World of Warcraft: Midnight Hotfixes

By Kaivax
Published 7 days ago

Blue Posts are official communications from Blizzard Entertainment that provide updates, developer insights, and gameplay changes for World of Warcraft.

This post was originally published on the Battle.net forums by Kaivax from the Community Manager team.

May 6, 2026

Abyss Anglers

Ka’bubb the capybara will now join your Abyss Anglers dives once you’ve earned the Certified Depthdiver
Solved an issue in Abyss Anglers where some players couldn’t complete the Achievement Depth Grease, even if they had accomplished the correct conditions.

Classes

Druid
- Restoration
  - Incarnation: Tree of Life’s duration can now be tracked in the cooldown manager while talented into Reforestation without Incarnation: Tree of Life.
Monk
- Brewmaster
  - Fixed an issue where Flurry Strikes did not correctly generate threat.
  - Fixed an issue where Vital Flame and Refreshing Drink incorrectly generated healing threat.
Warlock
- Affliction
  - Fixed an issue where sometimes Wither would not replace Corruption.
  - Soul Harvester: Fixed an issue where Sataiel’s Volition would sometimes stop providing its Corruption modifier.
- Destruction
  - Fixed an issue where Conflagration of Chaos would not increase the damage of Shadowburn.

Decor Duel

Groups may now queue into Decor Duel through the Group Finder.

Dungeons and Raids

Pit of Saron
- Risen Soldiers and Arcanist Cadavers can no longer be charmed.
- Ick and Krick
  - Addressed an issue where Krick could fail to cast Get 'Em, Ick!
Windrunner Spire
- Derelict Duo
  - Added an arrow over the head of the player being aimed at by Latch’s Heaving Yank (in addition to the existing dynamic marker showing the closet target within the path).
  - Added a screen effect for when a player is standing in the path of Latch’s Heaving Yank.
  - Addressed a few situations where Latch’s Heaving Yank could behave unexpectedly.
  - Adjusted Kalis’s teleport locations during Heaving Yank to leave more space between her and the edges of the arena.
The Voidspire
- Corrected an issue where players were unable to teleport to The Approach after the instance has been soft reset.

Player versus Player

Warrior
- Berserker Roar now displays as an important buff on enemy nameplates.

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