THE WOW FOREVER COLLECTION · DISPATCH · RESEARCH CHECKED NOVEMBER 12, 2026
Short answer: the November 11 hotfixes are a bug-fix batch with one odd design change, Judgement now counting as a ranged attack. The bigger news is about the day before. Blizzard has pulled the Auction House section out of the November 10 notes and says the 1 copper minimum deposit will arrive with weekly maintenance on November 17 (November 18 in Europe). Enhancement Shamans also report, in thread after thread, that their Stormstrike and Maelstrom Weapon changes have not reached live realms. Blizzard has confirmed the Auction House delay. It has said nothing yet about the Shaman changes.
Kaivax posted the November 11 list on the US forums at 00:48 UTC on November 12, together with a one-line note about the Auction House.
What from November 10 is not live
When the November 10 notes went up, the Auction House section sat under the heading "With realm restarts". It held three items: the minimum deposit dropping from 1 silver to 1 copper, a fix for unread mail showing as sent by "Stormwind Auction House", and a fix for mail that arrived in about 2 minutes when it should take 60.
The realms restarted on Tuesday and listings still cost a silver. Players noticed within hours. A bug report titled "Bug: Auction House deposit price" simply said the deposit "is still 1 silver after weekly reset", and a second thread asked why the hotfix had not taken effect.
Kaivax answered on November 12: "We've temporarily removed Auction House changes from yesterday's update, as they will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance on November 17. They will appear again in the hotfixes update thereafter." The EU version of the same post gives November 18, which is Europe's maintenance day.
So until Tuesday, the deposit floor is still 1 silver. If you are selling stacks of linen or copper ore that vendor for a few copper each, it is still cheaper to hold them, vendor them or trade them directly than to pay a silver per listing and risk it not selling.
The Shaman changes
This part is player-reported and Blizzard hasn't confirmed it. The November 10 notes list Stormstrike at 100% weapon damage on an 8 second cooldown, Mental Dexterity at 100% of Intellect, a slower Maelstrom Weapon and the new rule that lets Windfury Weapon stack with Windfury Totem. None of that is in the section Blizzard removed.
Shamans say none of it is in the game either. From threads opened on November 11 and 12:
- "Stormstrike should be 8 sec cd and 100%, but its still 6 sec and 150%."
- "My windfury isnt double proccing from totem to weapon yet the tool tip still says one will cancel out the other."
- One player on the Roleplay ruleset reinstalled the client and found Stormstrike still usable every 6 seconds, with a tooltip reading 195% weapon damage.
I counted seven threads opened to say the same thing between 04:00 UTC on November 11 and 06:30 UTC on November 12, on both the US and EU forums, plus replies in the big Enhancement threads, and found no player claiming the opposite with evidence. That is a strong signal, but it is still forum reports. Blizzard has not said whether the Enhancement changes are waiting for a restart, were held back on purpose or are bugged. One poster guessed they ship with the November 17 maintenance like the Auction House fixes. Another hoped the delay means Blizzard is reconsidering after the backlash. Neither has anything behind it.
The practical test takes five seconds: read your Stormstrike tooltip. If it says 150% on a 6 second cooldown, you are still on the pre-nerf version. Don't pay for a respec or swap your Intellect gear for Strength until the tooltip changes. Icy Veins also picked up a related argument on November 11 about whether changes this large should come with a free talent reset. Blizzard hasn't offered one.
Other parts of the November 10 list do appear to be in. Warlocks and Hunters were comparing pet health before and after the restart on Tuesday. I haven't seen a Blizzard post that goes through the list item by item.
Judgement is now a ranged attack
The one line in the November 11 notes that changes how a class works:
Judgement changed to now be considered a Ranged Attack. This means it no longer counts as a Melee attack for the purposes of item and effect procs and uses the Paladin's Ranged Hit chance.
Judgement will no longer trigger weapon procs, enchant procs or anything else keyed to melee hits. Blizzard gave no developer note explaining why, and Paladins on the forums are guessing. One guess is that Judgement was triggering effects it was never meant to, such as the Orc racial Command. The second Paladin change points the same way: Unsealed Fury "no longer generates echoes from Windfury Totem attacks", a follow-up to an earlier fix that stopped Holy Strike from triggering the totem.
For hit chance, nothing should change for most Paladins yet. Ranged and melee hit come from the same gear in Classic's rules. A few Paladins pointed out that Judgement still has a 10 yard range, which makes "ranged attack" a generous description, and Protection players used the thread to ask again for a real ranged pull.
The rest of the class fixes
- Druid: Rend and Tear now works with the Pounce bleed.
- Hunter: Volley no longer triggers procs, and it stops channeling when you move. Both were bugs, and both made Volley stronger than intended.
- Priest: Confounding Flash, the Gnome racial, can be used in Shadowform. The Twilight Focus talent now works in Shadowform too.
- Shaman: Flametongue Totem Rank 2 was not working and now does.
Riverglades gets easier
Three elite abilities in Riverglades, one of Forever's new zones, were hitting far too hard:
| Enemy | Change |
|---|---|
| Twilight Enforcer | "Smash" damage "significantly reduced" |
| Executioner Morg | Damage lowered |
| Twilight Forgemaster | "Mark of Flames" increases damage dealt by 50 (was 1000) |
The Forgemaster line looks like a typo fix. A buff worth 1000 extra damage has no business in a leveling zone.
Tailoring bags cost more cloth and hold more
Blizzard says several bags were "unintentionally smaller than intended". They now take one more bolt each:
| Bag | Cloth now | Cloth before | Slots now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Mageweave Bag | 5 bolts of mageweave | 4 | 14 |
| Black Silk Pack | 6 bolts of silk | 5 | 12 |
| Green Silk Pack | 5 bolts of silk | 4 | 12 |
| Green Woolen Bag | 5 bolts of wool | 4 | 10 |
| Red Woolen Bag | 5 bolts of wool | 4 | 10 |
The notes don't list the old slot counts. Wowhead's Forever database still showed the Red Mageweave Bag at 12 slots when I checked this morning.
Tailors are not all pleased. One thread argues that a 14 slot Red Mageweave Bag now matches the Runecloth Bag at a fraction of the cost, and that the dyes added to bag recipes already ate the margin on cloth bags. If you are leveling Tailoring on bags, check the new material counts against our profession leveling routes before you buy cloth.
Item Restoration is switched off
Under Customer Support, the notes say: "The Item Restoration service has been disabled while we investigate and address a critical bug." Blizzard didn't describe the bug. Before the notes went up, players had posted about the restoration page listing only some of their deleted items, but nothing ties those reports to the shutdown.
If you vendor or destroy something by mistake this week, you can't get it back through the web tool. Use the buyback tab at the vendor before you log out, and be careful with quest items.
Items, quests and world
- Bloody Claws of Attack now add +1 Fist/Unarmed Weapon skill as stated.
- Earthen Silk Slippers no longer give more spell damage than intended.
- "Scarlet Diversions" in Western Plaguelands: the Command Tent can be used again.
- "The Giant in the Den" in Arathi Highlands: the Witherbark Mallet works.
- "Freedom for All Creatures" in Feralas: the cage door resets. ("It feels wrong to close it, but…")
- You can mount in the named outdoor areas of Shen'dralas.
Still broken: Dual Spec and action bars
Not in the notes, but worth knowing before you spend the gold. A bug report opened on November 11 says that after buying Dual Spec, "random action bars will wipe themselves upon relogging". Several others in the thread report the same. The players there are working around it with addons that save bar layouts, such as ActionBarSaver: Reloaded and Myslot. Blizzard has not acknowledged the bug in that thread.
What to watch
Tuesday, November 17 is now carrying a lot: the Auction House deposit, the mail fixes, possibly the Enhancement changes, and whatever comes from Blizzard's promise to keep tuning classes "on future Tuesdays if necessary". The first raids open December 9, which is the deadline Blizzard gave itself for settling Enhancement's gearing. We'll update the tier list when the Shaman numbers are actually in the game, and the talent calculator is there if you want to plan the post-patch build ahead of time.
Sources: Kaivax, Blizzard forums, WoW: Forever Hotfixes - November 11, 2026 (November 12, 2026, 00:48 UTC, including the Auction House note in post 7) and the EU edition of the same thread (November 12, 2026); Blizzard, WoW: Forever Hotfixes (checked November 12, 2026); Starym, Icy Veins, Class Changes, Profession Improvements, AH Deposit, Gold Buffs: WoW Forever Hotfixes, November 10th (November 11, 2026, which preserves the original Auction House section) and Free Talent Resets After Class Tuning Changes? (November 11, 2026); Blizzard forums, Bug: Auction House deposit price, Why has the hotfix for the AH deposits not taken effect?, Shaman changes not applied?, Shaman Stats not live, Shaman updates not pushed on Roleplay ruleset, Enhancement Shaman Changes Nov 10, Paladin Judgement Change from Nov 11. UH WHY?, Red Mageweave Bags and Dual Spec Wiping Action Bars (November 11 and 12, 2026; read November 12, 2026, 07:45 UTC); Wowhead Forever database, Red Mageweave Bag (checked November 12, 2026).