Classes

Rogue

• Outlaw
  • All damage increased by 5% 9%. Does not affect PvP combat.

Dungeons and Raids

March on Quel’Danas

• Midnight Falls
  • Midnight Crystal health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Developers’ notes: The following adjustments are aimed at reducing difficulty for smaller groups, with the greatest reductions applying to 10-player groups. These affect Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
  • Midnight Crystal health reduced by up to 20% in smaller group sizes.
  • Cosmic Fracture cast time increased to 14 seconds (was 12 seconds).
  • Eclipsed damage reduced by up to 20% in smaller group sizes.
  • Starsplinter cast frequency reduced to every 1.3 seconds on Heroic difficulty (was every 1 second).
  • Overkill Current damage reduced by 20%.

Hello everyone,

We will be running a 1-hour test of Sporefall on the public test realm from 1-2pm Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) on Thursday, May 14th. During that time players will be able to enter the instance on Mythic difficulty and enjoy the entire raid experience.

This will be our first test using the Flexible Raiding feature in Mythic difficulty, so we would benefit greatly from your participation and feedback.

With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following adjustments.

Raids

• The Voidspire
  • Crown of the Cosmos
    • Alleria health reduced by 5% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Alleria’s berserk timer increased by 15 seconds in Mythic difficulty.
    • Demiar, Morium, and Vorelus health in Stage One reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Alleria’s energy generation rate in Stage Two reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Rift Simulacrum health reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Demiar, Morium, and Vorelus energy generation rate in Stage Three reduced by 13% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Rift Simulacrum energy generation rate in Stage Two and Three reduced by 13% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Spawn time between Rift Simulacrum and Cosmic Portal increased slightly in Mythic difficulty.
    • Voidstalker Sting targets 10% fewer players in Stage Three.
    • Silverstrike Ricochet width increased to 5 yards (was 4 yards) in Mythic difficulty to match other difficulties.
• March on Quel’Danas
  • Belo’ren, Child of Al’ar
    • Rebirth is now a 40 second cast on all difficulties (was 30 seconds).
    • Reduced the knockback on Light and Void Edict on all difficulties.

Classes

• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue that caused Beacon of Light to sometimes not transfer healing from Holy Light or Flash of Light.
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Fixed a bug causing Deathmark to generate less Energy than intended.

Enemies and NPCs

• Faithbreaker Ger’lok will now return to his ritual platform if he is pulled far away.

Sound

• Reduced the volume of the Gaze of the Alnseer sound effect.

Classes

• Shaman
  • Corrected an issue where the Jet Stream talent would not remove snare effects from allies who enter your Wind Rush Totem’s area.
  • Restoration
    • Corrected an issue where the initial healing from dropping a Stormstream Totem was not affected by Mastery: Deep Healing.
    • Farseer: Corrected an issue where summoned Ancestors would not cast Chain Heal when dropping Stormstream Totem.
    • Totemic: Corrected an issue where the effects of the Tidecaller’s Guard shield imbuement would be lost upon dying and resurrecting.

Housing

• Players can again place non-default flooring, leave their House, and return to find the flooring where they placed it.

Items

• Fixed a bug preventing players from purchasing the Cache of Void-Touched Weapons before unlocking the Void-Touched Sunfury Poleaxe from any item.

Player versus Player

• Warrior
  • Fixed an issue where Disarm was incorrectly sharing a diminishing return with root effects.

User Interface

• Resolved an issue with Action Bar items persisting when you enter a vehicle.

World

• Fixed a rare bug that could cause players using DirectX 11 to see zone-wide graphical corruption.

Confirming that the fix for this went out about two hours ago, and it was in a client update, so after you exit the game (if you were in-game) and update your client to the latest build, you should no longer have non-default flooring leave from where you put it.

GET READY FOR A SHOWDOWN

Facing the forces of the Void in Void Assaults and Ritual Sites isn’t enough to stop their machinations. To cut the threat off at its source, you’ll need to hunt down the leaders behind these brutal attacks on Azeroth. Track them through a portal in Voidstorm leading to two new locations:

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Naigtal: A fungal, arcane-rich world now occupied by an insidious ethereal faction known as the Hal’hadar.

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Val: An icy world once inhabited by the Legion where the Domanaar Imperator Pertinax has established his bastion of power.

The portal to these worlds is unstable and switches destinations every few days, bringing a rotating set of challenges and experiences. Players can undertake World Quests, defeat rare enemies, take part in events, and ultimately have a showdown with the leaders as world bosses.

GAIN NEW POWER WITH THE OMNIUM FOLIO

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Join Magister Umbric and Grand Magister Rommath on a mission to reconfigure and restore the Sunstrider Omnium. This ancient elven relic was originally created by Dath’remar Sunstrider to study and observe the various schools of magic and to serve as an academic repository. After years of silence, the Sunstrider Omnium has now reawakened, unsettling the Magisters and sowing disarray among them.

Once unlocked, you’ll be entrusted with the Omnium Folio, a runic ledger containing powerful runes of power you can use in battle. Continue taking part in weekly activities to imbue more runes—customizing these initial runes and unlocking their maximum potential to aid you in the fight against the Void.

GO LOREWALKING WITH THE LOA

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Experience the lore of the loa with Assistant Lorewalker Li Li. You’ll dive deeper into the stories of the Zandalari, Drakkari, Gurubashi, and Darkspear trolls.

HELP LOA SPEAKER BREK HATCH JAN’ALAI’S NEW EGGS

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With the return of Jan’alai, Loa of Fire comes a return to past traditions. She’s ready to bring a new clutch of eggs into the world but Loa Speaker Brek requires assistance with the ceremony and with ensuring all the Loa’s young are released safely from their eggs. Be a part of welcoming the first of her offspring and protecting them as they take their first steps.

HOUSING

• Lighting is now available outdoors! You can now add lights to your plot. Lighting Decor will have certain restraints outdoors that they do not have indoors.
  • Two lights cannot overlap and will become unplaceable when too close. Light indicator radius visuals will appear when the lights are too close and will turn red when overlapping.
• Over 100 new common decor can be found on existing Neighborhood vendors.
• Known Issue: We are aware of the floor-changing bug and looking to hotfix it in the very near future.

ITEMS

• Developers’ notes: We identified issues with collecting and tracking the amount of Luminous Dust a player would receive which sometimes resulted in a mis-match between the number of moths a player had found and the amount of Luminous Dust they had received on their account. This caused some players to not be able to acquire all of the Mothkeeper’s rewards. We have shifted to using quests to give rewards instead which will allow those who experienced this mismatch to claim missing rewards.
  • Rebuilt how the Moth Hunt feature in Harandar gives rewards. Players will not lose any existing progress on their moth collection.
    • Glowing Moths no longer give Luminous Dust when collected, and Luminous Dust has been removed from players’ bags.
    • Mothkeeper Wew’tam no longer sells items for Luminous Dust, instead, Mothkeeper Wew’tam now has a quest to receive a reward for every 10 moths gathered on an account.
      • These quests will only be visible to players who have reached the collection requirements to get a specific reward, but have not already acquired it.
    • Extra copies of decor may still be purchased from Mothkeeper Wew’tam for Voidlight Marl after receiving your first one.
    • Mothkeeper Wew’tam now has dialogue options explaining what rewards she gives for collecting different amounts of moths.
    • Added a display bar above Mothkeeper Wew’tam to show your collection progress.

PREY

• Added Big Prey Hunter (Season 1) Feat of Strength for completing the Prey Journey in Season 1.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• Boss Timeline in the vertical orientation now has an option to set text to be on the left or right.
• Adjusted colors for “gaining threat” and “high threat” on raid frames and nameplates.
• Added a new option to enable or disable spell alert glows for special procs when having the Single Button Assistant on an action bar.
• The Great Vault raid tooltip now displays credit for multiple raids in a better format.
• DAMAGE METERS
  • Added an “In Group” visibility option.
  • Lowered the minimum window size, allowing you to make the Damage Meters window smaller than before.
  • Shift clicking a Damage Meter row now opens a details window that stays open until manually closed.
  • During PvP activities, Damage Meter bars are now a different color for allies versus enemies. If the “Show Class Colors” option is enabled, a faction icon is shown instead.
• The Personal Resource Display is now much more customizable:
  • New options include controlling overall size, bar width, health bar height, power bar height, padding between bars, opacity, and visibility (Always, In Combat, Hidden).
  • The health bar and power bar can now be hidden separately, instead of the previous single option that hid both at once.
  • Added options to hide the class resource bar (Combo Points, Soul Shards) on the Personal Resource Display and Player Unit Frame.
  • Added a new “Show Class Color” checkbox, which changes the health bar to the player’s class color instead of the default green.
  • Added a new “Show Bar Text” checkbox, which enables numbers on the health bar, power bar, and alternate power bar.
  • The Personal Resource Display has been updated with new art.
  • A few Personal Resource Display bugs have been fixed for Augmentation Evokers.

In the next content update, take the next step in thwarting the forces of the Void—hunting down their leaders and uncovering new sources of power. Players will also face a new single-boss raid in Sporefall and Turbulent Timeways returns with Dragonflight dungeons and a new slate of rewards.

Get Ready for a Showdown

Facing the forces of the Void in Void Assaults and Ritual Sites isn’t enough to stop their machinations. To cut the threat off at its source, you’ll need to hunt down the leaders behind these brutal attacks on Azeroth. Track them through a portal in Voidstorm leading to two new locations:

• Naigtal: A fungal, arcane-rich world now occupied by an insidious ethereal faction known as the Hal’hadar.
• Val: An icy world once inhabited by the Legion where the Domanaar Imperator Pertinax has established his bastion of power.

The portal to these worlds is unstable and switches destinations every few days, bringing a rotating set of challenges and experiences. Players can undertake World Quests, defeat rare enemies, take part in events, and ultimately have a showdown with the leaders as world bosses.

Gain New Power with the Omnium Folio

Join Magister Umbric and Grand Magister Rommath on a mission to reconfigure and restore the Sunstrider Omnium. This ancient elven relic was originally created by Dath’remar Sunstrider to study and observe the various schools of magic and to serve as an academic repository. After years of silence, the Sunstrider Omnium has now reawakened, unsettling the Magisters and sowing disarray among them.

Once unlocked, you’ll be entrusted with the Omnium Folio, a runic ledger containing powerful runes of power you can use in battle. Continue taking part in weekly activities to imbue more runes—customizing these initial runes and unlocking their maximum potential to aid you in the fight against the Void.

New Raid: Sporefall

Sporefall is a single-boss raid located in Harandar, where you’ll face the fungal giant Rotmire. The raid will be available in Raid Finder, Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties.

For this raid, we’re also trying something new for Mythic difficulty: flexible groups of 15–25 players.

Go Lorewalking with the Loa

Experience the lore of the loa with Assistant Lorewalker Li Li. You’ll dive deeper into the stories of the Zandalari, Drakkari, Gurubashi, and Darkspear trolls.

Help Loa Speaker Brek Hatch Jan’alai’s New Eggs

With the return of Jan’alai, Loa of Fire comes a return to past traditions. She’s ready to bring a new clutch of eggs into the world but Loa Speaker Brek requires assistance with the ceremony and with ensuring all the Loa’s young are released safely from their eggs. Be a part of welcoming the first of her offspring and protecting them as they take their first steps.

Begin the Next Chapter with Zul’jan

When the haranir call for a special gathering, Zul’jan attends as the Amani representative—only to be drawn into an ancient mystery surrounding the legacy of the Amani trolls. Join him and his uncle Kinduru on their journey of discovery to uncover the truth. This content will arrive after the release of the update.

Turbulent Timeways Returns

Turbulent Timeways returns with new rewards, including a new mount—Spawn of Vyranoth— and adds six Dragonflight dungeons to the rotation:

• Algeth’ar Academy
• Halls of Infusion
• Neltharus
• Ruby Life Pools
• The Azure Vaults
• Brackenhide Hollow

New Micro-Holiday: Darkspear Dash

Join the Darkspear trolls and their Zandalari allies as they race from Echo Isles to Silvermoon City for an in-game event inspired by the Running of the Trolls community event.  Prepare to run, leap, and spread rainbow cheer along the route.

More User Interface Updates

We’re adding additional quality-of-life updates to raid frames, damage meters, and more.

For more details on the content update, visit the PTR and review the forum notes.

Classes

• Evoker
  • Flameshaper: Twin Flame will no longer bounce to enemy targets that the Evoker is not in combat with.
  • Fixed an issue where Titan’s Gift and Titanic Wrath were not increasing the damage of the final few ticks of Disintegrate for Preservation and Devastation Evokers.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • All damage dealt increased by approximately 12%.
    • Developers’ notes: Restoration shamans were intended to gain a 30% damage increase with the release of patch 12.0.5, but an error resulted in them gaining about half of that amount. This 12% increase brings them up to a total of +30% damage when compared to before patch 12.0.5.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue where Fatal Echoes would consume a Soul Shard when activated.
    • Fixed an issue where Unstable Affliction would consume all stacks of Shard Instability.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Slams from Fervor of Battle which critically strike will now correctly trigger Mortal Wounds.
    • Deep Wounds applied by Execute no longer deal double the intended damage.

Decor Duel

• The Enchanted Hourglass now has a progress bar, and its timer is now better aligned with the toy’s duration.

Housing

• Fixed a bug where the neighborhood weekly quest “Lost Animals” could become unavailable to players who completed it previously.

Items

• Cosmic Hunter’s Glaive and Fangs of the Invader should now have Intellect for Devourer Demon Hunters.

Professions

• Cooking
  • Fixed an issue with Hearty Well Fed being refreshed by standard Well Fed foods.

Reputation

• Midnight World Quests now correctly award increased reputation while Sign of the Emissary is active.

Void Assaults

• Imperator Pertinax should no longer die easily during the Eversong Void Incursion.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent some players who were properly in combat with the Void-Corrupted creature from receiving credit toward the Cosmic Slayer achievement.

The Gray Skies of Gilneas won’t put a damper on your style when you visit the May Trading Post. Take part in a variety of activities to earn this month’s reward— get the Ensemble: Pyrewood Rebel Streetwear transmog set.

Visit T&W** (Tawney and Wilder) just outside the Mage District in Stormwind or the Zen’shiri Trading Post next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar to check out all the latest items*** they have available. Players can also visit the Trading Post in the capital cities of Dornogal (The Foregrounds) on the Isle of Dorn and in the renewed Silvermoon City where representatives of both Tawney and Wilder and the Zen’shiri Trading Post are open for business.

Check Out What’s in Stock for May

Mounts and Pets

This month, the previous promotional pets, Parrlok and Lil’ Flameo, arrive on the Trading Post for the first time.

Armor Transmog Appearances

Weapon Transmog Appearances

This Month’s Bonus Reward

Complete activities to fill the bar at the top of the Traveler’s Log found in the Adventure Guide (Shift-J)^***, and you’ll receive this month’s bonus reward—the Ensemble: Pyrewood Rebel Streetwear transmog. You’ll look distinctly debonair.

How it Works

Get Tender Every Month

At the beginning of each month, players with an active account in good standing will receive 500 Trader’s Tender automatically every month from a chest called the Collector’s Cache. If you don’t have active game time on your account or aren’t a subscriber at the start of a new month, don’t worry. Your Tender will be awarded on the first day of the month when you do have game time or an active subscription. This will be the same amount for everyone, regardless of how you pay for your game time.

The Traveler’s Log

Complete monthly activities listed in the new Traveler’s Log. Each month features a rotating, themed set of activities. These activities provide the opportunity to earn up to 500 additional Trader’s Tender. There’s only a set amount of Tender you can earn each month through completing activities, so you won’t need to complete all the ones in the log each month. You’ll be able to pick and choose from a variety of fun in-game activities to easily earn Tender. Players can choose to earn by continuing to play the game as they already do, such as completing quests, competing in battlegrounds, participating in holiday activities, and even running Mythic+ dungeons. But you can also choose to take part in activities uniquely designed for the month.

Freeze an Item

Before the month comes to an end, if you haven’t purchased that one “must-have” item yet, don’t worry. You can “freeze” an item so you can purchase it later. When you freeze an item, it will stay available month over month until it is purchased or replaced.

If this month’s offerings didn’t have the items you wanted, you can hang on to your Trader’s Tender to spend later. It won’t go anywhere, and unspent Tender will continue to accumulate each month.

Learn more about the Trading Post from the news post on the official site.

*The Trading Post feature is not available in WoW Classic titles.
**Requires World of Warcraft Subscription or Game Time
***Requires Level 10 to access the Adventure Guide.

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue where Blooming Infusion was counting each target of Nature’s Bounty or Rampant Growth as an additional cast.
• Mage
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue causing some spells to be incorrectly locked during Party Sync.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue where the Abyssal Immolator 4-piece set bonus would not correctly increase the initial stack count of Agony by 2.
    • Fixed an issue where Unstable Affliction applied through Fatal Echoes would consume Shard Instability.

Decor Duel

• Fixed a bug that could prevent seekers from receiving participation credit.

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Timer increased to 31 minutes (was 30 minutes).
• Maisara Caverns
  • Muro’jin and Nekraxx
    • Coordinated Assault damage reduced by 30%, and now ignores armor.
• March on Quel’Danas
  • Midnight Falls
    • Fixed an issue causing Druids to become untargetable after entering the Darkwell while shapeshifted.

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Havok
    • 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.

With the weekly reset, we’re making these adjustments:

Dungeons

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Timer increased 31 minutes (was 30 minutes).
• Maisara Caverns
  • Muro’jin and Nekraxx
    • Coordinated Assault damage reduced by 30%, and now ignores armor.

All Nebulous Voidcores that were spent prior to 8:05pm PDT on Wednesday, April 22 have now been refunded. You may need to relog if you happened to be online while the currency grant was processed. An in-game mail was sent as well, but the currency itself should just pop back into your currency tab when you log back in.

Hello!

We want to follow up on our previous post about issues we encountered with the new Voidforge bonus roll system. The Voidforge system is a brand new system using new tech that enables players to earn their desired myth track gear utilizing a bonus roll currency called Nebulous Voidcores to improve the player experience of gearing during Season 1 of Midnight.

What Happened?

We tested the system on our internal environment to make sure it was working as intended and fix issues, but there was a subtle bug we missed that we can now see was a result of a limitation in our internal test environment.

This new bonus roll system is intended to work like this: every time you use your Nebulous Voidcore on an additional piece of endgame loot, whether in Mythic+ Dungeons, Raids, Bountiful Delves, or Prey, it saves a record of the piece of loot and checks it off a list tied to your character, so that you shouldn’t receive the same piece of loot again. After we launched 12.0.5 (and before we fixed the bug), when players queued with other players into M+ dungeons, Bountiful Delves or Raids, it was possible for the roll data to sometimes save to the wrong database, leading to duplicate rolls.

How Could That Happen?

There are some limited differences between our internal realms and the realms you play on, and one of those differences is the number of databases we use to support the live realms. Some of the databases tied to live realms hold all of your character data, and this includes the list where the bonus rolls are saved.

The functionality we had in place was working as intended for internal environments, but was ultimately the wrong set up for live environments with their multitude of databases.

When it became apparent that some players were occasionally receiving the same item twice, we made it a top priority to fix the issue, and we got the system working as intended on live realms at around 8:05 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, April 22 (05:05 CEST April 23).

What’s Next?

We really want to make this right as best we can, so we’re going to refund every Nebulous Voidcore that was spent before we fixed the issue. We’re identifying every player-character who spent a Nebulous Voidcore before the fix and in the next day or so, we will grant them back to you in-game.

We want to get players who were affected by the bug back on track, and we want to help players who spent their tokens before the fix to mitigate the possibility of further duplicate rolls of the loot they received.

How Can There Be Further Duplicate Rolls?

For example, let’s look at Jay the Mistweaver Monk who spent 2 Nebulous Voidcores in Pit of Saron and received Flayer’s Black Belt and Shaggy Wyrmleather Leggings through the bonus roll system before the bug was fixed. Jay’s bonus rolls may or may not have been properly checked off the list in the database prior to the fix, so the next time he goes into Pit of Saron and tries to use his bonus rolls, he may receive new items or he may receive the Belt or the Leggings again.

Since the system is now working as intended, these new rolls made will be saved to the checklist properly, so duplicates of items rolled on after the fix are not possible.

What If I Didn’t Spend My Nebulous Voidcores On Bonus Rolls?

If you did not spend any of your Voidcores before the fix, any bonus roll you now make will properly be accounted for and checked off the list, and you will not be at risk for any duplicate rolls.

Thank You For Your Patience And Understanding

We apologize for all of this. While it provided us with a better understanding of a potential design pitfall that we will ensure we avoid in the future, we regret disrupting the game for you. Thank you for your passionate feedback the last couple of days. We really appreciate it.

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”.

We’ve re-enabled Void Incursions (the major attack portion of Void Assaults) following the deployment of our fix for the issue, and we’re seeing good results.

Thank you for your patience, and good luck defending Zul’Aman!

We’ve discovered a new issue with Void Assault Incursions (the major attack), and while we investigate and design a fix for it, we’re disabling Incursions.

The Void Incursions should wind down and cease over the next hour or so, and we’ll re-enable them as soon as we’ve got a fix for the underlying issue.

Thank you!

We have recently sent out a large hotfix to address the issues for Unholy that came with the 12.0.5 update. Part of this change was updating Festering Scythe to be a buff on the player that increases their disease tick rate instead of a debuff on the target. 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.

We will continue to monitor any potential issues and we appreciate the patience and understanding.

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%.

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With hotfixes that began rolling out a couple of hours ago and are now applicable in all instances, we’ve preliminarily addressed a bug in 12.0.5 where rolling on loot did not remove the received item from the pool for subsequent Bonus Rolls, which made it possible for players to receive the same item from a Bonus Roll.

It is now safe to roll on loot. Newly rolled items will now correctly remove the item from the bonus pool.

We’ll have more information to share tomorrow about this issue and the next steps we’re taking to remediate the situation for affected players.

Thank you very much for your feedback and understanding.

With hotfixes that began rolling out a couple of hours ago and are now applicable in all instances, we’ve preliminarily addressed a bug in 12.0.5 where rolling on loot did not remove the received item from the pool for subsequent Bonus Rolls, which made it possible for players to receive the same item from a Bonus Roll.

It is now safe to roll on loot. Newly rolled items will now correctly remove the item from the bonus pool.

We’ll have more information to share tomorrow about this issue and the next steps we’re taking to remediate the situation for affected players.

Thank you very much for your feedback and understanding.

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.

In the 12.0.5 patch, we’re introducing the new achievement Midnight Keystone Myth – Season One. This new achievement rewards a saddle that can be exchanged for a mount of your choice once you’ve attained a Mythic+ Rating of at least 3400 during Midnight Season 1.

At this time, we’re working to fix a bug with the new achievement and we’ve disabled it in this region (The Americas and Oceania).

We’re working to enable the achievement as soon as possible, and when the fix is deployed, all players who qualify will receive the achievement. Thank you for your patience!

During our routine testing with realms offline to deploy the new patch, we discovered a critical bug in Housing that would cause unacceptable errors for some players.

Fixing this bug is a top priority for us, and while we work on it, we’ve decided to open realms on patch 12.0.5 with Housing and Neighborhoods disabled in this region (The Americas and Oceania).

Once we have a fix developed and tested, we will perform an additional brief maintenance in this region to bring Housing back online for everyone.

Thank you very much for your patience and understanding.

In the 12.0.5 patch, we’re introducing the new achievement Midnight Keystone Myth – Season One. This new achievement rewards a saddle that can be exchanged for a mount of your choice once you’ve attained a Mythic+ Rating of at least 3400 during Midnight Season 1.

At this time, we’re working to fix a bug with the new achievement and we’ve disabled it in this region (The Americas and Oceania).

We’re working to enable the achievement as soon as possible, and when the fix is deployed, all players who qualify will receive the achievement. Thank you for your patience!

Classes

• Hunter
  • Fixed an issue causing Bestial Wrath to not deal damage if Bestial Wrath’s charge would put the Pet out of range.

Delves

• Reaching Midnight Season 1 Delver’s Journey Rank 10 will now properly reward the Void Breacher title.

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Addressed an issue where Crawth’s Deafening Screech’s debuff could persist after the encounter ended.
  • Addressed an issue where Alpha Eagle could start casting Gust while still in the air.
• Maisara Caverns
  • Frenzied Berserker’s health reduced by 13%.
  • Keen Headhunter’s health reduced by 10%.
  • Resolved an issue causing Hollow Soulrender’s Frost Nova to occasionally inflict damage at the incorrect location.
  • Muro’jin and Nekraxx
    • Resolved an issue where Carrion Swoop could occasionally strike units behind Nekraxx or strike players twice.
  • Rak’tul
    • Spectral Residue duration increased to 40 seconds.
    • Additional applications of Spectral Residue no longer refresh the duration.
• Pit of Saron
  • Forgemaster Garfrost
    • Fixed an issue that could prevent Night Elf Vengeance Demon Hunters from being able to hide behind Saronite Ore.
• Seat of the Triumvirate
  • Addressed an issue where Merciless Subjugator’s Chains of Subjugation can be interrupted unintentionally.
  • Addressed an issue where some area of the dungeon is unintentionally empowering creatures.
  • Siphon Void in L’ura’s encounter is now marked as important.
  • Decimate in Zuraal the Ascended encounter now has an encounter warning.
• Skyreach
  • Target of Cast Down now has a debuff on their unit frame.
• Windrunner Spire
  • Commander Kroluk
    • Fixed an issue where Commander Kroluk could fail his jump based on his target’s location within his chamber.
• The Voidspire
  • Corrected an issue where the Lightblinded Vanguard could fail to appear after using the raid skip.
  • Fallen-King Salhadaar
    • Fixed an issue where Void Infusion could override the boss entering berserk phase.
  • Vaelgor & Ezzorak
    • Resolved an issue where Ezzorak could continue to fight the Lightbound Vanguard after Vaelgor and all players have perished.
    • Addressed an issue where the bosses could respawn atop the Devouring Stronghold instead of their arena.
  • Lightblinded Vanguard
    • Addressed an issue where using the raid skip can fail to spawn all three paladins for the encounter.
    • War Chaplain Senn’s Aura of Peace silence effect no longer triggers from Halo, Ice Lance, or Galactic Guardian Moonfire.
    • Resolved an issue where Execution Sentence’s vulnerability could sometimes not work in Mythic difficulty.
    • Health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Developers’ notes: Our goal with this change is to encourage a greater diversity of raid compositions to succeed in the encounter.
  • Crown of the Cosmos
    • Alleria and Rift Simulacrum’s health reduced by 5% in Heroic difficulty.
    • Cosmic Barrier absorb amount reduced by 5% in Heroic difficulty.
    • Silverstrike Ricochet width increased to 5 yards in non-Mythic difficulties (was 4 yards).
    • Undying Voidspawn’s nearby player detection range has been reduced to 10 yards in non-Mythic difficulties (was 15 yards).
• March on Quel’danas
  • Belo’ren, Child of Al’ar
    • Belo’ren’s Stage Two health has been reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Ashen Benediction has been reduced to 5% per stack on all difficulties (was 10%).
    • Reduced the frequency of Guardian’s Edict casts over the course of the encounter on all difficulties.
  • Midnight Falls
    • L’ura’s health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Termination Matrix
      • Terminate applications reduced to 4 (was 5).
      • Terminate cast time increased to 2 seconds (was 1.5 seconds).
    • Heaven’s Glaives
      • Blades per cast reduced to 5 on Heroic and Mythic difficulties (was 6).
      • Max duration reduced to 2 minutes on Heroic and Mythic difficulties (was 3 minutes).
    • Grim Symphony
      • Melody can no longer repeat the same Dark Rune twice.
      • Second cast now spins clockwise (was counter-clockwise).
      • Eclipsed heal absorb reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Overkill Current damage reduced by 20% on Heroic difficulty.
      • The final cast of Criticality now triggers 2 Tears of L’ura per Dawn Crystal (was 3).
      • Dark Constellation precast time increased to 2.5 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 2 seconds).

Items

• Light’s Preservation potion now provides more healing.

Quests

• Fixed a bug where players were unable to collect handfuls of sand from Loosened Sand piles in Vol’dun for “The Fragrance of the Dunes”.

Engage in new activities, experience more of the story in Midnight, and earn more loot as the efforts to push back the forces of the Void and their agents continue. You’ll undertake new Void Assaults, disrupt powerful Ritual Sites, get a boost with Voidforge, group up for Decor Duels, and more.

Stave Off Void Assaults

The forces of the Void are vying for position and control amongst themselves in a bid for more power. As they seek every opportunity they can, attacks begin in the Eversong Woods and Zul’Aman zones. [Learn More]

Void Strike

• Void Strikes take part in Eversong Woods or Zul’Aman on a weekly rotation. Once completed, a new one will begin in another part of the zone and continue to rotate through the zones.

Void Incursion

• These larger scenarios occur when enough Void Strikes have been completed in the zones and will take the might of many of Azeroth’s champions to defeat them.

Disrupt Ritual Sites

Put a stop to rituals meant to empower the ambitions of power-hungry naga and Twilight’s Blade cultists in small one to five player instances. As you take on greater challenges, you’ll be able to receive greater rewards.

In Ritual Sites, you’ll choose some of the challenges you’ll face as you climb through the tiers. Players will also unlock Great Vault rewards for the World content row alongside Delves and Prey.

Players will earn Field Accolades from both Void Assaults and Ritual Sites as currency they can use to purchase Champion and Heroic quality gear and rewards. [Learn More]

Get a Leg Up With the Voidforge

Voidforge will provide new opportunities for players in Midnight to take their game further. You’ll help aid domanaar Decimus build a Voidforge to begin transmuting Nebulous Voidcores, which are transmutable into powerful equipment upon defeating powerful foes in Midnight Season 1 raids or completing Mythic+ dungeons, and Bountiful Delves and Prey Hunts on Nightmare difficulty.

After unlocking the Voidforge, Decimus will require additional assistance to craft the Ascendant Nilhammer, allowing players to upgrade their weapons and trinkets to new heights by collecting Ascendant Voidcores. [Learn More]

Hide or Seek With Decor Duels

Amidst all the danger that swirls above Azeroth, there’s something to be said about having a little fun. Players can join in a team vs team hide-and-seek style game taking place in Silvermoon City through the Group Finder Tool (PvP tab) to either hide as various Housing decor items or seek out those who have donned the guise of an item. You’ll earn new rewards, including a mount, toys, and Housing decor, through this bite-sized event. [Learn More]

New Activity: Abyss Anglers

Dive deep into the shimmering waters off Zul’Aman’s rugged coast, where schools of exotic fish swarm just beneath the surface in a new repeatable event—Abyss Anglers. Team up to spear as many as you can and rack up points to unlock fishing rewards and upgrades to your diver gear, allowing you to venture deeper into the abyss where the greatest treasures await.

Seek out Depthdiver Jeju to suit up and enter the Depths. Zip through whirlpools, catch creatures with your harpoon, and discover treasures amidst the underwater steam vents.

Prove your mastery to earn dive equipment upgrades and cosmetics.

New Mythic+ Dungeon Feature and Achievements

New Feature Lindormi’s Glow

Lindormi’s Glow highlights select enemy forces even when the Lindormi’s Guidance affix is inactive. Defeating all highlighted enemies will complete the enemy forces requirement for a Keystone Dungeon.

• Any player whose class supports a tank role specialization can choose to use Lindormi’s Glow by speaking with Lindormi near the The Timeways portal or at the end of a Keystone Dungeon.
• Lindormi’s Glow will activate in a Keystone Dungeon if the party’s tank has chosen to use this feature.
• Players can disable Lindormi’s Glow by speaking with Lindormi again.

New Achievements

Midnight Keystone Myth: Season One – Attain a Mythic+ Rating of at least 3400 during Midnight Season 1. Rewards a Timelost Saddle that can be exchanged with Lindormi for a mount of your choice. Mounts include: A variety of new mounts, and Keystone Master and Keystone Legend mounts from previous seasons.

Umbral Champion: Midnight Season One – End Midnight Mythic+ Season 1 with a Mythic+ Rating in the top 1% of all players in your region. Rewards a new exclusive mount.

12.0.5 Content Notes

Learn more about all the changes in our content update notes.

More adventures are calling you home.

The Hall of Fame for The Voidspire is now full, and we will close it for further entries with the next weekly reset (tomorrow) in each region.

Congratulations to all who made it, and good luck to all of those who are pushing to complete The Voidspire in the next few hours!

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Frost
    • Chosen of Frostbrood (Rank 3) has been updated – When Frostwyrm’s Fury is recalled, it now grants the full Haste bonus at 50% duration instead. The ability used to recall Frostwyrm’s Fury is no longer on the global cooldown.
    • Deathbringer
      • Echoing Fury secondary effect has been redesigned – Casting Reaper’s Mark grants 1 stack of Exterminate with 100% first scythe and 100% second scythe effectiveness.
      • Exterminate has been updated – After Reaper’s Mark explodes, your next 2 Obliterates or Frostscythes cost 1 Rune and summon 2 scythes to strike the enemies. The rest of the effect remains the same.
  • Unholy
    • New Talent: Cycle of Death – Putrefy reduces the cooldown of Death and Decay by 1 second. Death and Decay reduces the cooldown of Putrefy by 0.3 seconds for each enemy it damages, up to 3 seconds.
    • Raise Abomination has been updated – Disease Cloud no longer causes enemies to take increased damage from minions. Now deals Plague damage periodically to nearby enemies.
    • Putrid Echoes has an additional effect – Putrefy now consumes up to 2 available charges on cast.
    • Lesser Ghoul damage reduced by 17%.
    • Scourge Strike now applies Virulent Plague in addition to spreading it.
    • Pestilence renamed to Blightfall and now overrides Dark Transformation instead of Outbreak.
    • Necrotic Coil’s Shadowstrike damage now prefers the primary target.
    • Some talents have changed locations in the talent tree.
    • The following talents have been removed:
      • Blightfall
      • March of Madness
      • Scythe of Decay
    • Rider of the Apocalypse
      • Unholy Armaments has an additional effect – Your Ghoul and skeletal archer deal 10% and Lesser Ghouls deal 20% increased damage.
      • A Feast of Souls has been updated – While you have 2 or more Horsemen aiding you, your Death Coil deals 20% and Epidemic deals 20% increased damage.
    • San’layn
      • Frenzied Bloodthirst has been updated – Essence of the Blood Queen increases the damage of your Death Coil and Death Strike by 3%, and Epidemic by 3% per stack.
      • Thrill of Blood has an additional effect – Dread Plague deals 5% and Virulent Plague deals 5% increased damage.
      • Desecrate has been updated – Death and Decay deals its damage 100% faster.
• DEMON HUNTER
  • Demon Hunters can now further customize their appearance with new eye options: a new void blue eye color and a flameless option for both fel green and void blue eyes.
  • Devourer
    • Spontaneous Immolation has been redesigned – Soul Immolation heals for an additional 6% of your maximum health over its duration and its cooldown is reset upon killing an enemy that yields experience or honor.
    • Soul Immolation has been updated – No longer deals self-damage. Now heals for 24% of your maximum health over its duration.
    • Sweet Suffering has been updated – Now increases the duration of Feast of Souls by 1 second/2 seconds (was 2 seconds/4 seconds).
    • Eradicate now deals separate damage to its primary target and its area damage targets.
    • Feast of Souls is no longer capped at 20 stacks.
    • Removing Grim Focus via a macro or right-clicking the aura will prevent it from being reapplied for 10 seconds.
    • Void-Scarred
      • Burning Blades has been updated – Now affects Hungering Slash (was Reap) and now additionally increases Reap’s damage by 20%.
      • Untethered Fury has been updated – Now increases Void Ray damage by 15%.
      • Monster Rising has been updated – Now increases Collapsing Star damage by 15%.
      • Violent Transformation has been updated – Now additionally causes the Hunt to deal 25% increased damage and reset the cooldown of Soul Immolation.
      • Student of Suffering increases Mastery by 4% (was 8%) and grants 2 Fury (was 5 Fury).
      • Blind Focus increases Cosmic damage dealt by 2% (was 3%).
  • Vengeance
    • Feast of Souls now heals instantly upon activating Soul Cleave (was heal over 6 seconds).
    • Untethered Rage trigger effect now lasts 12 seconds (was 10 seconds).
    • Fracture base cooldown reduced to 5.5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
    • Annihilator
      • Celestial Echoes now causes Fracture to generate 3 additional Fury and deal 25% increased damage (was 5 Fury and 30% damage).
• DRUID
  • Balance
    • Meteorites has been updated – Every time Starfall drops a wave of stars, a meteorite also falls on up to 2 targets in its range, each dealing Astral damage.
    • Meteorite projectile damage reduced by 30%.
  • Feral
    • Unseen Predator (Rank 1) now has an additional effect – Unseen Attack damage is reduced if less than 5 combo points and 50 Energy are spent on Ferocious Bite.
    • Unseen Predator (Rank 2) has been updated – Unseen Attacks increase your damage done by 8%/15% for 1 second per combo point spent to trigger it. Additional applications extend this effect.
    • Unseen Predator (Rank 3) has been updated – Tiger’s Fury causes you to perform an Unseen Attack for maximum damage after your next 2 combo point generating attacks. Rip and Unseen Attack damage increased by 30%.
    • Unseen Slash and Unseen Swipe base damage increased by 25%.
  • Guardian
    • Wild Guardian (Rank 2) now grants 1 charge/2 charges of Dream Guide or Dream of Cenarius.
    • Wild Guardian (Rank 3) now empowers Maul, causing it to deal 40% additional damage over time.
    • Galactic Guardian’s interaction with Red Moon has been updated – Stacks of Lunar Wrath are now consumed upon spending 20 Rage.
    • Regrowths cast by Dream Guide now heal for an additional 100%.
  • Restoration
    • Everbloom (Rank 2) has been redesigned – When Lifebloom’s final bloom occurs, it heals 6 allies within 40 yards for 25%/50% of its healing amount.
    • Everbloom (Rank 3) Blooming Frenzy now triggers 3 times (was 5).
    • Wrath damage increased by 40%.
    • Starfire damage increased by 40%.
    • Starsurge damage increased by 40%.
    • Sunfire damage increased by 25%.
    • Moonfire damage increased by 25%.

• EVOKER
  • New Ability: Battle Visage – Activate to automatically assume your Visage whenever you are not casting draconic spells such as Fire Breath and Soar.
    • Full list of abilities that temporarily shift you to Dracthyr: Deep Breath, Dream Flight, Breath of Eons, Fire Breath, Eternity Surge, Dream Breath, Upheaval, Hover, Spatial Paradox, Rescue, Zephyr, Verdant Embrace (without Dream Simulacrum talented), and Soar.
    • Many abilities that used to force a shift to Dracthyr have adjusted visual treatments for Visage form.
    • While active, Battle Visage also applies a camera height override to Dracthyr form to prevent the camera from adjusting rapidly when shifting between forms.
  • Unravel damage increased by 300%.
  • Blessing of the Bronze is now castable on friendly players who are not in your party or raid group, similar to other group buffs like Arcane Intellect.
  • Fixed an issue where Twin Guardian was applying its bonus at the start of Rescue rather than upon landing.
  • Augmentation
    • New Talent: Mighty Inferno – Inferno’s Blessing’s damage is increased by 40%, and your effects that extend Ebon Might also extend Inferno’s Blessing.
    • Inferno’s Blessing will now correctly always apply to the casting Evoker, and will no longer apply to pets.
    • Regenerative Chitin has a new icon.
    • Molten Embers has been removed.
    • Chronowarden
      • New Talent: Chronal Dynamo – Living Flame’s cast time is reduced by 0.2 seconds, and it deals 50% increased damage or healing when it is a non-instant cast.
      • Energy Cycles has been removed.
  • Preservation
    • New Talent: Temporal Barrier – Summon a vortex of temporal energy, absorbing 900% spell power and applying Echo at 30% effectiveness on your target and up to 4 allies within 40 yards.
    • Temporal Anomaly now has an additional effect – Applies Echo at 30% effectiveness on the first 5 allies it passes through.
    • Fluttering Seedlings has been redesigned slightly – Emerald Blossom sends out 1/2 flying seedlings when it bursts, plus up to 2/4 additional seedlings if Emerald Blossom heals fewer than 5 allies. Each seedling heals an ally up to 40 yards away.
    • Fluttering Seedlings healing increased by 67%.
    • Fluttering Seedlings is now considered a Green spell and its healing is increased by Ouroboros.
    • Life-giver’s Flame now also functions with Deep Breath, causing the first 5 targets hit to heal nearby allies for 80% of damage done.
    • All healing reduced by 5%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Verdant Embrace mana cost reduced by 27%.
    • Resonating Sphere has been removed.
    • Chronowarden
      • New Talent: Chronal Dynamo – Living Flame’s cast time is reduced by 0.2 seconds, and it deals 50% increased damage or healing when it is a non-instant cast.
      • Energy Cycles has been removed.
• HUNTER
  • Marksmanship
    • New Talent: Explosive Shot – Fires an explosive shot at your target. After 3 seconds, the shot will explode, dealing Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
    • New Talent: Shrapnel Shot – Casting Explosive Shot has a 100% chance to grant Lock and Load.
    • New Talent: Precision Detonation – When Aimed Shot damages a target affected by your Explosive Shot, Explosive Shot instantly explodes, dealing 20% increased damage.
    • Precise Shots has been updated – No longer reduces the global cooldown and no longer provides bonuses to auto shot. Damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 100%). Now affects Kill Shot and Black Arrow at 100% effectiveness.
    • Windrunner Quiver has been redesigned – Consuming Precise Shots has a 30% chance to grant Precise Shots. The damage bonus of Precise Shots is increased by an additional 15%.
    • Unmatched Precision has been updated – Now increases Precise Shots damage by 10%/20% (was 20%/40%).
    • Small Game Hunter has been updated – Now increases Explosive Shot damage by 15% and Volley damage by 25%.
    • Eagle’s Accuracy has been updated – Now increases Aimed Shot damage by 5%/10% and Rapid Fire damage by 10%/20%.
    • Steady Shot damage increased by 100%.
    • Arcane Shot damage increased by 33%.
    • Multi-Shot damage increased by 33%.
    • The following talents have been removed:
      • Bullet Hell
      • In the Rhythm
      • Lethality
      • Target Acquisition
    • Sentinel
      • Can’t Miss Won’t Miss has been updated – Now increases Precise Shots damage by 10% (was 40%).
  • Survival
    • Sic ‘Em has been updated – Now triggers from Strike as One critical strikes (was Kill Command).
    • Lunge has been updated – No longer grants Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction. Now additionally grants 2% Agility, increased by an additional 2% while dual-wielding.
    • Shrapnel Bomb has been updated – Now additionally causes Wildfire Bomb to grant 15 Focus over 3 seconds.
    • Takedown now communicates that it removes Root effects from your pet.
    • Pack Leader
      • Hogstrider has been redesigned – Each time your Boar deals damage, the damage of your next Boomstick is increased by 5%, up to 20%.
      • Hoof and Blade has been redesigned – Now increases Hogstrider’s damage bonus by 2%.
      • Sharpened Fangs has been updated – Now additionally increases the damage Wildfire Bomb deals to its primary target by 15%.
      • Lethal Barbs now grants 1 Focus (was 2 Focus).
• MAGE
  • Arcane
    • Arcane Pulse cast time is now 2.25 seconds (was 1.75 seconds) and its cast time is reduced by 8% for each Arcane Charge you have.
    • Fixed an issue where Arcane Missiles with Aether Attunement talented or an Overpowered Missiles proc would target critters and pull them into combat, but not deal damage to them.
  • Frost
    • Icicles has been updated – No longer generates rapidly out of combat.
    • Glacial Spike now has a duration of 60 seconds (was unlimited).
    • Frozen Orb can now be cast without a target selected.
    • Fixed an issue causing Freezing Rain’s effect duration to not match the duration of Frozen Orb.
• MONK
  • Brewmaster
    • Master of Harmony
      • Harmonic Surge has been redesigned – Casting Celestial Brew or Celestial Infusion grants 2 charges of Potential Energy. Your next cast of Tiger Palm or Vivify consumes all charges of Potential Energy to cause a Harmonic Surge. Harmonic Surge: For each charge of Potential Energy, deal Nature damage to your target and nearby enemies, and heal up to 5 allies. Damage and healing increased per stack of Potential Energy consumed.
      • Potential Energy has been redesigned – Casting Keg Smash grants a charge of Potential Energy.
      • Coalescence’s tooltip has been adjusted for clarity, and it now applies its own distinct periodic healing and damage effect.
      • Several tooltips have been updated to clarify that they interact with both Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion.
  • Mistweaver
    • All healing reduced by 5%.
    • Sheilun’s Gift’s healing is increased by 5% per cloud consumed (was 10%).
    • Spiritfont now causes Enveloping Mist to be instant cast.
    • Way of the Serpent no longer causes Soothing Mist and Crackling Jade Lightning to be cast while moving. This is now default behavior.
    • Emperor’s Elixir’s tooltip has been adjusted to better reflect its effect.
    • Conduit of the Celestials
      • Inner Compass now rotates its stances on an 8 second timer.
    • Master of Harmony
      • Harmonic Surge has been redesigned – Casting Thunder Focus Tea grants 2 charges of Potential Energy. Your next cast of Tiger Palm or Vivify consumes all charges of Potential Energy to cause a Harmonic Surge.
        • Harmonic Surge: For each charge of Potential Energy, deal Nature damage to your target and nearby enemies, and heal up to 5 allies. Damage and healing increased per stack of Potential Energy consumed.
      • Potential Energy has been redesigned – Casting Rising Sun Kick or Rushing Wind Kick grants a charge of Potential Energy.
      • Coalescence’s tooltip has been adjusted for clarity, and it now applies its own distinct periodic healing and damage effect.
      • Several tooltips have been updated to clarify that they interact with both Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion.
  • Windwalker
    • Crashing Fists has been redesigned – Fists of Fury damage is increased by 20% (was extends duration by 1 second).
    • Tigereye Brew (Rank 1) has been redesigned – Every 3 Chi spent generates Tigereye Brew. Zenith consumes up to 20 Tigereye Brew stacks to increase your critical strike chance for its duration by 1% per stack. Generates quickly up to 10 stacks while out of combat and may generate up a maximum of 30 stacks.
    • Tigereye Brew (Rank 3) has been redesigned – Zenith now grants access to 2 additional Zenith Stomps.
    • Xuen’s Battlegear may now additionally trigger from Spinning Crane Kick, reducing the cooldown of Fists of Fury by 0.5 seconds for each unique target struck, up to 2.5 seconds.
    • Zenith Stomp now generates 2 Chi.
    • Zenith no longer generates 2 Chi on cast.
• PALADIN
  • Blessing of Protection and Blessing of Spellwarding now show on Raid Frames when Center Big Defensives is enabled in the Raid Frames Interface menu.
  • Holy
    • Holy Shock healing increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Word of Glory healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Eternal Flame healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Light of Dawn healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Greater Judgment absorb increased by 250%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Beacon of the Savior (Rank 3) now causes Flash of Light and Holy Light to move Beacon of the Savior to their target once per 5 seconds.
    • Herald of the Sun
      • Walk Into Light has been redesigned – Now increases the chance for Infusion of Light to occur by 100% during Avenging Wrath.
    • Lightsmith
      • Holy Armaments now generate 3 Holy Power.
• PRIEST
  • Discipline
    • Atonement now causes spell damage to heal all targets affected by Atonement for 28% of damage done (was 35%). Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Power Word: Shield absorption increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Void Shield absorption increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Flash Heal healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Shadow Mend healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Power Word: Radiance healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Plea healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Holy
    • All healing done increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• ROGUE
  • New Talent: Sanguine Vial – When you deal the killing blow to a target that yields experience or honor, the cooldown of Crimson Vial is reduced by 15 seconds and your next use heals 5% of your health instantly.
  • Airborne Irritant has been updated – Blind has 50% reduced cooldown, 70% reduced duration, and applies to all nearby enemies.
  • Assassination
    • New Talent: Negotiable Contract – If the target of your Deathmark dies, Deathmark jumps to a nearby enemy combatant for its remaining duration.
    • Deathstalker
      • Deathstalker’s Mark has been updated – Garrote applies 3 stacks of Deathstalker’s Mark to your target, unless Deathstalker’s Mark is already active. You learn Mark for Death. When you spend 5 or more combo points on attacks against a Marked target you consume an application of Deathstalker’s Mark, dealing 120% Plague damage.
        • Mark for Death: Move your active Deathstalker’s Mark to your target. 10 yard range, 20 second cooldown, 25 Energy, and not on the global cooldown.
    • Trickster
      • Cloud Cover has been updated – Activating Adrenaline Rush creates a cloud of smoke for 10 seconds, allowing attacks from within the cloud to apply Fazed, stacking up to 2 additional times. Effect persists for 10 seconds after leaving the cloud.
  • Outlaw
    • Ace Up Your Sleeve has been updated – Between the Eyes has a 3%/6% chance (was 5%) per combo point spent to grant 4 combo points (was 2/4) and reset its own cooldown.
  • Subtlety
    • Deathstalker
      • Deathstalker’s Mark has been updated – Shadowstrike applies 3 stacks of Deathstalker’s Mark to your target, unless Deathstalker’s Mark is already active. You learn Mark for Death. When you spend 5 or more combo points on attacks against a Marked target you consume an application of Deathstalker’s Mark, dealing 120% Plague damage.
        • Mark for Death: Move your active Deathstalker’s Mark to your target. 10 yard range, 20 second cooldown, 25 Energy, and not on the global cooldown.
    • Trickster
      • Cloud Cover has been updated – Activating Shadow Blades creates a cloud of smoke for 10 seconds, allowing attacks from within the cloud to apply Fazed, stacking up to 2 additional times. Effect persists for 10 seconds after leaving the cloud.
• SHAMAN
  • Enhancement
    • Overflowing Maelstrom secondary effect has been updated – Each Maelstrom Weapon stack consumed grants Overflowing Maelstrom, reducing the cast time and increasing the healing of your next Healing Surge or Chain Heal by 10%. Overflowing Maelstrom can accumulate up to 20 stacks, benefiting each cast by up to 10 stacks.
    • The names of Raging Maelstrom and Overflowing Maelstrom talents have been swapped to better reflect their effects.
  • Restoration
    • All healing done increased by 8%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
    • All damage dealt increased by 30%.
• WARRIOR
  • Rend radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
  • Wrecking Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active Absorb shield.
  • Shattering Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active Immunity effect, or a Mage’s Ice Wall.
  • Arms
    • Mortal Wounds now triggers from Mortal Strike and Slam (was Mortal Strike and Cleave).
    • Crushing Combo removes the cooldown from your next 2 uses of Cleave (was 3).
    • Colossus
      • Practiced Strikes now increases Mortal Strike and Slam damage by 15% and Cleave and Whirlwind damage by 15%.
      • Demolish’s area of effect strike radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
      • Dominance of the Colossus reduces the cooldown of Demolish by 5 seconds when you would gain a stack of Colossal Might and are already at max stacks (was 2 seconds).
    • Slayer
      • Reap the Storm has been updated – When Cleave hits 3 or more targets you have a 20% chance to unleash a flurry of steel, striking all nearby enemies for high Physical damage and applying Overwhelmed.
      • Unrelenting Onslaught now also increases damage dealt by Bladestorm by 20%.
  • Fury
    • Hack and Slash has been redesigned – Rampage has 100% chance to refund a charge of Raging Blow.
    • Improved Whirlwind now causes Whirlwind to apply Rend to all targets if Rend is known.
    • Mountain Thane
      • Storm Surge causes Avatar to increase the damage of Thunder Clap by 10% (was 50%) and reduce its cooldown by 25% (was 50%).
    • Slayer
      • Reap the Storm has been updated – When Rampage hits 3 or more targets via Improved Whirlwind you have a 20% chance to unleash a flurry of steel, striking all nearby enemies for high Physical damage and applying Overwhelmed.
      • Unrelenting Onslaught now increases damage dealt by Bladestorm by 20%.
  • Protection
    • Colossus
      • Practiced Strikes now increases Shield Slam damage by 15% and Revenge and Thunder Clap damage by 15%.
      • Demolish’s area of effect strike radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
      • Dominance of the Colossus reduces the cooldown of Demolish by 5 seconds when you would gain a stack of Colossal Might and are already at max stacks (was 2 seconds).
• WARLOCK
  • Demonology
    • Grimoire: Fel Ravager has been updated – Summons a Fel Ravager to assist you in combat for 20 seconds and will purge 1 beneficial magic effect from an enemy. Turns into Devour Magic while on cooldown.
    • Antoran Jailer’s Soul Barrage has been updated – Releases a volley of Chaos magic that deals Chaos damage to the target and up to 10 additional targets within 10 yards.
  • Destruction
    • Conflagration of Chaos has been updated – Conflagrate and Shadowburn have a 100% chance to guarantee your next cast of either ability to critically strike and increases its damage by your critical strike chance.
    • Conflagration of Chaos icon has been updated.
    • Chaos Incarnate and Inferno have swapped positions in the talent tree.

April 17, 2026

Delves

• Reaching Midnight Season 1 Delver’s Journey Rank 10 will now properly reward the Void Breacher title.

Dungeons and Raids

• Maisara Caverns
  • Rak’tul
    • Spectral Residue duration increased to 40 seconds.
    • Additional applications of Spectral Residue no longer refresh the duration.
• Seat of the Triumvirate
  • Addressed an issue where Merciless Subjugator’s Chains of Subjugation can be interrupted unintentionally.
• The Voidspire
  • Fallen-King Salhadaar
    • Fixed an issue where Void Infusion could override the boss entering berserk phase.
  • Lightblinded Vanguard
    • Addressed an issue where using the raid skip can fail to spawn all three paladins for the encounter.

As of a hotfix that is going live imminently today, we’re addressing a similar concern during the Crown of the Cosmos Alleria fight with the Grasp of Emptiness spell.

Now, the visual for this spell can be reduced by checking the Motion Sickness checkbox under Accessibility options.

Get ready to flex your muscle in Midnight as the efforts to push back against the Void continue on April 21 with the 12.0.5 content update, the Overlords of Outland content update is on the horizon for Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition, Joyous Journeys comes to Mists of Pandaria Classic, and more.

Each week meets you with adventurous discovery and fresh rewards—be sure to check in to learn more about what awaits you in Azeroth.

The 12.0.5 Content Update Goes Live April 21

Engage in new activities, experience more of the story in Midnight, and earn more loot as the efforts to push back the forces of the Void and their agents continue.

You’ll undertake new Void Assaults, disrupt powerful Ritual Sites, get a boost with Voidforge, group up for Decor Duels, and more.

Learn about all these features, and more, when you read through our content update overview.

Face New Challenges and Disrupt Ritual Sites in 12.0.5

Whether you’re going it solo, or gathering allies to join you, a new challenge awaits at the Ritual Sites in Eversong Woods and Zul’Aman. You’ll put a stop to rituals of power-hungry naga and Twilight’s Blade cultists in small one-to-five-player instances and face new challenges for new rewards.

Ritual Sites introduce new repeatable instanced content similar to Delves, designed for flexible group sizes and allowing one to five players. Each offers escalating challenges in a bid for the heroes of the Alliance and Horde to disrupt the rituals of the naga in Eversong Woods or the Twilight’s Blade cultists in Zul’Aman.

As with Delves and Prey, players will unlock Great Vault rewards in the World content row. Only you can determine what challenges you’ll undertake and which rewards you’ll choose to claim as your own. Ritual Sites are available in the 12.0.5 content update, and you can learn more about them in our previously published article.

Mobilize Your Allies and Thwart Incoming Void Assaults

The forces of the Void are vying for position and control amongst themselves in a grasp for more power. As they seek every opportunity they can, attacks begin in the Eversong Woods and Zul’Aman zones.

In the 12.0.5 content update, players can push back against the Void as they begin powerful Void Strikes and Void Incursions in Eversong Woods and Zul’Aman— for Azeroth, for fun, and for new rewards. Everything you need to know can be found in our Void Assaults overview.

Power Up with the Voidforge

Help aid domanaar Decimus to build a Voidforge to begin transmuting Nebulous Voidcores, which are transmutable into empowered equipment upon defeating foes in Midnight Season 1 raids or completing Mythic+ dungeons, Bountiful Delves, and Prey Hunts on Nightmare difficulty. Once the Voidforge is constructed, you’ll also assist him in crafting the Ascendant Nilhammer to transmute Ascendant Voidcores to empower worthy equipment.

Domanaar Decimus may have ulterior motives, but you’ll want to take advantage of the Voidforge to enhance your adventures. Unearth the details in our previously published article.

Hunt or be Hunted in Decor Duels

Lift your spirits and take a break from all the serious threats the Void and their agents present with a little team vs team hide-and-seek in the 12.0.5 content update. Don the guise of a random Decor Item or seek them out in this fast-paced duel for fun—and some new rewards.

Amidst all the danger that swirls above Azeroth, there’s something to be said about having a little fun. Join in a team vs team hide-and-seek style game taking place in Silvermoon City (Midnight). Previously announced in the State of Azeroth, this fast-paced player vs. player activity puts you right in the thick of it whether you’re a harmless cheese platter or some other seemingly innocuous item.

No matter your level, it’s an even playing field once the match begins in this 5v5 matchup.

You might not defeat the Void and save Azeroth by taking part in this event, but it’s a great way to find a bit of fun in the face of danger. Learn more from our overview, and maybe we’ll see you…or maybe not… in Decor Duels.

WoW BCC Anniversary Edition: Overlords of Outland Arrives May 14

The battle for Outland heats up on May 14 as WoW Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition: Overlords of Outland launches globally on all realms at 3:00 PM PDT / 23:00 BST.

Take the fight to Illidan Stormrage’s lieutenants, brave two new raids, and chase new rewards across the shattered world of Outland.

• Two New Raids: The Eye and Serpentshrine Cavern
• New Reputation Factions: Ogri’la and Sha’tari Skyguard
• Arena Season 2
• New Profession Recipes
• Druid Swift Flight Form

Get ready to adventure across the shattered skies and torn lands of Outland as you continue to protect Azeroth from the threat of destruction, beginning May 14.

Mists of Pandaria Classic: Expect Joyous Journeys Beginning April 21

Stalwart champions in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Classic, take advantage of the Joyous Journeys experience buff to enhance your odyssey through Azeroth, increasing experience gains by 50% up to level 90!

Duration: April 21 until the next content update for Mists of Pandaria Classic arrives.

The mystical lands of Pandaria are swirling with danger and need your help. Create a new character, finish leveling a forgotten one, or invite friends to join you in legendary Pandaria.

The Joyous Journeys buff is active by default; however, you can visit any innkeeper in the capital cities and Dalaran to turn it on or off. The Joyous Journeys buff is not available in modern World of Warcraft® (currently Midnight), World of Warcraft®: Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition, or World of Warcraft® Classic Era.

See you in Pandaria!

Twitch Drop: Get the Cuddly Pearl Grrgle Housing Decor Item April 23!

Get the Cuddly Pearl Grrgle Housing decor item starting April 23! Players who have claimed this new item from the Twitch Drop will also be able to visit Dennia Silvertongue in Silvermoon City to purchase more copies of this adorable decor. Additional copies can also be purchased from Tuuran in Stormwind and Gabbi in Orgrimmar (near the Trading Post).

Start Time: April 23, 3:00 pm PDT
End Time: May 21, 3:00 pm PDT

Watch 4 hours of any World of Warcraft content stream on Twitch.tv while these Twitch Drops are active to claim the Cuddly Pearl Grrgle Housing decor item.

Frequently asked questions and details on how to link your Twitch account can be found in our previously published article.

Check out the World of Warcraft: Midnight Art Blast

Join us in celebrating the artists whose efforts helped build the visually stunning World of Warcraft®: Midnight in the Blizzard Entertainment World of Warcraft: Midnight Art Blast.

Adventure is calling you home in World of Warcraft: Midnight, where you’ll return to the re-envisioned elven kingdom of Quel’Thalas and adventure through new and reimagined zones in the battle between the Light and the Void as Xal’atath’s invasion of Azeroth grows stronger, and the Voidstorm threatens to cover the world in darkness.

Midnight is now live, and your hour has come—take up arms and embark on all-new stories, zones, and dungeons, and put down roots of your own with Housing.

Prepare to answer the call—learn more.

Watch any eligible World of Warcraft stream on Twitch.tv from April 23 at 3:00 pm PDT until May 21 at 3:00 pm PDT to claim the Cuddly Pearl Grrgle Housing decor item.

Eligibility

To participate, you must link your Twitch account by visiting https://account.battle.net/connections. If you have changed your password or made any changes to your Twitch or Battle.net account, you will have to relink your accounts. When you relink, there will be a 7-day cooldown before you can relink a new Twitch account. After you’ve claimed your rewards on Twitch, please make sure you’re logging into the Battle.net region you’d like to receive the drop(s) on, as the first region you log into will be where your items will be delivered. It can take up to 24 hours to receive your reward(s) in-game after claiming. Read our Frequently Asked Questions section for more information.

How do I Earn Twitch Drops?

Start Time: April 23, 3:00 pm PDT
End Time: May 21, 3:00 pm PDT

Watch 4 hours of eligible World of Warcraft content while these Twitch Drops are active on any channel to earn the Cuddly Pearl Grrgle Housing decor item.

Players who have claimed this new item from the Twitch Drop will also be able to visit Dennia Silvertongue in Silvermoon City to purchase more copies of this adorable item. Additional copies can also be purchased from Tuuran in Stormwind and Gabbi in Orgrimmar (near the Trading Post).

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. How do I link my battle.net and Twitch accounts?
A. Sign into your Battle.net account at https://account.battle.net/connections and click the Connect link for Twitch, then follow the instructions to sign in and link your Twitch account to Battle.net.

Q. What devices can I use to earn and claim drops?
A. You can earn and claim drops using your PC/Mac web browser or on the Twitch app for Android or iOS. Twitch apps on game consoles, smart TVs, and other TV apps do not support drops.

Q. Do I need to watch the same channel the entire time to earn my drops?
A. You can earn progress towards a drop on any eligible channel in the World of Warcraft category on Twitch. You can, for example, watch half an hour on one channel and then switch to another channel without losing your progress. You cannot earn progress faster by watching more than one channel at a time.

Q. Will I receive my drop rewards in-game automatically?
A. To receive your rewards, you must claim the drop on the channel you’re watching or in the Drops Inventory menu on Twitch.

Q. Do Twitch Drop rewards expire?
A. Earned Twitch Drop rewards will expire seven (7) days after they’ve been claimed if a Battle.net account has not been linked.

Q. As a streamer, how do I get Twitch Drops on my channel?
A. All you need to do is ensure your Twitch and Battle.net accounts are linked and that you’ve opted into Drops (see Drops Streamer Home).

Q. What regions are eligible for these Twitch Drops?
A. Participating regions include North America, Latin America, Europe, The Middle East, Africa, Japan, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

Blizzard has the right to change, pause, or cancel this Twitch Drop and its terms if it cannot run as planned for any reason, including but not limited to technical issues or unexpected factors beyond Blizzard’s control.

*Not available in World of Warcraft Classic® games. Requires World of Warcraft® Subscription or Game Time. Use and placement of decor items is limited to the Housing feature, which requires access to World of Warcraft®: Midnight.

STAVE OFF VOID ASSAULTS

The forces of the Void are vying for position and control amongst themselves in a bid for more power. As they seek every opportunity they can, attacks begin in the Eversong Woods and Zul’Aman zones. [LEARN MORE]

Void Strike

• Void Strikes take part in Eversong Woods or Zul’Aman on a weekly rotation. Once completed, a new one will begin in another part of the zone and continue to rotate through the zones.

Void Incursion

• These larger scenarios occur when enough Void Strikes have been completed in the zones and will take the might of many of Azeroth’s champions to defeat them.

DISRUPT RITUAL SITES

Put a stop to rituals meant to empower the ambitions of power-hungry naga and Twilight’s Blade cultists in small one to five player instances. As you take on greater challenges, you’ll be able to receive greater rewards.

In Ritual Sites, you’ll choose some of the challenges you’ll face as you climb through the tiers. Players will also unlock Great Vault rewards for the World content row alongside Delves and Prey.

Players will earn Field Accolades from both Void Assaults and Ritual Sites as currency they can use to purchase Champion and Heroic quality gear and rewards. [LEARN MORE]

GET A LEG UP WITH THE VOIDFORGE

The Voidforge will provide new opportunities for players in Midnight to take their game further. You’ll help aid domanaar Decimus build a Voidforge to begin transmuting Nebulous Voidcores, which are transmutable into powerful equipment upon defeating powerful foes in Midnight Season 1 raids or completing Mythic+ dungeons, and Bountiful Delves and Prey Hunts on Nightmare difficulty.

After unlocking the Voidforge, Decimus will require additional assistance to craft the Ascendant Nilhammer, allowing players to upgrade their weapons and trinkets to new heights by collecting Ascendant Voidcores.

Nebulous Voidcore

Players can use Nebulous Voidcores to more easily obtain specific equipment whether they’re chasing best-in-slot items on their main character or looking to quickly gear up their alternate characters later in the season.

Upon defeating a Midnight Season 1 raid boss or completing a Mythic+ Dungeon, Bountiful Delve, or Prey Hunt on Nightmare difficulty, players may choose to spend their Nebulous Voidcores to receive a random item appropriate for their Loot Specialization from that activity. After receiving an item in this way, it is removed from that loot pool until all eligible items have been obtained on a per-difficulty basis. For example, receiving the Ranger-Captain’s Iridescent Insignia trinket from the Crown of the Cosmos encounter in the Voidspire on Normal difficulty will not remove it from consideration on Heroic or Mythic difficulty. The item level of Mythic+ rewards from Nebulous Voidcores is equivalent to Great Vault rewards from that Keystone level, i.e., Myth 1/6 at Keystone level +10 and above.

Decimus will offer Nebulous Voidcores to the player in exchange for a choice of valuable resources including gold, Voidlight Marl, and Veteran Dawncrests. The total number of Nebulous Voidcores available to a character increases by two every week for the remainder of the season. Due to the smaller loot pools and the exceptional power of raid items, these rewards will require two Nebulous Voidcores upon defeating a raid boss. Other endgame content, such as Mythic+, will cost only one. As a result, acquiring a particularly desired trinket, weapon, or ring is likely to require a similar total of Nebulous Voidcores regardless of source. For example, a player chasing a trinket from a raid boss with three total items matching their Loot Specialization is likely to receive that trinket in the same amount of time it would take to acquire a trinket from a Mythic+ dungeon with six total items.

Players can also purchase a Nebulous Voidcore from Vaultkeeper Elysa for six Thalassian Tokens of Merit. Nebulous Voidcores acquired in this way do not count against the weekly increasing cap.

Ascendant Voidcore

Following the Voidforge’s construction, Decimus will ask players to assist him in crafting the Ascendant Nilhammer, a powerful tool capable of manipulating Ascendant Voidcores to empower worthy equipment. Upon completing this warband-wide journey, players may begin acquiring Ascendant Voidcores from Midnight Season 1 endgame content including raids, Mythic+ dungeons, Bountiful Delves, and Nightmare difficulty Prey Hunts.

Consuming an Ascendant Voidcore infuses an eligible weapon or trinket with additional power to increase its item level. Only fully upgraded Hero, Myth and maximum quality Radiance Crafted weapons and trinkets are eligible to become Ascendant Voidforged.

HIDE OR SEEK WITH DECOR DUELS

Amidst all the danger that swirls above Azeroth, there’s something to be said about having a little fun. Players can join in a team vs team hide-and-seek style game taking place in Silvermoon City through the Group Finder Tool (PvP tab) to either hide as various Housing decor items or seek out those who have donned the guise of an item. You’ll earn new rewards, including a mount, toys, and Housing decor, through this bite-sized event. [LEARN MORE]

NEW ACTIVITY: ABYSS ANGLERS

Dive deep into the shimmering waters off Zul’Aman’s rugged coast, where schools of exotic fish swarm just beneath the surface in a new repeatable event—Abyss Anglers. Team up to spear as many as you can and rack up points to unlock fishing rewards and upgrades to your diver gear, allowing you to venture deeper into the abyss where the greatest treasures await.

Seek out Depthdiver Jeju to suit up and enter the Depths. Zip through whirlpools, catch creatures with your harpoon, and discover treasures amidst the underwater steam vents.

Prove your mastery to earn dive equipment upgrades and cosmetics.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Fixed an issue where players who already owned the Sun Darter Hatchling pet were not receiving Mind-Seeker progress and were required to loot the pet again.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Frost
    • Chosen of Frostbrood (Rank 3) has been updated – When Frostwyrm’s Fury is recalled, it now grants the full Haste bonus at 50% duration instead. The ability used to recall Frostwyrm’s Fury is no longer on the global cooldown.
    • Deathbringer
      • Echoing Fury secondary effect has been redesigned – Casting Reaper’s Mark grants 1 stack of Exterminate with 100% first scythe and 100% second scythe effectiveness.
      • Exterminate has been updated – After Reaper’s Mark explodes, your next 2 Obliterates or Frostscythes cost 1 Rune and summon 2 scythes to strike the enemies. The rest of the effect remains the same.
  • Unholy
    • New Talent: Cycle of Death – Putrefy reduces the cooldown of Death and Decay by 1 second. Death and Decay reduces the cooldown of Putrefy by 0.3 seconds for each enemy it damages, up to 3 seconds.
    • Raise Abomination has been updated – Disease Cloud no longer causes enemies to take increased damage from minions. Now deals Plague damage periodically to nearby enemies.
    • Putrid Echoes has an additional effect – Putrefy now consumes up to 2 available charges on cast.
    • Lesser Ghoul damage reduced by 17%.
    • Scourge Strike now applies Virulent Plague in addition to spreading it.
    • Pestilence renamed to Blightfall and now overrides Dark Transformation instead of Outbreak.
    • Necrotic Coil’s Shadowstrike damage now prefers the primary target.
    • Some talents have changed locations in the talent tree.
    • The following talents have been removed:
      • Blightfall
      • March of Madness
      • Scythe of Decay
    • Rider of the Apocalypse
      • Unholy Armaments has an additional effect – Your Ghoul and skeletal archer deal 10% and Lesser Ghouls deal 20% increased damage.
      • A Feast of Souls has been updated – While you have 2 or more Horsemen aiding you, your Death Coil deals 20% and Epidemic deals 20% increased damage.
    • San’layn
      • Frenzied Bloodthirst has been updated – Essence of the Blood Queen increases the damage of your Death Coil and Death Strike by 3%, and Epidemic by 3% per stack.
      • Thrill of Blood has an additional effect – Dread Plague deals 5% and Virulent Plague deals 5% increased damage.
      • Desecrate has been updated – Death and Decay deals its damage 100% faster.
• DEMON HUNTER
  • Demon Hunters can now further customize their appearance with new eye options: a new void blue eye color and a flameless option for both fel green and void blue eyes.
  • Devourer
    • Spontaneous Immolation has been redesigned – Soul Immolation heals for an additional 6% of your maximum health over its duration and its cooldown is reset upon killing an enemy that yields experience or honor.
    • Soul Immolation has been updated – No longer deals self-damage. Now heals for 24% of your maximum health over its duration.
    • Sweet Suffering has been updated – Now increases the duration of Feast of Souls by 1 second/2 seconds (was 2 seconds/4 seconds).
    • Eradicate now deals separate damage to its primary target and its area damage targets.
    • Feast of Souls is no longer capped at 20 stacks.
    • Removing Grim Focus via a macro or right-clicking the aura will prevent it from being reapplied for 10 seconds.
    • Void-Scarred
      • Burning Blades has been updated – Now affects Hungering Slash (was Reap) and now additionally increases Reap’s damage by 20%.
      • Untethered Fury has been updated – Now increases Void Ray damage by 15%.
      • Monster Rising has been updated – Now increases Collapsing Star damage by 15%.
      • Violent Transformation has been updated – Now additionally causes the Hunt to deal 25% increased damage and reset the cooldown of Soul Immolation.
      • Student of Suffering increases Mastery by 4% (was 8%) and grants 2 Fury (was 5 Fury).
      • Blind Focus increases Cosmic damage dealt by 2% (was 3%).
  • Vengeance
    • Feast of Souls now heals instantly upon activating Soul Cleave (was heal over 6 seconds).
    • Untethered Rage trigger effect now lasts 12 seconds (was 10 seconds).
    • Fracture base cooldown reduced to 5.5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
    • Annihilator
      • Celestial Echoes now causes Fracture to generate 3 additional Fury and deal 25% increased damage (was 5 Fury and 30% damage).
• DRUID
  • Balance
    • Meteorites has been updated – Every time Starfall drops a wave of stars, a meteorite also falls on up to 2 targets in its range, each dealing Astral damage.
    • Meteorite projectile damage reduced by 30%.
  • Feral
    • Unseen Predator (Rank 1) now has an additional effect – Unseen Attack damage is reduced if less than 5 combo points and 50 Energy are spent on Ferocious Bite.
    • Unseen Predator (Rank 2) has been updated – Unseen Attacks increase your damage done by 8%/15% for 1 second per combo point spent to trigger it. Additional applications extend this effect.
    • Unseen Predator (Rank 3) has been updated – Tiger’s Fury causes you to perform an Unseen Attack for maximum damage after your next 2 combo point generating attacks. Rip and Unseen Attack damage increased by 30%.
    • Unseen Slash and Unseen Swipe base damage increased by 25%.
  • Guardian
    • Wild Guardian (Rank 2) now grants 1 charge/2 charges of Dream Guide or Dream of Cenarius.
    • Wild Guardian (Rank 3) now empowers Maul, causing it to deal 40% additional damage over time.
    • Galactic Guardian’s interaction with Red Moon has been updated – Stacks of Lunar Wrath are now consumed upon spending 20 Rage.
    • Regrowths cast by Dream Guide now heal for an additional 100%.
  • Restoration
    • Everbloom (Rank 2) has been redesigned – When Lifebloom’s final bloom occurs, it heals 6 allies within 40 yards for 25%/50% of its healing amount.
    • Everbloom (Rank 3) Blooming Frenzy now triggers 3 times (was 5).
    • Wrath damage increased by 40%.
    • Starfire damage increased by 40%.
    • Starsurge damage increased by 40%.
    • Sunfire damage increased by 25%.
    • Moonfire damage increased by 25%.

• EVOKER
  • New Ability: Battle Visage – Activate to automatically assume your Visage whenever you are not casting draconic spells such as Fire Breath and Soar.
    • Full list of abilities that temporarily shift you to Dracthyr: Deep Breath, Dream Flight, Breath of Eons, Fire Breath, Eternity Surge, Dream Breath, Upheaval, Hover, Spatial Paradox, Rescue, Zephyr, Verdant Embrace (without Dream Simulacrum talented), and Soar.
    • Many abilities that used to force a shift to Dracthyr have adjusted visual treatments for Visage form.
    • While active, Battle Visage also applies a camera height override to Dracthyr form to prevent the camera from adjusting rapidly when shifting between forms.
  • Unravel damage increased by 300%.
  • Blessing of the Bronze is now castable on friendly players who are not in your party or raid group, similar to other group buffs like Arcane Intellect.
  • Fixed an issue where Twin Guardian was applying its bonus at the start of Rescue rather than upon landing.
  • Augmentation
    • New Talent: Mighty Inferno – Inferno’s Blessing’s damage is increased by 40%, and your effects that extend Ebon Might also extend Inferno’s Blessing.
    • Inferno’s Blessing will now correctly always apply to the casting Evoker, and will no longer apply to pets.
    • Regenerative Chitin has a new icon.
    • Molten Embers has been removed.
    • Chronowarden
      • New Talent: Chronal Dynamo – Living Flame’s cast time is reduced by 0.2 seconds, and it deals 50% increased damage or healing when it is a non-instant cast.
      • Energy Cycles has been removed.
  • Preservation
    • New Talent: Temporal Barrier – Summon a vortex of temporal energy, absorbing 900% spell power and applying Echo at 30% effectiveness on your target and up to 4 allies within 40 yards.
    • Temporal Anomaly now has an additional effect – Applies Echo at 30% effectiveness on the first 5 allies it passes through.
    • Fluttering Seedlings has been redesigned slightly – Emerald Blossom sends out 1/2 flying seedlings when it bursts, plus up to 2/4 additional seedlings if Emerald Blossom heals fewer than 5 allies. Each seedling heals an ally up to 40 yards away.
    • Fluttering Seedlings healing increased by 67%.
    • Fluttering Seedlings is now considered a Green spell and its healing is increased by Ouroboros.
    • Life-giver’s Flame now also functions with Deep Breath, causing the first 5 targets hit to heal nearby allies for 80% of damage done.
    • All healing reduced by 5%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Verdant Embrace mana cost reduced by 27%.
    • Resonating Sphere has been removed.
    • Chronowarden
      • New Talent: Chronal Dynamo – Living Flame’s cast time is reduced by 0.2 seconds, and it deals 50% increased damage or healing when it is a non-instant cast.
      • Energy Cycles has been removed.
• HUNTER
  • Marksmanship
    • New Talent: Explosive Shot – Fires an explosive shot at your target. After 3 seconds, the shot will explode, dealing Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
    • New Talent: Shrapnel Shot – Casting Explosive Shot has a 100% chance to grant Lock and Load.
    • New Talent: Precision Detonation – When Aimed Shot damages a target affected by your Explosive Shot, Explosive Shot instantly explodes, dealing 20% increased damage.
    • Precise Shots has been updated – No longer reduces the global cooldown and no longer provides bonuses to auto shot. Damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 100%). Now affects Kill Shot and Black Arrow at 100% effectiveness.
    • Windrunner Quiver has been redesigned – Consuming Precise Shots has a 30% chance to grant Precise Shots. The damage bonus of Precise Shots is increased by an additional 15%.
    • Unmatched Precision has been updated – Now increases Precise Shots damage by 10%/20% (was 20%/40%).
    • Small Game Hunter has been updated – Now increases Explosive Shot damage by 15% and Volley damage by 25%.
    • Eagle’s Accuracy has been updated – Now increases Aimed Shot damage by 5%/10% and Rapid Fire damage by 10%/20%.
    • Steady Shot damage increased by 100%.
    • Arcane Shot damage increased by 33%.
    • Multi-Shot damage increased by 33%.
    • The following talents have been removed:
      • Bullet Hell
      • In the Rhythm
      • Lethality
      • Target Acquisition
    • Sentinel
      • Can’t Miss Won’t Miss has been updated – Now increases Precise Shots damage by 10% (was 40%).
  • Survival
    • Sic ‘Em has been updated – Now triggers from Strike as One critical strikes (was Kill Command).
    • Lunge has been updated – No longer grants Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction. Now additionally grants 2% Agility, increased by an additional 2% while dual-wielding.
    • Shrapnel Bomb has been updated – Now additionally causes Wildfire Bomb to grant 15 Focus over 3 seconds.
    • Takedown now communicates that it removes Root effects from your pet.
    • Pack Leader
      • Hogstrider has been redesigned – Each time your Boar deals damage, the damage of your next Boomstick is increased by 5%, up to 20%.
      • Hoof and Blade has been redesigned – Now increases Hogstrider’s damage bonus by 2%.
      • Sharpened Fangs has been updated – Now additionally increases the damage Wildfire Bomb deals to its primary target by 15%.
      • Lethal Barbs now grants 1 Focus (was 2 Focus).
• MAGE
  • Arcane
    • Arcane Pulse cast time is now 2.25 seconds (was 1.75 seconds) and its cast time is reduced by 8% for each Arcane Charge you have.
    • Fixed an issue where Arcane Missiles with Aether Attunement talented or an Overpowered Missiles proc would target critters and pull them into combat, but not deal damage to them.
  • Frost
    • Icicles has been updated – No longer generates rapidly out of combat.
    • Glacial Spike now has a duration of 60 seconds (was unlimited).
    • Frozen Orb can now be cast without a target selected.
    • Fixed an issue causing Freezing Rain’s effect duration to not match the duration of Frozen Orb.
• MONK
  • Brewmaster
    • Master of Harmony
      • Harmonic Surge has been redesigned – Casting Celestial Brew or Celestial Infusion grants 2 charges of Potential Energy. Your next cast of Tiger Palm or Vivify consumes all charges of Potential Energy to cause a Harmonic Surge. Harmonic Surge: For each charge of Potential Energy, deal Nature damage to your target and nearby enemies, and heal up to 5 allies. Damage and healing increased per stack of Potential Energy consumed.
      • Potential Energy has been redesigned – Casting Keg Smash grants a charge of Potential Energy.
      • Coalescence’s tooltip has been adjusted for clarity, and it now applies its own distinct periodic healing and damage effect.
      • Several tooltips have been updated to clarify that they interact with both Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion.
  • Mistweaver
    • All healing reduced by 5%.
    • Sheilun’s Gift’s healing is increased by 5% per cloud consumed (was 10%).
    • Spiritfont now causes Enveloping Mist to be instant cast.
    • Way of the Serpent no longer causes Soothing Mist and Crackling Jade Lightning to be cast while moving. This is now default behavior.
    • Emperor’s Elixir’s tooltip has been adjusted to better reflect its effect.
    • Conduit of the Celestials
      • Inner Compass now rotates its stances on an 8 second timer.
    • Master of Harmony
      • Harmonic Surge has been redesigned – Casting Thunder Focus Tea grants 2 charges of Potential Energy. Your next cast of Tiger Palm or Vivify consumes all charges of Potential Energy to cause a Harmonic Surge.
        • Harmonic Surge: For each charge of Potential Energy, deal Nature damage to your target and nearby enemies, and heal up to 5 allies. Damage and healing increased per stack of Potential Energy consumed.
      • Potential Energy has been redesigned – Casting Rising Sun Kick or Rushing Wind Kick grants a charge of Potential Energy.
      • Coalescence’s tooltip has been adjusted for clarity, and it now applies its own distinct periodic healing and damage effect.
      • Several tooltips have been updated to clarify that they interact with both Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion.
  • Windwalker
    • Crashing Fists has been redesigned – Fists of Fury damage is increased by 20% (was extends duration by 1 second).
    • Tigereye Brew (Rank 1) has been redesigned – Every 3 Chi spent generates Tigereye Brew. Zenith consumes up to 20 Tigereye Brew stacks to increase your critical strike chance for its duration by 1% per stack. Generates quickly up to 10 stacks while out of combat and may generate up a maximum of 30 stacks.
    • Tigereye Brew (Rank 3) has been redesigned – Zenith now grants access to 2 additional Zenith Stomps.
    • Xuen’s Battlegear may now additionally trigger from Spinning Crane Kick, reducing the cooldown of Fists of Fury by 0.5 seconds for each unique target struck, up to 2.5 seconds.
    • Zenith Stomp now generates 2 Chi.
    • Zenith no longer generates 2 Chi on cast.
• PALADIN
  • Blessing of Protection and Blessing of Spellwarding now show on Raid Frames when Center Big Defensives is enabled in the Raid Frames Interface menu.
  • Holy
    • Holy Shock healing increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Word of Glory healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Eternal Flame healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Light of Dawn healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Greater Judgment absorb increased by 250%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Beacon of the Savior (Rank 3) now causes Flash of Light and Holy Light to move Beacon of the Savior to their target once per 5 seconds.
    • Herald of the Sun
      • Walk Into Light has been redesigned – Now increases the chance for Infusion of Light to occur by 100% during Avenging Wrath.
    • Lightsmith
      • Holy Armaments now generate 3 Holy Power.
• PRIEST
  • Discipline
    • Atonement now causes spell damage to heal all targets affected by Atonement for 28% of damage done (was 35%). Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Power Word: Shield absorption increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Void Shield absorption increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Flash Heal healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Shadow Mend healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Power Word: Radiance healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Plea healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Holy
    • All healing done increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• ROGUE
  • New Talent: Sanguine Vial – When you deal the killing blow to a target that yields experience or honor, the cooldown of Crimson Vial is reduced by 15 seconds and your next use heals 5% of your health instantly.
  • Airborne Irritant has been updated – Blind has 50% reduced cooldown, 70% reduced duration, and applies to all nearby enemies.
  • Assassination
    • New Talent: Negotiable Contract – If the target of your Deathmark dies, Deathmark jumps to a nearby enemy combatant for its remaining duration.
    • Deathstalker
      • Deathstalker’s Mark has been updated – Garrote applies 3 stacks of Deathstalker’s Mark to your target, unless Deathstalker’s Mark is already active. You learn Mark for Death. When you spend 5 or more combo points on attacks against a Marked target you consume an application of Deathstalker’s Mark, dealing 120% Plague damage.
        • Mark for Death: Move your active Deathstalker’s Mark to your target. 10 yard range, 20 second cooldown, 25 Energy, and not on the global cooldown.
    • Trickster
      • Cloud Cover has been updated – Activating Adrenaline Rush creates a cloud of smoke for 10 seconds, allowing attacks from within the cloud to apply Fazed, stacking up to 2 additional times. Effect persists for 10 seconds after leaving the cloud.
  • Outlaw
    • Ace Up Your Sleeve has been updated – Between the Eyes has a 3%/6% chance (was 5%) per combo point spent to grant 4 combo points (was 2/4) and reset its own cooldown.
  • Subtlety
    • Deathstalker
      • Deathstalker’s Mark has been updated – Shadowstrike applies 3 stacks of Deathstalker’s Mark to your target, unless Deathstalker’s Mark is already active. You learn Mark for Death. When you spend 5 or more combo points on attacks against a Marked target you consume an application of Deathstalker’s Mark, dealing 120% Plague damage.
        • Mark for Death: Move your active Deathstalker’s Mark to your target. 10 yard range, 20 second cooldown, 25 Energy, and not on the global cooldown.
    • Trickster
      • Cloud Cover has been updated – Activating Shadow Blades creates a cloud of smoke for 10 seconds, allowing attacks from within the cloud to apply Fazed, stacking up to 2 additional times. Effect persists for 10 seconds after leaving the cloud.
• SHAMAN
  • Enhancement
    • Overflowing Maelstrom secondary effect has been updated – Each Maelstrom Weapon stack consumed grants Overflowing Maelstrom, reducing the cast time and increasing the healing of your next Healing Surge or Chain Heal by 10%. Overflowing Maelstrom can accumulate up to 20 stacks, benefiting each cast by up to 10 stacks.
    • The names of Raging Maelstrom and Overflowing Maelstrom talents have been swapped to better reflect their effects.
  • Restoration
    • All healing done increased by 8%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
    • All damage dealt increased by 30%.
• WARRIOR
  • Rend radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
  • Wrecking Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active Absorb shield.
  • Shattering Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active Immunity effect, or a Mage’s Ice Wall.
  • Arms
    • Mortal Wounds now triggers from Mortal Strike and Slam (was Mortal Strike and Cleave).
    • Crushing Combo removes the cooldown from your next 2 uses of Cleave (was 3).
    • Colossus
      • Practiced Strikes now increases Mortal Strike and Slam damage by 15% and Cleave and Whirlwind damage by 15%.
      • Demolish’s area of effect strike radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
      • Dominance of the Colossus reduces the cooldown of Demolish by 5 seconds when you would gain a stack of Colossal Might and are already at max stacks (was 2 seconds).
    • Slayer
      • Reap the Storm has been updated – When Cleave hits 3 or more targets you have a 20% chance to unleash a flurry of steel, striking all nearby enemies for high Physical damage and applying Overwhelmed.
      • Unrelenting Onslaught now also increases damage dealt by Bladestorm by 20%.
  • Fury
    • Hack and Slash has been redesigned – Rampage has 100% chance to refund a charge of Raging Blow.
    • Improved Whirlwind now causes Whirlwind to apply Rend to all targets if Rend is known.
    • Mountain Thane
      • Storm Surge causes Avatar to increase the damage of Thunder Clap by 10% (was 50%) and reduce its cooldown by 25% (was 50%).
    • Slayer
      • Reap the Storm has been updated – When Rampage hits 3 or more targets via Improved Whirlwind you have a 20% chance to unleash a flurry of steel, striking all nearby enemies for high Physical damage and applying Overwhelmed.
      • Unrelenting Onslaught now increases damage dealt by Bladestorm by 20%.
  • Protection
    • Colossus
      • Practiced Strikes now increases Shield Slam damage by 15% and Revenge and Thunder Clap damage by 15%.
      • Demolish’s area of effect strike radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
      • Dominance of the Colossus reduces the cooldown of Demolish by 5 seconds when you would gain a stack of Colossal Might and are already at max stacks (was 2 seconds).
• WARLOCK
  • Demonology
    • Grimoire: Fel Ravager has been updated – Summons a Fel Ravager to assist you in combat for 20 seconds and will purge 1 beneficial magic effect from an enemy. Turns into Devour Magic while on cooldown.
    • Antoran Jailer’s Soul Barrage has been updated – Releases a volley of Chaos magic that deals Chaos damage to the target and up to 10 additional targets within 10 yards.
  • Destruction
    • Conflagration of Chaos has been updated – Conflagrate and Shadowburn have a 100% chance to guarantee your next cast of either ability to critically strike and increases its damage by your critical strike chance.
    • Conflagration of Chaos icon has been updated.
    • Chaos Incarnate and Inferno have swapped positions in the talent tree.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• MYTHIC+
  • New Feature: Lindormi’s Glow – Lindormi’s Glow highlights select enemy forces even when the Lindormi’s Guidance affix is inactive. Defeating all highlighted enemies will complete the enemy forces requirement for a Keystone Dungeon.
    • Any player whose class supports a tank role specialization can choose to use Lindormi’s Glow by speaking with Lindormi near the The Timeways portal or at the end of a Keystone Dungeon.
    • Lindormi’s Glow will activate in a Keystone Dungeon if the party’s tank has chosen to use this feature.
    • Players can disable Lindormi’s Glow by speaking with Lindormi again.
  • New Achievement: Midnight Keystone Myth: Season One – Attain a Mythic+ Rating of at least 3400 during Midnight Season 1. Rewards a Timelost Saddle that can be exchanged with Lindormi for a mount of your choice. Mounts include: A variety of new mounts, and Keystone Master and Keystone Legend mounts from previous seasons.
    • Developers’ notes: We want to give dedicated Mythic+ players something that continues to feel rewarding over time, while also creating a path to revisit some older rewards you may have missed along the way. Keystone Myth will launch with a 3400 rating requirement, but we do not expect that threshold to remain fixed forever. Mythic+ evolves from season to season, and we want this achievement to continue to represent a similar level of difficulty and prestige each time. Because of that, we may adjust the rating requirement in future seasons.
  • New Achievement: Umbral Champion: Midnight Season One – End Midnight Mythic+ Season 1 with a Mythic+ Rating in the top 1% of all players in your region. Rewards a new exclusive mount.
• MARCH ON QUEL’DANAS
  • Midnight Falls
    • Dusk Crystal health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Glimmering damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Shattered Sky damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.

HOUSING

• You can now click Decor links in chat to open the Decor Catalog. Shift+Clicking Decor will also link it in chat.
• If a guild member currently in the guild neighborhood is kicked or leaves the guild, they will now be teleported out of the guild neighborhood during their eviction. Their eviction notice should be visible after teleporting.
• Implemented new budget icons for House Upgrades.
• Decor and Houses now fade in, rather than simply popping in at distance.
• Added a friendlier message when you try to enter a House that you are not allowed in.
• Updated the chat message when acquiring Decor to include links to the Decor in the Catalog
• Your Dyed versions of the same Decor are now shown on one card instead of multiple cards in the Decor Catalog, with the ability to cycle between your owned variants in the preview window.
• In the Cornerstone pane, updated the confirmation dialogs for Buy and Move to include the plot number, Neighborhood, and price.
• Added a new tutorial helptip for how to switch Endeavors. Added a reminder in the inactive Endeavor’s page that only one Endeavor can be contributed to at a time.
• Added a tooltip for the Endeavors completion reward that displays the House XP and Community Coupons earned.
• HOUSE EXTERIOR EDITOR IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Added a popup to warn about Decor attached to your House when swapping types.
  • Added a hide/show Decor toggle while editing your House Exterior.
  • We now prevent position and rotation from resetting when swapping exterior House types.
  • Updated Exterior House Editor button to use a unique button icon.

ITEMS

• Fixed an issue where Gloom-Spattered Dreadscale absorb shield value could be incorrectly calculated when damaging multiple enemies.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• MONK
  • Mistweaver
    • Mana Tea now restores 50% less mana in PvP combat.
    • Life Cocoon’s absorb amount reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
    • Chrysalis reduces the cooldown of Life Cocoon by 30 seconds in PvP combat (was 45 seconds).
    • Zen Spheres can now be applied by Rising Sun Kick and Rushing Wind Kick.

PROFESSIONS

• Cooking and vendor refreshments now restore health and mana based on a percentage, rather than a fixed amount.
• The Deftness stat now scales at a slower rate for Dragonflight, Khaz Algar, and Midnight professions.
  • Developers’ notes: As a side effect of squishing stats and item levels, Deftness scaled disproportionately faster than other professions stats, making it trivial to reach 100%+ Deftness in Dragonflight and Khaz Algar professions. This change brings Deftness back in line to expected values.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• Now you can shift click a feature’s checkbox in Edit Mode to enable the feature directly. This applies to features including Cooldown Manager, Damage Meter, Boss Warnings, External Defensives, and Loot Window.
• The default size of raid frames and arena frames has been increased.
• Added a slider to change the size of the Big Defensive icon on raid frames.
• Added the ability to invite cross faction players to a party from the Recent Allies window.
• Damage Meter windows now have a minimize/maximize button, leaving only the header bar when minimized.
• There is a new icon for “stay a while and listen” NPCs.
• Fixed an issue where the Boss Timeline was shown for encounters with no timeline events.
• Fixed an issue that could disrupt auto-loot functionality in some situations.
• TRANSMOGRIFICATION
  • New weapon sheathing options have been added, including an option to hide weapons when sheathed.
  • Added a Sheathe Weapon toggle to the transmog preview pane.
  • Added a /outfit command to change outfits. Use /outfit x, with x being the outfit’s order number in the transmogrification pane. Using /outfit with no number or /outfit x with that outfit already equipped will clear all transmogs instead (use /outfit !x to avoid this behavior). Trial of Style outfit uses /outfit 0.
  • Two Situations have been added: Weather and Time of Day.
  • The Sets and Custom Sets section now have a more detailed tooltip that shows the collection status of the set and its appearances.
  • When there is an outfit discount in effect, the cost is now green with a tooltip showing the source of the discount.
  • Added a glow to the “Save Outfit” button when there are pending changes.
  • Fixed an issue where certain items with special visual effects, such as Forest Lord’s Antlers, would be displayed incorrectly when applied as a transmogrification.

The following class changes will be available with the 12.0.5 content update next week:

CLASSES

Demon Hunter

• Devourer
  • Sweet Suffering has been updated – Now increases the duration of Feast of Souls by 1 second/2 seconds (was 2 seconds/4 seconds).

Druid

• Restoration
  • Developers’ notes: Restoration Druid’s damage, particularly for Druids leaning towards Balance spells, has been lower compared to other healers. These changes are intended to increase the viability of a caster-oriented playstyle which involves applying damage over time effects and using Starfire, Wrath, and Starsurge.
  • Wrath damage increased by 40%.
  • Starfire damage increased by 40%.
  • Starsurge damage increased by 40%.
  • Sunfire damage increased by 25%.
  • Moonfire damage increased by 25%.

Evoker

• Preservation
  • All healing reduced by 5%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Verdant Embrace mana cost reduced by 27%.

Monk

• Mistweaver
  • All healing reduced by 5%.
  • Sheilun’s Gift’s healing is increased by 5% per cloud consumed (was 10%).
• Windwalker
  • Tigereye Brew now increases critical strike chance by 1% per stack (was 2%).

Paladin

• Holy
  • Developers’ notes: Our goals for these changes are to increase overall throughput and elevate Judgment’s role rotationally regardless of talent build.
  • Holy Shock healing increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Word of Glory healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Eternal Flame healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Light of Dawn healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Greater Judgment absorb increased by 250%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Priest

• Discipline
  • Developers’ notes: We’re making some targeted changes this week to reduce Discipline’s overall healing output by lowering Atonement healing, while increasing the value of targeted shields and direct healing spells to help with triage in dungeons. These adjustments are intended to keep Discipline’s strengths intact while improving their ability to respond to dangerous health swings in dungeon content.
  • Atonement now causes spell damage to heal all targets affected by Atonement for 28% of damage done (was 35%). Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Power Word: Shield absorption increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Void Shield absorption increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Flash Heal healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Shadow Mend healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Power Word: Radiance healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Plea healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Holy
  • All healing done increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP combat.