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February 3rd Midnight Pre-Patch Hotfixes – Pre-Patch Weeklies, Devourer PvP Tuning

Blizzard has released hotfix notes, which include per character Pre-Patch weekly quests, updating prices for housing decor items, and significant Devourer tuning in PvP.

February 3, 2026

Classes

Evoker

Devastation

Fixed an issue allowing Deep Breath to sometimes be castable more often than intended.

Housing

Fixed several decor items that were incorrectly priced. Their costs have been updated to the intended values.

Items

Fixed an issue where Mysterious Satchels could activate group loot rolls for players who were not in a group.

Player versus Player

Demon Hunter

Fel-Scarred: Focused Hatred now increases Demonsurge damage by 10% (was 50%) when damaging a single target, reducing by 2% (was 10%) per additional target in PvP combat.

Fel-Scarred: Demonsurge damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

Devourer

Developers’ notes: We’re applying several changes that were made to Devourer in the Beta, to reduce burst during pre-patch. These come along with an overall damage reduction to the specialization.

All damage reduced by 8% in PvP combat.

Consume damage increased by 100% in PvP combat. Does not affect Devour.

Devour damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.

Voidblade damage increased by 15% in PvP combat. Does not affect Pierce the Veil.

Void Ray damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.

Hungering Slash damage increased by 15% in PvP combat. Does not affect Reaper’s Toll.

Impending Apocalypse now increases the damage of your next Collapsing Star by 15% in PvP combat (was 30%).

Focused Ray now increases the damage of Void Ray by 15% in PvP combat (was 50%).

Inevitable End now reduces the cast time of Collapsing Star by 25% instead of increasing its damage done. Please note that the tooltip will not reflect this change during pre-patch.

Predator’s Wake damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat. This is the empowered The Hunt from Demonic Intensity.

Devourer’s Bite now increases the damage your target takes by 5% per application (was 12%).

Surrender to the Void now increases damage dealt while in Void Metamorphosis by 10% (was 20%).

Hunter

Pack Leader: Boar Charge damage is now reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Quests

Doomshadow should live a little longer before meeting their demise for players who are participating in “The Big Dig”.

Twilight Ascension Event

Spawns in the Twilight Highlands should properly announce their presence to the zone when they spawn.

Fixed an issue preventing Eoin Dunwald from appearing during the Twilight Ascension event.

The weekly repeatable quests “Twilight’s Dawn” and “Disrupt the Call” may now be completed per-character and they now award Twilight’s Blade Insignias to all characters.

Twilight Ascension World Quests now award both Twilight’s Blade Insignias and Resonance Crystals to all characters as their primary reward instead of awarding one or the other.

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