Patch 0.18 Fine Tuning

0.18 Fine Tuning — 28 Oct 2026

Dispels and purges remove one stack at a time from stacked buffs. A removed Lifebloom stack blooms; Lightning Shield, Water Shield and Earth Shield lose one charge. This is not a new rule that every unstacked effect survives a dispel.

The four named classes are Hunter, Paladin, Shaman and Warlock. Hunter’s Arcane Shot and Beast Mastery Kill Command rise to 35 focus; Bloodshed lasts 10 seconds and cuts healing received by 20%. Retribution’s Avenging Wrath no longer increases healing. Enhancement’s Searing Totem lasts 10 seconds and can be selected with Tab; other totems are still skipped by Tab. Demonology’s Demonic Frenzy gives smaller stacking damage bonuses.

0.18.1 Drained — 29 Oct 2026

The hotfix adds a class filter to the leaderboard: All shows the combined top 50, while selecting a class shows that class’s own top 50. The chat filter covers disguised slurs and repeated-message spam. Hunter’s Arcane Shot and Beast Mastery Kill Command rise again to 40 focus. Drain Life deals and heals 80 per tick, down from 110; Death’s Embrace adds 80 healing per tick below its health threshold. These figures are directly printed in the official client text, a single primary source.

These are historical steps, not a claim that every value survives later patches. See Hunter and Warlock for the relevant class context.