World of Warcraft: Midnight Hotfixes - August 21
Source: Wowhead
Blizzard has posted hotfixes for today which includes raid and delve fixes, a fix for using the Coiled Isle portal and more!
This set of hotfixes includes:
- The previously announced Altar of Fangs tuning
- Delve bug fixes
- Raid bug fixes for Vashnik, the Lost Explorers and Ula'tek
- A fix for using the Coiled Isle portal on alts.
- ... and more!
- August 21, 2026
- Delves
- Phantasmal Spore Toxin and Frostheart Venom will now properly be removed when leaving the delve.
- Illusory Deceit no longer incorrectly scales the number of Twilight Illusions based on the number of players during Infiltrator Gulkat’s encounter in The Darkway.
- Players may now only pick up and carry one Oddball Ingredient at a time.
- Dungeons and Raids
- Altar of Fangs
- Ravenous Descendant’s Ravenous now grants 10% attack speed per stack (was 20%), and movement speed reduced by 20%.
- Twinfang Harrower’s Paralyzing Shots initial damage reduced by 50%.
- Venom Leech’s Septic Spatter no longer creates a puddle at the leech’s corpse location.
- Ritual Chieftain’s Blood Sacrifice absorb reduced by 10%.
- Caustic Mist Totem’s Unstable Totem damage reduced by 10%.
- High Evolutionist’s Evolve cooldown increased, Envenom cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2.5 seconds), and Mass Envenom cast time increased to 3.5 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).
- Bloodletter’s Bloodletting now procs less frequently.
- Ascendant Serpent health reduced by 10%.
- Rav’i
- Feeding Frenzy no longer increases the rate of Messy Eater and Carrion Burst.
- Fresh Meat piles now display a warning visual when Rav’i is close enough to eat from them.
- Hydrastrike damage reduced by 33%.
- Zul’jan
- The initial cast of Ritual of the Fang now occurs a few seconds later in the encounter.
- Ritual of the Fang cast time increased to 5 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Fang Empowered damage reduced by 20%.
- The Venomous Abyss
- Vashnik the Malignant
- Reduced target scaling for Adaptive infection to be less punishing for larger group sizes.
- Fixed an issue causing Thinned Blood to be cast on non-mythic difficulties.
- The Lost Explorers
- Resolved an issue causing Final Ascension to inflict less damage than intended.
- Ula’tek
- Adjusted the Caustic Waves from the Gore Rattler so they remain above the floor of the main platform.
- The tooltip for Ula’tek’s Volatile Purge no longer contains an error.
- Housing
- Previewing decor in the Decor Catalog will now show accurate Voidlight Marl prices for decor sold by Silvermoon’s Disguised Decor Duel Vendor.
Items
- Hex Lord’s Dooming Idol - Hex Lord’s Doom stacks are no longer removed upon ending a Mythic+ boss encounter.
- Prey
- Fixed an issue that prevented alts from being able to access the Prey portal between Silvermoon and The Coiled Isle.
