WoW Forever November 11 Patch Brings Paladin Nerfs, Riverglades Nerfs, and Tailoring Bag Buffs

The latest WoW Forever hotfix update landed on November 11, delivering a targeted sweep of class bug fixes, significant damage nerfs to Riverglades enemies, and a welcome expansion to Tailoring bag capacities. While several classes received quality-of-life improvements, Paladins are seeing the biggest mechanical shift in how Judgement interacts with procs and hit tables.

Key Patch Highlights

• Paladin Judgement & Retribution Adjustments: Judgement has been reclassified from a Melee attack to a Ranged attack. Going forward, it will rely on a Paladin’s Ranged Hit chance and will no longer trigger melee-based item or effect procs. Additionally, following a fix to Windfury Totem triggering off Holy Strike, Retribution’s Unsealed Fury talent will no longer generate echoes from Windfury Totem attacks.

• Hunter & Priest Bug Fixes: Hunters have had two long-standing Volley bugs squashed—the ability will no longer inadvertently trigger procs, nor will it continue channeling while moving. Meanwhile, Shadow Priests can now properly utilize Gnome’s Confounding Flash and the Holy talent Twilight Focus while remaining in Shadowform.

• Riverglades Nerfs: Players leveling or farming in Riverglades can breathe a sigh of relief. Both Executioner Morg and the Twilight Enforcer’s "Smash" ability have received substantial damage reductions. Most notably, the Twilight Forgemaster’s "Mark of Flames" buff has been drastically scaled back from increasing damage by 1,000 down to 50.

• Bigger Tailoring Bags: Tailors are getting a notable inventory upgrade. Five mid-tier bags—including the Red Mageweave Bag (now 14 slots) and both Silk Packs (now 12 slots)—have had their capacities increased to match their intended sizes, though each now requires one additional bolt of cloth to craft.

• Quest & World Fixes: Several progression-blocking quest bugs in Western Plaguelands, Arathi Highlands, and Feralas have been resolved, and players can finally mount up inside named areas of Shen’dralas.

• Item Restoration Disabled: On the support side, Blizzard has temporarily taken the Item Restoration service offline while investigating a critical bug.

And of course, here is the blue post itself:

Classes

• Druid

  • Feral

    • Rend and Tear now works on Pounce Bleed.

• Hunter

  • Fixed an issue where Volley was activating procs.

  • Fixed an issue where Volley would continue to channel even when the Hunter had started moving.

• Paladin

  • 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.

  • Retribution

    • With the fix to Windfury Totem activating from Holy Strike, we have changed Unsealed Fury. Unsealed Fury no longer generates echoes from Windfury Totem attacks.

• Priest

  • Confounding Flash (Gnome) can now correctly be used while in Shadowform.

  • Holy

    • The Twilight Focus talent will now correctly work while in Shadowform.

• Shaman

  • Fixed a bug where Flametongue Totem Rank 2 was not working.

Customer Support

• The Item Restoration service has been disabled while we investigate and address a critical bug.

Enemies and NPCs

• Riverglades - Significantly reduced the amount of damage dealt by the Twilight Enforcer’s “Smash” ability.

• Riverglades - Lowered the damage dealt by Executioner Morg.

• Riverglades - Twilight Forgemaster’s “Mark of Flames” now increases damage dealt by 50 (was 1000).

Items

• Bloody Claws of Attack now correctly add +1 Fist/Unarmed Weapon skill.

• Earthen Silk Slippers no longer give more spell damage than intended.

Professions

• Tailoring

  • Adjusted the required materials and slot size of several bags that were unintentionally smaller than intended.

    • Red Mageweave Bag now requires 5 bolts of mageweave (was 4 bolts) and is now 14 slots.

    • Green Silk Pack now requires 5 bolts of silk (was 4 bolts) and is now 12 slots.

    • Black Silk Pack now requires 6 bolts of silk (was 5 bolts) and is now 12 slots.

    • Green Woolen Bag now requires 5 bolts of wool (was 4 bolts) and is now 10 slots.

    • Red Woolen Bag now requires 5 bolts of wool (was 4 bolts) and is now 10 slots.

Quests

• Western Plaguelands - Players should now be able to properly interact with the Command Tent while on the quest “Scarlet Diversions”.

• Arathi Highlands - Fixed an issue where the Witherbark Mallet did not function, preventing players from proceeding to “The Giant in the Den”.

• Feralas - Fixed an issue where the Cage Door for the quest “Freedom for All Creatures” would not reset. It feels wrong to close it, but…

World

• Fixed a bug that prevented the ability to mount in named areas of Shen’dralas.