World of Warcraft: Midnight Hotfixes - 9 April

Community General Discussion
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March 4, 2026

Achievements

  • Addressed an issue with The Highest Peaks displaying incorrect progress.
  • Players who have completed Cataclysmic Lumberjack may now properly harvest lumber while remaining mounted in Cataclysm zones.
  • To earn With Flying Colors rewards, players must now complete a The War Within delve of any tier.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Frost
      • Remorseless Winter will no longer dismount the player when it deals damage.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Devourer
      • Fixed an issue causing Eradicate to become un-castable if it was gained during Metamorphosis and Metamorphosis expires.
      • Fixed an issue causing the incorrect body type to be shown during Void Metamorphosis’ removal animation.
  • Druid
    • Feral, Guardian, Restoration
      • Fixed an issue where Nurturing Instinct, Circle of the Heavens, and Call of the Elder Druid were not affecting Wrath, Starfire, or Starsurge.
  • Hunter
    • Fixed an issue causing Nature’s Ally Animal Companions to provide their Command Pet abilities.
    • Increased the consistency of the Pack Leader’s Boar’s pathing on sloped terrain.
    • Tracker’s Net is now treated like other breakable crowd controls, where it has a damage threshold before breaking.
    • Fixed an issue where many damage dealing effects would not break Tracker’s Net.
    • Survival
      • Fixed an issue preventing a talent tree connection from Intimidation to Cold Feet.
  • Mage
    • Fixed an issue where Reverberate’s additional cast was incorrectly generating Splinters, Arcane Salvo stacks, and Spellfire Spheres.
    • Fixed an issue where Comet Storm was usable while Fleeing or Feared.
    • Fixed an issue causing Scorch to not deal the correct damage when talented into Scald and Heat Shimmer.
    • Fixed an issue causing the Fractured Frost to incorrectly reduced Ice Lance’s damage.
    • Fixed an issue causing Spontaneous Combustion to grant an incorrect number of Fire Blast charges.
    • Fixed an issue causing Splitting Ice to strike enemies in breakable crowd control.
    • Fixed an issue causing Flash Freezeburn’s area damage to strike enemies in breakable crowd control.
    • Fixed an issue causing Flash Freezeburn’s area damage to inconsistently damage the correct number of units.
    • Fixed an issue causing Controlled Instinct’s area damage to inconsistently damage the correct number of units.
    • Fixed an issue causing Splintering Ray’s area damage to inconsistently damage the correct number of units.
    • Fixed an issue allowing Arcane Surge to be usable in the Assisted Rotation for Arcane Mages.
    • Chilled effect no longer shows “Immune” floating combat text when an enemy is not crowd-controllable.
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
      • Empty the Cellar now has a shorter range and should no longer target out of combat creatures.
    • Windwalker
      • Spells such as Fists of Fury should now consistently hit hovering enemies such as mana wyrms.
  • Rogue
    • Fixed an issue that caused Airborne Irritant to incorrectly apply its old AoE effect to Blind. The effect now matches the current and intended talent description.
    • Assassination
      • Crimson Tempest no longer generates a combo point if it hits no targets.
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement
      • Resolved an issue allowing Windfury Weapon to be cast on both Main Hand and Off-hand weapons at the same time.
      • Resolved an issue causing Arc Discharge to display a 20% increase to Chain Lightning damage increase, rather than the intended 40%.
      • Resolved an issue causing Arc Discharge to be consumed by Lightning Bolt.
      • Ride the Lightning now reduces Chain Lightning’s effectiveness by 20% per jump, as intended.
      • Primordial Storm has been added to the Single-Button Assistant.
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where Blight of Tongues and Weakness would not reset on encounter wipe.
    • Fixed an issue where Shard Instability would be consumed if activated while casting Unstable Affliction.

Enemies and NPCs

  • Players can now engage in battle with Voidseer Orivane as expected.
  • Territorial Petalwings should no longer evade when engaged in combat.

Events

  • Ethereal Energy objects should now be interactable when an Ethereal Tool is equipped even if the Ethereal Disruption event is not currently active.
  • The Deploy the Defenses user interface for Stormarion Citadel now displays as expected until the timer expires.
  • Abundance events are now available for all characters in a Warband, once one of them has completed opening tutorial questline.
  • Fixed an issue where the Abundance event in Voidstorm was not granting rewards for Abundant Harvests.
  • Jonas Everdawn in Silvermoon City will now offer “Saltheril’s Haven” to invite players to Saltheril’s Soiree once they have unlocked World Quests and reached level 90.

Housing

  • Harvesting lumber now provides a small amount of experience.
  • The decor Fungal Pergola can now be placed inside player houses.

Items

  • Fixed an issue with Void Execution Mandate where it did not trigger a shared cooldown with other trinkets.
  • Rare quality profession tools and profession accessories are now Bind-on-Equip (was Bind-on-Pickup).
  • Amani Extract Potion healing increased by 100%.

Player versus Player

  • Resolved a Slayer’s Rise issue preventing players from respawning at the Shenzar Refinery graveyard.
  • Vicious Flask of Honor, Vicious Flask of Manifested Fury, Vicious Flask of the Wrecking Ball, and Vicious Flask of Classical Spirits no longer work above level 80.
  • Rogue
    • Fixed a bug preventing Hemotoxin from functioning.
  • Shaman
    • Resolved an issue causing the Shamanism PvP talent to not function under the effects of Sated.

Prey

  • Corrected an issue where the starting location of the Power of Anguish quest was not visible on the map.
  • Increased the amount of Experience earned by completing Prey quests, including Prey-specific world quests.

Professions

  • Enchanting
    • Illusory Adornments no longer replace shoulder enchants.
    • Increased the stats granted by Midnight ring enchants.

Quests

  • Players who are progressing through The War Within recap at level 81+ can now enter The Rookery and complete “Calling the Stormriders”.
  • The “To Be Changed” questline in Voidstorm is now available for characters who have not completed the main campaign.
  • Corrected the starting location on the map for “Watch the Den”.
  • On “One Will Not Kill”, Knife Priestess Hezzia will now properly die upon her spell’s expiration.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause players to be unable to progress the quest “Champions of Quel’Danas”.
  • Fixed an issue where abandoning “One by One”, “Intercepted”, or “Keys Are Optional” could permanently prevent Valeera from appearing, blocking progression on “The Crimson Rogue” questline.
  • Resolved an issue where Risen Witherbark did not provide credit for “The Crypt in the Mist.”
  • Players above level 80 should now be able to access the scenario “A Light in the Dark” while on the quest of the same name.
  • Resolved an issue where two sets of Zul’jarra and Liadrin could be visible on “Brutal Feast.”
  • Resolved an issue where Witherbark Visitors were not visible to players prior to the quest “I Have a Permit.”
  • Resolved an issue where the conversation with Vun’zarah on “Coals of a Dead Loa” could be triggered repeatedly.
  • Fixed an issue where warlocks could become unable to complete “Pardon the Interruption”.
  • “Truth of the Past” should now be available to players who have reached Voidstorm.
  • Fixed an issue preventing glyph hunters in Eversong Woods from finding the Shining Span Skyriding glyph for “Eversong Woods Glyph Hunter”.
  • Fixed a bug where players were blocked from using the Discordant Tune on Snapdragons for “Put a Little Snap in Their Step”.
  • Players who completed “Legends of the Haranir” in the current week and then pick up “Legendary Prosperity” will now have “Legendary Prosperity” automatically complete.
  • Players on the Zul’Aman campaign quest “Blade Shattered” will no longer receive credit for other players killing Mor’duun. You have to do it yourself.

Renown and Reputation

  • Fixed a bug that prevented players from earning Renown above rank 11.

World

  • The Camp Stonewash innkeeper now provides rest and instant logout as intended.
  • Fixed a spot where players could get stuck on a tree in Quel’danas.