item levels are confirmed closer to launch as tuning settles on the PTR.

Class Tier Set Names

The World Around It

The Coiled Isle & Season 2

The raid doesn't stand alone. Patch 12.1 brings a full seasonal package wrapped around a poisoned new island off Zul'Aman.

The Road to Release

When can you dive in?

Dates are Blizzard's projected cadence and remain estimates until officially confirmed.

Questions

Everything we know so far