World of Warcraft: Midnight Hotfixes - April 27, 2026

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Hotfixes

April 27, 2026

Classes

  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Fixed an issue that allowed Havoc to benefit from Vengeance’s Annihilator talent Meteoric Rise when using Collective Anguish in specific conditions.
    • Vengeance
      • Annihilator: Fixed an issue that caused Celestial Echoes to grant 5 additional Fury per Fracture instead of the intended 3 Fury.
  • Evoker
    • Fixed an issue where Renewing Blaze would not always trigger its healing effect from certain attacks.
  • Mage
    • Frost
      • Fixed an issue causing Hand of Frost Rank 2 to not provide the correct percent chance increase per stack of Shatter.
      • Fixed an issue that could cause Flurry to not benefit fully from the damage bonus of Brain Freeze, when a non-Brain-Freeze-affected Flurry was cast immediately afterwards.
      • Fixed an issue causing some Tracked Buffs for Frostfire to not display correctly.
      • Casting Mass Invisibility now correctly interrupts the Mage’s current spell.
  • Monk
    • Windwalker
      • Touch of Karma now shows as a large defensive buff on raid frames.
  • Rogue
    • Trickster: Cloud Cover’s visual effect is now only visible to the caster in all circumstances.
    • Assassination
      • Separated the tracked buffs for Implacable into two elements so they can be tracked separately with the Cooldown Manager.
        • Duration of increased Energy generation.
        • Amount of Energy regeneration you’ll receive when Envenom expires.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Shared Agony would not function after casting a Curse.
      • Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Xalan’s Cruelty would not increase the critical strike chance of Wrath of Nathreza.
      • Fixed an issue where periodic damage caused by Malefic Grasp is unaffected by Death’s Embrace.
      • Soul Harvester: Fixed an issue where consuming Nightfall with Malefic Grasp would not activate Wicked Reaping.
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where Fel Armaments would reduce the cooldown of Felstorm by 20 seconds, rather than the intended 10 seconds.

Delves

  • The Darkway
    • Corrupted Leyline will no longer sometimes continue to cast Detected! after it’s out of range.
  • The Shadow Enclave
    • Fixed an issue where characters could lose the ability to strafe after picking up a mirror.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed a Great Vault display bug where the World Row indicated an item level of 272 for the Tier 5 Ritual Site, instead of the intended 269 item level.

Player versus Player

  • Demon Hunter
    • Fixed an issue that prevented the target throw effect from being available while using Illidan’s Grasp.
    • Havoc
      • Fixed an issue that caused Consume Magic to remove an additional Magic effect from the primary target when the Blood Moon PvP Talent was selected.

Quests

  • Resolved an issue where players who completed the quest “The Legend of Aln’Sharan” could not gather them on alts without completing the quest first.

April 24, 2026

Achievements

  • Midnight Keystone Myth - Season One is now available to players who attained a Mythic+ Rating of at least 3400 during Midnight Season 1.

Characters

  • Pandaren characters who boost during the intro sequence will now be able to port to their houses.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Unholy
      • Festering Scythe is now an aura on the player, resolving issues that occur when extending the duration of plagues.
        • Developers’ notes: The underlying issue here was proving to be problematic for a number of reasons and we felt like this would be the safest approach for now.
      • Resolved an issue causing Magus of the Dead to not take action immediately on spawn.
      • Resolved an issue causing Forbidden Knowledge Rank 4 to activate less than stated.
      • Resolved an issue causing Unholy Devotion to grant Haste in addition to attack speed and energy regeneration.
      • Disease Cloud is now cast by the Abomination, resolving issues such as it not interacting with pet scaling talents.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Devourer
      • Fixed an issue causing the Single-Button Assistant and Assisted Highlight to not recommend Collapsing Star outside of melee range.
    • Vengeance
      • Fixed an issue that caused Metamorphosis to be put on cooldown when Last Resort’s effect triggered.
  • Hunter
    • Marksmanship
      • Corrected an issue where Unbreakable Bond could give the damage reduction effect to the hunter rather than their pet.
  • Mage
    • Frost
      • Fixed an issue causing Hand of Frost (Rank 2) to not provide the correct percent chance increase per stack of Shatter.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Fixed an issue that caused Holy Armaments to significantly impact framerates.
  • Priest
    • Shadow
      • Voidweaver: Fixed an issue causing Overwhelming Shadows to increase the damage of Mind Blast.
  • Rogue
    • Trickster: Fixed an issue that caused Cloud Cover’s effect to cost 30 Energy to activate.
    • Trickster: Cloud Cover’s visual effect is now only visible to the caster in all circumstances.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Jinx would not function if Foul Mouth was not talented.
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where Demonic Gateway would benefit Hellbent Commander.

Delves

  • Valeera is no longer unwilling to attack Poison Dart Frog or Giant Cursed Bullfrog.
  • Atal’Aman
    • Adjusted the placement of several out-of-range Sanctified Banners in two story variants.
  • The Darkway
    • The Corrupted Leyline will no longer sometimes continue to cast Detected! after being out of its range.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Maisara Caverns
    • Addressed an issue where players could remain in combat after defeating Vordaza.

Housing

  • Decorative Dornogal Opals (small, medium and large) are now available for purchase from the Disguised Decor Duel Vendor in Silvermoon.

Player versus Player

  • Hunter
    • Marksmanship
      • Precise Shots now benefits Kill Shot and Black Arrow at 50% effectiveness in PvP combat.
      • Black Arrow damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
      • All damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
        • Developers’ notes: Several talent changes in 12.0.5 led to Marksmanship overperforming in PvP. These updates target changes to Black Arrow and their overall damage to account for the new interactions and reduce their effectiveness at both burst damage and overall pressure.
  • Mage
    • Mass Invisibility will no longer target players carrying the Deephaul Crystal in Deephaul Ravine.
  • Priest
    • Fixed an issue causing Cyclone to be able to be applied while a Priest has Psychic Shroud active.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue where some Alliance players were unable to see the “Heavy Anchor” for “The Fragrance of the Dunes” quest.
  • Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to turn in Nebulous Voidcores to Decimus while on the quest “Artifice of Aggression”.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Lorna Crowley to phase out when engaged for the Arcantina quest “A Generational Moment”.

April 23, 2026

Classes

  • Hunter
    • Marksmanship
      • Corrected an issue where players could gain double the benefit of Pathfinding or Endurance Training when using the Unbreakable Bond talent in combination with the Cunning or Tenacious talents.
      • Cunning or Tenacity pets should no longer sometimes lose their pet passive bonuses of Endurance Training and Pathfinding when changing between the Cunning and Tenacity talent choice node.
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where Frequent Traveler would not function when using another Warlock’s Demonic Gateway.
    • Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Abyssal Dominion would not match the duration of Demonic Tyrant with Reign of Tyranny talented.
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Blight of Weakness and Tongues would not properly display on the Cooldown Manager.
    • Destruction
      • Removed several spells from the Cooldown Manager, as they are no longer present in-game.

Décor Duel

  • Hiding players can no longer go near the Seeker’s waiting room.
    • Developers’ notes: There was an emergent tactic where hiders would place a bunch of traps near the seekers’ entrance, preventing them from leaving.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Magisters’ Terrace
    • Addressed an issue where Degentrius’ Devouring Entropy could damage players who were immune to it.
  • Windrunner Spire
    • Addressed an issue where Commander Kroluk could melee after finishing casting Bladestorm.
  • The Voidspire
    • Crown of the Cosmos
      • Gravity Collapse damage reduced by 10%.

April 22, 2026

Characters

  • Fixed a bug that could cause some Night Elf characters to be missing the intended Linen Blindfold option they previously chose.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Resolved an issue causing the Commander of the Dead damage increase aura to be applied to Death Knights.
  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an issue where Dream Breath was not being stored in Stasis.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Fixed a bug that could cause Holy Paladins to do less damage than intended.
  • Rogue
    • Fixed a bug that prevented the expected audio from playing when a Rogue enters stealth.

Decor Duel

  • Fixed a bug that could prevent Decor Duel participants from receiving base Illusionary Coin rewards by incorrectly evaluating them to be AFK.
  • Humanoid tracking abilities no longer reveal players in Decor Duel.
  • Achievements earned in Decor Duel are now account-wide, as intended.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Addressed an issue where Lindormi’s Guidance could be applied to players outside of Mythic+ dungeons.
  • March on Quel’Danas
    • Midnight Falls
      • Resolved issues with Torchbearer failing to prevent players from receiving applications of Midnight or failing to remove applications of Midnight.

Items

  • Addressed an issue preventing sockets from being added to Champion items obtained from Midnight Renown vendors.
  • Fixed an issue where acquiring a Nebulous Voidcore with Thalassian Tokens of Merit would cause Decimus to only grant one of his two weekly Nebulous Voidcores upon quest turn-in.
    • Developers’ notes: Players who have two Nebulous Voidcores in their currency window while showing “Season Maximum: 1/2” can now safely complete any of Decimus’s quests again to receive their missing Nebulous Voidcore.

Professions

  • Adjusted the cost of Thalassian Competitor’s Chain Tunic to 5 Heraldry (was 4) to be in line with other crafted PvP chestpieces.

Quests

  • The Ancient Visionstone can once again be interacted with for the Harandar repeatable legends quests “The Story of the Echoless Flame” and “The Story of Russula’s Outreach”.
  • Fixed a bug where the daily quest “Ephemeral Masquerade” appeared to be a low-level quest, rather than the intended blue exclamation point.
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Thank for the quick fix Blizzard. You genuinely do so much for this game. It’s been both sad and disgusting to see so many ungrateful players cry and moan like newborns over unintended and hard to catch errors.

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You know we pay for the game, right? Since when did expecting the company you pay to ship something qualified become “moaning like newborns”?

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When are these changes going live? The commander bug for sure is still being seen in parses.

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You’re part of the problem kiddo.

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Actually, nvm. This is the hotfix they did about an hr after patch that literally broke UH DK across the board. This is why commander does not apply to pets anymore, we also still have the DP bug where our dots skip or don’t tic at all when we use a skill that extends them or we have mograine out.

So, we were extremely quick to nerf and break us where we literally parse at the bottom next to arcane mage, but then refuse to take responsibility for breaking everything around it and getting that fixed as a priority. My god this company has become trash when it comes to QA and break/fix.

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Unholy dk is still broken you tool

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It’s so psychotic to see how ungrateful the player base is.

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Have you even played your class? How is it broken?

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Is it ungrateful to ask for a quality product you pay for? Not to mention many bugs get reported on the ptr and still make it to live so that’s not fixing things quickly…

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I don’t mind bugs but I do have expectations for things to not be absolutely game breaking when a patch is released and I pay a monthly sub like it’s Netflix

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Because the “bug” they fixed. Created another game breaking bug where our commander does not apply the dmg amps to any of our pets. We also have another bug on our plagues where it will either skip or stop doing dmg (thus not proc’ing our abilities) for long stretches of time.

This has resulted in something like a 20-25% net loss in dmg for us. We are literally parsing at the very bottom with only arcane mages being lower than us. That is what I would consider broken.

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I find it hard to believe all the bugs caused from the patch update have been fixed,nothing mentioned about bonus rolls or pvp…

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It 100% is.

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Then YOU are part of the problem. Stop being an apologist for bad quality.

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It is incredible to me that you are attempting to defend this and going so far as to call others “newborns” for having REAL issues and not being content to just hope and pray Blizzard fixes it without them saying something.

So many aspects of the game, from classes to features (both new and old) have awful bugs associated with them. The strafing bug from Shadow Enclave (did not exist before 12.0.5), the aura bugs in VS and MoQ, the continuous LUA errors even without any addons enabled, the list goes on.

Hell, you can’t even trust some of the tooltips in game. The Great Vault’s “World” row, when incomplete, will say that completing the slots on Tier 13 (Tier 5 Ritual Sites) will upgrade the slot to 272 ilvl. What ilvl is it when you complete it? 269.

It’s just comical at this point. A multi-billion dollar company’s largest and likely most lucrative product, and they can’t do BASIC final checks to make sure everything works. 8 hours of server maintenance, and for what? A buggy mess.

They will NEVER improve if people like you sit here and defend their every action. You are paying them, not the other way around. Have more respect for your own time and money.

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Nothing about OOB? Right.

At least they fixed the tracking ability. But the mode is DoA still because the devs did not heed my warnings, nor take heed for the dozens of other Prop Hunt modes, and stress test the map to prevent OOB spots.

Also nothing about the delve keybind thing. Thats great. And the raid bug is a welcome fix.

But I am still getting LUA errors out of the wzooo. I want it explained to me what Secret Value needed to be changed, what exploit that happened or unintended function, of PLUMBERS LOOT BOX.

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can you fix debuffs on raidframes showing like infinite debuffs on 1 row it’s covering buffs i physically can’t see my hots/buffs unless i lower icon size it’s disgusting fix ur awful game

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Man, this has to be so embarrassing for blizzard. Maybe we’ve learned our lesson about putting out AI slop without QA? Doubtful.

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