6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 21, Dev Tweets On 6.1

January 21

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Campaign Quests
  • A Stolen Heart: Azuka Bladefury should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode for Horde characters.
  • Primal Fury: Completing the quest should now correctly award Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower. A fix to award the followers for players that have already completed the quest will be made at a later date.
  • Socrethar’s Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the banner used to challenge Socrethar to not work correctly.

Classes

• Hunter
  • Talents
    • Hunter Talents should no longer incorrectly treat Lifelike Mechanical Frostboar as an active Hunter Pet.
• Monk
  • General
    • Instant casting Surging Mist on self via Soothing Mist (Mistweaver) should no longer cause Surging Mist to not provide any healing.
• Paladin
  • Glyphs
    • Glyph of Illumination is obsolete and should no longer be incorrectly retained by some Paladins.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Healing received through Spirit Link Totem redistributing player health to match each other should no longer be incorrectly affected by Dampening.
• Warlock
  • Talents
    • Demonbolt (Demonology) now deals 25% less damage against other players in PvP combat.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Mastery: Weapons Master’s effects were overtuned and have been reduced in effectiveness by 18%. The mastery remains significantly stronger than before and is still 29% more powerful than prior to the hotfix from January 12.
  • Armor Sets
    • Tier-16 2-piece bonus for Protection Warriors now heals for 3% less for each character level above level 90.

Quests

• Frostfire Ridge
  • In the Shadow of Giants: Players should now correctly receive completion credit while interacting with Flamrog or Kindler.
• Legacy
  • Trapping the Leader (Kun-Lai Summit): Killing Shan Kien quickly should no longer prevent him from respawning.

Creatures and NPCs

• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Gorum should now correctly leash back to their spawn point.
• Gorgrond
  • Laughing Skull guards at Beastwatch in Gorgrond should no longer attack Horde players.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

• Highmaul
  • Tectus: Resolved an issue where several mobs during the encounter did not reset the cooldown on Marked for Death (Rogue Talent) when killed.
  • Imperator Mar’gok: Volatile Anomaly’s Destabilize ability should now correctly trigger player abilities that activate on taking damage.
• Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
  • Bonemaw: Rogues should now be able to use the Death from Above talent against Carrion Worms and Bonemaw.

PvP

• Ashran
  • Players should now correctly teleport into Ashran when accepting the queue from Stormshield or Warspear.
  • Players leaving Ashran via mini-map are now teleported to a location just outside of Ashran instead of back to the bound Hearthstone location.
  • Scroll of Touch of Death’s effect should no longer be incorrectly retained outside of Ashran.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Resolved an issue where some items with Bonus Armor were scaling incorrectly in non-max level bracket Battlegrounds.

Items

• Potions and flasks from earlier expansions should no longer be more powerful than ones from later expansions.
• Cache of Highmaul Treasures should no longer incorrectly spawn items that can be upgraded.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where characters that log out while in another player’s Garrison may be unable to log back in.