Hotfixes
August 14, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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.
August 4, 2025
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- The Mushroom Chair toy is no longer usable in Battlegrounds, Dungeons, or Raids.
- Fishing pools now correctly spawn in Stranglethorn Vale.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some players from being able to see the portal to Stormstout Brewery.
- Classes
- Death Knight
- Players who swap from Frost specialization to a different specialization and use Blood Tap on their Blood Runes will no longer erroneously convert their Blood Runes into permanent Death Runes.
- Monk
- When Brewmaster Monks use Provoke to taunt a target away from a currently active tank that has attack power active from Vengeance, they are now correctly granted 50% of the previous tank’s Vengeance value.
- Death Knight
- Pet Battles
- Hoplet no longer has Moon Tears as both of its 2nd slot options; one is replaced by Moon Dance.
- Player versus Player
- The Flag will now cap immediately in Twin Peaks when returned to the base if there is a player standing on the cap point. Previously players had to move off of the capture point and then back. This mirrors how it occurs in Warsong Gulch.
- Priest
- Battleground flags are now immediately dropped when the priest transforms into a Spirit of Redemption, as intended.
- Priests can no longer cast Leap of Faith and pull flag carriers up to the graveyard in Twin Peaks.
- Quests
- Resolved inconsistencies with the Elder Charms of Good Fortune quest.
- Transmog
- The Valorous Dreadnaught set now has the correct appearance on all pieces.
July 30, 2025
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- The achievement Where’s my Air Support? is now awarded as intended.
- Classes
- Fixed a bug that caused macros for some spells, such as Charge, Jab, and Sprouting Mushrooms to incorrectly return the “Spell not Learned” error.
- Druid
- Guardian
- Rejuvenation no longer resets the swing timer while Heart of the Wild is active.
- Heart of the Wild’s cooldown refund now only triggers if the player is shifting into Bear Form.
- Developers’ notes: This cooldown refund for Guardian druids will now only trigger if the player has been out of Bear Form for at least 3 seconds, and will not trigger if the player has not shifted into Bear Form at all since logging in.
- Guardian
- Hunter
- The pet ability Growl will now automatically turn off autocasting when entering a dungeon or raid.
- Mage
- Ring of Frosts cast through Presence of Mind now correctly has a 2 second arming time, which is correctly reduced by Haste.
- Monk
- Chi Torpedo and Roll can no longer be stopped by a cancelaura macro.
- Rogue
- Vanishing with Subterfuge talented and then picking up the Shadow Sight debuff in Arena now causes the Rogue to exit stealth.
- Currencies
- The Honor Quartermasters Lok’nor Bloodfist and Hayden Christophen now offer players Motes of Harmony for 400 Honor.
- The Honor Quartermasters in Pandaria now offer the Honor to Justice conversion.
- The Justice Quartermaster Lo ping now offer players Motes of Harmony for 600 Justice Points.
- The Justice Quartermaster in Pandaria now offers the Justice to Honor conversion.
- Developers’ notes: We feel that it was too disruptive for players to return to Cataclysm vendors to do Honor conversions, and we really like keeping Justice Points relevant for longer.
- Items
- Golad, Twilight of Aspects and Tiriosh, Nightmare of Ages (the Fangs of the Father daggers) no longer scale up in power for players above level 85.
- Chaotic Skyfire Diamond no longer scales up in power for players above level 70.
- Powerful Earthsiege Diamond no longer scales up in power for players above level 80.
- The Cracked Talisman can no longer be used in combat until the release of the Siege of Orgrimmar content.
- Horde players can now correctly summon the Chi-ji Kite and Yu’lon Kites from Inscription.
- Quests
- Horde players can now correctly use the Shan’ze Dao and Shado-Pan Garrison portals after completing the quest “Through the Portal”.
July 28, 2025
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- You can now board another player’s Grand Expedition Yak if you’re grouped with them and a seat is open.
- Mounts that previously could not be used as ground-mounts while inside of areas that do not allow flying (such as Cloud-Serpents or Cataclysm Gladiator Mounts) can now be used as ground-mounts.
- Fixed a bug causing Daily Quests to sometimes misbehave on different layers.
- The achievement Eternally In The Vale is now correctly granted to players who have completed its criteria.
- Pet Battles
- Fabled Pandaren Pet Supplies now provide rewards.
- Cypress's stats and abilities have been changed.
- Health and Speed increased.
- Strength decreased.
- Life Sap damage reduced by 10%.
- Barkskin replaced by Roar.
- Professions
- Fixed a bug causing players to get a blank window when fishing.
- Fixed a bug that resulted in players being able to learn multiple Alchemy specializations.
- Players who have misplaced Recipe: Banana Infused Rum or Tablet of Ren Yun can now purchase a replacement from Sungshin Ironpaw in Halfhill.
July 24, 2025
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- Cranedancer’s Staff is now correctly considered a caster weapon.
- Crazy for Cats now requires 15 cats (was 20).
- Spawn time for Shao-Tien Surveyor reduced for the daily quest.
- Rivett Clutchpop should now remain in the Strongarm Airship if “Instant Messaging” is completed before “They’re So Thorny!” is turned in.
- Wintergrasp quests now reward the correct amounts of Honor.
- Recipe: Venerable Potion of Invisibility can now be learned, as intended.
- Silvershard Envoy now invites Horde players to fight for the Horde (was incorrectly the Alliance).
- “Where are My Reinforcements?” now progresses properly.
- Vor’thik Dreadshapers and Vor’thik Fear-Shapers are no longer stuck inside buildings and evading.
- Players can once again convert 375 Honor points into 250 Justice points or 375 Justice points into 250 Honor points.
- Developers’ notes: These exchange rates were adjusted in the 5.4 patch of original MoP, and we may revisit them again in a future patch of MoP Classic.
- Archaeology
- Mantid archaeology can now be solved.
- Developers’ notes: While these were not originally available until the 5.2 patch, we feel that it’s appropriate to get started on them now, rather than waiting.
- Mantid archaeology can now be solved.
- Dungeons and Raids
- Dungeon Finder: Mists of Pandaria Normal should once again exist as an option for level 90 characters.
- Scholomance
- Dark Blaze should no longer disappear, and the spell visual has been improved to be clearer.
- Serpentshrine Cavern
- Lady Vashj’s Tainted Core no longer roots level 90 players.
- Pet Battles
- Arcane Eye spawn rate slightly increased.
July 22, 2025
Mists of Pandaria Classic
- Spawn rates and item drop rates for “They’re So Thorny!” and “Forensic Science” have been significantly increased.
- The Season 12 PvP Honor Vendor is now available so that players can spend Honor.
- Honor Vendors correctly have their PvP weapon lists attached.
- All Conquest Weapons correctly require a Season total for Conquest earned.
- Motes of Harmony are not available through Honor or Conquest until a future patch.
- Developers’ notes: In original Mists of Pandaria, PvP gear was not added to the Honor Vendors until Arena Season 12 started. In MoP Classic, we’ve added PvP gear to these vendors early, so you can use Honor to buy PvP gear in the offseason/preseason, ahead of next week’s Arena Season start. Dreadful Gladiator Honor PvP Weapons were never available during Season 12 in original Mists of Pandaria. We feel these weapons are a great steppingstone for PvP activities.
- Player flight speed is no longer reduced in Netherwing Ledge.
- The Kor’kron War Wolf will now correctly appear as the intended color in the Mount Journal.
- Dungeons
- Jade Temple
- Fixed an issue that would occasionally cause Wise Mari’s bubble to fail to burst after Corrupted Living Water was killed.
- Temple of the Jade Serpent will now correctly grant the achievement for completing it on Heroic.
- Jade Temple