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World of Warcraft Hotfixes Patch Notes (13th April 2026)

Blizzard's April 13 hotfixes bring meaningful class tuning and some overdue dungeon fixes to World of Warcraft: Midnight and Classic.

Nathan Lees
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The biggest headline from these April 13 hotfixes is Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar getting trimmed down in March on Quel'danas, Stage Two health cut by 10% on Mythic, Ashen Benediction halved from 10% to 5% per stack, and Guardian's Edict casts coming less frequently. If your guild has been hitting a wall on that encounter, this should make a noticeable difference.

The hotfixes also carry over class changes from earlier in the week, including substantial buffs to Blood Death Knight survivability, a major self-healing nerf to Brewmaster Monks, and Protection Paladin getting a significant defensive pass to help with magical damage in Mythic+. Augmentation Evoker's Ebon Might radius jumping from 100 to 500 yards is the kind of quality-of-life fix that sounds small on paper but removes a frustrating positioning constraint in practice.

On the dungeon side, a fix for Night Elf Vengeance Demon Hunters being unable to hide behind Saronite Ore in Pit of Saron is a niche one, but I appreciate Blizzard catching it. Light's Preservation potion also received a healing bump, though no numbers are given.

Full patch notes below.

Full Patch Notes

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

April 13, 2026

Classes

  • Hunter
    • Fixed an issue causing Bestial Wrath to not deal damage if Bestial Wrath's charge would put the Pet out of range.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Algeth’ar Academy
    • Addressed an issue where Crawth's Deafening Screech's debuff could persist after the encounter ended.
    • Addressed an issue where Alpha Eagle could start casting Gust while still in the air.
  • Maisara Caverns
    • Resolved an issue causing Hollow Soulrender's Frost Nova to occasionally inflict damage at the incorrect location.
  • Pit of Saron
    • Forgemaster Garfrost
      • Fixed an issue that could prevent Night Elf Vengeance Demon Hunters from being able to hide behind Saronite Ore.
  • March on Quel'danas
    • Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar
      • Belo'ren's Stage Two health has been reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Ashen Benediction has been reduced to 5% per stack on all difficulties (was 10%).
      • Reduced the frequency of Guardian's Edict casts over the course of the encounter on all difficulties.
  • The Voidspire
    • Corrected an issue where the Lightblinded Vanguard could fail to appear after using the raid skip.
    • Vaelgor & Ezzorak
      • Addressed an issue where the bosses could respawn atop the Devouring Stronghold instead of their arena.

Items

  • Light's Preservation potion now provides more healing.

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