#1 - June 30, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
Blizzard Post

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

June 30, 2026

Classes

  • Druid
    • Balance
      • All damage increased by 4%.
    • Feral
      • Developers’ notes: Feral is performing well in M+, but their overall damage in raid is low. These changes shore up their single-target power and total raid damage.
      • All damage increased by 3%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
      • Melee auto-attack damage increased by 15%.
      • Rip damage increased by 5%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
      • Rampant Ferocity damage reduced by 15%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Restoration
      • Developers’ notes: Restoration’s damage compared to other healers is lower than we’d like. We’re rebalancing some of Restoration Druid’s damage out of Thrash and into the rest of the kit.
      • All damage increased by 15%.
      • Bear Form Thrash damage reduced by 25%.
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • All ability damage increased by 3%.
  • Mage
    • Arcane
      • All ability damage increased by 3%.
  • Priest
    • Holy
      • Holy Word: Serenity healing increased by 20%.
      • Holy Word: Sanctify healing increased by 20%.
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • Corrected an issue where Purging Flames could cause Lava Burst to generate less Maelstrom than intended.
    • Restoration
      • All healing increased by 4%. This does not apply to PvP combat.

Player versus Player

  • Demon Hunter
    • Devourer
      • Developers’ notes: Devourer Demon Hunters have been performing above expectations, especially in defensive metrics, so self-healing is being reduced.
      • Shattered Souls now heals for 0.5% of maximum Health per Soul Fragment consumed (was 1%) in PvP combat.
  • Death Knight
    • Unholy
      • Developers’ notes: Unholy’s burst damage is overwhelming too frequently, so contributing abilities are receiving a reduction with some of that overall damage moving into the steadier output from Dread Plague.
      • Putrify damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
      • Soul Reaper damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
      • Dread Plague damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Druid
    • Guardian
      • Developers’ notes: Guardians’ burst potential with their apex talent has been higher than we would like for a tank specialization in PvP.
      • Wild Guardian now echoes at 50% effectiveness (was 200%) in PvP combat.
  • Evoker
    • Fixed an issue where the Fire Breath Infuser during Evoker's introductory quests would not reset the cooldown of Fire Breath.
    • Augmentation
      • All damage increased by 8% in PvP combat.
    • Preservation
      • Developers’ notes: Preservation Evoker is slightly overperforming in PvP, so we’re making one additional targeted nerf to them in this pass. Temporal Burst makes it hard for enemies to react to important casts like Sleep Walk, so we’re reducing its effectiveness.
      • Temporal Burst increases haste, movement speed, and cooldown recovery rate by 15% in PvP combat (was 30%).
  • Hunter
    • Marksmanship
      • Double tap now causes Aimed Shot to fire at 16% effectiveness or your next Rapid Fire to fire 16% additional shots (was 40%).
      • Developers’ notes: We’re reducing Double Shot’s burst potential to allow enemy players to have more time to react to the Marksmanship Hunter’s incoming damage.
    • Survival
      • All damage increased by 3% in PvP Combat.
  • Mage
    • Frost
      • Developers’ notes: We are redistributing some of Frost Mage’s damage out of Ray of Frost and into the rest of its kit with the intention of decreasing its burst capabilities and improving its steady-state pressure.
      • Ray of Frost damage decreased by 20% in PvP combat.
        All damage increased 3% in PvP combat.
  • Paladin
    • Protection
      • Developers’ notes: Templars’ burst capabilities have made Protection Paladin more of an offensive threat than we would like them to be in PvP.
      • Divine Exaction now casts Divine Toll again at 25% effectiveness (was 75%) in PvP combat.
      • Hammer of Light damage decreased by 30% in PvP combat.
    • Retribution
      • Developers’ notes: Retribution has been performing better than expected, so we are applying a small damage reduction.
      • All ability damage reduced by 3% in PvP combat.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Developers’ notes: Voidweaver Priests are dealing too much damage in PvP. We’re reducing some of that damage and increasing their healing to compensate.
      • Expiation deals damage equal to 200% of the of the amount consumed from Shadow Word: Pain in PvP combat (was 300%).
      • Inescapable Torment damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
      • Shadow Word: Pain damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
      • Voidweaver: Atonement healing increased by 15%.
      • Oracle: Preventive Measures increases damage of Penance, Smite, Holy Nova by 20% (was 15%).
      • Ultimate Penitence healing increased by 25%.
    • Shadow
      • Developers’ notes: In addition to a needed boost of overall damage, Shadow Word: Death is also receiving a buff intended to make its damage worthwhile when striking enemies in its low-health threshold.
      • All ability damage increased by 4% in PvP combat.
      • Shadow Word: Death damage increased by 45% in PvP combat.
  • Shaman
    • Restoration
      • Developers’ notes: Farseer Restoration Shaman has been behind in performance in PvP compared to Totemic, we’re increasing the throughput of heals and effects provided by Farseer talents and their Ancestors to help close the gap.
      • Farseer: Maelstrom Supremacy increases healing of affected spells in PvP by 20% (was 15%).
      • Farseer: Hydrobubble’s effectiveness is no longer reduced in PvP (was a 20% reduction).
      • Farseer: Heals cast by Call of the Ancestors increased in PvP by 30% (was 20%).
  • Warrior
    • Arms, Protection
      • Developers’ notes: We’re slightly reducing Colossus’ ability to tank damage to make them more of a viable kill target.
      • Mountain of Muscle and Scars reduces damage taken by 3% in PvP combat (was 5%).
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • All damage increased by 3% in PvP combat.
      • Consuming Nightfall with Seed of Corruption on a target already afflicted with Seed of Corruption will cause the preexisting Seed of Corruption to detonate.
    • Demonology
      • Developers’ notes: Demonology damage while freecasting has not been as effective as we would like, so we’re targeting a few adjustments to Shadow Bolt and Demonbolt with the intention of increasing their ability to punish enemies for allowing them to chain casts together.
      • Shadow Bolt damage increased by 200% in PvP combat.
      • Demonbolt damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
    • Destruction
      • Incinerate damage increased by 50% in PvP combat.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Darkheart Thicket
    • Players must now defeat Dresaron to complete the dungeon on Timewalking difficulty.

Naigtal

  • Players can no longer be attacked while on Transport Skiffs in Naigtal.

June 25, 2026

Delves

  • When tank Valeera is accompanied by a healer, she now takes significantly less damage, scaling from 45% less damage at Tier 1 to 29% less damage at Tier 11.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Sporefall
    • Resolved an issue causing players to be able to interact with the door to Funggor Hollow.

Naigtal

  • Players will no longer lose their "Lighthook Grapple" ability when they log out of Naigtal.

Omnium Folio

  • Starting with Week 2, the weekly Seeking Knowledge quest prerequisites are now account-wide. Characters must still complete the Sunstrider Omnium unlock questline to access the weekly quests on alts.

Quests

  • All of the quests required for the Omnium Folio and to unlock and enter Val or Naigtal are now marked as Important quests.
  • Fixed a bug preventing new Midsummer quests from rewarding XP.

Val

  • Gravity Shackles affix damage reduced by 50%.
  • Adjusted the World Quest "Dissent and Divide".
    • Increased the chances of a favorable gossip reaction even when selecting inappropriate gossip options for the target.
    • Increased base spawn thresholds for conversation targets.
    • Added additional Veilcasters around the quest area.
    • Added partial credit for killing gossip targets.
    • Added a movement bonus to the Domanaar disguise.
  • Adjusted the World Quest “Aberration Liberation”.
    • Reduced the quest objective count to 10 (was 12).
    • Kills now give credit to the whole party (was the interacting player).
    • Improved respawning when many players are present.
  • Spirit Healers now correctly spawn in Val.

Season of Discovery

  • Grendag Brightbeard can now be found in Thunder Bluff and in the entrance to the Undercity.
    • Developers’ notes: This is intended as a workaround to issue on some servers causing players in Orgrimmar to not be able to disable or re-enable XP gains. We hope to return Grendag to working order in Orgrimmar soon.

June 23, 2026

Items

  • Rotmire's Sporeheart once again triggers from Leech healing.

Lorewalking

  • During Loa Lorewalking (and Darkspear Heritage), Lukou's portals will now allow transport while in combat.

Midsummer Fire Festival

  • “Reignite the Skies: Orgrimmar” and “Reignite the Skies: Stormwind” Midsummer dailies unlocks are now account-wide.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed the contents Satchel of Chilled Goods to reroll each time it was opened.
  • Sun Festival Painted Roc’s chance to drop in Satchel of Chilled Goods has been doubled for the first drop of the day on the account. The drop rate from the first satchel will continue to increase each day until it is obtained.

Player versus Player

  • Fixed an issue where some important effects and major defensives were not displaying on enemy player nameplates.

Professions

  • Fixed an issue where Empowered Mulch would result in no herbs being gathered.

Quests

  • The weekly offerings from Lady Liadrin should once again offer four choices to players.

Val

  • Adjustments made to the "Until it is Done" world quest, improving quest credit earned and increasing creature respawn rates.

Mists of Pandaria Classic

  • Challenge Mode
    • Challenge Conqueror: Platinum (Season 3) is now correctly earnable.
      • Developers’ notes: Realm First! Challenge Conqueror: Platinum (Season 3) has been disabled in North America while we work on granting the achievement to the correct winners.
  • Mists of Pandaria Classic can no longer be installed on Windows 7 and 8 operating systems.

June 22, 2026

Delves

  • The Excavation Site 9 and Sidestreet Sluice delves should be reliably displaying the correct names again.

Items

  • Fixed an issue causing the Draconic Nullcape cloak to use an unintended appearance. This item now contributes towards the Luminant Verdict's Vestments transmog sets.

Naigtal

  • More bouncy mushrooms have been added to help with some hard-to-reach locations.
  • The Spore Buoy's slowfall effect now works on mounted players.

Omnium Folio

  • Fixed an issue with Rune of Void-Tainted Shell’s tooltip.

Quests

  • “Defying Gravity” should once again function with the Lair of Predaxas restored.

Ritual Sites

  • Players can now pick up Lady Darkglen's new quest for Tier 6 Ritual Sites in the Silvermoon hub in addition to outside the active Ritual Site.

The Burning Crusade Classic

  • Fixed an issue that was causing Midsummer Festival Bonfires to deal more damage to players than expected.

Mists of Pandaria Classic

  • Siege of Orgrimmar cooldown reduction trinkets will now correctly re-evaluate their effects when starting a Challenge Mode dungeon.

June 18, 2026

Items

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Rotmire's Sporeheart’s effect from triggering from certain sources of healing.

Lorewalking

  • Rewards from the Loa Lorewalking campaign should now scale all the way to level 90.

Naigtal

  • Rares are now enveloped in shadow for the first 3 minutes after spawning and cannot be attacked, giving players additional time to reach the encounter.

Player versus Player

  • Resolved an issue that could cause Horde to lose reinforcements instead of Alliance when they capture the Sparring Grounds in Slayer's Rise.

June 17, 2026

Abundance

  • Fixed an issue where players could not begin Abundance in Voidstorm. All players who lost Shards of Dundun due to this issue will be refunded with Unalloyed Abundance in an upcoming hotfix.

Island Expeditions

  • Island Expeditions should be queueing correctly once again.

Items

  • Fixed an issue where the Void-Touched Torch had lower Intellect than intended.

Lorewalking

  • Fixed an issue where the initial objective conversation for “The Prince Who Would Be King” would not complete.

Naigtal

  • The "Bouncy Mushrooms," "Aerospores", and "The Grappler" unlocks in Naigtal are now account wide.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Nexus-Captain Leth'ir from dropping the quest item for “Knocking Off the Top (Heroic).” Characters that encountered the issue can earn their emblem from another Heroic kill of Nexus-Captain Leth'ir or from a wrapper quest they have not completed.

Mists of Pandaria Classic

  • Siege of Orgrimmar
    • Garrosh Hellscream
      • Beginning with realm maintenance this week, defeating Garrosh will now give you a chance to bonus roll for an extra piece of loot.
  • Celestial Dungeons
    • Kor'kron Arcweavers no longer ignore line of sight and Magistrike has had its damage reduced.
    • Kor'kron Banners have had their health significantly reduced.
    • The respawn rate of the Kor'kron forces has been adjusted to be every 2 hours (was 5 minutes).
    • August Stone Clusters now cap at 200 (was 70).
    • The Coffer of Celestial Chance now awards 50-60 Lesser Charms of Good Fortune (was 20-30).