Hotfixes
January 22, 2026
Characters
The XP buff from the Warband Mentors: The War Within set of achievements should now be applying correctly on characters below level 80.
Corrected an issue that incorrectly enabled legacy content scaling for characters who were leveling up in Dragonflight.
Classes
Death Knight
Unholy
Developers’ notes: We’re looking into the throughput imbalance for Unholy Death Knight in the pre-expansion update. These changes will not impact 12.0.1, as Unholy received substantial updates between 12.0.0 and 12.0.1.
Rider of the Apocalypse Horsemen damage reduced by 50%.
Trollbane’s Icy Fury damage increased by 100%.
Lesser Ghoul Sweeping Claw main target damage reduced by 50%.
Lesser Ghoul melee damage reduced by 50%.
Pet Ghoul Sweeping Claw main target damage reduced by 50%.
Pet Ghoul melee damage reduced by 50%.
Death Coil damage reduced by 30%.
Scourge Strike damage reduced by 30%.
Infected Claws damage reduced by 50%.
Putrefy main target damage reduced by 30%.
Morbidity now increases the damage taken by 1% per disease on target (was 2%).
Raise Abomination Disease Cloud effect reduced to 10% (was 20%).
Epidemic damage increased by 25%.
Clawing Shadows chain damage penalty reduced to 15% (was 25%).
Mage
Frostbolt is now located in the Frost Mage section of the Spellbook for easier access.
Delves
Fixed a bug causing Brann’s experience bar to also mention Valeera.
Dungeons and Raids
Fixed a bug preventing some encounters from progressing through their stages correctly (e.g. the Neltharion encounter in Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible).
Resolved an issue causing some creatures in Nerub’ar Palace and Liberation of Undermine to have very low health.
Housing
Elegant Elven Barrel can now be added as decor.
Lightly Broken Fences found around the neighborhood can now be repaired.
Mage Tower
Developers’ notes: With the Midnight pre-expansion update now live, we’re adjusting enemy health in several Mage Tower challenges to bring them back toward their intended pacing and difficulty.
Closing the Eye
Enemy health increased by 20%.
An Impossible Foe
Enemy health increased by 20%.
The God-Queen’s Fury
Enemy health increased by 15%.
Feltotem’s Fall
Enemy health increased by 20% for all specializations except Discipline Priest, for which there is no adjustment.
Thwarting the Twins
Enemy health increased by 20%.
The Highlord’s Return
Enemy health increased by 15%.
Player versus Player
Adjusted the effectiveness of Training Grounds opponents.
Quests
The Campaign header should now appear for War Within campaigns.
Resolved issues with the quest “Distilled Darkness” causing the K’areshi Fragments to be uninteractible for some players.
Developers’ notes: If any issues are being encountered, please submit a bug report of what happened prior to the quest failing and identify which fragment is causing the issues (Northern, Southern, or both).
Transmogrification
Addressed an issue causing Midnight Special Edition transmog sets to not be usable at lower levels.
