World of Warcraft Hotfixes Patch Notes (4th April 2026)

Blizzard has published a new round of hotfixes for April 3, 2026, covering World of Warcraft: Midnight alongside Classic modes including Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, and Burning Crusade Classic. The fixes span class tuning, dungeon encounters, items, and quest visibility issues.

On the class side, Shadow Priest got a significant rework across the previous few days, with Shadow Word: Death damage jumping 80% and Shadowy Apparition damage up 35%. Feral Druid and Beast Mastery Hunter also picked up 3-4% damage buffs to push their raid performance up without touching their already-competitive Mythic+ numbers. Retribution Paladin received several targeted fixes addressing Dawnlight targeting inconsistencies and Morning Star interactions that were breaking in specific scenarios. The Sun Darter Hatchling fix is worth flagging separately: Blizzard is pushing an early patch to stop the Mind-Seeker progress check from resetting, with a fuller account-wide detection fix planned for 12.0.5.

Dungeon visibility improvements are scattered throughout, with The Voidspire, Skyreach, and Pit of Saron all getting clearer visual cues on dangerous abilities. That's genuinely useful quality-of-life work, and credit where it's due for Blizzard being specific about what changed and why.

Full patch notes below.

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kg-card-begin: htmlHere 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 3, 2026 Classes

Death Knight

Unholy

Resolved an issue causing Putrefy to not function during the Ick and Krick fight in Pit of Saron. Midnight Season 1 4-Set Bonus – Blighted can no longer be canceled.

Druid

Restoration

Reforestation no longer stacks while out of combat in raid instances.

Warlock

Destruction

Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Eye Explosion would not activate from Chaos Bolt.

Delves

Sunkiller Sanctum

Characters will no longer be teleported outside of the delve if they die after defeating the boss.

Dungeons and Raids

Magisters' Terrace

Spellwoven Familiar health reduced by 20% and now contributes to enemy forces.

Nexus-Point Xenas

Lothraxion

Addressed an issue where Brilliant Dispersion can inflict multiple instances of damage to target players.

Pit of Saron

Arcanist Cadaver

Now marked as an elite creature, its damage and health are unchanged. Now has a mana bar. Visual effects and size adjusted to improve visibility.

Skyreach

Improved visibility on Suntalon when afflicted with Mark of Death. Rukhran

Addressed an issue where Screech can be triggered when it is in melee combat with a player.

The Voidspire

Vorasius

Increased the visibility of the impact zones of Vorasius' Shadowclaw Slam. Shadowclaw Slam's visual should now more accurately reflect its area-of-effect.

Vaelgor and Ezzorak

Improved the visual clarity for the target of Dread Breath.

Lightblinded Vanguard

Improved the visual clarity of Avenger's Shield and Divine Toll. Resolved an issue where Divine Toll could hit players multiple times.

Items

The Sun Darter Hatchling check for Mind-Seeker progress will no longer reset.

Developers’ notes: We’re releasing this fix early to prevent additional players from encountering the issue. A follow-up change is planned for 12.0.5 that will detect if the Sun Darter Hatchling has been unlocked on your account.

Quests

Arator should be visible again to turn in “Battle of the Bridge” on alternate characters.

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