Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, 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
August 15, 2025
Dungeons
- Halls of Atonement
- Inquisitor Sigar
- Display of Power’s damage radius reduced to 5 yards (was 10 yards).
- Manifestation of Envy
- Movement speed reduced by 42%.
- Melee attacks can no longer critically hit players.
- Lord Chamberlain
- Erupting Torment impact radius reduced from 14 yards to 10 yards, and damage reduced by 22%.
- Inquisitor Sigar
- Operation: Floodgate
- Resolved a Swampface issue where Razorchoke Vines could get stuck on players after the fight ended.
- Priory of the Sacred Flame
- Fixed an issue where players would become phased out when entering the fountain near Captain Dailcry.
- Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
- Addressed an issue where Unstable Goods can fail to grant player the Throw Package ability during the Mailroom Mayhem encounter.
- Tazavesh, Streets of Wonder
- Timer increased to 34 minutes (was 32 minutes).
- The Grand Menagerie
- Alcruux’s health reduced by 16%.
- Achillite’s health reduced by 16%.
- Venza’s health reduced by 16%.
- Commander Zo’far
- Shock Mines’ duration reduced to 24 seconds (was 36 seconds) and ability cooldown increased by 100%.
- Lethal Force’s damage-over-time effect reduced to 3 seconds (was 5 seconds).
- Myza’s Oasis
- Zo’gron’s Final Warning updated: now pulses Arcane damage every 1 second until the shield is broken.
- Final Warning’s shield reduced by 10%.
- Brawling Patron’s Throw Drink damage reduced by 50%.
- Bazaar Overseer
- Pierce’s damage vulnerability debuff value reduced from 20% to 10%.
Items
- Pyrite Infuser, Mjolnir Runestone, Wrathstone, Eye of the Broodmother, Living Flame, and Elemental Focus Stone effects decreased by 5%.
Renown
- Fixed an issue causing players to sometimes start from Rank 0 with the Manaforge Vandals instead of Rank 1. Affected players have been granted the missing Renown to allow them to reach Rank 2 this week.
August 14, 2025
Achievements
- Addressed an issue where Keystone Hero: Tazavesh, the Veiled Market was not earned upon completing both Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder and Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit in a +10 or higher within the time limit.
- Addressed an issue where the Keystone Hero achievement is not granted upon completion of a +10 or higher keystone in Halls of Atonement within the time limit.
Delves
- Fixed an issue where some Delve rewards would be awarded at an incorrect item level.
- Fixed an issue where completing a Bountiful Delve would not grant any progress toward Delver’s Journey.
- Kriegval’s Rest
- Exiting the Ethereal Routing Station via the Ethereal Portal will now always spawn the corresponding entrance portal.
Items and Rewards
- Timewalking Raids (including the Timewalking quest cache) no longer drop cloaks.
- Fixed an issue where armor converted with the Catalyst could be ineligible for Conqueror’s Astral Varnish and Conqueror’s Astral Lacquer.
- Disabled “The Fate of the Devoured” Warband background, to fix an error that could cause the game to crash. This will return after it is fixed.
- Great Vault rewards unlocked from defeating bosses in Manaforge Omega will scale in item-level based on the hardest boss killed that week per difficulty.
- Developers’ notes: For example, defeating all eight bosses on Heroic difficulty would cause any items offered from earlier bosses to scale to 4/6 Hero as dropped from Nexus-King Salhadaar and Dimensius, the All-Devouring. If two Mythic raid bosses were also defeated to unlock one Mythic raid reward, that item would still be limited to 2/6 Myth, etc.
Dungeons
- Addressed an issue causing the Group Finder to default a Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit group to Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder.
- Eco-Dome Al’dani
- Addressed an issue causing A’wazj to unintentionally reset.
- Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
- Hyperlight Bolt and Brackish Bolt now target random players.
- Addressed an issue where items in Tazavesh’s bazaar event can sometimes become uninteractable.
- Addressed an issue where Zo’gron can skip his second Final Warning cast if the health threshold was reached during the first cast.
K’aresh
- Addressed an issue causing creatures near Reshanor to have their vision obscured.
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- Galleon now respawns every 30 minutes (was 1-2 hours).
- Avatar of the August Celestial’s vendor lists cleaned up substantially.
- Developers’ notes: Players should no longer see armor pieces that do not correspond to their best armor type, or items that provide a primary stat that none of their class specializations utilize
- Celestial Dungeons
- Clearing a dungeon on Celestial difficulty now rewards the Heroic achievement.
- Blessing of Niuzao: Oxen Fortitude Strength, Agility, and Intellect per stack increased to 5%, now lasts 45 seconds, and can proc every 2 seconds.
- Blessing of Xuen: Xuen’s Ferocity scaling with Attack Power increased, and the damage loss per jump reduced to 5% per jump (was 25%).
- Blessing of Yu’lon: Serpent’s Jadefire periodic damage reduced and its scaling with Spell Power increased.
- Blessing of Chi-Ji: Blazing Song periodic damage reduced and its scaling per Spell Power increased.
- The visual for Blazing Song has been color shifted to green to make its intended behavior more clear.
August 13, 2025
Classes
- Druid
- Restoration
- Keeper the Grove: Fixed a bug causing Swiftmends enhanced by the Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece to not splash healing to allies.
- Restoration
- Hunter
- Fixed an issue causing Precise Shots to not grant its global cooldown reduction effect if its consumption was spell-queued after Aimed Shot.
- Mage
- Sunfury: Fixed an issue causing Gravity Lapse to occasionally ignore line of sight.
- Arcane
- Nether Flux no longer has a grace period after receiving damage from Arcane Missiles.
- Fixed an issue causing Nether Flux to be castable while silenced.
- Fixed an issue causing the 2-piece and 4-piece set bonus PvP-only reductions to not apply correctly.
- Fire
- Fixed an issue where multiple casts of Fireball could benefit from one instance of Flame Accelerant.
- Paladin
- Protection
- Fixed an issue with Sanctuary and Undisputed Ruling where players could lose the benefits of Consecration if two or more were active when the first expired.
- Protection
- Warlock
- Diabolist: Fixed an issue where the Manaforge Omega 2-piece tier set bonus was doing the incorrect amount of damage.
Dungeons
- Addressed an issue where Lindormi can fail to trade keystones with players after a Mythic+ dungeon is completed within time limit.
- Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
- Addressed an issue where Cultivated Poison can be applied to the boss herself when there are fewer than 3 targets.
Player versus Player
- Conqueror’s Astral Lacquer and Conqueror’s Astral Varnish may now be purchased for Conquest to add Season 3 PvP item-level to Season 3 class set armor.
Quests
- Fixed an issue that can block progression if “Return to the Veiled Market” is attempted while the player is on the quest “Repossessed!” at the same time.
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- August Stone Fragments held are now capped at 55 (was 45).
- In Rated Battlegrounds, non-tanks holding that flag now take 20% increased damage, as intended (was 25%).
- Fixed a bug preventing the Exalted Reputations achievements from progressing with MoP reputations.
- “Paint It Red” and “Unleash Hell” no longer auto-complete, and must be completed as originally intended.
- Celestial Dungeons
- Blessing of Chi-Ji: Blazing Song now lasts 15 seconds and healing increased.
- Blessing of Yu’lon: Serpent’s Jadefire damage amplification reduced to 3% and periodic damage reduced.
- Blessing of Xuen: Xuen’s Ferocity can now jump to an additional target and its direct damage increased.
- Blessing of Niuzao: Oxen Fortitude duration increased and the Stamina it provides per stack increased by 1%.
- The daily Celestial quest should no longer be removed when entering a random dungeon.
- Mogu’shan Vaults
- Gara’jal the Spiritbinder should now correctly summon Shadowy Minions regardless of when he is put into combat.
- Cutting Edge and Ahead of the Curve achievements can again be earned in Mogu’shan Vaults.
- Enchanting
- Jade Spirit and Spirit of Conquest now have the same per-level scaling and internal cooldown of 3 seconds.
- Dancing Steel and Bloody Dancing Steel now have the same per-level scaling.
August 12, 2025
Classes
- Death Knight
- Frost
- Obliterate damage reduced by 5%.
- Rider of the Apocalypse: Mawsworn Menace now increases the damage of Obliterate by 5% (was 10%).
- Rider of the Apocalypse: Hollow Sentinel’s Wake 2-piece now increases Trollbane’s Obliterate damage by 15% (was 35%).
- Deathbringer: Exterminate first scythe damage increased by 10%.
- Resolved an issue causing Howling Blast to not consume Rime procs at high Haste levels.
- Resolved an issue causing Frost Strike to not generate Killing Machine in Obliteration windows at high Haste levels.
- Resolved an issue causing Frostbane casts to fail at high Haste levels if it is cast as soon as it is available.
- Frost
- Demon Hunter
- Havoc
- All ability damage increased by 5%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
- Havoc
- Druid
- Balance
- All ability damage increased by 8%.
- Keeper of the Grove: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece now accumulates 3% of damage done (was 2%) and Dryad’s Favor is now capped at 10x spellpower (was 6x) and splashes 15% (was 20%) of its damage onto nearby enemies.
- Elune’s Chosen: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece Starfire damage increase changed to 20% (was 25%), and has a 40% chance (was 50%) to launch a Starsurge at 45% effectiveness (was 50%).
- Elune’s Chosen: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece Split Starsurges deal damage at 40% effectiveness (was 80%).
- Feral
- Ferocious Bite and Ravage primary target damage increased by 6%.
- Shred damage increased by 5%.
- Sabertooth causes Ferocious Bite to increase damage taken from your bleeds and other periodic effects by 6% per combo point (was 5%).
- Wildstalker: Bloodseeker Vines damage increased by 5%.
- Restoration
- Wildstalker: Fixed a bug causing the Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece bonus to generate extra Symbiotic Blooms for Regrowths cast by Rampant Growth.
- Wildstalker: Fixed a bug preventing Twin Sprouts from generating extra Bloodseeker Vines or Symbiotic Blooms from the ones created by the Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece set bonus.
- Wildstalker: Symbiotic Bloom and Bursting Growth healing increased by 15%.
- Wildstalker: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece bonus increases the rate of Symbiotic Bloom growth by 45% (was 30%).
- Wildstalker: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece now causes Symbiotic Bloom healing to have a 35% (was 20%) chance to trigger Bursting Growth at 100% effectiveness (was 80%).
- Developers’ notes: The bug involving Rampant Growth was generating a large number of unintended Symbiotic Blooms, which consolidated a lot of Wildstalker’s healing power into the 4-piece and Clearcasting procs. We’ve added healing power to counteract the healing loss from the bug fix.
- Balance
- Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- Tireless Collector’s Bounties – 2-piece chance to fire a free Barbed Shot reduced by 50%.
- Beast Mastery
- Mage
- Frost
- All damage dealt reduced by 3%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
- Frost
- Monk
- Brewmaster
- Shado-Pan: Crash of Fallen Storms 2-piece bonus Flurry Strikes deal 10% increased damage (was 20%).
- Shado-Pan: Crash of Fallen Storms 4-piece bonus Flurry Charge generation increased by 30% (was 50%).
- Shado-Pan: Damage dealt by Flurry Strikes from Wisdom of the Wall reduced by 20%.
- Brewmaster
- Priest
- Shadow
- Fixed an issue causing Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch applications from Shadow Crash to ignore line of sight.
- Shadow
- Shaman
- Enhancement
- Lava Lash damage increased by 15%.
- Windstrike damage increased by 20%.
- Totemic: Surging Bolt damage increased by 25%.
- Totemic: Searing Bolt damage increased by 35%.
- Stormbringer: Awakening Storm damage increased by 35%.
- Stormstrike damage increased by 10%. Does not affect Windstrike.
- Elemental Blast damage increased by 8%.
- Stormbringer: Tempest single target damage increased by 8%.
- Enhancement
- Warlock
- Threatening Presence now increases the threat generation of your Voidwalker and Felguard by 950% (was 400%).
- Affliction
- Spliced Fiendtrader’s Influence 2-piece set bonus adjusted – Jackpot! chance reduced by 30%.
- Demonology
- Wild Imp damage reduced by 20%.
- Immutable Hatred damage reduced by 30%.
- Destruction
- Diabolist: Inquisitor’s Feast of Madness 2-piece has been adjusted – Eye Blast damage reduced by 45%.
- Warrior
- Protection
- Mountain Thane: Damage dealt by Ionizing Strikes reduced by 30%.
- Protection
Player versus Player
- Death Knight
- Frost
- Frost Strike damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Unholy
- Festering Wound damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
- Frost
- Druid
- Feral
- All damage reduced by 8% in PvP combat.
- Feral
- Mage
- Arcane
- Nether Flux now increases the damage an enemy receives from the next targeted spell by 40% (was 100%).
- Fire
- Meteor direct damage reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
- Frost
- All damage reduced by 10% in PvP.
- Arcane
- Paladin
- Holy
- All healing reduced by 12% in PvP combat.
- Divine Plea (PvP talent) duration increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
- Holy
- Priest
- Shadow
- Void Volley damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
- Shadow
- Rogue
- Assassination
- Garrote damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Assassination
- Warlock
- Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Summon Demonic Gateway would cause Diabolic Ritual to work incorrectly.
- Demonology
- All damage reduced by 5% in PvP combat.
Delves
- Players using Waygates to change levels in Archival Assault should no longer break stealth.
- Enemies now teleport after players who move up or down levels in Archival Assault more reliably.
- Fixed a bug in Sidestreet Sluice where Maulspike would run back to his spawn point instead of respawning.
Dungeons and Raids
- Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
- Avanoxx
- Insatiable’s damage increase reduced to 30% (was 50%).
- Starved Crawlers can no longer critical hit on their melee attacks.
- Avanoxx
- The Dawnbreaker
- Speaker Shadowcrown
- Shadow Shroud’s healing absorb reduced by 33%.
- Fixed an issue that caused Shadow Shroud’s healing absorb to not scale with keystone level.
- Speaker Shadowcrown
- Eco-Dome Al’dani
- Adjusted the spawn locations of Frenzied Mites to be more consistent.
- Halls of Atonement
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- High Adjudicator Aleez
- Pulse From Beyond’s damage now occurs every 1.5 second (was every 1 second).
- Lord Chamberlain
- Stigma of Pride removed.
- Ritual of Woe’s group damage when it hits a statue reduced by 38%.
- Resolved an issue where Lord Chamberlain’s statues collision could persist.
- Resolved an issue where Lord Chamberlain’s Sinstone Statues did not inflict damage to players in their path during Telekinetic Onslaught.
- Reduced the damage of Telekinetic Collision by 30%.
- High Adjudicator Aleez
- Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
- Addressed an issue where Adorned Overseers’s Drifting Star can be fired at a wrong angle.
- Addressed an issue where So’azmi will stop using his abilities after being interrupted by Solar Beams during Double Technique / Triple Technique.
- Addressed an issue where Zo’gron’s Crowd Control can go off if he is defeated while channeling.
- Liberation of Undermine
- Chrome King Gallywix
- Resolved an issue that caused the visual for Haywire Environment to go haywire.
- Chrome King Gallywix
Items and Rewards
- Fixed a bug that prevented Visions of N’zoth Revisited items in Season 3 from working with the S.A.D. Season 3 socketer. Season 3 items that drop after this fix can now be socketed.
- Resolved an issue where some World Quests were showing an incorrect low gold value as their primary reward.
K’aresh
- Devourer Mites from the Devourer Attack: Tazavesh event should now despawn after a short delay once the event ends.
Quests
- “Sparks of War: K’aresh” now correctly appears in the correct section in the quest log.
- The quest “Crest Transmutation” is once again available.
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- Riding Turtle now correctly appears in the mount collections tab.
- When in a Rated Battle for Gilneas, dying now always correctly places players back at their starting graveyard.
- Ancient Mogu Keys are now correctly usable in Heroic Mogu’shan Palace.
- Creatures for the achievement Over Their Heads should now correctly randomize.
- Mogushan Vaults
- Jan-Xi and Qin-Xi should no longer get desynced when performing the Arcing Slash combos.
- Opportunistic Strike should now consistently appear when successfully avoiding Devastating Combo.
- Titan Gas visual reduced in intensity.
- Magnetic Armor now has a visual indicator for where Magnetic Pull will occur.
- Elegon’s Energy Sparks should now consistently idle for a brief moment after spawning.
- Warlock
- Wrathguard will no longer occasionally deal no damage when using Wrathstorm.
- Arenas
- All Arenas now correctly display the number of remaining players on each team.
- All Arenas now include timers displaying when the Arena will end.
- The UI at the top now correctly displays the teams as being Purple and Gold.
August 8, 2025
Classes
- Death Knight
- Frost
- Resolved an issue causing Frostwyrm’s Fury dragon to not despawn.
- Frost
- Shaman
- Elemental
- Resolved an issue causing Liquid Magma Totem to not apply Flame Shock to enemies not in combat with the Shaman.
- Enhancement
- Totemic: Fixed a bug that allowed Tremor to be dodged, parried, or blocked.
- Elemental
Delves
- Arcane Barrier is now interruptable and dispellable. Recast time increased.
- Arcane Barrier shield is now 10% of health (was 15%).
- Sand Step DoT damage reduced by 65%.
- Mana Feast damage reduced by 66%.
- Arcane Lash damage reduced by 15%.
- Fixed a bug where Warlocks’ Wither could remove stacks of Static Charge from Durable Information Securing Container.
Items
- Void-Touched Ocular now has the correct amount of Intellect.
- Fixed an issue that caused several weapons from Eco-Dome Al’dani to sheathe incorrectly.
- Resolved an issue where Pinnacle Caches were not giving Resonance Crystals and Kej.
K’aresh
- Multiplayer pet battles can now take place in K’aresh.
Quests
- “The Void Hunter” should now point you to Leona Darkstrider’s correct location.
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- “Survival Rings: Blades” should now correctly always gain progress at all times.
- Classes
- Priest
- Fixed a bug that allowed Monks to bypass Guardian Spirit via Touch of Death.
- In Arenas, Priests can no longer place Lightwells in areas that other players cannot reach.
- Priest
August 7, 2025
Achievements
- Fixed an issue where players could not obtain My Stab-Happy Nemesis after defeating Nexus-Princess Ky’veza in her lair.
Classes
- Priest
- Shadow
- Resolved an issue causing Shadow Word: Death to not deal additional damage between 20% and 35% health with Deathspeaker talented.
- Shadow
Items
- War Within Season 2 gear should now be convertible for free at the Revival Catalyst.
K’aresh
- Reduced Reshanor’s health and overall difficulty.
Quests
- Fixed a bug causing some Shadowguard Infiltrators to not count for “Break the Assault” as intended.
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- The Longest Day achievement no longer requires that dailies need to be completed in a single day.
- The Saurok Stone Tablet is now correctly enabled. Players can now discover this treasure once for experience and progress towards their treasure achievement.
- Classes
- Death Knight
- Frost Death Knights will now correctly display their Death Rune as refreshed from Blood Tap without having to spend another rune.
- Warlock
- Void Ray now correctly costs 40 Demonic Fury.
- Developers’ notes: This was an unintended bug in patch 5.4 for Demonology, which looks to have gone uncorrected in the original game until Fel Flame was removed in patch 6.0.2.
- Death Knight
- Player versus Player
- Fixed an issue where picking up the flag in a Rated Eye of the Storm match could affect the player’s ability to Stealth even after the flag had been capped.
- Quests
- During “The Wrestler” daily, Sling Sweat puddles will now be the correct size and the Slimy Feet debuff should now correctly always be removed when moving out of the ground effect.
August 6, 2025
Achievements
- Fixed a bug that made Mad World and Through the Looking Glass go missing.
Delves
- In Sidestreet Sluice, Vindel Snapcrank will now properly respawn if he leaves combat and resets.
K’aresh
- The map icon for Tazavesh should now show the proper Renown Rank.
- The nearest Phase Diving conduits should now be visible on the map when Phase Diving.
Quests
- Resolved an issue where “Crest Transmutation” would not always give players extra Carved Ethereal Crests.
- Players who selected a talent for their Reshii Wraps should be able to wrap up “Wrapped Up”.
- Fixed a bug where bosses in the Horrific Visions were not counting towards the quest: “Worldsoul: Horrific Visions Revisited”.
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- World Bosses should now correctly reset, weekly.
- The Enchanted Pearl, Enchanted Tear, and Nightmare Tear gems will now give correct stats at max level.
- Windshear Cactus, Raptorleaf, and Snakeroot now have loot that is appropriate for the current patch.
- Classes
- Priest
- Shadow Apparition missiles now move at the correct speed.
- Priest
- Player versus Player
- Fixed a bug causing class adjustments to not work as intended in Battle for Gilneas and Deepwind Gorge.
- Carts in Deepwind Gorge are now correctly returned when clicked on by the defending faction.
- Transmog
- Straw Hats that correspond to your Armor type are now usable as Transmog appearances.
The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found here.
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