Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft Patch 6.1. Hotfixes are updates made on our end without requiring a new client-side patch. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require the realm to be restarted to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.
Hotfixes have been listed by the date they’ve been implemented. Also available, hotfixes compiled by category for those wanting a quick summary of all hotfixes that have been applied since the start of World of Warcraft Patch 6.1.
Tags may be added to some hotfixes to denote a special condition.
- [Requires a realm restart] means the hotfix will not take effect until after a scheduled rolling restart or maintenance.
- [Hotfix in testing] means the hotfix is in early stages of testing and may not be implemented just yet. However, the change is important and is posted to provide as much advanced notice as possible.
Patch 6.1 Information
March 12
Classes
- Priest
- Talents
- Cascade will now properly use the casting Priest’s Multistrike chance for bounces beyond the first one.
- Talents
Raids and Dungeons
- Blackrock Foundry
- Operator Thogar
- Grom’kar Man-at-Arms’ Iron Bellow ability should no longer be redirected by a Grounding Totem.
- Operator Thogar
- Legacy
- Icecrown Citadel: Players should now correctly only be saved to the raid when all three Blood Princes have been defeated during the Blood Prince Council encounter.
Items
- Auto-Repairing Autoclave now has 33% more Spirit.
- Elementalist’s Shielding Talisman now has 33% more Spirit.
Bug Fixes
- Achievements
- Players should now correctly receive credit towards the Call to Arms! achievement after completing a max level Battleground match.
March 11
Classes
- Death Knight
- General
- Fixed an situation where Blood Tap (Talent) and Death Strike could interact incorrectly and allow Death Runes to become permanent.
- General
- Druid
- General
- Shred now deals 20% more damage while stealthed (down from 35%).
- General
- Hunter
- General
- Tranquilizing Shot now costs 50 Focus (up from 20 Focus).
- Hunter Pets
- Cornered now causes the pet to deal 20% more damage (down from 50%).
- Talents
- Fixed an issue where Exotic Munitions’ Incendiary Ammo and Frozen Ammo were causing the Hunter’s swing timer to reset incorrectly.
- General
Raids and Dungeons
- Blackrock Foundry
- Blackhand
- Siegemaker’s Battering Ram ability is no longer considered to be an area-of-effect attack on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulty.
- Blackhand
- Legacy
- Icecrown Citadel: Defeating Professor Putricide too quickly should no longer cause players to become trapped in the room.
PvP
- Players now deal 10% less damage against other players while in PvP combat.
Join the Party at BlizzCon® 2015 November 6 and 7
Blizzcon will be back this year!
You’ve been summoned to Southern California for BlizzCon 2015! Blizzard’s ninth epic gaming convention and community celebration is returning to the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7, 2015. Form a party with your fellow members of the Blizzard community and get ready for two days of in-depth discussion panels with our developers, hands-on play time with the latest Blizzard games, and intense eSports tournaments featuring top pro gamers from around the world.
BlizzCon 2015 tickets will go on sale in two batches on Wednesday, April 15 at 7 p.m. PT and Saturday, April 18 at 10 a.m. PT through the online event ticketing service Eventbrite, priced at $199 each (plus applicable taxes and fees). Check out the BlizzCon Ticket webpage for all the details.
In addition, we’re once again planning a special pre-BlizzCon Benefit Dinner the evening of Thursday, November 5 in support of Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), where guests will have a chance to meet and chat with developers, artists, community team representatives, and others from Blizzard. Attendance to this special event will be limited, and we’ll have more information on ticket pricing and availability at a later date.
If you can’t make it to the show in person, you’ll be able to watch from home with the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, offering comprehensive live coverage of the event via a multichannel Internet stream. Further details on the Virtual Ticket, including pricing, availability, and programming information, will be announced at a later date.
See the full press release or check out the BlizzCon Ticket page for more information, and be sure to visit www.blizzcon2015.eventbrite.com at the dates and times above for a chance to purchase a ticket to the show. We hope to see you there!