The War Within Hotfixes - September 9

September 9, 2025

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • All damage increased by 6%.
    • Boneshield Armor increased by 10%.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • All damage increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.
    • Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece: Starfire damage increased by 15% (was 20%). Does not affect PvP combat.
    • Elune’s Chosen: Boundless Moonlight’s Fury of Elune flash damage reduced by 10%. Does not affect PvP combat.
    • Elune’s Chosen: Minor Moon damage reduced by 10%. Does not affect PvP combat.
• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Command Squadron (Scalecommander 2-piece) Disintegrate damage increased by 10%.
    • Scalecommander: Bombardments damage increased by 25%.
  • Devastation
    • Deep Breath damage increased by 20%. Does not affect PvP combat.
    • Command Squadron (Scalecommander 2-piece) Disintegrate damage increased by 10%.
    • Scalecommander: Bombardments damage increased by 25%.
  • Preservation
    • Deep Breath damage increased by 20%. Does not affect PvP combat.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • All damage dealt increased by 4%. Does not affect PvP combat.
    • Deathblow updated. Kill Command’s chance to grant Deathblow to Beast Mastery Hunter increased to 20% (was 10%).
    • Dark Ranger: The Bell Tolls damage bonus increased to 8% (was 6%).
    • Dark Ranger: Phantom Pain damage share increased to 80% (was 30%).
    • Dark Ranger: Bleak Powder damage increased by 25%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue causing Withering Fire’s arrow barrage to fire an inconsistent number of arrows.
    • Withering Fire will now fire at your primary target when it has no nearby enemies to apply Black Arrow’s periodic effect to.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Master of Harmony: Fixed an issue that caused Ancient Teachings healing to not be increased by Coalescence.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Resolved an issue causing Divine Toll to be cast twice.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Heal healing increased by 12%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Halo healing increased by 40%.
    • Archon: Empowered Surges increases the healing done by Flash Heals affected by Surge of Light by 45% (was 30%).
  • Discipline
    • Atonement heals for 33% of damage done (was 28%).
    • Atonement healing is increased by 100% outside of raid (was 125%).

Delves

• Fixed a bug causing Twisted Mana Sprite’s overheal absorb values to be much higher than intended.
• Mercenary Aquisitionist
  • Borrow Power damage reduced by 17%.
  • Mercenary Acquisitionist will no longer cast Borrow Power while the existing shield is still active.
  • Borrow Power damage increase reduced by 25%.
• Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
  • Nether Rift damage reduced for larger groups on all difficulties.
  • Nexus Daggers now spawns 3 additional phantoms (was 4), and time between phantoms increased to 1 second (was 0.75 seconds) on [?] difficulty.
  • Dark Massacre time between phantoms increased to 2 seconds (was 1.5 seconds) on [?] difficulty.

Dungeons and Raids

• Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
  • Trilling Attendant
    • Resonant Barrage initial cooldown increased, ability cooldown increased by 50%, and periodic damage reduced by 12.5%.
  • Engorged Crawler
    • Venomous Spit ability cooldown increased by 40%.
  • Avanoxx
    • Starved Crawler health reduced by 20%.
    • Gossamer Onslaught periodic damage reduced by 17%.
  • Anub’zekt
    • Addressed an issue with Eye of the Swarm, where the rim visual is larger than the actual safe zone.
• Halls of Atonement
  • Reduced the numbers of Depraved Obliterators and Depraved Collectors near each Shard of Halkias.
  • Reduced the density of creatures in the courtyard before Echelon.
  • Enemy forces requirement reduced by 10%.
  • Stoneborn Slasher enemy force value increased by 50%.
• Manaforge Omega
  • Fixed an issue where the teleport option to Central Operations became unavailable if players activated the raid skip after already unlocking this teleport location.
  • Forgeweaver Araz
    • Arcane Obliteration will now still cast even if the target dies early.
    • Arcane Siphon damage reduced in Mythic difficulty.
    • Arcane Harvest and Silencing Tempest targeting updated to de-prioritize targeting tanks and to reduce the possibility of targets being selected by both of these abilities at once.
  • Nexus-King Salhadaar
    • Stage One: Oath-Breakers
      • Command: Besiege now activates 9 Fractal Images (was 12), and time between each activation increased to 1.375 seconds (was 1 second) on Mythic difficulty.
      • Banishment damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Invoke the Oath damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Intermission One: Nexus Descent
      • Manaforged Titan health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Nexus-Prince health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Shadowguard Reaper health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Dimensius
    • Cosmic Radiation damage reduced by 10% in Stage One and Stage Three on Mythic difficulty.
    • Fission damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Living Mass, Voidwarden, and Nullbinder health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Crushing Gravity damage reduced by 25% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Reverse Gravity now targets 4 players (was 6) on Mythic difficulty.
    • Gamma Burst pushback strength reduced on Mythic difficulty.
    • Black Hole radius reduced on Mythic difficulty.
    • Interval between Shadowquake impacts slightly increased on Mythic difficulty.

Items and Rewards

• Timewalking Stonecore items should now drop at the correct item level when obtained at max level.
• Nexus-King’s Command’s spell visual orb from Oath-Bound is now hidden while out of combat.
• The Manaforge Vandals raid Renown “Attuned to the Aether” effect at rank 6 is now limited to weapon enchantments only and also increases the power of Death Knight Runeforge effects by 10%. The effect tooltip will temporarily be incorrect, until it is updated with a future hotfix.
• Fixed an issue where the Manaforge Vandals ‘view Renown’ button would remain locked after completing “Meet the Vandals”.

Player versus Player

• Stamina granted from the PvP trinket Set Bonus increased by 5% for all roles.
• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Shattering Blade damage decreased by 50% in PvP combat.
    • Frost Fever damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • All damage increased by 4% in PvP combat.
  • Balance
    • Keeper of the Grove: Dream Burst damage reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
    • Elune’s Chosen: Lunar Calling increases Starfire damage to its primary target by 80% was 128%) in PvP combat.
• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Chrono Flame’s maximum damage increased from the 4-piece class set reduced to 325% spell power in PvP combat (was 450% spell power).
• Hunter
  • Survival
    • Flanking Strike damage decreased by 20% in PvP combat.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Arcane Harmony now increases the damage of Arcane Barrage by 2% per stack in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Intuition now increases the damage of Arcane Barrage by 20% in PvP combat (was 50%).
    • Improved Touch of the Magi now causes Nether Flux to increase the damage of your next spell by an additional 10% (was 25%).
    • All damage increased by 6% in PvP combat.
    • Sunfury: Glorious Incandescence now increases the damage of Arcane Barrage by 10% in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Sunfury: Meteorites damage from Arcane Phoenix reduced by 38% in PvP combat.
    • Sunfury: Greater Pyroblast damage from Arcane Phoenix reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
    • Sunfury: Arcane Surge damage from Arcane Phoenix reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
  • Frost
    • Glacial Spike damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.
    • All damage increased by 5% in PvP combat.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Rushing Wind Kick damage decreased by 50% in PvP combat.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Hammer of Light damage decreased by 15% in PvP combat.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Power Word: Shield absorption increased by 20% in PvP combat.
    • Atonement healing increased by 12.5% in PvP combat.
• Rogue
  • Subtlety
    • Shadow Blades now causes attacks to deal 5% additional damage as Shadow in PvP combat (was 10%).
    • All damage increased by 6% in PvP combat.
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Earth Shock damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Stormbringer: Tempest damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • All damage increased by 4% in PvP combat.