Updated November 11, 2026. Blizzard's official November 9 World of Warcraft: Forever hotfix notes cover class abilities, dungeon encounters, quest completion, item drops and server congestion. These are applied hotfixes, not necessarily modifications introduced by client build 1.60.1.70888. The notes are especially relevant for players who found The Drowned City unusually punishing or who have struggled to find quest enemies on crowded layers.
Drowned City: confirmed encounter reductions
- Blizzard fixed a bug that made some Drowned City creatures deal about 30% more damage than intended.
- Creatures in the Deathless Marrow encounter have 25% less health.
- Deathless Sorcerer's Fireball damage was reduced by 25%.
- Deathless Watcher's Charge damage was reduced by 50%.
- Deathless Guardian uses Shield Slam roughly 50% less often.
The changes can make the encounter safer, but do not assume that every enemy in the instance has exactly 30% less health or that the whole dungeon received a uniform 50% nerf. The official list gives different adjustments to different enemies and abilities.
Other important dungeon corrections
In Alcaz Prison, Zarla Ober should now drop loot. In The Shaper's Terrace, Vitrix, Snowtalon and Cinder now drop intended loot and higher-level skinning materials; Cinder's spawn following the Archival Panel was fixed. Blackfathom Deeps received a corpse-release fix. In Blackrock Depths, the Emperor Thaurissan throne-room doors should reopen after a group wipe, and Heart of the Mountain can be looted more than once. Stratholme no longer permits unintended mounts.
Dungeon kills also award 50% more XP than they did before the November 8 hotfix. Blizzard subsequently clarified that the multiplier moved Forever dungeon-kill XP from 40% to 60% of Classic Era values. Quest completion rewards are a separate source of experience.
Class fixes from Blizzard's notes
| Class | Applied correction |
|---|---|
| Druid | Feral Charge (Cat) enters combat correctly; Natural Instinct works with Lacerate and Pounce; Pounce stun display fixed; Cooldown Manager entries corrected. |
| Hunter | Wrong-family Zephras creatures corrected; targeting very distant enemies no longer sometimes draws aggro. |
| Mage | Flamestrike ground ticks no longer spend Clearcasting; Arcane Concentration activation is no longer incorrectly counted at full chance for each missile. |
| Paladin | Consecration damage is no longer impaired by disappearing targets; Cooldown Manager Seals corrected. |
| Priest | Shadowform persists through Fear Ward; Power Infusion persists when applied to allies. |
| Shaman | Lightning Overload deals the correct Lightning Bolt damage; Lightning Mastery visuals corrected. |
| Warlock | Felsteed quest grants riding skill; Incinerate limited to Destruction specialization. |
| Warrior | Thunderclap's Cooldown Manager tracks its cooldown, not a target duration. |
Warlock Felsteed note: Players who completed Summon Felsteed before the fix can summon the mount once to obtain Apprentice Riding. This is an actionable workaround explicitly provided in Blizzard's developer notes.
Player congestion and layers
Blizzard reduced how many players occupy certain congested zones, with a larger adjustment on PvP rulesets. That is an official configuration change aimed at overcrowding. It does not establish that every source of latency, login failure or FPS loss has been resolved. The layering explainer covers those symptoms separately.
Items and quests
Waylaid Crates and Craftsman's Writs can now drop in dungeons; Nifty Stopwatch no longer shares a cooldown with major movement abilities. Berdun's Trusty Rifle no longer uses random stats or binds on equip. Various grouped quest items are now accessible to party members, and fixes affect Zephras, Un'Goro, Riverglades, Hyjal and several Classic quest lines.
Official reference
Blizzard: WoW Forever Hotfixes — November 9, 2026. Visit Blizzard's complete list for every minor NPC or quest correction. All percentages and targeted dungeon changes above are taken from that official list; generalized conclusions about server performance are editorial analysis.
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