6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 3 And 2, Adopt Argi The Space Goat

December 3

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Book of Garrison Blueprints should now be consumed when learned and can also be destroyed.
• Resolved a number of issues where players may sometimes be unable to enter their Garrisons.
• Garrison Buildings
  • Gladiator’s Sanctum Level 3: The building should now correctly provide the benefits from earlier levels 1 and 2.
  • Inn: To encourage players to not leave in the middle of a run with a Dungeon Finder group, quests received from the Garrison Inn now requires the final boss of the Dungeon to be defeated.
  • Inn: Millhouse Manastorm can now always be found on the second floor.
  • Mage Tower/Spirit Lodge: Greatly increased the drop rates for Ogre Waystones.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Salvage Yard: Special transmogrification items obtained from crates of salvage are now Rare (blue) quality to help distinguish them. Additionally, these items are now able to be disenchanted.
  • Tannery Level 2: Rorok Ironhide (Horde) should no longer incorrectly be selling tents.
  • The Forge Level 2: Followers assigned to work at the building should now be able to correctly grant Solace of the Forge and Song of the Anvil buff.
• Garrison Invasions
  • Botani Invasion: The Gnarled Ancient should no longer get stuck and be able to enter a Horde Garrison.
  • Iron Horde Invasion: Made a number of adjustments to make Gold Victory more obtainable.
• Followers
  • Magister Krelas should now work correctly in a party for Followers with the Elvenkind trait.
  • Magister Serena should now work correctly in a party for Followers with the Humanist trait.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Glyphs
    • Glyph of Death and Decay should now also apply its effect for Death Knights with the Defile talent.
• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Nature’s Swiftness should now correctly increase the healing over time effect and duration of Regrowth.
  • Talents
    • Soul of the Forest (Restoration) should now interact and correctly apply its healing bonus while Nature’s Swiftness is active.
• Hunter
  • General
    • Kill Shot (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) should now correctly reset its cooldown if the target becomes immune, have abilities, or talents that trigger to prevent the target from dying.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Life Cocoon’s healing has been increased by 50%.
  • Talents
    • Chi Wave should now correctly bounce up to 7 times to targets within 25 yards.
• Paladin
  • General
    • Hand of Freedom modified by Glyph of Hand of Freedom should now correctly reduce the remaining duration of all loss of control effects when used on other players.
• Priest
  • General
    • Mass Dispel modified by Glyph of Mass Dispel should no longer incorrectly dispel Cyclones cast by a friendly player.
• Shaman
  • General
    • Shaman totems should no longer be damaged by the Death Knight talent, Defile.
  • Enhancement
    • Maelstrom Weapon will no longer increase the damage or healing effects of spells that consume the Ancestral Swiftness buff.
  • Restoration
    • Riptide modified by Glyph of Riptide should no longer incorrectly consume Echo of the Elements when cast.
• Warlock
  • Armor Sets
    • Tier-15 2-piece set bonus should no longer be retained incorrectly when the set pieces are no longer equipped.

Quests

• Frostfire Ridge
  • Karg Unchained: Players should now be able to complete or re-accept this quest after completing Return to the Pack.
• Gorgrond
  • Assault on the Pit: Defeating Iron Horde NPCs in the middle of the pit should now correctly grant credit towards completion of the quest.
• Spires of Arak
  • Hot Seat: The Apexis Turret should no longer be able to accidentally damage players.

World Environment

• Resolved issues that can occur for characters that retain the Time Travelling effect outside of Blasted Lands and Theramore.
• Players should no longer be unable to leave the tower after obtaining Steamwheedle Supplies in the Ring of Trials area in Nagrand.

Creatures and NPCs

• Frostfire Ridge
  • Borrok the Devourer should now drop a Devourer’s Gutstone that allows more than one player to loot it.
  • Fernus is now immune to Enslave Demon and Banish.
• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Krosnis is now immune to Enslave Demon and Banish.
• Gorgrond
  • Tarlna the Ageless’ Genesis ability now summons a maximum of 15 Giant Lashers and has a increased duration of 12 seconds (up from 6 seconds).
• Nagrand
  • Objects in the Mok’gul Watchpost area should no longer incorrectly cause the player to remain in combat and be unable to interact with those objects.
  • Warsong Marauders should no longer attack Rogues that pickpocket them.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

• Satchel of Savage Mysteries now have a chance to contain a mount, pet, pet consumable, Draenor consumable, or Follower upgrade token in addition to an Augment Rune.
• Raids
  • The entire raid is no longer notified when a player loots an Elemental Rune or Abrogator Stone.
  • Highmaul
    • The Butcher’s Heavy Handed ability now deals less damage if it’s triggered by their off-hand weapon.
    • Brackenspore should now correctly heal back up to full health at the start of the encounter.
    • Tectus’ Berserk timer is now 10 minutes on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Tectus: Resolved an issue where defeating Tectus just as he was going into Berserk mode could result in no loot.
    • Tectus: It should now be possible to obtain the achievement, More Like Wrecked-us.
• Dungeons
  • Grimrail Depot
    • Borka the Brute is now immune to taunts from player pets.
    • Grom’kar Cinderseer’s Lava Wreath ability should no longer hit pets.
  • Upper Blackrock Spire
    • Ragewing the Untamed’s Engulfing Fire ability should no longer incorrectly disorient Rogues with Cloak of Shadows active.
    • Emberscale Adolescents and Emberscale Whelplings should now always be targetable while in combat.

PvP

• [Requires a realm restart.] New Honor and Conquest vendors have been added to Stormshield and Warspear.
  • In Stormshield, Alliance players can find Bregg Coppercast (Honor) and Ingrid Blackingot (Conquest) standing in front of the Siege Tank near the exit to Ashran, across from the training dummies.
  • In Warspear, Horde players can find Lieutenant Brokefist (Honor) and Lieutenant Axelash (Conquest) on the hill next to the exit to Ashran, just down the path from the inn.
• [Requires a realm restart.] Honor and Conquest PvP gear without a set bonus no longer provides the same secondary stats as PvP gear with set piece bonuses.
• Ashran
  • Faction balancing is now in effect if there are more than 5 players from each faction in Ashran.
  • Fortune Favors the Bold has been increased to 100% additional Honor Points and Artifact Fragments (up from 25%).
  • Artifact Fragment rewards from Ring of Conquest Ogre guards, or Ashran rares should no longer decrease based on the number of players engaging them.
  • [Still in testing.] Turning in an Artifact Fragment now awards 3 Honor Points per fragment (up from 1 Honor Point).
  • [Still in testing.] Increased reputation gains with Wrynn’s Vanguard and Vol’jin’s Spear.
    • Turning in an Artifact Fragment now awards 5 reputation points per fragment (up from 1 reputation point).
    • Turning in tokens recovered from a defeated player now awards 2500 reputation points when turned in (up from 350 reputation points).
    • Completing a bonus objective now awards 500 reputation points.
    • Defeating Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath now awards 2500 reputation points.
  • Resolved a pathing issue for Fangraal, Kronus, and faction Captains.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Warsong Gulch: Players in a Wargame or Rated Battleground should no longer be sent to the wrong graveyard.

Items

• Draenor Treasure Maps are now bind on pickup.
• Bonemaw’s Big Toe can now be Needed by Warriors.
• Ironmender’s Totem can now also trigger its effect from healing spells.
• Moonfang’s Paw is no longer unique.
• Moonfang’s Shroud is no longer unique.
• Qian-Ying, Fortitude of Niuzao’s Endurance of Niuzao effect should now trigger first if the ability is not on cooldown before triggering the Purgatory talent for Death Knights.
• Raw Riverbeast Meat should now correctly drop from Riverbeasts and no longer be incorrectly dropping from Basilisks.
• Tormented Armament,  Munificent Armament, and Grandiose Armament tokens obtained from completing a Garrison Mission should no longer incorrectly create one-handed warmaces for Assassination and Subtlety Rogues.

UI

• Resolved an issue where Draenor PvP gear may display incorrect item levels and stats.

December 2

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors that spawns inside of the Garrison should now be lootable if they’re killed by an NPC (like a Bodyguard). An additional hotfix is being worked on that will also apply this while encountering Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors outside of the Garrison as well.
• Garrison Buildings
  • Barn: Iron Trap, Improved Iron Trap, and Deadly Iron Trap should no longer be incorrectly triggering when other players run over it.
  • Dwarven Bunker / War Mill Level 2: Added a 2 hour grace period for cosmetic gear purchases from this building, allowing characters to sell the item back for a full refund. Note that utilizing the item for transmogrification will remove this grace period.
  • Gladiator’s Sanctum Level 3: Fight, Kill, Salute! now awards 500 Conquest Points (down from 1500).
  • Menagerie Level 3: Reduced the number of pet battle wins needed for the Draenic Pet Battler achievement from 500 to 150.
  • Stables Level 3: Completing The Stable Master achievement should now correctly award the Stable Master title.
• Garrison Invasions
  • Players should now be eligible to receive an Invader’s Forgotten Treasure once a week if they complete the invasion with a Gold Victory.
  • Corrected an issue that was causing progress towards a Garrison invasion to reset each week.
• Garrison Missions
  • Conquest Garrison Missions have been disabled temporarily from the pool of available missions for players that are eligible to receive them.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Armor Sets
    • Death Knight PvP 2-piece set bonus from previous PvP Seasons should now grant 1 Runic Power when Chains of Ice is used (down from 10 Runic Power).
• Mage
  • Armor Sets
    • Mage Tier-12 2-piece set bonus’ summoned Mirror Images should no longer be dealing an excessive amount of damage.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Enveloping Mist’s healing has been increased by 50%.
• Paladin
  • General
    • Seal of Insight’s healing effect should now be able to Multistrike or Critically Strike.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Lightwell’s heal over time effect should now be able to Multistrike or Critically Strike.
    • Binding Heal should now correctly heal both the Priest and friendly target.

Quests

• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Downsizing the Darktide: Ra’ka Bloodspear should now correctly allow multiple players to receive tap credit.
  • Shattering the Enemy: Increased the spawn rates for Felstorm Crystal.
• Gorgrond
  • A Centurion Without a Cause: Defeating Woodfist far away from High Centurion Tormmok should no longer cause him to remain hostile to the character and allow players to complete the quest.
  • Assault on the Pit: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs for this quest.
  • Bonus Objective: The Forgotten Caves: Gorg the Host really should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Strike While the Iron is Hot: Players joining a version of this quest that’s already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.
• Nagrand
  • My Precious!: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive completion credit for the quest. Additionally, players that have adandoned the quest should now be able to see Bazwix to reobtain the quest.
  • Ring of Trials quests can no longer be completed while in a Siege Tank or Demolisher. Seriously, that’s not even a fair fight.
  • Goldmane the Skinner: Taking the cage key without opening the cage to let Goldmane out no longer prevents Bolkar the Cruel from respawning.
• Legendary Ring Quest Line
  • Upgrading the ring should now correctly remove the old ring from the player’s inventory.

World Environment, Creatures, and NPCs

• Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Dominate Mind ability.
• Frostfire Ridge
  • Time-Warped Tower can now be looted by Alliance characters.
• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Darktide Rylakinator-3000’s attacks now deal more damage.
• Talador
  • NPCs in the Aruuna area should no longer cause Horde characters to become stuck in combat.
  • Burning Eye’s Eye of the Legion ability now has a reduced range of 30 yards (down from 100).
  • Daggerjaw Pridelord, Daggerjaw Raider, and Daggerjaw Hoarder now deal less damage.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

• Raids
  • Molten Core
    • Trash mobs like Ancient Core Hounds and Lava Surgers no longer respawn.
• Dungeons
  • Cloth chest pieces should now correctly have a chance of dropping on Personal loot mode.
  • Bloodmaul Slagmines
    • Slave Watcher Crushto’s Ferocious Yell now deals 10% less damage.
    • Slave Watcher Crushto: Captured Miner’s Traumatic Strike now has a recast time of 6 seconds.
    • Achievement Come With Me If You Want to Live: Croman should now be more forviging with how far apart he can remain from the player he’s following before despawning.
  • Iron Docks
    • Grimrail Enforcers: Makogg Emberblade’s Lava Sweep should now always deal damage to players.
  • Skyreach
    • Credit for completing the achievement I Saw Solis should now be correctly awarded.
  • Upper Blackrock Spire
    • Kyrak’s Rejuvenating Serum now has a duration of 9 seconds (down from 12 seconds). On Heroic difficulty and Challenge Mode, the ability now heals for the 8% (down from 10%).
    • Ragewing the Untamed’s Engulfing Fire ability can now hit players that are not in line-of-sight.

PvP

• Conquest Points have been converted into Honor Points before the start of the season.
• [Requires a realm restart.] Conquest Quartermasters Marshal Gabriel (Alliance) and General Aevd (Horde) have reinstated to sell Conquest gear. This reverts the hotfix from November 17.
• Cross-realm groups are now able to enter Ashran together.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Strand of the Ancients should now correctly award players with a Gold Strongbox for winning.

Professions

• Level-up items created by some professions no longer use reagents that required a daily cooldown to create and are no longer soulbound. To compensate for this change, basic reagent requirements have been increased and vendor buyback price for those items have been reduced now that they’re less rare.
• Enchanting
  • Mark of Blackrock now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Earth (down from 10).
  • Mark of Shadowmoon now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Fire (down from 10).
• Engineering
  • Blingtron 5000 should now correctly resume offering their daily quest after defeating another Blingtron.
• Inscription
  • Ink Traders should now accept Warbinder’s Ink in exchange for other inks.

Items

• Many epic trinkets in Draenor received a buff to ensure a proper progression path through the Raid tier. This change affects world-drop BoE epic trinkets, Inscription-crafted epic trinkets, and trinkets that drop from Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry. Further information on this change could be found in the forum thread titled: Trinket Hotfixes.
  • Note that Scabbard of Kyanos was unintentionally buffed much more than intended and its stats will be reverted to a more reasonable level.
• Missing Class Glyphs
  • The following Glyphs were not available to be crafted through Inscription and have been added to vendors in Stormshield and Warspear. Alliance players can purchase them from Joao Calhandro, and Horde players can purchase them from Maru’sa. The glyphs are unique and bind on acquire.
    • Glyph of the Solstice (Druid)
    • Glyph of Flying Fists (Monk)
    • Glyph of Cleanse (Paladin)
    • Glyph of Purification (Priest)
    • Glyph of Purify Spirit (Shaman)
    • Glyph of Frostbrand Weapon (Shaman) will be automatically learned at level 75.
• A number of items with no function are now listed as gray/junk quality item.
• Alchemical Catalyst is now an Uncommon quality item.
• Aviana’s Feather now only works in outdoor Draenor areas, and other outdoor areas that allow flight.
• Metamorphic Crystal has no function is now listed as gray/junk quality item.
• N.U.K.U.L.A.R. Target Painter no longer works during a Brawler’s Guild match.
• Oralius’ Whispering Crystal no longer provides a buff to Spirit.
• Ultimate Gnomish Army Knife can no longer be used while in an Arena or Battleground.

UI

• Tooltips for players in Premade Groups should no longer incorrectly display their level 90 Proving Grounds achievements.