The War Within Hotfixes - 24 September

August 12, 2025

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Frost
      • Obliterate damage reduced by 5%.
      • Rider of the Apocalypse: Mawsworn Menace now increases the damage of Obliterate by 5% (was 10%).
      • Rider of the Apocalypse: Hollow Sentinel’s Wake 2-piece now increases Trollbane’s Obliterate damage by 15% (was 35%).
      • Deathbringer: Exterminate first scythe damage increased by 10%.
      • Resolved an issue causing Howling Blast to not consume Rime procs at high Haste levels.
      • Resolved an issue causing Frost Strike to not generate Killing Machine in Obliteration windows at high Haste levels.
      • Resolved an issue causing Frostbane casts to fail at high Haste levels if it is cast as soon as it is available.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • All ability damage increased by 5%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • All ability damage increased by 8%.
      • Keeper of the Grove: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece now accumulates 3% of damage done (was 2%) and Dryad’s Favor is now capped at 10x spellpower (was 6x) and splashes 15% (was 20%) of its damage onto nearby enemies.
      • Elune’s Chosen: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece Starfire damage increase changed to 20% (was 25%), and has a 40% chance (was 50%) to launch a Starsurge at 45% effectiveness (was 50%).
      • Elune’s Chosen: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece Split Starsurges deal damage at 40% effectiveness (was 80%).
    • Feral
      • Ferocious Bite and Ravage primary target damage increased by 6%.
      • Shred damage increased by 5%.
      • Sabertooth causes Ferocious Bite to increase damage taken from your bleeds and other periodic effects by 6% per combo point (was 5%).
      • Wildstalker: Bloodseeker Vines damage increased by 5%.
    • Restoration
      • Wildstalker: Fixed a bug causing the Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece bonus to generate extra Symbiotic Blooms for Regrowths cast by Rampant Growth.
      • Wildstalker: Fixed a bug preventing Twin Sprouts from generating extra Bloodseeker Vines or Symbiotic Blooms from the ones created by the Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece set bonus.
      • Wildstalker: Symbiotic Bloom and Bursting Growth healing increased by 15%.
      • Wildstalker: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece bonus increases the rate of Symbiotic Bloom growth by 45% (was 30%).
      • Wildstalker: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece now causes Symbiotic Bloom healing to have a 35% (was 20%) chance to trigger Bursting Growth at 100% effectiveness (was 80%).
      • Developers’ notes: The bug involving Rampant Growth was generating a large number of unintended Symbiotic Blooms, which consolidated a lot of Wildstalker’s healing power into the 4-piece and Clearcasting procs. We’ve added healing power to counteract the healing loss from the bug fix.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • Tireless Collector’s Bounties - 2-piece chance to fire a free Barbed Shot reduced by 50%.
  • Mage
    • Frost
      • All damage dealt reduced by 3%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
      • Shado-Pan: Crash of Fallen Storms 2-piece bonus Flurry Strikes deal 10% increased damage (was 20%).
      • Shado-Pan: Crash of Fallen Storms 4-piece bonus Flurry Charge generation increased by 30% (was 50%).
      • Shado-Pan: Damage dealt by Flurry Strikes from Wisdom of the Wall reduced by 20%.
  • Priest
    • Shadow
      • Fixed an issue causing Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch applications from Shadow Crash to ignore line of sight.
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement
      • Lava Lash damage increased by 15%.
      • Windstrike damage increased by 20%.
      • Totemic: Surging Bolt damage increased by 25%.
      • Totemic: Searing Bolt damage increased by 35%.
      • Stormbringer: Awakening Storm damage increased by 35%.
      • Stormstrike damage increased by 10%. Does not affect Windstrike.
      • Elemental Blast damage increased by 8%.
      • Stormbringer: Tempest single target damage increased by 8%.
  • Warlock
    • Threatening Presence now increases the threat generation of your Voidwalker and Felguard by 950% (was 400%).
    • Affliction
      • Spliced Fiendtrader’s Influence 2-piece set bonus adjusted - Jackpot! chance reduced by 30%.
    • Demonology
      • Wild Imp damage reduced by 20%.
      • Immutable Hatred damage reduced by 30%.
    • Destruction
      • Diabolist: Inquisitor’s Feast of Madness 2-piece has been adjusted – Eye Blast damage reduced by 45%.
  • Warrior
    • Protection
      • Mountain Thane: Damage dealt by Ionizing Strikes reduced by 30%.

Player versus Player

  • Death Knight
    • Frost
      • Frost Strike damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Unholy
      • Festering Wound damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Druid
    • Feral
      • All damage reduced by 8% in PvP combat.
  • Mage
    • Arcane
      • Nether Flux now increases the damage an enemy receives from the next targeted spell by 40% (was 100%).
    • Fire
      • Meteor direct damage reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
    • Frost
      • All damage reduced by 10% in PvP.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • All healing reduced by 12% in PvP combat.
      • Divine Plea (PvP talent) duration increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
  • Priest
    • Shadow
      • Void Volley damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • Garrote damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Warlock
    • Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Summon Demonic Gateway would cause Diabolic Ritual to work incorrectly.
    • Demonology
      • All damage reduced by 5% in PvP combat.

Delves

  • Players using Waygates to change levels in Archival Assault should no longer break stealth.
  • Enemies now teleport after players who move up or down levels in Archival Assault more reliably.
  • Fixed a bug in Sidestreet Sluice where Maulspike would run back to his spawn point instead of respawning.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
    • Avanoxx
      • Insatiable’s damage increase reduced to 30% (was 50%).
      • Starved Crawlers can no longer critical hit on their melee attacks.
  • The Dawnbreaker
    • Speaker Shadowcrown
      • Shadow Shroud’s healing absorb reduced by 33%.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Shadow Shroud’s healing absorb to not scale with keystone level.
  • Eco-Dome Al’dani
    • Adjusted the spawn locations of Frenzied Mites to be more consistent.
  • Halls of Atonement
    • High Adjudicator Aleez
      • Pulse From Beyond’s damage now occurs every 1.5 second (was every 1 second).
    • Lord Chamberlain
      • Stigma of Pride removed.
      • Ritual of Woe’s group damage when it hits a statue reduced by 38%.
      • Resolved an issue where Lord Chamberlain’s statues collision could persist.
      • Resolved an issue where Lord Chamberlain’s Sinstone Statues did not inflict damage to players in their path during Telekinetic Onslaught.
      • Reduced the damage of Telekinetic Collision by 30%.
  • Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
    • Addressed an issue where Adorned Overseers’s Drifting Star can be fired at a wrong angle.
    • Addressed an issue where So’azmi will stop using his abilities after being interrupted by Solar Beams during Double Technique / Triple Technique.
    • Addressed an issue where Zo’gron’s Crowd Control can go off if he is defeated while channeling.
  • Liberation of Undermine
    • Chrome King Gallywix
      • Resolved an issue that caused the visual for Haywire Environment to go haywire.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Visions of N’zoth Revisited items in Season 3 from working with the S.A.D. Season 3 socketer. Season 3 items that drop after this fix can now be socketed.
  • Resolved an issue where some World Quests were showing an incorrect low gold value as their primary reward.

K’aresh

  • Devourer Mites from the Devourer Attack: Tazavesh event should now despawn after a short delay once the event ends.

Quests

  • “Sparks of War: K’aresh” now correctly appears in the correct section in the quest log.
  • The quest “Crest Transmutation” is once again available.
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