World of Warcraft Hotfixes Patch Notes (9th April 2026)
Blizzard has pushed a fresh round of World of Warcraft hotfixes, with the April 7 changes doing the heavy lifting across tanks and DPS specs.
Blizzard has published the latest round of World of Warcraft hotfixes, covering changes across Midnight, Mists of Pandaria Classic, and several other versions of the game. The April 7 changes are the meatier batch, with significant tuning across tanks and damage specs.
Blood Death Knights are the big winners, picking up a 25% auto-attack boost and a bump to Blood Fortification armor from 35% to 45%. Protection Paladins also get some love on the survivability side, with Light of the Titans' healing doubling when you're under a periodic effect. On the flip side, Brewmaster Monks are being reined in after their Midnight self-healing proved a bit too strong. Vengeance Demon Hunter gets a 40% melee auto-attack increase, which is a substantial correction for a spec that's been quietly underperforming in single-target.
The April 9 fixes are smaller but worth knowing. Demonology Warlocks had a Demonic Brutality bug inflating pet crit damage to 260% instead of the intended 230%, and Augmentation Evoker's Ebon Might radius jumped from 100 yards to 500, which is a meaningful quality-of-life change in chaotic raid environments. 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 9, 2026
Classes
- Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- Corrected an issue where the Wild Instincts talent could cause more damage than intended when fighting a single target.
- Beast Mastery
- Priest
- Discipline
- Oracle: Fixed an issue where Blaze of Light would not apply its slow effect on enemies.
- Holy
- Oracle: Fixed an issue causing Preemptive Care to increase the duration of Renews from Lasting Words by 25%, instead of the intended 40%.
- Discipline
- Warlock
- Demonology
- Fixed an issue where demons summoned by Dominion of Argus would not prioritize your target.
- Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Diabolist demons would not prioritize your target.
- Diabolist: Overlord, Mother of Chaos, and Pit Lord should no longer be summoned when Diabolic Art is removed if their summoner is not in combat.
- Demonology
Delves
- Valeera now speaks less frequently in Delves.
Dungeons and Raids
- Magisters' Terrace
- Fixed a rare issue where it was possible for non-boss enemies to fail to spawn correctly.
- The Dreamrift
- Chimaerus the Undreamt God
- Resolved an issue where Chimaerus could become stuck in the environment.
- Chimaerus the Undreamt God
- The Voidspire
- Crown of the Cosmos
- The second target of Grasp of Emptiness in Mythic difficulty will now prefer non-healer specialized characters.
- Crown of the Cosmos
Horrific Visions
- Fixed a bug where completion credit for Oblivion Elemental in Vision of Orgimmar was not granted if the player killed it too quickly.
Quests
- "Midnight: Legends of the Haranir" is no longer among the weekly activity choice selection options.
- Developers’ notes: “Legends of the Haranir” quests are only completable once weekly per Warband, but this weekly activity was available to all characters. This change resolves a case where players who already completed their weekly Legends of the Haranir quest on one character would be prevented from completing the weekly activity on an alt.
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