WoW Hotfixes Patch Notes - 29th April 2026

Warlocks and Mages have been carrying some quietly broken interactions for a while now, and this latest round of WoW hotfixes does a fair amount of cleanup. Affliction Warlocks in particular get several fixes: Abyssal Immolator's 4-piece set bonus now correctly bumps Agony's initial stack count, and Shared Agony no longer breaks after casting a Curse. Frost Mages also see multiple corrections, including a fix for Flurry not fully benefiting from Brain Freeze damage when a non-proc'd cast followed immediately after.

On the dungeon side, Algeth'ar Academy gets a one-minute timer extension to 31 minutes, which is a small but real quality-of-life bump for groups that were just barely missing the key. Maisara Caverns sees a more meaningful change: Coordinated Assault from Muro'jin and Nekraxx has been cut by 30% and now ignores armor, which should make that fight feel less punishing for squishier group compositions.

There are also fixes rolling back from April 27 and April 24, covering everything from a Great Vault item level display error to Marksmanship Hunter PvP nerfs targeting overperforming Black Arrow interactions. Here's everything that changed.

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 28, 2026

Classes

Druid
- Restoration
  - Fixed an issue where Blooming Infusion was counting each target of Nature's Bounty or Rampant Growth as an additional cast.
Mage
- Frost
  - Fixed an issue causing some spells to be incorrectly locked during Party Sync.
Warlock
- Affliction
  - Fixed an issue where the Abyssal Immolator 4-piece set bonus would not correctly increase the initial stack count of Agony by 2.
  - Fixed an issue where Unstable Affliction applied through Fatal Echoes would consume Shard Instability.

Decor Duel

Fixed a bug that could prevent seekers from receiving participation credit.

Dungeons and Raids

Algeth’ar Academy
- Timer increased to 31 minutes (was 30 minutes).
Maisara Caverns
- Muro’jin and Nekraxx
  - Coordinated Assault damage reduced by 30%, and now ignores armor.
March on Quel’Danas
- Midnight Falls
  - Fixed an issue causing Druids to become untargetable after entering the Darkwell while shapeshifted.