World of Warcraft 11.4.1 Patch Notes
April 1, 2025
The More Herein
If there’s anything we know about WoW players, it’s that you want more. In this patch, we’re adding more of everything. More dungeons, more classes, more races, more pets and more mounts and more flight paths and more words on the screen. Unless you want more empty spaces, in which case—we've cut the words and we’re adding more empty spaces! “More more more” is our motto. Read on for more.
New Raid: The Deeper Cave Below the Bottom
After years of going down into Azeroth, we’re going to go below that! What’s below the deepest depth? Only our friends the Digger Miners know for sure, so we’re accompanying them as they go straight down to The Bottom and then go down from there.
In the Deeper Cave Below the Bottom, there’s no light whatsoever except when you cast spells, and the extreme temperature and pressure means the enemies that live there are in a really bad mood! Defeat the lowest final boss—Ugh the Complainer—and look around on the floor of his chamber. Is that a door that leads downward??
New Dungeon: The Undermine DMV
This 3-minute-long dungeon starts with a minimum 90-minute queue to get into, and there’s no way to speed things up! All you needed to do was talk to one boss and they really could have done the whole encounter on their dungeon website.
New Dungeon: Mr. Sunflower’s Office
It turns out that you can fix them. You just have to do the work. Only healers are allowed in this Mythic+ space where the timer is set to 55 minutes, and we’ll pick up where we left off next week.
New Dungeon: Old Dungeon
Take your crew on an enchanted tour through the eras of dungeons you know all too well. This gorgeous dungeon will recall your wildest dreams with its delicate daylight, right up until you realize how much bad blood you have with the anti-hero final boss. When you wipe, you’re sent away for a fortnight because you need to calm down and just shake it off. Remember that you can do it with a broken heart.
New System: S.W.I.M.
Strap on your Forearm Lifting Operational Aquatic Tread-Increasing Equipments and get started coasting through Azeroth’s shallow waters with the new Superior Water Individual Movement system! You’ll zoom across the top of the waters at 110% speed until you collide with small objects that you didn’t even see.
New System: War Couples
Pick two characters and assign them a lifelong commitment on the character selection screen with War Couples. Unlike Warbands, War Couples do not share much of anything, even though they’ve been together for a long time. War Couples keep separate accounts, and they get big stat bonuses when they’re in a party together, but they seem to always leave parties early and you didn’t even notice.
Housing
- You can now place cheese wheels on the outside of your house and on your head. We received a gouda mount of feedback on this.
- Any room where the player places more than five breakable objects becomes a rage room. Go in there and let it all out!
- Added Housing Hard Mode – Acquire your house while also consuming one (1) Avocado Toast per day and up to five (5) lattes per week.
- Enlist the new NPC Grand Pappy to sit on your front porch while you're away and yell "Get off my lawn!" to any intruders who dare step on your freshly mown grass.
- War Couples may now share Housing, but are required to have separate bedrooms. Best your money can buy!
- The forest outside of every neighborhood now has designated areas for you to set up a camera and record yourself walking or dancing or pretending to be a cryptid. You're going to be famous!
Cinematics
- Added an option to view all Xal'atath cinematics at two-foot level.
- Removed the option to zoom-out during Xal’atath cinematics.
- Fixed a bug with the Xal'atath character model where her shoes were unintentionally visible. The artist who implemented the shoes has been transferred to a different department.
- All Xal’atath cinematics are now rated M for “Maybe Not”.
Classes
In this patch, every class is getting a new set of Hero Talents, except for Druid, because they already have too many. We thought about cutting one of the existing Hero Talent sets for Druid to make room for a fourth, but we have a rule that nothing can ever be removed from this game.
- Death Knight
- New Hero Talent set: Big Stepper
- You deal 15% more damage than everyone else, but all your movements incur a -15% to movement speed. Is it worth it?
- New Talent: Put Your Foot Down – Causes massive damage and alarms anyone who’s been looking at Xal’atath videos lately.
- Path of Frost now sometimes melts.
- Demon Hunter
- New Hero Talent set: Die Hard
- Activate Fodder to the Flame to summon a real Demon Hunter to fight you to the death. Defeating it grants you a permanent damage buff. Your character is lost forever if you lose.
- Die Hard Demon Hunters sometimes go to space to fight Sargeras for a minimum of ten years.
- Eye Beam has a chance to reflect off shiny surfaces.
- Evoker
- New Hero Talent set: Smallshaper
- He’s just a little guy.
- Smallshapers can ride through pretty much any doorway on their tiny mount.
- Living Flame damages allies. Those ‘lil flames are hot!
- Smallshapers who cast Deep Breath are often interrupted by fits of coughing.
- Hunter
- New Hero Talent set: Pet Daycare Operator
- Your pets now have a chance to pretend to be asleep during combat, performing no actions and snoring loudly. A couple of your pets will never sleep all day, and those will just stand by the door of the dungeon. Try not to think about that too much.
- To provide for their care and well-being, pets require a mandatory 15-minute break every hour. Cast the new spell Wanna-Go-Outside? to make your pet zoom toward their leash like a maniac.
- Pet Daycare Operators receive an ungodly amount of gold on weekdays.
- Mage
- New Hero Talent set: Prognosticator
- Prognosticator mages are fully certified meteorologists.
- Frost spells have a 15% chance of freezing the caster.
- Frost spells have a 10% chance of actually being rain.
- Monk
- New Hero Talent set: Barista
- Do exactly what your raid team orders and keep track of it all by writing it in shorthand on cups.
- Sometimes you cast so many spells in such a short time that you don’t even remember that one order, sorry. Do they want you to make it again?
- New Talent: Very Demure, Very Mindful – Causes you to feel incredibly confident while other players stare at you doing your job.
- Paladin
- New Hero Talent set: Hammerer
- Paladins who choose this Hero Talent set can only wield hammers.
- You’ll hammer in the morning and you’ll hammer in the evening all over this land.
- You'll hammer out danger, you'll hammer out a warning.
- You’ll hammer out love between your brothers and your sisters, once you get their consent to do so.
- Priest
- New Hero Talent set: Shieldbot
- Power Word: Shield absorbs 1000% more damage.
- Power Word: Shield has no cooldown.
- Power Word: Shield lasts for 30 seconds.
- Power Word: Shield is your only spell.
- Rogue
- New Hero Talent set: Ninja
- Imagine if a Rogue got a low taper fade.
- If he lied to me, I cut him loose like a razor blade.
- I wanna blow high as a paper plane.
- I dream of being on a stage with Maiev.
- Shaman
- New Hero Talent set: Windrider
- Enhances Gust of Wind, which becomes Big Gust of Wind so you can fly so much farther.
- When it’s the night, your body's weak. You’re on the run, no time to sleep.
- Windrider shamans receive that Super Saiyan hair style whether they like it or not, because it is, in fact, their final form.
- Warlock
- New Hero Talent set: Nice Guy
- New Talent: Good Friend – Causes you to always show up to raid early and cast Ritual of Summoning before being asked to.
- New Talent: Chill Bro – Causes you to always pass on upgrades when another player wants the item.
- New Talent: Cool Dude – Causes you to always summon a Soul Well before your crew uses their third Healthstone.
- New Talent: Great Bud – Causes you to never forget to keep Soulstone active on the healer.
- Warrior
- New Hero Talent set: Shoutmaster
- Learn several new vocally driven spells:
- Call of Dinnertime
- Shriek of the Swiftie
- Squawk that Didn’t Come Out Right
- Hello! Bellow
- Warriors now yell continuously while charging. Volume increases based on distance traveled.
Holidays
- New Holiday Event: Change It Up Week – This same time every year, you get the urge to do something different with your hair. Or maybe it’s your wardrobe? Barbers and Transmogrification NPCs are ready to assist you all week as you throw caution to the wind and try a new look for funsies. What a treat!
- New Holiday Event: Daylight Saving Complaint Week – Gather together with any other players you can find and choose among dialog options such as “Why do we do this?” and “Does it feel like way more than one hour to you too?” and “Do I look like I didn’t sleep last night because I feel like it?”
- Players who have won at least twelve Trials of Style are now invited to attend Silvermoon Fashion Week. Please do not bring any plucky assistants who didn’t know anything about the industry only a few weeks ago. That’s all.
Items
- New Mount: Rubber Chicken – It’s exactly what it sounds like. Ride a giant rubber chicken through Azeroth, squeaking and bouncing along the way. The more rubber chickens that are gathered together, the louder the chorus.
- New Mount: Flying Brutosaur – This baby’s got everything: an auctioneer, a barber, a mailbox, a portal room, and the entire Exodar. The Prophet Velen has begged us to not do this, but it’s what everyone wants, right?
- New Mount: Mudskipper – Skip through the mud in style, with all the grace of a long fishy frog that has spotted fins. Please note that Mudskipper can only be mounted in the mud near a body of water. Just look at their big, huge mouth though!
- The bracer equipment slot has been removed, and two new slots added for socks. Matching pairs of socks get a set bonus, but sometimes one of the pair simply vanishes. This is not a bug. It’s just how socks move on to the afterlife.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where Bear Form transformed druids into a bear with a tiny top hat.
- Fixed a bug where in Cat Form, you would inexplicably run around the surrounding area while growling loudly for 10 seconds, knocking things down in a sudden burst of destruction.
- Resolved an issue that resulted in Mind Control allowing players to force others to give them loot.
- Fixed a bug where Voidweaver: Entropic Rift summoned Xala’tath. She was not happy about that.
- Fixed the bug where Stealth makes you invisible to yourself, causing countless existential crises.
- Resolved an issue with Foam Sword cutting through things. This was not intended, but it was kind of fun while it lasted.
- Fixed a bug where Worgen characters unintentionally had a strange wagging appendage that looked like it grew from the bottom of their spine. We apologize to anyone who was grossed out by this.