Blizzard has posted hotfixes for today which includes making Colossus Smash no longer able to be parried and other class bug fixes!

We're looking at the completion rates for Week 8 of The War Within Season 2 dungeons. For this analysis, data was provided by Raider.IO statistics for The War Within Season 2.

Raider.io TWW Season 2 Dungeon Statistics

In Patch 11.1.5, Outlaw Rogues are doing significantly less damage with Blade Flurry due to a combination of several bugs including one from . Some of these bugs can affect Subtlety Rogue in a similar way.

Outlaw Rogue Guide
Update: As of April 30th, all of the bugs detailed below have been fixed!

Blizzard has announced the name for the upcoming 11.1.7 patch: Legacy of Arathor!

This announcement comes from the article description of the recent WoWcast episode, where alongside detailing the events of the video, we're given the name of our next patch.

In today's WoWCast, Ion Hazzikostas has announced that the plan is to create an their own Blizzard version of popular addons before pulling back real-time combat event addons in competitive content.

Ion Hazzikostas has announced that a rotation assistant is coming to the baseline UI in Patch 11.1.7 which will be similar to Hekili!

Here's a quick summary but you should listen to the full WoWcast for the full context.

Rotation Assist

During Children's Week, players can use the event quest line to get access to Undermine with characters below level 80. This can allow alts to access the zone for profession books, farming rares, and more without relying on other players to summon these characters.

Today, we are looking at the DPS balance on Liberation of Undermine during the week of April 22nd on The War Within Season 2. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Raid statistics for The War Within Season 2.

Mythic Liberation of Undermine Statistics Page

With this weekly reset, a 5th Catalyst Charge is now available for use at the Matrix Catalyst.

Matrix Catalyst Guide Liberation of Undermine Tier Sets

Blizzard has announced that the final wave of tickets for the Warcraft 30th Anniversary event in Boston will be available on April 30th at 1:00 PM EDT.

Final Wave of Boston Anniversary Event Tickets

With the April 29th weekly reset, the player-favorite PvP Brawl: Comp Stomp has returned. Grind out some serious honor in combination with the Battleground Bonus Event!

Comp Stomp Brawl & Battleground Bonus Event

Having recently highlighted the buggy nature of the Gilded of the Undermine achievement, additional testing has discovered the true cause of the issue, as well as a deceptively simple solution!

Sending upgrade after upgrade and still no achievement, despite having one of the highest item levels in the game.

Unlike previous achievements, the requirement for the Gilded of the Undermine achievement now requires an average item level 675 instead of requiring each individual gear slot. However, there appears to be some bugs.

The Mythic Dungeon International or MDI returns with a new pushing format and spec variety rule starting with Group A on May 2nd!

The War Within Season 2 Mythic+ Overview

Start your timers and prepare to watch the most resilient runs yet—the Mythic Dungeon International returns! Watch the live broadcast starting May 2!

Blizzard has announced fixes to the Gallagio Loyalty Reward system and players should make sure to recomplete quests!

During maintenance today, we made changes to correct the Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club bug that resulted in some players exceeding the current intended cap of Renown level 9.

With fixes that are now live:

Renown

All players that received extra Renown on the Gallagio Loyalty Reward track last week have been rolled back after reset.

Blizzard has applied a hotfix to fix the extra reputation from the Gallagio Loyalty Reward renown track from last week. All players should now be set to the correct level, Renown 9.

The Children's Week event for 2025 has started, and we're taking a look at the new storyline in Dornogal and the new rewarded added for the year, which include a new token to purchase past Children's Week rewards!

World of Warcraft will be undergoing slightly longer than normal maintenance this Tuesday morning from 7:00 - 9:00 AM (PDT), prior to the weekly reset.

In some late night hotfixes, Warlock's Blackened Soul has been changed.

Blizzard has posted hotfixes for today which includes class bug fixes and made it easier to get Nightfall score.

April 28, 2025

Classes

Paladin

Retribution

Resolved an issue that caused Gleaming Rays to drop off and not be reapplied until specific events occurred.

Shaman

Restoration

Fixed an issue causing damage from Acid Rain to not generate threat or aggro enemies.

Warrior

Arms

Taliesin and Evitel cover the latest news and deep dive into pertinent topics in The Weekly Reset. This week Tali deep-dives into the history of Dinars, Puzzling Cartel Chips, and what all the fuss is about.

After issues and updates to the Liberation of Undermine Hall of Fame, Blizzard has confirmed that the Hall of Fame will remain open till maintenance on May 6th.

Liberation of Undermine Overview

The Hall of Fame might actually close tonight as many eligible guilds are now being awarded Hall of Fame without raiding or rekilling any Mythic bosses.

Children's Week is live in Azeroth. This year, we get to meet four new orphans: Destien, Kitzy, Skibbles, and Threadis.

Destien

Kitzy

Skibbles

Threadis

Many players were looking forward to the Puzzling Cartel Chip system, but now there's been a lot of disappointment and anger. Let's look at what happened.

The Puzzling Cartel Chip Announcements

The Original PTR Post

Raider.io is now reporting that over 200 guilds are now Mythic 8/8 but the Hall of Fame is still open due to the recent hotfix issues.

Raider.io Rankings

Hall of Fame Achievement Updated

Spring is in the air and Noblegarden has arrived in Azeroth! For the fifteenth consecutive year, it's arrived at Wowhead as well! We've got lots of prizes to create a Brightly Colored Egg hunt you'll remember.

So grab your Egg Basket and hop around Wowhead's database of a backyard if you want to win!

Looking for a sturdier shirt? Look no further than the new cosmetic shirt versions of the Flame's Radiance chestpieces added in patch 11.1.5!

One of the most awaited features from the Flame's Radiance renown coming in Patch 11.1.5 was the fact that players could collect several new Arathi-themed titles - One for each of the 10 ranks for the Flame's Radiance. Players have noticed that most of these titles did not make it to live in Patch 11.1.5.

This week, players will unlock the Tiny Torq and Fun-Size Flarendo battle pets at Rank 9 on the Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club raid renown track!

Blizzard has announced that PvP equip item level will increase when the Season 2 Turbo event starts.

One of the smaller features added in Patch 11.1.5 is a 100% reputation buff from most sources for all four Undermine cartels.

REPUTATION AND RENOWN

This week in WoW, Patch 11.1.5 has officially launched, Noblegarden lasts for a few more days, and Children's Week begins on the 28th. Learn the latest on Housing Rewards and explore the Spring sale on the Battle.net Shop.

Patch 11.1.5 OverviewNoblegarden Guide

Patch 11.1.5 Now Live!

Blizzard has announced many sources of decorations in the upcoming Player Housing system which includes just about everything, including Legacy achievements!

With players farming their Flame's Radiance renown, there are two fast ways to reach the scenario in Hallowfall.