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Coiled Altar and Ula’tek Fixes – Patch 12.1 Hotfixes for August 31st

Blizzard has posted hotfixes for today, which includes Coiled Altar and Ula'tek fixes in the Venomous Abyss Raid, and class bug fixes.

Mythic Coiled Altar nerfed.

Eggs on Ula'tek now deal periodic damage, rather than direct damage.

Various Bug Fixes on Ula'tek

The Gnarldor Isle Delve adventure story is now quicker to complete.

Rune of Lingering no longer breaks CC.

Class Bug Fixes for Unholy DK, Mistweaver Monk and more.

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
August 31, 2026

Classes

Death Knight

Unholy

Resolved an issue causing Dread and Virulent Plague Erupt effects to not work as intended with the target damage modifiers and caster damage modifiers Foul Infections, Thrill of Blood, Incite Terror, Morbidity, Soul Reaper, Brittle, and the War debuff of Rune of the Apocalypse.

Druid

Restoration

Fixed an issue where Grove Guardians were not prioritizing healing the target of your Swiftmend or Wild Growth.

Fixed an issue where Everbloom could incorrectly heal 6 targets instead of the intended 5 targets.

Mage

Fire

Resolved an issue where the 2-piece set bonus: Flamestrike did not correctly always grant Hot Streak when it is a guaranteed critical strike due to Pyroclasm.

Monk

Mistweaver

Fixed an issue where Soothing Mist could rarely cause the incorrect aura to be canceled.

Priest

Holy

Fixed an issue where Guardian Angel would not reduce the cooldown of Guardian Spirit when placed on an ally.

Warlock

Affliction

Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Blackened Soul would not activate from Unstable Affliction applied via Fatal Echoes.

Delves

Gnarldor Isle

Minchi has been hitting the books and now requires adventurers to help him investigate only 4 bone piles (was 6) in the Minchi's Osseous Adventure story.

Dungeons and Raids

The Venomous Abyss

The Coiled Alter

Fixed a rare issue where Coalesced Venom's could spawn inside a Virulent Mutation rim on Mythic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Soul Sever was incorrectly highlighting which Manifestations of Dread would be destroyed.

Defilement of the Coiled Altar healing absorb reduced by 20% in Mythic difficulty.

Ula’tek

Damage from carrying eggs is now treated as periodic damage (was direct damage).

Resolved an issue where Blight Vein could occasionally inflict additional damage.

Resolved an issue where Toxic Burn could occasionally inflict additional damage.

Resolved an issue that could cause Dancing Rune Weapon to fail to cast spells when targeting the Venomous Heart.

Increased the range of Grasping Fangs.

Corrected an issue that would cause Ula'tek to re-emerge during the intermission.

Omnium Folio

Fixed a bug that could cause the Rune of Lingering to break crowd-controlled enemies.

User Interface

Groups for the Housewarming housing quest are now found in the Questing section of the Premade Group Finder (was the Custom section).

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