WoW Forever Hotfixes: November 13 Wild Growth, Windfury Totem & Trivial Dungeon XP

Blizzard posted the November 13 WoW: Forever hotfix notes late on 13 November. The biggest changes are a Wild Growth buff, a Windfury Totem fix, and a rule that stops trivial kills in dungeons giving experience.

Classes

Class	Change
All	Fixed a bug that left players with no diminishing returns against creature stuns (and when using stuns against creatures).
Druid (Restoration)	Wild Growth can no longer be cast while moving. Its healing coefficient is now 6.6% (was 3.3%).
Mage	Frost Nova is now correctly broken by damage from procs and from Blizzard.
Paladin	Judgement of Command now activates on-hit effects and counts as a melee attack.
Priest	The Legacy Perk The Quick and the Dead now correctly reduces the Mana cost of Divine Spirit.
Shaman	Windfury Totem is now correctly activated by all melee abilities, even those that don’t involve your main hand weapon.
Warlock	Siphon Life Rank 1 can no longer be cast while silenced.
Warrior	Berserker Rage now removes Sap.

Developers’ notes on Paladin: all other Judgements remain Ranged attacks. Judgement of Command was the only one treated as melee, and Blizzard says that matches its uniqueness. Other seals were Spells in the original game, but in WoW: Forever they are Ranged attacks. For the earlier change, see our November 11 hotfixes.

Developers’ notes on Shaman: strikes from abilities that involve your offhand weapon, such as Whirlwind or Mutilate, do not have a chance to activate Windfury. The main-hand strike from those abilities still does. See the Shaman guide and the Paladin guide.

Dungeons

• Trivial XP: killing enemies in dungeons now awards zero experience to all party members if the enemy is trivial to the level of one or more of them.
• The Deadmines: Sneed should now eject properly if Sneed’s Shredder is stunned when it reaches 0% health.
• The Drowned City: non-boss enemies now respawn 2 hours after being killed (was 1 hour). See The Drowned City.
• Stratholme: defeating Balnazzar should now count toward the Legacy Challenge Master Spelunker.

Enemies and NPCs

• Gnomeregan: Techbot’s respawn time is reduced for “Save Techbot’s Brain!”.
• Badlands: Lesser Rock Elemental spawns should appear more often.
• Eastern Plaguelands: fixed enemies sometimes aggroing unexpectedly in Stratholme and Eastern Plaguelands, particularly when resurrecting.
• Mulgore: quillboar and Venture Co. spawn rates are reduced in the starting area.
• Blasted Lands: Nethergarde Keep guards no longer drop loot.
• Stranglethorn Vale: tiger, panther and raptor spawns should appear more often.
• Zephras Isle: Nyalah Brightfire in Valanaar now sells a wider range of cooking supplies.

Items

• Gloves of Holy Might have the correct text and are now only activated by harmful spells and abilities that deal damage.
• The Glimmering Mithril Insignia trinket no longer requires the ability to wear Mail armour.
• Cloak of the Fleshborer now has a texture.
• Taran Icebreaker now behaves as a 2-handed Mace (was a 1-handed Mace).
• Darkspear signet rings have corrected Mp5 and now match their Alliance equivalents.
• Stat corrections: Everstaring Abomination Eye (Spirit), The Bad Hat (spell power) and the Souvenir Sea Shell.
• Blessed Band of Light lost its Hit stat, and Channeler’s Ring now has Spell Power (was Spirit). Players can swap a Blessed Band of Light for a Channeler’s Ring; until raids open, the exchange is the first item on Pix Xizzix’s vendor list if you have the band. It cannot be reversed.

Quests

• “The Talisman of Kazdor”: rogues no longer enter the wrong version of Zul’Farrak.
• Deadwood Key, Drop of Stolen Life, Ring of the Fallen Soldier, Venom-dripping heart and Blackthorne Intelligence now drop for all party members on the associated quests.
• “A Quick Grocery Run”: Skonk’s list can be read by everyone.
• Pix Xizzix’s weekly dungeon quests are now removed from the quest log on weekly reset.
• “Coyote Huntin’”: Sootfur’s pelt is shared with the party.
• The Crow Effigy is visible if you meet the requirements on Mount Hyjal.
• “Crate Expectations”: Unstable Package should no longer proc on a taxi, and misfire damage is reduced.
• Picking up “Return to the Port” no longer deletes nearby players’ quest items for “The Cook in the Cage”.
• “Yashiro’s Windwalk”: Doomguard Xarkul kill credit now goes to healers who assist Yashiro.
• Riverglades: Jezap Jinglesprocket now offers the Bloodmaster’s Ring quests; “Gaseous Gold” shows the right amount; woodpiles are no longer lootable off-quest.
• Feralas: several fixes to “Gordunni Cobalt”.
• Undercity and Stormwind: Owen Thadd and Garion Wendell accept books again.

Fishing tournament and UI

Blizzard improved the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza by greatly increasing the number of players per ruleset who can win. It says it continues to work on tournament performance and will deploy more fixes in the coming weeks.

A UI bug that reset Action Bar settings every time players with Secondary Talents logged out is fixed.

Lost training refunded

Separately, Blizzard says it has refunded skill purchases made on 9 November between 1:17 p.m. and 2:17 p.m. PST, when server issues caused some players to lose training. Affected players should check in-game mail for gold equal to the cost.

Sources: Blizzard forums, WoW: Forever Hotfixes – November 13, 2026 and Lost Training Purchase Refunds – November 13.