Hotfixes: June 23, 2026

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Midnight, Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, Burning Crusade Classic, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

June 25, 2026

Delves

• When tank Valeera is accompanied by a healer, she now takes significantly less damage, scaling from 45% less damage at Tier 1 to 29% less damage at Tier 11.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sporefall
  • Resolved an issue causing players to be able to interact with the door to Funggor Hollow.

Naigtal

• Players will no longer lose their "Lighthook Grapple" ability when they log out of Naigtal.

Omnium Folio

• Starting with Week 2, the weekly Seeking Knowledge quest prerequisites are now account-wide. Characters must still complete the Sunstrider Omnium unlock questline to access the weekly quests on alts.

Quests

• All of the quests required for the Omnium Folio and to unlock and enter Val or Naigtal are now marked as Important quests.
• Fixed a bug preventing new Midsummer quests from rewarding XP.

Val

• Gravity Shackles affix damage reduced by 50%.
• Adjusted the World Quest "Dissent and Divide".
  • Increased the chances of a favorable gossip reaction even when selecting inappropriate gossip options for the target.
  • Increased base spawn thresholds for conversation targets.
  • Added additional Veilcasters around the quest area.
  • Added partial credit for killing gossip targets.
  • Added a movement bonus to the Domanaar disguise.
• Adjusted the World Quest "Aberration Liberation".
  • Reduced the quest objective count to 10 (was 12).
  • Kills now give credit to the whole party (was the interacting player).
  • Improved respawning when many players are present.
• Spirit Healers now correctly spawn in Val.

Season of Discovery

• Grendag Brightbeard can now be found in Thunder Bluff and in the entrance to the Undercity.
  • Developers' notes: This is intended as a workaround to issue on some servers causing players in Orgrimmar to not be able to disable or re-enable XP gains. We hope to return Grendag to working order in Orgrimmar soon.

June 23, 2026

Items

• Rotmire's Sporeheart once again triggers from Leech healing.

Lorewalking

• During Loa Lorewalking (and Darkspear Heritage), Lukou's portals will now allow transport while in combat.

Midsummer Fire Festival

• "Reignite the Skies: Orgrimmar" and "Reignite the Skies: Stormwind" Midsummer dailies unlocks are now account-wide.
• Fixed an issue that allowed the contents Satchel of Chilled Goods to reroll each time it was opened.
• Sun Festival Painted Roc's chance to drop in Satchel of Chilled Goods has been doubled for the first drop of the day on the account. The drop rate from the first satchel will continue to increase each day until it is obtained.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue where some important effects and major defensives were not displaying on enemy player nameplates.

Professions

• Fixed an issue where Empowered Mulch would result in no herbs being gathered.

Quests

• The weekly offerings from Lady Liadrin should once again offer four choices to players.

Val

• Adjustments made to the "Until it is Done" world quest, improving quest credit earned and increasing creature respawn rates.

Mists of Pandaria Classic

• Challenge Mode
  • Challenge Conqueror: Platinum (Season 3) is now correctly earnable.
    • Developers' notes: Realm First! Challenge Conqueror: Platinum (Season 3) has been disabled in North America while we work on granting the achievement to the correct winners.
• Mists of Pandaria Classic can no longer be installed on Windows 7 and 8 operating systems.

June 22, 2026

Delves

• The Excavation Site 9 and Sidestreet Sluice delves should be reliably displaying the correct names again.

Items

• Fixed an issue causing the Draconic Nullcape cloak to use an unintended appearance. This item now contributes towards the Luminant Verdict's Vestments transmog sets.

Naigtal

• More bouncy mushrooms have been added to help with some hard-to-reach locations.
• The Spore Buoy's slowfall effect now works on mounted players.

Omnium Folio

• Fixed an issue with Rune of Void-Tainted Shell's tooltip.

Quests

• "Defying Gravity" should once again function with the Lair of Predaxas restored.

Ritual Sites

• Players can now pick up Lady Darkglen's new quest for Tier 6 Ritual Sites in the Silvermoon hub in addition to outside the active Ritual Site.

The Burning Crusade Classic

• Fixed an issue that was causing Midsummer Festival Bonfires to deal more damage to players than expected.

Mists of Pandaria Classic

• Siege of Orgrimmar cooldown reduction trinkets will now correctly re-evaluate their effects when starting a Challenge Mode dungeon.

June 18, 2026

Items

• Fixed an issue that could prevent Rotmire's Sporeheart's effect from triggering from certain sources of healing.

Lorewalking

• Rewards from the Loa Lorewalking campaign should now scale all the way to level 90.

Naigtal

• Rares are now enveloped in shadow for the first 3 minutes after spawning and cannot be attacked, giving players additional time to reach the encounter.

Player versus Player

• Resolved an issue that could cause Horde to lose reinforcements instead of Alliance when they capture the Sparring Grounds in Slayer's Rise.

June 17, 2026

Abundance

• Fixed an issue where players could not begin Abundance in Voidstorm. All players who lost Shards of Dundun due to this issue will be refunded with Unalloyed Abundance in an upcoming hotfix.

Island Expeditions

• Island Expeditions should be queueing correctly once again.

Items

• Fixed an issue where the Void-Touched Torch had lower Intellect than intended.

Lorewalking

• Fixed an issue where the initial objective conversation for "The Prince Who Would Be King" would not complete.

Naigtal

• The "Bouncy Mushrooms," "Aerospores", and "The Grappler" unlocks in Naigtal are now account wide.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Nexus-Captain Leth'ir from dropping the quest item for "Knocking Off the Top (Heroic)." Characters that encountered the issue can earn their emblem from another Heroic kill of Nexus-Captain Leth'ir or from a wrapper quest they have not completed.

Mists of Pandaria Classic

• Siege of Orgrimmar
  • Garrosh Hellscream
    • Beginning with realm maintenance this week, defeating Garrosh will now give you a chance to bonus roll for an extra piece of loot.
• Celestial Dungeons
  • Kor'kron Arcweavers no longer ignore line of sight and Magistrike has had its damage reduced.
  • Kor'kron Banners have had their health significantly reduced.
  • The respawn rate of the Kor'kron forces has been adjusted to be every 2 hours (was 5 minutes).
  • August Stone Clusters now cap at 200 (was 70).
  • The Coffer of Celestial Chance now awards 50-60 Lesser Charms of Good Fortune (was 20-30).