WoW TWW Patch 11.1 Hotfixes: March 12, 2025

Another week, means another set of hotfixes for The War Within 11.1. Given the fact that Season 2 just has started, the devs are busy tweaking and adjusting gameplay features and class balancing to ensure that everyone is having as much fun as possible. 

Having that in mind, we will go over the latest hotfixes for The War Within 11.1.

The War Within Hotfixes

PvE Class Changes

Hunter

• Dire Beasts will now find a safe location when being summoned on fights with hard-to-reach bosses (example: Kyrioss).
• Pack Leader’s Bear will now find a safe location when being summoned on fights with hard-to-reach bosses.
• Pack Leader’s Bear will now begin its leap from nearby the player’s position, like Dire Beasts, substantially reducing the likelihood of any social aggro or pulls from the Bear.

Monk

Mistweaver

• Conduit of the Celestials: Fixed an issue causing Celestial Conduit to not reset when a raid encounter ends.

Windwalker

• Conduit of the Celestials: Fixed an issue causing Celestial Conduit to not reset when a raid encounter ends.

Priest

Discipline

• Fixed an issue causing the Season 2 set 2-piece to always apply Insurance to the Priest when applied through Atonement healing.
• Fixed an issue causing Weal and Woe to benefit both Power Word: Shield and Smite if used in succession through spell queuing.

Holy

• Fixed an issue causing the Holy Word cooldown reduction from Empowered Renew to not benefit from Light of the Naaru and Apotheosis.

Shaman

Elemental

• Fixed a bug that briefly caused a power loss for all damage spells.
• Stormbringer: Fixed an issue causing Awakening Storms to be removed when engaging dungeon bosses.

PvP Class Changes

Mage

Arcane

• The Invisibility and damage reduction effects from Overpowered Barrier will no longer be triggered when using Blink or Shimmer while holding a flag or orb in battlegrounds.

Shaman

• Fixed an issue causing Thunderstorm to ignore knockback diminishing returns when talented into Traveling Storms.

Delves

• An issue causing Healer Brann Explorer’s Medical Journal to not progress further after level 60 has been resolved.
• Mechasaur EZ-Build Kit no longer sometime spawns more than a reasonable number of Mechasaurs. That was scary!
• Brann now takes reduced damage from most area-of-effect spells.

The Waterworks

• Fixed an issue where Air Totem Kits would respawn, allowing players to acquire an infinite amount at the start instead of a fixed amount.

Dungeons and Raids

• Addressed an I’pa issue causing Brew Drops to spawn with energy and enraging quicker than expected.
• Benk Buzzbee’s Honey Marinade area denial damage reduced by 33%.

• Azerokk adds’ Azerite Aftershock initial damage reduced by 23%.
• Azerokk adds’ Azerite Aftershock periodic damage reduced by 43%.

• Voidstone Monstrosity add Voidstone Awakened’s Corruption Overload increased damage inflicted per stack reduced by 50%.

• Big Momma Maximum Distortion cast time increased to 4 seconds (was 3), and Maximum Distortion duration reduced to 12 seconds (was 14).
• Swampface chains targeting updated to prefer non-healers.

Liberation of Undermine

• Fixed a bug preventing the encounter from proceeding to its enrage phase at the intended time.

• Resolved an issue in Mythic difficulty where players could remove an additional application of Up the Ante unintentionally.

Items

• Epic Bind-on-Equip items from the Liberation of Undermine raid that were mistakenly converted to Bind on Pickup and became soulbound have been reverted to Bind-on-Equip. Mythic raid BoEs will continue to drop as Bind-on-Pickup and matching the looter’s specialization for the early weeks of the season, but will no longer be tradeable even after meeting existing item level requirements that would allow items to be traded in other circumstances.
• Resolved an issue where Pristine Kaja’Cola cans were not dropping from S.C.R.A.P. piles for players at Renown rank 14 with the Cartels of Undermine.
• Amorphous Relic - Primary stat effect increased by 106% and secondary stat effect increased by 148%. Effects reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where the ‘High Explorer’ title was not awarded upon completing the War Within Delves: Tier 11 (Season 2)

And that covers all of the hotfixes for March 11, 2025. The War Within is ramping up to be quite the incredible expansion, given the vast amount of quality-of-life updates and new content which provides a fresh and engaging experience for players of all calibers. You can check out the official hotfixes, here.