Maelstrom Weapon: cast/mana reduction per stack 4–20% → 20% at every rank; procs 20 per minute → 6/7/8/9/10 by rank
Tooltip shows proc chance by main-hand speed — at 5 points, 60% with a 3.6 weapon, 33% with a 2.0 weapon
Forever Assist commentary
This confirms that the Enhancement Shaman tuning listed in the Nov 10 hotfix only actually reached the servers on Nov 12. If Enhancement felt "not that nerfed" on Nov 10–11, this is why — the real reworked spec starts now.
The key takeaway is weapon choice. Procs now scale with weapon speed instead of a flat per-minute rate, so slower weapons are far more likely to trigger Maelstrom Weapon on each swing. The fast one-hander, frequent-Lightning-Bolt style is over; a slow weapon (3.5+ speed) with Strength and Attack Power gear is the better pick for both leveling and dungeons. Being able to run an imbue and a weapon totem together is also a small bonus for other melee in the group.
2026-11-11
Highlights
Fifth hotfix — mostly bug fixes; the item restoration service is paused while a major bug is investigated
Paladin Judgement is now a ranged attack and no longer triggers melee procs; Retribution's Unsealed Fury no longer echoes Windfury Totem attacks
Riverglades Twilight elites hit softer (Mark of Flames damage taken bonus 1000 → 50)
Tailoring bag slots and costs fixed: Red Mageweave Bag 14 slots, Green/Black Silk Pouch 12, wool bags 10
Stuck quests fixed, incl. "The Giant in the Den" (Arathi) and "Freedom for All Creatures" (Feralas)
By topic
Systems & leveling
Item restoration service paused while a major bug is investigated
Mounts work again in parts of Shen'dralar
Paladin
Judgement now counts as a ranged attack — no melee item/effect procs, uses ranged hit
Retribution: after the Holy Strike Windfury fix, Unsealed Fury no longer echoes Windfury Totem attacks
Druid
Feral: Rend and Tear now works with the Pounce bleed
Hunter
Volley no longer triggers procs and now stops channeling when you move
Priest
Gnome Confounding Flash usable in Shadowform; Holy talent Twilight Focus works in Shadowform
Shaman
Flametongue Totem rank 2 works again
Items
Bloody Claws of Attack now grant +1 Fist Weapons skill
Earthen Silk Slippers no longer give more spell damage than intended
Professions
Tailoring bags fixed: Red Mageweave Bag 4 → 5 bolts, 14 slots
Green Silk Pouch 4 → 5 bolts, 12 slots; Black Silk Pouch 5 → 6 bolts, 12 slots
Green and Red Woolen Bags 4 → 5 bolts, 10 slots
Quests & world
Riverglades: Twilight Enforcer Smash and Executioner Mog damage reduced; Mark of Flames damage taken bonus 1000 → 50
Western Plaguelands "Scarlet Diversions" command tent interaction fixed
Arathi "The Giant in the Den" mallet works; Feralas "Freedom for All Creatures" cages reset properly
Forever Assist commentary
A cleanup hotfix the day after the big Nov 10 pass, and Retribution Paladins feel it most. Judgement is now ranged, so it no longer fires melee weapon or trinket procs, and the hidden Windfury Totem + Unsealed Fury overlap is gone. Ret Paladins grouped with Shamans may see a noticeable damage drop.
Leveling gets plenty of relief: overtuned Twilight elites in Riverglades were toned down, and stuck quests in Arathi, Feralas and Western Plaguelands now work. Tailors pay a little more cloth per bag, but the bags are as big as intended, which should lift their Auction House value.
Note that item restoration is paused for now — if you sold gear by mistake, wait for the notice that it is back.
2026-11-10
Highlights
Fourth hotfix — the class tuning announced on Nov 6 lands with real numbers
Maelstrom Weapon: cast/mana reduction per stack 4–20% → 20% at every rank; procs 20 per minute → 6/7/8/9/10 by rank (tooltip shows chance by weapon speed)
Weapon imbues and weapon totems can be used together; Maelstrom Weapon trackable in the Cooldown Manager
Warlock
Affliction: Wrack damage −30% and it no longer amplifies your periodic damage
While channeling Wrack, Drain Life, Corruption and Bane of Agony tick 100% faster
Soul Siphon: 4/8/12% per Corruption, Siphon Life or Bane of Agony on the target, up to 36%
Imp Firebolt ranks 1–4 and Imp health buffed; Imp, Voidwalker, Incubus and Succubus health about +15%
Destruction: Bane of Havoc now triggers the global cooldown
Hunter
Pet health modifier wrongly set to 150% — corrected to 115%
Arcane Shot costs 11% base mana at every rank
Beast Mastery: Summon Hawk costs 11% base mana; Hawk melee damage about +80%
Druid
Omen of Clarity procs again after a respec
Restoration: Nature's Swiftness now makes Wild Growth instant too
Priest
Vampiric Embrace healing no longer triggers the Revelation enchant
Holy: Holy Nova is removed properly when you unlearn the talent
Warrior
Arms: Sweeping Strikes no longer spends a charge when it fails to hit a second target
Paladin
Redoubt can be tracked in the Cooldown Manager
Items
All racial vendor mounts are now bind-on-pickup
Rage of the Storm (Shaman quest reward) 16 Intellect → 16 Strength, speed 3.2 → 3.6
Vendor sell price of crafted Leatherworking, Tailoring and Blacksmithing armor lowered
Professions
Blacksmithing: Coarse Grinding Stone skill-up cap 75 → 90 / Cooking: Journeyman Campfire Kit skill 140 → 90
Enchanting: Lesser Spirit on boots/bracers now gives Spirit; Arcane Salvager needs a Runed Golden Rod
Engineering: Iron Grenade vendor price 5s → 1s 25c; Swiftstrike Shot and Swiftfeather Arrow no longer bind
Alchemy: Minor Arcane Elixir sell price 25c → 5c
Quests & world
Most quests at level 48+ now give extra gold (not the level-60 XP-to-gold conversion)
More mobs for "Worgen in the Woods" (Duskwood) and "Poison Tips" (Riverglades); murloc eye drops fixed
Progress fixes for "Call of Water", "Chief Engineer Scooty", "Helping Hands", "Rescue OOX-22/FE!" and more
Shatterspear Trolls no longer give XP
Forever Assist commentary
The class tuning teased on Nov 6 arrived with real numbers, and Enhancement Shaman takes the biggest hit. Stormstrike is weaker on a longer cooldown, and Maelstrom Weapon drops from 20 procs a minute to at most 10, gutting the instant-Lightning-Bolt playstyle. Intellect gear is worth less too, pushing the spec back to a Strength- and Windfury-driven melee Shaman. The tooltip now shows that slow weapons proc far more often than fast ones.
Affliction's Wrack loses 30% damage, but your DoTs tick twice as fast while you channel it — so the right play is now to lay DoTs first and then channel Wrack. Demons gain about 15% health, which actually makes solo leveling smoother. Hunters go the other way: pet health was mistakenly at 150% and is now 115%, so letting the pet tank gets a bit tighter.
Extra gold on level 48+ quests helps the cash-strapped late leveling stretch, and bind-on-pickup racial mounts close off buying other races' mounts via the AH. Auction House changes slipped to the Nov 17 maintenance — we'll cover them then.
2026-11-09
Highlights
Third hotfix — the +50% dungeon kill XP is now in the official list
The Drowned City: enemies dealt about 30% more damage than intended — fixed; Deathless Marrow enemies have 25% less health
Crowded zones get lower player caps (more so on PvP rulesets); Young Diemetradons in Un'Goro no longer spawn at level 58
Many class bugs: Consecration bonus damage cutting out, Shadowform dropping on Fear Ward, Incinerate usable outside Destruction, and more
Berdun's Trusty Rifle loses random stats and bind-on-equip; several quest items now drop for the whole party
By topic
Systems & leveling
Crowded zones get lower player caps, cut further on PvP rulesets
Camp Taurajo → Thunder Bluff flight path no longer clips through objects
Dungeons
+50% XP from all dungeon kills (the Nov 8 change, now official)
The Drowned City: enemies dealt about 30% more damage than intended — fixed
Deathless Marrow: enemy health −25%, Fireball damage −25%, Charge damage −50%, Shield Slam used about half as often
Blackrock Depths: doors now open after a wipe on Emperor Thaurissan; Heart of the Mountain can be looted more than once
The Shaper's Terrace: Vitrix, Snowtalon and Cinder drop loot properly / Alcaz Prison: Zarla Ober now drops loot
Feral Charge (Cat) now puts you in combat immediately
Natural Instinct now applies to Lacerate and Pounce correctly
Pounce stun shows on enemy debuffs; Berserk displays properly in the Cooldown Manager
Mage
Arcane Concentration no longer rolls 10% on cast plus 10% per missile — the chance is now split
Flamestrike ground ticks no longer consume Clearcasting
Paladin
Consecration bonus damage no longer stops when the first target leaves or dies
Seals now display correctly in the Cooldown Manager
Priest
Fear Ward no longer cancels Shadowform
Power Infusion now stays on allies
Shaman
Lightning Overload now matches Lightning Bolt damage correctly
Improved Ghost Wolf fix; Lightning Mastery visual updated
Warlock
Incinerate no longer usable outside Destruction
Finishing Summon Felsteed now grants riding skill (if already done, summon the Felsteed once)
Hunter
Targeting alone no longer pulls distant enemies
Vulgara the Insatiable and Zephras Shrieklings now have the right pet family
Items
Berdun's Trusty Rifle: random stats and bind-on-equip removed
Waylaid Crates and Craftsman's Writs now drop in dungeons
Pouch of Violet Dust's extra hour of Camp Benefits now applies
Nifty Stopwatch no longer shares a cooldown with movement abilities
Quests & world
"The Monster Surfaces", "Croaky's Head" and "Elmpaw's Head" items now drop for the whole party
Blockers fixed in "Jom-jom's Escape", "Fetch 'n' Fletch", "Unwelcome Guests" and more
"Feathers in Flight": players under 60 can loot Hyjal Owl Nests
Bug fixes
Young Diemetradons in Un'Goro spawn at 51–52 instead of 58
Ivar the Foul (Silverpine) respawns faster; Ferocitas the Dream Eater (Teldrassil) appears sooner
Races
Tauren: Cultivation's cooldown starts only after the cast finishes
PvP
Invisible wall removed from the Alliance base roof in Warsong Gulch
Forever Assist commentary
Dungeons are the heart of this hotfix. The +50% kill XP is now official, and the new Drowned City loses both its roughly 30% overtuned enemy damage and the excess difficulty of the Deathless Marrow section. Groups that skipped it because tanks and healers struggled can put it back on their leveling route. Waylaid Crates and Craftsman's Writs now drop in dungeons too, so dungeon-focused leveling no longer misses out on those rewards.
Class changes are mostly bug fixes, but a few will be felt. Mages lose the double roll on Arcane Concentration, a small hit to Arcane mana efficiency, while Paladins (Consecration no longer cutting out) and Shadow Priests (Fear Ward no longer dropping Shadowform) come out ahead. Warlocks using Incinerate outside Destruction lose a hidden perk. The promised pet and Enhancement Shaman tuning is not in this list, so watch for the next notice.
Lower player caps in crowded zones should ease early quest-mob competition, especially on PvP realms, and more quests now give items to the whole party — good news for group leveling.
2026-11-06
Highlights
Second hotfix — mostly class bugs and tooltip cleanup (number tuning still comes Nov 10)
Voidwalker base health about +40, Arcane Blast duration corrected to 18 sec, Mage Research spells no longer lost on relog
Maraudon: Zaetar's Spirit now appears after Princess Theradras; Drowned City entrance portal fixed
Many stuck quests fixed, incl. "Vorsha the Lasher" and Kerlonian Evershade; some quest item drop rates raised
By topic
Systems & leveling
Quick and the Dead legacy talent no longer intermittently fails
Cooldown Manager now shows crowd-control durations correctly, accounting for diminishing returns and Orc stun resistance
Druid
Bloom now heals its target correctly
Tooltip fixes for Bear Form, Ravage and Swiftmend (actual effects unchanged)
Mage
Research spells are no longer lost on relog; Study spells are only kept after the related quest
Arcane Blast duration now correctly 18 sec
Rogue
Shank tooltip now shows Rank 1 and Rank 2
Shank shows the correct combo points granted with the Boot Knife talent
Warlock
Voidwalker base health about +40 at every level
Soul Siphon talent no longer increases Wrack's self-damage
Warrior
Reckless Swings tooltip now says it triggers Gore Drinker
Dungeons
Maraudon: Zaetar's Spirit now appears after Princess Theradras dies
Blackmaw Hold and the Drowned City: some enemies no longer drop combat for no reason
The Drowned City entrance portal now takes you inside
Bug fixes
Grol'bolar Quarry troggs in Dun Morogh respawn rate adjusted; more Pelluk spawn fixes in Swamp of Sorrows
Ridgeshade Lurkers (Durotar) and Krek the Noxious (Riverglades) drop loot properly
Teldrassil lashers (Lasher Sproutlings etc.) no longer immune to Nature damage
Items
Searing Dagger now procs only from damaging spells
Professions
Leatherworking Tanning Rack skill requirement 140 → 125, skill-up range lowered by 15
Quests & world
"Vorsha the Lasher" no longer attacks every player in the area
Kerlonian Evershade falls asleep less and you get the waking horn at the start
Fixes for "Rediscovering the Light", "Ammo for Rumbleshot" and Riverglades quest items not sharing with the party
"Never Saddle on Quality" has more targets and drops; Horde "Unending Torment" offered at level 16 → 15
Races
Night Elf: Shadowmelded Druids could use Ravage and Pounce — fixed
Orc: some Warlock demons got too much from Command — fixed
Interface
Distant players and their targets are easier to see
Thunder Bluff barbershop lighting no longer too dark
Forever Assist commentary
The second hotfix, two days after launch, is less about numbers and more about making things work as intended. Warlocks feel it most: a little more Voidwalker health and no more extra Wrack self-damage from Soul Siphon — a preview of the pet survivability pass due on Nov 10. On the flip side, Night Elf Druids opening with Ravage or Pounce straight out of Shadowmeld and Orc Warlocks over-benefiting from Command lose hidden edges.
Leveling routes get plenty of good news. Notorious quests like the Kerlonian escort and Vorsha work properly, and Riverglades quest items now share with the party, making group leveling smoother. Nature-heavy Druids and Shamans can finally kill the Teldrassil lashers too.
Maraudon groups needed Zaetar's Spirit after the last boss to finish their quest, so anyone who postponed it can go back now. Leatherworkers also get an easier mid-range climb with the Tanning Rack requirement lowered to 125.
2026-11-05
Highlights
First post-launch hotfix, posted in the new Bug Report forum
Quest mob respawns: Yarrog Baneshadow (Durotar) faster, some Dustwallow Marsh murlocs no longer too fast, Pelluk (Swamp of Sorrows) now spawns reliably
Plainsrunning can no longer stack in battleground prep, and stacks drop when you carry a flag
Deathstalker Erland respawns much faster for "Escorting Erland"
By topic
Quests & world
Yarrog Baneshadow in Durotar no longer respawns too slowly
Pelluk in Swamp of Sorrows no longer sometimes fails to spawn
Deathstalker Erland respawns much faster for "Escorting Erland"
Text error fixed in "The Sisterhood of Elune"
Bug fixes
Some Dustwallow Marsh murlocs no longer respawn too fast
Lotheluum Starbreeze on Zephras Isle now trains Druids
Items
Zephras Isle trade supply vendors now sell apprentice profession bags
Mild Spices vendor price 2 copper → 1 copper
PvP
Plainsrunning could stack during battleground prep — fixed
Plainsrunning no longer stacks and is cancelled when you carry a flag
Forever Assist commentary
The first hotfix, out the day after launch, mostly clears leveling bottlenecks. Named quest mobs in Durotar, Swamp of Sorrows and the Silverpine escort that spawned slowly or not at all — the ones people queued for — are now much easier. In the other direction, Dustwallow murlocs that came back dangerously fast now respawn at a normal pace.
Druids starting on Zephras Isle can now actually learn from their trainer, and profession bags are sold right on the island.
In battlegrounds, stacking Plainsrunning during prep and then running the flag is no longer possible, removing an edge one race had as flag carrier. From this post on, hotfixes and known issues live in the new Bug Report forum.
Original: official Blizzard forums. The topic breakdown and commentary are written by Forever Assist from the original and are not a translation. Check the original for exact numbers.
