Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft patch 6.0.3. Hotfixes are updates we make on our end without requiring you to download a new patch. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require your realm to be restarted to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client- side patch update. We will continue to update this list as additional hotfixes are applied.
Hotfixes have been listed by the date they’ve been implemented. The hotfixes have also been compiled by category for those wanting a quick summary of all hotfixes that have been applied since Patch 6.0.3.
Patch 6.0.x Information
- Patch 6.0.2 Now Live and Survival Guide
- The Iron Tide: 6.0.2 Patch Notes
- 6.0.2 Hotfixes
- Patch Installation & Troubleshooting
Update 2, Other Hotfixes: 6:00pm PST
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Item rewards received from a Garrison invasion now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.
- Barn: Iron Trap, Improved Iron Trap, and Deadly Iron Trap now have a 15-second cooldown (down from 30 seconds).
- Mine Levels 2-3: Mining Carts now contains more Primal Spirits and Archeology fragments. The amount of ore given by each mining node has been adjusted to a more appropriate level.
Classes
- Death Knight
- Talents
- Breath of Sindragosa should now work correctly with the Plaguebearer talent, extending the duration of diseases when used.
- Talents
- Monk
- Talents
- Chi Explosion’s visuals should now be more visible and the ability’s sound effects should no longer be too quiet.
- Talents
- Paladin
- Holy
- Beacon of Light’s sound effects should no longer be excessively loud.
- Holy
Quests
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Assault on Socrethar’s Rise: Sargerei Binders should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Talador
- Dreadpiston: Dreadpiston should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Nagrand
- Assault on the Gorian Proving Grounds: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the quest area.
- Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade really should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Garrison
- Items obtained from Garrison Mission above level 615 now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.
- Lumber Mill: Legacy of the Ancients has increased spawn rates of Medium Timber around the Botani Marsh area in Shadowmoon Valley.
Creatures and NPCs
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the Mok’gol Watchpost area.
- Talador
- Brutag Grimblade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Nagrand
- Hallvalor Blademaster should no longer be chasing players for excessively long distances.
- Katsuo should no longer be incorrectly using Wind Walk to target players that they’re not in combat with.
- Ashran
- Fangraal and Kronus now have 25% less health.
- Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath now scales their health based on the number of players in the zone.
- Alliance captains should now be retreating in the correct direction.
- Resolved an issue where multiple captains dying at the same time could cause an incorrect number of captains to respawn.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Dungeons
- After a lengthy discussion with the Postmaster regarding their mailing habits, the Postmaster should no longer be mailing back gray quality items and money that haven’t been looted by characters.
- Resolved an issue where completing a Warlords of Draenor Dungeon was incorrectly being crediting progress towards the achievement, Queuing Spree.
- Grimrail Depot
- Fire effects for Slag Blast and Slag Tanker should now be visible across all graphics settings.
- Iron Docks
- Grimrail Enforcers: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Ahri’ok Dugru, Makogg Emberblade, and Neesa Nox are defeated in.
- Skulloc: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Skulloc, Koramar, and Zoggosh were defeated in.
- The Everbloom
- Mutagen can now stack up to 10 times (down from 20) and have a maximum duration of 1 minute.
- Ancient Protectors: Shaper’s Fortitude has been removed on Heroic difficulty.
- Upper Blackrock Spire
- Orebender Gor’ashan’s visuals for his Electric Pulse should now correctly reflect the ability’s area-of-effect.
- Challenge Mode
- Items contained within the Challenger’s Strongbox now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.
PvP
- Ashran
- Class book abilities should now be correctly removed when leaving Ashran.
Professions
- [Still in testing] Crafted gear and weapons received an item level boost. Tooltips for the items will still display the incorrect (older) item level.
- Crafted Tier-2 weapons now have an item level of 645 (up from 640).
- Crafted Tier-3 weapons now have an item level of 660 (up from 655).
- Crafted Tier-3 gear now have an item level of 670 (up from 665).
- Enchanting
- Rare (blue) quality items now have a greatly increased chance to disenchant into Draenic Dust instead of a Small Luminous Shard. Additionally, characters with the Enchanting profession should receive more Draenic Dust while disenchanting an item.
- [Still in testing] Mark of Blackrock now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Earth (down from 10).
- [Still in testing] Mark of Shadowmoon now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Fire (down from 10).
Items
- Swapblaster’s visual effect should no longer persist indefinitely.
Bug Fix
- Resolved an issue where buffs received from a Shamanstone was incorrectly causing the character to travel much more slowly while on a flight path.