WoW Forever Hotfixes: November 10 Enhancement, Wrack, Pet Health & Quest Gold

Blizzard’s WoW: Forever hotfixes for 10 November rework Enhancement Shaman and Affliction Warlock, adjust pet health and add gold to high-level quests. The game is still in its post-launch tuning phase, so numbers may move again. Last checked 11 November 2026.

These are the changes Blizzard pre-announced in Class Tuning Incoming, now with final numbers.

Quests: gold from level 48

Most quests of level 48 and higher now also reward gold. Blizzard says WoW Forever does not include the XP-to-gold conversion for level 60 quests that original WoW added just before The Burning Crusade, because players should not feel pushed to hoard quests and hand them in later for profit.

Not affected: quests that already reward valuable items, repeatable quests, and quick or trivial quests. See the leveling guide for routes.

Shaman

Change	Detail
Weapon imbues and totems	Can now be used at the same time (for example Windfury Weapon and Windfury Totem), so attacks can trigger both.
Maelstrom Weapon	Trackable in the Cooldown Manager.
Enhancement: Stormstrike	100% weapon damage (was 150%), cooldown 8 seconds (was 6).
Enhancement: Mental Dexterity	Intellect to Attack Power ratio 33/66/100% (was 50/100/150%).
Enhancement: Maelstrom Weapon	Each application gives 20% reduced cast time and Mana cost at all ranks. Activations are 6/7/8/9/10 times per minute by rank (was 20 per minute at any rank). The tooltip now shows your chance per swing: with 5 points, a 3.6 speed weapon shows 60% and a 2.0 speed weapon 33%.
Rage of the Storm (quest reward)	16 Strength (was 16 Intellect), weapon speed 3.6 (was 3.2).

Blizzard’s developer note: beta changes pushed Enhancement towards Spell Power and Intellect gear and away from Windfury. These changes reverse that, and Blizzard wants them in before the upcoming raid opens so players don’t chase gear that loses value later. Our Shaman guide will be updated as builds settle.

Warlock

Change	Detail
Pets	Imp’s first four Firebolt ranks deal more base damage. Imp, Voidwalker, Incubus and Succubus base health up about 15%.
Succubus	Whip sound no longer plays far too often.
Soul Siphon (Affliction)	Boosts Drain Life, Drain Soul and Wrack by 4/8/12% per active Corruption, Siphon Life and Bane of Agony, up to 36% (was any Affliction spell).
Wrack (Affliction)	Damage reduced by 30%. No longer raises periodic damage by a percentage. Now channels for 6 seconds, dealing Shadow damage every second, while your Siphon Life, Corruption and Bane of Agony on the target tick 100% faster.
Bane of Havoc (Destruction)	Now correctly triggers the global cooldown.

Blizzard’s note: Bane of Agony still lasts its full 24 seconds, but ticks twice as often while you channel Wrack. Time skipped is kept even if the channel is interrupted, so a 1 second channel during a 3 second Corruption tick moves its next tick 1 second later rather than 2.

Hunter, Druid, Paladin, Priest, Warrior

• Hunter: pets wrongly had 150% of intended health; now 115%. Arcane Shot costs 11% of base Mana at every rank (levels 6 and 60 are nearly unchanged, slightly cheaper in between). Beast Mastery: Summon Hawk also costs 11%, and the Hawk pet’s melee damage is up about 80%. See the Hunter guide.
• Druid: Omen of Clarity can activate after switching specialisations. Restoration: Nature’s Swiftness now also makes Wild Growth instant.
• Paladin: Redoubt can be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
• Priest: Vampiric Embrace healing no longer triggers the Revelation enchant. Holy Nova is now unlearned correctly when you untalent it.
• Warrior (Arms): Sweeping Strikes keeps its charges if no second target is hit.

Professions and items

• Alchemy: Minor Arcane Elixir sells for 5 copper (was 25). “Recipe: Elixir of Greater Firepower” is renamed “Recipe: Elixir of Holy Power”, with the aura now called Holy Power.
• Blacksmithing: Coarse Grinding Stone gives skill-ups to 90 (was 75).
• Cooking: Journeyman Campfire Kit needs Cooking 90 to place (was 140).
• Enchanting: Arcane Salvager needs a Runed Golden Rod (was Runed Truesilver Rod) and now applies its disenchanting bonus to lower-level enchanters. Lesser Spirit boots and bracer enchants now give Spirit rather than Resist All.
• Engineering: Iron Grenades cost 1 silver 25 copper (was 5 silver). Swiftstrike Shot and Swiftfeather Arrow are no longer Bind-on-Pickup. They are unavailable until raids unlock, but could influence profession choice.
• Fishing: a Fishing Rack bug that stopped some players receiving lures is fixed. Blizzard knows of other “There is no loot” problems with the rack.
• Crafted armour: vendor prices cut for some Bind-on-Pickup Leatherworking, Tailoring and Blacksmithing pieces meant to be crafted once.
• Items: all racial vendor mounts are now Bind-on-Pickup. Sparklance Wand deals Arcane damage (was Nature).

See the professions guide.

Auction House, world and quests

• Minimum Auction House deposit is 1 copper (was 1 silver). Mail wrongly showing as from “Stormwind Auction House” is fixed, as is some mail arriving after about 2 minutes instead of 60.
• Shatterspear Trolls no longer give XP. Innkeepers give better answers about dungeons. Wrong graveyard on death and Pyrewood Village villagers not spawning at dawn and dusk are fixed.
• Quest fixes: Call of Water final events, Sovik offering “Chief Engineer Scooty”, “Helping Hands”, “Camping 101: Herbalism” (now completes in Shen’dar Village), Broken Frond of Celastrus drops for the whole party, “Rescue OOX-22/FE!” in Feralas, more Glade Vipers (“Poison Tips”), more Nightbane mobs (“Worgen in the Woods”) and Saltwater Murloc Eyes drops (“A Taste of the Sea”).

Earlier fixes: November 9 hotfixes.

Sources: Blizzard forums, WoW: Forever Hotfixes – November 10, 2026.