Hotfixes: May 5, 2025 — World of Warcraft – Blizzard News

Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, 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

May 5, 2025

Nightfall Event

• Dissenter Troosilver and Whisperer Bravefort have now joined the Sureki assault in eastern Hallowfall.

Player versus Player

• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Fixed an issue that caused Storm Conduit to not grant its interrupt protection or cooldown reduction on Tempest casts.

Season of Discovery

• The buffs granted from Corrupted Ashbringer are no longer Magic effects.
• Paladin
  • The Scarlet Enclave Protection 6-set bonus now correctly also allows the use of Avenging Wrath while under the effects of Forbearance.

May 2, 2025

Achievements

• Fixed a bug preventing completion of Gilded of the Undermine. If you have attained item level 675 but have not yet received the achievement, log out in a zone from The War Within (such as Dornogal) and then log back in.

Classes

• Warrior
  • Protection
    • Fixed a bug causing Shield Charge to deal damage extra times or to targets near their starting position.

Dungeons

• Priory of the Sacred Flame
  • Resolved a Captain Dailcry issue where Hurl Spear could damage players that were not in the indicated path of his spear.

Items

• Carved Blazikon Wax bonus Versatility increased by 150%.
• Entropic Skardyn Core Intellect increased by 15% and fragments will attempt to return to the core.
• Soulletting Ruby Critical Strike increased by 10%.

Mounts

• Fixed a bug that caused Ground Skimming during Skyriding to recover less vigor than intended.

Nightfall Event

• Increased all Flame’s Radiance reputation gains by 100%, including first time completion, Quest, and Weekly Quest reputation rewards.
• Nightfall Item vendors now offer all Arathi Abbot’s, Arathi Cleric’s, Arathi Crusader’s, and Arathi Zealot’s weapons and shields.

Transmogrification

• Fixed an issue where the Mythic and Elite variants of the Shaman Liberation of Undermine class set gloves were missing additional lightning visual effects.

Season of Discovery

• Elemental Invasions now spawn every 1-2 hours (was every 24-48 hours).
• The Grand Arcanist and Grand Sorcerer enchants now additionally grant Healing Power equal to the same amount of spell power.
• The Grand Arcanist and Grand Sorcerer enchants now have a 0.1 second cooldown on them to prevent players from getting multiple procs of the mana restoration effect on a singular spell cast.
• The Grand Arcanist and Grand Sorcerer enchants can now proc from non-periodic healing spells that heal during combat.
• The Mirage summoned from the Mirage, Rod of Illusion will no longer attempt to melee attack under certain conditions.
• Immolation Traps will no longer Melee during the Alexei the Beastlord encounter.
• Classes
  • Warlock
    • The Naxxramas damage 4-piece bonus will now correctly apply to and activate the Corruption applied by the Scarlet Enclave tank 2-piece bonus.
    • The Scarlet Enclave Tank 4-piece bonus now correctly applies its heal from Corruption ticks off the instant tick from the Naxxramas damage 4-piece bonus.

April 30, 2025

Classes

• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Resolved an issue causing the Cooldown Manager to track the duration of Power Word: Shield on the Priest instead of tracking its cooldown.
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue causing Prayer of Healing to be able to be displayed on the Cooldown Manager when not talented.
• Rogue
  • Trickster: Fixed an issue that prevented Blade Flurry and Nimble Flurry from dealing increased damage to targets with the Fazed debuff applied.
  • Assassination
    • Kingsbane can no longer be parried.
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed an issue that could cause Blade Flurry to strike below the maximum number of available targets when fighting near dead enemies.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Blade Flurry to deal an incorrect amount of damage with the Deft Maneuvers talent selected.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Roll the Bones’ Grand Melee buff from updating Blade Flurry’s damage output dynamically when gaining or losing the buff.
  • Subtlety
    • Trickster: Fixed an issue that could cause Nimble Flurry to strike below the maximum number of available targets when fighting near dead enemies.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue causing damage from Acid Rain to not generate threat or aggro enemies.
• Warlock
  • Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Blackened Soul would not generate a stack if two Soul Shard spenders were cast in quick succession.
  • Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Wither would not pandemic when refreshed with no stacks.
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Shadow Bolt would appear on the essential cooldown bar without Diabolic Ritual being learned.
    • Fixed an issue where Hand of Gul’dan would appear on the essential cooldown bar without Secrets of the Coven being learned.
    • Fixed an issue where Hand of Gul’dan and Chaos Bolt would glow whenever Demonic Art was active.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Colossus Smash can no longer be parried.

Dungeons

• Darkflame Cleft
  • Addressed an issue where Eerie Molds’ damage fails to count towards damage taken spells like Rewind and Death Strike.

Quests

• Resolved an issue preventing looting the quest object after another player looted it first in “Preserve the Legacy” from the Fate of the Kirin Tor questline.

Season of Discovery

• Lucky Doubloon now has a small 1.5 second cooldown, even if you flip heads to clear the cooldown on the item. This is to prevent it from being flipped multiple times unintentionally.
• The Quartermaster’s Crate is now provided upon acceptance of “Prove Your Worth” from Bryon Steelblade.
• Classes
  • Paladin
    • The Avenging Shield buff granted from the Scarlet Enclave 6-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins correctly lasts the same duration as Avenging Wrath.
• Scarlet Enclave
  • There are now 3 Torn Pages containing Torn Diary Pages in them in Scarlet Enclave. These should be lootable by and tradable to players who were present for the Reborn Council encounter. Torn Pages should no longer disappear if there is a soft reset after the Reborn Council but before Lillian Voss.
  • Berserk Timers for all bosses, except Caldoran, have been increased to 10 minutes.
  • Caldoran will now Berserk 6 minutes after Phase 2 begins (was 5 minutes after).
  • The aggro radiuses of the Reborn Council have been lowered to allow for easier prepositioning before pulling the boss.

The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found here.