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World of Warcraft in the New Year, 6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 18/17

Blizzard has posted a preview for the new year, including the announcement of the first legendary follower! Also new hotfixes are active.

World of Warcraft in the New Year

Quote from: Blizzard
World of Warcraft has had quite an eventful year. We released the newest expansion, Warlords of Draenor, on November 13. The first raid opened up in early December, and players have had a go at some of Draenor’s most fearsome foes. We marked the 10-year World of Warcraft and 20-year Warcraft anniversaries in-game and with an incredible celebration at BlizzCon last month; debuted a new documentary, World of Warcraft: Looking for Group, on YouTube and Hulu; and released a new pet to support the American Red Cross and their Ebola relief efforts in Africa—and we’re not done yet.

We’re excited about what’s ahead in 2015, and we wanted to give you a glimpse at some of the long-term projects we’re working on, as well as some features planned for the Patch 6.1 update, which will be hitting the Public Test Realm (PTR) soon.

Feeling Legendary
We hope everyone is enjoying the Legendary quest line with Khadgar, the next step of which opens up with the Blackrock Foundry raid in the new year. We’re already working on the steps after that, and the quest line will continue in Patch 6.1, where the first-ever Legendary Follower (with suitably Legendary abilities) will be available to join your Garrison. If you’re a fan of collecting Followers but haven’t set out on the Legendary quest line, now is a good time to get started!

Pepe’s Favorite New Feature
We’re working on the ability to send out Tweets—including screenshots—directly from within WoW, making it easier than ever to let friends know about your Achievements and item drops. We’ll be testing this functionality on the Patch 6.1 PTR.

Flight Master Competency
We have some new tech in the works that will allow flight masters to provide more-direct routes to your destination, regardless of the flight points your character knows. This’ll mean fewer roundabout routes; the flight masters will instead always try to send you on the shortest existing route. Hopefully, this will get you to your destination faster.

All About That Base
Garrison improvements, tweaks, and additions are on the horizon. While we’re working on some bigger additions for later on, we have a lot of other changes and additions you’ll see on the next PTR. We’re working on making visiting your friends’ Garrisons even more rewarding, with a daily visitor to set you and your friends on a fun random task (complete with rewards, Achievements, and a meta-Achievement for finishing all of the tasks). We’ll have awesome new items to spend your Garrison Resources on, new Missions to complete with fun new rewards, new items to change your Followers with, a new tier of Garrison-invasion difficulty for the most tenacious of defenders among you (can your Garrison withstand a world boss?), new profession-building Missions, and a whole lot more!

New Ways to Play
We’re exploring the possibility of giving players a way to buy tradable game-time tokens for the purpose of exchanging them in-game with other players for gold. Our current thought on this is that it would give players a way to use their surplus gold to cover some of their subscription cost, while giving players who might have less play time an option for acquiring gold from other players through a legit and secure system. A few other online games offer a similar option, and players have suggested that they’d be interested in seeing something along those lines in WoW. We agree it could be a good fit for the game, and we look forward to any feedback you have as we continue to look into this feature.

Collecting Your Heirlooms
We’re pretty far along in development on the much-talked-about Heirloom tab. This will bring the whole Heirloom system into a single account-wide collection UI and provide a clear purchase/upgrade path for all items. Heirlooms already on characters will be collected into the new UI (similar to other Collections features), base-level Heirlooms will be purchasable from vendors, and upgrade tokens that can be used on Heirlooms to raise their effectiveness to additional level caps will be obtainable through different forms of content. We’ll be looking for your feedback on the new system when the 6.1 PTR goes live.

eSports’in
The new War Games skirmishes feature allows anyone to run an online tournament, and we’re excited to see even more community-run tournaments in 2015. We’ll of course be running tournaments with our eSports partners as well, and will release details as those plans are finalized. As you saw at the Arena World Championship, we’ve come up with an improved UI to help viewers better follow the action, but we’ve been working on a complete overhaul for next year—with the goal of making it widely available for use in player-run tournaments, partner tournaments, and online casting. We hope to be able to share more soon.

You’re More Beautiful Every Day
As we discussed in the recent preview, new Blood Elf models are on their way, and we’re looking to get them in-game in an upcoming patch. Alongside the new Blood Elf models we’ll also be implementing a couple of tweaks and fixes for other character models, based on player and our own internal feedback, with some additional changes to come in future patches.

Ashran So Far
We’re continuing to focus on realm pairing and tech changes to help ensure more even fights between the Alliance and the Horde, as well as reduce the queue times to get into the PvP zone for those realms experiencing them. Further into the coming year our focus will be on updating and expanding the content Ashran offers in big new ways, but we’ll have more info on that as we get closer to patches beyond 6.1.

Game Ogre
Raiders are continuing to enjoy Highmaul in all its ogre-y glory, and we’re watching how things play out as the last couple wings open in Raid Finder difficulty. While progression through Highmaul continues, Warlord Blackhand is eagerly awaiting your arrival in the Blackrock Foundry raid. We’re expecting Blackrock Foundry to become available in February. We’ll announce specific dates once we’ve seen more of how Highmaul progression . . . progresses.

. . . And Beyond
We have a ton of awesome content planned for next year, as well as some fun surprises, and we can’t wait to share more. See you in-game!

6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 18/17

Quote from: Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 17

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

December 18

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • Outposts
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Completing a quest for a newly swapped Outpost building should no longer cause it to incorrectly revert back to a pre-swapped state.

Classes

  • Hunter
    • Talents
      • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now work correctly with the Glyph of Mirrored Blades.
  • Priest
    • Talents
      • Clarity of Will’s (Discipline) protective ward on a critical effect should now be correctly reduced by Battle Fatigue in PvP combat.
    • Glyphs
      • Glyph of the Inquisitor should now correctly be dealing self-damage against the Priest (with a chance to break crowd control effects) in PvP combat against enemy players with glyphed crowd control abilities that removes damage over time effects on the target.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • Envenom should no longer incorrectly consume all of the Rogue’s combo points if the ability misses or was dodged.
    • Subtlety
      • Hemorrhage’s periodic effect should now be able to critically strike.

Quests

  • Talador
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Socrethar’s Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause Socrethar to become unattackable.
  • Legacy
    • Report to the King: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Hero’s Call: Redridge Mountains! and My Son, the Prince to become unavailable
    • Warning the Warchief: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Machines of War and Enemies Below to become unavailable.

Creatures and NPCs

  • Frostfire Ridge
    • Iron Cannoneers no longer drop Iron Horde Scraps.
  • Gorgrond
    • Iron Banshee should now correctly award credit towards completing Assault on the Pit.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Dungeons
    • The Everbloom
      • Xeri’tac: Resolved an issue that could cause Venom-Crazed Pale One to not spawn in correctly.

PvP

  • Ashran
    • Fangraal and Kronus now costs 3000 Artifact Fragments to summon (up from 1000).

Items

  • Primal Spirits should now be dropping more frequently while harvesting mineral and herb nodes outside of the Garrison, from Skinning, and in a satchel obtained by completing the daily Fishing quest from the Garrison Fishing Shack.
  • Potions purchased from the Brawler’s Guild are now bind on pickup.
  • Guide: Sharpshooting should now correctly have a chance to drop for Hunters from rare Draenor NPCs and creatures.
  • Kowalski’s Music Box should now correctly apply its soothing effect to targets that are not in combat.
  • World Shrinker’s effect is now removed when mounting up.

UI

  • Premade Groups should no longer display a Scenarios category for characters that are above level 90.

December 17

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • Garrison Buildings
    • Frostwall Mines: Mine Guards should now scale with the player’s character level.
    • Frostwall Mines Level 3: Mine Guards now have significantly more health and damage.

Classes

  • Mage
    • Talents
      • Prismatic Crystal used in PvP combat, now transfers only 75% of total damage on Critical Hits, and only 50% of total damage on Multistrikes. There’s no change to the ability in PvE combat.
  • Warlock
    • Destruction
      • [Hotfix currently in-testing] Havoc now has a base cooldown of 20 seconds (down from 25 seconds).

Creatures and NPCs

  • Zidormi in Dustwallow Marsh should now correctly send players back in time to visit old Theramore.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Satchel of Savage Mysteries now has a guaranteed chance to award a piece of Heroic Dungeon loot (item level 630 rare) appropriate for the character’s loot specialization.
    • Developer Commentary: We’re aware of excessive queue times for Heroic Dungeons. To help players have a better experience in Dungeon Finder, we’re expanding the rewards for Satchel of Savage Mysteries to award Heroic Dungeon loot in addition to the guaranteed Augment Rune, and a chance to contain a mount, Follower enhancement token, Battle Pet, or Battle-Stone. The satchel will remain Bind on Account and we’ll continue to monitor Dungeon Finder queues and iterate as needed to ensure a great experience for everyone.
  • Raids
    • Highmaul
      • The Butcher now has a chance to drop a Green Winter Hat.
      • Brackenspore: Elements of the fight, such as hostile fungus and beneficial mushrooms should now be visible from further away during the encounter on Mythic difficulty.
      • Twin Ogron: Resolved a situation where pulling Twin Ogron and having them despawn could cause the Imperator Mar’gok encounter to not work correctly on Mythic difficulty.

6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 15, Death Knight Creation Change

Some new hotfixes have come in, including class tuning changes!

6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 15

Quote from: Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 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.

Patch 6.0.x Information

December 15

Class Tuning Changes

  • Please note, the following class tuning changes are still undergoing testing and will be implemented as soon as possible.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • Improved Focus Fire now grants a 5% increase (up from 2%) to attack power for every stack of Frenzy that had been consumed.
    • Survival
      • Serpent Sting’s damage has increased by 60%.
  • Monk
    • General
      • Stance of the Fierce Tiger now increases all damage dealt by 5% (down from 10%).
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • Venomous Wounds’ damage has increased by 20%.
    • Combat
      • Blade Flurry now also strikes up to 4 additional nearby opponents for 35% of normal damage (up from 30%).
    • Subtlety
      • Backstab’s damage has increased by 20%.
      • Hemorrhage’s damage has increased by 30%.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • [Hotfix in testing] Map Icon for the Garrison should now appear correctly for characters that had undergone a faction change.
  • [Hotfix in testing] Alliance Tier 3 Garrison: Dungeoneer’s Training Dummy for healing and damage have swapped places so melee classes are less likely to trigger the tanking dummy by accident.
  • Garrison Buildings
    • [Hotfix in testing] Barn: Captured beasts can now stack to 20 (up from not being stackable).
    • Dwarven Bunker/War Mill: Armor transmogrification items obtained from the Dwarven Bunker/War Mill are now truly account-bound and can be sent to other characters on the same Battle.net account.
    • Gladiator’s Sanctum: Corrected an issue that allowed a losing player to claim loot from victor’s chest when multiple players died near-simultaneously.
    • Stables: Corrected an issue where players could complete The Stable Master achievement without owning a Level 3 Stable.

Classes

  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Sunfall (Starfall modified by Glyph of the Solstice) should now also be dealing 33% less damage in PvP combat.
      • [Hotfix in testing] Sunfall should no longer incorrectly have a chance to trigger Nature’s Vigil.
  • Hunter
    • Talents
      • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now interact correctly with Glyph of Deterrence.
  • Mage
    • Talents
      • Greater Invisibility should now correctly be counting as dispelling two damage over time effects instead of canceling them.
    • Armor Sets
      • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Mages should now be correctly consuming stacks of the buff while casting Frostfire Bolt.
  • Paladin
    • Talents
      • Hand of Purity should no longer incorrectly affect damage over time abilities that are immune from this damage reduction effect.
      • Selfless Healer should now be correctly dispelled instead of having only 1 stack dispelled at a time.
    • Armor Sets
      • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins, Righteous Determination should now be dispellable.

Quests

  • Frostfire Ridge
    • Assault on Magnarok: Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs for the quest.
    • [Hotfix in testing] Flames of the Earth: Players are now able to free Magma Elementals without tap credit and completion credit for the quest is now shared amongst all characters in the party.
  • Nagrand
    • [Hotfix in testing] Removing the Reinforcements: Resolved an issue where the quest could not be completed if the character had already completed And Justice for Thrall.
    • THAELIN!: Resolved an issue where players may be able to complete the quest if they had already completed And Justice for Thrall.

World Environment

  • [Hotfix in testing] Resolved an issue that could cause The August Celestials daily quests to not match up in a cross-realm zone.

Creatures and NPCs

  • A large number of rare creatures and NPCs on Draenor can now be tapped by players on both factions.
  • Gorgrond
    • [Hotfix in testing] Poundfist now has 40% more health and increased the upper limit on the number of players his health can scale to.
  • Spires of Arak
    • [Hotfix in testing] Befuddled Relic-Seeker, Highmaul Relic-Seeker, and Highmaul Skullcrusher should no longer drop dead after being pickpocketed.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Raids
    • Highmaul
      • [Hotfix in testing] Raid Finder difficulty Highmaul should now be creating raid groups comprised of 2 tanks, 5 healers, and 18 damage dealers (instead of forming raid groups with 6 healers).
      • Kargath Bladefist: Players should no longer be getting trapped in the tiger pit after defeating Kargath Bladefist.
      • [Hotfix in testing] Brackenspore: Creeping Moss’ healing dealt to fungal spawn will now show up in the Combat Log.
      • Brackenspore: Burning Infusion now increases damage and healing dealt by 13% per stack (up from 10% per stack) and decays more slowly at a rate of 1 stack every 4 seconds (up from 1 stack every 2 seconds).
      • Ko’ragh: DPS caster trinkets should now correctly have a chance to trigger its effects on attacks that have been completely absorbed by Ko’ragh’s Nullification Barrier.
      • Imperator Mar’gok’s Mark of Chaos abilities should now be correctly applied to all characters regardless of range.

PvP

  • Ashran
    • PvP vendors in Stormshield and Warspear now have Pre-Mixed Pot of Noodles for sale to Pandaren characters.
    • Conquest Primal Gladiator trinkets have had their values adjusted proportionally to the Honor Primal Combatant trinkets.
    • Players are now removed from a Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group upon accepting the queue to enter Ashran.
    • Addressed an additional issue that could cause faction Captains to stop spawning.
    • Events in Ashran should now occurring more frequently.
    • [Hotfix in testing] A Few Artifact Fragments should no longer be awarding more reputation than intended.

Items

  • Everbloom Seed Pouch no longer affects other players.
  • Tome of the Clear Mind now stacks to 200 (up from 20).

Death Knight Creation Change

Quote from: Blizzard
With availability of the level 90 character boost, we feel the requirement to have a character level 55 or higher to unlock the Death Knight as a playable class is no longer relevant. The plan right now is to remove the limitation sometime next week, at which point players will be able to start a new Death Knight (which still begins at level 55) without first having to reach level 55 on another character.

Update: Upon looking into making this change, we discovered that a few client-side adjustments would need to go through in order for it to work. Therefore, our new plan is to remove the level 55 requirement for Death Knight creation in an upcoming content patch.

6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 10, PvP Hotfixes 11/12/2014, Upcoming Garrison Outpost Hotfixes

There’s a bunch new hotfixes / changes already out or soon to be! Check them out below

6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 10

Quote from: Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 10

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

December 10

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • Resolved a situation that could cause ore and mining carts in a player’s Garrison to despawn.
  • Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not correctly accrue rested experience when entering their Garrisons.
  • Garrison Invasions
    • Players defeating the final boss that pushes their invasion score to over 1000 should now correctly be able to receive credit for obtaining a gold rating.

Classes

  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Shooting Stars should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Moonfire or Sunfire dies.
  • Hunter
    • General
      • Resolved a number of additional situations that could cause Kill Shot (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) to not correctly reset its cooldown.
  • Monk
    • General
      • Transcendence: Transfer should now continue to correctly reference new transfer locations after multiple uses.
  • Priest
    • Talents
      • Insanity’s (Shadow) snare should now be correctly affected by abilities that remove or reduces the duration of snare effects.
  • Rogue
    • Subtlety
      • Honor Among Thieves should no longer cause Rogues with the Anticipation talent to stand up after receiving a Critical heal.

Creatures and NPCs

  • Citizens of Dalaran! Raise your eyes to the skies and observe! Rhonin, Leader of the Kirin Tor, should now be reciting their spoken lines to characters within a much smaller radius in the streets of the city of Dalaran. Note that his text… his text are still worth reading and continue to still be visible to those within the city.
  • Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Enslave Demon and Control Undead effect.
  • Goren Protector, Orc Ancestor, Ancient Ogre, and Ghostly Arakkoa should now correctly scale to level 100.
  • World Bosses
    • The world bosses Drov the Ruiner and Tarlna the Ageless in Gorgrond now share a single loot eligibility lockout.
    • Both Drov the Ruiner and Tarlna the Ageless should no longer be available at the same time.
  • Talador
    • Cordana Felsong should now be visible to characters that are at or above level 98.
    • May Tirta and James Lamone located in Zangarra can no longer be attacked by characters.
  • Spires of Arak
    • Solar Magnifier should no longer become untargetable if they are leashed while using the Excavation ability.
  • Nagrand
    • Gordawg no longer uses Tectonic Slam.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Raids
    • Credit for defeating bosses on Raid Finder difficulty should no longer incorrectly have a daily reset instead of a weekly one.
    • Highmaul
      • Tectus: Motes of Tectus should now be properly tracked in the boss frames as intended.
      • Twin Ogron: Phemos’ thrown weapons now persist for 16 seconds after Quake has finished casting.
      • Ko’ragh should no longer benefit from Critical Strike auras from players that are under the effects of Dominating Power.
      • Ko’ragh: Resolved an issue where players may be unable to use execute abilities against Ko’ragh when his health is low.
  • Dungeons
    • Bloodmaul Slag Mines
      • Slave Watcher Crushto: After being defeated, the miners should no longer be attackable, and no longer cause Croman to chase them out of range.
    • Grimrail Depot
      • Nitrogg Thundertower should no longer be able to get thrown off the train and wind up being stuck in evade mode.
      • Added a second location for Iron Autocannon, Iron Limbcleaver, and Huge Crate of Weapons to the Grimrail Crash Site.

PvP

  • Ashran
    • Bonus objectives in Ashran now have a daily reset timer.
    • Fortune Favors the Bold no longer provides a bonus to Honor Point gains.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

  • Healers leaving an Arena match should no longer sometimes cause Dampening to reset.
  • Resolved an additional number of situations where players could incorrectly obtain items that require Vol’jin’s Spear or Wrynn’s Vanguard to equip from a Rated Battleground or The Coliseum.

Items

  • Healing effects from healing potions should no longer incorrectly be able to critically heal or Multistrike.
  • Raid buffs to Mastery no longer counts for food that provides a well fed buff to the highest secondary stat.
  • Personal Hologram’s temporary hologram of yourself should now be easier to see.

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue where dispelling Prayer of Mending was incorrectly only removing a single charge instead of the entire effect.

PvP Hotfixes 11/12/2014

Quote from: Blizzard
We wanted to take a moment to update everyone on some of the latest PvP related hotfixes that are incoming which will affect the following specs and classes:

Balance Druid

  • Starfall damage against players is now reduced by 33%.
  • PvP set bonus that grants a charge of Starsurge when Entangling Roots breaks now has a 15 second cooldown.

Discipline Priest

  • Silence now has a 2 second duration (Shadow Silence is unaffected).

Retribution Paladin and Enhancement Shaman

  • The PvP 2 set piece bonus now grants 25% reduction in crowd control effects (down from 50%).

Warriors

  • Glyph of Shield Slam now requires defensive stance.

Upcoming Garrison Outpost Hotfixes

Quote from: Blizzard
We’re planning to make some changes to the Garrison Zone Outposts, to reduce the costs necessary to change out the building you initially chose while questing through the zone, and also allow you to earn the unique follower associated with alternate building choices. Specifically, these changes will be:

  • The cost to change your Garrison Outpost building in Gorgrond, Talador, and Spires of Arak reduced to 5,000 gold
  • The cost to change your Garrison Outpost building in Nagrand reduced to 500 gold
  • Changing your Garrison Outpost building in a zone will also grant access to the building-specific questline for that zone, including the building-specific follower

Note that you will still be unable to change your Garrison Outpost building until you’ve reached level 100 and earned your current building’s zone achievement, at which point the building can be changed by speaking with the outpost’s foreman NPC (who varies from building to building).

These changes are currently not planned to go live until the next maintenance period for each region, but we wanted to give as much advance notice as possible that they’re on their way.

Alchemy and Jewelcrafting Changes, 6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 9

Alchemy and Jewelcrafting Changes

There are some changes coming to Alchemy and Jewelcrafting! These are currently not ingame, it’s just an early heads up.

Quote from: Blizzard
We’re giving a heads up on adjustments being made based on player feedback over the amount of herbs used in recipes by Alchemy and Jewelcrafting. The adjustment will increase the amount of herbs an Alchemist needs and decrease the herb costs for Jewelcrafters.

Overview of Changes:

Alchemy

  • Combat potion recipes no longer requires Crescent Oil and meat/fish, and will require herbs instead.
  • Flask recipes will use more herbs, increasing the number of herbs needed from one type of herb to two.
    Jewelcrafting
  • Tier 1 gem recipes will require more ore and less herbs.
  • Tier 2 gem recipes will no longer require herbs and instead require a tier 1 gem.
    In summary, these changes are not active yet. But once the change is active, Alchemists will need more herbs, and Jewelcrafting will need less.

6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 9

Quote from: Blizzard
6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 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.

Patch 6.0.x Information

December 9

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • Garrison Buildings
    • Barn: Increased the drop rates for Savage Blood from work orders.
    • Dwarven Bunker / War Mill: Work orders now award more Iron Horde Scraps and increased the drop rates for Follower Enhancements.
    • Gladiator’s Sanctum: Characters can now accumulate up to a maximum of 5000 Broken Bones at a time.
    • Salvage Yard: Salvage recovered from a Garrison Mission should now always contain an item.
    • Trading Post: The Savage Friends achievement now only requires the character to become Exalted with 1 Draenor reputation (down from 3).
    • Trading Post (Alliance): The Sha’tari Defense quartermaster now correctly offers the Sky Fry Battle Pet for sale at Revered reputation.

Classes

  • Druid
    • General
      • Resolved an issue where Druids may sometimes lose Flight Form (and fall) when logging in or exiting from a Battleground or Arena match.
  • Hunter
    • General
      • Kill Shot should now correctly reset its cooldown when it fails to kill the target due to Cauterize (Mage) or Guardian Spirit (Priest).
  • Mage
    • Armor Sets
      • Mage Tier-16’s 4-piece set bonus is no longer guaranteed to trigger for characters above level 90.
  • Warlock
    • General
      • Dark Soul’s cooldown should now work correctly when used in conjunction with the talent Archimonde’s Darkness and Glyph of Dark Soul.

Quests

  • Spires of Arak
    • Orders, Commander?: Resolved an issue where characters that have performed a faction change may be unable to complete the quest.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Raids
    • Highmaul
      • Iron Flame Technicians should no longer be incorrectly dropping Normal difficulty loot on Raid Finder difficulty.
      • The Butcher’s Heavy Handed attack should now be correctly counted as an attack for abilities that require an attack to trigger its effects.
      • The Butcher should no longer become unresponsive if a Rogue in stealth gets too close.
      • Brackenspore: Unit frames for Living Mushrooms and Rejuvenating Mushrooms should now display properly.
      • Imperator Mar’gok: Arcane Aberrations that have been Banished should now continue to use Collapsing Entity.
      • Imperator Mar’gok: Added a portal transporting players back to The Coliseum from Throne of the Imperator after Imperator Mar’gok has been defeated.
  • Dungeons
    • Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
      • The portal that appears after Ner’zhul has been defeated should now transport players back to the beginning of the Dungeon.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

  • The level 90 bracket has been merged into the level 91-99 bracket.
  • Priests should no longer be able to continue to hold onto the flag while in Spirit of Redemption form.
  • Rated Battleground flag carriers in a tanking specialization should no longer be taking more damage than flag carriers in a non-tanking specialization. Previously, flag carrying tanks took 50% more damage and that stacked with an additional 25% damage received while in RBGs (additional 75% damage received total). This change removes the 50% additional damage taken while carrying a flag in an RBG.

Professions

  • Enchanting
    • Resolved an issue that could cause Enchanter’s Illusions to be reverted from an item.

Items

  • General goods vendors across Draenor now offer Crystal Vials and Enchanting Vellums for sale.
  • Consumable items that summons a fast mount can no longer be used while in a Challenge Mode.
  • Elixir of Deep Earth now increases armor by 67 (down from 268).
  • Primal Spirit is now only eligible for Greed rolls in Need Before Greed loot mode.

6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 8

Just in time for Mythic raiding to start, class balance hotfixes went out this morning!

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6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 8

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

December 8

Class Tuning Changes

  • Death Knight
    • Frost
      • Frost Strike’s damage has increased by 7%.
      • Howling Blast’s damage has increased by 7%.
      • Obliterate’s damage has increased by 7%.
  • Hunter
    • General
      • Kill Shot’s (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) damage has been reduced by 10%.
    • Marksmanship
      • Aimed Shot’s damage has been reduced by 10%.
  • Mage
    • Arcane
      • Arcane Barrage’s damage has increased by 16%.
      • Arcane Blast’s damage has increased by 16%.
      • Arcane Explosion’s damage has increased by 10%.
      • Arcane Missiles’ damage has increased by 16%.
    • Fire
      • Enhanced Pyrotechnics now causes a stacking 10% increased critical strike chance (up from 5% per stack).
      • Molten Armor now increases spell critical strike chance by 15% (up from 5%).
    • Frost
      • Frostbolt’s damage has increased by 25%.
    • Talents
      • Arcane Orb’s (Arcane) damage has increased by 10%.
      • Comet Storm’s (Frost) damage has increased by 25%.
      • Meteor’s (Fire) damage-over-time effect has increased by 25%.
      • Nether Tempest’s (Arcane) damage has increased by 10%.
      • Supernova’s (Arcane) damage has increased by 12%.
  • Monk
    • General
      • Rising Sun Kick (Windwalker, Mistweaver) now causes enemies to take 10% increased damage from the Monk’s abilities (down from 15% increased damage).
  • Shaman
    • General
      • Chain Lightning’s damage has increased by 10%.
      • Lava Burst’s (Elemental, Restoration) damage has increased by 10%.
      • Lightning Bolt’s damage has increased by 10%.
    • Elemental
      • Earthquake’s damage has increased by 10%.
      • Lava Beam’s damage has increased by 10%.
    • Enhancement
      • Lava Lash’s damage has increased by 20%.
      • Stormstrike’s damage has increased by 20%.
    • Restoration
      • Restorative Waves now increases all healing done by 30% (up from 25%).
    • Talents
      • Elemental Blast’s damage has increased by 10%.
  • Warrior
    • Fury
      • Bloodthirst’s damage has increased by 20%, and has an additional 40% chance to be a critical strike (up from 30%).
      • Execute’s (Fury) damage has increased by 10%.
      • Raging Blow’s damage has increased by 33%.
      • Wild Strike’s damage has increased by 32%.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • Ashran has been re-enabled as a potential daily strategic assault choice. This reverts a change from November 21.
  • Garrison Buildings
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Work orders for the following Horde buildings (Mine, Herb Garden, Goblin Workshop, War Mill, and Trading Post) and Alliance buildings (Dwarven Bunker, Gnomish Gearworks, Trading Post) should now correctly contribute credit towards the achievements for Working Some Orders and Working More Orders.
    • Gem Boutique: Followers assigned to the building should now always offer a daily quest.
    • Gladiator’s Sanctum: Highmaul Coliseum gladiator tournament should no longer incorrectly be awarding PvP gear and items that require reputation with Vol’jin’s Spear or Wrynn’s Vanguard to equip.
    • Gladiator’s Sanctum: Work orders were awarding much more gold and items than intended. The amount of items and gold awarded has been reduced to be more comparable to other buildings.
    • Herb Garden: Visitors can no longer harvest the player’s Frostweed.
    • Salvage Yard: Awards for salvage have been split into 3 tiers based on the level of the Garrison Mission (Levels 90-94, Levels 95-99, and Level 100). Additionally, the mission needs to be successful for a chance to receive salvage with Level 100 missions having a guaranteed chance on success.
  • Garrison Invasions
    • Shadow Council Invasion: Concubine of Sin no longer awards points when defeated.

Quests

  • Shadowmoon Valley
    • The Fate of Karabor: Yrel should now always assist the player with Krull. Additionally, Krull’s Brutal Smash now has a reduced range of 6 yards.
  • Talador
    • Not In Your House: Fort Wrynn Laborers should now always flee after defeating Ripgut.
    • Send Them Running: Peons should now always flee after defeating Vicegnaw.

Creatures and NPCs

  • Grom’kar NPCs in the Frostfire Iron Siegeworks and Gorgrond Blackrock Foundry areas should now correctly have a chance to drop Iron Horde scraps for characters with a Dwarven Bunker / War Mill in their Garrisons.
  • Shadowmoon Valley
    • Shinri should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Raids
    • Highmaul
      • Tectus: Visual markers for Earthen Pillar, Fracture, Meteoric Earthspire, and Radiating Poison should now be easier to see.
      • Tectus: Meteoric Earthspire now deals less damage on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
      • Tectus’ targeting circle for Crystalline Barrage should now still be visible for users with projected textures disabled.
      • Twin Ogron’s Fierce Disposition, Savage Disposition, and Aggressive Disposition should now be showing up in combat logs.
      • Imperator Mar’gok’s Arcane mines for Destructive Resonance should now be easier to see for users with projected textures disabled.
      • Imperator Mar’gok: Visuals for Destructive Resonance should now be visible from anywhere in the Throne of the Imperator area.
      • Imperator Mar’gok’s Arcane Wrath ability should no longer incorrectly jump to a player that has been Branded during Phase 4 with the Power of Replication.
  • Dungeons
    • Auchindoun
      • Disabled the cutscene for Teron’gor that plays after defeating Azzakel on Challenge Mode.
    • Skyreach
      • Ranjit should no longer occasionally target the tank with Lens Flare and Windwall.

PvP

  • Ashran
    • Honor and reputation increases for turning in Artifact Fragments first noted on December 3, are now out of testing and have been implemented.
    • Disabled health regeneration for Kronus, Fangraal, Grand Marshal Tremblade, and High Warlord Volrath when they leash or drop out of combat.
    • Creatures outside of Ashran should no longer incorrectly have a chance to drop Artifact Fragments.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

  • Rated Battlegrounds should no longer incorrectly be awarding PvP gear and items that require reputation with Vol’jin’s Spear or Wrynn’s Vanguard to equip.

Professions

  • Archeology
    • Pristine Ancestral Talisman and Pristine Cracked Ivory Idol should no longer be incorrectly awarded again if the character has already obtained the item.

Items

  • Follower Weapon and Armor enhancements can now stack up to 20.
  • Temporary buffs that increase Critical Strike should now correctly increase Parry through Riposte for tanking specializations.
  • Cracked Potion Vials should no longer drop for non-Alchemists.
  • Everburning Candle was buffed much more than intended. The amount of mana granted has been reduced to 10,456 (down from 20,916). Additional information on the reasoning for this change can be found in the forum thread: Everburning Candle Changes.
  • Gently Squeezed Toad is no longer usable while in a Challenge Mode Dungeon.

Achievements

  • [Requires a realm restart.] Got My Mind On My Draenor Money now only requires looting 2,500 gold in Draenor (down from 10,000).