WoW Forever Dungeon XP: Kill Experience Up 50% in November 8 Hotfix

Blizzard has increased the experience you earn from killing enemies inside dungeons in WoW Forever by 50%. A blue post on the official forums says the hotfix went live at about 11:05 PST on 8 November 2026.

What changed

• Dungeon kill XP: +50%. The post says the aim is to make going back into dungeons “feel better”.
• Dungeon quest rewards: not mentioned in the post, so treat them as unchanged for now.
• Format: a live hotfix, so no patch or restart was announced.

Blizzard’s sign-off, “good luck with those Deviate Hides!”, points at the Wailing Caverns quest items players have been hunting. We haven’t tested whether the new rate changes that run.

Why it matters for levelling

Earlier in the beta Blizzard cut the bonus XP from dungeon quests and mob XP was already low. Wowhead’s report on the hotfix says many players then ran each dungeon once for the quests and moved on, because repeat runs gave little. That is Wowhead’s reading of player behaviour, not a Blizzard statement.

The practical result: a second or third run for friends or a group is now less of a sacrifice. Questing through each dungeon once is still the efficient base route. See our dungeons guide for what’s available at each level, and our earlier note on the dungeon XP buff.

Player reaction

The thread had around 780 replies at the time of writing. As player opinion: some welcomed it as proof Blizzard is listening, some asked for further changes such as shared mob tagging, and some said they disagreed with the change. Opinions in this thread are the players’ own.

We don’t yet have exact before-and-after numbers per dungeon. We’ll update this once Blizzard or testers publish them.

Sources: Blizzard forums: Dungeon Enemy XP Increased – November 8, Wowhead: Blizzard Buffs Dungeon Enemy Experience Gains.