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WoW: Midnight Hotfixes for November 6 Ease The Venomous Abyss Raid and Tune Classes

OFFICIAL Written by GPN · Nov 8, 2026, 3:41 PM ET · World of Warcraft: Midnight · Gaming

Blizzard has posted a fresh round of hotfixes for World of Warcraft: Midnight, covering the live game alongside Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, Burning Crusade Classic, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. The headline changes land in the current raid, The Venomous Abyss, where two bosses get noticeably easier.

Dungeons and Raids

The November 6 changes focus on The Venomous Abyss. On Vashnik, the Malignant, the Malignance effect hits 37% softer on Mythic difficulty and its damage over time now lasts 16 seconds. Ula'tek gets a wider round of relief: health scaling on the boss and its adds was adjusted for smaller raid sizes on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic, with base health lowered so larger groups no longer push health up, and Ula'tek's own health drops 15% on Heroic. Unchecked Rage damage falls 61% on all difficulties, while Caustic Waves, Malice, Virulent Spit, Falling Debris, and Viscous Echoes all take cuts ranging from roughly a third to three-quarters depending on difficulty. The fight also gets kinder on mechanics: fewer eggs from Call of the Serpent, fewer targets for Serpent's Bite and Grasping Fangs, two fewer eggs per side in Phase 2 on Heroic, and no extra Caustic Waves from Spectral Tails in Phase 3 on Heroic.

The November 5 entry continues the raid tuning, trimming Blood Venom pools in the Entombed Sentinels fight, cutting Visceral Burst damage 40% on Mythic for Twin Fangs, and slowing and weakening the Axegrinder, Gloombomb, and other abilities at The Coiled Altar. A Delve fix the same day stops the Basilisk Blitz variant in Shadowguard Point from turning players hostile after leaving mid-travel, and several Tortollan NPCs get corrected names.

Classes

An October 27 tuning pass in the same post lifts some specs and pulls others back. Feral Druids deal 5% more damage, Fire Mages gain 5%, Affliction Warlocks get 20% more Unstable Affliction damage, and Destruction's Rain of Fire rises 20%. Marksmanship Hunters get stronger area damage through Trick Shots, Explosive Shot, and Volley. Restoration Druids receive a round of healing buffs aimed at dungeon play, including 60% more Verdancy healing and 40% more from Improved Swiftmend. Subtlety Rogues go the other way, losing 8% of all ability damage after an earlier compensation buff overshot, with Trickster's Fazed dropping from 7% to 5%.

Classic and Other Fixes

Burning Crusade Classic players now need Honored reputation, down from Revered, to buy Heroic dungeon keys. Elsewhere in the round, housing and item fixes land for the Nagrand plant decor tracker and two Azshara cloaks, and a long list of Labyrinth scenario fixes covers stuck objectives, flickering Tether icons, and bosses failing to grant Great Vault credit. Blizzard notes some hotfixes take effect immediately while others wait for scheduled realm restarts.

Facts gathered from

• Blizzard News

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