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Hotfixes: October 23, 2026

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Hotfixes: October 23, 2026

Published by Blizzard Entertainment••Updated 7 Nov 2026
Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World
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The Brief

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.

Key Highlights & Takeaways

  • The Venomous Abyss Vashnik, the Malignant Malignance damage reduced by 37% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Malignance damage over time duration reduced to 16 seconds on Mythic difficulty.
  • Ula’tek Adjusted the health scaling on the following enemies on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties to better account for smaller raid sizes. Their base health has also been reduced on these difficulties to ensure the health scaling does not increase their health with larger raid sizes. Ula'tek
  • Blightscale Rawling
  • Blightscale Viper
  • Blightscale Shrieker
Detailed Breakdown

Dungeons and Raids

Dungeons & Raids

The Venomous Abyss Vashnik, the Malignant Malignance damage reduced by 37% on Mythic difficulty.

  • The Venomous Abyss Vashnik, the Malignant Malignance damage reduced by 37% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Malignance damage over time duration reduced to 16 seconds on Mythic difficulty.
  • Ula’tek Adjusted the health scaling on the following enemies on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties to better account for smaller raid sizes. Their base health has also been reduced on these difficulties to ensure the health scaling does not increase their health with larger raid sizes. Ula'tek
  • Blightscale Rawling
  • Blightscale Viper
  • Blightscale Shrieker
  • Weakened Doomscale
  • Ula'tek health reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.

Creatures and NPCs

General Updates

Updated the names of several Tortollan NPCs.

  • Updated the names of several Tortollan NPCs.

Delves

General Updates

Shadowguard Point Fixed an issue in the "Basilisk Blitz" variant where leaving the delve while travelling between waygates could change your appearance and make you hostile to otherwise friendly units.

  • Shadowguard Point Fixed an issue in the "Basilisk Blitz" variant where leaving the delve while travelling between waygates could change your appearance and make you hostile to otherwise friendly units.

Dungeons and Raids

Dungeons & Raids

The Venomous Abyss Entombed Sentinels Reduced the maximum scale of Blood Venom pools on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.

  • The Venomous Abyss Entombed Sentinels Reduced the maximum scale of Blood Venom pools on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.
  • Blood Venom pool duration reduced to 2 minutes on Mythic difficulty (was 5 minutes).
  • Twin Fangs Visceral Burst damage reduced by 40% on Mythic difficulty.
  • The Coiled Altar Axegrinder movement speed reduced by 20% on all difficulties.
  • Axegrinder damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Gloombomb damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Venom Rupture damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Malevolent Resonance damage reduced by 60%.

Housing

General Updates

Tracking the source for the Nagrand plant decor sold by Botanist Gril'ka in Nagrand now properly leads to her location.

  • Tracking the source for the Nagrand plant decor sold by Botanist Gril'ka in Nagrand now properly leads to her location.

Items

Items & Rewards

Azshara's Darkscale Cloak and Azshara's Deepscale Cloak were adjusted to resolve a dividing line that was visible under specific lighting.

  • Azshara's Darkscale Cloak and Azshara's Deepscale Cloak were adjusted to resolve a dividing line that was visible under specific lighting.

Labyrinth

General Updates

Fixed an issue with the "Voices of Stone" bonus objective in the "Bear's Burden" scenario that caused it to become stuck on the UI.

  • Fixed an issue with the "Voices of Stone" bonus objective in the "Bear's Burden" scenario that caused it to become stuck on the UI.
  • Fixed an issue with "The Wandering" scenario that caused some Tether icons to flicker erratically.

Classes

Classes & Talents

Druid Feral All damage done increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.

  • Druid Feral All damage done increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Restoration Developer’s note: These changes are intended to help Restoration Druid deal with burst damage in dungeons, as they are behind other healers. They are performing well in raid settings, so we are targeting talents and abilities that are favored when healing a 5-person group.
  • Verdancy healing increased by 60%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Regrowth healing increased by 10%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Improved Swiftmend increases Swiftmend healing by 40% (was 30%). Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Hunter Marksmanship Developers’ notes: These changes are intended to boost the area damage effectiveness of Marksmanship Hunters.
  • Trick Shots now increases the ricochet damage of Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire by 85% (was 75%).
  • Explosive Shot damage increased by 10%.

Items

Items & Rewards

Fixed an issue where tabards would hide the Rexxar armor set.

  • Fixed an issue where tabards would hide the Rexxar armor set.

Labyrinth

General Updates

Fixed an issue where some scenarios were not granting Great Vault credit.

  • Fixed an issue where some scenarios were not granting Great Vault credit.

What Players Need to Know

Classic Era Context

Contains shared engine hotfixes and system tuning applicable across Classic Era and WoW: Forever.

Editorial Revision History
• Publisher released updated notes/corrections25 Oct 2026
• Publisher released updated notes/corrections27 Oct 2026
• Publisher released updated notes/corrections28 Oct 2026
• Publisher released updated notes/corrections31 Oct 2026
• Publisher released updated notes/corrections06 Nov 2026
• Publisher released updated notes/corrections07 Nov 2026
• Publisher released updated notes/corrections14 Nov 2026
Originally published on Blizzard Entertainment
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24307310/hotfixes-november-6-2026
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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. ### Key Changes & Takeaways • The Venomous Abyss Vashnik, the Malignant Malignance damage reduced by 37% on Mythic difficulty. • Malignance damage over time duration reduced to 16 seconds on Mythic difficulty. • Ula’tek Adjusted the health scaling on the following enemies on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties to better account for smaller raid sizes. Their base health has also been reduced on these difficulties to ensure the health scaling does not increase their health with larger raid sizes. Ula'tek • Blightscale Rawling • Blightscale Viper • Blightscale Shrieker ### What Players Need to Know Most hotfixes take effect immediately upon realm connection. Specific dungeon encounter resets or client-side visual fixes will take effect following the next scheduled weekly maintenance. Read Original Source Announcement
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