World of Warcraft: Midnight Hotfixes – August 17, 2026

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Corrected an issue where Dire Beast Kill Commands from the Wildspeaker Talent did not properly benefit from Killer Instinct, Alpha Predator, Specialized Arsenal, or Savagery.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Corrected an issue where swapping from Shadow to Holy specializations could improperly cause Shadow Word: Pain to not turn into Holy Fire.
• Shaman
  • Corrected an issue where swapping between specs may incorrectly cause Lava Burst to show up as Primal Strike in your spellbook.
• Warlock
  • Destruction
    • Fixed an issue where the tooltip of Shadowburn would not display the correct duration.

Delves

• In Delves, Ula’tek’s Amphisbaena Writhing Strike poison can only get one aura at a time. Damage reduced 25%, and the cooldown on Writhing Strike increased.
• Fixed an issue causing Corrosive Bilespear to not proc at higher ranks.

Lairs

• Resolved an issue causing the sharks to not bite in The Tidebound Grotto.

Naigtal and Val

• Players in Heroic World Tier can again talk with a sprit healer to exit Heroic World Tier and resurrect.

Quests

• Ofi the Sly should now properly accept that the concoction is complete for “Acceptable Apprentice”.
• Fixed an issue preventing characters under level 90 from completing activities related to Saltheril’s Soiree and Abundance.

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