WoW Patch Notes 21 Apr 2026

• Chosen of Frostbrood (Rank 3) has been updated – When Frostwyrm's Fury is recalled, it now grants the full Haste bonus at 50% duration instead. The ability used to recall Frostwyrm’s Fury is no longer on the global cooldown.

Deathbringer

• Echoing Fury secondary effect has been redesigned – Casting Reaper's Mark grants 1 stack of Exterminate with 100% first scythe and 100% second scythe effectiveness.
• Exterminate has been updated – After Reaper's Mark explodes, your next 2 Obliterates or Frostscythes cost 1 Rune and summon 2 scythes to strike the enemies. The rest of the effect remains the same.

• Demon Hunters can now further customize their appearance with new eye options: a new void blue eye color and a flameless option for both fel green and void blue eyes.

• Spontaneous Immolation has been redesigned – Soul Immolation heals for an additional 6% of your maximum health over its duration and its cooldown is reset upon killing an enemy that yields experience or honor.
• Soul Immolation has been updated – No longer deals self-damage. Now heals for 24% of your maximum health over its duration.
• Sweet Suffering has been updated – Now increases the duration of Feast of Souls by 1 second/2 seconds (was 2 seconds/4 seconds).
• Eradicate now deals separate damage to its primary target and its area damage targets.
• Feast of Souls is no longer capped at 20 stacks.
• Removing Grim Focus via a macro or right-clicking the aura will prevent it from being reapplied for 10 seconds.

Void-Scarred

• Burning Blades has been updated – Now affects Hungering Slash (was Reap) and now additionally increases Reap's damage by 20%.
• Untethered Fury has been updated – Now increases Void Ray damage by 15%.
• Monster Rising has been updated – Now increases Collapsing Star damage by 15%.
• Violent Transformation has been updated – Now additionally causes the Hunt to deal 25% increased damage and reset the cooldown of Soul Immolation.
• Student of Suffering increases Mastery by 4% (was 8%) and grants 2 Fury (was 5 Fury).
• Blind Focus increases Cosmic damage dealt by 2% (was 3%).

• Wild Guardian (Rank 2) now grants 1 charge/2 charges of Dream Guide or Dream of Cenarius.
• Wild Guardian (Rank 3) now empowers Maul, causing it to deal 40% additional damage over time.
• Galactic Guardian’s interaction with Red Moon has been updated – Stacks of Lunar Wrath are now consumed upon spending 20 Rage.
• Regrowths cast by Dream Guide now heal for an additional 100%.

• New Ability: Battle Visage – Activate to automatically assume your Visage whenever you are not casting draconic spells such as Fire Breath and Soar.
• Full list of abilities that temporarily shift you to Dracthyr: Deep Breath, Dream Flight, Breath of Eons, Fire Breath, Eternity Surge, Dream Breath, Upheaval, Hover, Spatial Paradox, Rescue, Zephyr, Verdant Embrace (without Dream Simulacrum talented), and Soar.
• Many abilities that used to force a shift to Dracthyr have adjusted visual treatments for Visage form.
• While active, Battle Visage also applies a camera height override to Dracthyr form to prevent the camera from adjusting rapidly when shifting between forms.
• Unravel damage increased by 300%.
• Blessing of the Bronze is now castable on friendly players who are not in your party or raid group, similar to other group buffs like Arcane Intellect.
• Fixed an issue where Twin Guardian was applying its bonus at the start of Rescue rather than upon landing.

• New Talent: Temporal Barrier – Summon a vortex of temporal energy, absorbing 900% spell power and applying Echo at 30% effectiveness on your target and up to 4 allies within 40 yards.
• Temporal Anomaly now has an additional effect – Applies Echo at 30% effectiveness on the first 5 allies it passes through.
• Fluttering Seedlings has been redesigned slightly – Emerald Blossom sends out 1/2 flying seedlings when it bursts, plus up to 2/4 additional seedlings if Emerald Blossom heals fewer than 5 allies. Each seedling heals an ally up to 40 yards away.
• Fluttering Seedlings healing increased by 67%.
• Fluttering Seedlings is now considered a Green spell and its healing is increased by Ouroboros.
• Life-giver's Flame now also functions with Deep Breath, causing the first 5 targets hit to heal nearby allies for 80% of damage done.
• All healing reduced by 5%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
• Verdant Embrace mana cost reduced by 27%.
• Resonating Sphere has been removed.

Chronowarden

• New Talent: Chronal Dynamo – Living Flame’s cast time is reduced by 0.2 seconds, and it deals 50% increased damage or healing when it is a non-instant cast.
• Energy Cycles has been removed.

• Icicles has been updated – No longer generates rapidly out of combat.
• Glacial Spike now has a duration of 60 seconds (was unlimited).
• Frozen Orb can now be cast without a target selected.
• Fixed an issue causing Freezing Rain's effect duration to not match the duration of Frozen Orb.

Master of Harmony

• Harmonic Surge has been redesigned – Casting Celestial Brew or Celestial Infusion grants 2 charges of Potential Energy. Your next cast of Tiger Palm or Vivify consumes all charges of Potential Energy to cause a Harmonic Surge. Harmonic Surge: For each charge of Potential Energy, deal Nature damage to your target and nearby enemies, and heal up to 5 allies. Damage and healing increased per stack of Potential Energy consumed.
• Potential Energy has been redesigned – Casting Keg Smash grants a charge of Potential Energy.
• Coalescence’s tooltip has been adjusted for clarity, and it now applies its own distinct periodic healing and damage effect.
• Several tooltips have been updated to clarify that they interact with both Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion.

• All healing reduced by 5%.
• Sheilun's Gift's healing is increased by 5% per cloud consumed (was 10%).
• Spiritfont now reduces Enveloping Mist cast time by 50%.
• Way of the Serpent no longer causes Soothing Mist and Crackling Jade Lightning to be cast while moving. This is now default behavior.
• Emperor’s Elixir’s tooltip has been adjusted to better reflect its effect.

Conduit of the Celestials

• Inner Compass now rotates its stances on an 8 second timer.

Master of Harmony

• Harmonic Surge has been redesigned – Casting Thunder Focus Tea grants 2 charges of Potential Energy. Your next cast of Tiger Palm or Vivify consumes all charges of Potential Energy to cause a Harmonic Surge.
• Harmonic Surge: For each charge of Potential Energy, deal Nature damage to your target and nearby enemies, and heal up to 5 allies. Damage and healing increased per stack of Potential Energy consumed.
• Potential Energy has been redesigned – Casting Rising Sun Kick or Rushing Wind Kick grants a charge of Potential Energy.
• Coalescence’s tooltip has been adjusted for clarity, and it now applies its own distinct periodic healing and damage effect.
• Several tooltips have been updated to clarify that they interact with both Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion.

• Blessing of Protection and Blessing of Spellwarding now show on Raid Frames when Center Big Defensives is enabled in the Raid Frames Interface menu.

• New Talent: Negotiable Contract – If the target of your Deathmark dies, Deathmark jumps to a nearby enemy combatant for its remaining duration.

Deathstalker

• Deathstalker's Mark has been updated – Garrote applies 3 stacks of Deathstalker's Mark to your target, unless Deathstalker's Mark is already active. You learn Mark for Death. When you spend 5 or more combo points on attacks against a Marked target you consume an application of Deathstalker's Mark, dealing 120% Plague damage.
• Mark for Death: Move your active Deathstalker's Mark to your target. 10 yard range, 20 second cooldown, 25 Energy, and not on the global cooldown.

Trickster

• Cloud Cover has been updated – Activating Adrenaline Rush creates a cloud of smoke for 10 seconds, allowing attacks: within the cloud ⇒ apply Fazed, stacking up to 2 additional times. Effect persists for 10 seconds after leaving the cloud

• Ace Up Your Sleeve has been updated – Between the Eyes has a 3%/6% chance (was 5%) per combo point spent to grant 4 combo points (was 2/4) and reset its own cooldown.

Deathstalker

• Deathstalker's Mark has been updated – Shadowstrike applies 3 stacks of Deathstalker's Mark to your target, unless Deathstalker's Mark is already active. You learn Mark for Death. When you spend 5 or more combo points on attacks against a Marked target you consume an application of Deathstalker's Mark, dealing 120% Plague damage.
• Mark for Death: Move your active Deathstalker's Mark to your target. 10 yard range, 20 second cooldown, 25 Energy, and not on the global cooldown.

Trickster

• Cloud Cover has been updated – Activating Shadow Blades creates a cloud of smoke for 10 seconds, allowing attacks: within the cloud ⇒ apply Fazed, stacking up to 2 additional times. Effect persists for 10 seconds after leaving the cloud

• Overflowing Maelstrom secondary effect has been updated – Each Maelstrom Weapon stack consumed grants Overflowing Maelstrom, reducing the cast time and increasing the healing of your next Healing Surge or Chain Heal by 10%. Overflowing Maelstrom can accumulate up to 20 stacks, benefiting each cast by up to 10 stacks.
• The names of Raging Maelstrom and Overflowing Maelstrom talents have been swapped to better reflect their effects.

• Grimoire: Fel Ravager has been updated – Summons a Fel Ravager to assist you in combat for 20 seconds and will purge 1 beneficial magic effect from an enemy. Turns into Devour Magic while on cooldown.
• Antoran Jailer’s Soul Barrage has been updated – Releases a volley of Chaos magic that deals Chaos damage to the target and up to 10 additional targets within 10 yards.

• Conflagration of Chaos has been updated – Conflagrate and Shadowburn have a 100% chance to guarantee your next cast of either ability to critically strike and increases its damage by your critical strike chance.
• Conflagration of Chaos icon has been updated.
• Chaos Incarnate and Inferno have swapped positions in the talent tree.

• Rend radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
• Wrecking Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active Absorb shield.
• Shattering Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active Immunity effect, or a Mage’s Ice Wall.

• Mana Tea now restores 50% less mana in PvP combat.
• Life Cocoon's absorb amount reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
• Chrysalis reduces the cooldown of Life Cocoon by 30 seconds in PvP combat (was 45 seconds).
• Zen Spheres can now be applied by Rising Sun Kick and Rushing Wind Kick.