6.0.3 Hotfixes: December 19

December 19

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Buildings
  • Gladiator's Sanctum: Resolved a situation that could cause players to be unable to receive new Nemesis quests.

Quests

• Frostfire Ridge
  • The Cure: Frostwolf Gladiators can no longer be killed by Alliance players.

UI

• Guild Bank Money Logs should now be able to correctly display records of transactions greater than 215,000 gold.

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.

December 16

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Buildings
  • A hotfix in testing from December 11 for the Inn has been implemented. The achievement, Stay Awhile and Listen now only requires the character to complete 10 of the 20 Inn quests (down from all 20).

Creatures and NPCs

• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Yggdrel now deals less damage with the Entangling Vine ability.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

• [Hotfix currently in-testing] Messages for obtaining an Augment Rune are no longer broadcasting to the party or raid group.
• Raids
  • Highmaul
    • Tectus' health has been reduced by about 15% when the raid is scaled to 10 players on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties. As the raid scales up to a maximum of 30 players, Tectus' health for 30 players remains roughly unchanged from before this hotfix.

Professions

• Enchanting
  • [Hotfix currently in-testing] Mark of Blackrock can no longer trigger its effect for the first 40 seconds after equipping the weapon.

UI

• Resolved an issue where having a player join the Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group just as another player was leaving could cause the button to queue up for additional players to remain greyed out for the rest of the group.
• Resolved an issue where the Darkmoon Faire was not showing up in the in-game calendar past December 2014.

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 still undergoing testing] Map Icon for the Garrison should now appear correctly for characters that had undergone a faction change.
• [Hotfix still undergoing 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
  • 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 still undergoing 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 still undergoing 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 still undergoing 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 not be able to complete the quest if they had already completed And Justice for Thrall.

World Environment

• [Hotfix still undergoing 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 still undergoing 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 still undergoing 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 still undergoing 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 still undergoing 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 be occurring more frequently.
  • [Hotfix still undergoing 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).

December 11

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Buildings
  • [Still in testing.] Inn: Inn quests can now be completed on the spot without returning back to the Garrison.
  • [Still in testing.] Inn: The achievement, Stay Awhile and Listen now only requires the character to complete 10 of the 20 Inn quests (down from all 20).
• Outposts
  • Note: The following changes to Outposts will take effect with next week's scheduled maintenance.
  • Reduced the cost for changing Garrison Outpost buildings in Nagrand to 500 gold.
  • Reduced the cost for changing Garrison Outpost buildings in Gorgrond, Talador, and Spires of Arak to 5,000 gold.
  • Changing Garrison Outpost buildings should now grant access to the building-specific questline for that zone, including building-specific follower(s).
  • Additional information on changes to Outposts can be found in the forum thread titled: Upcoming Garrison Outpost Hotfixes.
• Garrison Missions
  • It is now possible to continue to receive Level 95-99 missions even when all Followers are level 100.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Armor Sets
    • PvP 4-piece set bonus for Blood Death Knights should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Starfall now deals 33% less damage in PvP combat.
  • Armor Sets
    • [Still in testing.] Tier-16 set bonuses no longer work for level 100 Feral Druids.
    • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Balance Druids can now only trigger once every 15 seconds.
    • PvP 4-piece set bonus for Guardian Druids should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.
• Monk
  • Armor Sets
    • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Brewmaster and Windwalker Monks should now correctly reduce the Energy cost of Jab.
    • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Mistweaver Monks should no longer incorrectly apply its effect to both the casting Monk and target at the same time.
    • PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.
• Paladin
  • Armor Sets
    • [Still in testing.] Tier-16 set bonuses no longer work for level 100 Holy Paladins.
    • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins now reduces the duration of all incoming crowd control effects by 25% (down from 50%).
    • PvP 4-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.
• Priest
  • General
    • Silence (Discipline) now prevents the target from casting spells for 2 seconds (down from 5 seconds). There is no change to the ability for Shadow Priests.
  • Armor Sets
    • [Still in testing.] Tier-16 set bonuses no longer work for level 100 Holy Priests.
• Rogue
  • Talents
    • Resolved an issue where Death from Above could sometimes incorrectly be granting multiple combo points in conjunction with Ruthlessness.
• Shaman
  • General
    • Ghost Wolf modified by Glyph of Ghostly Speed no longer provides a movement speed increase while indoors.
    • [Still in testing.] Lava Burst (Elemental, Restoration) now deals 33% more damage in PvP combat.
  • Armor Sets
    • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Enhancement Shaman now reduces the duration of all incoming crowd control effects by 25% (down from 50%).
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Nightfall should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Corruption dies.
  • Destruction
    • [Still in testing.] Chaos Bolt now deals 33% more damage in PvP combat.
• Warrior
  • Protection
    • Shield Slam modified by Glyph of Shield Slam now only dispels 1 magical effect while the Warrior is in Defensive Stance.
  • Armor Sets
    • PvP 4-piece set bonus now generates 3 Rage for every 1% health lost (up from 1 Rage per 1%).

Quests

• Frostfire Ridge
  • A Song of Frost and Fire: Players can no longer accept this quest if The Home of the Frostwolves is already in their quest log.
  • Winds of Change: Olin Umberhide should now return if he despawns for any reason.

Creatures and NPCs

• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Shadowspeaker Niir should now always be attackable.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

• Raids
  • Highmaul
    • Brackenspore: Elements of the encounter should now still be visible from further away.
    • Twin Ogron: Pol's Arcane Ogron forms should now correctly use Arcane Charge based on the direction they're facing.
    • Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now use their abilities more consistently, using Crush Armor every 6 seconds (instead of 5-8 seconds), and Kick to the Face every 20 seconds (instead of 15-30 seconds).
    • [Still in testing.] Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now deal 15% less damage on all difficulty modes.
• Dungeons
  • Grimrail Depot
    • Core of Iron should now correctly only be available on Heroic difficulty.
    • Railmaster Rocketspark: Characters should no longer be taken out of stealth effects at the start of the encounter.
  • Upper Blackrock Spire
    • Ragewing the Untamed: Blackhand Doomcutter should no longer be incorrectly dropping for characters that use Strength in Personal loot mode.

PvP

• Ashran
  • Fangraal and Kronus no longer scales their health based the number of players they're fighting. Each faction guardian's health now scales based on the number of enemy players active at the time when they're summoned.

Professions

• Alchemy
  • Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Alchemy recipes. Combat potion recipes no longer requires Crescent Oil and meat/fish, and will require herbs instead. Flask recipes now use more herbs, increasing the number of herbs needed from one type of herb to two.
  • Draenic Agility Potion now requires 3 Fireweed and 1 Crystal Vial.
  • Draenic Armor Potion now requires 3 Frostweed and 1 Crystal Vial.
  • Draenic Channeled Mana Potion now requires 3 Starflower and 1 Crystal Vial.
  • Draenic Intellect Potion now requires 3 Talador Orchid and 1 Crystal Vial.
  • Draenic Mana Potion now requires 3 Gorgrond Flytrap and 1 Crystal Vial.
  • Draenic Strength Potion now requires 3 Nagrand Arrowbloom and 1 Crystal Vial.
  • Draenic Agility Flask now requires 4 Fireweed, 4 Starflower, and 1 Crystal Vial.
  • Draenic Intellect Flask now requires 4 Talador Orchid, 4 Starflower, and 1 Crystal Vial.
  • Draenic Stamina Flask now requires 4 Talador Orchid, 4 Nagrand Arrowbloom, and 1 Crystal Vial.
  • Draenic Strength Flask now requires 4 Gorgrond Flytrap, 4 Nagrand Arrowbloom, and 1 Crystal Vial.
• Enchanting
  • Enchant Boots - Mastery now increases Mastery by 9 (down from 11).
  • [Still in testing.] Mark of Blackrock now triggers its effect more frequently, and can occur when the character is below 60% health (up from being below 50% health), and can also trigger from blocking an attack or absorbing damage.
  • [Still in testing.] Mark of the Shattered Hand now triggers its bleed effect less frequently.
• Jewelcrafting
  • Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Jewelcrafting recipes. Tier 1 gem recipes now requires more ore and less herbs. Tier 2 gem recipes will no longer requires herbs and instead require a tier 1 gem.
  • Critical Strike Taladite now requires 10 True Iron Ore and 2 Fireweed.
  • Haste Taladite now requires 10 Blackrock Ore and 2 Frostweed.
  • Mastery Taladite take 10 True Iron Ore and 2 Starflower.
  • Multistrike Taladite take 10 Blackrock Ore and 2 Nagrand Arrowbloom.
  • Stamina Taladite now requires 10 True Iron Ore and 2 Talador Orchid.
  • Versatility Taladite now requires 10 Blackrock Ore and 2 Gorgrond Flytrap.
  • All Tier 2 gems now requires 50 Taladite Crystal, 10 Sorcerous Air, and one Tier 1 gem.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where Druids that performed a Character Boost would be unable to learn the Incarnation talent until they have completed Tanaan Jungle.

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.

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.

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).

December 5

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Buildings
  • Fishing Shack: Completing a daily Fishing quest now awards 15 skill points to Fishing (up from 1).
  • Gnomish Gearworks / Goblin Workshop: Overcharged Demolisher should now be usable only in the areas it was intended for.
  • Gnomish Gearworks / Goblin Workshop: "Skyterror" Personal Delivery System should now be usable only in the areas it was intended for.

Quests

• [Requires a realm restart.] Corrected an issue that could cause Bloodmaul Stronghold, Shattrath City, and the Pit to sometimes not drop Apexis Crystals despite being an active quest area for the day.

Creatures and NPCs

• Fate-Twister Tiklal has relocated to a more prominent location closer to the Apexis Traders in Warspear.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

• Raids
  • Highmaul
    • [Requires a realm restart.] The Butcher: The boars Krush and Smash now deals less damage with their Boar's Rush ability and should no longer kill players in one hit.
    • Tectus: Players should no longer be able to use their bonus rolls twice after defeating Tectus.

PvP

• Ashran
  • To address a potential pathing issue, Fangraal, Kronus, and faction Captains now continuously push towards the enemy faction's base.
  • Players entering Ashran from a PvE realm should now be correctly flagged for PvP.
  • Characters should no longer be able to resurrect at the King's Road graveyard if their faction isn't in control of that point.
  • Resolved an issue where faction Captains may not be spawning correctly.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Resolved an issue where if a Flag Carrier was standing in the area where their team's flag would be when it is returned, they'd be unable to capture the flag until they leave and return to the area again.
• Arathi Basin: Characters on the Alliance team in a Rated Battleground should now be able to be resurrected by their Spirit Healer at the Blacksmith graveyard if their team is in control of it.
• [Requires a realm restart.] Eye of the Storm: Characters in a Rated Battleground will now return to their team's starting position when releasing, regardless of what bases their team controls.
• The Battle for Gilneas: Resolved issues where Spirit Healers may sometimes not spawn in correctly when a point has been captured.

Professions

• First Aid
  • Antiseptic Bandage no longer requires Sea Scorpion Segments to craft.
• Jewelcrafting
  • Critical Strike Taladite should no longer incorrectly require a Taladite Crystal to craft.

Items

• Consuming a Draenor potion, elixir, or flask should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.
• Mantid Elixir now provides a more reasonable increase to armor.
• Primal Combatant's Drape of Contemplation now provide a bonus to Multistrike instead of Critical Strike to differentiate it from the Drape of Meditation.
• Primal Gladiator's Drape of Contemplation now provide a bonus to Multistrike instead of Critical Strike to differentiate it from the Drape of Meditation.

December 4

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Resolved an issue where players may become stuck or be disconnected while attempting to visit other Garrisons.
• Garrison Buildings
  • Gladiator's Sanctum Level 3: The Coliseum scenario now requires 15 players to start (up from 10).
  • Herb Garden Level 3: The Draenor fruit tree should now always bear fruit even if no Followers are assigned to work there.

Classes

• Player pets should now correctly rejoin the player after taking a flight path or using a vehicle.
• Paladin
  • General
    • Eternal Flame's initial healing has been increased by 25% for Protection and Retribution Paladins.
    • Flash of Light's healing has been reduced by 20% for Protection and Retribution Paladins.
    • Word of Glory's healing has been increased by 25% for Protection and Retribution Paladins.
• Priest
  • General
    • Mass Dispel should no longer be incorrectly dispelling Cyclone without a Glyph of Mass Dispel equipped.
    • Power Word: Shield critical hits should now correctly absorb only 150% of normal in PvP.
  • Discipline
    • Divine Aegis' should now correctly absorb only 50% as much in PvP.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

• Raids
  • Highmaul
    • Tectus: If Tectus enters Berserk mode while in the process of shattering, the resulting Shards of Tectus and Motes of Tectus should now correctly enter Beserk mode as well.
    • Tectus: Resolved an issue where Tectus could have no loot if the entire raid dies before his death event was complete.
    • Twin Ogron: Resolved an issue where credit for completing the achievement Brothers in Arms was being incorrectly awarded.

PvP

• Critical Heals should now correctly heal for 150% of normal in PvP (they were incorrectly healing for 175% of normal).
• Gladiator's Distinction, the 2-piece set bonus now reduces damage taken from players by 15% (up from 10%).
• Being attacked in PvP combat and triggering the secondary item level on PvP gear should no longer cause the player's health to decrease by more than intended.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Battleground Flag Carriers should now correctly have a 45-second delay before their location is revealed to the enemy team (was incorrectly revealing their location immediately).
• Resurrection times in Rated Battlegrounds has been corrected to be 25 seconds (was 15 seconds).

UI

• Guild news should no longer be displaying (and getting spammed with) entries for characters looting items for the Legendary Ring Quest Line.

Bug Fixes

• Recruit-a-Friend characters should now be correctly receiving a 300% bonus to the experience awarded for completing a Dungeon (was incorrectly awarding 900% instead).
• New Pandaren Hunters that use the Level 90 Character Boost should now start with a turtle pet.

World of Warcraft Patch 6.0.3, Build 19243

Released: 12-03-2014

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the experience reward for a quest may display incorrectly.
• Resolved a display issue for quest objectives that have received a hotfix to sometimes not update properly.
• Resolved an issue where players may be unable to connect to another realm if they attempt to switch to a different realm after being in a server queue.
• Resolved an issue where the Mac OS game client may sometimes crash on launch or close improperly.
• Resolved an issue where adding or removing a friend may cause the player to be unable to whisper to any BattleTag friends.

December 3

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Book of Garrison Blueprints should now be consumed when learned and can also be destroyed.
• Resolved a number of issues where players may sometimes be unable to enter their Garrisons.
• Garrison Buildings
  • Gladiator's Sanctum Level 3: The building should now correctly provide the benefits from earlier levels 1 and 2.
  • Inn: To encourage players to not leave in the middle of a run with a Dungeon Finder group, quests received from the Garrison Inn now requires the final boss of the Dungeon to be defeated.
  • Inn: Millhouse Manastorm can now always be found on the second floor.
  • Mage Tower/Spirit Lodge: Greatly increased the drop rates for Ogre Waystones.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Salvage Yard: Special transmogrification items obtained from crates of salvage are now Rare (blue) quality to help distinguish them. Additionally, these items are now able to be disenchanted.
  • Tannery Level 2: Rorok Ironhide (Horde) should no longer incorrectly be selling tents.
  • The Forge Level 2: Followers assigned to work at the building should now be able to correctly grant Solace of the Forge and Song of the Anvil buff.
• Garrison Invasions
  • Botani Invasion: The Gnarled Ancient should no longer get stuck and be able to enter a Horde Garrison.
  • Iron Horde Invasion: Made a number of adjustments to make Gold Victory more obtainable.
• Followers
  • Magister Krelas should now work correctly in a party for Followers with the Elvenkind trait.
  • Magister Serena should now work correctly in a party for Followers with the Humanist trait.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Glyphs
    • Glyph of Death and Decay should now also apply its effect for Death Knights with the Defile talent.
• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Nature's Swiftness should now correctly increase the healing over time effect and duration of Regrowth.
  • Talents
    • Soul of the Forest (Restoration) should now interact and correctly apply its healing bonus while Nature's Swiftness is active.
• Hunter
  • General
    • Kill Shot (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) should now correctly reset its cooldown if the target becomes immune, have abilities, or talents that trigger to prevent the target from dying.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Life Cocoon's healing has been increased by 50%.
  • Talents
    • Chi Wave should now correctly bounce up to 7 times to targets within 25 yards.
• Paladin
  • General
    • Hand of Freedom modified by Glyph of Hand of Freedom should now correctly reduce the remaining duration of all loss of control effects when used on other players.
• Priest
  • General
    • Mass Dispel modified by Glyph of Mass Dispel should no longer incorrectly dispel Cyclones cast by a friendly player.
• Shaman
  • General
    • Shaman totems should no longer be damaged by the Death Knight talent, Defile.
  • Enhancement
    • Maelstrom Weapon will no longer increase the damage or healing effects of spells that consume the Ancestral Swiftness buff.
  • Restoration
    • Riptide modified by Glyph of Riptide should no longer incorrectly consume Echo of the Elements when cast.
• Warlock
  • Armor Sets
    • Tier-15 2-piece set bonus should no longer be retained incorrectly when the set pieces are no longer equipped.

Quests

• Frostfire Ridge
  • Karg Unchained: Players should now be able to complete or re-accept this quest after completing Return to the Pack.
• Gorgrond
  • Assault on the Pit: Defeating Iron Horde NPCs in the middle of the pit should now correctly grant credit towards completion of the quest.
• Spires of Arak
  • Hot Seat: The Apexis Turret should no longer be able to accidentally damage players.

World Environment

• Resolved issues that can occur for characters that retain the Time Travelling effect outside of Blasted Lands and Theramore.
• Players should no longer be unable to leave the tower after obtaining Steamwheedle Supplies in the Ring of Trials area in Nagrand.

Creatures and NPCs

• Frostfire Ridge
  • Borrok the Devourer should now drop a Devourer's Gutstone that allows more than one player to loot it.
  • Fernus is now immune to Enslave Demon and Banish.
• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Krosnis is now immune to Enslave Demon and Banish.
• Gorgrond
  • Tarlna the Ageless' Genesis ability now summons a maximum of 15 Giant Lashers and has a increased duration of 12 seconds (up from 6 seconds).
• Nagrand
  • Objects in the Mok'gul Watchpost area should no longer incorrectly cause the player to remain in combat and be unable to interact with those objects.
  • Warsong Marauders should no longer attack Rogues that pickpocket them.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

• Satchel of Savage Mysteries now have a chance to contain a mount, pet, pet consumable, Draenor consumable, or Follower upgrade token in addition to an Augment Rune.
• Raids
  • The entire raid is no longer notified when a player loots an Elemental Rune or Abrogator Stone.
  • Highmaul
    • The Butcher's Heavy Handed ability now deals less damage if it's triggered by their off-hand weapon.
    • Brackenspore should now correctly heal back up to full health at the start of the encounter.
    • Tectus' Berserk timer is now 10 minutes on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Tectus: Resolved an issue where defeating Tectus just as he was going into Berserk mode could result in no loot.
    • Tectus: It should now be possible to obtain the achievement, More Like Wrecked-us.
• Dungeons
  • Grimrail Depot
    • Borka the Brute is now immune to taunts from player pets.
    • Grom'kar Cinderseer's Lava Wreath ability should no longer hit pets.
  • Upper Blackrock Spire
    • Ragewing the Untamed's Engulfing Fire ability should no longer incorrectly disorient Rogues with Cloak of Shadows active.
    • Emberscale Adolescents and Emberscale Whelplings should now always be targetable while in combat.

PvP

• [Requires a realm restart.] New Honor and Conquest vendors have been added to Stormshield and Warspear.
  • In Stormshield, Alliance players can find Bregg Coppercast (Honor) and Ingrid Blackingot (Conquest) standing in front of the Siege Tank near the exit to Ashran, across from the training dummies.
  • In Warspear, Horde players can find Lieutenant Brokefist (Honor) and Lieutenant Axelash (Conquest) on the hill next to the exit to Ashran, just down the path from the inn.
• [Requires a realm restart.] Honor and Conquest PvP gear without a set bonus no longer provides the same secondary stats as PvP gear with set piece bonuses.
• Ashran
  • Faction balancing is now in effect if there are more than 5 players from each faction in Ashran.
  • Fortune Favors the Bold has been increased to 100% additional Honor Points and Artifact Fragments (up from 25%).
  • Artifact Fragment rewards from Ring of Conquest Ogre guards, or Ashran rares should no longer decrease based on the number of players engaging them.
  • [Still in testing.] Turning in an Artifact Fragment now awards 3 Honor Points per fragment (up from 1 Honor Point).