Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Midnight, Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, Burning Crusade Classic, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.
Hotfixes
March 24, 2026 Classes- The following spells now show on Raid Frames when Center Big Defensives is enabled in the Raid Frames Interface menu: Fortifying Brew, Divine Protection, Divine Shield, Enraged Regeneration, and Life Cocoon.
- Death Knight
Frost
All damage increased by 4%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Demon Hunter - Devourer
All damage dealt increased by 3%. - Focused Ray damage bonus increased to 80% (was 50%).
- Collapsing Star main target damage bonus increased to 75% (was 50%).
Druid - Guardian
Maul, Raze, and Ravage damage reduced by 20%. - Heart of the Wild: Cat Form and Moonkin Form damage reduced by 20%.
- Moonfire and Red Moon damage reduced by 10%.
- Season 1 4-piece set bonus: Celestial Might causes your Maul, Raze and Ravage to strike again at 50% effectiveness (was 100%).
- Fixed an issue preventing Maul from being tracked in the Cooldown Manager for certain talent builds.
- Durations of Berserk and Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc are now visible even when Wild Guardian is available.
Restoration - Rejuvenation and Germination healing increased by 10%.
- Tranquility healing increased by 10%.
- Wild Growth healing increased by 10%.
- Embrace of the Dream healing increased by 35%.
- Resolved an issue where sometimes Soul of the Forest could be immediately consumed if you spell-queued a Swiftmend after casting Regrowth.
Evoker - Devastation
Disintegrate damage reduced by 5% for Devastation Evoker only. - Scalecommander: Might of the Black Dragonflight bonus to Black spells reduced to 20% (was 30%) for Devastation Evoker only.
- Flameshaper: Twin Flame damage increased by 25% for Devastation Evoker only.
Preservation - All healing reduced by 5%.
- Time of Need healing increased by 50%.
- Verdant Embrace healing increased by 15%.
Hunter - Beast Mastery
All damage dealt by you and your pets increased by 5%. This does not affect PvP combat. - Dark Ranger: Corrected an issue where Withering Fire's damage was not increased alongside Black Arrow's damage.
- Fixed an issue causing the Nature's Ally Animal Companion to ignore commands to Wild Thrash.
- When Pets are Playing Dead, issuing a Kill Command, Wild Thrash, or Bestial Wrath command will wake them up.
Marksmanship - Aspect of the Hydra effectiveness reduced to 35% (was 65%).
- Aimed Shot damage increased by 8%. Does not affect PvP.
Mage - Mass Invisibility will now correctly affect pets and summons of units it applies to.
- Spellslinger: Fixed an issue causing Controlled Instincts to incorrectly reattribute damage from support effects.
- Arcane
Fixed an issue causing Eureka to not affect all 3 Orbs fired from Clearcasted Arcane Orbs. - Fixed an issue preventing Arcane Echo from triggering correctly.
- Fixed an issue preventing Brainstorm from triggering correctly.
- Fixed an issue causing Touch of the Magi to not reattribute damage from support effects correctly.
Monk - Fixed an issue causing Song of Chi-Ji to not be removed by spells that remove sleep effects, such as Tremor Totem.
Paladin - Holy
Reflection of Radiance’s proc rate has been significantly reduced for Holy Paladins. - Hammer and Anvil healing increased by 35%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
- Rite of Sanctification primary stat gained increased to 5% (was 2%) for Holy Paladins. Does not apply to PvP combat.
- Rite of Adjuration healing increased by 150% for Holy Paladins. Does not apply to PvP combat.
Priest - Discipline
All damage reduced by 12%. Not applied to PvP combat. - Power Word: Shield and Void Shield absorption increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Flash Heal and Shadow Mend healing increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Holy - Corrected an issue where gaining Benediction while casting a Flash Heal could cause Flash Heal to incorrectly consume the Benediction effects.
- Fixed an issue causing the Single-Button Assistant and Assisted Highlight to continuously recommend Shadow Word: Pain when Holy Fire was not talented.
- Archon: Fixed an issue causing some of the benefits of Surge of Light to not function when Surge of Light was gained while casting Flash Heal or Prayer of Healing and then canceling the cast.
Shadow - Fixed an issue causing Dark Thoughts to not increase the Insanity generated by Void Blast when consuming Shadowy Insight.
Rogue - Assassination
All ability and melee damage increased by 4%.
Outlaw - All ability and melee damage increased by 4%.
Subtlety - All ability and melee damage increased by 3%. Does not apply to PvP.
Shaman - Elemental
Lava Burst damage increased by 20%. - Elemental Blast damage increased by 15%.
- Earth Shock damage increased by 15%.
- Lightning Bolt damage increased by 10%.
- Flame Shock damage increased by 10%.
- Voltaic Blaze damage increased by 10%.
Restoration - All healing increased by 3%.
Warlock - Fixed an issue where queuing Conflagrate after casting Immolate would not spread Immolate with Roaring Blaze talented.
- Demonology
All ability damage reduced by 4%. - Fixed an issue where Summon Doomguard, Grimoire: Imp Lord, and Grimoire: Fel Ravager would not reset after an encounter resets.
- Fixed an issue where demons summoned by Dominion of Argus would not reposition if line of sight was broken.
- Fixed an issue where Channel Demonfire would fail to cast if it was queued after Cataclysm.
Destruction - Fixed an issue where spells would stop duplicating if Mayhem activated while Havoc was already active.
Warrior - Arms
Mortal Strike damage increased by 12%. - Execute damage increased by 15%.
- Cleave damage reduced by 10%.
Delves- The Gulf of Memory
Fixed a bug where Lumenia's Light Bound Rutaani was changing fixate targets.
Sunkiller Sanctum - Groups of Nullaeus' Minions can no longer spawn behind Esuritus.
Twilight Crypts - Fixed an issue causing Valeera to do substantially less damage than expected while fighting Blademaster Darza.
Dungeons and Raids- Algeth’ar Academy
Reduced the effectiveness of Dragonflight Pledge Pins. - Addressed an issue where the Blue Dragonflight Pledge Pin was giving less Mastery than intended.
- Overgrown Ancient
Addressed an issue where some Hungry Lashers were not affected by Burst Forth.
Echo of Doragosa - Updated Arcane Rift visual to match the size of the rift.
- Energy Bomb now targets 2 players (was 1).
Vile Lasher - Addressed an issue where Vile Bite’s bleed effect was not ignoring armor.
Arcane Forager - Vicious Lunge cooldown reduced, and damage increased by 50%.
Algeth’ar Echoknight - Arcane images now move during Astral Whirlwind.
Maisara Caverns - Hulking Juggernaut
Addressed an issue where debuff from Rending Gore is not categorized as Bleed.
Nexus-Point Xenas - Enemies at the entrance no longer spawn below 90% health.
- Duskfright Herald
Improved Dark Beckoning visual clarity, and summoned duskwraiths now travel in a straight line.
Smudge - Forfeit Essence cast time reduced to 2 seconds (was 4 seconds) on Mythic and Mythic+ difficulty.
- Healing to Nascent Dreadflail increased.
Nascent Dreadflail - Now becomes active 1.5 seconds after being healed to full (was 3.5 seconds).
Seat of the Triumvirate - Addressed an issue where the entrance portal can fail to appear for some players.
- Saprish
Void Bomb visual has been updated - Phase Dash impact radius increased to 8 yards (was 6 yards).
Windrunner Spire - Restless Heart
Squall Leap periodic damage increased by 36%, and increased the visibility of the Squall Leap debuff on players. - Developers’ notes: When considering the recent removal of Squall Leap’s stacking property, we are increasing the base damage value of this ability to compensate. This change incentivizes continued interaction with Turbulent Arrows to remove this affliction, while also capping the penalty for failing to do so.
The Voidspire - Vorasius
Shadowclaw Slam can no longer be dodged or parried.
Crown of the Cosmos - Resolved an issue where Alleria could melee players while they were still in the air entering Stage Three.
- Resolved an issue where Grasp of Emptiness would have its duration shortened by effects such as The Voodoo Shuffle.
- Void Expulsion damage no longer scales with raid size.
Items- Gloom-Spattered Dreadscale absorb aura is now removed upon entering instances or loading into a new zone. Using the trinket now overwrites any existing absorb aura, and its maximum value is limited.
- Beacon of Lightblind Wrath - Fixed an issue preventing certain offensive healer abilities from activating the damage effect.
- Fixed a bug with Crucible of Erratic Energies not activating when it should.
Player versus Player- Resolved an issue where the Rated Battleground version of Eye of the Storm spawned additional capture points.
- Druid
Restoration
Reactive Resin healing increased by 50%. - All healing increased by 5% in PvP combat.
Feral - All damage increased by 9% in PvP combat.
Death Knight - Frost
All damage increased by 8% in PvP combat.
Demon Hunter - Devourer
Reverse Magic has been added as a PvP Talent. - Developers’ notes: This was previously planned to be a 12.0.5 change, but we’re moving it into 12.0.1 via hotfix.
Evoker - Devastation
All damage increased by 4% in PvP.
Mage - Arcane
All damage increased by 8% in PvP combat. - Arcane Missiles damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.
Monk - Mistweaver
All healing reduced by 8% in PvP combat.
Paladin - Holy
Mana regeneration reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
Priest - Fixed an issue causing Psychic Shroud to last 15 seconds when landing a Psychic Scream against multiple enemies.
Shaman - Elemental
All damage reduced by 4% in PvP combat.
Enhancement - Crash Lightning damage increased by 80% in PvP combat. This also affects Crash Lightning (Unleashed).
- Primordial Storm damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Surging Elements now increases haste by 10% in PvP combat (was 15%).
- Totemic: Surging Bolt damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Totemic: Fixed an issue causing the tooltip of Primal Catalyst to not display that the Lava Lash casts at 50% effectiveness in PvP combat instead of 150%.
Warlock - Affliction
Corruption and Wither damage increased by 20% in PvP combat. - Agony damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
- Unstable Affliction now lasts 12 seconds in PvP combat (was 8 seconds), a 50% increase in its total damage dealt.
- Shadow Bolt damage increased by 100% in PvP combat.
- Drain Soul damage increased by 100% in PvP combat.
Professions- Blacksmithing
Fixed an issue with Living Steel Weapon Chain applying to weapons above 80 Item Level.
Herbalism - Vengeful Lashers woken up by gathering wild herbs in Zul'Aman are now friendly with everyone except for the herbalist who woke them up.
Inscription - Fixed an issue with Darkmoon Rot effects not doing damage to enemies above level 90.
Leatherworking - Primal Spore Binding is now activated by more class abilities and now favors your current role when activating.
- Thalassian Herbtender's Cradle now has a Finishing Reagent slot available when crafting.
Prey- Completing Prey hunts after your first 4 a week now awards 1000 Prey Journey progress until you reach Journey Rank 4, where the value will drop down to 50. This includes completing random hunts. The amount of Journey progress awarded by your first 4 hunts on an account remains unchanged at 1000.
- Developers’ notes: Following this change and the change to streamline account progression on Prey difficulty unlocks, players may have noticed that previously-completed Prey renown quests have been reset. If you have already unlocked Nightmare mode, this should be a purely cosmetic bug. If you were in the middle of the unlock quests, we apologize for the inconvenience and hope that getting to spend additional time scheming with Astalor is some small consolation.
Quests- Resolved an issue sometimes preventing completion of "Midnight: Saltheril's Soiree" if a guest had already been invited on another character. Affected players can visit Saltheril's Haven to receive credit for the objective automatically.
- Fixed a bug preventing players who are dead when Alleria is defeated during "The Voidspire" from receiving quest credit.
Races- Haranir Druids now use the Sable travel form.
March 19, 2026 Achievements- With Flying Colors is now granted when the player completes a The War Within delve of any tier.
- Addressed an issue where the Catalyst Unbound achievement rewards could be granted to characters who did not earn the achievement.
Classes- Evoker
Preservation
Fixed an issue where Titan's Gift was not affecting all ticks of Disintegrate.
Hunter - Beast Mastery
Fixed an issue where the displayed duration of Beast Cleave when triggered from Umbral Reach was incorrect.
Marksmanship - Fixed an issue allowing Aspect of the Hydra to hit the same target twice on multiple encounters.
Mage - Frost
Fixed an issue where Splintering Orb damage was unintentionally reduced.
Monk - Windwalker
Fixed an issue that caused Sunfire Spiral to not affect Rushing Wind Kick.
Paladin - Holy
Beacon of Virtue is now present in the cooldown manager.
Retribution - Herald of the Sun: Fixed an issue that caused Eternal Flame self-heal increase to be less than intended.
Priest - Shadow Word: Pain is now present in the cooldown manager for Discipline and Holy priests.
- Holy
Guardian Spirit now shows on Raid Frames when Center Big Defensives is enabled in the Raid Frames interface menu.
Warlock - Affliction
Fixed an issue where Dark Harvest would not benefit from Xalan's Ferocity and Xalan's Cruelty.
Demonology - Fixed an issue where untargeted Rain of Fire would not trigger an Echo of Sargeras.
Delves- Fixed a bug where Nullaeus could cast Emptiness of the Void more often than it should.
- Fixed an issue causing Enraged Ultradon, Wrathshell Consumptor, and Lord Antenorian's Shadow Orb health and damage scaling to be disproportionate for larger player groups.
- Some of the most dangerous creatures in delves have had their abilities adjusted.
Wrathshell Consumptors' Shale Bombardment now gives you more time to avoid its damage. - Barbtooth Bloodtrackers now cast Rupturing Bite less frequently and it can no longer stack beyond three.
- Stumpspreader's Lightbloom Beam has a slightly longer cast-time and deals reduced damage.
Shadow Enclave - SuperLux Focusing Mirrors can no longer be carried while stealthed or invisible. They're just too shiny.
Dungeons and Raids- Seat of the Triumvirate
Addressed an issue where Gates of the Abyss will linger after Viceroy Nezhar is defeated.
The Blinding Vale - Fixed an issue causing Ziekket's summons to be targetable by certain spells while spawning.
The Dreamrift - Chimaerus
Fixed an issue that could prevent Druids’ Convoke the Spirits from using offensive abilities and spells against Chimaerus.
The Voidspire - Addressed an issue where Gladiator Slauros or Devouring Void could pull players under the terrain.
- Vorasius
Focused Aggression now affects pets.
Lightblinded Vanguard - Resolved an issue where Execution Sentence would cause players to take additional damage from Light Infused.
- Fixed an issue where Grove Guardians could incorrectly trigger Aura of Peace on the player.
Housing- Players who lost their neighborhood charter during a character boost can now request a new charter from stewards to get their original charter and quest.
Player versus Player- PvP World Quests in Slayer's Rise should only award Bloody Tokens while in War Mode.
User Interface- Fixed an issue where Skyriding could remove your Quest UI bars.
March 18, 2026 Achievements- Fixed a bug preventing completion of ‘Tis But A Scratch.
- Fixed a bug where Working Way Past Midnight would not be awarded after reaching max skill in all Midnight Professions.
Classes- Player-cast long term raid buffs can no longer be canceled while the player is in combat. These buffs can still be canceled when outside combat and can always be applied regardless of combat state. The spells affected by this are: Mark of the Wild, Arcane Intellect, Battle Shout, Power Word: Fortitude, Skyfury, Source of Magic, Symbiotic Relationship, and Blessing of the Bronze.
- Death Knight
Unholy
All ability damage increased by 8%. Not applied to PvP combat. - All minion damage increased by 8%.
- Death Coil damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Magus of the Dead damage increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Dread Plague damage increased by 50%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Soul Reaper damage increased by 100%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Melee damage increased by 30%.
- Scourge Strike and Vampiric Strike damage increased by 25%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Festering Strike and Festering Scythe damage increased by 35%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Resolved an issue allowing Necrotic Coil to be parried, dodged or blocked.
- Resolved an issue causing Sudden Doom to reduce the effectiveness of abilities that function with the amount of Runic Power spent.
- Resolved an issue causing Plague Mastery to not interface with eruption effects of Virulent Plague and Dread Plague.
- Resolved an issue causing Scourge Strike to sometimes not spread Virulent Plague.
- Putrefy has been updated to be more consistent in its targeting and now takes target radius into account.
Demon Hunter - Sigil of Misery no longer counts as both an incapacitate and disorient for diminishing returns.
Druid - Balance
Elune's Chosen: Atmospheric Exposure is now properly applied by Full Moons cast by Orbit Breaker or Convoke the Spirits.
Hunter - Beast Mastery
Fixed an issue where the displayed duration of Beast Cleave when triggered from Umbral Reach was incorrect.
Marksmanship - Fixed an issue causing Lunar Storm to not fire when Aimed Shot killed its target.
- Fixed an issue causing Black Arrow to not fire Bleak Powder when it killed its target.
- Fixed an issue causing some Spotter's Mark effects to not trigger if the Aimed Shot that consumes it killed its target.
Survival - Mastery: Spirit Bond can now be tracked on the Cooldown Manager.
- Takedown now breaks your pet out of roots.
- Developer's Notes: The tooltip for Takedown will be updated to reflect this behavior in a future patch.
- Takedown Pet leap range increased to 40 yards.
Priest - Discipline
Fixed an issue where Void Shield was not causing Atonement healing.
Warlock - Affliction
Fixed an issue where Demoniac's Fervor would not function with Unstable Affliction.
Demonology - Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Ruination would not count towards Dominion of Argus.
Delves- Fixed a bug where Valeera was taking more damage than desired as a tank in lower tier delves.
- Fixed a bug where Valeera could sometime consume healing orbs.
- Atal’Aman
Nemesis Pack should no longer spawn outside the playable area.
Collegiate Calamity - Hydrangea’s Exposing Bolt now causes a debuff of 1% per stack (was 5%) and can reach a maximum of 99 stacks (was a max of 20).
The Grudge Pit - Fixed issue where Valeera was not damaging Furious Spectators.
Dungeons and Raids- Magisters' Terrace
Fixed an issue where sometimes some Gemellus clones remained alive after defating the Gemellus encounter.
Skyreach - Fixed a bug that prevented players from receiving Great Vault credit when finishing the dungeon on Mythic difficulty.
The Voidspire - Photosensitivity mode now disables the fullscreen effect from using Teleport Pads.
- Imperator Averzian
Averzian now says “know your place” less often.
Vorasius - Addressed an issue that made Druids untargetable by friendly spells upon dying to a death plane.
Lightblinded Vanguard - Resolved an issue where players could be hit by Divine Hammer multiple times.
Crown of the Cosmos - Resolved an issue where Alleria could evade briefly when crossing platforms.
Housing- Quests
Weekly Housing quests will now drop a Warbound chest of crests.
Developers’ notes: You can do the quest on any character you like and then send the reward to the character you would like to get it. It is intended that these quests can be completed once per account each week.
Items- Updated Recruit's Ring, Recruit's Band, and Recruit's Signet to remove unintended primary stats.
- Algari Diamond and Thalassian Diamond gems can no longer be equipped at the same time.
- Blossoming Rootwarden's Focus should now disenchant into Midnight materials.
Player versus Player- Tooltips for PvP gear now state that the item level increase also applies in War Mode.
- War Supply Crates and Assassin Bounties in Eversong Woods and Zul'Aman now drop Sparks of War.
- Resolved an issue that was causing PvP item levels to be set incorrectly in Arenas and Battlegrounds.
- Weekly PvP quests such as “Enshrouded in Battle” will now show their appropriate turn-in location on the map.
- Reduced Honor costs for Galactic Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity, Galactic Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity, and Galactic Aspirant's Emblem.
- Reduced Conquest costs for Galactic Gladiator’s Badge of Ferocity, Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity, and Galactic Gladiator's Emblem.
Professions- Thalassian Competitor's Chain Stompers now cost 4 Competitor's Heraldries to craft (was 5).
- Fixed a bug where Thalassian Competitor's Medallion, Thalassian Competitor's Emblem, and Thalassian Competitor's Insignia were not part of the Gladiator's Distinction item set.
Quests- The “End of the Dream” should no longer unexpectedly end before you’re finished dreaming.
March 17, 2026 Achievements- The Ultimate Predator is now account-wide.
Classes- Death Knight
Blood
Deathbringer: Reaper's Mark damage increased by 20%. - Deathbringer: Exterminate damage increased by 20%.
- Deathbringer: Wave of Souls damage increased by 20%.
- Deathbringer: Deathly Blows now increases the damage of Death Strike by 12% (was 5%).
- Deathbringer: Bind in Darkness now increases the damage of Blood Boil by 30% (was 10%).
- Resolved an issue causing Cleaving Strikes passive to grant an unintended 10% damage increase to Vampiric Strike.
- Resolved an issue causing Vampiric Strike to hit up to 8 targets instead of the intended 5 with Cleaving Strikes.
- Resolved an issue causing Vampiric Strike to grant additional Runic Power from Heartbreak from targets that are not hit.
- Resolved an issue causing Death's Caress to not grant additional bone shield charges when a Dancing Rune Weapon from Apex Talents is active.
Unholy - All damage reduced by 20%.
- Epidemic damage increased by 10%.
- Virulent Plague damage increased by 15%.
- Resolved an issue causing Magus of the Dead to have unintended wait time between casts.
- Resolved an issue causing Let Terror Reign to put Whitemane's Death Coil on cooldown.
- Resolved an issue causing On a Paler Horse to not function in the opening scenario to Midnight.
Demon Hunter - Fixed an issue causing Felblade to benefit from Burning Blades.
- Fixed an issue causing Blind Focus to not grant the appropriate bonuses to Havoc and Devourer Demon Hunters in Metamorphosis.
- Devourer
All damage dealt reduced by 4%. - Annihilator: Fixed an issue that could cause Mass Acceleration to only grant 2 stacks of Voidfall under certain conditions with high Haste values.
Havoc - All damage increased by 6%.
- Immolation Aura damage increased by 10%.
- Burning Wound bonus to Immolation Aura damage reduced to 35% (was 40%).
- Ragefire damage increased to 35% of Immolation Aura critical damage (was 30%).
- Essence Break damage increased by 10%.
- Glaive Tempest damage increased by 10%.
- Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver's Glaive damage increased by 8%.
- Aldrachi Reaver: Fury of the Aldrachi damage increased by 8%.
- Aldrachi Reaver: Thrill of the Fight bonus Haste increased to 8% (was 6%).
- Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver's Mark damage bonus increased to 6% (was 5%).
- Aldrachi Reaver: Wounded Quarry effect increased to 25% of Physical damage (was 20%).
Vengeance - All damage increased by 10%.
- Immolation Aura damage increased by 10%.
- Aldrachi Reaver: Wounded Quarry effect increased to 20% of Physical damage (was 15%).
- Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver's Glaive damage increased by 8%.
- Aldrachi Reaver: Fury of the Aldrachi damage increased by 8%.
- Aldrachi Reaver: Thrill of the Fight bonus Haste increased to 8% (was 6%).
Druid - Balance
All damage increased by 20%. Not applied to PvP combat. - Starsurge damage increased by 8%. Not applied to PvP
- Starfall damage decreased by 14%. Not applied to PvP
- Wrath damage increased by 10%. Not applied to PvP
- Elune's Chosen: Lunar Calling increases Starfall's damage to your primary target by 120% (up from 100%). Not applied to PvP
- Season 1set 2-piece: Increases Shooting Stars damage by 40% (was 50%).
- Season 1 set 2-piece: Shooting Stars outside Eclipse generate 2 Astral Power (was 3).
- Season 1 set 4-piece: Chance for Starsurge or Starfall to generate an exploding Shooting Star reduced to 30% (was 40%).
- Season 1 set Armor 4-piece: Fixed a bug causing the exploding Shooting Star to increment Orbit Breaker's count by 1 for every target hit. It now always counts as one Shooting Star, as intended.
Feral - All damage dealt increased by 6%. Not applied to PvP.
- Rake Bleed damage increased by 20%. Not applied to PvP.
- Rip damage increased by 10%. Not applied to PvP.
- Swipe damage increased by 10%.
- Rampant Ferocity damage increased by 10%.
- Unseen Swipe damage increased by 15%.
- Frantic Frenzy damage reduced by 10%.
- Fixed a bug causing Frantic Frenzy to hit 6 times, instead of 5.
Guardian - Moonless Night now causes your direct-damage melee abilities to deal 20% additional damage (was 40%).
- Wild Guardian Rank 4 now causes echoes to deal 300% increased damage (was 150%).
- Ability damage (excluding Moonfire) reduced by 20%.
- Moonfire damage reduced by 10%.
- Druid of the Claw: Damage dealt by Ravage to its main target reduced by 27%.
- Druid of the Claw: Damage dealt by Dreadful Wound reduced by 23%.
- Druid of the Claw: Killing Blow now increases Maul, Raze and Ravage damage by up to 70%, based on rage consumed (was 100%).
- Druid of the Claw: Strike for the Heart now increases Mangle damage by 10% (was 20%).
- Bestial Strength now increases Maul, Raze, and Ravage damage by 10% (was 20%).
Restoration - All healing reduced by 6%.
Evoker - Fixed an issue that prevented Obsidian Scales from being able to be cast if the player was targeting an ally further than 30 yards away.
- Augmentation
All ability and pet damage increased by 13%. - Livery of the Black Talon 2-piece: Eruption damage increase reduced to 10% (was 15%). Ebon Might extension bonus reduced to 0.1 seconds (was 0.25 seconds).
- Livery of the Black Talon 4-piece: Empower spell cool down rate bonus reduced to 10% (was 20%). Empower spell damage bonus reduced to 10% (was 20%).
- Scalecommander: Mass Eruption damage bonus for each missing target reduced to 10% (was 15%).
- Molten Embers damage bonus reduced to 15% (was 25%).
- Duplicate Rank 4 stat bonus reduced to 75% (was 100%).
- Fixed an issue that could cause Motes of Possibility to apply their buff to a target other than the ally who came in contact with the Mote.
Devastation - Scalecommander: Mass Disintegrate damage bonus for each missing target reduced to 10% (was 15%).
Preservation - Rewind healing increased by 200% outside of raid (was 100%).
- Rewind healing is no longer increased by 67% in PvP combat.
- Merithra's Blessing increases the direct healing of Dream Breath by 250% (was 125%).
- Dream Breath's direct healing increased by 20%.
- Merithra's Blessing reverses 1% damage (was 2%) on targets with Reversion.
- Reversion healing increased by 25%.
Hunter - Fixed an issue that allowed the damage increase from multiple Hunter's Marks on the same target to stack.
- Beast Mastery
Barbed Shot damage dealt increased by 35%. Does not affect PvP combat. - Cobra Shot damage increased by 100%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Dark Ranger: Black Arrow initial damage increased by 50%. Does not affect PvP combat.
Marksmanship - Sentinel: Fixed an issue causing Sanctified Armaments to do be modified by damage taken and damage dealt increases.
Survival - Auto attack damage increased by 35%.
- Wildfire Bomb primary target damage bonus increased to 80% (was 60%).
- Raptor Strike damage increased by 10%.
- Raptor Swipe now deals 35/70% increased damage to its primary target (was 25/50%).
- Sentinel: Fixed an issue causing Sanctified Armaments to do be modified by damage taken and damage dealt increases.
Mage - Arcane
Arcane Blast damage increased by 25%. - Arcane Barrage damage increased by 15%. Does not affect PvP.
- Arcing Cleave additional targets receive 40% of Arcane Barrage's damage (was 60%).
- Spellslinger: Splintering Orbs damage bonus reduced to 10% (was 25%).
- Spellslinger: Controlled Instincts Cleave percentage reduced to 40% (was 60%).
Fire - Ignition now increases Flamestrike's Ignite damage by 15% (was 50%).
- Season 1 set 2-piece: Now increases Pyroblast and Flamestrike damage by 6% (was 8%).
- Season 1 set 4-piece: Fire Blast cooldown reduction reduced to 0.3 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).
- Fireball damage increased by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Fire Blast damage increased by 25%. Does not affect PvP combat.
Monk - Brewmaster
Master of Harmony: Meditative Focus now increases damage dealt by Tiger Palm by an additional 50% (was 100%). - Master of Harmony: Aspect of Harmony stores vitality based on 12% of damage done, and 6% of effective healing (was 25% and 12%).
- Keg Smash and Breath of Fire are now tracked on enemy nameplates.
Mistweaver - Sheilun's Gift healing increased by 60%.
- Sheilun's Gift clouds now increase its healing by 10% per stack (was 33%).
- Jadefire Teachings now increases the transfer rate of Ancient Teachings by 270% (was 200%).
- Way of the Crane now transfers 340% of damage onto 1 ally (was 125% onto 3 allies).
- Jadefire Stomp damage now transfers into Ancient Teachings at 20% effectiveness.
- Developers’ notes: Jadefire Stomp's tooltip will be updated to reflect this in a later patch.
- Invigorating Mists healing increased by 30%.
Paladin - Retribution
Final Verdict damage increased by 15%. - Resolved an issue causing Execution Sentence to only deal 10% of the Holy damage dealt to the target, instead of the intended 20%.
- Light Within main target damage increased by 25%.
- Templar Slash and Templar Strike damage increased by 25%.
- Melee damage increased by 25%.
- Crusading Strikes damage increased by 25%.
- Crusading Strikes now reduces auto-attack speed by 20% (improved from 35%).
- Highlord's Judgment damage increased by 25%.
- Divine Storm damage reduced by 12%.
- Herald of the Sun: Dawnlight damage increased by 25%.
- Herald of the Sun: Dawnlight now cleaves 4% of the damage it deals to nearby enemies (was 5%).
- Templar: Empyrean Hammer damage increased by 30%.
- Templar: Wrathful Descent now deals 35% of Empyrean Hammer damage (down from 50%).
- Templar: Resolved an issue causing Hammer of Light to not benefit from Judgment with Undisputed Ruling when cast on a target without any Judgment stacks.
- Templar: Hammer of Light damage increased by 10%.
Priest - Discipline
Penance damage and healing increased by 20%.
Holy - Echo of Light no longer appears on raid frames.
Shadow - Fixed an issue causing Shadow Word: Madness to increase the damage the target takes from Shadowy Apparitions by 100%.
Developers' notes: This fix would be a large damage loss, so we're making further adjustments in our tuning pass for the specialization to be appropriately powerful.
All damage increased by 16%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Shadow Word: Death damage increased by 55%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Mind Blast damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Mind Flay damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Idol of N'Zoth damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Shadow Word: Madness damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Psychic Link now causes direct damage spells to inflict 20% of their damage to all other targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 60%).
Rogue - Removed the blue effect on rogue's hands while Cold Blood is active, as it could be distracting when active for very long periods.
- Outlaw
Fixed a bug causing the chances of Roll the Bones effects with Sleight of Hand to be off by small percentages (0.5-1.5%).
Subtlety - Backstab/Gloomblade damage increased by 20%.
- Shadowstrike damage increased by 15%.
- Eviscerate damage increased by 8%.
- Melee auto-attack damage increased by 15%.
- Black Powder damage reduced by 12%.
- Potent Powder bonus Black Powder damage reduced to 20% of Mastery (was 30%).
- Trickster: Unseen Blade damage increased by 20%.
- Trickster: Nimble Flurry effect reduced to 50% of listed attack damage (was 65%).
- Trickster: Clever Combatant crit bonus for Shuriken Storm reduced to 10% (was 15%).
- Fixed a bug preventing the Cold Blood effect from appearing correctly when enabled in the Cooldown Manager.
Shaman - Elemental
Chain Lightning damage increased by 10%. - Earthquake damage increased by 10%.
Enhancement - All damage increased by 8%.
- Lightning Bolt damage increased by 10%.
- Chain Lightning damage increased by 10%.
- Primordial Storm damage increased by 10%.
Restoration - Healing Rain healing increased by 45%.
- Chain Heal healing increased by 20%.
Warlock - Destruction
Hellcaller: Xalan’s Cruelty now increases Shadow damage dealt by 5% (was 8%). - Hellcaller: Xalan’s Ferocity now increases Fire damage dealt by 5% (was 8%).
- Hellcaller: Blackened Soul damage reduced by 50%.
- Hellcaller: Through the Felvine now increases Rain of Fire damage by 6% (was 8%).
- Hellcaller: Through the Felvine now increases Chaos Bolt damage by 35% (was 10%). This change does not affect PvP.
Demonology - Dominion of Argus Antoran Inquisitor damage reduced by 5%, Antoran Jailer damage reduced by 45%, Lady Sacrolash damage increased by 35%, and Grand Warlock Alythess damage increased by 35%.
- Developers’ notes: The intention with these adjustments is to ensure that all demons summoned by Dominion of Argus are competitive with one another, avoiding random chance having a large effect on damage output.
- Soul Harvester: Demonic Soul damage reduced by 55%.
- Soul Harvester: Manifested Demonic Soul damage reduced by 50%.
- Soul Harvester: Soul Anathema damage reduced by 35%.
- Soul Harvester: Wicked Reaping damage increased by 50%.
- Soul Harvester: Demoniac's Fervor now increases damage dealt by Demonic Soul by 200% to the main target of Hand of Gul'dan.
Warrior - Piercing Howl's cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 30 seconds), and ally speed buff radius reduced to 6 yards (12 with Battlefield Commander).
Developers’ notes: Piercing Howl has been available more frequently than intended and does not align with other similar effects, so we're making changes to bring this ability in line while keeping it distinct among similar effects.
Arms - Master of Warfare's final rank Heroic Strike now increases the damage you deal to enemies affected by your next Colossus Smash by an additional 3%. Stacks up to 5 times.
- All damage dealt increased by 15%.
Fury - All damage dealt increased by 10%.
- Slayer: chance for Reap the Storm to trigger changed to 20% (was 30%).
Protection - Phalanx rank 1: Thunder Clap now causes your next Shield Slam deal 10% additional damage and unleash a wave of force, dealing Physical damage to all enemies in front of you.
- Phalanx rank 4: In addition to existing effects, enemies damaged by Phalanx's wave of force deal 5% reduced damage to you for 8 seconds.
- All damage dealt increased by 10%.
- Developers’ notes: These changes are aimed at redistributing the power of Protection Warrior's Apex talents to better align with our design goals for Apex talents.
Dungeons- Windrunner Spire
The Restless Heart
Squall Leap no longer stacks. - Increased the visibility of the Squall Leap debuff on players.
Items- Resolved an issue where repeatable treasures in K'aresh would sometimes contain nothing.
Player versus Player- Fixed an issue where Horde players were unable to earn rewards for Battlegrounds Blitz.
- All tank role specializations’ self-healing reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
- Death Knight
Frost
All damage increased by 10% in PvP combat. - Deathbringer: Reaper's Mark damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
Demon Hunter - Devourer
All damage increased by 9% in PvP.
Druid - Balance
Dying Stars now causes enemies to suffer 25% additional damage from Moonfire and Sunfire when dispelled (was 15%).
Restoration - Healing increased by 11% in PvP combat.
- All damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Fixed an issue where Convoke the Spirits was casting the Balance version of Starsurge and dealing too much damage.
Evoker - Divide and Conquer (PvP talent) has been adjusted to no longer function with Strafing Run.
Hunter - Marksmanship
Consecutive Concussion now slows movement speed by an additional 10% (was 20%).
Survival - All damage dealt in PvP reduced by 8%.
Mage - Frost
Ray of Frost damage decreased by 20% in PvP combat. - Frostbolt damage increased by 100% in PvP combat.
- Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 100% in PvP combat.
- Brain Freeze now increases the damage of Flurry by 25% in PvP combat (was 50%).
- Flurry damage increased by 75% in PvP combat.
- Frostfire: Frostfire Empowerment now increases the damage of Frostfire Bolt by 10% (was 36%) in PvP combat.
Mistweaver - All healing reduced by 8% in PvP combat.
- Sheilun's Gift healing decreased by 20% in PvP combat.
Monk - Rushing Wind Kick no longer deals 20% increased damage in PvP combat.
- Jadefire Stomp damage reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
Paladin - Holy
A Just Reward healing decreased by 50% in PvP combat. - Divine Vision (PvP Talent) now reduces the cooldown of Aura Mastery by 30 seconds (was 60 seconds).
Retribution - All ability damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
Priest - Psychic Shroud now lasts 6 seconds (was 15 seconds).
- Discipline
All damage done reduced by 8% in PvP combat. - Power Word: Radiance healing increased by 40% in PvP combat.
Shadow - All damage increased by 7% in PvP combat.
Rogue - Assassination
Implacable Strikes damage decreased by 35% in PvP. - All ability damage increased by 4% in PvP combat.
Outlaw - All ability damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
Subtlety - All ability damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
Shaman - Elemental
Tempest damage increased by 20% in PvP combat. - Earth Shock damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
- Damage from dispelling Flame Shock increased by 600%. This effect can no longer critically strike.
Enhancement - Damage from dispelling Flame Shock increased by 600%. This effect can no longer critically strike.
Restoration - All healing done increased by 8% in PvP combat.
- Healing Tide Totem healing increased by 75% in PvP combat.
Warlock - Affliction
All damage increased by 15% in PvP combat. - Shadow Bolt damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
- Drain Soul damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
- Dark Harvest damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
- Damage from dispelling Unstable Affliction increased by 25%.
Warrior - The duration of Intimidating Shout has been reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
Developer's Note: The duration of Intimidating Shout when talented into Resonant Voice surpassed our targets for PvP crowd control duration.
Bladestorm damage no longer decreased by 23% in PvP combat.
Slayer: Unhinged now casts Mortal Strike / Bloodthirst at 40% effectiveness (was 60%) in PvP combat.
Professions- Recipes sold by Renown quartermasters are now Warbound.
- Cooking
Carve Meat will now function as intended on beasts that are not High Value. - Mound of Mildly-Meaningful Meat will now give Midnight cooking reagents.
Jewelcrafting - Fixed an issue where the Dual-Function Magnifiers could not be looted.
- Prismatic Focusing Iris damage has been reduced by ~50%.
Quests- Fixed a bug preventing “Shade and Claw” from being accessible to all players.
- Buildings in Arathi Highlands should no longer be missing while on the quest “Marran Trollbane”.
- Fixed an issue where credit for completing a "Legends of the Haranir" relic event on a different character was not counting for quest completion.
System- Fixed a bug that could cause performance issues related to memory usage.
Developers’ notes: We’ve seen a significant improvement in both PC memory usage and game performance for many users who were reporting skipping, lag, dropped frames, etc. We will continue to monitor these issues to ensure that we make further fixes if necessary.
Toys- Duck Disguiser has been removed and rebuilt, due to issues encountered when the color variants were made account-wide.
Developers’ notes: Players can now earn the original Duck Disguiser colors by defeating the duck boss during Noblegarden.
Zones- Fixed an issue causing Voidstorm's Hungering Presence to linger on players after teleporting out of the zone.
- Enemies should now scale for alts progressing through Shadowlands content in Timewalking Campaigns.
March 13, 2026 Classes- Death Knight
Unholy
Resolved an issue where using Runic Power on Necrotic Coil increased the damage of Gargoyle less than intended. - Resolved an issue where using Runic Power on Death Coil with Sudden Doom increased the damage of Gargoyle more than intended.
Demon Hunter - Devourer
Fixed an issue causing Reaper's Toll to sometimes be unusable for Devourer Demon Hunters.
Druid - Guardian
Fixed an issue where Dream Guide was not correctly activating for nearby players. - Fixed an issue where multiple stacks of Dream of Cenarius were increasing Regrowth's healing.
- Fixed an issue where Fury of Nature was not increasing damage dealt by Starfall from Heart of the Wild.
- Fixed an issue where additional Rage consumed by Killing Blow was not accounted for by Memory of Ysera.
Restoration - Symbiotic Blooms heal over time effect may now be displayed on raid frames if desired.
Evoker - Preservation
Fixed an issue where Dream Flight would not properly calculate its healing when healing clumps of targets.
Dungeons- Den of Nalorakk
Fixed an issue where Loa Speaker Nanea could sometimes summon an incorrect number of Volatile Totems.
Magisters' Terrace - Addressed an issue where Arcane Magister's Polymorph is Nature school instead of Arcane.
Housing- Significantly reduced the prices of decor that are sold for Voidlight Marl.
Items- Newly created Crate of Battlefield Goods should now contain gear that disenchants into more relevant materials.
Gear obtained at levels 10-79 disenchants into The War Within materials. - Gear obtained at levels 80-90 disenchants into Midnight materials.
Non-player Characters- Construct Ali'a and Construct V'anore in Astalor's Sanctum will now purchase items from players.
- Rare creatures in Midnight zones have been updated to respawn faster.
Player versus Player- Fixed an issue where Training with Patience would reset achievement progress when re-entering the battleground.
March 12, 2026 Achievements- Gotta Hunt Them All progress is now account-wide.
- Fixed a bug preventing completion of the Zul'Aman achievement A Most Violent Loa.
Classes- Death Knight
Army of the Dead Lesser Ghouls are now only visible to the Death Knight.
Demon Hunter - Devourer
Annihilator: Fixed an issue that could prevent some Voidfall Meteors from falling if your initial target died.
Havoc - Fixed an issue that could cause Glaive Tempest's effect to fail if triggered while moving.
- Fixed an issue that allowed Inertia's effect to apply after its triggering buff had expired.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Deflecting Dance from reapplying its effect if Blade Dance was activated twice in a row with high amounts of Haste.
Druid - Guardian
Fixed an issue where The Eternal Moon did not correctly increase the duration of Lunar Beam.
Rogue - Subtlety
Ancient Arts triggered effect can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
Delves- Enraged Ultradon's Blood Frenzy can now be dispelled.
Non-player Characters- Void Researcher Anomander and Void Researcher Aemely will now purchase your items.
Player versus Player- Fixed an issue where PvP was unintentionally enabled in the new and returning player tutorial area.
Professions- Profession tables in Eversong Woods now dismount players who get close to them.
- Items
Midnight gems have had their stats increased. - Fixed an issue where the standard quality Enchant Weapon - Arcane Mastery provided more Mastery than intended.
Quests- Resolved an issue causing some Legion quest enemies to appear at a much higher level than intended.
- After reaching the proper Renown level with Silvermoon Court, players can now begin "Courting Success" after completing the introductory questline to Saltheril's Soiree up to "High Esteem".
- You should now be able to place Corrupted Lantern in the Arcantina after turning in the quest "Still Behind Enemy Portals".
March 11, 2026 Classes- Druid
Guardian
The global cooldown incurred by Sundering Roar is now affected by haste. - Sundering Roar requires Bear Form.
- Fixed an issue where Echo of Maul was not applying Vicious Brambles without Rank 4 of Wild Guardian.
- Fixed an issue where Vicious Brambles from Echo of Maul, Echo of Raze, and Echo of Ravage were dealing an incorrect amount of damage.
- Echo of Maul now casts with the correct delay.
- Fixed an issue where Raze and Ravage were dealing incorrect damage to secondary targets.
- Fixed an issue where Echoes of Maul, Raze or Ravage were consuming Ravage procs.
- Fixed an issue where extra casts of Maul, Raze or Ravage from Celestial Might were consuming Ravage procs.
- Fixed an issue where extra casts of Maul, Raze or Ravage from Celestial Might were consuming extra Rage with Killing Blow.
- Casts of Maul, Raze and Ravage from Celestial Might now respect damage increases from Killing Blow.
- Fixed an issue where Mangle was not generating additional Rage while Red Moon was active.
- Lunar Wrath should now be trackable via the Cooldown Manager.
- Moonfire cast by Galactic Guardian with Red Moon talented should now display the correct visual.
- Red Moon is now shown on enemy nameplates.
- Moonless Night now procs from casts echoed by Wild Guardian and Celestial Might.
Restoration - Dash, Tiger Dash, Forestwalk, Ursine Vigor, Matted Fur, and Frenzied Regeneration can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
- Wildstalker: Strategic Infusion, Bloodseeker Vines, and Root Network can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
- Keeper of the Grove: Power of Nature can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
Evoker - Preservation
Fixed an issue where players would sometimes accidentally consume 2 charges of Time Dilation.
Monk - Mistweaver
Added Dance of the Wind and Transcendence to the cooldown manager. - Fixed an issue that prevented Sheilun's Gift from activating Courage of the White Tiger.
Shaman - Enhancement
Totemic: Resolved an issue causing Sliptstream Sundering to benefit from Whirling Earth. - Resolved an issue causing Slipstream Sundering to summon a Totem of Wrath.
Dungeons- The Blinding Vale
Ziekket
Fluorescent Outburst's damage reduced by 50%. - Lightbloom's Essence movement speed reduced by 33%.
Murder Row - Lithiel Cinderfury
Felfire Core's impact radius reduced to 8 yards (was 12 yards). - Fingers of Gul'dan's radius reduced to 6 yards (was 8 yards).
Voidscar Arena - Protective Turtle should more reliably cast Shell Guard.
- Atroxus' Lingering Poison now only effects players.
Items- Increased the drop rates of Sparks of War in Eversong Woods, Zul'Aman, and Harandar while in War Mode.
Player versus Player- Fixed an issue where the PvP combat dummies in Silvermoon City would not activate PvP talents.
- Due to an issue with the Shado-Pan Showdown map, we've temporarily changed this week's Brawl to Temple of Hotmogu. Shado-Pan Showdown will return!
Professions- Herbalism
Vengeful Lashers that appear when gathering Wild herbalism nodes in Zul'Aman will now always drop herbs for the gathering herbalist. Your Perception stat will still contribute towards a chance to get even more herbs from them.
Quests- Fixed a bug allowing players to damage other players in war mode on "Special Assignment: Push Back the Light."
- Fixed an issue preventing players from turning in “A Boyhood Dream”, “Argent Call: The Trial of the Crypt”, and “Argent Call: The Noxious Blade” to Maxwell Tyrosus in Eastern Plaguelands.
March 10, 2026 Classes- Demon Hunter
Fixed an issue that caused Swallowed Anger (Talent) text to incorrectly claim it generates 1 Fury when it actually generates 20 Fury.
Priest - Shadow
Fixed an issue causing Shadowy Apparitions to fail to critically strike. - Fixed an issue that could cause Mind Flay to be unable to be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
Warlock - Demonology
Fixed an issue where Fel Armaments was not reducing the cooldown of Felstorm.
Dungeons- Murder Row
Xathuux the Annihilator should more reliably appear holding his axe.
Events- Resolved issues that made Abysslick at the Stormarion Citadel difficult to loot when dead.
Items- Fixed a bug that could prevent players from gathering Crystallized Resin Fragments.
- Luminous Moth collection status is now shared across your warband.
- Equipment from Rare creatures is now correctly awarded as Warbound at max level.
Player versus Player- Blessings of Abundance will no longer persist into PvP Battlegrounds and Arenas.
- Fixed an issue where players were not being scaled to the minimum item level of 258 in the Battle for Wintergrasp.
Professions- Artisan's Consortium Payouts from Midnight Patron Orders now have a small chance to contain Petrified Roots.
- Herbalism
Lush Tranquility Bloom now properly grants Knowledge when gathered for the first time.
Tailoring - The difficulty for Courtly Shoulders and Courtly Robes has been reduced.
Quests- Fixed a bug preventing the completion of “Healing Homeward”.
User Interface- Resolved an issue sometimes causing the Prey hub icon on the zone map to display incorrect rewards.
March 9, 2026 Classes- Evoker
Preservation
Fixed an issue where Merithra's Blessing would not consistently be stored into Stasis. - Releasing Merithra's Blessing from Stasis no longer consumes the proc for Merithra's Blessing.
Priest - Discipline
Corrected an issue where several talents and Mastery: Grace did not properly affect the healing of Plea.
Shaman - Restoration
Corrected several issues where the bonus 50% value Healing Wave during Ascendance did not properly retain bonus healing modifiers from the Unleash Life talent.
Items- Personal Key to the Arcantina adjusted to have a 15-minute cooldown and only port to the Arcantina. Added a two-way portal to the Arcantina in Wayfarer's Rest for players who have obtained the key.
Player versus Player- Honor gains from Training Grounds matches reduced by 50%.
- Silences and Disarms no longer incorrectly cause Root effects to be placed on diminishing returns.
- Increased the likelihood of Slayer's Rise being chosen when queueing for random Epic Battlegrounds.
Professions- Patrons will no longer order Alchemy or Tailoring crafts that have a cooldown.
- Fixed an issue where the Prismatic Focusing Iris was doing less damage than intended.
- Fixed an issue causing the Primal Spore Binding to do less damage and healing than intended.
User Interface- Glowing Moth minimap icon in Harandar updated to prevent confusion with treasure markers.
- Updated the icons for Misplaced Tome, Ranger's Cache, Coalesced Light, and Dead Drop repeatable treasures in Eversong Woods.
March 6, 2026 Characters- Temporarily set the Haranir Druid mount form to use the stag model.
Developers’ notes: This change was made due to a visual bug that caused players being carried by the Druid sable mount to sit at the base of the model rather than on its back. We’re working on a fix to restore the sable as an option that can be used by the mount form. For this fix to be applied, the scale of the sable will increase slightly to avoid clipping issues and to accommodate some of the larger player-races.
Warlocks should now be able to use Black Incubus after completing the quest “Ambition's Reward”.
Classes- Death Knight
Blood
Resolved an issue causing Abomination Limb to not grant Bone Shield while talented into Bone Collector. - Consumption now goes on cooldown if the cast is interrupted.
Unholy - Resolved an issue causing Unholy Armaments to summon Trollbane and Whitemane for 6 seconds with Pillar of Frost and Dark Transformation respectively.
Druid - Guardian
Echo of Raze now respects line of sight. - The global cooldown incurred by Ravage is now correctly 1.5 seconds (was 1 second).
- Only one Dread Shade from Waking Nightmare may be active at a time.
- Wild Guardian's echoed casts of Maul, Raze and Ravage should now be cast at correct effectiveness.
Monk - Fixed an issue that caused Strength of the Black Ox to not appear for Windwalker Monks in their cooldown manager.
- Fixed an issue that caused Touch of Death to not be usable with multiple monks present.
Paladin - Fixed an issue that could cause Beacon of Light to script error if the paladin was not present.
- Retribution
Fixed an issue that caused Eternal Flame to be weaker than intended. - Resolved an issue causing Divine Resonance to not function with Hammer of Wrath.
Dungeons- Follower companion damage in Follower Dungeons increased by 10%. Follower damage against non-boss enemies increased by an additional 25-30%.
- Magisters' Terrace
Degentrius
Number of Void Torrents reduced to 2 on Mythic difficulty (was 4).
Maisara Caverns - Ritual Concoction duration increased to 30 minutes (was 10 minutes), Nature damage dealt to enemies reduced by 40%, and now persists through death.
The Blinding Vale - Lightblossom Trinity
Lightbloom Overgrowth periodic damage reduced by 66% on Mythic difficulty, and Light-Gorged damage buff increased to 50% per stack (was 15% per stack).
Ikuzz the Light Hunter - Bloodthorn Roots periodic damage reduced by 25%.
Ziekket Lightspawn - Lasher health reduced by 12.5% on Mythic difficulty.
Windrunner Spire - Commander Kroluk should no longer drop Falling Rubble in an unintended location.
- Territorial Dragonhawk Fire Spit cooldown increased by 5 seconds.
Voidscar Arena - Portals should more reliably deliver players to their destination.
Items- Void-Touched Satchel of Cooperation can now be opened at level 80.
- Crucible of Erratic Energies now activates Voidlust more often, and Voidlust grants the intended amount of Critical Strike.
- Potent Healing Potion now has a maximum value at level 90.
- Twilight Material in The Shadow Enclave delve is no longer mailed to the player if their inventory is full when collected.
Player versus Player- Vicious Thalassian Flask of Honor is no longer removed upon entering an arena match.
- War Mode now correctly increases the amount of Voidlight Marl earned from world quests.
Quests- Completing World Quests in Voidstorm will progress the objective for "Hope in the Darkest Corners".
- Nerunda should now be properly visible for players when turning in “Healing Homeward” in Zul'Aman.
Reputation- Fixed an issue where a player-character could lose reputation when race-changing to a Haranir.
Sound- Adjusted the volume and blending of sounds in The Sunwell to make voiceovers more understandable.
March 5, 2026 Achievements- The Abandoned Ritual Skull treasure has been removed as a criteria for Treasures of Zul'Aman.
Classes- Druid
Balance
Casting a Starfire that is made instant by Ascendant Eclipses Rank 1 no longer consumes Owlkin Frenzy, if active.
Feral - The Moonfire buff or bar will now correctly activate on the Cooldown Manager when you have learned Lunar Inspiration.
Evoker - Devastation
Flameshaper: Dragonrage now correctly interacts with Essence Well, increasing Fire Breath's chance to cause an Essence Burst to 100% while Dragonrage is active. - Scalecommander: Mass Disintegrate should now more-reliably hit multiple Hostile enemies near the primary target.
Monk - Windwalker
Fixed an issue that caused Zenith to not increase the cooldown reduction from Blackout Kick.
Rogue - Outlaw
Fixed a bug that caused Between the Eyes with Supercharger to consume two supercharged combo points when Gravedigger Rank 1 generated an extra stack.
Shaman - Elemental
Corrected an issue where Master of the Elements was not affecting the damage of all Flame Shocks if you activated or gained Ascendance with Master of the Elements active as intended.
Enhancement - Totemic: Resolved an issue causing Voltaic Blaze to consume Whirling Earth.
Dungeons- Den of Nalorakk
Grizzled Warbringer's Primal Echo debuff duration reduced from 30 sec to 15s - Addressed an issue where Nalorakk can get stuck in combat with Zul'jarra after all players are defeated during in the encounter
Voidscar Arena - Vexaroth's Explosive Spheres now only damages players inside the area trigger upon contact
Events- The Legends of the Haranir event now has an account-wide lockout, allowing participation once per week per account (was once per character).
Items- Skilled Preyseeker's Knapsack can now be deleted from your inventory.
Professions- Enchanting
Fixed a bug preventing the Flames of the Sin’dorei enchant from doing its intended amount of damage. The tooltip will be corrected at a later time.
Quests- Fixed an issue where Hammerfall peons were not providing quest credit for “A Humble Servant”.
- “Flicker in the Dark” should now complete for players who die or disconnect after subduing T'era.
- Towering Ultradon Talon is now significantly more likely to be found on the quest "One Cruel Implement".
- Fixed an issue where quests sending you to Boralus (e.g. “Remnant of Azeroth”) would direct you to go into the Silvermoon portal in Stormwind's portal room.
- “Down the Rootways” should no longer port players out of the area too soon.
- Fixed an issue where Alonsus Faol was not creating a portal for “The Sunwalker Path”.
User Interface- Fixed an issue causing the Adventure Journal to display an entry for the quest “Delves: Worldwide Research” when the player is not currently eligible for the quest.
March 4, 2026 Achievements- Addressed an issue with The Highest Peaks displaying incorrect progress.
- Players who have completed Cataclysmic Lumberjack may now properly harvest lumber while remaining mounted in Cataclysm zones.
- To earn With Flying Colors rewards, players must now complete a The War Within delve of any tier.
Classes- Death Knight
Frost
Remorseless Winter will no longer dismount the player when it deals damage.
Demon Hunter - Devourer
Fixed an issue causing Eradicate to become un-castable if it was gained during Metamorphosis and Metamorphosis expires. - Fixed an issue causing the incorrect body type to be shown during Void Metamorphosis' removal animation.
Druid - Feral, Guardian, Restoration
Fixed an issue where Nurturing Instinct, Circle of the Heavens, and Call of the Elder Druid were not affecting Wrath, Starfire, or Starsurge.
Hunter - Fixed an issue causing Nature's Ally Animal Companions to provide their Command Pet abilities.
- Increased the consistency of the Pack Leader's Boar's pathing on sloped terrain.
- Tracker's Net is now treated like other breakable crowd controls, where it has a damage threshold before breaking.
- Fixed an issue where many damage dealing effects would not break Tracker's Net.
- Survival
Fixed an issue preventing a talent tree connection from Intimidation to Cold Feet.
Mage - Fixed an issue where Reverberate's additional cast was incorrectly generating Splinters, Arcane Salvo stacks, and Spellfire Spheres.
- Fixed an issue where Comet Storm was usable while Fleeing or Feared.
- Fixed an issue causing Scorch to not deal the correct damage when talented into Scald and Heat Shimmer.
- Fixed an issue causing the Fractured Frost to incorrectly reduced Ice Lance's damage.
- Fixed an issue causing Spontaneous Combustion to grant an incorrect number of Fire Blast charges.
- Fixed an issue causing Splitting Ice to strike enemies in breakable crowd control.
- Fixed an issue causing Flash Freezeburn's area damage to strike enemies in breakable crowd control.
- Fixed an issue causing Flash Freezeburn's area damage to inconsistently damage the correct number of units.
- Fixed an issue causing Controlled Instinct's area damage to inconsistently damage the correct number of units.
- Fixed an issue causing Splintering Ray's area damage to inconsistently damage the correct number of units.
- Fixed an issue allowing Arcane Surge to be usable in the Assisted Rotation for Arcane Mages.
- Chilled effect no longer shows "Immune" floating combat text when an enemy is not crowd-controllable.
Monk - Brewmaster
Empty the Cellar now has a shorter range and should no longer target out of combat creatures.
Windwalker - Spells such as Fists of Fury should now consistently hit hovering enemies such as mana wyrms.
Rogue - Fixed an issue that caused Airborne Irritant to incorrectly apply its old AoE effect to Blind. The effect now matches the current and intended talent description.
- Assassination
Crimson Tempest no longer generates a combo point if it hits no targets.
Shaman - Enhancement
Resolved an issue allowing Windfury Weapon to be cast on both Main Hand and Off-hand weapons at the same time. - Resolved an issue causing Arc Discharge to display a 20% increase to Chain Lightning damage increase, rather than the intended 40%.
- Resolved an issue causing Arc Discharge to be consumed by Lightning Bolt.
- Ride the Lightning now reduces Chain Lightning’s effectiveness by 20% per jump, as intended.
- Primordial Storm has been added to the Single-Button Assistant.
Warlock - Fixed an issue where Blight of Tongues and Weakness would not reset on encounter wipe.
- Fixed an issue where Shard Instability would be consumed if activated while casting Unstable Affliction.
Enemies and NPCs- Players can now engage in battle with Voidseer Orivane as expected.
- Territorial Petalwings should no longer evade when engaged in combat.
Events- Ethereal Energy objects should now be interactable when an Ethereal Tool is equipped even if the Ethereal Disruption event is not currently active.
- The Deploy the Defenses user interface for Stormarion Citadel now displays as expected until the timer expires.
- Abundance events are now available for all characters in a Warband, once one of them has completed opening tutorial questline.
- Fixed an issue where the Abundance event in Voidstorm was not granting rewards for Abundant Harvests.
- Jonas Everdawn in Silvermoon City will now offer "Saltheril's Haven" to invite players to Saltheril's Soiree once they have unlocked World Quests and reached level 90.
Housing- Harvesting lumber now provides a small amount of experience.
- The decor Fungal Pergola can now be placed inside player houses.
Items- Fixed an issue with Void Execution Mandate where it did not trigger a shared cooldown with other trinkets.
- Rare quality profession tools and profession accessories are now Bind-on-Equip (was Bind-on-Pickup).
- Amani Extract Potion healing increased by 100%.
Player versus Player- Resolved a Slayer’s Rise issue preventing players from respawning at the Shenzar Refinery graveyard.
- Vicious Flask of Honor, Vicious Flask of Manifested Fury, Vicious Flask of the Wrecking Ball, and Vicious Flask of Classical Spirits no longer work above level 80.
- Rogue
Fixed a bug preventing Hemotoxin from functioning.
Shaman - Resolved an issue causing the Shamanism PvP talent to not function under the effects of Sated.
Prey- Corrected an issue where the starting location of the Power of Anguish quest was not visible on the map.
- Increased the amount of Experience earned by completing Prey quests, including Prey-specific world quests.
Professions- Enchanting
Illusory Adornments no longer replace shoulder enchants. - Increased the stats granted by Midnight ring enchants.
Quests- Players who are progressing through The War Within recap at level 81+ can now enter The Rookery and complete "Calling the Stormriders".
- The “To Be Changed” questline in Voidstorm is now available for characters who have not completed the main campaign.
- Corrected the starting location on the map for "Watch the Den".
- On "One Will Not Kill", Knife Priestess Hezzia will now properly die upon her spell's expiration.
- Fixed an issue that could cause players to be unable to progress the quest “Champions of Quel’Danas”.
- Fixed an issue where abandoning “One by One”, “Intercepted”, or “Keys Are Optional” could permanently prevent Valeera from appearing, blocking progression on “The Crimson Rogue” questline.
- Resolved an issue where Risen Witherbark did not provide credit for "The Crypt in the Mist."
- Players above level 80 should now be able to access the scenario "A Light in the Dark" while on the quest of the same name.
- Resolved an issue where two sets of Zul'jarra and Liadrin could be visible on "Brutal Feast."
- Resolved an issue where Witherbark Visitors were not visible to players prior to the quest "I Have a Permit."
- Resolved an issue where the conversation with Vun'zarah on "Coals of a Dead Loa" could be triggered repeatedly.
- Fixed an issue where warlocks could become unable to complete “Pardon the Interruption”.
- "Truth of the Past" should now be available to players who have reached Voidstorm.
- Fixed an issue preventing glyph hunters in Eversong Woods from finding the Shining Span Skyriding glyph for “Eversong Woods Glyph Hunter”.
- Fixed a bug where players were blocked from using the Discordant Tune on Snapdragons for "Put a Little Snap in Their Step".
- Players who completed “Legends of the Haranir” in the current week and then pick up "Legendary Prosperity" will now have "Legendary Prosperity" automatically complete.
- Players on the Zul'Aman campaign quest “Blade Shattered” will no longer receive credit for other players killing Mor'duun. You have to do it yourself.
Renown and Reputation- Fixed a bug that prevented players from earning Renown above rank 11.
World- The Camp Stonewash innkeeper now provides rest and instant logout as intended.
- Fixed a spot where players could get stuck on a tree in Quel’danas.
March 2, 2026 Achievements- A Frayed Scroll is no longer required for Midnight Lore Hunter.
Delves- Companions will now gather the correct materials in delves.
Dungeons- The minimum required item-level for joining a public dungeon on Heroic difficulty has been reduced to 211 (was iLvl 214).
Quests- Fixed an issue causing visual effects to not play during "Take Up Your Gift."
- The Relic of Liberation used for “These Violent Delights” no longer requires player level 86.
- Fixed an issue preventing players from advancing “The Void Peers Back” in Adventure Mode.
- Fixed an issue preventing completion of "Fair Breeze, Light Bloom" for players who opt to complete the Voidstorm campaign before the Eversong campaign.
Spells- Blessing: Ensorcelling Flame cooldown duration increased, and frequency of effect reduced.
- The portal from the Arcantina now returns you to your saved location, rather than Silvermoon.
Twilight Ascension Event- Materialist Ophinell and Armorer Kalinovan now offer Twilight Ascension event items for Resonance Crystals (was Twilight’s Blade Insignia) in Orgrimmar, Stormwind, and Twilight Highlands. They will be available until the beginning of Midnight Season 1.
March 1, 2026 Classes- Hunter
Fixed an issue causing Stomp and Wild Thrash to damage enemies through walls.
Mage - Fixed an issue causing Comet Storm to pull enemies through walls without damaging them.
- Fixed an issue causing Shatter to pull enemies through walls.
- Fixed an issue causing Duality Pyroblasts to pull enemies through walls.
Delves- Valeera’s maximum level is 45 until Midnight Season 1 starts.
Dungeons- Voidscar Arena
Fixed an issue where the arena event could fail to progress.
Items- Contained Stormarion Defender and Vivacious Chloroceros should now appear in the mount collection.
Prey- Players who were unable to access the Hunt Table in Astalor's Sanctum after completing a Prey quest should once again be able to accept new hunts, as long as they haven’t completed the 4 weekly hunt maximum.
Developers’ notes: There is currently a display bug for those who were affected by the previous issue that may show they have 1 more hunt available than they actually do. This will be fixed with weekly restarts.
Quests- Creatures in the Midnight introduction that takes you to the Isle of Quel'Danas now have lower health and deal less damage.
- Players should be able to continue handing out fliers to folks during "Mobilize! Enlist! Recruit!” if they leave and then come back to their task.
- Fixed an issue where Rage-Riddled Drifter would take a long time to respawn for “Overcoming the Unknown” world quest.
User Interface and Accessibility- To ensure that macro usage aligns with our overall goals for addons, there have been some minor changes made to macro capabilities:
Macros are prevented from setting a target marker on more than 3 units within a very short time.
And the following restrictions only apply while the player is in an active encounter:
- Macros are no longer allowed to send chat messages to chat channels that are not exclusive to the group (custom chat channels, guild, communities, etc).
- Macros are still allowed to send chat in group-exclusive channels (/raid, /party, /rw, etc), but are prevented from sending multiple messages to those channels within a very short time. In addition, all members of the group must be inside the instance or macro chat will not be allowed in these channels.
- Macros are still allowed to send chat in whispers but the whisper target must also be in the instance. Macros are also prevented from sending multiple whispers within a very short time.
February 28, 2026 Dungeons and Raids- Den of Nalorakk
Resolved an issue that could result in Nalorakk becoming unattackable.
Magisters’ Terrace - Completing the Magisters' Terrace dungeon at any difficulty will now complete the quest “Magisters' Terrace: Homecoming”, even if the player has not completed the first objective to speak with Umbric.
Items- Fixed a bug causing some Bind-on-Equip items from Midnight content to require a player level lower than intended for the item level of the gear.
- Resolved an issue causing some items from Midnight content that were equipped by players to be temporarily unusable.
- Items that unintentionally cost 750 Voidlight Marl now cost 25 Marl.
- Fixed a bug that could cause War Supply Crate to spawn underground in Eversong Woods.
Professions- To account for the acquisition of Knowledge in Early Access, two weeks’ worth of Knowledge will be granted to players from activities (Crafting Orders, treasure drops, Patron Orders, gathering) during the first full week of Midnight (March 3-10).
Quests- Fixed an issue with the Void Beast in "The Line Must Be Drawn Here" sometimes being unkillable, blocking quest progress.
- Fixed a bug preventing progress on “Wrath Unleashed”. Players who are stuck on this quest can now abandon and retry the quest to proceed with the story.
- Players who leave before completing the "Ethereal Eradication" or "Light's Arsenal" quests should now be able to resume them.
- Fixed a bug where Sunbath Schools were not available for "A Fish!".
- Fixed an issue during "Abyssus, Abyssum" causing the quest boss to be more difficult than intended.
- Moved the location of Empowering Shadow enemies to make them easier to target on “Break the Blade”.
User Interface- Adjusted the order of some items in the Transmog collection.
- The Renown Vendor for Silvermoon Court is now indicated on the zone map while in Eversong Woods.
