WoW Patch 11.1.5: Official Patch Notes
The Winds of Mysterious Fortune Blow in Your Favor
From April 23, 2025, to May 21, 2025, players can secure the benefits of the Winds of Mysterious Fortune, giving them a 20% experience bonus for characters of levels 10 to 79. The winds also grant a 200% glory bonus with major factions in Dragonflight zones and a 100% glory bonus with selected major factions in The War Within zones.
The following factions from Dragonflight are included:
- Dragon Isles Expedition
- Maruuk Centaur
- Tuskarr of Iskaara
- Valdrakken Accord
- Loamm Niffen
- Dream Wardens
- Sabellian
- Furorion
- Cobalt Covenant
The following factions from The War Within are included:
- Council of Dornogal
- Arathi of Heilsturz
- The Deep Conclave
- The General
- The Vizier
- The Weaver
The Lorenhall factions are excluded from this bonus.
During this period, player characters below level 80 also have a chance to receive mysterious packs when looting creatures or as additional quest rewards. These packs contain a variety of fun and useful items that grant temporary value boosts or visual changes. They may also contain additional gear that matches your level and specialization, as well as potions that provide a 10% experience bonus for two hours, stacking with the event’s 20% experience bonus to give you a total of 30% more experience for a limited time.
The experience potions are tied to war supplies and can be used during the event. However, you can also save them until after the event and use them on characters from levels 10 to 79. The effects of the value-boosting and elemental potions do not work in Mythic+, raids, or rated PvP content.
Defend the Arathi in the Nightfall Scenario
Players fight alongside a new faction, the Radiance of Flame, to defend the Arathi from the Sureki forces after the defeat of Queen Ansurek. This faction consists of volunteer militia soldiers led by veterans Thaed Scheiterhaufenbauer and Mylton Wildbraun. As you rise through the ranks, you will gain up to ten glory levels and unlock new rewards.
Alongside the Radiance of Flame, players will be divided into task forces in the public Nightfall scenario to clear the battlefield and push back the Sureki. You will also be able to strike back against the Sureki forces in Heilsturz and Azj-Kahet to earn more glory and rewards with additional available quests and activities between the scenarios.
A variety of rewards await players for participating in the scenario and quests, including new armor sets, a tabard that visually changes as you rise through the ranks of the Radiance of Flame, weapons, a new color variant of the Deep Explorer’s Airship, and more. As your rank increases, you can also expect buffs that make you stronger in Heilsturz and Azj-Kahet.
New Cooldown Manager
Players can enable a new cooldown manager for their user interface by opening the game menu (Escape), clicking on “Options,” and then selecting “Advanced Options”. There they will see the new feature “Enable Cooldown Manager”: switch it on to display important cooldowns and buff effects in separate, customizable HUD elements for the selected specialization.
Cooldowns will automatically appear at the center of the screen and display a visual countdown for when the abilities can be used again.
To customize the cooldown manager, you must open the game menu (Escape), select editing mode, and access the HUD editing mode. Then select Advanced Options. Choose the “Cooldown Manager” from the options. Here you can customize the bars for “Strategic Cooldowns,” “Essential Cooldowns,” and “Tracked Buff Effects” as well as “Tracked Bars” by clicking on them and setting up the visual elements as you like.
Week of May 21: Revamped Disturbing Visions
Return to N’Zoth’s twisted versions of Stormwind and Orgrimmar and complete goals and challenges. While fighting your way through these encounters, you must not succumb to madness.
You can go alone or battle with a group of allies. Players who wish to experience Disturbing Visions alone or with another helping hand in their party can also invite the companion Construct of Soridormi. This follower can be used as a tank, damage class, or healer and will not be affected by madness.
Players seeking a greater challenge can activate higher difficulties to obtain additional loot up to heroic quality. Additionally, the masks of the Disturbing Visions return, including: Mask of the Suffering, Mask of Dark Visions, Mask of the Long Night, Mask of the Burned Bridge, and Mask of the Audacious. Additionally, there will be three new masks: Mask of Avarice, Mask of Multitudes, and Mask of Nemesis, which need to be explored and overcome.
You can also collect a new currency that you can spend at the vendor for new and old rewards – Distorted Corrupted Mementos. Players can earn new and returning rewards in Disturbing Visions, including mounts, toys, transmogrifications, weapon enchantments, and more.
Whether you’re playing on a new alt at max level or experiencing it for the first time – these contents await you shortly after the release of the 11.1.5 update.
Week of June 4: Treacherous Duos
Later in the patch timeline, players can expect a new, six-week event featuring a range of cosmetic items, toys, and even some dungeon items based on the bosses you encounter.
Vinnie Naschkatze, showrunner and announcer, presents Treacherous Duos, where players face “animatronic” versions of past bosses, gain buffs, and aim for ever-increasing scores. You and your group will fight against two (or more) bosses at once to rack up points.
Treacherous Duos will have three hubs that players can visit: one in Stormwind, one in Orgrimmar, and one in Dornogal. While Vinnie Naschkatze is the boss, you’ll need to talk to Xyggie Marou if you want to attempt a fight in the Treacherous Dome. Visit Wodin the Troll Servant, a vendor who will sell additional buffs or items to help you in battle over the weeks.
In the first week, four bosses will be available to fight against, with more bosses unlocking in each subsequent week until you can face a total of ten bosses.
By achieving certain accomplishments, you can activate additional game effects in the Treacherous Duos.
Earn points for kills, damage done, and much more. Score a high score with your group to brag and see how far you can go!
Classes
- MONK
- Windwalker
- A bug was fixed where ‘Wandering Healing’ did not work on various Windwalker healing spells.
- Windwalker
- WARRIOR
- Arms
- The display of the ability “Warbreaker” has been updated.
- Arms
Reputation and Glory
- You now gain 100% more reputation for killing rare monsters as well as completing side jobs, weekly quests, and world quests for the Bilgewasser Cartel, the Blackwater AG, the Steamwheedle Cartel, and the Venture Company.
- The reputation with the following factions from the Shadowlands now applies to the entire war band: the Ascended, the Eternal Army, the Wild Hunt, Court of Night, Court of Harvesters, the Sworn, Death’s Advance, the Archivists’ Codex, the Enlightened, Ve’nari.
User Interface and Accessibility
- A bug was fixed where the notification symbol in the micro menu for Guilds and Communities ignored filter settings.
- Guilds can now be renamed with gold at Guild Master NPCs in the capitals.
- The Trading Post now has a shopping cart where you can add multiple items before confirming your purchase.
- You can now set the color for the rarity of items using a new colorblind option.
- The collection of war band storage now features the new filter “Show Only Collected”.
- A bug was fixed where players could not select the “Automatic and Key Press” option in self-cast settings.
- Expandable menus for action bars should now update their direction as intended.
- Using the search bar in the character selection window should no longer cause the character to disappear or render the inventory window frame incorrectly.
- A bug was fixed where the dungeon filter for organized groups was not being saved.
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