The War Within Hotfixes - December 19

Hotfixes

December 19, 2025

Housing

  • Wildlife in neighborhoods will no longer pursue players for more than a reasonable distance.

Quests

  • Players who have not queued for Brawler’s Guild should now see a summons to the event in Dornogal.
  • Fixed an inconsistency with Darkmoon Faire race timers that was preventing completion of the “Real Big Race”.

User Interface

  • Many additional spells and abilities have been adjusted so that their spell visual density is decreased when either the Reduced or Essential Spell Density setting is selected.

December 16, 2025

Brawler’s Guild

  • Blackmange health significantly decreased.
  • Ogrewatch Hudson’s Tesla Cannon damage and cast frequency decreased and cast time increased.
  • Blat frequency of Split decreased and damage dealt by summons decreased.
  • G.G. Engineering damage of Gnomish Death Ray decreased, health of Shield Generators decreased, and health of Bo Bobble and Max Megablast decreased.

Classes

  • Rogue
    • Fixed an issue causing Shadowstep to port Rogues to the other side of a pillar when cast on a target next to it.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Eco-dome Al’dani
    • Addressed an issue where multiple Fates could be struck by the Eternal Weave at one time.
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Fixed an issue where running the Story Mode version of Aberrus would disable trash spawns within other versions of the raid.

Housing

  • The Lorewalking: The Elves of Quel’thalas achievement now properly, retroactively awards the Tome of Silvermoon Intrigue. Players who have already purchased additional copies of this decor from the Lali the Assistant will see them made available in a future patch.
  • Thanks to recent alchemical breakthroughs from the Kirin Tor, crafting decor with Legion Alchemy (including the Arcan’dor Cutting Fountain) no longer requires the Dalaran Alchemy Station.
  • In a miracle of gnomish engineering, every Gnomeregan Recyli-Kiln (curiously obtained from Mechagon, not Gnomeregan) has suddenly started functioning properly as decor. It can be placed inside or outside of player houses and costs 5 decor placement points.

Items

  • Fixed an issue where Ethereal Voidsplinters could not be obtained from Bountiful Delves, and their drop rate from most sources has been increased.
  • Fixed an issue where Sanctified Priory Wall could not be purchased from Fixer So’tho or Fixer So’kir.

Legion Remix

  • Raid bosses on all difficulties now drop a full Minor Bronze Cache (contains 2500 Bronze) in place of their previous Bronze offerings.
  • Lost Legion Infernals now drop a Greater Bronze Cache (12500 Bronze) once per day, per account.
  • Infinite Research quests now also grant a Lesser Bronze Cache (4000 Bronze).
  • Legion Assaults now grant a Bronze Cache (7500 Bronze).
  • Emissary Quests now grant a Greater Bronze Cache (+8500 Bronze) (was a Lesser Bronze Cache).
  • World Bosses now drop a Lesser Bronze Cache (4000 Bronze).
  • Legion Assaults now cycle approximately 375% faster.
  • Lidamorrutu at the Infinite Bazaar now correctly engages in dialogue with the player as intended.

Quests

  • “The Big Dig: Traitor’s Rest” should once again reward Mysterious Fragments for the first-time completion per week.
  • Players who abandoned the “Behind Enemy Lines” raid renown quests for Manaforge Omega will find them again available from Zo’turu.
  • Merrix is now always visible for players who are on the quest “Return to Dornogal”.
  • Fixed an issue where several quests in Zaralek caverns would not scale beyond level 70.
  • Merithra is now present at the Seat of the Aspects for players ready to turn in “Raise the Alarm”.
  • Resolved an issue sometimes causing “Dangerous Skies” to prevent skyriding during Recap quests in the Isle of Dorn.

December 10, 2025

Dungeons and Raids

  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Resolved an issue where Raszageth was not spawning in the correct location.

Housing

  • House Level 3 now awards an exterior decor placement budget of +50 items, in addition to existing rewards.
  • Margrave’s Stitched Leather Rug can now be properly crafted with reagents obtainable from Shadowlands Skinning.
  • The Dornic Mine and Cheese Platter, the Dornic Sliced Mineloaf, and the Earthen Hospitality Cheese-Like Brick recipes are now properly Warbound and the crafted items they make are now properly unbound and can be bought and sold on the Auction House.
  • MOTHER’s helpfulness knows no bounds. She now sells additional copies of the decor rewards from A Farewell to Arms, MOTHER’s Titanic Brazier and N’Zoth’s Captured Eye, for 10,000 Echoes of Ny’alotha each (a cost reduction of 90%).
  • Class Order Campaign achievements now retroactively award decor. Players who previously purchased one or more additional copies of decor earned from these achievements will see this retroactive award made available with the release of the Midnight pre-expansion update.
  • Players should now be correctly awarded the Drained Dark Heart of Galakrond for completing the achievement Worldsoul-Searching. Additional copies of this decor will become available for in-game purchase from a vendor with the release of the Midnight pre-patch.
  • Fixed an issue preventing some players from purchasing additional copies of Corruption Pit decor.
  • The Fortified Alliance Banner may no longer be placed in your house exterior.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue where “The War Within Recap” did not have a waypoint for Valdrakken.

December 5, 2025

Dungeons

  • Sanguine Depths
    • Resolved a Timewalking issue that could cause General Kaal to fail to appear if the gauntlet event was progressed through too quickly.
  • Spires of Ascension
    • Resolved a Timewalking issue with Devos, Paragon of Doubt where Archon’s Spear sometimes could not be aimed properly.

Horrific Visions

  • Players can once more share their sanity to revive downed party members.
    • Syncronized Mind Stabilizer will allow for the first revive this way to be free.

Housing

  • The Battle for Azeroth achievement A Farewell to Arms now properly, retroactively rewards both the MOTHER’s Titanic Brazier and N’Zoth’s Captured Eye décor to players who have earned that achievement. Players who have already purchased additional copies of these décor from MOTHER in the Chamber of Heart will see them made available in a future patch.
  • Tocho and Lyssabel should no longer offer neighborhood renaming outside their respective neighborhoods, and players should no longer have the option to rename their neighborhood while in a public one.
  • Traveling Book Shop owners Lonalo and Solelo should now have books for sale more frequently, having learned the art of supply and demand.
  • Sizzling Cinderpollen will drop once again if you have already purchased the Soaring Meaderbee mount. The drop rate for Sizzling Cinderpollen has been significantly increased.
  • Players can now use the “Teleport to Plot” button while shape-shifted.

Player versus Player

  • Solo Shuffle
    • Resolved an issue that could cause Dampening to increase faster than intended.

Quests

  • Alleria Windrunner once again offers the quest “Manaforge Omega: Dimensius Looms”.
  • Fixed an issue where players could not access Dragonflight Story Mode raids above level 70.
  • Fixed an issue that caused a herd of windsteeds to go missing on the Wandering Isle.

World

  • The portals to Valdrakken in Orgrimmar and Stormwind can now be used by new players on the Azure Span campaign.
  • Added portals to Stormwind and Orgrimmar in the Xal’atath Lorewalking Ny’alotha area.
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Blizzard also fixed damage of Brann with hats and Delve abilities….makes me cry, its been fun.

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How about that broken catch up mechanic where Merrix is missing? That’d be nice to fix.

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Can y’all make fixing timerunner conversion your top priority instead of just giving up on it and making everyone wait forty gd days to play their characters? Thanks.

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I had to use task manager on my computer because I couldn’t exit the game from in game. Also, I was trying to exit because I couldn’t play because of a graphics glitch. I was on my way to a Mythic +13 Dawnbreaker in War Within, and the world became all pink and with various shades of pink and purple and no details could be seen, I was trying to land because I wasn’t too far from the ground and it wouldn’t… it just kept flying (with my dragon) towards the “ground” and kept going until I died. Then after I task managered my exit and came back, my character was faaarrrrr under water and only had about half breath left. I swam upwards straight up and kept going and barely made it, thanks to healing from a skill and two healing potions. Then, when I was on the surface again I summoned my dragon but it wouldn’t let me fly, and yes, I was in a flying zone. This is unacceptable and you need to fix this.

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To be entirely fair, I have to use task manager to close WoW even when the button ‘exits’ the game, so that doesn’t change anything. /sarcasm

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The state of WoW, GMs no where to be seen, people spamming and selling gold, mounts. I got my account banned in 06 because you thought I bought gold. Now it’s a free for all with no GMs anywhere. Then we have the BMAH. The BMAH is the biggest garbage system created. Makes absolutely no sense. If one person bids on an item and there aren’t bids for 10 hours, speed that up. Why give people a chance to go buy gold off some shady website to outbid someone who actually made there gold the hard way. It’s absolute BS. Wow caters now to gold farmers and people selling stuff while telling us it’s illegal. How bout you GMs step it up for once and do what you did in 04-08. Bring the ban hammer back out. Start IP banning make it fair again. No one earns anything anymore because they all buy gold.

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so no hotfix to classic server for improved mark of the wild? does not give the bonuses and already put multiple tickets in.

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Does Blizzard wan’t to explain the wildfire bomb stealth nerf? How do my bombs go from critting 8mil+ in PvP to 3mil

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Is the decision to move the alliance flags inside due to other players abusing them and possibly causing major lag with moving objects outside?

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I don’t see a reason for this change, unless it’s because there are more players with the Alliance banner versus the Horde one.

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Having issues that seem like my internet is down, but able to browse on desktop and no issues with cpu usage. I try to exit and it does nothing, so have to end task via task manager. When I relaunch…super annoying

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December 16, 2025

Brawler’s Guild

  • Blackmange health significantly decreased.
  • Ogrewatch Hudson’s Tesla Cannon damage and cast frequency decreased and cast time increased.
  • Blat frequency of Split decreased and damage dealt by summons decreased.
  • G.G. Engineering damage of Gnomish Death Ray decreased, health of Shield Generators decreased, and health of Bo Bobble and Max Megablast decreased.

Classes

  • Rogue
    • Fixed an issue causing Shadowstep to port Rogues to the other side of a pillar when cast on a target next to it.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Eco-dome Al’dani
    • Addressed an issue where multiple Fates could be struck by the Eternal Weave at one time.
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Fixed an issue where running the Story Mode version of Aberrus would disable trash spawns within other versions of the raid.

Housing

  • The Lorewalking: The Elves of Quel’thalas achievement now properly, retroactively awards the Tome of Silvermoon Intrigue. Players who have already purchased additional copies of this decor from the Lali the Assistant will see them made available in a future patch.
  • Thanks to recent alchemical breakthroughs from the Kirin Tor, crafting decor with Legion Alchemy (including the Arcan’dor Cutting Fountain) no longer requires the Dalaran Alchemy Station.
  • In a miracle of gnomish engineering, every Gnomeregan Recyli-Kiln (curiously obtained from Mechagon, not Gnomeregan) has suddenly started functioning properly as decor. It can be placed inside or outside of player houses and costs 5 decor placement points.

Items

  • Fixed an issue where Ethereal Voidsplinters could not be obtained from Bountiful Delves, and their drop rate from most sources has been increased.
  • Fixed an issue where Sanctified Priory Wall could not be purchased from Fixer So’tho or Fixer So’kir.

Legion Remix

  • Raid bosses on all difficulties now drop a full Minor Bronze Cache (contains 2500 Bronze) in place of their previous Bronze offerings.
  • Lost Legion Infernals now drop a Greater Bronze Cache (12500 Bronze) once per day, per account.
  • Infinite Research quests now also grant a Lesser Bronze Cache (4000 Bronze).
  • Legion Assaults now grant a Bronze Cache (7500 Bronze).
  • Emissary Quests now grant a Greater Bronze Cache (+8500 Bronze) (was a Lesser Bronze Cache).
  • World Bosses now drop a Lesser Bronze Cache (4000 Bronze).
  • Legion Assaults now cycle approximately 375% faster.
  • Lidamorrutu at the Infinite Bazaar now correctly engages in dialogue with the player as intended.

Quests

  • “The Big Dig: Traitor’s Rest” should once again reward Mysterious Fragments for the first-time completion per week.
  • Players who abandoned the “Behind Enemy Lines” raid renown quests for Manaforge Omega will find them again available from Zo’turu.
  • Merrix is now always visible for players who are on the quest “Return to Dornogal”.
  • Fixed an issue where several quests in Zaralek caverns would not scale beyond level 70.
  • Merithra is now present at the Seat of the Aspects for players ready to turn in “Raise the Alarm”.
  • Resolved an issue sometimes causing “Dangerous Skies” to prevent skyriding during Recap quests in the Isle of Dorn.

Negative. Nothing is still spawning.

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Confirm the fix doesn’t work for Aberrus, the raid is still majorly buggued any difficulties.

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Can you re-enable brawlers guild shirts to drop?! Why don’t they drop from random fights when using random rights item???

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Why would they scale beyond level 70? It’s a level 70 zone, the quests and the mobs were never supposed to be level 80, what are y’all even doing???

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Why even waste time on this? Those caverns are part of DF and are not current content. You’re pulling the same BS you did with BFA content when SL launched, which no one liked. Hitting max level in a new expansion and going back to an older one to curb stomp elites is a cathartic experience for players. Been that way since Wrath when lvl 80’s payed the fel reaver a visit.

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Can I ask why are they supposed to scale past level 70 in the first place? Did you take into account there is a weekly event down there this will make that event much harder to do since 99% of the player base has moved on from it?

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