WoW: Forever Nov 10-11 Hotfixes: Enhancement Rework

The earlier WoW: Forever hotfix lists were mostly bug fixes plus a leveling boost. This one changes how two specs are meant to play. Blizzard added two new days, November 10 and November 11, 2026, to the top of its running Forever hotfix page and posted the update on November 11 (Pacific time). The Enhancement Shaman entries come with a long developer note, and the reason Blizzard gives is the raid unlock. Our November 5-6 and November 9 breakdowns cover the earlier days; nothing below repeats them.

Header art from Blizzard's November 11 WoW: Forever upgrades post.

The short version

Enhancement Shaman pulled back to Windfury

These are the November 10 Enhancement entries, with Blizzard's numbers:

Blizzard's developer note explains it. Beta changes to Enhancement, plus the Shock and Lightning Bolt changes aimed at Elemental, made Enhancement favor Spell Power and Intellect gear too heavily. That pulled the spec away from Windfury, which Blizzard says should stay at the heart of Enhancement. Blizzard also says why now: the change has big implications for gearing in the upcoming raid, and doing it before raids open stops players winning contested items that a later change could make much less valuable. Many of the changes, it says, reverse Beta adjustments made specifically for Enhancement.

Two more entries make the direction clear. All Shamans can now run a weapon imbue and a weapon totem at the same time; Blizzard's example is Windfury Weapon with Windfury Totem, so attacks get a chance to trigger both. And the Shaman quest reward Rage of the Storm now has 16 Strength instead of 16 Intellect, with its weapon speed slowed to 3.6 from 3.2.

The weapon speed matters because Maelstrom Weapon now scales with it. Its tooltip shows your chance to trigger it on a swing, based on your main-hand speed. Blizzard's example: with 5 points in Maelstrom Weapon, a 3.6-speed weapon shows a 60% chance per swing and a 2.0-speed weapon shows 33%. Since the rate is now set per minute, slower weapons get a bigger chance on each hit.

Two follow-ups landed on November 11. Flametongue Totem Rank 2 was not working, and now it does. And alongside a fix to Windfury Totem activating from the Paladin's Holy Strike, Blizzard changed the Retribution talent Unsealed Fury so it no longer makes echoes from Windfury Totem attacks.

If you leveled an Enhancement Shaman in caster gear, the numbers above cut into that plan. Blizzard does not say whether more changes are coming.

Affliction: Wrack now speeds up your DoTs

Wrack is redesigned rather than just tuned. Here is the new version, from the November 10 list:

• It tears the target apart for 6 seconds, dealing Shadow damage every second.
• While you channel it, your Siphon Life, Corruption and Bane of Agony on that target deal their damage 100% faster.
• Its own damage is down 30%, and it no longer raises the damage of your other periodic effects.

Blizzard's note explains the reason. The old Wrack raised periodic damage by a percentage, so if you stopped channeling just before a DoT ticked, that tick got nothing from it. The new one speeds DoTs up, and the time it skips is kept even if the channel ends or is interrupted. Blizzard's example: channel Wrack for 1 second during a 3-second Corruption tick, and Corruption advances 2 seconds instead of 1, so its next tick comes 1 second later instead of 2. DoT durations do not change. Bane of Agony still lasts its full 24 seconds, it just ticks twice as often while Wrack is up.

Soul Siphon changed to match. It now boosts Drain Life, Drain Soul and Wrack by 4/8/12% for each of your Corruption, Siphon Life and Bane of Agony effects on the target, up to 36%. Before, any Affliction spell counted.

The other class changes

The Hunter pet fix is the one to watch. It is a bug fix, but pets drop from 150% to 115% of their normal health, so pets now have noticeably less health than before the fix. On Arcane Shot, Blizzard's note says the cost is now the same share of your Mana at every rank and rises gradually with level. Costs at levels 6 and 60 are nearly identical to before and slightly lower in between.

Smaller entries: Redoubt (Paladin) and Maelstrom Weapon (Shaman) can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager, Vampiric Embrace healing no longer triggers the Revelation enchant, Holy Nova unlearns properly when you untalent it, and the Succubus whip sound plays less often.

Gold, bags and professions

Quest gold. On November 10, most quests level 48 and higher started rewarding gold as well. Blizzard's note explains that Forever does not include the original game's XP-to-gold conversion for level 60 quests, which was added just before The Burning Crusade. It did not want players to save up quests until 60 for a payout. Quests that already give valuable items, repeatable quests and quick or trivial quests were left out.

Bags. On November 11, Blizzard said several Tailoring bags were smaller than intended:

The list gives the new slot counts but not the old ones.

Vendor prices. Vendors now pay less for some crafted Leatherworking, Tailoring and Blacksmithing armor. Blizzard says these were bind-on-pickup items meant to be crafted once for yourself. Minor Arcane Elixir now sells for 5 copper (was 25), and Iron Grenades now cost 1 silver 25 copper from vendors (was 5 silver).

Profession fixes:

• Engineering: Swiftstrike Shot and Swiftfeather Arrow are no longer Bind-on-Pickup. Blizzard says they are not available until raids unlock, but it flagged the change now because it may affect which profession you pick.
• Blacksmithing: Coarse Grinding Stone gives skill-ups until 90 (was 75).
• Cooking: the Journeyman Campfire Kit needs Cooking 90 to place (was 140), matching its recipe.
• Enchanting: the Arcane Salvager now needs a Runed Golden Rod (was Runed Truesilver Rod) and applies its disenchanting bonus to lower-level enchanters. The Lesser Spirit enchants for boots and bracers now give Spirit, not Resist All.
• Alchemy: "Recipe: Elixir of Greater Firepower" is renamed "Recipe: Elixir of Holy Power".
• Fishing: Fishing Racks should give lures to eligible players more reliably. Blizzard says it knows about other Fishing Rack problems, including "There is no loot" errors.

On items, all racial vendor mounts are now Bind-on-Pickup, Sparklance Wand does Arcane damage (was Nature), Bloody Claws of Attack now add +1 Fist/Unarmed skill, and Earthen Silk Slippers no longer give more spell damage than intended.

Item Restoration is off. Under Customer Support on November 11, Blizzard says the Item Restoration service "has been disabled while we investigate and address a critical bug." It gives no return date. Until it returns, you cannot use Item Restoration to get back an item you deleted or sold.

Quests, Riverglades and the world

The Riverglades, one of Forever's new zones, got three combat nerfs on November 11. Twilight Enforcer's Smash hits significantly less hard, Executioner Morg deals less damage, and Twilight Forgemaster's Mark of Flames now "increases damage dealt by 50" (was 1,000). On November 10, Blizzard also added significantly more Glade Vipers for "Poison Tips."

Other quest fixes across both days:

• More Nightbane Vile Fang and Nightbane Tainted Ones for "Worgen in the Woods" in Duskwood.
• Murloc Tideskimmers now drop Saltwater Murloc Eyes for "A Taste of the Sea."
• The Broken Frond of Celastrus from Celastrus the Bitter now drops for every eligible party member.
• "Rescue OOX-22/FE!" in Feralas can be started again, and the cage door in "Freedom for All Creatures" resets.
• "Scarlet Diversions" (Western Plaguelands): the Command Tent can be interacted with properly.
• The Witherbark Mallet in Arathi Highlands works, unblocking "The Giant in the Den."
• Sovik offers "Chief Engineer Scooty" again, the "Call of Water" finale plays out more consistently, and "Helping Hands" had several issues fixed.

On Zephras Isle, the Skyborne starting zone, "Camping 101: Herbalism" now completes in Shen'dar Village instead of Valanaar. Separately, on November 11 Blizzard fixed a bug that blocked mounting in named areas of Shen'dralas, another of Forever's new zones.

In the wider world, Blizzard fixed deaths sending players to the wrong graveyard, Pyrewood Village's residents spawn at dawn and dusk again, and Shatterspear Trolls no longer give experience when killed. Blizzard's note on that one: "They're dancers, not fighters!" Innkeepers also give better answers when you ask about dungeons.

What the list does not tell you

• No promise that Enhancement is finished. Blizzard explains the direction but does not say whether more changes are coming before raids open. Our WoW: Forever explainer has the raid unlock date Blizzard gave at launch.
• No old slot counts for the bags. Only the new sizes and cloth costs are listed.
• No return date for Item Restoration.
• No new Midnight hotfix post. The newest Midnight hotfix post on Blizzard's news page was still "Hotfixes: November 6, 2026" when I checked on November 13.
• The page keeps changing. Blizzard renamed it "WoW: Forever Hotfixes - November 11, 2026" and says it will be updated as more hotfixes go in. Trust the live page over this summary if they differ.