With the latest weekly reset, World of Warcraft: Midnight players will notice an important change to one of the expansion’s early activities.
The Legends of the Haranir world event now has an account-wide weekly lockout, meaning it can only be completed once per week per account instead of once per character.
The change was originally mentioned in recent hotfix notes and has now gone fully live with the March 10 reset.
What changed with the event
Before this adjustment, players could complete Legends of the Haranir multiple times each week by running it on different characters.
Now the system works differently:
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The event can only be completed once per week per account
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Progress is shared across all characters
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Rewards are locked after the first completion
For players running large alt armies, this removes the ability to repeatedly farm the event across multiple characters.
Why Blizzard likely made the change
This type of adjustment is fairly common early in an expansion cycle.
Events like Legends of the Haranir often provide progression rewards or reputation gains tied to the expansion’s core systems. Allowing unlimited alt runs can quickly accelerate progression far beyond Blizzard’s intended pacing.
Making the activity account-wide weekly keeps it relevant while preventing it from becoming an alt-farm loophole.
What this means for players
In practical terms, players should now treat the event like many other modern WoW weekly activities:
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Complete it once on the character you want rewards on
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Plan around the weekly reset
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Focus your other characters on different progression paths
With Season 1 launching March 17, Blizzard appears to be tightening up progression systems before the first major season of Midnight begins.
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