WoW Patch Notes 9 Feb 2026

• Exterminate first scythe damage increased by 30%.
• Reaper's Mark damage increased by 25%.
• Deathly Blows now increases the damage of Frost Strike and Frostbane by 15% (was 5%), and also has an additional effect – Reaper's Mark grants 3 stacks of Bonegrinder if it is known.
• Swift and Painful now makes Wave of Souls 100% more effective on the primary target, and now grants 8% increased Strength when no enemies are struck by Soul Rupture (was 5%).
• Trollbane's Obliterate now correctly becomes Frost when consuming a Killing Machine with One-Handed weapons.
• Feast of Souls now increases the damage of Runic Power abilities by 10% when you have 2 or more active Horsemen (was 20%).
• Obliterate damage increased by 15%.
• Frost Strike damage reduced by 10%.
• Frostbane damage reduced by 10%.
• Breath of Sindragosa and Frostwyrm's Fury cooldowns are no longer reset after an encounter.

Rider of the Apocalypse

• All Horsemen damage reduced by 65%.
• Hungering Thirst now increases the damage of diseases, Frost Strike, Frostbane, and Death Coil by 5%, and now also affects Necrotic Coil.

• Undeath damage increased by 50%.
• Whitemane's Epidemic damage increased 150%.
• Trollbane's Icy Fury damage increased by 100%.
• Vampiric Strike damage reduced by 20%.
• Frenzied Bloodthirst now increases the damage of Death Coil and Epidemic by 3% per stack of Essence of the Blood Queen.
• Gift of the San'layn now increases the effectiveness of Essence of the Blood Queen by 80%.
• Transfusion now increases the damage of a summoned Lesser Ghoul by 10% (was 20%).
• Inevitable now increases the damage of diseases by up to 30% (was 20%).
• Infusion of Sorrow now causes Vampiric Strike to extend the duration of plagues by 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
• New Talent: Scythe of Decay – Festering Scythe casts a Death and Decay at the target location. Can only occur every 30 seconds. Reduced to 15 seconds with Death's Echo. Replaces Death and Decay.
• Superstrain has been redesigned – Dread Plague deals damage to an additional nearby enemy at 75% effectiveness and has a chance to grant you 4 Runic Power.
• Reanimation has been updated – Putrefy now summons a Magus of the Dead for 15 seconds (was 8 seconds).
• Pestilence has been updated – Dark Transformation upgrades your next Outbreak to Pestilence. The rest of the effect remains the same.
• Pestilence now deals 150% of the remaining damage of Plagues instantly (was 100%).
• Magus of the Dead has been updated – Army of the Dead now again also summons a Magus of the Dead for 15 seconds.
• Army of the Dead has been updated – Summons a legion of 8 empowered Lesser Ghouls that last for 15 seconds that are now 75% more effective than normal Lesser Ghouls (was 100%). Generates 40 additional Runic Power. Reduced to 4 Lesser Ghouls in PvP combat.
• Raise Abomination and Gargoyle no longer putrefies 2 Lesser Ghouls.
• Raise Abomination's Disease Cloud now increases the damage targets take from your minions by 10% (was 20%).
• Raise Abomination's Disease Cloud now correctly increases the damage of Putrefy.
• Soul Reaper increases Putrefy damage.
• Soul Reaper debuff tooltip updated to show disease damage increase.
• Soul Reaper now consumes all available Putrefy charges to cast Putrefy at its target.
• Unholy Devotion now lasts for 12 seconds (was 5 seconds).
• All auto-attack and ability damage dealt reduced by 32%.
• Scourge Strike damage reduced by 28%.
• Virulent Plague damage increased by 13%.
• Epidemic damage increased by 15%.
• Dread Plague damage reduced by 15%.
• Rapid Variant is now an inherent effect for Dread Plague and now takes enemy bounding box into account for distance calculations.
• Putrefy now summons a Lesser Ghoul inherently. The rest of Necromancer's Cunning's effects remain the same.
• Putrefy damage reduced by 10%.
• Necromancer's Cunning explosion damage increased by 100%.
• Clawing Shadows now reduces the damage of each subsequent chain of Scourge Strike by 20% (was 25%).
• Dark Transformation now lasts 15 seconds (was 12 seconds) and is extended by Death Coil and Epidemic by 1 second (was 0.5 seconds).
• Blightfall now increases all disease damage by 5% (was 10%).
• Sudden Doom now reduces the cost of Death Coil and Epidemic by 15 Runic Power (was 10).
• Each Unholy specific summon attack and ability power reduced by 25% except for Gargoyle.
• All Lesser Ghouls damage reduced by 20%.
• Lesser Ghoul's Sweeping Claws main target damage reduced by 20%.
• Lesser Ghoul's Sweeping Claws secondary target damage reduced by 15%.
• Lesser Ghoul's Sweeping Claw now has a global cooldown of 1 second (was 0 seconds).
• Outnumber Lesser Ghoul Sweeping Claw damage reduced by 30%.
• Pet Ghoul Sweeping Claws damage reduced by 30%.
• Pet Ghoul's Sweeping Claws main target damage reduced by 20%.
• Pet Ghoul's Sweeping Claws secondary target damage reduced by 15%.
• Commander of the Dead now causes Dark Transformation to increase the damage of listed summons by 15%/30% (was 25%/50%).
• Infected Claws damage reduced by 40%.
• Morbidity now increases the damage the target takes per disease by 1% (was 2%).
• Fixed an issue that caused Festering Scythe's debuff effect to stop functioning when diseases get extended from any source.

• Reaver's Glaive damage reduced by 10%.
• Reaver's Mark now increases damage taken by 5% per stack (was 6%).
• Cycle of Hatred no longer starts you off with 1 stack of the cool down reduction buff before you’ve cast Eye Beam.

• Revel in Pain now heals for 5% of Fire damage dealt (was 2%).
• Thick Skin now increases Stamina by 50% (was 60%).
• Soul Barrier shield value reduced to 8% of maximum health (was 15%) and an additional 2% per Soul Fragment consumed (was 3%).

• Potent Enchantments increases Incarnation's duration by 6 seconds (was 3 seconds).
• Renewing Surge has been updated – Swiftmend cooldown is reduced by 15%, increasing up to 30% on lower health targets. (Benefit is maximized when healing a target at 50% or below.)
• Mastery: Harmony effectiveness reduced by 20%.
• Intensity increases Regrowth critical healing by 60% (was 75%).
• Unstoppable Growth reduces Wild Growth's fall off by 30% per point (was 15%).
• Improved Wild Growth increases the number of Wild Growth targets by 2 (was 1).
• Regenesis increases healing done by Rejuvenation or Tranquility by up to 30% per point (was 15%).
• Embrace of the Dream healing increased by 85%.
• Master Shapeshifter generates 20% more mana from Wrath, Starfire, and Starsurge.
• Nurturing Dormancy increases Rejuvenations duration by up to 6 seconds (was 4 seconds).
• Renewing Surge no longer reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
• Fixed an issue where the Abundance tooltip would say Regrowth's cast time is reduced by 0%.

• Consume Flame now deals Fire Breath damage at 115% effectiveness (was 150%).
• Consume Flame now causes Disintegrate to consume 1.5 seconds of Fire Breath (was 2 seconds).
• Consume Flame now causes Pyre to consume 4 seconds of Fire Breath (was 10 seconds) and 1 second of Fire Breath from Disintegrate damage (was 1.5 seconds).
• Wingleader now causes Bombardments to reduce the cooldown of Deep Breath by 0.5 seconds (was 1 second), up to 1.5 seconds (was 3 seconds).
• Might of the Black Dragonflight increases Black spell damage by 30% (was 20%).
• Refined Essence now increases Essence ability damage by 25% (was 15%).
• Disintegrate damage increased by 32%.
• Verdant Embrace healing increased by 50%.
• Emerald Blossom healing increased by 50%.

• Ebon Might can no longer be aura canceled.
• Ebon Might extension range now matches Ebon Might's application range.
• Sense Power now dynamically updates its duration if a cooldown is extended.
• Sense Power and Prescience have been updated to correctly detect all major throughput cooldowns, and will no longer activate on tank or healer specializations.
• Verdant Embrace healing increased by 50%.
• Emerald Blossom healing increased by 50%.

• Shadow Thrash now deals Shadow damage, but its damage has been reduced by 30%.
• Blighted Quiver now increases Beast Cleave and Kill Cleave effectiveness by 5% (was 10%).
• Boar area damage increased by 200%.
• Pack Mentality now grants 4 seconds of cooldown reduction to Barbed Shot (was 6 seconds) and increases Kill Command's damage by 25% (was 50%).
• All damage dealt by the hunter and their pets reduced by 12%.
• Stomp damage reduced by 20%.
• Dire Beasts deal 15% increased damage.
• Huntmaster's Call now summons Hati or Fenryr at 8 stacks (was 6).
• Dire Command and the Pack Leader Bear will now properly advance Huntmaster's Call.
• Dire Command now benefits from bad luck protection.
• Wild Thrash damage bonus when striking 2 or more targets reduced to 200% (was 300%).
• Fixed an issue where Fortitude of the Bear's damage reduction effect would persist when switching Pets or Pet Specializations.

• Wyvern damage bonus increased to 15% (was 10%).
• Boar area damage increased by 200%.
• No Mercy bleed bonus increased to 35% (was 20%).
• Sentinel's Mark has been updated – Wildfire Bomb damage bonus reduced to 40% (was 80%).
• Can't Miss, Won't Miss has been updated – Tip of the Spear damage bonus reduced to 4% (was 10%).
• Moon's Blessing now grants 4 seconds of Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction (was 6 seconds).
• Wildfire Bomb primary target damage bonus increased to 60% (was 40%).
• Boomstick damage reduced by 10%.
• Two Against Many damage bonus reduced to 10% (was 15%).

• Frostfire Empowerment damage bonus reduced to 60% (was 80%).
• Heat Sink now increases Fire Blast damage by 15% (was 30%).
• Dualcasting Adept now increases Pyroblast damage by 15% (was 10%).
• Spellfire Sphere chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 20%).
• Hyperthermia duration reduced to 4 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Ashes of Inspiration Haste reduced to 15% (was 20%) and duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
• Mastery: Ignite effectiveness increased by 15%.
• Pyroblast damage increased by 15%.
• Fire Blast damage reduced by 40%.
• Scald now increases Fireball's damage by 25% (was 50%).

• Flash Freezeburn has been updated – Glacial Spike cleave percentage reduced to 25% (was 50%).
• Frostfire Empowerment damage bonus reduced to 60% (was 80%).
• Frostfire Bolt damage reduced by 20%.
• Isothermic Core's Meteor now Shatters 1 Freezing stack (was 2).
• Duality's Pyroblast damage increased by 100%.
• Molten Chill Ignite effectiveness increased to 30% (was 15%).
• Controlled Instincts damage effectiveness increased to 60% (was 40%).
• Frost Splinter damage increased by 20%.
• All damage dealt increased by 5%.
• Ice Lance damage increased by 25%.
• Shatter primary target damage increased by 54%.
• Flurry damage reduced by 28%.
• Frostbolt damage reduced by 15%.
• Frozen Orb damage reduced by 20%.
• Glacial Assault chance to trigger reduced to 12% (was 25%).
• Splitting Ice now causes Flurry and Frostbolt to strike an additional target at 80% effectiveness (was 100%).
• Comet Storm now Shatters 1 Freezing stack per Missile (was 2).
• Icicles visual effects now automatically hide and reappear based on whether you're in combat or not.
• Fixed an issue that caused all Water Elemental glyphs to not be properly applied to the Water Elemental spell.

• Rising Sun Kick damage increased by 20%.
• Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 50%.
• Jadefire Stomp damage increased by 25%.
• Flurry of Xuen damage increased by 40%.
• Fists of Fury damage decreased by 10%.
• Airborne Rhythm now generates 1 Chi (was 2 Chi).
• Rushing Wind Kick no longer has a Chi cost.
• Sunfire Spiral now increases Mastery: Combo Strikes by 40% (was 20%).
• Universal Energy increases magical damage done by 8% (was 15%).
• Memory of the Monastery now increases Combo Breaker's effect chance by 75% (was 25%) and increases Tiger Palm's damage by 30% (was 15%).
• Communion with Wind increases the damage of Strike of the Windlord and Whirling Dragon Punch by 20% (was 10%).
• Tigereye Brew now only reduces its stacks down to 10 while out of combat in a raid instance and now grants 10 stacks or reduces stacks down to 10 at encounter start and Mythic+ start.
• Threat generated by Zenith Stomp reduced by 50%.
• Vivify Healing increased by 100%.
• Vivify Healing is reduced by 33% in PvP combat (was 66%).
• Expel Harm healing increased by 30%.

Templar

• An issue causing Divine Toll to grant Hammer of Light has been resolved.
• An issue causing Divine Resonance to extend the duration of Divine Hammer with each cast of Judgment has been resolved.

• Hammer of Light damage increased by 100%.
• Empyrean Hammer damage increased by 50%.
• Hammer and Anvil now deals reduced damage above 5 targets.
• Hammer of Wrath damage reduced by 30%.
• Armor granted by Shield of the Righteous reduced by 15%.

• Halo damage increased by 50%.
• Voidheart now increases Shadow damage by 5% (was 10%).
• Overwhelming Shadows now increases Void Torrent damage by 30% (was 50%).
• Inner Quietus now increases the damage of Vampiric Touch and Shadow Word: Pain by 20% (was 35%).
• Quickened Pulse now causes Shadow Word: Pain and Entropic Rift to deal damage 15% more often (was 25%).
• All damage reduced by 15%.
• Mind Blast damage increased by 40%. This also applies to Void Blast.
• Shadow Word: Pain damage increased by 25%.
• Vampiric Touch damage increased by 100%.
• Void Torrent damage reduced by 20%.
• Psychic Link now transfers 60% of damage dealt to targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 40%).
• Spectral Horrors now causes Shadowy Apparitions to deal 50% increased damage to targets afflicted by Shadow Word: Madness (was 100%).
• Flash Heal healing increased by 70%.
• Power Word: Shield absorption increased by 50%.
• Fixed an issue causing Void Torrent to have a 45 second cooldown instead of the intended 30 second cooldown.
• Fixed an issue causing the damage over time effect: Shadow Word: Madness ⇒ not properly account for damage modifiers when casting the ability while the debuff is already present
• Fixed an issue causing Tentacle Slam to engage enemies before it deals damage.

• Prompt Prognosis increases Penance's first bolt by 125% (was 200%).
• Prophet's Insight increases Atonement healing from Holy spells by 15% (was 20%).
• Collapsing Void damage increased by 33%.
• Entropic Rift damage increased by 60%.
• Atonement heals for 45% of damage done (was 50%).
• Searing Light applies a damage over time equal to 20% of Penance damage (was 30%).
• Shadowfiend chance increased to 100% (was 40%).
• Twinsight Penance no longer applies Atonement to allies.
• Holy Ray can no longer be chained between multiple Penance casts.
• Shadow Mend healing increased by 73%.
• Shadow Word: Death damage increased by 25%.
• Shadow Word: Death deals 250% increased damage in execute range (was 150%).
• Borrowed Time grants 5%/10% Haste (was 4%/8%).
• Piety redistributes 15% of overhealing (was 20%).
• Preventive Measures increases damage of Smite, Penance, and Holy Nova by 15% (was 20%).
• Divine Aegis no longer shows on raid frames.
• Borrowed Time and Harsh Discipline have swapped positions in the talent tree.

Class

• Shackle Undead renamed to Shackle Horror and can now additionally be used against Aberrations.

• Momentum of Despair effect now increases Shuriken Storm and Black Powder critical strike damage by 30% (was 20%).
• Follow the Blood now increases Shuriken Storm and Black Powder damage by 15% (was 10%).
• Mass Casualty now deals 75% of Deathstalker's Mark (was 60%).
• All damage reduced by 8%.

• Fate Intertwined's increase to the percentage of damage caused by Blade Flurry reduced to 6% (was 8%).
• Melee damage reduced by 10%.
• Blade Flurry causes your abilities to strike nearby enemies for 30% of damage dealt (was 25%).
• Menacing Rush increases Adrenaline Rush's damage bonus to affected abilities by 20% (was 15%).
• Heightened Rush increases Adrenaline Rush's duration by 4 seconds (was 3 seconds).
• Fixed an issue in Precision Shots’ tooltip. The correct damage percent increase of 20% is now shown, instead of 10%.

• All damage reduced by 5%.
• Lightning Bolt damage reduced by 10%.
• Healing Surge healing increased by 130%.
• Healing Stream Totem healing increased by 50%.
• Earth Shield healing increased by 50%.

Diabolist

• Infernal Bolt damage increased by 150%.
• Ruination damage increased by 50%. This change does not affect PvP combat.

Hellcaller

• Malevolence damage increased by 230%.

Soul Harvester

• Wicked Reaping now increases the damage of Manifested Avarice’s Soul Swipe.
• Shared Vessel now increases Mastery by 2% (was 4%).
• Manifested Demonic Soul's Soul Swipe damage reduced by 30%. This change does not affect PvP combat.
• Soul Anathema damage reduced by 40%.

Colossus

• Demolish damage increased by 65%.
• Colossal Might increases damage of your next Demolish by 5% per stack (was 10%).

• Practices Strikes damage bonus increased to 20% (was 15%).
• Arterial Bleed damage bonus reduced to 3% per stack (was 5%).

• Lightning Strike damage increased by 100%.
• Thunder Blast damage reduced by 30%.
• Crashing Thunder damage bonus to Thunder Clap reduced to 30% (was 40%).

Slayer

• Imminent Demise now has an additional effect – Sudden Death has a 100% chance to trigger Reap the Storm.
• Slayer’s Strike damage reduced by 10%.
• Reap the Storm damage reduced by 20%.

Arms

• Culling Cyclone bonus damage increased to 20% (was 10%).
• Slayer's Malice bonus damage reduced to 15% (was 20%).
• Reap the Storm’s chance to trigger reduced to 20% (was 15%).

Fury

• Culling Cyclone bonus damage increased to 20% (was 10%).
• Slayer's Malice bonus damage reduced to 15% (was 20%).
• Reap the Storm’s chance to trigger increased to 35% (was 25%).

Class

• Deep Wounds damage reduced by 30%.

Arms

• Cleave damage increased by 32%.
• Bladestorm damage increased by 30%.
• Mortal Strike damage reduced by 20%.
• Execute damage reduced by 20%.
• Dreadnaught damage reduced by 60%.
• Barbaric Training now affects Slam, Whirlwind, and Cleave (was Slam, Whirlwind, and Thunder Clap).
• Master Tactician now increases Tactician's chance to trigger by 5% (was 10%).
• Battlelord now also reduces the Rage cost of your next Heroic Strike by 33%.

Fury

• Auto-attack damage reduced by 48%.
• Bloodthirst damage increased by 10%.
• Bladestorm damage increased by 30%.
• Raging Blow damage reduced by 20%.
• Rampage damage reduced by 10%.

Protection

• Revenge damage increased by 20%.
• Shield Slam damage reduced by 20%.
• Execute damage reduced by 20%.
• Ignore Pain damage prevented per use increased by 5%.
• Fueled by Violence healing increased to 110% of Rend and Deep Wounds damage dealt (was 85%).
• Indomitable increases max health by 10% (was 6%) and heals 1% of your health for each 15 Rage spent (was 20 Rage).

• Consume damage increased by 100% in PvP combat. Does not affect Devour.
• Devour damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• Reap damage increased by 50% in PvP combat. Does not affect Cull or Eradicate.
• Voidblade damage increased by 15% in PvP combat. Does not affect Pierce the Veil.
• Void Ray damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• Hungering Slash damage increased by 15% in PvP combat. Does not affect Reaper's Toll.
• Impending Apocalypse now increases the damage of your next Collapsing Star by 15% in PvP combat (was 30%).
• Focused Ray now increases the damage of Void Ray by 15% in PvP combat (was 50%).
• Inevitable End now reduces the cast time of Collapsing Star by 25% instead of increasing its damage done.
• Predator's Wake damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
• Devourer's Bite now increases the damage your target takes by 5% per application (was 12%).
• Surrender to the Void now increases damage dealt while in Void Metamorphosis by 10% (was 20%).

• Totem of Wrath is now summoned by Stormkeeper (was Primordial Wave).

• Totem of Wrath is now summoned by Sundering (was Primordial Wave).

• Spirit Link Totem's visual now displays a hostile variant when an enemy Shaman uses Spirit Link Totem in PvP combat.