Blizzard Temporarily Disables Profession Re-Specialization in The Burning Crusade Pre-Patch

Blizzard has released a Hotfix for The Burning Crusade Anniversary, which temporarily disables the Book "Soothsaying for Dummies". This object was previously granting players the incorrect Specialization, so Blizzard is disabling it to work on a fix.

TBC Classic Pre-Patch Overview

January 27, 2026

The Burning Crusade Classic

Fixed a rare bug where characters who received a Level 58 Character Boost did not learn all their spells.

Book “Soothsaying for Dummies”, used to re-choose profession specializations for Leatherworking and Engineering, has been temporarily disabled while we resolve an issue with it granting the wrong specialization.

Developers’ notes: We’re aiming to have the book reenabled in the not-too-distant future and will post a hotfix note when that happens.

Fixed an issue where raid frames were not correctly displaying whether a player was in-range or not.
Fixed an issue where pets with auto-cast spells would cause client performance to degrade over time.
Fixed an issue that caused the pre-expansion event to disable briefly.