Image: WowheadBlizzard has posted hotfixes for today and certain Tortollan NPCs have been renamed, including the Lost Explorers!.
The Lost Explorers encounter in The Venomous Abyss now includes Epu (was Iku), Nema (was Nama), and Gebbo.
Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Midnight, Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, Burning Crusade Classic, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.
Hotfixes November 5, 2026.
Creatures and NPCs.
Updated the names of several Tortollan NPCs.
Shadowguard Point.
Fixed an issue in the "Basilisk Blitz" variant where leaving the delve while travelling between waygates could change your appearance and make you hostile to otherwise friendly units.
Dungeons and Raids.
The Venomous Abyss.
Entombed Sentinels.
Reduced the maximum scale of Blood Venom pools on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.
Blood Venom pool duration reduced to 2 minutes on Mythic difficulty (was 5 minutes).
Visceral Burst damage reduced by 40% on Mythic difficulty.
The Coiled Altar.
Axegrinder movement speed reduced by 20% on all difficulties.
Axegrinder damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
Gloombomb damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
Venom Rupture damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
Malevolent Resonance damage reduced by 60%.
Gravebound Soul Fragments last an additional 2 seconds before fading away on Mythic difficulty.
The number of Spiteful Soulcoilers that spawn from Spiritcackle reduced to 1 on Mythic difficulty (was 2).
Developers’ notes: With this change Soulcoilers will now spawn similarly to how they spawn on Heroic difficulty.
Source: Wowhead ↗