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World of Warcraft Hotfixes: August 18, 2026

152 entries posted by Blizzard Entertainment for this date, shown in full.

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August 18, 2026

59 entries

Source Hotfixes: September 4, 2026, by Blizzard Entertainment (worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com)

Classes

Death Knight

Blood

  • Deathbringer: Resolved an issue causing Echoing Fury to grnt Exterminate stacks on Reaper’s Mark casts.
  • San’layn: Visceral Strength now grants 6% strength (was 10%).
  • San’layn: Transfusion increases Dancing Rune Weapon damage by 5% (was 10%).

Frost

  • All ability and auto-attack damage increased by 9%.
  • Venomous Abyss 2-piece set bonus updated - Now grants 1% attack speed per stack (was 2%), and now increases Icy Death Torrent damage by 2% per stack (was 4%).

Demon Hunter

Devourer

  • All ability damage increased by 14%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Reap/Cull/Eradicate damage reduced by 12%.
  • Eradicate’s area-of-effect damage increased to 90% of base damage (was 85%).
  • Venomous Abyss 4-piece set bonus updated - Now generates 2 soul fragments (was 8 soul fragments) and increases Reap damage by 10% (was 20%).

Druid

Restoration

  • All healing increased by 4%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • All damage increased by 20%. Does not affect PvP combat.

Hunter

  • Reduced the size of several Hydra creatures after they have been tamed.

Beast Mastery

  • Venomous Abyss 4-piece set bonus updated - Now causes Cobra Shot to benefit from Beast Cleave at 30% effectiveness per stack (was 20%) or strike your target for an additional 20% damage per stack (was 15%).

Mage

Arcane

  • All ability damage increased by 3%.
  • Venomous Abyss 2-piece set bonus updated - Arcane Missiles damage bonus reduced to 5% (was 20%).
  • Venomous Abyss 4-piece set bonus updated - Cumulative Power damage bonus per stack reduced to 3% (was 5%).

Monk

Mistweaver

  • All healing increased by 8%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Venomous Abyss 4-piece set bonus updated - Activation rate increased by 33%.

Paladin

Retribution

  • All ability damage increased by 6%. Does not affect PvP combat.

Priest

Discipline

  • All damage reduced by 30%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Oracle: Entropic Rift damage increased by 20%.
  • Oracle: Atonement now transfers 46% of damage into healing (was 32%). Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Oracle: Void Shield reflects 10% of damage (was 15%).

Holy

  • Enlightenment now regenerates mana 25% faster (was 10%).
  • Words of the Wise now increases the healing of Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify by 40% (was 10%). Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Prompt Prognosis healing increased by 55%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Preventive Measures now increases Prayer of Mending healing by 40% (was 15%). Does not affect PvP combat.

Rogue

Assassination

  • All damage increased by 4%.

Subtlety

  • All damage increased by 6%.
  • The Venomous Abyss 4-set bonus has been updated - Effectiveness reduced to 60% (was 100%).
  • Shadow Dance now cancels when swapping talents.
  • Shadow Dance can no longer be cancelled manually.
  • Deathstalker: Lingering Darkness now cancels when swapping talents.
  • Deathstalker: Lingering Darkness now cancels when a raid encounter starts.
  • Deathstalker: Lingering Darkness now cancels when an M+ dungeon starts.

Shaman

Elemental

  • Corrected an issue where the Venomous Abyss 4-piece set bonus Overcharge! buff was sometimes not consumed when casting a Maelstrom spending ability.
  • All damage dealt increased by 5%.

Enhancement

  • All damage increased by 5%.

Warlock

  • Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Blackened Soul would not function with mouse-over casting.

Affliction

Demonology

  • Burning Cleave (granted by Antoran Armaments) now strikes enemies in a circular area, rather than a cone. The tooltip for Burning Cleave will be updated in a future patch.
  • Venomous Abyss 2-piece set bonus updated - Wild Imps now Implode at 350% effectiveness to their main target (was 250%) and 315% effectiveness to other targets (was 225%).

Destruction

  • Fixed an issue where Conflagration of Chaos would not guarantee a Conflagrate or Shadowburn to critically strike.
  • Fixed an issue where Shadowburn would not apply its debuff after dealing damage to a Havoc target.

Warrior

Fury

  • All damage increased by 6%.
  • Venomous Abyss 4-piece set bonus updated - Bloodthirst damage increased by 10%, and during Recklessness, Bloodthirst increases the critical strike bonus of Recklessness by 3%, up to 6% (was 5%, up to 10%).

Protection

  • Mountain Thane: Fixed an issue that would sometimes disable the bonus Thunder Clap damage from Crashing Thunder.

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