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Podcast Episode 57, 6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 15

The podcast is back and this week we talk about the data mined information from the 6.1 PTR and the idea of gear art going back to class themes rather than environment and raid themes.

6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 15

There are also new hotfixes, check them out below!

Quote from: Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 15

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

January 15

Class

  • Paladin
    • Protection
      • Reduced the damage of Seal of Truth for Protection Paladins by 80%. Protection Paladins should primarily use Seal of Insight for defensive value.
      • [Currently in Testing]Seraphim now grants 750 of each stat for Protection Paladins (down from 1000).

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • Garrison Campaign
    • Garrison Campaign quests can now be found in the quest log under the “Garrison Campaign” category.

Bug Fixes

  • Classes
    • Warlock
      • Fixed an issue in in which glyphs could cause crowd controlled (cc’d) targets to have Damage Over Time spells (DoTs) removed which would cause stored Soul Swap DoT’s to be removed from Warlocks.
  • Garrisons
    • Invasions
      • Corrected a bug in which Horde players weren’t receiving credit toward the “It’s an Invasion!” and “Invasion Specialist” Achievements for completing the introductory invasion quest.
    • Buildings
      • Mine
        • Miners now continue working after midnight instead of taking an unscheduled coffee break.

Blackrock Foundry Raid Schedule, 6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 13, TM vs SS Veto Lost

Blackrock Foundry Raid Schedule

The start of the Blackrock Foundry raid release will start in the first week of February!

Quote from: Blizzard
Blackrock Foundry Raid Schedule

It won’t be long before you’ll be able to take the assault against the Iron Horde to the next level. To help you plan for it, we’ve broken down Blackrock Foundry’s unlock schedule. Will you be ready?

Those who plan to jump into the action within the Raid Finder will need a minimum item level of 635. The latest World Raid boss – Rukhmar – will also become available.

February 4, 2015:

  • Blackrock Foundry opens with Normal and Heroic difficulties accessible.
  •  World Boss  Rukhmar will become available in Spires of Arak

February 11, 2015:

  •  Mythic difficulty becomes available.

February 18, 2015:

  •  Raid Finder Wing 1, Slagworks (Gruul, Oregorger, and The Blast Furnace) unlocks.

February 25, 2015:

  •  Raid Finder Wing 2 The Black Forge (Hans’gar and Franzok, Flamebender Ka’graz, and Kromog ) unlocks.

March 11, 2015:

  •  Raid Finder Wing 3 Iron Assembly (Beast Lord Darmac, Operator Thogar, and The Iron Maidens) unlocks.

March 25, 2015:

  •  Raid Finder Wing 4 Blackhand’s Crucible (Blackhand) unlocks.

6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 13

There are some more class balance hotfixes following the previous hotfixes.

Quote from: Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 13

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

January 13

Class

  • Death Knight
    • Unholy
      • Festering Strike’s damage has been increased by 28%.
      • Scourge Strike’s damage has been increased by 28%.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Starfall’s effect is now only suppressed when shapeshifting into a non-Moonkin form. Shifting back into the appropriate form will allow the effect to resume.
  • Monk
    • Armor Sets
      • Tier-17 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now only triggers when you Purify Moderate or Heavy Stagger.
      • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Brewmaster and Windwalker Monks now only triggers while in PvP combat.
      • PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now confers 75% of the Guard effect to the 2 nearest allies.
  • Rogue
    • Combat
      • Blade Flurry is now able to trigger from Multistrikes.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

  • Highmaul
    • Kargath Bladefist: Resolved an issue where players can incorrectly get locked to the instance after wiping to Kargath on Mythic difficulty.
    • Imperator Mar’gok: Gorian Warmage’s Fixate ability should now only cause the targeted player to drop out of stealth instead of incorrectly causing all steathed players in the raid to drop out of stealth.
  • Legacy
    • Blackrock Caverns
      • Rom’ogg Bonecrusher’s Skullcracker ability should now correctly deal damage to Angered Earth elementals, allowing the achievement Crushing Bones and Cracking Skulls to be completed.

PvP

  • Alliance and Horde Conquest vendors should now offer non-set cloth gloves and non-set plate chest pieces for sale.
  • Ashran
    • Amphitheater of Annihilation: Mandragoraster’s Fertile Spit ability now caps out at 6 nearby targets.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

  • Arathi Basin: Players should now always have a fixed 25-second resurrection timer while in a Rated Battleground match.
  • Deepwind Gorge: Using Ice Floes or Aspect of the Fox should no longer incorrectly allow players to capture a point while moving.

Items

  • The following items can now stack up to 20.
    • Crate of Salvage
    • Big Crate of Salvage
    • Excess Potion of Accelerated Learning
    • Follower Re-training Certificate
    • Hearthstone Strategy guide
    • Supreme Manual of Dance

TM vs SS Veto Lost

Quote from: Blizzard

Just dropping a note here for anyone that had Tarren Mill vs Southshore vetoed (unchecked) when the realms came down for maintenance this week, you may have noticed that you now only have 1 battleground deselected, because the now invisible TM vs SS battleground is still technically unchecked.

It’s a bug we’re aware of, in the meantime you can fix this yourself by entering the following in chat:

/script ClearBlacklistMap(1280); ReloadUI();

Newsletter – January 2015

One of the things that we’ve been wanting to do for a long time now is getting out a monthly newsletter to inform you of what’s been going on with both World of Warcraft and WoW Weekly. However for a long time we couldn’t find the right way or layout to format the newsletter. After going back to the drawing board and taking a simpler approach we can finally share our first newsletter!

Newsletter January 2015

You can expect a summary of the highlights of news from WoW, news about WoW Weekly and possible previews of what’s to come! In this month’s newsletter there’s an art sample from one of our longterm projects!

Of course, this is only our very first newsletter, so if you have suggestions of what you’d like to see in the newsletter or perhaps be changed then let us know in the comments!

6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 12

A new set of class tuning hotfixes are on their way!

Quote from:Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 12

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

January 12

Secondary Stats

  • The Haste stat is now 11.1% more effective. For example, characters at level 100 now receive a 1% increase per 90 Haste (up from 1% per 100 Haste).

Please note that the following class tuning hofixes are not active yet. These hotfixes are still undergoing testing and will be implemented as soon as possible.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • General
      • Blood Boil’s damage has been reduced by 33.3%.
    • Frost
      • Icy Talons now causes the Death Knight to gain 20% (up from 5%) more of the Haste stat from all sources.
  • Druid
    • General
      • Rejuvenation’s healing has been reduced by 5%.
      • Thrash (Bear Form)’s direct damage has been reduced by 50%. Its periodic damage remains unchanged.
    • Balance
      • Mastery: Total Eclipse’s effects have been increased by 6.7%.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • Mastery: Master of Beasts’ effects have been increased by 12.5%.
  • Mage
    • Fire
      • Incineration now causes the Mage to gain 15% (up from 5%) more of the Critical Strike stat from all sources.
      • Pyroblast’s damage has been reduced by 5%.
  • Paladin
    • Protection
      • Sacred Duty now causes the Paladin to gain 30% (up from 5%) more of the Haste stat from all sources.
    • Glyphs
      • Glyph of Alabaster Shield now increases Shield of the Righteous’ damage by 3% (down from 10%) per stack.
  • Priest
    • General
      • Power Word: Shield’s absorption has been reduced by 15%.
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement
      • Fire Nova now causes up to 6 novas (down from 7).
      • Stormstrike’s damage has been increased by 11.1%.
  • Warlock
    • Destruction
      • Devastation now causes the Warlock to gain 15% (up from 5%) more of the Critical Strike stat from all sources.
    • Demonology
      • Mastery: Master Demonologist’s effects have been increased by 33%.
  • Warrior
    • General
      • Thunder Clap’s damage has been increased by 40%.
    • Arms
      • Mastery: Weapons Master’s effects have been increased by 57.1%.
    • Protection
      • Deep Wounds’ damage has been increased by 40%.
      • Devastate’s damage has been increased by 20%.
      • Revenge’s damage has been increased by 40%.
      • Shield Slam’s damage has been increased by 20%.
    • Talents
      • Gladiator Stance (Protection) now increases damage by 5% (down from 20%).

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

6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 8/9

Quote from: Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 9

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

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.

6.1 PTR First Datamining!

Both WoWhead and MMO-Champion have started datamining the patch 6.1 PTR files that were pushed to the PTR servers last night! Keep in mind that anything can change! Here’s some of the highlights they have discovered:

  • You can rush work orders and complete 5 instantly with special items.
  • You can collect and change the music in your garrison.
  • There are 2 new followers:
    • Harrison Jones (link not working)
    • The Legendary Follower (link not working)
  • There is at least one new mount
  • Pepe gets his own item
  • The heirloom system will allow you to upgrade heirlooms up to level 100!
  • There are indications of a death log system
  • The previously announced ingame twitter feature has been spotted

6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 6/7

Quote from: Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 7

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.

Patch 6.0.x Information

January 7

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • Garrison Buildings
    • Barn
      • Deadly Iron Trap now only traps an elite creature (Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler) that the player or party has tap credit on.
      • [Require a realm restart] Spawn rates for Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler has increased slightly.

Class

  • Death Knight
    • Talents
      • Conversion for Frost Death Knights should now correctly count as 15 Runic Power spent toward other abilities that trigger based on Runic Power spent.
  • Druid
    • Restoration
      • Wild Growth’s healing should now smoothly increase with Haste instead of having breakpoints. Total healing for the ability will vary slightly depending how much Haste the Druid had previously; with healing increasing slightly for most Druids.
    • Armor Sets
      • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Restoration Druids should no longer incorrectly consume Nature’s Swiftness when the root effect is triggered.
  • Hunter
    • Talents
      • Resolved a situation that could cause Binding Shot to not stun the target correctly.
  • Monk
    • General
      • Way of the Monk now increases the Monk’s autoattack damage with one-handed weapons by 25% (down from 40%), and increases the attack speed of two-handed weapons by 55% (up from 40%).
  • Priest
    • Talents
      • Clarity of Will’s (Discipline) damage absorption shield can now stack up to a maximum of 75% of the casting Priest’s health (instead of up to 50% of the target’s health).
  • Rogue
    • Subtlety
      • Honor Among Thieves now only triggers its effect in combat.
      • Sinister Calling’s triggered Bleed effects should now be able to Crit or Multistrike if the source Bleed effect could Crit or Multistrike.
  • Shaman
    • General
      • Lightning Shield should no longer expire prematurely when Cyclone is cast on an Elemental Shaman.
  • Warrior
    • Fury
      • Wild Strike should now be correctly crediting the full amount of Rage that had been spent towards the talent, Anger Management.

PvP

  • Ashran
    • Players should now receive advanced notification when the Bonus Objective: Brute’s Rise will become active.
    • Fangraal no longer uses the Soul of the Forest ability.
    • Alliance PvP vendors Bregg Coppercast and Ingrid Blackingot now have collision boxes.
    • Horde PvP vendors Lieutenant Axelash and Lieutenant Brokefist have moved closer to the road leading into Ashran, and now have collision boxes.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

  • Hand of Protection should now interrupt players that are in the process of capturing a point in the Battlegrounds.

January 6

Class

  • Paladin
    • Protection
      • Shield of the Righteous should no longer incorrectly provide a greater than intended reduction to physical damage taken after refreshing the ability.
  • Rogue
    • General
      • Kidney Shot’s stun effect is now capped at 6 seconds while in PvP combat. Revealing Strike can still increase the stun duration, but not beyond 6 seconds.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Raids
    • Highmaul
      • Ko’ragh’s Expel Magic: Arcane ability should no longer incorrectly damage players that are under an effect that grants immunity to damage.
  • Dungeons
    • Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
      • Ner’zhul: Credit for Souls of the Lost achievement should no longer incorrectly reset between waves of Ritual of Bones.

Bug Fixes

  • Got My Mind On My Draenor Money should now correctly credit gold looted while in a Dungeon or Raid.

Anniversary Event Extension, 6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 5

Anniversary Event Extension

Quote from: Blizzard

The WoW Anniversary event ended a bit earlier than intended, so to make up for that lost time and any inconvenience we’re going to be re-enabling it for an additional week. The event—including the level 100 Molten Core raid—will be available again from 6 January at 10:00 a.m. CET until 13 January at 10:00 a.m. CET, for European realms. You can see the updated event dates and times in the in-game calendar.

Look for this and other hotfixes in the 6.0.3 Hotfixes blog as it’s updated.

6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 5

Quote from: Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: January 5

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

January 5

WoW’s 10th Anniversary

  • [Requires a realm restart] WoW’s 10th Anniversary event has received an extension! The event will begin again at 10AM PST on Tuesday, January 6 and ends at 10AM PST on Tuesday, January 13.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • Garrison Buildings
    • Dwarven Bunker/War Mill: Players can now accrue as many Iron Horde Scraps as they want.
    • Lumber Mill: Players can now accrue as much Timber as they want.

Class

  • Death Knight
    • Talent
      • Conversion now costs 15 Runic Power per second for Frost Death Knights (up from 10 Runic Power).
  • Hunter
    • Armor Sets
      • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Hunters should no longer incorrectly trigger its effect when Freezing Trap activates on a target that is immune.
  • Paladin
    • Talents
      • Empowered Seals (Protection, Retribution) should no longer incorrectly be providing a 30% increase to attack speed on top of its intended benefits.
    • Armor Sets
      • [Currently in testing] PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins now increases damage and healing by 2% per Holy Power spent (down from 3%) for 4 seconds (down from 8 seconds).
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • Assassin’s Resolve now increases damage by 22% (up from 15%).
    • Combat
      • Vitality now grants 50% additional Attack Power (up from 40%).
    • Subtlety
      • Sanguinary Vein now increases damage dealt by 25% (up from 20%).

World Environment

  • Nagrand
    • Resolved an issue where players that die in the areas around Highmaul may be unable to resurrect at their corpse.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Dungeons
    • Grimrail Depot
      • [Requires a realm restart] Nitrogg Thundertower: Assault Cannon’s Suppressive Fire now deals less damage.
      • [Requires a realm restart] Nitrogg Thundertower: Grom’kar Gunner’s Shrapnel Blast now deals less damage.
      • [Requires a realm restart] Nitrogg Thundertower: Iron Infantry now has less health.

PvP

  • Ashran
    • [Requires a realm restart] Players now have 60 seconds to accept the prompt to enter Ashran (up from 20 seconds).

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue that could cause Quest achievements for Draenor zones to not be awarded correctly to characters below level 100.