Maintenance Notes — May 31, 2026

Maintenance update for May 31, 2026 covering everything since the last patch on May 22. Major bot movement fixes, upstream core merge with Wintergrasp overhaul, and multiple raid/dungeon fixes.

Bot Improvements

• Pathing overhaul — Bots no longer freeze on hills, ramps, and slopes. Fixed a mismatch between navigation mesh (60°) and bot logic (was stuck at 40°). They now walk terrain properly.
• Anti-pingpong — Bots no longer wobble back-and-forth indecisively. Fixed a broken direction guard and biased wander/travel to look natural and purposeful.
• Smarter unstuck — Instead of vanishing when stuck against a wall, bots now try to physically step backward/sideways first. Teleport is last resort only.
• Height fix — Bots now use validated ground height instead of a raw estimate, reducing wrong-floor navigation (e.g., under bridges, on roofs).
• Chat spam reduced — Only one bot responds in /say now (no more bot-to-bot chains). Item link reactions are rarity-aware (no more hyping gray vendor trash as if it is epic).
• Quest crash fix — Fixed a segfault when bots tried to complete certain quests (stale cached quest pointer).

Dungeon & Raid Fixes

• Lord Marrowgar (ICC) — Bonestorm max distance fixed
• Moroes (Karazhan) — Vanish/reset immunity now clears properly
• Fathomlord Karathress — Crash fix
• Magtheridon’s Lair — Channelers no longer respawn during boss fight
• Naxxramas — Web Wraps now have proper immunities

Wintergrasp & PvP

• Full Wintergrasp overhaul: aura-driven resurrect queue, grace period for mid-war relog, relic-room kick restricted to wartime, raid groups disband on battle end, stale tracking cleared on enter
• VoA pre-battle kick toggle added
• “Within Our Grasp” restricted to attackers only
• GMs excluded from war invites
• PvP announce opt-out flags added
• LFG proposals now sort players by role

General & Core

• Phase change crash fix (dangling combat victim)
• Taxi dismount now properly recalculates run speed
• Feast spell text now shows the correct player name
• Arcane Charges (world spell) fixed
• Archimonde’s Doomfire no longer subject to fire resistance
• BoP trade window preserved when mailing roll-won items
• .pet rename command added
• Caravan escort (Kalimdor) can’t restart while in progress