6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 8/9, 6.1 PTR First Datamining!

January 9

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Buildings
  • [Requires a realm restart] Barn: Trapping now awards a caged beast for each nearby party member with an appropriate level barn. More information regarding the change can be found on the forums.

Creatures

• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Bahameye should no longer be incorrectly phased in some instances.
• Gorgrond
  • Poundfist is now immune to crowd-control effects.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

• Highmaul
  • Imperator Mar’gok: Councilor Gorluk’s Phantasmal Weapons should no longer cause all players in the zone to go into combat.

PvP

• Ashran
  • Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath should no longer be able to be pulled through the side gates.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Arathi Basin: Using Ice Floes or Aspect of the Fox should no longer incorrectly allow players to capture a point while moving.
• Silvershard Mines: The northern track switch should now work correctly.

January 8

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Buildings
  • Barn
    • [Requires a realm restart] Increased the spawn rate and number of spawn points for Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler. This hotfix will be deployed in combination with the hotfix from January 7 to increase spawn rates slightly.

Class

• Abilities that heal based on a percentage of total/maximum health should now be able to be correctly modified by healing debuff modifiers.
• Hunter
  • General
    • [Currently in testing] Freezing Trap now has a trigger radius of 3 yards (down from 5 yards).
• Paladin
  • Armor Sets
    • Hotfix to change the PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins announced from January 5 has been deployed.
• Priest
  • Glyphs
    • Glyph of Reflective Shield should now correctly only reflect damage on self-cast Power Word: Shields and not when it’s cast on other players.

Quests

• Gorgrond
  • Reagents from Rakthoth: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.
  • Seeking the Scout: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.
  • [Requires a realm restart] The Giant Cauldron: Players should now be able to reacquire or complete the quest if they disconnect or log out during the flight after speaking with Choluna.

Raids and Dungeons

• Highmaul
  • Kargath Bladefist: Defeating Iron Grunts before the start of the encounter no longer grants favor with Roar of the Crowd on Mythic difficulty.
  • The Butcher: Pale Vitriol should now correctly be reapplied to Hunters under the effects of Deterrence on Mythic difficulty.

PvP

• Ashran
  • Bonus Objectives in Ashran now restart every 30-40 minutes after completion (up from 20-30 minutes).

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Capturing a point in Arathi Basin, The Battle for Gilneas City, and the Rated Battlegrounds version for Eye of the Storm should now take 7 seconds (down from 8 seconds). This change restores time to capture a point back to what it was for these Battlegrounds in pre-6.0.2.

Items

• All Follower contracts are now bind-on-pickup.