Changelog weeks 9-28, 2026
Major changes:
- Complete rewrite of Azjol'Nerub, including:
- Krik'thir's watchers no longer engage on a timer, but after the death of other watchers, in sequence. Krik'thir only engages once all watchers are dead.
- Hadronox event rescripted in full to be Blizzlike, including Blizzlike add pack handling, add spawns, gate web event, and fixed web grab hitting targets through the floor
- Rewritten Anub'arak logic to prevent adds getting stuck on ramp leading to platform and prevent submerge spikes from triggering after early emerge
- Fixed missing dynamic object despawns (such as Volleys and Blizzards lasting forever), thanks in part to AzerothCore's open source development
- Wintergrasp: Each consecutive loss of a faction in Wintergrasp makes the faction gain 1 Tenacity on next fight, to balance who owns the keep
- Rewritten threat handling to rectify threat dropping in instances
Bug fixes:
- Ulduar: Fixed Ulduar herb respawns if no players in instance for 30 min (Blizzlike)
- Ulduar: Rewrote Kologarn corpse bridge
- Packets: Fixed race condition in setting client cache on certain creature spawns in TOGC LK, inside Halion, and Ragnaros spawn
- Packets: Fixed possible eternal ress loop when out of bounds of continents (mostly relevant for Outland)
- Auras: Fixed erroneous flight on map changes and in instances, if player was on a flight mount when changing maps
- ICC, BQL: Fixed Minchar quest not completing properly and BQL fight auras not expiring on fight end
- ICC, Sindragosa: Added Valithria completion check on pull
- ICC, Gunship: Added safeguards against gunship encounter becoming stale/stuck on wipe
- ICC, LK: Fixed LK HC Valkyrs prematurely setting below 50 pct var, fixed Life Siphon
- World: Fixed players falling through continents/world maps using mechanics like Blink and Charge
- Black Temple: Fixed Reliquary pullable through floor above
- Wintergrasp: Fixed Tenacity not applying to vehicles
- Obsidian Sanctum: Fixed miniboss dragon despawn race condition and stale miniboss dragons on certain wipe scenarios
- Reputation: Fixed missing faction check in certain reputation awards that caused some quests to reward Horde reputations to Alliance characters and vice versa
- Mounts: Fixed Invincible and X-53 rocket not working properly with Feathers of Azeroth
- Ahune: Fixed race condition on loot chest generation
- Spells: Scripted Lucky spell (Dalaran fountain coin fishing spell)
- Spells: Exempted targets outside of LoS/behind Ice Tomb from Blistering Cold pull
- Ruby Sanctum: Fixed Halion corporeality to show on both sides
- Transports: Fix race condition sometimes causing crashes on removing players from transports
- Pit of Saron: Fixed Tyrannus combat locking players on the intro dialogue
Shadows:
- Fixed crash from race condition in Discipline Priest healing actions
- Fixed Shadows' looting of quest game objects
- Shadows Resto Druids now use Lifebloom on Clearcasting procs
- Improved Festergut tactics
- Fixed Shadows teleporting around sometimes after getting stunned/rooted
- Fixed Shadows player object becoming stale on map change (previously, Shadows would not "despawn" if a player saw them change maps)
- Fixed Shadows walking through closed doors on BPC
- Improved Shadows mute handling
- Rescripted ICC gunship encounter tactics, improved Valithria healer tactics, LK tank tactics, fixed Shadows falling through floor on Rotface, fixed Shadows stuck behind LoS pillars on LDW
- Added Forge of Souls tactics
- Added Pit of Saron Tyrannus tactics and damage reduction on Ick as Shadows eat a lot of AoE
- Added Utgarde Keep Ingvar the Plunderer tactics
- Fixed buff logic for Kings/Sanctuary split, Battle/Commanding shout, and Rockbiter weapon overriding Shaman weapon enchants
- Fixed Shadows getting teleported into the air near gunships if approaching wrong faction's gunship
- Fixed Shadows pulling Valithria prematurely and improved tactics inside of dream/nightmare portals
Features:
- Instance resetter at mall: Added free reset timer check, permit full account reset from one character
- New characters now join world chat on first login
- Added specific pet biscuit and certain end-game potions and feasts to always sell on AH
- Re-implemented VIP repair to fix previous race condition
- Added VIP extension option to Twiggy
- Re-implement legacy transfer system (Altoholic and EveryQuest-based transfers)