WoW: Forever hotfixes on 10 November 2026 rework Enhancement Shaman and Wrack, and add gold to quests

Blizzard’s hotfixes dated 10 November 2026 land five days after WoW: Forever’s 5 November release, and they lean on class balance, quest rewards and Auction House fixes. Enhancement Shaman and Affliction Warlock get the biggest changes.

Class changes

• Enhancement Shaman: Stormstrike damage drops to 100% weapon damage (was 150%) and its cooldown rises to 8 seconds (was 6). Mental Dexterity’s Intellect-to-Attack Power conversion is cut to 33/66/100% (was 50/100/150%). Maelstrom Weapon now gives a flat 20% reduced cast time and Mana cost per application, and its activation chance rises with rank.
• Why Enhancement changed: Blizzard’s developers say beta changes pushed the spec towards Spell Power and Intellect gear, away from Windfury. They want it fixed before the upcoming raid opens, so players don’t chase gear that loses value later.
• All Shaman: weapon imbues and weapon totems can be used together, so Windfury Weapon and Windfury Totem can both apply. Maelstrom Weapon can be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
• Affliction Warlock: Wrack damage is cut by 30% and it no longer boosts periodic damage. Instead, while it channels, Siphon Life, Corruption and Bane of Agony tick 100% faster. Soul Siphon now only counts those three spells, up to a 36% maximum.
• Warlock pets: Voidwalker, Incubus and Succubus base Health rises by about 15%. Imp Health also rises about 15%, and the first four ranks of Firebolt hit harder.
• Hunter: pets had 150% of their normal health by mistake and now have 115%. Arcane Shot and Summon Hawk cost 11% of base Mana at every rank, and the Hawk’s melee damage is up about 80%.
• Druid and others: Nature’s Swiftness now makes Wild Growth instant for Restoration, and Arms Warriors’ Sweeping Strikes no longer loses charges when no second target is hit.

Quests and professions

• Most quests at level 48 and above now also reward gold. Blizzard’s developers say the game skips the XP-to-gold conversion for level 60 quests from original WoW, so this gives players a reason to hand them in.
• Several quest fixes cover Call of Water, Helping Hands, Rescue OOX-22/FE! in Feralas and Poison Tips in Riverglades, which now has more Glade Vipers.
• Blacksmithing’s Coarse Grinding Stone now gives skill-ups to 90 (was 75), and the Journeyman Campfire Kit needs Cooking 90 to place (was 140).
• Swiftstrike Shot and Swiftfeather Arrow are no longer Bind-on-Pickup.
• All racial vendor mounts are now Bind-on-Pickup.

Auction House and world

• With realm restarts, the minimum deposit drops to 1 copper (was 1 silver).
• Unread mail no longer wrongly shows as from ‘Stormwind Auction House’, and mail that arrived in about 2 minutes now takes the intended 60.
• Players who died were being sent to the wrong graveyard, and that’s fixed.
• Shatterspear Trolls no longer give XP, because they’re dancers, not fighters.

Earlier hotfixes

The page also lists hotfixes from 9, 6 and 5 November. The 9 November batch increased dungeon enemy XP by 50%, made Deathless Marrow easier and lowered crowding in busy zones, with a bigger cut on the PvP ruleset.

Read the full patch notes