World of Warcraft Hotfixes: January 2026 Update - Demon Hunter, Druid, Monk, and More! (2026)

Hotfixes: January 26, 2026

World of Warcraft

Here's a list of hotfixes addressing various issues in World of Warcraft: The War Within, Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, Burning Crusade Classic, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some hotfixes take effect immediately, while others require scheduled realm restarts. Note that certain issues require a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as more hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

January 26, 2026

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Devourer
  • Fixed an issue with Soul Fragments of Devourer not functioning on Dawnbreaker.
• Druid
  • Restoration
  • Grove Guardians no longer cost mana when summoned.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver [with scheduled realm maintenance]
  • Thunder Focus Tea cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 45 seconds).
  • Mana Tea effectiveness increased by 20%.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement
  • Maelstrom Weapon level requirement reduced to 12.
  • Restoration
  • Chain Heal healing increased by 25%.
  • Healing Rain healing increased by 82%.

Dungeons and Raids

• Dragonflight dungeon queue
  • Fixed an issue with the random Heroic Dragonflight dungeon queue not requiring the correct average item-level.
• Temple of Sethraliss
  • Fixed a soft-lock issue during the Avatar of Sethraliss encounter.
• Vault of the Incarnates
  • Fixed cleanup issues during the Raszageth encounter in Story Mode.

Horrific Visions

• Item-level rewards
  • No longer displayed on the event widget.
  • Increase based on progress in Season 3, with squished item levels.

Housing

• Daily Endeavor quests
  • No longer reset on logout; now weekly quests available simultaneously.
• Grand Collector
  • Increased tap limit for the Blade of the Skyguard task.
• Decor items
  • Murloc Driftwood Hut, Scroll of the Adherent, Rising Glory of Rukhmar Statue, Shellscale Standard, High Arakkoan Alchemist's Shelf, and High Arakkoan Shelf now accessible.

Items

• Level 80 Boost
  • Item-level of gear increased to 102 (was iLvl 80) [with scheduled realm maintenance].

Trading Post

• Legion Remix: Mix Up
  • Added as a new activity in January [with scheduled realm maintenance].
  • Players earn 650 points for their Traveler's Log during January logins.

Additional Hotfixes

January 22, 2026

Characters

• Warband Mentors: The War Within set
  • XP buff now applied correctly to characters below level 80.
• Dragonflight leveling
  • Corrected an issue with legacy content scaling for characters leveling in Dragonflight.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
  • Various damage adjustments for Unholy Death Knight.
• Mage
  • Frost Mage
  • Frostbolt moved to the Frost Mage section of the Spellbook for easier access.

Delves

• ** Brann’s experience bar**
  • Fixed a bug mentioning Valeera.

Dungeons and Raids

• Encounter progression
  • Fixed issues preventing encounters from progressing correctly.
• Health adjustments
  • Resolved low health issues for creatures in specific dungeons.

Housing

• Elegant Elven Barrel
  • Added as decor.
• Lightly Broken Fences
  • Repairs now available.

Mage Tower

• Enemy health adjustments
  • Various challenges adjusted for better pacing and difficulty.

Player versus Player

• Training Grounds opponents
  • Adjusted effectiveness.

Quests

• War Within campaigns
  • Campaign header now displayed.
• Distilled Darkness quest
  • Fixed an issue with K'areshi Fragments becoming uninteractible.

Transmogrification

• Midnight Special Edition transmog sets
  • Fixed an issue preventing lower-level characters from using them.

The Burning Crusade Classic

January 16, 2026

• Blackrock Spire
  • Fixed a 5-player entry limit issue.
• Quest fixes
  • The First and Last quest now available for eligible players.
• Songflowers
  • Cleansed Songflowers now apply buffs to the clicking player.
• Paladins and Shamans
  • Fixed learning issues for Consecration and Two-Handed Maces/Axes.
  • Developers' notes: Players may need to log out and back in to apply these fixes.
• Honor gains
  • Increased to 150% (previously 100%).
  • Added level 51-60 versions of specific quests.
  • Developers' notes: PvP gearing rate increase. These quests award 400 Honor at level 60 and experience for levels 51-59. No Eye of the Storm required. Text updates to follow.

January 14, 2026

• Character Boost services
  • Restored after a brief outage.
• Arena Skirmishes
  • Enabled as intended.
• Addons
  • Fixed an unintended throttling issue.
• Chronoboon Displacer
  • Cost restored to 1 gold, stack size to 10.