Overview
- Blizzard said the 12.0.5 launch was not up to its standards, apologized to players, and pledged faster hotfixes and clearer updates on known issues.
- Players reported wide-ranging problems, including housing going offline, duplicate loot from the Voidforge before a fix, class-breaking bugs for Holy Paladins and Demonology Warlocks, and a raid cleanse mechanic failing for some groups.
- Several of the issues were flagged on the Public Test Realm before release, reinforcing concerns about gaps in quality assurance and triage.
- The studio has pushed post-launch fixes, such as correcting the Voidforge duplication and awarding the Keystone Mythic achievement retroactively after temporarily disabling it.
- Community criticism has intensified over the eight-week patch schedule, with calls to slow updates for better polish as design side effects like the Trickster rogue’s vision-blocking smoke cloud disrupt group play.